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UFO Federation of Light - Plasma Light Ship
September 12, near Mexico city
"From time to time, we very briefly uncloak some of these Motherships in order to show your secret government that we are still here and do not intend to go away. We know that infrequent sightings of these ships by your astronomers go unreported. They fear reprisal, either by their peers or by those who give them their grants. Your secret government fears these ships the most because they fully realize the capability of such a fleet and the insignificance of any response they could mount.
The outermost ring of our vast fleet is, by far, the largest. It contains millions of immensely varied ships, ranging from Motherships the size of large ocean liners to those nearly the size of Neptune or Uranus. These Motherships are simply our final back up, serving as components that will enter the second ring only when necessary. They proclaim to all potential adversaries that Mother Earth and your solar system are clearly experiencing a transformation that no Being, corporeal or non-corporeal in form, can prevent." September 12, near Mexico city ... more -
Mexican leader meets anti-crime march organizers
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in marches against daily kidnappings and killings.
Among the measures are the creation of a citizens' panel to monitor government progress in fighting crime, better police recruiting and oversight systems and equipping officers with more powerful weapons, Mexico's conservative president said.
Calderon acknowledged that Mexicans are desperate to see results two years after he took office and began an aggressive battle against drug traffickers and other criminal gangs.
The government "shares the demands and the indignation of the people," Calderon said after meeting with 14 civic leaders who staged Saturday night's candlelight protests in the capital and cities across the country. "We know the biggest problem in Mexico is public insecurity."
Abductions and homicides - including grisly decapitation killings - have surged despite the deployment of more than 25,000 soldiers and federal police to hotspots across Mexico, and the arrest of several top drug lords.
Hours before Saturday's protests, the severed heads of two women were found near the attorney general's offices in northwestern city of Durango, according to local media reports citing the same agency. No motive was given, but drug gangs in Mexico often behead their rivals.
Calderon offered few details about the proposed panel, but members of the 14 civic groups told reporters the president promised a concrete plan within a month.
"We're going to keep demanding: What's happening, what's happening, what's happening?" said Laura Elena Herrejon, of the civic group Pro-Neighbor. "Everyone who is listening to us must keep up the pressure."
Calderon said he had already included many of the other ideas in a 74-point anti-crime agreement drawn up last month during a national security meeting with governors and mayors.
Drug cartels have responded to the government's offensive with daily attacks against police, gunning them down at their homes, checkpoints and headquarters.
The rise in violence "is a consequence of the gradual and growing disintegration of public and governmental institutions," Calderon said, acknowledging that "in many places authorities have been overwhelmed by delinquency and crime."
Also Sunday a man's head was found in an icebox in front of the home of Rogaciano Alba, a powerful rancher and former mayor of the Pacific coast town of Petatlan, according to Public Safety officials in the drug-plagued state of Guerrero.
Alba went into hiding in May after gunmen killed 17 of his associates and relatives, including two sons. Officials said the severed head belonged to a friend of his. MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several pr... more -
Mexican president wants public help to beat crime after protests
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - President Felipe Calderon on Sunday urged Mexicans to fight an escalating crime wave, one day after tens of thousands protested an upsurge across the country of murders, kidnappings and other acts of violence.
Violence has spiked across Mexico since Calderon, who took office at the end of 2006, launched a crackdown on drug trafficking and related attacks, including the deployment of more than 36,000 soldiers across the country.
Some 2,700 people across the country have died in gangland-style killings so far this year, more than in all of 2007 -- including 18 decapitations over the past four days, according to national media.
Mexico has also overtaken Colombia and Iraq with its kidnapping record.
The recent assassination of a Mexico City teenager kidnapped from a wealthy family, in which police were involved, was the trigger for the mass protests.
"Without a stronger society, there won't be a police to defend against crime," Calderon said in a statement to the press Sunday, calling for the creation of citizens' committees to denounce violence in all Mexican states and large municipalities.
Story continued at link... MEXICO CITY (AFP) - President Felipe Calderon on Sunday urged Mexicans to fight an escalating crime wave, one day after tens of thousa... more -
Thousands march in Mexico against violent crime
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of Mexicans marched in the capital on Saturday to protest against a wave of kidnappings and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime.
Holding candles and dressed in white, demonstrators on the capital's Paseo de la Reforma main street carried posters and pictures of kidnap victims and signs saying, "Enough Is Enough".
Protests were planned throughout the country, especially along the U.S.-Mexico border where increasingly brazen drug gangs are battling each other for control of smuggling routes. More than 2,300 people have been killed in drug murders this year.
"Everything is getting worse. There are more kidnappings and more murders," said Carlos Villasenor, 63, a camera store owner who held a white flower.
Long used to violent crime, Mexicans were nevertheless outraged by the kidnapping and murder of Fernando Marti, 14, whose body was found in a car trunk in Mexico City on August 1 even though his businessman father had paid a ransom.
That murder prompted Calderon, Mexico City's mayor Marcelo Ebrard and state governors to hold an emergency crime summit last week and vow to stamp out abductions and violent crime.
Mexico is one of the worst countries in the world for abductions, along with conflict zones like Iraq and Colombia.
Kidnapping jumped almost 40 percent between 2004 and 2007, according to official statistics. Police say there were 751 kidnappings in Mexico last year but independent crime research institute ICESI says the real number could be above 7,000.
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Mexican Supreme Court upholds legal abortion
Mexico's Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico - and perhaps beyond.
But conservative President Felipe Calderon, whose administration appealed the Mexico City law to the Supreme Court, is unlikely to stop fighting efforts to expand the availability of abortions.
Even with the Supreme Court's approval, pro-abortion groups complain that many doctors refuse to do the procedure in Mexico City. Some are morally opposed, while others fear public scorn or the wrath of the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church.
The church blasted the court on Thursday, declaring itself in mourning and issuing a statement that church leaders would redouble their efforts to campaign on behalf of "the millions of children who are being sacrificed."
About a dozen riot police blocked off the street leading to the court as the decision was announced, guarding against disturbances. Mexico's Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures ... more -
Vulnerable to HIV, resistant to labels
Writer Marc Lacey, in his contribution to the International Herald Tribune (August 7, 2008), reports on the sensitive issue of male sexuality in Mexico among men who have sex with men ("hombres que tienen sexo con hombres") from the 17th International AIDS Conference held in Mexico City in August.
In Mexico homosexuality is traditionally not unaccepted in a society imbued with machismo. The men Lacey has interviewed for the article express denials about their own attraction for same-sex encounters while seeking out sex with men. And it is this demographic of men who are in a high-risk group for HIV in a society where same-sex contact between men is not associated with identity.
Photo: A 29-year-old man who goes by the name Eduardo says he contracted HIV after his only sexual encounter with a man. He professes no attraction to men. (Jennifer Szymaszek for The New York Times) Writer Marc Lacey, in his contribution to the International Herald Tribune (August 7, 2008), reports on the sensitive issue of male se... more -
Many with HIV Hide Attendance at AIDS Conference
Many of the thousands of HIV-positive participants gathering in Mexico City for the 17th International AIDS conference starting this weekend are afraid to say they are attending it.
“Many of those who are coming have told their work or families that they are going on vacation,” Manuel da Quinta, who works for UNAIDS in Geneva and has been HIV-positive for 13 years, told AFP.
“They’re afraid of saying they’re taking part in an AIDS conference.”
Media coverage of the conference will be restricted, with participants wearing different-colored stickers to show whether they accept being filmed and photographed or not, said a member of the organizing committee.
Those who agree to speak may request that their interviews will not be broadcast in their home countries, like 32-year-old Anastasia, from Russia.
“I contracted AIDS after having unprotected sex. The guy didn’t tell me (he had HIV). I fell in love him so I didn’t use a condom,” she said. “He was the first patient with AIDS in my town … He was a soldier who had served in Africa.”
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007, the majority — some 22 million — in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the latest UN figures.
Auguste Dokla, president of a network of AIDS patients in Togo, said that progress to raise AIDS awareness in the west African country was slow.
“We demonstrate on the streets to ask for medicines, but our meetings are set up by word of mouth,” she said. “We don’t have access to radio and television (to publicize our cause).”
Some 2,500 of the 22,000 expected at the first world AIDS conference in Latin America have said they are HIV-positive, but organisers believe many more may have omitted to declare they are carrying the disease.
Da Quinta, from Portugal, checks with participants to see whether they wish to speak to the media during the meeting.
“I didn’t suffer too much from discrimination. It’s different in Europe,” he said. “But in Latin America it’s always very hard due to the culture (and) the Catholic Church.
“Everything is shameful here. It’s shameful to be a homosexual, a prostitute, to have AIDS.” Many of the thousands of HIV-positive participants gathering in Mexico City for the 17th International AIDS conference starting this w... more -
Global AIDS forum opens in Mexico
A global conference on HIV/Aids has opened in Mexico City, a quarter of a century after the disease first became widely known.
Figures released ahead of the meeting reveal that the number of people with the condition around the world has gone down slightly overall.
However, infection rates are still rising in some countries and access to the right treatment is also an issue.
Across the world 33 million people are affected by the syndrome.
The six-day conference was preceded by an awareness march, a photo exhibition and other events.
About 20,000 scientists, government officials and campaigners are in Mexico City for the event.
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13-year-old with HIV opens AIDS conference in Mexico, trying to end secrecy
Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus — and so did she.
Now the 12-year-old is one of the most prominent AIDS activists in Latin America and a rarity in a region where few children are willing to break the silence and tell their classmates they have HIV for fear of rejection. She edits a children's magazine on the virus.
On Sunday evening, Keren shares the stage with the Mexican president and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as they open an international AIDS conference.
She flashes a dimpled smile, exposing a row of braces, and settles comfortably into her chair before expertly fastening on a microphone. She talks matter-of-factly about the virus she has had since birth.
"It's like a little ball that has little dots, and is inside me, sort of swimming inside me," she said in an interview with The Associated Press, curling her fist as she recalls what her parents explained to her with drawings long ago.
Keren's openness about her HIV status comes as the virus's victims grow increasingly younger.
Worldwide, people ages 15-24 accounted for 45 percent of people infected with HIV in 2007, according to the 2008 U.N. AIDS report.
In Latin America, 55,000 of the nearly 2 million people with the virus were under 15 years old, the vast majority of them infected by their mothers. Only 36 percent of pregnant women in the region receive medicine to prevent transmission, although that is an increase of 26 percent since 2004. Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus — and so did she. ... more -
Mexico rustles up giant baguette
Mexican caterers have made what they say is the longest sandwich in Latin America, throwing together a 44-metre (44-yard) "torta" in five minutes.
Dozens of people from sandwich outlets in Mexico City came together to produce the monster baguette at the start of a three-day torta fair in the capital. Each section of the 600kg (1,320lb) sandwich had a different flavour and 30 ingredients went into the mix.
It pipped a similar super snack made at last year's fair by one metre. The record attempt took place in the city's Venustiano Carranza district with the help of local authorities and 45 torta outlets.
Thousands of pieces of bread, lettuce, onion and tomato were mixed with hundreds of litres of mayonnaise, mustard and spicy sauces, Reuters news agency reports.
"We broke our own record today," said Jose Antonio Arellano, a torta fair organiser.
The fair is aimed at boosting the torta which has taken a back seat to other fast food in recent years, Reuters notes.
Fair organisers expect more than 160,000 visitors during the fair and hope to sell upwards of 200,000 tortas. Mexican caterers have made what they say is the longest sandwich in Latin America, throwing together a 44-metre (44-yard) "torta&... more -
Mexico City Emos
Recently, Mexico City has been the site of a countercultural clash, where young, middle-class "Emos" have been under attack in a bizarre string of hate crimes. In the is pod, VC2 producer Ioan Grillo looks explores the issue from the perspective of several young emos. Recently, Mexico City has been the site of a countercultural clash, where young, middle-class "Emos" have been under attack ... more
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12 dead in Mexico underage drinker stampede
A raid on underage drinkers in the Mexican capital last night has led to at least 12 deaths caused by crushing and asphyxiation, as over 1,000 young party-goers rushed to get out of a crowded nightclub. Nine youths, including several minors, and three police officers suffocated in the scramble to leave the News Divine disco after a tip-off from its owner that police were in the building. The emergency exit was partly blocked by boxes.
Police arrested more than 30 youths and the nightclub's owner. Selling alcohol to people under 18 is illegal in Mexico and nightclubs are only allowed to operate within certain time limits. However, those laws are largely ignored by bar and nightclub owners. A raid on underage drinkers in the Mexican capital last night has led to at least 12 deaths caused by crushing and asphyxiation, as ov... more -
The 'Virtual Kidnappings’ of Mexico City
The phone call begins with the cries of an anguished child calling for a parent: “Mama! Papa!” The youngster’s sobs are quickly replaced by a husky male voice that means business.
A Mexico City poster warns, “Don’t fall prey to telephone extortion. Let’s get them!”
“We’ve got your child,” he says in rapid-fire Spanish, usually adding an expletive for effect and then rattling off a list of demands that might include cash or jewels dropped off at a certain street corner or a sizable deposit made to a local bank.
The twist is that little Pablo or Teresa is safe and sound at school, not duct-taped to a chair in a rundown flophouse somewhere or stuffed in the back of a pirate taxi. But when the cellphone call comes in, that is not at all clear.
This is “virtual kidnapping,” the name being given to Mexico’s latest crime craze, one that has capitalized on the raw nerves of a country that has been terrorized by the real thing for years." The phone call begins with the cries of an anguished child calling for a parent: “Mama! Papa!” The youngster’s sobs are quickly replac... more -
15 killed in Mexican drug gang clash
Gun battle between rival faction of a Mexican drugs cartel have left at least 15 people dead in the city of Tijuana, near the border with the US.
Police said the dead men belonged to the Arellano Felix drug gang which has come under pressure from a rival gang.
Nearly 200 people have been killed so far this year in Tijuana.
Since taking office in late 2006, President Felipe Calderon has sent some 25,000 soldiers and federal police to fight the drugs cartels.
The Arellano Felix cartel rose to prominence in the 1980s.
It paid millions of dollars in bribes to local law enforcement officers and was blamed for increasing violence, including the murder of informants and rival traffickers.
Much of the group's activities centred on smuggling Colombian cocaine through Mexico to California. -BBC Gun battle between rival faction of a Mexican drugs cartel have left at least 15 people dead in the city of Tijuana, near the border w... more -
Doc Debut : Super Amigos
Link TV will broadcast Super Amigos, a documentary about masked luchadores -- Lucho Libre-style wrestlers -- who wage fights against social injustices in Mexico City. The five anonymous "social wrestlers" include Super Animal who asks bullfighters to fight him instead of bulls; Super Gay champions gay rights and battles homophobia after a savage beating kills his boyfriend; Ecologista Universal fights for environmental protection and preservation; Fray Tormenta, who experienced homeless as a youth, battles against the injustices and struggles of homeless children and opened a shelter; and Super Barrio helps poor tenants resist evictions in neighborhoods facing emergent gentrification. Super Amigos was written, produced and directed by Arturo Perez Torres, and has an air date on Link TV on April 27.
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Super Amigos
http://www.opencityworks.com/superamigos/ Link TV will broadcast Super Amigos, a documentary about masked luchadores -- Lucho Libre-style wrestlers -- who wage fights against s... more -
Bomb death in Mexico City
One person was killed and two wounded in the explosion near the security ministry yesterday in the Mexican capital. No warning had been issued about the blast, and no group has claimed responsibility, but culprits could include drug gangs recently targeted in a government crack down, or left-wing rebels. The bomber was around 25 years old. One person was killed and two wounded in the explosion near the security ministry yesterday in the Mexican capital. No warning had be... more
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Single-sex buses in Mexico City to prevent groping...
The government of Mexico City has turned to single-sex bus lines (in addition to existing coed routes) as a way of reducing incidents of sexual harassment and assault on public transportation. Fascinating approach; will it work? Is there something more fundamentally wrong with masculine culture in the city? The government of Mexico City has turned to single-sex bus lines (in addition to existing coed routes) as a way of reducing incidents ... more
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No men allowed
Mexico City combats the sexual harassment of women on public transit by providing "ladies only" buses.
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"Solo para mujeres!"
In Mexico City sexual harassment, on the packed public buses, has gotten so bad that the city has rolled out "ladies only" buses.
Now when the men inadvertently get on the ladies' buses (complete with pink signs) they get a taste of their own medicine. In Mexico City sexual harassment, on the packed public buses, has gotten so bad that the city has rolled out "ladies only" b... more -
Video: Mexicos Faithful Make Annual Pilgrimage On Dia de la Virgen
Wooden crosses bearing the bloodied effigy of Jesus and huge framed pictures of the la Virgen de Guadalupe are quite literally walking down Mexico Citys Calzada de Guadalupe. Boys with gelled hair labor with crosses strapped to their backs and middle-aged women lumber along the tree-lined avenue with enormous pictures roped to their shoulders in an image that brings to mind filmed depictions of the crucifixion itself.
The religious icons are being bourn by Mexicos millions of faithful, who for the last few days have been making the annual pilgrimage, many from miles away, to the citys two Basilicas de Guadalupe.
. Wooden crosses bearing the bloodied effigy of Jesus and huge framed pictures of the la Virgen de Guadalupe are quite literally walking... more
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