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...

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...

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that Miguel Ángel López Velasco, an editor and columnist with the local online daily Notiver, was shot dead along with his wife and his son in their home in the east coast city of Veracruz early yesterday, just seven days after a reporter was found murdered in the northwestern state of Sonora. “The violence against journalists in Mexico never ends,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We call on the authorities to...

The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs mistrusted the work of Venezuelan NGOs and was reluctant to concede that the arms seized from Colombian guerrilla had come from Venezuela and that there was a relationship between Caracas and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according to cables leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. "While the diplomatic corps in Venezuela seemed concerned about a close relationship between President Hugo Chávez and the FARC, and...

The Venezuelan government must take "concrete steps" to protect the lives of inmates, said the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), after it condemned the death of 19 inmates last Sunday in the Venezuelan prison of El Rodeo I, east Caracas. "The IACHR urges the Venezuelan government to take immediate steps in connection with the serious risk situation faced by people deprived of their freedom," said the statement, as reported by AFP. The IACHR, which...

A federal judge dismissed weapons charges against a flamboyant gambling magnate-turned-politician on Tuesday, dealing a stinging setback to President Felipe Calderon's battle against organized crime and fueling claims that a pre-dawn military raid on the former mayor's compound was an attempt to damage his party ahead of Mexico's presidential elections. But Jorge Hank Rhon did not go free as he left the federal prison. State officials immediately took him into custody and the former Tijuana...

The Spanish police thwarted the sale of nine helicopter gunships to Iran and war material to Venezuela in an operation in which the vendors, five Spanish businessmen and three Iranians who traveled to Spain to finalize purchase, were arrested. According to the Directorate General of Police and Civil Guard, “those arrested also had planned to sell spare parts of fighter aircrafts to Venezuela.” “In the operation called ‘Nam’, we seized nine Bell-112 helicopters,...

The body of Noel López Olguín, a local journalist based in the eastern state of Veracruz who had been missing since 8 March, was found near Jáltipan, on 1 June, four days after Alejandro Castro Chirinos, also known as “El Dragón,” was captured in the nearby city of Coatzacoalcos and confessed to participating in his murder. Police said Castro, who was caught in possession of López’s camera, told them where his body was buried. The motive...

Berta Guadalupe Díaz said that Jorge Hank Rhon bought her a hearing aid and helped in the effort to bring public services to the neighborhood she leads. “I have so many reasons to thank him, so many. To me, what the government did to him is an injustice because he’s helped people so much,” said Díaz, 66, who was one an estimated 3,000 residents who turned out Tuesday afternoon to support Hank Rhon. They gathered at 4:30 p.m. in the Río zone, on...

A former governor was arrested Tuesday on suspicion that he embezzled more than $9 million (about 100 million pesos) in federal disaster fund money meant to rebuild hurricane-struck zones in southern Mexico. Pablo Salazar, formerly governor of Chiapas, was detained in the airport of the Yucatan resort of Cancun by Chiapas state police, said Raziel Lopez, the state attorney general. Police flew him to Tuxtla Gutierrez, capital of Chiapas, Tuesday night to be presented before a judge. ...