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Border News Translations: Alcohol Council; Viagra Sales
TIJUANA BC (El Sol de Tijuana, Krystel Gómez Seville, 5/24/11) - Yesterday the official Consultative Council of Spirits was formed. It is presided over by Mario Escobedo Carignan, who assured he would seek to support the municipal administration to suppress …
Border News Translations: High School Openings; Wait Times; Rollover
TIJUANA BC (Frontera, Laura Durán, 5/24/11) - Unlike other years, Tijuana recorded an increased demand for places in high school classes in the West. As a result, they will open 850 extra places in this part of the city, confirmed …
Border News Translations: School Testing; Baja Racing
TIJUANA BC (El Lineas Tijuana, 5/23/11) - In Baja California today around 470,000 pupils in basic education took the Enlace test, said Javier Santillán, head of the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare. He added this year the challenge would …
Border News Translations: Migrant Rights; 2 Executions
TIJUANA BC (El Lineas Tijuana, 5/23/11) - The three branches of Government show an attitude of contempt and neglect on issues related to abuse against migrants and returnees, said Victor Clark Alfaro, President of the Binational Center of Human Rights …
Border News Translations: Alcoholmeters; Brothel; Striptease
TIJUANA BC (El Sol de Tijuana, Krystel Gómez Seville, 5/23/11) - Although there is no exact date for implementation, public security and receivership Municipal staff traveled this week to the Federal District to start the first training procedures for providing …
Border News Translations: Deputy Chief of Mischief; Child Labor
TIJUANA, BC (El Sol de Tijuana, Editorial, 5/23/11) - Apparently, a lack of attention by the Secretary of Municipal Public Security, Gustavo Huerta Martinez, has allowed some policemen of different sections to perform mischief against society. Such is the case …
Border News Translations: Psychiatry; Smuggling
TIJUANA BC (Frontera, Laura Durán, 5/22/11) - About 15% of the population in Baja California has suffered an episode of depression, confirmed Luis Enrique Dorantes Marines, director general of the Instituto de Siquiatría (Institute of Psychiatry) of the State. According …
Border News Translations: Liaison Work; Documentary Shown; Ready Lane
TIJUANA BC (El Mexicano, Rafael Morales Magana, 5/22/11) - Agents of the State Preventive Police (PEP) captured Francisco Antonio Castellanos, alias "El Blackie", who was wanted by the American justice for crimes against health, the Ministry of Public Security of …
Border News Translations: Hospital Care; Healthy Baby; Neurotics Anonymous
TIJUANA BC (El Sol de Tijuana, Laura Sánchez Law, 5/22/11) - Following recurrent complaints received last month at the Procuraduría de los Derechos Humanos (Office of Human Rights) of Baja California (PDH) against services provided at Hospital General de Tijuana, …
Border News Translations: Three Kidnap Murder Suspects Captured
TIJUANA BC (En Linea Tijuana, 5/20/11) - The Subprocuraduría Contra la Delincuencia Organizada (SCDO) captured three suspects responsible for the kidnapping and murder of a young woman. One of the murderers turned out to be niece of the victim. The …
Border News Translations: A Gallery of Thugs
TIJUANA BC (Frontera, 5/21/11) - The good boy. As we see it a baby face that wouldn’t kill a fly, maybe a little metrosexual. This scoundrel with the help of two other henchmen assaulted a taxi driver with a gun …
Border News Translations: Extortion or Telephone Fraud
TIJUANA BC (El Sol de Tijuana, Adam Mondragón, 5/20/11) - Baja California registered around 15,000 calls for extortion and telephone fraud during 2010, nearly 50% of them were received for complaints within the city of Tijuana. Rogelio Rodríguez Alcocer, Coordinator …
Border News Translations: Prison Fire; Fugitive Captured; Man Shocked
Apodaca NL (El Vigia, 5/20/11) - A prison fire in the northern Mexico State of Nuevo León killed 14 prisoners this morning, reported State authorities. The spokesperson for the State Government for Safety, Jorge Domene, told press the fire occurred …
Border News Translations: Shootout; Taxi-jacking; Wait Times
Monterrey NL (SUN/Frontera, 5/20/11) – A strong army clashed today with armed men in the municipality of Juárez, that left two suspected criminals dead. Weapons were also seized, police sources said. According to a preliminary report, the battle occurred around …
Border News Translations: Ensenada Man Sentenced
ENSENADA BC (En Linea Tijuana, 5/19/11) – The Juzgado Tercero de lo Penal (3rd Criminal Court) handed down a sentence of 35 years and 7 months in prison to a young man who more than three months ago deprived the …
Border News Translations: Education for Police; Money for Teachers
TIJUANA BC (El Sol de Tijuana, Adam Mondragón, 5/19/11) - The recruitment of young people with higher levels of education into police agencies could contribute to reduced levels of corruption within the three orders of police forces, proposed the Secretary …
Border News Translations: 2 Shootouts; Elder Abuse
VICTORIA, TAM (Expresionenred, 5/18/11) - State authorities announced this afternoon that several armed individuals were dead after an incident with agents of the PF and apparently with the army. Allegedly, Federal Police shot at the crew of a pickup truck …
Border News Translations: Radical; Family Arrested; Gate Waits
TIJUANA BC (Frontera, Celia Garcia, 5/19/11) - Opponents to the construction of the project at Plaza 11 de Julio threatened to take more radical steps to get the attention by Mayor of Tijuana, Carlos Bustamante Anchondo. "If we are not …
Border News Translations: 1400 Grads; Police Funeral; Pope's a Mess
MEXICALI BC (La Cronica, María Magdalena Lopez, 5/19/11) - With a "wave", screams and applause, 1,400 University students expressed joy for having graduated from the UABC, after four or five years of study. The ceremony of farewell was organized in …
Border News Translations: X-Ray on Tijuana
TIJUANA BC (Frontera, Celia Garcia, 5/18/11) - The regional director of the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics, Irma Laura Murillo Lozoya, offered an x-ray of the population of Tijuana. Some progress was noted in the areas of infrastructure, …