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Wednesday 8 January 2020
US family attacked on notorious stretch of Mexican highway

By PORFIRIO IBARRA ship between the adults
ALFREDO PEÑA and the children was un-
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) clear, but Orozco said the
— Mexican authorities con- two wounded adults were
tinued searching Monday siblings.
for the gunmen responsible Tamaulipas state prosecu-
for an attack on a sparsely tors at one point said the
traveled stretch of highway boy who died was 14 years
near the Texas border that old.
left a 13-year-old U.S. boy The family was returning
dead and four relatives to the U.S. after spending
wounded. the holidays in the border
On Saturday night, a fam- state of Nuevo Leon, where
ily traveling in two vehicles Monterrey is located. Some
was attacked on a two- members of the family are
lane highway paralleling originally from the central
the U.S.-Mexico border in Mexico state of San Luis Po-
the township of Ciudad tosi, while some were born
Mier. in the United States.
One SUV of attackers What remained unclear
passed the family and was why the family was on
then cut them off causing such a dangerous stretch
them to collide and come of highway after dark.
to a halt. Gunmen then A view of the University Hospital in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, The area where the attack
opened fire, according to where the survivors of an attack on a family in a car with Oklahoma license plates are being occurred is contested by
a statement from the state treated. drug cartels.
of Tamaulipas security co- Associated Press For years Ciudad Mier was
ordinating group. All of the uppermost edge of the
the wounded came from Prosecutors identified the hospital in Monterrey after tor's office, said another Gulf cartel's control and
one of the family's vehicles, boy who was killed as Os- initially being moved to a boy was in critical condi- Nueva Ciudad Guerrero
both of which had Oklaho- car Castillo López. nearer small town hospital. tion along with a 48-year- was the limit for the Nuevo
ma license plates. The gun- A 10-year-old relative was On Monday, Luis Enrique old man. A 42-year-old Laredo-based Zetas'. Be-
men escaped in another among those wounded. Orozco, a deputy in the woman was in stable con- tween them sits uninhab-
vehicle. They were all taken to a Nuevo Leon state prosecu- dition, he said. The relation- ited scrub land.q

Venezuela opposition leader takes new oath amidst standoff

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ be re-elected as the legis-
Associated Press lature's leader Sunday but
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) was blocked along with
— Venezuelan opposition several other lawmakers
leader Juan Guaidó and from entering congress.
lawmakers who back him Former opposition ally Luis
pushed their way into the Parra declared himself the
legislative building on Tues- National Assembly's leader,
day following an attempt claiming to have won the
by rival legislators to take votes of 81 lawmakers. The
control of the congress. opposition refutes that tally
The man recognized by the and says 100 lawmakers, a
U.S. and over 50 other na- majority, voted for Guaidó
tions as Venezuela's rightful in a legislative session held
president took his seat at at a Venezuelan newspa-
the National Assembly and per.
led opposition lawmakers Parra and his allies entered
in boisterously singing the the National Assembly
country's anthem. Tuesday ahead of Guaidó
"This is a show of what can and began a session slated
happen when we are unit- to discuss Venezuela's gas
ed," Guaidó yelled. shortages, among other
Shortly thereafter electric- woes. But they left as op-
ity in the building went out, Opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Tues- position lawmakers forced
but lawmakers continued day, Jan. 7, 2020. their way through several
in the dimly lit assembly, Associated Press barricades of national
shouting into microphones guardsmen wearing hel-
that did not work to de- ing "in the name of Ven- facing its biggest test yet tution. mets and carrying shields.
clare Guaidó the president ezuela" to continue fulfilling after government-backed Guaidó has served as presi- "We want to regain Ven-
of the only opposition-con- his responsibilities as self- lawmakers announced dent of the National As- ezuela, damn it!" Guaidó
trolled institution. declared interim president they were taking control sembly for the last year and said as he and dozens of
He was then sworn in, hold- "and search for a solution of what Guaidó supporters used it as his platform to lawmakers pushed their
ing up his right hand in the to the crisis." have described as the na- gain international recogni- way onto the legislative
ornate room and pledg- Venezuela's opposition is tion's last democratic insti- tion. He was expected to grounds.q