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El Día de los 50.000 muertos

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Un movimiento en contra de la guerra convoca a la movilización en un día sagrado
Marta Molina
The Narco News Bulletin

“Salgamos esa noche a nombrar a nuestros muertos. Llevemos junto a sus nombres y fechas de nacimiento y muerte, fotografías, prendas, todo aquello que los haga de nuevo presentes entre nosotros”. Con estas palabras convocó Javier Sicilia a los mexicanos a sumarse a una jornada global por la memoria de los 50.000 muertos en México durante la guerra contra el narcotráfico.
Fue justamente durante la primera parte del segundo diálogo público entre el MPJD y el presidente Felipe Calderón en el Castillo de Chapultepec que el poeta Sicilia llamó a los mexicanos a salir a las calles la noche del 31 de octubre para recordar a las víctimas de la violencia y expresar su voluntad de paz. Sicilia pidió a la población tomar “todo espacio público que haya sido arrebato por la delincuencia y la incapacidad gubernamental”. El objetivo, dijo Sicilia, es “juntar nuestros dolores, recordar a nuestros muertos y manifestar nuestra voluntad de paz, de amor y de justicia” En México, el Día de los Muertos se festeja desde tiempos prehispánicos y aunque se ha ido mezclando con el calendario cristiano del día de Todos los Santos y con la tradición occidental, este día es una fiesta llena de alegría para hacer presentes a los muertos. La muerte (la Catrina, la huesuda, la fría, la de sonrisa malévola y coqueta) se viste de colores y el pueblo se burla de ella con humor pero también con respeto. El día 1 y 2 de noviembre los vivos se reúnen con sus parientes que murieron para conservar su memoria y no dejarlos morir. Muchos mexicanos celebran este día, salen a la calle, hacen ofrendas, encienden velas para sus muertos y adornan sus altares con las típicas flores amarillas de cempoalxochitl.

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Perry: US troops could aid Mexico drugs fight

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Presidential hopeful says US troops could be deployed across border to help Mexican efforts to tackle drug trafficking

More than 42,000 people have been killed in Mexico's drug wars since 2006 [Reuters]

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and one of the leading contenders for the Republican Party US presidential nomination, has said that he is open to sending American troops to Mexico to help combat drug cartels.
At a reception on Saturday in New Hampshire, Perry likened the situation in Mexico to Colombia, where the government accepted American military support in battling drug traffickers.
"The way that we were able to stop the drug cartels in Colombia was with a co-ordinated effort," Perry said.
"It may require our military in Mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and to keep them off of our border and to destroy their networks," he continued.
"I don't know all the scenarios that are out there, but I think it is very important that we work with them to keep that country from failing."
The US military has advisers in Colombia who are involved mainly in training, logistical support and intelligence back-up for the Colombian armed forces as they fight cocaine traffickers and armed leftist groups.

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GUERRA DE NARCOS

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Un ataque de sicarios deja 53 muertos en un casino de Monterrey
Al menos 53 personas han muerto dentro de un casino de la norteña ciudad mexicana de Monterrey que fue atacado e incendiado por un grupo de sicarios.

 

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Columnas de humo salen del Casino Royale de Monterrey mientras los bomberos intentar detener el fuego. (León DARIO / AFP)

MONTERREY-. La cifra de fallecidos podría subir, según ha explicado el gobernador del Estado de Nuevo (cuya capital es Monterrey), ya que en el lugar habría entre 15 y 20 cuerpos más.
Los cuerpos de rescate están "trabajando a marchas forzadas" y continuarán "sin descanso para encontrar a todas las víctimas", ha asegurado.
Sobre el ataque hay diversas versiones. Testigos dijeron que sicarios habían lanzado granadas y disparado. Después el gobernador de Nuevo León dijo que los atacantes habían rociado el lugar con un "líquido inflamable", que podría ser gasolina. El ataque se produjo a las 15.50 hora local (20.50 GMT) y se atribuye a grupos criminales organizados de la guerra por el control del narcotráfico.

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México en guerra

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El 20 de noviembre pasado se celebró el centenario de la Revolución Mexicana. La primera gran revolución social del siglo XX. Una gesta conducida por dos legendarios héroes populares, Emiliano Zapata y Pancho Villa, que conquistaron para obreros y campesinos: derechos sociales, reforma agraria, educación pública, laica y gratuita, y la seguridad social.

A cien años de distancia, paradójicamente, la situación de México, "es análoga, en muchos aspectos, a la que prevalecía a finales de 1910: concentración de la riqueza a niveles insultantes y amplitud de los atrasos sociales; distorsiones a la voluntad popular; vulneraciones a los derechos laborales y sindicales; negación de garantías básicas por la autoridad; claudicación de la soberanía ante los capitales internacionales y un ejercicio oligárquico, patrimonialista, tecnocrático e insensible del poder político" (1).


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Mexico mass grave: 18 kidnapped tourists found

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Mexican police remove a body buried in a field at Tuncingo

A mass grave discovered in Mexico contained the bodies of 18 kidnapped tourists, it has been confirmed.

Relatives of the Mexican holiday-makers identified the remains at a morgue in the resort city of Acapulco. They disappeared on 30 September after they left their home town of Morelia. Witnesses last saw them looking for their hotel in Acapulco. They are believed to have been kidnapped by a drugs gang, but it is not clear why. The region is the scene of a violent turf war between rival drug cartels.
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Mexico Gulf drug cartel leader Ezequiel Cardenas killed

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A leader of Mexico's powerful Gulf drug cartel has been shot dead by security forces in a town near the US border, the Mexican military says.

Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, known as "Tony Tormenta", was killed in the city of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville in Texas. He is the brother of former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas, who was extradited to the US in 2007. Residents in Matamoros spoke of a shoot-out lasting for several hours.
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Plan Colombia for Mexico

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Hillary Clinton, Drug Warrior

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated Wednesday that Mexico and Central America were facing an “insurgency” that requires the equivalent of a Plan Colombia in the region. Her comments immediately raised the ire of the Mexican government and sparked fears of expanded U.S. military intervention.

“…we face an increasing threat from a well-organized network drug trafficking threat that is, in some cases, morphing into or making common cause with what we would consider an insurgency in Mexico and in Central America,” Clinton said. She added that “these drug cartels are now showing more and more indices of insurgency; all of a sudden, car bombs show up which weren’t there before.”


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