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WNU #1026: Mexican Army Kills 2 Students in “Drug War”
According to Ardelio Vargas Fosado, chair of the National Defense Committee in the federal Chamber of Deputies, Mexico now has 94,540 military personnel engaged in the fight against drug trafficking, up from a few thousand as late as the middle 1980s.
Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1026, March 28, 2010
1. Mexico: Army Kills 2 Students in “Drug War”
2. Costa Rica: Arias Tries to Bust Port Workers Union
3. Haiti: Clinton, Bush Visit, Promote Sweatshops
4. Haiti: Professor Killed, Union Funding Threatened
5. Links to alternative sources on: Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, IDB Megaprojects
ISSN#: 1084 922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Mexico: Army Kills 2 Students in “Drug War”
As of Mar. 26 sources in the Mexican military had admitted that it was probably soldiers who killed two graduate students the early morning of Mar. 20 in front of the prestigious Institute of Technology and Higher Education’s Monterrey campus (ITESM) in the northern state of Nuevo León. The sources said that the soldiers had just been in a firefight with sicarios (hit men) from a drug cartel and probably confused the students with the men they had been fighting. [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2010/03/wnu-1026-mexican-army-kills-2-students.html
Issue #1026, March 28, 2010
1. Mexico: Army Kills 2 Students in “Drug War”
2. Costa Rica: Arias Tries to Bust Port Workers Union
3. Haiti: Clinton, Bush Visit, Promote Sweatshops
4. Haiti: Professor Killed, Union Funding Threatened
5. Links to alternative sources on: Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, IDB Megaprojects
ISSN#: 1084 922X. Weekly News Update on the Americas covers news from Latin America and the Caribbean, compiled and written from a progressive perspective. It has been published weekly by the Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York since 1990. For a subscription, write to weeklynewsupdate [at] gmail.com . It is archived at http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/
*1. Mexico: Army Kills 2 Students in “Drug War”
As of Mar. 26 sources in the Mexican military had admitted that it was probably soldiers who killed two graduate students the early morning of Mar. 20 in front of the prestigious Institute of Technology and Higher Education’s Monterrey campus (ITESM) in the northern state of Nuevo León. The sources said that the soldiers had just been in a firefight with sicarios (hit men) from a drug cartel and probably confused the students with the men they had been fighting. [...]
Read the full Update:
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2010/03/wnu-1026-mexican-army-kills-2-students.html
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