Two women prime suspects in Mexico slayings
Two Canadian women, their whereabouts unknown, are the primary suspects in the brutal double slaying of an Ontario couple at a luxurious seaside resort near Cancun, a Mexican State Attorney spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
In a phone interview from his office in Chetumal, Mexico, Felipe Duran said he could not confirm the women’s identities or media reports that they had returned to Canada.
“They are no longer in this state, nor, according to reports, in the country,” Mr. Duran said. “But we don’t know where (they went).”
Domenico Ianiero, 59, and his wife, Annunziata, 55, of Woodbridge, Ont., were found dead in their hotel room at the all-inclusive, five-star Barcello Maya Beach Resort on the Mayan Riviera early Tuesday, just hours before their daughter’s wedding.
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PM confident Mexico won't try to extradite Canadian women
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is confident Mexico will not seek to extradite two Thunder Bay women whom Mexican authorities have said are linked to the murders of a Toronto couple at a Cancun-area resort.
"We're told once again, and we've been saying this for some time, there is no extradition demand pending nor is there one anticipated in the near future," the prime minister said.
Harper made the comments Friday during the closing news conference at a summit with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox in Cancun.
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No end to women murders in Mexico
This year has been one of the worst for the murder of women in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez since a wave of killings started there in 1993, an official says.
Mexico's human rights ombudsman, Jose Luis Soberanes, said that 28 women had been murdered so far in 2005.
He called for a co-ordinated and tough effort by all levels of government to prevent more deaths in the city.
More than 300 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez. There is no generally accepted motive for the killings.
They have been variously attributed to serial killers, drug
Angolan Prime Minister In Mexico
Mexico City, 03/19 - Prime Minister, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos is in Mexico City leading an Angolan delegation attending the IV World Water Forum being held until March 22.
Fernando da Piedade is in Mexico representing the Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos.
The delegation includes the Minister of Energy and Waters, Botelho de Vasconcelos, the Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister, George Chicoty.
On Saturday before leaving the Angolan capital, the Premier affirmed that Angolan will defend in the Forum the the rationalisation of water and its equitable distribution to the entire humanity.
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Eight sent to asylum after horror exorcism killings in Mexico
A judge ordered eight adults committed to a prison psychiatric facility for 40 years on Thursday for the grisly exorcism slayings of a seven-month-old baby and a 13-year-old girl in a remote mountain community in western Mexico.
The brutality of the Dec. 7 killings -- the baby was hacked to death and dismembered while the teenager killed with stones -- has shocked Mexico. Officials say the killers were the victims' own parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, who had become convinced the girls were demons or possessed by the devil.
They carried out the
Mexico arrests 17 in wave of killings
Prosecutor says gunmen linked to many of 200 drug deaths near border
Federal authorities said Monday they have arrested a group of 17 gunmen who could be responsible for many of the 200 drug-related killings this year in the state of Tamaulipas that borders Texas.
The men were detained in a house in the Tamaulipas state capital of Victoria after a Sunday morning shootout that left two police officers dead, Mexico's top drug prosecutor, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, told a news conference.
Police also arrested four women in the house and found an arsenal that included six
Mexican authorities fear serial killer of elderly in Mexico City
Mexican authorities are looking for a possible serial killer in the recent slayings of elderly people in the capital, Mexico City Attorney General Bernardo Batiz said Tuesday.
"We have a serious suspicion that there is a serial killer," Batiz was quoted by the Mexican news media as saying. "We have some cases in which the similarity of behavior and modus operandi would indicate to us that this is feasible."
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At least 24 elderly people have been slain in this capital of 8 million people since mid-2003, many of them inside
Spain defends former PM against meddling charges by Mexico
The Spanish government said on Friday it would back former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar involved in a recent spat with the Mexican government.
The former Spanish prime minister has been accused of interfering in Mexico's political matters and breaking the country's election laws after he publicly endorsed a presidential candidate there.
Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vegasaid Spain "defends, has defended and has supported Mr Aznar against the Mexican authorities" through its foreign ministry.
New lead denied in Mexico slayings
Federal prosecutors in Mexico deny they are following the trail of a hotel security guard allegedly linked to the murder of a Canadian couple in Mexico, contradicting state authorities investigating the case.
For months, the state prosecutor in charge of the investigation has said federal officials are trying to locate Blas Ismael Delgado Fajardo, believed to be in the U.S.
Delgado Fajardo was working as a security guard in the Barcelo Maya Beach Resort where Domenic and Nancy Ianiero were found with their throats slashed on Feb. 20. He left his job the same day.
Mexico overturns extradition ban
The Mexican Supreme Court has overturned a ban on extraditing suspects facing life sentences, allowing them to be sent to the United States.
The ruling followed a decision by the Chihuahua state government to modify its penal code to include life sentences for those convicted homicide and kidnapping, El Universal reported Wednesday.
Mexico will, however, refrain from sending suspects to U.S. states that have the death penalty, which was banned earlier this year.
Among those most likely to face trial in the United States are drug smugglers. It also applies to U.S. citizens who flee to
In Mexico, women's advocates make slow but steady gains against violence
Sandra Garcia says her father beat her when she was a child. Now 18, she isn't afraid to talk about it, unlike her mother, who kept quiet even as the same man brutalized her and rarely let her leave the house, much less work.
"I'm getting therapy because I don't want to let what happened to me destroy my life the way it destroyed my mother's life," said the young woman, who receives counseling at a Mexico City clinic. "She never reported the violence she suffered because she didn't know how
