Archive for December 13th, 2006
Mexico’s New President Starts Anti-Drug Campaign
2:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico · Comments Off
13 Dec 2006
New Mexican President Felipe Calderon is starting his term by laying down the law in terms of drugs.
Soldiers stopped cars and frisked passengers Tuesday, searching for drugs or weapons.Helicopters swooped low over remote mountaintops, looking for signs of opium and marijuana fields.Ships patrolled Mexico’s main Pacific port, a hub for drugs arriving from Central America and Colombia.
The crackdown targets Calderon’s home state of Michoacan where drug gangs and their violence rule. There has been some concern expressed about the human rights of innocent people being violate in the crackdown.
Via / CNN.com
Image Via / Noticias de Oaxaca
Chilean army to sanction Pinochet’s grandson
12:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Chile|Controversia · 5 Comments
13 Dec 2006
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet‘s grandson, General Augusto Pinochet Molina, will be sanctioned by the Chilean army for the eulogy he gave at his grandfather’s funeral, in which he praised the 1973 coup d’etat that boosted him into power. The Chilean army says, in a statement:
“He committed a serious offfense to our organization and measures will be taken.” The army also added that the in the funeral’s program, the grandson was not scheduled to speak and that his words “do not represent the doctrine or the official opinion” of the institution.”
The grandson exalted Pinochet’s actions in the eulogy, saying, “In the midst of the Cold War, he defeated Marxism which was intent on imposing its totalitarian model (on us) not by vote, but by the use of armed force, and rightly so.”
According to El Mundo, the sanction placed upon Pinochet Molina could lead to his expulsion from the Chilean military.
Via / El Mundo
Image via El Mundo/Reuters
Oliver Stone fined for violating Cuba “embargo”
12:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Cuba|Politics · Comments Off
13 Dec 2006
Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone has been fined $6322 for negotiating goods and/or services with the Cuban government and/or Cuban citizens during the filming of his documentary Looking for Fidel:
The penalty includes IXTLAN Corporation, Stone’s production company, and members of the crew that worked on “Looking for Fidel”, which premiered on HBO in 2004, reports El Nuevo Herald, citing sources “familiar with the case”.The fine was imposed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, part of the Department of Treasury, which informed that IXTLAN Corporation has arrived at an agreement to pay the sanction for “violations which occurred during the making of the documentary, between February 2002 and May 2003.”
According to 20 Minutos, OFAC fined Americans violating trade laws with Cuba over $250,000 last year.
Via / 20 Minutos
Immigration Raids Across the Country
9:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Justice|Labor · 2 Comments
13 Dec 2006
When we visit our local supermarkets to pick up some beef, chicken, or pork to cook for dinner, we rarely think about who packs our would be dinners. Although it’s unclear how many workers at Swift & Co. plants in six states across the country were rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that went down, it’s clear that workers are the target and not the big company owners.
The raids capped a 10-month investigation. Authorities did not say how mnay people were arrested at the plants in Greeley; Grand Island, Neb.; Cactus, Texas; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington, Minn. No charges had been filed against Swift. In a written statement, President and CEO Sam Rovit said the company has never knowingly hired illegal workers and does not condone the practice.
Image Via / The Boston Globe
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