NARCO DETENIDO POR EL CASO DE LOS 43 ESTUDIANTES DESAPARECIDOS EN MEXICO

México detiene al ‘líder máximo’ del cártel Guerreros Unidos

Detenido Sidronio Casarrubias, supuesto jefe del cartel que ordenó el ataque contra 43 estudiantes, que llevan 22 días desaparecidos

VERÓNICA CALDERÓN México DIARIO EL PAIS, MADRID18 OCT 2014 - 03:13 CEST

La Policía mexicana ha anunciado este viernes la detención de Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, al que ha identificado como "líder máximo" del grupo de crimen organizado de los Guerreros Unidos, el grupo criminal que ha sido señalado por las autoridades como el responsable de la desaparición de 43 estudiantes en Iguala el 26 de septiembre pasado. Fue detenido en Toluca, a menos de 70 kilómetros de la capital de México.

Sidronio Casarrubias es hermano de Mario, fundador de la banda criminal, que se dedica a la extorsión, asesinato a sueldo y robo, y que además es señalada de mantener vínculos con la policía municipal de algunas alcaldías de Guerrero, al sur de México, uno de los estados más pobres del país y en el centro de la tormenta desde la desaparición de los 43 estudiantes y la noche del 26 de septiembre, que se saldó con la muerte de seis personas. Mario Casarrubias fue detenido en Toluca el 30 de abril pasado.

El titular de la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR, Fiscalía), Jesús Murillo Karam, añadió esta noche que Sidronio Casarrubias es sometido a interrogatorios y que su captura abre una nueva línea de investigación hacia "la verdad". El anuncio de la captura de Sidronio Casarrubias ocurre tres días después de que se conociera la muerte de Benjamín Mondragón, también perteneciente a los Guerreros Unidos, y a siete de la detención del líder del Cártel de Juárez, Héctor Beltrán Leyva.

No obstante, el alcalde de Iguala, José Luis Abarca, y su esposa, señalados como posibles responsables de la orden que derivó en el ataque contra los normalistas y que desató la masacre, continúan en paradero desconocido. El gobernador del Estado, Ángel Aguirre Rivero, un político que militó durante 30 años en el PRI hasta que en 2010 decidió cambiarse al PRD, una formación que se define de izquierdas, para competir por el mandato de Guerrero, destituyó a su secretario de salud por supuestos "vínculos" con Abarca. También ha dicho, frente a las peticiones que exigen su dimisión, que si eso solucionase el caso, él se retiraría. Pero ha dejado muy claro que no es el caso y que goza del respaldo de su pueblo. "Yo llegué al gobierno del estado por una amplia mayoría de la voluntad popular, y no me moveré de mi línea para encontrar con vida a los jóvenes desaparecidos", dijo el martes en una entrevista radiofónica.

La desaparición de 43 estudiantes de entre 17 y 21 años y la muerte de seis personas (entre ellos un menor de 15) en Iguala, Guerrero, a 270 kilómetros al sur de la capital de México, ha causado una conmoción generalizada en el país. Hoy mismo los estudiantes de magisterio (conocidos como normalistas) convocaron a una masiva manifestación en Acapulco, la principal ciudad del estado. Además, la información oficial sobre el paradero de los estudiantes ha sido confusa y lenta. Desde el 26 de septiembre han aparecido en Guerrero al menos 10 fosas y 28 cuerpos, que la PGR ha aclarado que no pertenecen a los estudiantes pues su ADN no coincide con el de sus familiares, que esperan en Ayotzinapa conocer el destino de sus seres queridos desde hace ya 22 días.

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THREATS OF 2014, DEPENDING OUR COUNTRIES

What is the greatest threat to the world? Depends on where you live

BY JACOB POUSHTER (fact tank, pew research center, october 16)

2014 has been a tumultuous year in international affairs. From the conflict in Ukraine, to horrific bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, the spreading Ebola epidemic in West Africa and continued weakness in the European economy, numerous world crises have given people plenty to be worried about.

In spring of this year, even before many of these headline events took place, we surveyed people in 44 countries and asked about the greatest threat to the world. Here are 5 key takeaways from the new report:

1Infectious disease, AIDS, top concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa

Prior to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa becoming a high-profile international story, a median of 32% across the seven African nations polled feared infectious disease as the top danger. Many of these countries have high prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS and have suffered through multiple disease epidemics in the last decade. However, other problems also worry Africans. In Nigeria, where religious strife is exacerbated by the Boko Haram terrorist group, more say religious and ethnic hatred is the world’s greatest threat (38%).

2Religious and ethnic hatred is the top danger for those in the Middle East

Across the seven Middle Eastern countries surveyed, a median of 34% see religious and ethnic hatred as the world’s top threat. This includes 58% of Lebanese, a country divided by religion and bordering both Syria and Israel. Given the history of religious violence in the region, the result might not be surprising. Yet, since the question was last asked in 2007, and religious and ethnic conflicts have played out in Syria, Iraq and beyond, fears have increased significantly in the region, including Lebanon (+19 percentage points), Egypt (+18), Turkey (+9) and Jordan (+6).

3 Europeans worry about inequality

Before talk about a “triple dip recession” made headlines, Europeans have been overwhelmed with economic concerns and the growing gap between the rich and the poor is high on that list. Overall, a median of 32% across the seven EU nations surveyed name inequality as the top threat to the world. People in Spain and Greece, among the hardest hit by the Eurocrisis, are especially worried. In fact, worries about inequality have doubled in Spain since 2007, as well as in Italy, another economically damaged southern European country. While the British are also concerned about inequality, fears about religious and ethnic hatred are even more common in the United Kingdom (39% name it top threat).

4 In U.S., Republicans and Democrats see different threats

Americans are somewhat divided on their biggest fear. While many name inequality (27%), around a quarter also see religious and ethnic hatred (24%) and the spread of nuclear weapons (23%) as top threats. But as with many issues in the U.S., there is a party divide. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to name ethnic hatred as a top concern. And Democrats are more apt to name the gap between the rich and the poor as the greatest danger. Independents are more divided.

5 Japanese worry about nuclear weapons

In Japan, the only country in which nuclear weapons have been used in open warfare, nearly half of the public say the spread of such weapons is the greatest threat. Fading memories of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may also explain why 18-29 year olds are less concerned about the spread of nuclear weapons than those 50 and older.

TOPICS: ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, INTERNATIONAL THREATS AND ALLIES, NUCLEAR THREATS, RELIGION AND SOCIETY

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THE SYRIAN CITY OF KOBANE, RECOVERED BY KURDS FROM ISIS

Kobane air strikes help Kurds push back ISIL

Intensified coalition bombing helps Syrian-Kurdish fighters regain ground lost to armed group in town on Turkish border. AL YAZEERA, OCTOBER 17.

Several days of heavy air strikes by US warplanes have helped Syrian-Kurdish fighters regain ground against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant armed group in the Syrian border town of Kobane.

Heavy and light weapons fire were audible from across the border in Turkey on Thursday, with one stray mortar hitting Turkish soil close to abandoned tents, the Reuters news agency reported.

Earlier on Thursday, the US said that even though its string of aerial attacks had killed several hundred ISIL fighters, the town could still fall to the armed group.

Air strikes on Wednesday and Thursday appear to have slowed the group's advances, but "the security situation on the ground in Kobane remains tenuous," the US Defence Department said in a statement.

A Kurdish commander told the BBC that ISIL fighters had retreated from all areas except two pockets in the east of the town.

ISIL was also been beaten back this week from Amriyat al-Fallujah, a key city just west of Baghdad, as US military denied that the Iraqi capital was in "imminent" danger.

The US said it had held direct talks in Paris over the weekend with the main Syrian Kurdish group whose forces have been battling ISIL. Officials added that they were yet to discuss arming the fighters.

Kurdish spokesmen said their forces were giving coordinates of ISIL targets to the US and its coalition partners.

Idris Nassen, a Kurdish official in Kobane, said: "We need more air strikes, as well as weaponry and ammunition to fight them on the ground."

Losses on both sides

Kurdish forces have suffered heavy losses since ISIL launched its offensive on the Kobane area in mid-September, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said that ISIL had suffered big losses too.

As of Wednesday, ground clashes alone had killed 662 people since September 16, including 20 civilians, the observatory said.

ISIL lost 374 of its fighters, while 268 people have been killed fighting on the Kurdish side, according to the Britain-based monitor.

It also reported that Kurdish forces killed at least 20 ISIL fighters on Wednesday west of Ras al-Ayn, another Syrian city on the border to the east of Kobane.

An estimated 200,000 mainly Kurdish Syrians have fled to Turkey.

The US said on Thursday that talks between military officials from the two countries had gone "very, very well" after trying to persuade Ankara to take an active role in the campaign.