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SecurityCornerMexico.com Recommended Reading: WORD CHAMPIONS IN SHOOTING SPREES & MASSACRES. Also, GUNMAN MASSACRES 14 WOMEN IN MONTREAL The Mexico – United States border runs from San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamorors, Tamailipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east, and traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. More, HERE. Also, Haitian immigration to the United States and Canada, by Wikipedia.
Haiti is situated on the western part of Hispaniola, the second largest island in the Greater Antilles. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean behind Cuba and the Dominican Republic (the latter shares a 360 kilometer (224 mi) border with Haiti). More, HERE.
In addition, Obama's State of the Union Rhetoric, 2010: Economic Euphemisms and Internal Contradictions by Michael Hudson AND The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti & The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion? by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Canada.
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This gallery collects all of our photos of the crisis in Haiti, starting with the most recent images and going back to the first photos that emerged after an earthquake hit the impoverished nation Jan. 12.
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 1, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- International relief organizations backed by American soldiers delivered hundreds of tons of rice to homeless residents of the Haitian capital Sunday, laboring to ease a food shortage that has left countless thousands struggling to find enough to eat.
But even as food-aid workers enjoyed their most successful day since the Jan. 12 earthquake, the increasingly prominent role of U.S. troops and civilians in the capital is creating high expectations that the Obama administration is struggling to contain.
More, HERE.
Beyonce's six awards set a record for most Grammys won by a female artist in a single night but Taylor Swift took home the evening's biggest prize, Album of the Year, at Sunday's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles
For U.S. Soldiers In Haiti, Helping Becomes The Hardest Part
Bin Laden Blasts US For Climate Change
By SALAH NASRAWI
The Associated Press Friday, January 29, 2010
CAIRO -- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring "the wheels of the American economy" to a halt.
FILE - This is an undated photo of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden issued a new audio message claiming responsibility for the Christmas day bombing attempt in Detroit and vowed further attacks. (AP Photo, File) (Anonymous - AP)
First State of the Union Speech By President Obama: 'We Face A Deficit Of Trust'
Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 28, 2010
President Obama delivered an urgent plea for unity on Wednesday night during his first State of the Union address, seeking to recapture the energy that propelled him into office and to reverse his party's trajectory after a series of recent setbacks.
A year after entering the White House with a broad mandate, Obama reframed his agenda around a single, central mission: continuing the nation's delicate economic recovery. He focused on jobs, casting himself as the advocate of average citizens, and acknowledged that his administration had "some political setbacks this year, and some of them were deserved."
More Funding For Military Families
ACORN foe arrested in bug plot: Filmmaker, U.S. attorney's son among four men arrested in plot to wiretap La. senator's office.
Obama to put limits on government spending
Pilot in Beirut crash didn't follow tower's advice
Report warns of al-Qaeda resolve: Group is determined to attack U.S. with chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons, report says
Blast hits near U.S. military base in Afghan capital
Immigration rules upset Haitians, relatives in U.S.
Debate grows in aftermath of quake: Should U.S. let more Haitians immigrate?
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 25, 2010
From morning until night, Dieula Celestin's cellphone rings in Miami's Little Haiti. It is her younger brother, Roger Paul, calling from Port-au-Prince, where he and their 65-year-old mother live with no food, no job and no money in the street outside the remnants of their house.
Celestin knows that federal immigration rules forbid her brother, her mother and half a dozen other people in her family who survived the earthquake -- as eight others died -- to enter the United States. Still, she flew to Haiti late Saturday, hoping that somehow she could find a way to bring them back. More, HERE.
Bombers target Baghdad hotels
Former secretary of state Colin Powell has visited the president at the White House several times. Aides to Obama said he values Powell's status as an elder statesman. (Linda Davidson/the Washington Post)
Vials of black-market Botox like this one are available the world over through the Internet. (Tim Chapman/miami Herald Via Ap)
Guatemalan police arrest ex-president wanted in US
Ex-Honduran leader leaves for exile, vows return
Almost 300,000 Cubans abroad visited island in '09
Mexico Senate wants answers about student massacre
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Senate on Tuesday demanded the government explain the murder of 15 people at a high school party in a city on the U.S. border despite a heavy army presence there aimed at quelling rampant drug violence.
The Senate said it would call Mexico's top anti-drug officials, including the attorney general and the defense and security ministers, to appear before lawmakers in the next few days to examine the killings, a spokesman said. More, HERE.
Daughter of artist Diego Rivera dies in England
Death toll in Mexican party massacre rises to 16
Soldiers stand inside a blood stained room after a group of gunmen opened fire a day earlier on a gathering of students killing at least 13 and injuring dozens in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday Jan. 31, 2010. (AP Photo) (AP)
By ALICIA CALDWELL
The Associated Press
Monday, February 1, 2010
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- The mayor of a violent Mexican border city said Monday he fears a shooting that killed 16 students at a party may have been random because the victims were "good kids" with no apparent ties to drug gangs.
The death toll of the weekend massacre in Ciudad Juarez, one of the deadliest cities in the world, rose to 16 after three more victims died at hospitals, according to the Chihuahua state attorney general's office. More, HERE.
Mexico City's Restaurants Favor The Authentic Approach
Here's what three recent days in Mexico City taught this food lover: Some of the top restaurants are open only for lunch. Tourists are the only ones who tend to eat dinner before 9 p.m. ("Seven-thirty doesn't exist here," jokes Nicholas Gilman, the author of the well-regarded "Good Food in Mexico City" and a generous guide during my stay.)
If you like to debate, bring up the subject of pork tacos. Everyone seems to have a favorite source and is quick to defend it. (My pick of the pack: the always-hopping El Califa, at Altata 22 in Condesa.) More, HERE.
Cabanas' condition improves after shooting: MEXICO CITY -- Doctors trying to save the life...being shot in the head at close range in a Mexico City bar. Article by STEPHEN WADE (AP Online)
FILE - In this May 21, 2009 file photo, Mexico City's Mayor Marcelo Ebrard speaks during a news conference in Mexico City. Ebrard has not confirmed his 2012 presidential ambitions, but already he is seen as one of the main front runners. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File) (Eduardo Verdugo - AP)
FILE - In this July 3, 2005 file photo, Enrique Pena Nieto, then candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, for governor of the state of Mexico, gives the thumbs up sign as he arrives at a voting station to cast his vote in the city of Atlacomulco, Mexico. Pena Nieto has not confirmed his 2012 presidential ambitions, but already he is seen as one of the main front runners. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
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February 1, 2010
Sir Jock Stirrup: Tony Blair's Iraq war delay caused kit chaos
David Brown
Britain’s top military commander admitted today that soldiers in Iraq were left without life-saving body armour and even proper boots and clothing because Tony Blair delayed authorising the war plans.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup told the Iraq Inquiry the armed forces had been underfunded in the years leading up to the invasion which led to shortages of equipment.
More, HERE.
Hundreds demonstrate outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre as Tony Blair gives evidence
January 29, 2010
Tony Blair admits Saddam threat was overstated (VIDEO)
Philippe Naughton
Tony Blair opened himself up to a charge of misleading Parliament today when he told the Iraq inquiry that by any objective analysis the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons programme had not increased after 9/11.
Appearing as the star witness before Sir John Chilcot's panel, the former Prime Minister stressed the transformation of US and UK foreign policy after the attacks of September 11, 2001, an event that he said had changed the "calculus of risk" for the transatlantic allies.
More, HERE.
Blair’s Appearance At Iraq inquiry To Spark Mass Anti-war Protest.
January 25, 2010; David Brown and Adam Fresco
Anti-war protesters from across Britain are urged to join a demonstration when Tony Blair appears at the inquiry
Thousands of anti-war campaigners are preparing for Tony Blair’s appearance at the Iraq inquiry in what could be the biggest political demonstration since last year’s G20 protests.
Riot police will be on stand-by around the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, close to the Houses of Parliament, as the former Prime Minister faces more than five hours of questioning on Friday. More, HERE.
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The New Face Of Border Violence
By Bill Gore; January 24, 2010
A violent chapter in the storied battle against international drug trafficking is now being written along the U.S.-Mexican border. In December 2006, upon taking office, Mexican President Felix Calderón launched an all-out assault on Mexico’s drug cartels. Unlike past initiatives, designed as showpieces for the U.S. government, Calderón’s effort has been waged in earnest, including the dispatch of 45,000 troops and 5,000 federal police officers to 18 Mexican states.
In response, drug cartels went on a rampage, escalating attacks on law enforcement and competing traffickers. Since 2007, news reports put the death toll somewhere between 11,000 and 13,500. The Los Angeles Times Web site shows the bloody tally like an old fashioned Wall Street ticker-tape, the numbers ascending ominously. But the Times graphic trails its own news tally, demonstrating that symbols of the carnage can’t keep pace with its reality. More, HERE.
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Charged contractors had checkered military pasts
Rare look shows ex-Blackwater guards charged in Afghan killings had sketchy military records
MIKE BAKER, AP News, Jan 25, 2010
A pair of former Blackwater contractors charged with murdering two people in Afghanistan had checkered pasts with the military before getting hired to work overseas, according to service records disclosed in recent U.S. court hearings.
The troubled backgrounds of the two men — including instances of violence, drug use and disregard for authority — are a first sign that Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater, was staffing its war-zone workforce with contractors who might not be suited for the job. More, HERE.
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Residents of Cite Soleil line up for aid next to an open sewer filled with trash, some of it smoldering, as a U.N. peacekeeper from Brazil stands watch. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times / January 24, 2010)
In Haiti, U.S. troops embrace a new role
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The Obama Administration's Cover-up of the Flight 253 Affair
"New Smoking Gun" Disclosures, by Tom Burghardt
Relevant questions begging for answers include: Who made the decision not to "connect the dots"? Are right-wing elements and holdovers from the previous administration actively conspiring to destabilize the Obama government? Was the attempted bombing a planned provocation meant to incite new conflicts in the Middle East and restrict democratic rights at home?
As with the 9/11 attacks, these questions go unasked by corporate media. Indeed, such lines of inquiry are entirely off the table and are further signs that a cover-up is in full-swing, not a hard-hitting investigation. More, HERE.
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Lisbon Treaty: Will War Criminal Tony Blair become President of the European Union?
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Haiti talks in Montreal focus on rebuilding
A woman walks through debris in Haiti's devastated capital of Port-au-Prince on Jan. 15. A conference opening Monday in Montreal will focus on how to rebuild the country's pulverized infrastructure. (Associated Press/Gregory Bull)
34 bodies found in Ethiopian Airlines crash
Capt. Robert Semrau (centre) arrives under military police escort for a custody hearing at CFB Petawawa in January 2009. He is charged with second-degree murder in the death of a presumed enemy fighter in Afghanistan. (Canadian Press/Tom Hanson)
Canadian soldier in court on murder charge
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El jefe de Gobierno confía en que la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación -donde se discutirá sobre la constitucionalidad de esas reformas- proteja los derechos que la ley consagra. Mas. AQUI.
REVIVEN NOCHE TRAGICA. Foto: Claroscuro. La PGJDF inició la reconstrucción de hechos en el Bar Bar, al que ingresaron siete arraigados, más de diez empleados del lugar y peritos para continuar con la investigación del ataque a Salvador Cabañas | Ver nota | Cobertura
DEPUESTO Y DESTERRADO. El ex presidente de Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, aterrizó en la República Dominicana procedente de su país, después de la toma de protesta de Porfirio Lobo, nuevo mandatario hondureño | Ver nota Foto EFE.
CABAÑAS YA RESPONDE. Ernesto Martínez Duart (i), neurocirujano que intervino ayer a Salvador Cabalñas, informó que a partir de hoy el delantero paraguayo del América será alimentado a través de una sonda | Ver nota Foto: Reuters.
CONSTERNACION. La esposa de Salvador Cabañas, María Alonso de Cabañas, abandona el Hospital Los Ángeles en medio de un tumulto por saber el estado del jugador americanista | vefutbol
APOYO FAMILIAR: La madre del futbolista paraguayo Salvador Cabañas, Basilia Ortega de Cabañas, llegó a la ciudad de México para acudir al lado de su hijo en el Hospital Los Ángeles | Ver nota Foto Reuters
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El matrimonio se conforma de un hombre y una mujer: Calderón
Atribuyen a "escuadrón de la muerte" la matanza en Juárez
Comando roba 6 autos en el DF
Hieren en el glúteo a otro jugador del América
Médico prohibe a Cabañas rendir su declaración ministerial
Gobierno debe revisar su estrategia antinarco: Ramírez Acuña
Dejan 19 muertos enfrentamientos en Sonora, Nayarit, Guanajuato y Coahuila
Luego de que fueron identificados los presuntos responsables del intento de homicidio contra el futbolista Salvador Cabañas en el “Bar-Bar”, la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Distrito Federal (PGJDF) solicitó la colaboración de Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) y de la Secretaría Seguridad Pública federal
El procurador capitalino Miguel Ángel Mancera identificó --en videos de las cámaras de seguridad del Bar Bar-- a dos presuntos agresores del delantero uruguayo Salvador Cabañas, quien este lunes fue intervenido quirúrgicamente de una lesión de bala en la cabeza. Mas. AQUI
El presidente del Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), César Nava, y sus antecesores Manuel Espino y Luis Felipe Bravo Mena serán denunciados ante la Procuraduría General de la República por presuntamente cometer delitos contra la seguridad de la nación, entre ellos el de “conspiración”. La denuncia será presentada mañana al mediodía por el panista Luis Paredes Moctezuma, exalcalde de Puebla, quien afirma tener pruebas de que Nava, Espino y Bravo Mena han incurrido en delitos en su carácter de miembros de El Yunque, la organización clandestina de ultraderecha que controla la estructura del PAN. Mas. AQUI.
Al menos seis personas murieron durante un enfrentamiento entre miembros del Ejército Mexicano y presuntos integrantes de Los Zetas, en el municipio Doctor Arroyo, Durango. Mas, AQUI.
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