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PAN) and the journalist had recently gained attention for revealing fraud committed by PAN in Xichú "The murder of Raúl Irán Villarreal Belmont must not go unpunished RSF urges the Guanajuato State Prosecutor’s Office which is investigating the case under the Unified Protocol for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression Violence against the press in Mexico continues to claim lives and rampant impunity for these attacks are fuelling the crisis RSF urgently calls on the Mexican government to implement concrete effective measures to protect journalists and bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice Raúl Irán Villarreal Belmont was also involved in politics running for the San Luis de la Paz city council with the the Movimiento Ciudadano party in 2024 Guanajuato Governor Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo pledged her administration would cooperate with the investigation and the State Prosecutor’s Office assured that the journalist’s family is receiving legal and psychological support Villarreal Belmont’s murder comes just 12 days after the killing of another journalist in Guanajuato: on 2 March, Kristian Uriel Martínez Zavala, who also ran a Facebook news page, was shot dead Guanajuato remains one of the most dangerous regions in Mexico for journalists a zone caught in a violent clash between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel Mexico ranks 121st out of 180 countries and territories in the 2024 RSF World Press Freedom Index and remains the most dangerous country for journalists outside of war zones We depend on you in order to be able to monitor respect for press freedom and take action worldwide You support our activities when you buy our books of photos: all of the profits go to Reporters Without Borders Roman was a hardworking construction that was devoted to his wife and his family He played soccer growing up and became a huge fan of it as an adult Visitation will be held at Cooper-Sorrells Funeral Home in Bonham from 5:00 p.m Manuel Solis Hernandez and Anastacia Garcia Online condolences can be made at www.coopersorrells.com Ten people were murdered in two armed attacks in the municipalities of Celaya and San Luis de la Paz Among the victims were three women who were working in a restaurant that was attacked The first incident occurred at around 4:00 a.m when several individuals carrying high-caliber rifles entered a highway food stall in San Luis de la Paz and opened fire on those eating and working in the establishment They killed three male diners and three female employees The second attack occurred around 4:00 p.m when armed men shot up and allegedly detonated grenades in an auto repair shop on the Celaya-Cortazar highway Police responded to a 911 call about the incident which left four people dead and the business in flames The Guanajuato Attorney General’s Office (FGE) announced that its specialized homicide unit is investigating the incidents “Criminal experts processed the scene and gathered evidence in the [highway restaurant] … among them ballistics that were preserved for analysis The corresponding forensic studies are being carried out on the bodies … to determine their legal identities,” the FGE said in a statement Source: El Universal (sp) ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC Juan Coronilla-Guerrero’s wife warned a federal judge this spring that her husband would be killed if the U.S government followed through with his deportation Three months after the former Austin resident was taken back to central Mexico by federal authorities his body was found on the side of a road in San Luis de la Paz near where he had been living with his wife’s family Coronilla-Guerrero’s death comes six months after federal immigration agents took the rare step of entering the Travis County criminal courthouse to detain him on charges of illegal re-entry — a move that escalated fears about U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants who has returned to Mexico and spoke to the American-Statesman on the condition of anonymity because she fears for her family’s safety She suspects the 28-year-old was killed by the same gangs that had prompted the family’s move to Austin in the first place Since the Trump administration stepped up deportations of people living in the U.S attorneys and the relatives of deported immigrants have warned of the heavy collateral damage to families and of safety risks in Mexico related to drug trafficking and gangs “There’s a real reason people want to come here I don’t think it’s going to change,” said Austin attorney Daniel Betts a lawyer who defended Coronilla-Guerrero in criminal court Coronilla-Guerrero’s wife says four armed men barged into a house owned by her family in San Luis de la Paz She had stayed behind in Austin with one of their children and was not at the home on the night of her husband’s death The intruders pointed a gun at her mother while they scoured the house until they found Coronilla-Guerrero asleep in bed with their son They ripped the father from the bed and held a pistol to his head READ: U.S. judge says ICE raid in Austin was prompted by Travis ‘sanctuary cities’ policy Coronilla-Guerrero’s body was found about 40 minutes away from their home Local Mexican police declined to release information about the case Coronilla-Guerrero’s wife said police have not told her anything A spokesman with the Mexican Consulate in Austin said he had no details An autopsy report obtained by the Statesman confirms the basic information saying Coronilla-Guerrero was killed by gunshot wounds in a homicide Local media reports say six other people were killed in the area around the time of Coronilla-Guerrero’s death Coronilla-Guerrero was taken into federal custody March 3 as he waited for a routine court appearance on misdemeanor charges of family violence and marijuana possession News of the arrest stoked fear that ICE would use the courts as a hunting ground for people they suspected of living in the country without authorization ICE has made no other known arrests there since that day Coronilla-Guerrero had been deported before but eventually made his way back to the U.S and was working for a construction company in Buda when he was arrested for the misdemeanors the wife said it was a misunderstanding and that he never hit her He was granted a bond and later was sentenced to time served after pleading no contest for unlawful use of a motor vehicle and evading arrest READ: Austin was No. 1 in U.S. — for noncriminals arrested in Feb. ICE raids “Juan was a very nice young man who always had a smile on his face,” said local attorney David Peterson who represented Coronilla-Guerrero in federal court on the illegal entry charge “This is a true tragedy for him and his family Deportation should never be a death sentence.” Immigration experts say gangs often prey on deported immigrants kidnapping them at dangerous border crossing points in Tamaulipas and Coahuila and holding them while their loved ones come up with ransom payments government to take immigrants to safer interior locations “It really is an act of violence at this point to continue the immigration policies that the government is currently pushing that are sending so many people back to their deaths,” said Bethany Carson an immigration researcher and organizer for nonprofit Grassroots Leadership Coronilla-Guerrero’s wife said they had chosen Austin because of its Mexican population and because they believed they would face less racism. 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UNESCO observatory of killed journalistsUNESCO2 May 2025Last update:4 May 2025I condemn the killing of Raúl Irán Villarreal Belmont and call for a swift and thorough investigation to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice Impunity for crimes against journalists must not be allowed to prevail as it emboldens those that seek to silence them Raúl Irán Villarreal Belmont was an investigative journalist and founder of the digital media outlet Observatorio Ciudadano His body was reportedly found riddled with bullets on a highway near San Luis de la Paz He is the fifth journalist killed so far this year in Mexico.  Scientific and Cultural Organization contributes to peace and security by leading multilateral cooperation on education UNESCO has offices in 54 countries and employs over 2300 people UNESCO oversees more than 2000 World Heritage sites Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks; networks of Creative Inclusive and Sustainable Cities; and over 13 000 associated schools it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed” – UNESCO Constitution a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure jointly announces with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) a leading global independent infrastructure investor that it has sold 100% of Saavi Energía ("Saavi") the fourth largest independent power producer and the largest privately held stand-alone power generator in Mexico Terms of the transaction were not released Saavi has a geographically diverse 2.2 net GW portfolio of 6 CCGTs 3 compression stations and 65 km of associated natural gas pipelines Saavi primarily serves the Mexican power market as well as providing reserve capacity for specified markets in California GIP's acquisition of Saavi follows its investment in the Company's $325 million Secured Term Loan in 2020 which will be repaid as part of this transaction and marks GIP's first direct equity investment in Mexico GIP focuses on control and co-control infrastructure investments in its core sectors The significant need for infrastructure provision in developing markets presents opportunities for GIP to further extend its operating expertise sector knowledge and ESG focus across these emerging global economies.  Saavi was originally created through Actis' acquisition of InterGen's Mexico portfolio based on compelling fundamentals for investing in power generation in a growing energy market where gas fired generation is key to enabling the energy transition Over the past three years Actis has applied its industrial expertise to revamp Saavi's management team and pursue a substantial programme of technical and commercial improvements encompassing updates to the fleet Saavi has a best-in-class and an outstanding operational track record "We are excited to announce the acquisition of Saavi Energía and its leading power platform in Mexico Saavi has an exceptional record of providing reliable and efficient energy to leading industrial companies in Mexico We look forward to working with the management team that has helped build this highly successful business to pursue growth opportunities in both traditional and renewable energy and further broaden its commercial footprint." 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Among the municipalities in that category are León, San Miguel de Allende, Celaya Saucedo said that cartels are fighting in Guanajuato over the retail drug market as well as trafficking routes to the United States Another reason for the high levels of violence is the state’s location next to Jalisco “It’s a natural state for the expansion of the CJNG,” Saucedo wrote on Twitter He also said that “some National Guard commanders collaborate with criminal groups” in the state Guanajuato was the most violent state in Mexico in the first five months of 2022 with 1,292 homicides for an average of 8.5 per day The Bajío region state has been the most violent in the country in recent years Guanajuato – once one of the country’s most peaceful states – remains Mexico’s most murderous entity With reports from El Universal  México state authorities confirmed that a bus accident on the Capulín-Chalma highway early Sunday morning resulted in the death of 18 passengers The news agency Aristegui Noticias reported that the bus driver lost control after two tires blew out Photos from the crash site clearly show the bus on its side and two tires missing Although México state authorities were still investigating the cause of the accident, the newspaper La Jornada reported on Monday that the bus had been speeding adding that there were visible skid marks extending about 50 meters from the scene of the accident The passengers were from the city of San Luis de la Paz in the northeastern part of the state of Guanajuato. The bus was reportedly en route to the Sanctuary of Chalma, the second-most visited religious shrine in Mexico The sanctuary houses a Black Christ figure that is venerated year-round because of the many miracles attributed to it local authorities said more than 30,000 pilgrims visited the sanctuary Paramedics and emergency personnel from the México state municipalities of Tenancingo Tenango del Valle and Toluca arrived to give attention to the victims Several of the badly injured victims were transported to hospital by helicopter The Red Cross of Toluca announced on social media that it had sent two ambulances to the crash site, and posted information on which hospital each victim had been sent to Civil Protection authorities in San Luis de la Paz were coordinating with México state officials to keep the victims’ families informed Fourteen people were pronounced dead at the scene and another four died at area hospitals The 27 survivors were being treated at hospitals in Toluca A bulletin issued by the state police said the accident occurred near the town of El Guarda de Guerrero which is just outside the city limits of Santa Cruz Tezontepec about 10 kilomters north of Malinalco and 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Chalma With reports from Aristegui Noticias and Infobae Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors The name of the name is José Luis de la Paz perhaps it cannot be done from the most absolute clairvoyance Can one be more objective when one speaks from outside that emotion Is it not sincere enough to describe from within what your eyes and soul heard And now I'll tell you a little bit of my time Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia de la TorreJosé Luis de la Paz belongs to that variant of self-made artists being the flamenco culture and the way of feeling it He realized from an early age that he could be many other things but that only being a guitarist flamenco could express his feelings and make himself felt among others It is of immense generosity that José Luis, coming from Miami (state of Florida), appears in Huelva and not only wants to be with friends and fans in a peña, but rather I'm counting the days until that event. I knew that José Luis's performance was not going to be just another performance. I felt that something would happen. I had that feeling. I arrived at the meeting wanting to feel, and so it was. The teacher from La Paz then called John Joseph Amador and Juan Jose Jaen El Junco to go up to accompany him on stage. Cadiz sounded and the waves made of melodic foam broke to the rhythm of the palmas on the boardwalk of the arches of the soleá, the fandango and the tientos tangos that make up the stage of the peña from Huelva. The president said Helga Molina: How much we have missed you, José Luis! And he answered: Me too! And what Helga said represented us all. The society of Huelva, I imagine like any other worth its salt, misses its artists. Those who, even though they know that in order to grow wings you have to learn to fly outside your comfort zone, part of the feathers of those wings are made with their own roots. «Cádiz sounded and the waves made of melodic foam broke to the beat of the palmas on the boardwalk of the arches of the soleá, the fandango and the tientos tangos that make up the stage of the peña "Huelvan" He gave us, because the whole performance was a beautiful present, a touch of tangos born from hours of insomnia, molded in countless jet lag suffered by the artist throughout his career. Some tangos that, with the measured collaboration of Amador and El Junco, put the rhythm inside us, as a prelude to the bulerías with the exact note in the voice of Juan José Amador. José Luis took us deep into the mine. In that one where the taranta and the taranto have their own voice. There where the guitar extracts the mineral gifts of the earth between arpeggios. You can't ask for more. If the music, if the artist flamencoIt takes you where it needs to go… What else do you want me to tell you? As my grandmother used to say, see, hear and keep quiet. I would only add, savor. And to the beat of tanguillos, which José Luis offered to his teacher Antonio Sousa, veteran guitarist from Huelva, present there, closed a night full of flamenco in the broadest sense of the term. Thank you, José Luis. Thank you so much for making us feel part of your personal and flamenco experience.  Jose Luis de la Paz Peña Female Flamenco Culture of Huelva February 8 Touch: Jose Luis de la Paz Cante: Juan Jose Amador and Carmen Molina Brito Dance: Juan José El Junco Palmas: Juan Jose Amador and Juan Jose El Junco I was born in Flamenco at a table of cabales of the Peña Flamenca from Huelva I do so from the heart and looking at the people email and website in this browser for future purposes Privacy Policy Agreement * I agree to the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy. The Voice of the Flamenco in the World.  Please enter your username or email address to reset your password Not only must it face fuel theft from pipelines in Guanajuato the state oil company Pemex is now having to deal with theft on another front: tanker trucks on the state’s highways The company has requested official protection from Federal Police to provide escort vehicles The newspaper Milenio reported that there have been at least two instances of tanker truck theft in the last two months Only one of the vehicles has been recovered Sources within the company told Milenio that the two cases had triggered the request for protection after formal complaints were filed before the federal Attorney General’s office The most dangerous highways are those between Celaya and Acámbaro and between Querétaro state and San Luis de la Paz The Federal Police have detected not only fuel theft on those routes but also the illegal transportation of small amounts of gasoline and diesel in private vehicles and taxis The protection requested calls for surveillance of the tanker trucks from the moment they leave a Pemex facility until they reach their destination Source: Milenio (sp) This article was published more than 8 years ago Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a suspect in Los Angeles in February of 2017 With an executive order last month and a pair of Department of Homeland Security memos on Feb the Trump administration has significantly hardened the country's policies regarding illegal immigration.U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement/The New York Times The Trump administration's new plan to accelerate deportation of undocumented migrants has created a sense of deep disquiet in towns such as this one where families have sent generations of migrants to the United States and are unsure what may happen if they are forced to return Esmeralda Sanchez has three daughters living undocumented in the United States they don't have a plan for if they are deported," she said but I will have to make a plan – I will have to make a place for them." Some of her grandchildren are U.S.-born and citizens and the family is uncertain about what would happen to them in the event the parents are deported "It's terrible to have families cut in half," said Ms who lives on what she earns selling shoes and lingerie and on cash her daughters send home Read more: Immigrant communities in the U.S. brace for deportations in wake of new crackdown Read more: New Trump order expands number of immigrants in U.S. crosshairs government released a memorandum detailing steps to implement the Trump executive order on unauthorized migrants; it says that staff and detention facilities will be expanded rapidly to accelerate the removal of those detained and the categories of those who would be targeted for removal will be broadened The majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States are Mexicans They sent $26.97-billion (U.S.) in remittances home to Mexico last year – 2.6 per cent of GDP according to the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies "The new Trump plan … puts Mexico in a difficult position because we're not prepared for a massive return," said Guadalupe Chipole who runs the Centre for Care and Support of Migrants in Mexico City Many of those who now face deportation have been living in the United States for years; they may have no homes here and only fragile ties with the families and communities they left behind and could not visit through that time the conditions that drove them to leave have not changed "Most of these people left hoping for an easier life access to services … and now they are going to come back to these same places with a lack of jobs as well as a growing problem of violence and the presence of organized crime." this is going to cause more social pressure," she added "We don't know how many people will be coming back," Juan Carlos Romero "We don't know what we're going to be facing Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray reacted angrily to the Trump plan and made one of his government's strongest statements to date about its commitment to protecting migrant rights "The Government of Mexico will act by all means legally possible to defend the human rights of Mexicans abroad particularly in the United States," he said The government "will go to international organizations beginning with the United Nations to defend freedoms and due process for Mexicans abroad." director of the Mexico City-based Institute for Women in Migration said migrants in the United States are feeling "terror and ambiguity" in the wake of the Trump announcement "Our concern is that people are going to be picked up and their kids are going to be left behind," she said Her organization is urging undocumented Mexican women in the United States to leave an emergency plan with schools in case parents do not show up to pick up their children one day and to make sure a trusted friend or relative has a temporary custody letter The institute is already working with dozens of women deported by the Obama administration to help them get their children to Mexico and to try to restore parental rights that may have been terminated by child protective services Kuhner said she anticipates that most of those deported will go first to the towns and villages where they have family that will take them in but before long will need to move to cities in search of work where shelters are already overflowing – because if they have U.S.-citizen children they can be brought across the border for visits by documented relatives The institute and other advocacy organizations recently succeeded in persuading the government to change education policy so that Mexican schools are required to accept all children regardless of their citizenship or immigration status But the school system remains ill-prepared to handle children who arrive with limited knowledge of Spanish and are used to a very different curriculum a 53-year-old tailor in San Luis de la Paz described her family's anxiety for her brother who is in the United States with his three children And who knows what kind of work he'd be able to do here if they send him back but he won't be able to bring it if he's deported And nobody here is in a position to give him a car." received $104-million in remittances last year there will be a crisis of unemployment," said Rodolfo Nunez a 43-year-old maintenance worker who himself spent seven years working undocumented in California The people in town with successful businesses depend on capital sent by relatives in the United States to set them up and they depend on customers who are also living on remittances that will be the end of all these things," he said gesturing at the appliance and clothing shops that ring the town square In Mexican towns where the economic prospects remain limited and where there is a long tradition of migration to the United States there is as yet no sign that the Trump administration's orders are deterring would-be migrants which sits at the end of a road winding into the sierra above San Luis de la Paz a group of young men left a couple of weeks ago the town's economic development officer Manuel Casas said whether the Trump orders will change the flow of migrants who attempt to cross or what accelerated deportations will mean for the town "Ninety per cent of people here have either gone to the U.S And while people who live close to the industrial centres may find jobs at home in Mexico Report an editorial error Report a technical issue Editorial code of conduct Stephanie Nolen was The Globe and Mail’s Latin America Bureau Chief After years as a roving correspondent that included coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Stephanie moved to Johannesburg in 2003 to open a new bureau for The Globe to report on what she believed was the world’s biggest uncovered story She won four National Newspaper Awards for her work in Africa for coverage of AIDS and for stories on the wars and humanitarian crises in Uganda Her book 28 Stories of AIDS 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For more information on our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines and our Terms and Conditions (EPA PHOTO)A bus crash on the outskirts of Mexico City has killed 18 people and injured 32 others the state of Mexico's civil protection agency says All articles from our websiteThe digital version of Today's PaperBreaking news alerts direct to your inboxAll articles from the other regional websites in your areaContinueThe accident happened in Malinalco in the southern region of Mexico state which surrounds the capital on three sides when a bus travelling from San Luis de la Paz to the Chalma sanctuary south of Mexico City according to the state of Mexico's secretary of security Local media circulated images of people providing water and blankets to the relatives of crash victims The state prosecutors' offices of Mexico and Guanajuato said they were assisting the bereaved families Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date We care about the protection of your data. Read our Privacy Policy Ambassador Tony Garza had sent a blistering diplomatic note Tuesday demanding to know why Mexican troops interrupted the funeral Sunday for Lance Cpl who had migrated to the United States from Mexico and was killed west of Baghdad on June 21 The Mexican soldiers took issue with non-working ceremonial rifles carried by two Marines who traveled from the United States for the ceremony but Garza said the Marines had worked everything out beforehand "This should have been an opportunity not only to honor a hero but also for Mexico to honor one of its own sons," Garza said in the letter Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary responded to Garza's note late Tuesday by saying it was "sorry the actions that occurred during the ceremony caused the interruption of such a solemn act Mexico's soldiers "had an obligation" to ensure the law wasn't being violated "The intervention of the members of the Mexican army was for the sole purpose of verifying the (kind of) weapons the honor guard was carrying during the ceremony," it said Marines had originally planned to conduct a traditional 21-gun salute during the funeral in San Luis de la Paz But Mexico's Secretary of Defense turned down the request saying the salute violated constitutional measures preventing foreign soldiers from bearing arms on Mexican soil problems at the funeral began when four U.S Marines marched to the burial plot hoisting an American flag and the colors of the Marine Corps Two of the men carried rifles that looked real asking the four Marines and six others who had served as pallbearers to return to a Chevrolet Suburban that had brought them to the funeral Several minutes of discussions continued until taps began and the funeral continued over the objections of the Mexican troops and waited while 14 Mexican soldiers arrived to guard the premises About 40 minutes later the van was allowed to leave members of Lopez's family said they planned to ask Mexican officials for a full explanation of what occurred "The interruption of the ceremony was an affront to the dignity of the family in their grief over the sacrifice of a Mexican citizen and they deserve an apology from those who caused this hurtful incident," the ambassador said Mexico has a deep suspicion of foreign military forces in its territory The Marine Hymn's "Halls of Montezuma" refers to the 1847 U.S But the State Department said it the Embassy color guard "has often carried the same rifles in ceremonies at other locations in Mexico without protest or objection by Mexican authorities." 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