…ice said. The authorities had hailed the arrest as the most important in years. Known as El Chapo” or “Shorty”, Joaquin Guzman has been in hiding ever since he escaped from prison in 2001. The Sinaloa cartel controls much of the flow of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine to the United States. Within hours of the high-profile arrest, doubts had started to be cast on the offici…
…ul-searching in Mexico which has been torn apart by brutal drug cartels. Maria Santos Gorrostieta had become an icon in Mexico for her work against the gangs and had been described as a heroine of the 21st century. She was elected as mayor of Tiquicheo, a rural district in Michoacan, west of Mexico City, in 2008. Almost immediately, she received threats. The first assassination attempt came in Oct…
rary Art – formerly known as the Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum, or MACCSI. A man and a woman allegedly tried to sell Matisse's Odalisque A La Culotte Rouge to undercover FBI agents In 2003 the museum discovered the original artwork had been replaced with a forgery after an art collector reported it was being offered for sale in New York. A press release from the Department of Just…
9/11: New tapes of aviation industry’s response as WTC fell. 9/11 Intercepted: Documentary – Air Traffic Audio Recordings 9/11 WTC rescuers at higher risk of cancer, The Lancet reveals. In 2011, US commemorates 10 years since 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked three passenger planes and ploughed them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. A fourth passenger plane allegedly heading straight for…
feet tall and connects between the northwestern states of Sinaloa and Durango in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains After four years of construction, the Baluarte Bicentennial Bridge is priced at 2.18 billion pesos or 158.98522 million U.S. dollars. The bridge is so named as the country celebrates it’s bicentennial independence from Spain which was in 1810. The Durango-Mazatlan highway…
…y were Central American migrants. The grim find comes just days after police discovered the dismembered, decapitated bodies of 18 people in two abandoned vehicles in western Mexico. Earlier this month 23 dead bodies – 14 of them decapitated – were found in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, also in Nuevo Leon state. Around 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since…
Ariel Castro's three dogs found in better health than his victimsTwo dogs found by police at Ariel Castro's home and another one in his car could have served as pets for his three captives and were apparently in better condition than the…
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Barack Obama makes U.S. Marine break military rules by holding an umbrella while in uniformHosting Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White House’s Rose Garden yesterday, President Barack Obama requested a standing Marine to open an umbrella and protect his…
Michelle Knight was Ariel Castro's punching bagA family friend of one of the Cleveland victims has revealed that Michelle Knight, the first of three women to be kidnapped off the street who suffered more than a decade of…
Arne Svenson: TriBeCa residents threaten to sue artist for secretly photographed them in their own apartmentsResidents at a luxury TriBeCa apartment block in Lower Manhattan are very furious after discovering that artist Arne Svenson, who is their neighbor at a nearby building, has…
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