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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (100)	9/22/2011 5:29:32 PM
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Reuters September 21, 2011 About 90 per cent of Mexican victims of common crime last year never contacted police, citing bureaucratic delays and general mistrust of legal authorities who solve few cases, a study by Mexico's national statistics agency found. Victims who went to the trouble of reporting crimes like robbery, extortion, car theft and break-ins to prosecutors faced a 35 per cent chance there would be no investigation of their cases, the report stated. The independent statistics agency, known as Inegi, surveyed over 78,000 households across Mexico last year and found 15 per cent of victims of unreported crimes said they had no faith in the authorities. More than 33 per cent said filing a complaint was too time-consuming, while more than six per cent said they were discouraged by the hostile attitude of the police. The tally did not include crimes associated with Mexico's drug violence and left out figures about drug trafficking, weapons possession and money laundering. With more than 42,000 drug related murders since President Felipe Calderon launched a frontal attack on cartels at the beginning of his term in late 2006, Mexicans are increasingly worried about the security situation. Inegi regularly polls the public about perceptions of safety and during this year's March-April period, nearly 70 per cent of the population felt insecure. The overall cost of common crime in 2010 was $16.1 billion, or 1.5 per cent of the gross domestic product of Latin America's second-biggest economy. Added security costs to prevent crime - like putting bars on windows and doors, buying locks or guard dogs - was $3.7 billion, Inegi said. Among Mexican adults, 24 per cent were victims of common crime in 2010, which the statistics agency said was roughly in line with recent figures from England and Wales that pointed to a 21.5 per cent victim rate among those 16 and older and a 27 per cent rate among people 15 and older in Canada. edmontonjournal.com

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (100)	9/27/2011 5:40:26 PM
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Mexican Journalist Beheaded for Using Social Media to Cover Crime Published September 26, 2011 Mexico City – The editor-in-chief of the Primera Hora newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in northern Mexico, was beheaded for using social media to report on criminals, prosecutors said. Maria Elizabeth Macias's decapitated body was found over the weekend, the Tamaulipas state Attorney General's Office said. The 39-year-old journalist's body was found by police on Saturday in Nuevo Laredo, which lies across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, the AG's office said. Macias's dismembered body was dumped at the Christopher Columbus Monument on a busy avenue in the border city. The journalist's legs and trunk were tossed in the grass, while her head was placed on a planter with a computer, mouse, cables, headphones and speakers. Macias, who signed her postings as "La nena de Laredo" (The Chick from Lareodo), used social-networking sites to report on a criminal organization, the AG's office said. Two young people were murdered on Sept. 13 and their bodies were left hanging off a pedestrian bridge in Nuevo Laredo for using social-networking Web sites to report criminals. The bodies of the young man and young woman showed signs of torture, and motorists were the ones who spotted the bodies and called police. Messages warning others not to use social-networking Web sites to report drug traffickers were left on each of the bodies. One of the messages was signed "Z," a reference to Los Zetas, which operates along the border with the United States and is considered Mexico's most violent drug cartel. Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists in the past few years, and the most dangerous country for members of the media in Latin America, non-governmental organizations say. Hundreds of journalists and media industry workers took to the streets of Mexico City on Sept. 11 to demand that officials clear up the recent killings of two female reporters and punish those responsible for attacks on journalists. Journalists have increasingly been targeted in recent years by drug traffickers and other organized crime groups, especially in northern Mexico. Media members must also contend with long-running abuse at the hands of federal, state and local officials. Since 2000, more than 70 journalists have been murdered and 13 others have gone missing in Mexico, the National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, Mexico's equivalent of an ombudsman's office, said. Authorities have not solved any of the cases of the journalists listed as missing since 2005 in Mexico, the Inter American Press Association, or IAPA, said in a report released last November. http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/09/26/mexican-journalist-beheaded-for-using-social-media-to-cover-crime/#ixzz1ZBvXBig1