Club-carrying union members end newspaper standoff in Mexico
Union members wearing masks and carrying clubs Monday broke into the offices of a newspaper in Oaxaca where editors and reporters have been besieged for a month, putting the journalists to flight and attempting to shut down the publication.
About 31 newspaper employees had been holed up in the offices for four weeks while an umbrella union with close ties to the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which controls this state, staged a strike outside, demanding higher wages and more vacation.
Many newspaper employees have said the union does not represent their interests and have tried to form a new bargaining unit. The publisher, Ericel Gómez Nucamendi, meanwhile, has accused the state governor, Ulises Ruiz, of using the strike to silence a publication that has been critical of his administration and has supported opposition candidates. Union leaders, who admit that most of their members belong to the PRI, have denied they are acting at the behest of the governor.
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Disputes threaten to tear apart Mexico's PRI
As Mexico's former ruling party sets its sights on regaining power next year, it has found itself plagued by internal struggles that include angry protests by one group that used to give it reliable support.
The nation's teachers have been throwing eggs and yelling "Liar!" at the party's top presidential candidate, Roberto Madrazo.
The teachers' union, Mexico's largest with more than 1.2 million members, was until recently a pillar of Madrazo's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. For decades, it was among several unions delivering sure votes to keep the party in power, often in exchange
Orphanage in Mexico gets Lions' share of gifts
Christmas celebrations came early for an orphanage in Tecate, Mexico, when more than a dozen members of the Montebello Lions Club arrived bearing gifts, food and money.
In its first Orphanage Christmas Party on Dec. 10, the club showered toys, games, clothes, books and several computers on the 29 children at San Juan Bosco Orphanage.
A past president of the Montebello club, Valente Herrera, owns a tile and flooring factory in Tecate. After witnessing the scarce resources at the orphanage, Valente decided to ask the club to unofficially "adopt" the facility earlier this year, said
Mexico now doubts detaineees were members of elite force
Mexican officials are continuing to investigate seven Guatemalans detained while carrying prohibited firearms.
But Mexican authorities today said they now do -NOT- believe the men are former members of an elite Guatemalan counterinsurgency unit.The men, who face charges of weapons trafficking, were caught near the Guatemalan border on September tenth.Officials say the men had six large-caliber rifles and about 16-hundred rounds of ammunition.Authorities earlier said the men might be former "Kaibiles," an elite Guatemalan paratrooper unit, and that they had arrived to work with Mexican drug traffickers. Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All
Club America de Mexico 3 Atletico Nacional de Colombia 3
Atletico Nacional of Colombia scored a late goal to forge a 3-3 draw with Club America of Mexico in the fourth round leg of the South American Cup.
Eduardo Hurtado tied Wednesday night's game for the Colombian side in the 90th minute after Club America went ahead five minutes earlier.
One of Atletico Nacional's goals came when Claudio Rojas put the ball in his own goal early in the game. Victor Aristizabal rounded out the scoring for the Colombians.
Claudio Lopez, Christian Gimenez and Kleber Boas accounted for Club America's goals. The draw at
Mexico striker Borgetti to join Bolton
Mexico's joint all-time record goalscorer Jared Borgetti is on the point of signing for English Premier League club Bolton Wanderers, his present club Pachuca said.
The player known as the Desert Fox, who scored his 35th goal for Mexico in last Sunday's 4-0 win over Guatemala at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States, will become the first Mexican player to join an English club if the move goes through.
"The club has accepted the offer from Bolton for the transfer of the forward," said a statement on Pachuca's official website.
The club said the move
Up-and-coming Polish club takes on Mexico's America
The second of three international exhibitions at Soldier Field in an 11-day span comes up tonight when Mexico's Club America takes on Groclin Dyskobolia of Poland. It's a popular matchup for two of Chicago's biggest ethnic communities.
Club America has made regular trips to the lakefront venue, but not Groclin, an up-and-coming team in the Polish league. Formed in 1922 as the Dyskobolia Sport Club, it moved into the first division in 1997 and assumed its present name in 2000. The last two seasons have been the best in Groclin's history.
After finishing second in
VW Mexico workers reject 4.2 pct pay rise but union to continue negotiations
Volkswagen AG workers at the Puebla plant rejected overnight the 4.2 pct pay increase proposed by management, but it was agreed that negotiations should continue, union officials said.
The plant's union secretary general Jose Luis Rodriguez said that workers have asked the union to continue negotiating a better deal, adding that talks will be held today.
VW's 12,000 unionised workers had threatened to go on strike tomorrow at 11.00 am.
Rodriguez said that only 5 pct of the workers convened at general meetings yesterday accepted the 4.2 pct
Fresh calls for probe in Mexico after gunmen storm newspaper
An attack on a newspaper in the violence-plagued border city of Nuevo Laredo brought renewed demands yesterday for investigations into the slayings and disappearances of Mexican journalists covering the country's escalating drug war.
Jaime Orozco Tey, a veteran reporter for the newspaper El Mañana, was critically injured after being shot five times by masked gunmen who burst into the offices of the fiercely independent paper Monday night and began firing on the reception area with assault rifles.
As Orozco lay in critical condition in a Nuevo Laredo hospital with a
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Auckland Up Against Mexico
The Auckland City football club will meet Mexicos Club America in the first round of the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan in December.
Auckland, who won the Oceania Nations Cup, will have to get past the Concacaf champions to meet European champions Barcelona in the semi-finals.
Barcelona have been seeded into the semifinals along with the yet to be determined South American champions.
If Auckland City is beaten by Club America they will play the loser of the quarterfinal between the yet to be determined Asian and African champions.
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