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Entire Police Department Of Mexican Town Implicated In Killings, Kidnappings

Doa — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:18:22 +0000

Scores of police officers – including the entire department of one town – have been detained in Mexican probes of killings and kidnappings. Mayor Alfredo Osorio of the Gulf coast town Tierra Blanca said Monday that about 90 city policemen were...

Gay marriage law comes into effect in Mexico City

Doa — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:48:56 +0000

A law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry comes into effect on Thursday in Mexico City. The law, which was passed by the city’s local assembly in December, gives gay people full marital rights, including the right to...

Drug Hit Men Dissolved Journalists Body In Acid, Police Say

Doa — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:45:10 +0000

A long-missing journalist in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco was killed by a drug cartel’s hit men who dissolved his body in acid, Mexican authorities said. Rodolfo Rincon, 54, who worked for the newspaper Tabasco Hoy, was last seen Jan. 20,...

Mans Head Found In Mexico Town Square

Doa — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:43:53 +0000

Mexican authorities say a man’s head and a threatening message referring to a drug cartel have been found on a town square. Prosecutors in central Michoacan state say the head was left on a tree-lined plaza in the town of Quiroga on...

'Boss of bosses' killed in Mexico

Doa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:21:02 +0000

One of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords has been killed in a shoot-out with state security forces, officials say.

Arturo Beltran Leyva and four alleged members of his cartel died in a raid on a flat in Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City.

The Beltran Leyva cartel, based on the Pacific coast, is one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent drug gangs.

Meanwhile, the severed heads of six policemen were found near a church in the north of the country, police said.

They said the beheadings in Durango state were a revenge attack by the Gulf cartel for the killing of 10 gang members last week.

The severed heads, left in plastic bags outside the church before dawn, were discovered by garbage collectors, the state attorney general’s office said.

Brazilian Ethics: 68% Buy Piracy, 36% Pay Bribes, 17 Million Sell Their Vote

Doa — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:56:50 +0000

About 17 million Brazilians, 13% of the electorate, confessed to have traded their vote for money, job or gifts, according to a public opinion poll released Sunday by the Brazilian daily with the most circulation, Folha de S Paulo.

Under the heading “The ethics of Brazilians”, and with information from pollster DataFolha, 83% of Brazilian over 16, admitted to have been involved in some form of illegal action or practice.

Although 13% admitted having “traded” their vote in some election, 94% considers it condemnable, and 74% of Brazilian believes that registered voters effectively “trade” their votes with the candidates.

More over 12% admitted to be willing to accept money is exchange for some request from a political candidate to vote for him.

DataFolha concludes that overall Brazilians think correctly about ethics, and understand it, but do not act according to principles.