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BoothWilliam

  1. US State: #Cuban Commission on Human Rights & Reconciliation say 4,123 short-term detentions in 2011 & 30-year high of 796 detentions in Dec
  2. State's annual human rights report, in #Honduras, worst HR abuse concerns focus on corruption of national police 1.usa.gov/Kig3Rb
  3. US State made a big deal of building "resilient communities" in #CiudadJuarez, Mayor says $ a waste fxn.ws/KuWRAM via @foxnewslatino
  4. In SF daughter of #Cuba's Raul Castro calls Cuban exiles in Miami "a mafia" who "have no scruples," holding American people "hostage."
  5. Mexico’s ruling crime cartels escalate brutality in all-out war washingtonpost.com/world/the_amer…
  6. #Guatemala ex strong man RiosmMontt is facing a second genocide trial. He's 85, has clung to immunity, is it time? Will trial go forward?
  7. Of 175,000 police in #Mexico tested for competence sobriety honesty training about 30 percent flunk bit.ly/Ka4LOQ
  8. #SeanPenn at #Cannes blames everybody for #Haiti failures, which isn't actually true: mismanaged aid, lack of leadership hurt too.
  9. #Migrants coming home to #Mexico from USA: "There's no work there anymore." bit.ly/K07Gtj
  10. Protest against Enrique #PenaNieto had marchers shouting "down with #Televisa!" to protest alleged favoritism shown candidate by TV giant.
  11. El Universal: 22,000 protest in central #Mexico City against PRI president candidate Enrique Pena Nieto
  12. @DamienCave in NYT From a Honduras Hospital, Conflicting Tales of a Riverside Shootout, involving US DEA nyti.ms/JWYPK5
  13. #Mexico wealthiest duopolist Carlos Slim to get honorary degree from George Washington U as activists gather to protest washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
  14. Spanish oil driller #Repsol say 1st well in oil exploration project in Cuban waters has come up dry, bad news for #Cuba, but more wells TK.
  15. Crime beat newspaper reporter kidnapped in northern #Mexico's Ciudad Obregon by three masked men with automatic rifles. washingtonpost.com/world/the_amer…
  16. #Malaysia court sentences 3 Mexican brothers and two others to hang for drug trafficking, working at meth lab.
  17. #Mexico is now holding for questioning 3 military general under suspicion of aiding narco cartels. This is Calderon's worst nightmare.
  18. U.S. grants visa to Raul #Castro’s daughter, denies a bunch of other Cuban scholars admittance, in mysterious process. washingtonpost.com/local/us-grant…
  19. Probe opens into #Honduras #DEA drug bust, relatives of 4 dead say their family members not smugglers washingtonpost.com/world/the_amer…