Posts Tagged ‘crime’
Death toll rises in Mexican state
12:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · crime| mexico| society · Comments Off
18 May 2007
Last month, we told you about the wave of drug-related violence that had claimed the lives of over 50 people in the Mexican state of Nuevo León. Today Mexico’s El Universal reports that the violence that has brought that state to its knees hasn’t ended, with the death toll now at 64 victims. Yesterday, the number reach 61 when several armed suspects followed a man to his home, where they killed him by shooting him several times. The suspects escaped and their whereabouts are unknown.
This morning, at 7:00 am local time in Monterrey, three more victims were found on a city street, bound and executed, bringing the total number up to 64.
According to El Universal, this week alone police have found more than a dozen victims of kidnapping in different parts of the city.
Mexican army arrests over 100 policemen
6:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Justice| mexico · Comments Off
16 Apr 2007
In Mexican society, the profession of policeman isn’t the most respected. Like in many other countries, most are suspicious of policemen, who are believed to be corrupt, capable of turning a blind eye to any crime or misdemeanor for a “mordida”. In the state of Nuevo León, in Northern Mexico, the Mexican army has arrested over 100 policemen believed to be linked to organized crime, and involved in the 51 murders that have occurred in the state this year:
Among these murders, most committed with large caliber weapons, are 18 murders of policeman, some of whom are presumed to be linked to organized crime and were victims of acts of vengeance by drug cartels who are fighting for the routes towards the U.S.
Clown murder in Colombia
12:50 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia| society · Comments Off
22 Feb 2007
I’m guessing this piece of news isn’t going to really encourage anyone to visit Colombia, but as weird as it is, it could have happened anywhere:
Two clowns that participated in a circus act in the Colombian city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela, were shot and killed by an unknown suspect, according to local authorities.The victims, who worked for ‘El Circo del Sol’, situated in a working class neighborhood of Cúcuta, capital of the state of Norte de Santander, were doing a number for about 20 people when a man jumped into the arena and shot them in the head, said colonel José Humberto Henao, chief of the state police.
Perhaps even more interesting are the comments made by visitors to the site where I found this piece of news, many of which say they would “never go on vacation” to Colombia, precisely the problem Mala posted about yesterday. Many of the commenters (mostly Spaniards) have the perception that in South America and especially in Colombia, “la vida no vale nada”. It’s sad that people generalize entire populations based on problems that countries go through at certain times in their histories, but as Mala suggested yesterday, we are all a bit guilty of it.
Via / 20 Minutos
Argentine taxi driver beaten to death after killing baby
12:18 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina| Controversia · Comments Off
2 Jan 2007
The new year in Argentina began with a scandalous occurrence — first the death of a baby who was hit by a taxi, then the murder of the taxi driver by an angry mob:
Minutes before 2007 got started, a woman with a 8 month-old baby was run over by a taxi. The child died shortly after, according to Clarín.After the accident, the driver was chased by a group of neighbors led by the father of the baby.
When he was caught, they beat him and stoned him to death, and he died in the hospital a few hours later.
Police are investigating the case and have arrested the father of the baby. They also are trying to confirm whether the taxi driver was drunk, although witnesses say he hit the victims when he swerved to miss a pothole.
This is a huge story in Argentina right now. If you read Spanish, check out Clarin’s coverage, which includes video.
Via / 20 Minutos
Lethal injection of Latino tortuous, not instantaneous
12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Florida| Justice · 3 Comments
15 Dec 2006
Death by lethal injection is supposed to be one of most “painless” methods of execution of prisoners condemned to this fate. But this apparently was not the case in the execution of Ángel Nieves Díaz, a Latino prisoner in Florida. It took two injections to kill him and witnesses claim that his death was anything but painless:
The execution yesterday of Puerto Rican Angel Nieves Díaz has revived controversy over the use of lethal injection as a method of execution for prisoners in the state of Florida, as the the prisoner needed two doses of the lethal cocktail, which prolonged his agony for a full 34 minutes.Nieves Díaz, sentenced to death for a 1979 murder, took 34 minutes to die because, according to the state’s prison department, he suffered a kidney condition that impeded his body from metabolizing chemical subtances quickly.
Latino family murdered in Florida
1:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Florida| Labor · 2 Comments
13 Oct 2006
Authorities are investigating the gruesome murder of a Latino family in St. Lucie, central Florida.
Two adults and two children were found shot to death Friday along an isolated stretch of a Florida highway, with the woman clutching the two children in an apparent attempt to protect them, authorities said.Florida Highway Patrol troopers got a call Friday morning after someone spotted the bodies of a man, woman, boy and girl off the southbound shoulder of the highway, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said.
The adults were both in their 20s or 30s, and the children appeared to be between the ages of 4 and 6, Sheriff Ken Mascara said. All had been shot multiple times, he said.
“It appears to be a Hispanic family,” Mascara said. “The female had both the children clutched in a defensive mode, in an attempt to protect them. It gives the appearance that they were a family traveling.”
The bodies were found relatively close to the freeway, and no car was located, though authorities say that tire marks show that a car was driven off the road. At the time of this post, the victims’ identities remain unknown.
Make some noise about the Juarez “desaparecidas”
12:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Justice| Women| mexico · 1 Comment
9 Mar 2006
Did you know:
In Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua Mexico, over 400 women and girls have been killed or disappeared in the past thirteen years.An alarming number of these cases remain unsolved.
Federal authorities acknowledge that 177 state officials had acted negligently. Not one of them has been brought to justice.
Incredible, but true. Don’t you agree that something should be done? The Mexican government’s lax attitude toward what is amounting to genocide is disgraceful, and is allowing more and more deaths and disappearances of young Mexican women to take place.
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