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Monday, October 25, 2010
Massacre in Mexico
The associated press
Mexican soldiers seen through a smashed car window inspect a crime scene.
13 die in attack at rehab center Several other attacks have killed dozens in another city TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — A client at a drug rehab center in the Mexican border city of Tijuana said today that a gang of armed men burst into the building and gunned down 13 recovering addicts there. Prosecutors have not yet confirmed the number of dead. Police at the scene said at least 10 were killed. The witness, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Jesus, for fear of reprisals, said he was attending a movie showing on the first floor of the center, and had stepped out for something to eat when the attack occurred late Sunday. When he returned, his fellow clients told him the attackers made the addicts lie on the floor, and then sprayed them with bullets. Other clients sleeping upstairs in the center also survived. There are normally about 45 clients at the center. The attack on the ramshackle, privately run center is the first such mass killing at a rehab center in Tijuana, a city praised by some for its anti-gang efforts. Several such attacks have
Hurricane Richard takes aim at Mexico BELIZE CITY (AP) — Hurricane Richard battered the tiny Central American country of Belize with heavy rain and howling winds after making landfall just south of its largest city, threatening flimsy wood-and-tin houses and forcing tourists to evacuate outlying islands. An estimated 10,000 people in Belize took refuge at storm shelters in schools and churches ahead of the arrival of Richard, which weakened to a tropical storm early today as it pushed into northeastern Guatemala. By early today, Richard was located about 155 miles (southsoutheast of Campeche, Mexico. The storm was moving west-northwest at about 9 mph, and tropical storm-force winds extended up to 80 miles from its center. The storm’s center was expected to move over parts of southeastern Mexico today, entering the southern Gulf of Mexico tonight or early Tuesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Richard’s top winds were 90 mph — making it a Category 1 hurricane — when it made landfall late Sunday about 20 miles south-southwest of Belize City, whose neighborhoods are full of wooden, tin-roof homes that are very vulnerable to winds. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths, but some low-lying neighborhoods were flooded.
killed dozens of recovering addicts in another border city, Ciudad Juarez, and a voice was heard over a police radio frequency later saying “this is a taste of Juarez.” While police have not identified the motive in the Tijuana slayings, drug gangs have attacked such centers before to target rival gang members. In Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors’ spokesman Arturo Sandoval said three municipal police officers were found shot to death outside their patrol vehicle on Sunday. And in the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero on Sunday, state police found the bound, executed bodies of six men on a highway outside the resort city of Acapulco. The men had been blindfolded, their hands and feet bound, and shot to death with assault rifles, the state Public Safety Department reported. The killers left three handwritten messages with bodies, a tactic frequently employed by Mexico’s drug gangs to threaten their rivals or authorities, but police routinely do not reveal the contents of such messages.
Nationwide, more than 28,000 people have been killed in drug gang violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers to battle the cartels in their strongholds in northern Mexico and along the Pacific coast. While the government said most of the dead were involved in the drug trade, innocent bystanders have also died, like three people killed in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Coahuila state Sunday. The victims were a 14-yearold boy and two women aged 18 and 47, according to a statement by the state prosecutors’ office. In Ciudad Juarez, meanwhile, the death toll from a birthday party massacre late Friday rose to 14 when an 18-year-old man died of his wounds. Nineteen people were wounded in the attack on two private homes where about four dozen partygoers had gathered for a teenager’s birthday.
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Feds probing foreclosure mess WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal banking regulators are examining whether mortgage companies cut corners on their own procedures when they moved to foreclose on people’s homes, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said this morning. Preliminary results of the in-depth review into the practices of the nation’s largest mortgage companies are expected to be released next month, Bernanke said. “We are looking intensively at the firms’ policies, procedures and internal controls r e l at e d t o foreclosures and seeking to determine whether systematic weaknesses are leading to improper Ben foreclosures,” Bernanke Bernanke said. “We take violation of proper procedures very seriously,” he added. The central bank’s decision adds weight to federal and state investigations into whether banks used flawed documents to foreclosure on homeowners. Attorneys general in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia are jointly investigating whether paperwork and legal procedures were handled properly. At the federal level, the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last month asked seven big banks to examine their foreclosure practices. The OCC and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. are also working with the Fed on its examination. In addition to probing the banks’ handling of foreclosure documents, Fed staffers and other federal agencies are evaluating the potential effects of the foreclosure debacle on the real-estate market and on financial institutions, Bernanke said.
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