Mexico: The “Drug War”

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Mexico Detains Third General Tied to Drug Cartel

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Published: May 18, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/world/americas/mexico-detains-3-generals-tied-to-drug-cartel.html?_r=1&ref=world

Mexico: Generals Held in Drug Inquiry

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 17, 2012

Two army generals, including a former assistant defense secretary, were detained by antidrug prosecutors and are being questioned for alleged links to drug traffickers, the authorities said Wednesday. Soldiers detained retired Gen. Tomás Angeles Dauahare and Gen. Roberto Dawe González, the attorney general’s office said in a brief statement released late Tuesday. An official said the officers were being investigated for alleged links to a Mexican drug cartel. President Felipe Calderón appointed General Angeles Dauahare as assistant defense secretary in 2006. He retired in 2008. General Dawe González is assigned to a military base in the western state of Colima.
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Viernes, 18 de mayo, 2012    Mientras las turbulentas aguas de la política electoral mexicana se revuelven cada vez más; mientras los candidatos se llenan de acusaciones escandalosas y lanzan propuestas populistas desde la izquierda y la derecha; mientras nos inunda un verdadero tsunami de publicidad legal – e ilegal – por parte de todos los contendientes, la política de drogas para el siguiente periodo de gobierno, en México, sigue siendo un misterio para los votantes de la elección federal del 1 de julio.  Leer más…
Weblink: http://www.druglawreform.info/es/weblog/item/3461-drogas-a-la-mexicana-nada-desde-la-politica
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HONDURAS: 2 MORE JOURNALISTS KILLED – Alfredo Villatoro and Erick Martínez Ávila

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Rights Action – May 17, 2012

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HONDURAS: A VIOLENCE, REPRESSION AND IMPUNITY ‘CAPITAL OF THE WORLD’

by Grahame Russell, May 17, 2012, info@rightsaction.org

There is no end in sight to violence and repression in Honduras.  There is also no end in sight to American and Canadian governments and business maintaining political, economic and military relations with by military–backed regime.
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Slide Show: A Dam Clouds The Future of Peru’s Indigenous People

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On the eastern slopes of the Andes in Peru, home mainly to indigenous peoples like the Ashaninka, the government wants to dam the Ene River and sell most of the hydroelectric
power to Brazil.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/05/15/world/americas/20120516-PERU.html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=auab1_20120516

Related Article http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/world/americas/dam-project-would-displace-villages-in-jungle-valley-of-peru.html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=auab1_20120516

 

Ohio: Immigrants protest harsh deportation policy

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by: Rick Nagin    May 15 2012
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CLEVELAND – Immigrant workers and their families from across northern Ohio rallied here Friday, May 11,  to protest rising deportations of parents of U.S. citizen children. Gathering in Willard Park across from the Federal Building close to 150 held signs and banners, chanted and heard speakers denounce the rising threat.
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PBS documentary “Not In My Town” — People come together after tragedy

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Where: Missouri History Museum, Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park
When: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24
How much: Free

Patrice O’Neill’s ‘Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness’”

In one night, violence left small town Patchouge, N.Y., changed forever. A series of attacks against Latino residents of the town eventually resulted in the death of Marcelo Lucero in 2008. Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, had been a resident of Patchouge for 13 years.

The one night of violence sparked years of dialogue and change. Patrice O’Neill’s “Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness,” follows the residents of Patchouge, focusing on Mayor Paul Pontiere and Jose Lucero, brother of Marcelo.
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Colombia: Help stop the re-election of the president of the Santander Universidad Industrial

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Preceding Events:

The current president of the Santander Universidad Industrial (UIS), Jaime Camacho – Pico, wants to be reelected and serve a third term as president of this university located in Bucaramanga, capital of the Department of Santander,  Colombia.

Mister Camacho-Pico is currently under investigation by Colombia’s Sixth Special Attorney’s Office in Bucaramanga for contacts with paramilitary groups, i.e. death squads. Proof of this is a conversation he had with a paramilitary called ‘Felix’, which took place on July 4, 2007. “Felix” revealedn this conversation that a so-called ‘Pistol Plan’ is in the making to clean out and get rid of  students, professors and workers known to have “leftist opinions”.  Felix asked for a list of names, which the president promised to supply. (The following sites document and give access to this conversation in Spanish.)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WPDafs0zYI
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HONDURAS – U.S. Government (D.E.A.) Kills At Least 4 Poor Campesinos in Airborne Attack on Alleged “Drug Traffickers”

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Rights Action – May 15, 2012 

BELOW:

“It was with great indignation that I heard [director of the Honduran National Police] Commissioner José Ricardo Ramírez Del Cid say that the raid was a success because two drug traffickers died; in this attack it was humble citizens who died,” (Honduran Congressman Wood Grawell Maylo)

The violence and repression continue unabated in Honduras since the June 2009 military coup that ousted the democratically elected government.  This time, the violence was committed by the D.E.A. (Drug Enforcement Agency) of the U.S. government.

WHAT TO DO

sign a letter to Ambassador Kubiske in Honduras:

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5436/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10716

sign a letter to your Senators and Representative

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5436/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10718

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Colombia FTA to go into effect on May 15…background and commentary and ACTION!

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As the implementation of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement begins today, we have learned of multiple death threats against labor leaders and their families.

John Jairo Castro of the Port Workers’ Union; Wilson Ferrer, President of the CUT labor federation in Santander; Johnnson Torres Ortis of the sugar cane cutters’ union SINALCORTEROS; and Rene Morales Silva of the African palm oil workers’ union SINTRAINAGRO all received death threats this week.

You can help protect these brave union leaders. Click here to send a letter to the U.S. Ambassador in Colombia and the Secretary of Labor now!
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Immigrants and Refugees Conference: Social, Political, Legal, and Ethical Problems and Solutions

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http://www.slu.edu/x47044.xml  THURSDAY MAY 17 -last day to register.

To learn more about the schedule, presenters, etc., visit the link above.  There is no cost to attend.  Register by May 17th.  Please share with your network.  Contact Angela Rellergert at areller2@slu.edu or 314-977-3200 for additional information

Event Information:

May 21-22
Busch Student Center
Saint Louis University Campus
St. Louis, MO
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Salvadoran Migration: A daily reality

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According to research done at the University of Central America (UCA) in 2010, between 500 and 600 Salvadorans migrate daily, most due to poverty and violence. It is estimated that 2,800,000 Salvadorans live outside of the country, 29% of the total population, almost 1 in 3 people!.

Unfortunately, for them and the families they leave behind, this dream more often than not turns into a nightmare. Every year thousands of migrants are kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered in Mexico, and the perpetrators, (usually criminal gangs or public officials) are almost never held accountable.
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