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<p> El 2 de diciembre fue detenido en el aeropuerto de Cuernavaca un menor de 14 años junto con sus hermanas de 19 y 23 años. Los hermanos estaban a punto de tomar un vuelo a Tijuana para de ahí cruzar la frontera en un autobús que los llevaría a su destino final: San Diego.</p>
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<p> A U.S.-Colombia free trade accord is now more likely to be approved, as is more U.S. military aid to the government there.</p>
<p> The George W. Bush administration negotiated the trade agreement, but Congress never approved it. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama strongly opposed the Colombia trade deal, citing ongoing abuses against organized labor in the South American country.</p>
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<p> Human Rights violation cases are sprawling in Tijuana against military officials and police alike.</p>
<p> The cases include allegations of arbitrary detentions, coerced confessions, torture and even intimidation against those denouncing such abuse.</p>
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<p>En Tijuana se están procesando una serie de casos en los que militares y policías son señalados como responsables de violaciones a los derechos humanos, incluyendo casos de tortura, detenciones arbitrarias, confesiones cohercionadas e intimidación contra defensoras de quienes se han atrevido a denunciarlas.</p>
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<p> They could have been videos from the Middle East or Central Asia. But the images flashed to the crowd at Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes’ annual border security conference at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) showed graphic scenes from the so-called narco war in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. After giving a content advisory, the presenter, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official Alonzo Pena, started the show.</p>
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<p> As the US House of Representatives approved a $600 million border security bill August 10, polemics over the safety of the US-Mexico border intensified. In language reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan, New Mexico Democratic Congressman Harry Teague praised the passage of the 2010 Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriation Bill (6080) as a concrete gesture of support for the first-term representative’s “border security surge.”</p>
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<p> A whooping 62 police officers were arrested by the military in Tijuana and were presented to the media before being sent to a Veracruz penitentiary by plane for the remainder of the legal inquiry – a move that has been largely met by criticism by the families, lawyers and human rights advocates fearing arbitrary proceedings and even torture.</p>