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WORLD NEWSFriday 2 October 2015
Mexico extradites top capos, others from max security jail
K. CORCORAN a new coordination ef- the world’s most power- Mexican officials would not prison system.”
Associated Press fort between Mexico and ful drug lord, Joaquin “El comment on the timing Among those sent to the
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi- the U.S. to fight organized Chapo” Guzman, from the of the extraditions or say U.S. were Edgar Valdez
co extradited 13 people to crime, which arose from a maximum security prison whether they had to do Villarreal, known as “La
the United States this week, June meeting between U.S. Altiplano. with Guzman’s escape. Barbie,” a top lieutenant
including two top drug lords Attorney General Loretta Mexican officials had said “My guess it is that they’re to the late Arturo Beltran
and several suspects in two Lynch and her Mexican it was impossible for him to probably starting to make Leyva who later led his own
high-profile 2011 crimes in- counterpart, escape and he wouldn’t amends for El Chapo,” said faction of the Beltran Ley-
volving Americans — an at- Arely Gomez, a U.S. Jus- be extradited for “300 or Mexican security expert va cartel, and Jorge Cos-
tack on immigration agents tice Department statement 400 years.” Many specu- Alejandro Hope, adding tilla Sanchez, known as “El
in San Luis Potosi and the said. lated that his blatant flight that 13 at one time is not Coss,” an alleged former
killing of consulate workers The extraditions also come through a tunnel beneath unprecedented. “Maybe leader of the Gulf Cartel
in Ciudad Juarez. on the heels of the embar- his cell strained U.S.-Mexico they don’t feel as safe now and Los Zetas, federal pros-
The move was part of rassing July 11 escape by relations. about the security in the ecutor Tomas Zeron said.q
In Haiti, Aristide tells thousands to vote for candidate
DAVID McFADDEN Haiti’s former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, center, waves to the crowd after he urged support- instead of an election.”
Associated Press ers to vote for presidential candidate Maryse Narcisse, center right, of the Fanmi Lavalas political Music blared from loud
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) party, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide’s public endorsement could be a boon for Narcisse, who is speakers as excited par-
— Twice-ousted Haitian polling well below front-runner Jude Celestin. During the last election cycle about five years ago, tisans jostled to catch a
President Jean-Bertrand the party was barred from the ballot. glimpse of the charismatic
Aristide urged thousands ex-president outside the
of supporters gathered (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) green gate of the home
outside his house this week where he has lived qui-
to vote for the presidential Oct. 25. tide said into a microphone electoral authorities for etly since returning to Haiti
candidate of the political “Everybody needs to stick during his roughly seven- what he said were the in 2011. People chanted
faction he founded years together for Maryse Nar- minute speech, prompting flawed results from an Aug. that Aristide, who asserted
ago. cisse to enter the National loud cheers and applause. 9 legislative vote, which he upon his return to Haiti that
Backers of the Fanmi La- Palace as president,” Aris- He also criticized Haiti’s described as a “selection he would not get involved
valas movement chanted, in politics, was their “king.”
sang and waved photos of “I am here because I love
Aristide after they trekked him and I hope that the
to his home in the Port-au- Lavalas party he began
Prince suburb of Tabarre can get back in power
following a campaign rally with these elections,”
miles away for the party’s said unemployed laborer
presidential candidate. Jean Robert, one of sev-
In early evening Wednes- eral thousand people
day, Aristide appeared who walked for about 1½
outside his gate with Lava- hours under police watch
las’ presidential candidate to gather outside Aristide’s
and party chief, Maryse walled property.
Narcisse, to address the The rarely seen Aristide re-
festive crowd. Standing on mains a popular yet po-
the back of a pickup truck larizing figure more than a
alongside Narcisse, he decade after he fled the
called on supporters to en- country on a U.S. plane in
sure that the party’s leader February 2004 amid a vio-
wins this year’s presidential lent rebellion that led to his
election. The first round is second ouster. q
Argentina intensifies effort to get ex-spy chief, blasts US
PETER PRENGAMAN from eight requests sent to dez told reporters. assistance in criminal mat- a cover-up of the alleged
Associated Press U.S. Justice Department Oscar Parrilli, head of the ters, but “we can say that roles of several Iranians in
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina officials seeking informa- Federal Intelligence Agen- we respond to any such re- the bombing, the country’s
(AP) — Argentina this week tion about Antonio Stiuso, cy, said Argentina planned quests through established worst terrorist attack.
intensified efforts to track a former operations chief to summon the American judicial channels.” Fernandez has strongly de-
down a former spy chief in the intelligence agency ambassador to Buenos Ai- Stiuso had assisted prosecu- nied Nisman’s accusations,
who reportedly has taken formally known as the Sec- res, tor Alberto Nisman in his in- and a federal judge threw
refuge in Miami, with top retary of State Information. Noah Mamet, to explain vestigation of the unsolved out the case.
government officials say- “Is the United States willing “the absolute lack of re- bombing of a Buenos Aires In speeches and in letters
ing they plan to summon to allow a degradation that sponse and in some ways Jewish community center posted on social media,
the American ambassador would put at risk its relation- complicity in this situation.” in 1994 that killed 85. she has repeatedly sug-
and accusing U.S. authori- ship with Argentina for a A U.S. Embassy spokesper- Nisman was found shot gested that Stiuso could
ties of stonewalling. man who, according to son told The Associated dead in his apartment in be behind Nisman’s death,
Cabinet chief Anibal Fer- what everybody says, has Press that the mission would January, just days after ac- but never provided details.
nandez said that Argentina no strategic importance to not comment on whether it cusing President Cristina Nisman’s death has not
had received no response the United States?” Fernan- had received requests for Fernandez of orchestrating been solved. q
