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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has built quite a reputation over the years for being a bit hard on his inmates. Prisoners at his south-central Arizona jail sleep in a tent city outside and are fed green bologna sandwiches for lunch. Violence...
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Scoop
| over 1 year ago
Condemning the murders of three women journalists in Mexico over the past month, the United Nations agency that defends press freedom today pressed for stronger measures to halt the frequent violence against reporters in the Latin American country.
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Xtra News
| over 1 year ago
Maria Macias used the Internet to denounce the brutality of local drugs lords in this Mexican border city until they silenced her and dumped her headless body on a busy street. Macias, 39, had been an active contributor to a chat room on a community...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
The killing of a Mexican woman purportedly in retaliation for her postings on an anti-crime website has chat users and employees at the newspaper where she worked asking if anyone can now be safe in the violent border city of Nuevo Laredo.
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
La fiscalia del estado mexicano de Tamaulipas, fronterizo con EE.UU., informo que el cuerpo decapitado encontrado el sabado en Nuevo Laredo corresponde a Maria Elizabeth Macias, la editora del diario Primera Hora. Segun un breve comunicado de la...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample Castaneda is the tenth journalist killed in Mexico this year and the 74th since 2000, according to Mexico's Human Rights Commission. Her death is also the third Internet-related...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
The headless body of a Mexican newspaper editor was found in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas with a warning note, police said. The state attorney's office said the head of Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro, 39, was found Saturday near her body...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
Police find decapitated body of Mexico newspaper editor (CNN) -- The editor of a Mexican newspaper was found dead, her body decapitated and with a note next to it, officials said. Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro, 39, was the editor in chief of the...
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Nuevo Laredo, Mexico The decapitated body of a female journalist was found Saturday in northeastern Mexico near the U.S. border, along with a message attributed to an organized crime gang, state prosecutors said. The victim found in the city of Nuevo...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Police found a woman's decapitated body in a Mexican border city on Saturday, alongside a handwritten sign saying she was killed in retaliation for her postings on a social networking site.
The gruesome killing may be the third so far...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| over 1 year ago
A woman's decapitated body has been found in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, with a sign saying she was killed for her postings on a social networking site. The killing may be the third in which people in Nuevo Laredo were killed by a drug...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
Avoid Plaza Las Americas, several people wrote, giving the location. There are gunmen, wrote others, adding, they're not soldiers or marines, their faces are masked. These witness accounts have become common in Mexico over the past year, especially...