Mexico judge orders arrest of ex-Governor Yarrington

30 August 2012 Last updated at 00:22

Mexico called on Interpol to help with the arrest of ex-Governor Tomas Yarrington

A Mexican judge has issued an arrest warrant for a former state governor for allegedly fomenting drug trafficking.

Tomas Yarrington, who was the governor of the northern state of Tamaulipas from 1999 until 2005, is suspected of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Mexican drug cartels.

Attorney-General Marisela Morales asked Interpol for help with his arrest.

Mr Yarrington's lawyer said his client was innocent and the charges were politically motivated.

The Mexican arrest warrant comes three months after two civil suits were filed against Mr Yarrington in the United States alleging that he had laundered money for Mexican drug cartels by investing in US property.

Mr Yarrington is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), whose candidate Enrique Pena Nieto came first in the 1 July presidential election.

In May, Mr Yarrington was suspended by the PRI pending the outcome of the suits filed against him.

Ms Morales said the whereabouts of Mr Yarrington, who was last seen in public in May, were not currently known.

Source: BBC

Mexique : 95 632 homicides en cinq ans

L'Institut national de statistiques et géographie (INEGI) vient de diffuser des chiffres accablants sur l'insécurité au Mexique : 27 199 homicides ont été enregistrés en 2011, soit un taux de 24 homicides pour 100 000 habitants.

De janvier 2007, début de la présidence de Felipe Calderon (investi en décembre 2006), jusqu'à la fin 2011, les statistiques de l'INEGI totalisent 95 632 assassinats. Une projection sur la base de la tendance enregistrée ces derniers mois permet d'avancer une projection de 120 000 homicides au cours du sexennat de Calderon, qui s'achève en décembre 2012.

Cette hécatombe est bien plus grave que le chiffre souvent diffusé de plus de 50 000 meurtres liés au crime organisé depuis l'offensive contre les cartels de la drogue lancée par Calderon. Aussi bien le gouvernement sortant que l'opposition minimisent l'ampleur de l'explosion meurtrière que connaissent les Mexicains.

La spirale de barbarie provoquée par la guerre contre les narcos et les règlements de comptes entre gangs semble avoir levé tous les tabous concernant le respect de la vie humaine. Après des décennies de chute du taux d'homicides, le Mexique enregistre désormais une hausse vertigineuse, qui ramène le pays loin en arrière et libère ses vieux démons. Il y a une sorte de contamination entre la violence des cartels et les autres conflits : disputes d'ordre familial, querelles de voisinage, rixes fortuites, qui dégénèrent et débouchent sur la mort.

Les chiffres de l’INEGI sont un révélateur sur l’insécurité et la criminalité bien plus troublant que le nombre de morts liés à la guerre contre la drogue.

La carte des homicides montre d’ailleurs qu’ils ne se limitent pas aux régions de forte implantation des gangs, mais ont tendance à se disséminer sur presque tout le territoire.

L’Etat de Mexico et Jalisco (dont la capitale est Guadalajara, deuxième ville du pays) figurent ainsi parmi les Etats où l’on compte désormais les meurtres par milliers.

Le défi sécuritaire s’étend à d’autres pays d’Amérique latine. Le Brésil est le premier pays au monde de par le nombre d’homicides : 50.000 par an (soit 22,7 pour 100 000 habitants). Avec un taux de 82 homicides pour 100 000 habitants, le Honduras reste le pays le plus meurtrier de la planète, suivi par le Salvador (66 pour 100 000 hab.).

Source: Le Monde

Mexique, la spirale de la barbarie

LE MONDE | 23.08.2012 à 14h53 • Mis à jour le 23.08.2012 à 19h29

Dans ces colonnes mêmes, voilà deux ans, le président mexicain, Felipe Calderon, se félicitait des résultats de la guerre de grande envergure engagée, depuis le début de son mandat, en décembre 2006, contre le crime organisé et les narcotrafiquants. "Nous allons vaincre le crime", assurait-il. Avant d'ajouter, à l'adresse de ceux qui s'inquiétaient de la progression vertigineuse de l'insécurité dans son pays : "Si vous voyez de la poussière, c'est parce que nous nettoyons la maison."

Battu lors de l'élection présidentielle de juin, M. Calderon passera la main à Enrique Peña Nieto à la fin de l'année. Avec un bilan accablant. L'Institut national de statistiques et géographie mexicain vient de diffuser des chiffres ahurissants : 27 199 homicides ont été enregistrés en 2011 ; entre 2007 et 2011, le total s'élève à 95 632 assassinats. Sur la base de la tendance enregistrée ces derniers mois, l'on estime à 120 000 le nombre d'homicides au cours du mandat de Calderon. Soit plus du double du chiffre souvent évoqué – et déjà hallucinant – de 50 000.

Cette véritable hécatombe constitue, et de loin, le conflit le plus meurtrier de laplanète au cours des dernières années. D'autant que les chiffres officiels qui viennent d'être publiés sont un révélateur implacable de la gangrène qui a gagné le pays. Au-delà du nombre de morts strictement liés à la lutte contre la drogue se développent de véritables industries du kidnapping, de l'extorsion de fonds, de la prostitution, des trafics de personnes et d'organes. La carte des homicides démontre qu'ils ne se limitent plus aux régions de forte implantation des gangs, mais ont tendance à se disséminer sur presque tout le territoire.

Cette spirale de barbarie, provoquée par la guerre contre les narcotrafics et les règlements de comptes entre les "cartels" de la drogue, n'épargne personne, y compris des dizaines de journalistes qu'on veut faire taire, ou des dizaines de maires victimes du chantage ou de la corruption. Elle semble avoir levé tous les tabous sur le respect de la personne humaine.

Cette spirale, enfin, sanctionne l'échec terrible de la stratégie "militaire" engagée depuis six ans par M. Calderon, avec l'appui constant, notamment financier, des Etats-Unis, qui constituent le principal marché des narcotrafics. Mais personne ne semble désormais en mesure de proposer une politique alternative, tant le mal est profond, la peur enracinée, la misère endémique. Et l'on peut douter que l'élection de M. Peña Nieto y change grand-chose : elle signe, en effet, le retour au pouvoirdu Parti révolutionnaire institutionnel, qui avait dominé la vie politique du pays pendant des décennies, sur fond de corruption et de complaisance à l'égard des narcotrafiquants.

Au-delà de l'Amérique centrale, le défi est lancé aux Etats-Unis et à l'Europe, dont la prospérité des marchés des stupéfiants et des ventes d'armes alimente directement la violence mexicaine. Ce n'est pas un défi exotique, mais planétaire, qui ne saurait laisser indifférent.

Source: Le Monde

Mexico is Dead: CNR Exclusive interview with Alexander Backman

CRN® EXCLUSIVE: 
AN INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER BACKMAN

By Conciencia Radio

www.alexanderbackman.com abba@alexanderbackman.com

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Introduction

CRN®- AUG 24-2012-  On August 23rd,  2012, we decided to sit down with Mexican broadcaster, speaker and journalist Alexander Backman to know his point of view on the recent Le Monde article titled ‘Mexique, la spirale de la barbarie’, which criticizes the Mexican Drug War that has left, according to recent official statistics, 120,000 dead in the last six years and not 50,000 as previously thought. This exclusive and highly sought interview is in response to the aforementioned Le Monde article. It also covers other pressuring issues that we managed to address like the political scenarios for Mexico int he near future, the new student movements, the world elite, the criminal insurgency and more.

Alexander Backman had already publically denounced, by the time that the official figure of deaths in the Calderon’s Drug War reached the washed-down 50,000 count in 2009, that the real figure was probably in the 100,000 range. He reached this conclusion after seeing that the ‘black count’ was not being considered. The black count or ‘cifra negra’ refers to the notion that at any figure brought out by the Mexican government needs to be doubled due to the fact that many of the homicides and mass killings, as well as the rest of the crimes, go unreported. It is a well-known fact that in Mexico 99% of all crimes go unpunished. Prof. Backman’s assertiveness has been proven true after the discovery of mass graves in many parts of Mexico since 2011, and the recent statistics by the Mexican INEGI National Institute of Statistics and Geography that also show that the numbers and the bodies keep stacking up contradicting previous press releases by the Calderon administration.

When interviewed, Alex Backman had this to say after being highly critical and closely following, what he coins, Calderon’s ‘Sexenium of Death’:

MEXICO, You are not alone!!!

Indeed, we are not alone!

We are not fighting for national or group interests but for justice to our people and our country. We are reaching out to the world and we are listening.

Thanks to all of you who support our struggle.

       - México

Via: el5antuario.org

Motivation

Published on Jul 28, 2012 by Frank S pacocjc

Via: el5antuario.org

SLC Utah Global March Against the Imposition in Mexico. July 22, 2012 Anti EPN

Published on Jul 28, 2012 by Marco Munoz

Global March Against the Imposition in Mexico. SLC Utah July 22, 2012 Yo soy 132 Utah

Via: el5antuario.org

#YoSoy132's speach in front of Televisa's facilities. 'Peaceful occupation of Televisa'

#YoSoy132's Manifest to the people of Mexico,

When we arrived there was the world, and we were already a nation in hunger and centuries of oppression. We were a gathering of unrest, we were electoral frauds with no revolution, we were Chiapas and 500 years with no name raising their arms, we were Aguas Blancas and the people lying in the ground, massacred, we were crisis and the debt of others, we were strikes, flattened barricades, Atenco and Oaxaca, raped and murdered women, victims of acts of repression. We were the work of slaves, migrant families, bodies hanging from bridges, martyrs (victims) of state-driven terrorism, exchange currency for a political campaign, murder as free market.

We were not sought after but were the unavoidable consequence of a past and present plagued by imposed certainties.

We are not who we have been. We are the result of death and indignation.

We assume the dignity of the defamed and his/her struggle as our own. We stated we were not just a number and that our numbers would never again be quiet servants of polls and statistics.

International message against electoral fraud in México

Via: el5antuario.org

Protesters manifest during Televisa's coverage of the Olympics

The protest documented in the above video took place as Mexican media company Televisa was doing their coverage of the 2012 London Olympics. This was obviously not broadcasted since the largest mexican TV network is consistently ignoring all public manifestations of unrest related to the Mexican presidential election.

Mexican demonstrators blockade Televisa studios over election scandal

Reuters in Mexico City

guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 July 2012 05.17 BST

Protesters block the studios of the Televisa network in Mexico City. Photograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters

Protests continue after claims TV network was biased and took money for coverage from eventual winner Enrique Peña Nieto

Thousands of protesters have blockaded the studios of Televisa, Mexico's most popular TV network, accusing it of biased coverage of the 1 July presidential election.

Shouting "Tell the truth," the demonstrators, including students and union workers, stopped employees entering the offices of the Televisa studios in Mexico City although they allowed others to leave.

The protesters allege that Televisa supported Enrique Peña Nieto, who won the election by almost 7 percentage points over leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The protesters promised to continue the blockade for 24 hours.

Televisa, which carried on broadcasting as normal, argues it covered the election fairly and gave time to all candidates on primetime news shows.

Televisa is the world's most popular Spanish language network and sells its soap operas around the globe.

López Obrador has claimed that Peña Nieto paid Televisa for favourable coverage and bought votes. He has filed a legal challenge to the vote with an electoral tribunal, asking it to annul the ballot.

The tribunal has until September to rule on the accusations and officially declare Peña Nieto as president. It is widely expected to uphold the vote.

Source: The Guardian

Via: Comparte tu Wifi

#MegamarchaMundial Video evidence of Mexicans protesting in 51 cities

Published on Jul 24, 2012 by Frank S pacocjc

The video above gives a general overview of the second 'Megamarch' that took place on Sunday the 22nd of July agains the imposition of the PRI party candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. The video displays 'only' 51 cities as these where the ones sent to the original uploader's email. It is important to state that the protests took place in more than a hundred cities.

Mexicans marched peacefully all across the country and in various cities around the world. All of these has NOT BEEN THOROUGHLY COVERED by the mainstream mexican media. 

In general, the demonstrations took place in peace. However, there were acts of oppression in the cities of León and Oaxaca, where police arrested several protester under vague charges.