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Attacks Against Minorities
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By: Laurence Hammack
June 11, 2012
William A. White, a former neo-Nazi leader and more recently a fugitive from the law, is back in the United States. White is being held in a federal detention facility in Miami, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Authorities flew White to Miami from Mexico, where he was arrested Friday on charges of violating his probation. White was quickly deported from Mexico, apparently because he entered the country illegally, said Chief Deputy Brad Sellers of the U.S. Marshals Service. ...
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May 17, 2012
A Minnesota man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups had devised a plan to attack the Mexican consulate in St. Paul and believed his actions would "manifest national awareness," according to a federal affidavit obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The affidavit, recently unsealed in federal court, provides details of the investigation into the alleged plans of Joseph Benjamin Thomas. The 42-year-old was indicted in April on drug charges, though authorities were...
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March 28, 2012
A gay Chilean man who was beaten, stabbed, burned, and branded with a Swastika by a gang of neo-Nazis has died. Last month Daniel Zamudio, Zamudio was beaten with blunt objects before the Neo Nazi’s cut off part of his ear, carved swastikas into his abdomen and burned other parts of his body with cigarettes. Daniel Zamudio, 24 years. Zamudio’s mother told the newspaper that her son had gone to work at a store on Friday, but she did not know his whereabouts until he was found...
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July 5, 2011
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June 29, 2011
Recalled that among the injuries he suffered are the head injury and a nasty 12 centimeters wound on his face. Elnecavé’s family is requesting responsibility and respect by those who are making a mockery of the consequences of the assassination attempt of the communicator. Mexico City, June 27.- Health condition of Journalist Jacobo Elnecavé gets complicated, he was the victim of an attack last June 19th as he suffered a pulmonary embolism caused among other factors, by...
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June 24, 2011
Jacobo Elnecavé Luttmann was beaten and sustained several injuries including a 5-inch gash on his cheek. He remains hospitalized in critical condition. The attack took place inside “El Cabaret”, a local night club in Tuxtla, where several people hit him with hard objects over his head, face and right shoulder. Jacobo claims that during the attack, the perpetrators repeatedly said: “this is for you to learn not to mess with the Álvarez Puga… this is for...
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April 6, 2011
Peasant, trade union and indigenous groups and affiliated news media are designated as “permanent military targets” in three leaflets apparently issued by paramilitary groups - the Black Eagles, “Rastrojos” and United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC) - that have been circulating in the southwestern city of Popayán and the surrounding Cauca region since late February. The latest leaflet, dated late March and signed by the AUC’s central column, names 11...
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By: Shlomo Papirblat
March 28, 2011
In secret negotiations with Iran, Argentina has offered to "forget" the bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, in exchange for improved relations between the two countries. According to the Argentine weekly Perfil, which broke the story yesterday, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is personally involved in the talks. The Argentinean Foreign Ministry has so far declined comment. For his report, the veteran...
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October 25, 2010
Amnesty International has urged the Mexican authorities to investigate an attack on members of an Indigenous Triqui community in the state of Oaxaca after a man and woman were shot dead by an armed group with alleged links to the authorities. Gunmen ambushed five members of an Indigenous people's organization near the village of Tres Cruces on Saturday 16 October, killing Teresa Ramirez Sánchez and Serafin Ubaldo Zurita. Two other men and a woman, whose names are withheld to protect...
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September 27, 2010
Authorities of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, have ordered the total evacuation of the town, which has been under siege since February of this year. The authorities issued the order when alleged paramilitaries raided San Juan Copala and said that they would massacre all supporters of the autonomous municipality. Alleged paramilitaries cut off water, electricity, and access to the town in February. They also stationed gunmen in the hills surrounding the town and...
 
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