Latin America: Week in Review, Mexico
Zetas Leader Body Stolen From Funeral Home, Mexico says.
October 10, 2012 By Staff
Top Story — The body of Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano, alias “The Executioner,” was stolen out of the funeral home where it was being kept by armed men, Mexican authorities said on Tuesday.
Lazcano was allegedly killed on Sunday afternoon and his identity was confirmed on Tuesday by the Mexican Navy. However, the military seems to have been unaware that they had killed Lazcano until after his body was snatched.
Lazcano, for whom there was a $5 million U.S. bounty, is the most powerful leader to be killed in a six-year battle with the cartels.
Neither Mexican President Felipe Calderón nor U.S. authorities have confirmed the death of Lazcano.
Headlines from the Western Hemisphere
North America
- The death toll among migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has risen by 200 percent since last fiscal year.
- After a long licensing process, the U.S. has started to permit travel companies to take Americans to Cuba for cultural trips again.
- A judge in Puerto Rico ruled that bedridden voters will be allowed to mail in their ballots for the first time.
Caribbean
- The Alternative Social Forum in the Dominican Republic called for a protest against an imminent tax hike.
- Three foreign executives arrested in Cuba in 2011 for corrupt practices are still waiting to be charged.
- The Caribbean’s largest solar energy park, which generates enough electricity for annual consumption by 12,000 families, opened in Puerto Rico.
Central America
- Climate change is expected to affect the production of maize and beans across Central America, with $210 million expected in losses by 2020, said a new scientific study.
- A Guatemalan family of seven, including two children, was massacred on Tuesday. A relative says the massacre is linked to a land dispute.
Andes
- Re-elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he will deepen the “socialist revolution“. His opponent, Henrique Capillares, hinted at an active political future that would challenge said revolution.
- A judge has cleared former Colombian beauty queen and actress Valerie Dominguez of embezzlement.
Southern Cone
- The case of an Argentine naval ship that was seized by the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority will be heard on Thursday.
- A new military campaign was launched by the Brazilian government to combat crime along the country’s borders with Peru and Bolivia, the Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.
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