WNU #1082: Mexican Election Maneuvers in Hank Rhon Arrest?

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1082, June 5, 2011

1. Mexico: Is Hank Rhon Arrest an Electoral Maneuver?
2. Argentina: Indigenous Activists Fast for Land Rights
3. Guatemala: Government Said to OK Goldcorp Mine
4. Haiti: US Cables Released, New Housing Dangers Revealed
5. Links to alternative sources on: Latin America, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico

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*1. Mexico: Is Hank Rhon Arrest an Electoral Maneuver?
Acting on what military authorities said was an anonymous tip, Mexican soldiers raided the home of casino and off-track betting magnate Jorge Hank Rhon the early morning of June 4 in Tijuana, in the northwestern state of Baja California. The military reported finding 88 firearms, 9,298 rounds of ammunition, 70 chargers and one gas grenade. Hank Rhon, a politician in the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Tijuana’s mayor from 2004 to 2007, was arrested on charges of illegal possession of weapons, a federal crime, along with 10 bodyguards and other employees. The authorities flew Hank Rhon to Mexico City late in the day for questioning. [...]

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