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El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 13, 2008
Two men were assassinated this morning and their bodies left in the public right-of-way in the Ampliacion Aeropuerto neighborhood.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 13, 2008
At about 2:00 in the afternoon, an ex-municipal policeman was shot and killed by an armed commando at the intersection of Durango and Paseo Arboleda streets. Unofficial sources identified the ex-officer as Ricardo Eloy Yáñez Gómez, 32.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 14, 2008
NARCO-CEMETERY IN LA CUESTA YIELDS 33 CORPSES
The Federal Attorney General’s Office reported that a total of 33 corpses have been found in a clandestine grave at a house in the Colonia La Cuesta. A forensic anthropologist said that the recovered remains have been buried for approximately 5 years and only 3 of them are women.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 14, 2008
This afternoon, two men were assassinated at the intersection of Puerto Mexico and Puerto Alegre streets. The bodies remained in the cab of a Silverado pickup with Texas plates 92JPW4.
El Diario, Ciudad Chihuahua, March 14, 2008
CHIHUAHUA—Paulina Elizabeth Luján Morales, 16, the high school student missing since last Monday, was found dead yesterday morning. The girl died from a blow to the head and she had been sexually abused. The body was found in a vacant lot in the Colonia Valles de Chihuahua. Workers at a nearby farm found the body. They saw a bundle that they thought was clothes but when they approached, they realized that it was a woman and called the police. The body was dressed in gray pants, white T-shirt embroidered with the name of her school, black sports jacket with an orange hood, “Angelina” socks, a black belt and a key. The pants had black marks on them that looked like tire tracks. Family members came to the scene along with the father of Daniela Ivania Hernández Hernández, 13, missing since March 4.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 15, 2008
According to official and media reports, 64 execution victims have been found in narco-graves discovered in and around Ciudad Juárez in the last 8 years. In 1999, a mega-operation involving 500 Mexican soldiers as well as FBI agents excavated several ranches in a search for more than 100 bodies thought to be buried there. Despite the intense searching and worldwide media attention, only 9 bodies were found. In 2004, personnel from the Federal Attorney General’s office exhumed 12 bodies from the patio of a house at 3633 Parsioneros Street in the Las Acequias neighborhood. Most of these victims had been assassinated on site by strangulation to avoid being noticed by neighbors. An informant working for U.S. authorities, identified as Jesús Contreras, “Lalo,” Eduardo Ramírez or Guillermo Ramírez Peyro, participated in some of the killings that were carried out by a group of Chihuahua state judicial police under the command of Miguel Ángel Loya Gallegos, who is still a fugitive. So far in 2008, a total of 33 bodies have been found at two different sites in Juárez; none of the dead have been identified.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 15, 2008
Agrarian leader Armando Villareal Martha, founder of the organization Agrodinamica Nacional, was assassinated by AK-47 gunfire yesterday afternoon in Nuevo Casas Grandes. Villareal Martha was a well-known defender of the rights of farmers, especially in the struggle to obtain more affordable prices