Former governor shot in Mexican state where politicians keep dying
The former governor is said to be in a stable condition despite being shot six times.
A former governor of the small western Mexican state of Colima has survived an assassination attempt that fits into a series of violent incidents touching local politicians, including the death of two other former governors in the last decade.
Fernando Moreno, 52, was having breakfast in a well-known restaurant on Monday morning when two armed men shot him six times in the neck, chest and arms.
“The government of Colima expresses its total rejection of these kinds of violent acts that cast a shadow over life in the state,” current governor Mario Anguiano told reporters. “We will spare no effort or resource to capture those responsible. There will be no impunity.”
Photographs posted on Twitter show Moreno lying on the floor with blood staining his shirt. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, where he underwent surgery and is now said to be in a serious but stable condition…
There are few, if any, rivalries in international soccer in which the home team’s fans are as frequently and heavily outnumbered as when the USA hosts Mexico.
The Rose Bowl will be packed with 93,000 fans when the two neighbours meet in Pasadena, California on Saturday, the majority of them Mexicans immigrants or Mexican Americans born and raised in the United States but whose family ancestry makes them die-hard Mexico supporters. Some will speak no Spanish and others will have never set foot in Mexico, yet they will cheer their side as hard as they jeer the Star-Spangled Banner. This is the nature of the complex and often heated rivalry that Pasadena native Pablo Miralles believes is “more dynamic and more important to more people than any other international football rivalry.”
Miralles decided to explore the rivalry in his 2012 documentary Gringos at the Gate after being taken aback by a Mexican friend’s emotional response when he suggested the US was becoming the superior footballing nation. Miralles told the Guardian: “Initially he was very angry but he thought about it and he actually started tearing up, and he said: ‘You don’t understand. If the United States gets better than Mexico at soccer then what do we have over you guys?’”
US marshals track down American fugitives in Guadalajara, Mexico
Florida fugitive George Catlett Getsinger was arrested in Guadalajara this week
“They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists…”
Donald Trump could just as easily have been talking about criminals from the United States crossing into Mexico when he uttered those infamous words back in June.
In separate incidents, two American fugitives accused of kidnap, torture, rape, and sexual battery of a minor have been arrested in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second biggest metropolis, and sent back to face justice in the United States in the past week.
On September 28, Paul Evren Jackson, 45, was arrested at a hotel in downtown Guadalajara by U.S. marshals and Mexican immigration officials after 24 years on the run. He stands accused of kidnapping several women, locking them in a “modern-day dungeon” and repeatedly raping them in Washington county, Oregon.
Then on October 6, police in St. Augustine, Florida, announced that 54-year-old George Catlett Getsinger had also been captured by U.S. marshals in Guadalajara. Getsinger has been charged with sexual battery of a child under the age of 12 committed in May this year…
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