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Drug Cartels Target Military
Brings
change to
enforcement
strategy
(A P ) -- M ex ican
drug cartels armed with
powerful weapons and
angered by a nation
wide m ilitary crack
down are striking back,
killing soldiers in bold,
d a ily a tta c k s th a t
threaten the one force
strong enough to take
on the gangs.
The daily bloodshed
Mexican army soldiers stand over a
includes an am bush in
that left four dead traffickers in the
A patzingan, M exico
that killed five soldiers P ^o to )
this month, a severed
head left with a defiant note
outside a military barracks on
Saturday and the slaying M on
day of a top federal intelligence
official who was shot in the face
in his car outside his office in
M exico City.
M exicans were particularly
shocked last week by televised
images of kindergartners flee
ing their school during a gre-
nade-and-gun battle between
traffickers and soldiers that
lasted for nearly two hours in
this small town in President
Felipe Calderon's home state of
M ichoacan.
sive presence o f sol
diers and tanks in small
towns, he's ordered the
creation o f an elite mili
tary special operations
force capable o f sur
gical strikes.
"We are not going
to g iv e in," P ublic
S a fe ty
S e c re ta ry
Genaro Garcia Luna
said. "In the states
where there is most
violence, we will be
right there to confront
the phenomenon."
The drug trade is
a ll-p o w e rfu l
in
M
exico.
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nalysts
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detained man after a gun battle
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city o f Apatzingan, Mexico. (AP
here m ake betw een
S 10 billion and $30 bil
The unrelenting bloodshed has lion selling cocaine, heroin,
forced a change in strategy for m arijuana and m eth am p h et
Calderon, who sent more than am ine to the U.S. m arket, ri
24,000 federal police and sol valing M exico's revenues from
diers out in D ecem ber to reoc oil exports and tourism . The
cupy territory from Michoacan's g a n g s a ls o m ak e b illio n s
poppy-dotted mountains to the through robbery, kidnapping
tourist-packed port o f Acapulco. and extortion o f businesses and
Now, to supplement the m as w ould-be m igrants.
Burns Adds Hispanic Voices to Series
(AP) - Docum en
tary m aker Ken Burns
said he will edit his
upcom ing PBS series
about W orld W ar II to
add stories about His
panic soldiers after
protests that they had
been excluded.
A day after m eet
ing with Hispanic ad
Ken Burns
vocacy groups. Burns
said Thursday that
he had collected
in te rv ie w s w ith
Hispanic veterans
that he considered
p o w e rfu l
and
would incorporate
them, along with
the* veterans' per
sonal documents.
"The W ar," a
14-hour series, is
scheduled to air in Septem ber.
"The role o f Hispanic-Am eri
can veterans in WWI1 is one
that lends itself to the universal
ity of this film and merits being
i ncI uded i n my fi 1 m ," Burns said
in a statement. "It is adding an
other layer o f storytelling that
will only enrich what we al
ready have."
B u rn s in itia lly re s is te d
c h a n g e s to the c o m p le te d
docum entary. Last m onth, af
te r p r o te s ts by H is p a n ic
groups. Burns brought aboard
a H isp an ic d o c u m e n ta ria n .
H ecto r G alan , and said he
w ould fold in stories o f H is
panic veterans during breaks
in the series or after the end o f
an installm ent.
H ispanic groups said that
am ounted to treating Hispanic
veterans as an afterthought.
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Local Women of Color to Visit Guatemala
With labor rights delegation
Sisters in Action for Power
an d th e P o rtla n d C e n tra l
America Solidarity Com m ittee
are partnering to send twoyoung
women from Sisters in Action
to participate in a w om en's la
bor rights delegation to G uate
mala.
“This w o m en 's delegation
will serve as a learning and
m ovem ent building o p p o rtu
nity. W e are eag er to learn
about the stru g g les w om en
face across border lines and
identify ways to support o rg a
nizations most like o u rs,’"said
T erenie Faison, 23, executive
d irecto r o f Sisters in A ction
for Pow er.
All participants will have the
opportunity to meet with local
unions in Guatemala and attend
a language school.
“ It is important for us as orga
nizers, especially w om en of
color, to build and strengthen
New Hummingbird
Discovered in Colombia
(AP) - T here’s a new chirp
in the forest but it may be choked
by the slashing and burning of
trees by coca farmers, research
ers said.
The Gorgeted Puffleg, a rare
hummingbird that boasts a plum
age o f violet blue and iridescent
.green on its throat, has been
discovered living in the cloud
forests of southwestern Colom-
bia. researchers announced.
The species — known by its
scien tific nam e E riocnernis
isabellae belongs to the Puffleg
genus, which appear to have
"little cotton balls above their
legs," said Luis M azariegos-
IIurtado, who has spent 30 years
documenting hummingbirds and
founded the Colombian Hum
mingbird Conservancy.
relationships with other women
in the work. The delegation will
expose us to the struggles of
labor union organizing and pro
vide the opportunity for us to
share our challenges and inspire
each other to continue the work
in solidarity,” Chirece Jones, 20,
organizer, Sisters in Action for
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