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#11548791 at 2020-11-09 01:30:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14746: Air Assault! Ready For The Work Week? Edition

Mexico, Brazil leaders silent as world congratulates Biden
Mark StevensON and DÉBORA ÁLVARES
Nov. 8, 2020
Updated: Nov. 8, 2020 5:35 p.m.
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Mexico-Brazil-leaders-silent-as-world-15711245.php
MEXICO CITY (AP) - There were two notable holdouts among the world leaders who rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. elections: the leaders of Latin America's two largest countries, both of whom have been seen as friendly to President Donald Trump.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, sometimes dubbed "the Trump of the Tropics" for his populist, off-the-cuff style, has kept silent on Trump's loss. And Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador refused to congratulate Biden at this point, saying he would wait until the legal challenges over the vote were resolved.

#11099551 at 2020-10-16 08:45:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14195: Patriots In Control Forever Edition

https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1316958697411825664

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@joshdcaplan

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country's army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources confirmed Thursday.

9:26 PM · Oct 15, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1316958697411825664


Ex-Mexico army chief arrested in LA on drugs, money charges

Associated Press
E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and STEFANIE DAZIO
,Associated Press-October 15, 2020

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country's army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday.

Two people with knowledge of the arrest said Cienfuegos was taken into custody on a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warrant. One of the people said the warrant was for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

The DEA declined to comment Thursday night.

Mexico's Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, wrote on his Twitter account that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau had informed him of the retired general's arrest and that Cienfuegos had a right to receive consular assistance.

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A senior Mexican official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to give details of the case, said Cienfuegos was arrested when he arrived at the Los Angeles airport with his family. His family members were released and he was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center.

Cienfuegos served from 2012 to 2018 as secretary of defense under Peña Nieto. He is the highest-ranking former Cabinet official arrested since the top Mexican security official Genaro Garcia Luna was arrested in Texas in 2019. Garcia Luna, who served under former President Felipe Calderón, has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges.

Cienfuegos is 72 years old and has retired from active duty. Mexico's Defense Department had no immediate reaction to the arrest.

Mike Vigil, the DEA's former chief of international operations, said when he was in Mexico in 2012 he heard corruption allegations about Cienfuegos.

"There were always allegations of corruption, nothing we could sink our teeth into. That was kind of unheard of because Mexico has always put the military on a pedestal," said Vigil, author of the book "The Land of Enchantment Cartel."

"The corruption is just coming to roost, because individuals who were once untouchable are now getting arrested," Vigil said. "If they cooperate (with U.S. prosecutors) there are others who are going to be falling, noting U.S. officials "usually don't want to trade down, they usually trade up," seeking evidence against equal or higher-ranking officials. "It's really a precarious situation for Mexico to have two Cabinet-level officials arrested in the U.S."

Whatever the charges, it will be a tough blow for Mexico, where the army and navy are some of the few remaining respected public institutions.

While current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has vowed to go after corruption and lawbreaking under past administrations, he has also relied more heavily on the army - and charged it with more tasks, ranging from building infrastructure projects to distributing medical supplies - than any other president in recent history.

Under Cienfuegos, the Mexican army was accused of frequent human rights abuses, but that was true of both his predecessors and his successor in the post.

The worst scandal in Cienfuegos' tenure involved the 2014 army killings of suspects in a grain warehouse.

The June 2014 massacre involved soldiers who killed 22 suspects at the warehouse in the town of Tlatlaya. While some died in an initial shootout with the army patrol - in which one soldier was wounded - a human rights investigation later showed that at least eight and perhaps as many as a dozen suspects were executed after they surrendered.

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Dazio reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press Writer Mark Stevenson contributed from Mexico City.

#9872627 at 2020-07-06 11:32:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12635: The '"This is not another 4-year election"' Edition

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12038999/prince-andrew-cancels-spain-golf-trip-epstein-investigation/

PRINCE Andrew has cancelled his annual Spanish golf holiday because he's scared to go abroad during the Epstein investigation.

He stayed at a friend's Costa del Sol mansion last year

…
But a palace insider said Andrew, 60, has shelved this year's trip as he is "nervous" of leaving the UK after the US Justice Department made an official request to question him as a witness about Epstein.

His anxiety only increased after the arrest this week of friend Ghislaine Maxwell over her alleged roles in Epstein's sex offences.

She's said to have introduced Andrew to Epstein victim Virginia Roberts, who claims she slept with the royal at 17.

The duke denies the allegations and his lawyers say they have offered to provide a witness statement to the DOJ. But media lawyer Mark Stevens claims the request to speak to Andrew may be "a trap" to get him over to the US.

#7138511 at 2019-07-23 01:33:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9133: Stick To The Report Edition

>>7138483
Film reference with code?
When Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens), a tough private investigator, realizes that he's being followed,
he confronts his assailant,
a shifty fellow
named Fred Foss (William Bendix). Galt's encounter with Foss leads to
a web of intrigue involving prosperous art collector
Hardy Cathcart (Clifton Webb) and his young wife, Mari (Cathy Downs).
Soon Galt is in over his head
– but luckily for him, his tenacious secretary, Kathleen Stewart (Lucille Ball), is on hand to help him out.

#6993623 at 2019-07-11 14:19:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8948: BreQfast wit Q Edition

COLLADO

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/10/attorney-for-ex-presidents-in-mexico-ordered-to-st/

By Mark StevensON - Associated Press - Wednesday, July 10, 2019
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A judge in Mexico on Wednesday ordered a prominent attorney linked to former presidents to stand trial on charges of organized crime and money laundering.

A federal official who was not authorized to be quoted by name confirmed the case involves allegations that lawyer Juan Ramon Collado created front companies to handle money from questionable land deals.

Collado has reportedly represented the brother of ex-President Carlos Salinas and other prominent politicians.

Collado was arrested Tuesday in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood. The judge in the case ruled there was enough evidence to hold him pending trial.

#6308779 at 2019-04-25 15:37:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8067: A New Dawn is Upon Us Edition

Migrant caravan on the 'Beast' train to avoid Mexican police raids and make it to U.S. border
Mark Stevenson and Sonia Perez D., Associated Press Published 3:16 p.m. ET April 24, 2019

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/04/24/migrant-caravan-central-america-riding-beast-train-mexico/3563922002/

IXTEPEC, Mexico - The train known as "The Beast" is once again rumbling through the night loaded with people headed toward the U.S. border after a raid on a migrant caravan threatened to end the practice of massive highway marches through Mexico.

A long freight train loaded with about 300 to 400 migrants pulled out of the southern city of Ixtepec on Tuesday. They sat atop rattling boxcars and clung precariously to ladders alongside the clanking couplings.

Most were young men, along with a few dozen woman and children. Mothers clambered up the railings clutching their infants. Migrants displayed a Honduran flag from atop the train.

The train known in Spanish as "La Bestia," which runs from the southern border state of Chiapas into neighboring Oaxaca and north into Gulf coast state Veracruz, carried migrants north for decades, despite its notorious dangers: People died or lost limbs falling from the train.

Mexican authorities started raiding the trains to pull migrants off in mid-2014 and the number of Central Americans aboard the train fell to a smattering.

But about a week ago, a longtime migrant rights activist, the Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, noticed a change: Large numbers of migrants started getting off the train in Ixtepec, the Oaxaca town where his Brothers on the Road shelter is located.

With dozens of police and immigration checkpoints dotting the highways, many migrants now view the train as a safer, albeit still risky, way to reach the U.S. border.

More: Mexican police crack down on caravan in largest single raid since exodus began

"They're riding the train again, that's a fact," said Solalinde, who shelter now houses about 300 train-riding migrants. "It's going to go back to the way it was, the (Mexican) government doesn't want them to be seen. If the migrants move quietly like a stream of little ants, they'll allow them to, but they are not going to allow them to move through Mexico publicly or massively" as they did with the large caravans that began in October.

In fact, Solalinde predicts "they're not going to allow caravans anymore."

In Monday's raid, federal police and agents detained 371 people, wrestling men, women and children into patrol trucks and vans and hauling them off, presumably to begin deportation proceedings. Many other migrants abandoned the road and fled into the surrounding countryside.

The decision to turn to "The Beast" derives from several reasons, all related to the crackdown.

With throngs of police pickups and small immigration vans parked at checkpoints up and down the narrow waist of southern Mexico, hitchhiking, taking buses or walking is no longer an option.

Truckers, warned by the government that they could face fines, no longer give rides to the migrants as they did last year. Migrants are pulled off buses, and rounded up off the sides of highways when they stop to rest.

"Now we're going by train because we can't go on buses, because they won't let us through," said Rudi Margarita Montoya, the wife of a Honduran carpenter, who was perched atop a freight car with her young son and daughter and her husband.

Abbdel Camargo, a specialist on migration at the College of the Southern Border, said the Mexican government, under pressure from Washington, appears to be employing a strategy of containing migrants at certain points, dividing large groups, deporting people in certain circumstances and wearing migrants down with long waits for work visas.

Mexican authorities are "holding them back at specific points to turn the south of the country into a retaining wall," Camargo said.

#6295272 at 2019-04-24 14:14:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8050: Qwick Bake Edition

Migrants fearful after hundreds arrested in Mexico raid

ByMark Stevenson and sonia pérez d., associated press

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/migrants-anxious-mexican-authorities-raid-caravan-62567042

TONALA, Mexico - Apr 23, 2019, 11:14 PM ET

Central American migrants traveling through southern Mexico toward the U.S. on Tuesday fearfully recalled their frantic escape from police the previous day, scuttling under barbed wire fences into pastures and then spending the night in the woods after hundreds were detained in a raid.

In the Chiapas state town of Tonala, migrants flocked to one of the few places they felt they could be safe - the local Roman Catholic church - only to start with fear at the sound of a passing ambulance's siren.

"There are people still lost up in the woods. The woods are very dangerous," said Arturo Hernández, a sinewy 59-year-old farmer from Comayagua, Honduras, who fled through the woods with his grandson. "They waited until we were resting and fell upon us, grabbing children and women."

Mexican immigration authorities said 371 people were detained Monday in what was the largest single raid so far on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through the country last year.

The once large caravan of about 3,000 people was essentially broken up by the raid, as migrants fled into the hills, took refuge at shelters and churches or hopped passing freight trains. A brave few groups straggled along the highways, but with dozens of police and immigration checkpoints, they were bound to be caught.

Journalists from The Associated Press saw police target isolated groups at the tail end of the caravan near Pijijiapan Monday, wrestling migrants into police vehicles for transport and presumably deportation as children wailed.

Now terrified of walking exposed on the highways, some turned in desperation to a tactic that used to be a popular way north, clambering aboard a passing freight train bound for the neighboring state of Tabasco. It's been years since migrants hopped trains in large numbers.

Javier Núñez, a 25-year-old Honduran, said he and his family walked through the hills, along a river and by some train tracks after Monday's raid before venturing into the town of Pijijiapan to find something to eat. But agents appeared again Monday night and detained his wife and son, who he said were taken to an immigration facility in Tapachula for deportation processing.

"They were hunting us," Núñez said. As he sees it, the only thing to do is go on alone, see how far he can make it. "Now we are afraid of everyone who looks at us or approaches."

Asked about the detentions at a Tuesday morning news conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that the government is not letting migrants simply go wherever they please. He denied taking a hard line, saying controls are for migrants' security because human traffickers are allegedly infiltrated among the caravans.

"We don't want for them to just have free passage, not just out of legal concerns but for questions of safety," López Obrador said.

#5865017 at 2019-03-24 19:01:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7503: Meetings at the DOJ Edition

NZ Debates Free Speech Limits, Long Prison Terms for Downloading Christchurch Manifesto

DUNEDIN, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealanders are debating the limits of free speech after their chief censor banned a 74-page manifesto written by the man accused of slaughtering 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

The ban, issued Saturday, means anybody caught with the document on their computer could face up to 10 years in prison, while anyone caught sending it could face 14 years. Some say the ban goes too far and risks lending both the document and the gunman mystique.

At the same time, many local media organizations are debating whether to even name the Australian man charged with murder in the March 15 attacks, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed she would never mention him by name.

In some ways, Tarrant's manifesto provides the greatest insight into his character and thinking, with neighbours and those he met in a gym in the sleepy seaside town of Dunedin recalling nothing particularly reMarkable about him.

Chief Censor David Shanks said Tarrant's manifesto contains justifications for acts of tremendous cruelty like killing children and encourages acts of terrorism, even outlining specific places to target and methods to carry out attacks.

He said that in banning the document, he and his staff worried about drawing more attention to it. But in the end, he said, they decided they needed to treat it the same way as propaganda from groups like the Islamic State, which they have also banned.

Shanks had earlier placed a similar ban on the 17-minute livestream video the killer filmed from a camera mounted on his helmet during the shootings. He said researchers and journalists could apply for exemptions from both bans.

But while free speech advocates haven't questioned banning the graphic video, they said banning the manifesto is a step too far.

"People are more confident of each other and their leaders when there is no room left for conspiracy theories, when nothing is hidden," said Stephen Franks, a constitutional lawyer and spokesman for the Free Speech Coalition. "The damage and risks are greater from suppressing these things than they are from trusting people to form their own conclusions and to see evil or madness for what it is."

Franks said he had no interest in reading the manifesto until it was banned. He now is curious because it is "forbidden fruit," he said, and he worries others may feel the same way. He said the ban makes no sense when New Zealanders remain free to read Adolf Hitler's autobiography, "Mein Kampf."

Ardern told Parliament last week that she wouldn't give the gunman anything he wanted.

"He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety," she said. "And that is why you will never hear me mention his name."

She said people should instead remember the names of the victims.

Some media organizations appear to be taking up her call. News website Stuff on Saturday published an 1,800-word profile on Tarrant without once naming him.

"Our view at the moment is that we're dialling back on naming him, unless it's pertinent or important," said Mark Stevens, the editorial director at Stuff.

The New Zealand Herald also published a profile on Tarrant with an accompanying editorial that mentions Ardern's stance. The editorial says, "Our piece keeps the mention of his name to a minimum."

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/24/nz-debates-free-speech-limits-jail-downloading-christchurch-manifesto/

#3560816 at 2018-10-22 11:50:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4517: Everything Is Yuge In Texas Edition

Ragged, growing caravan of migrants resumes march toward US
By Mark StevensON
yesterday

"TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) - A growing caravan of Honduran migrants streamed through southern Mexico on Sunday heading toward the United States, after making an end-run around Mexican agents who briefly blocked them at the Guatemalan border."

https://www.apnews.com/b709e05ec83c49e6876ff612141ae942

AND

Right from Trump's playbook': AP savaged by critics for calling migrant caravan ARMY

"Critics lashed out at The Associated Press for calling a huge US-bound caravan of migrants an "army" in their headline. The news agency changed the title of the piece, but that was not enough to cool down some of the folks online.
The story, originally titled 'Ragged, growing army of migrants resumes march towards US', appeared on the outlets' website on Sunday. It was not the reporting itself - the style wasn't all that different from AP's usual work - but a single word in the headline that ticked off many people on social media.

Some readers, including Walter Shaub, the former head of the US Office of Government Ethics, argued that it is inappropriate use the word "army" to describe a group of more than 4,000 Central American migrants hoping to cross to the US through Mexico."

https://www.rt.com/usa/441905-ap-migrant-army-backlash/

PC KILLS TRUTH…