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WORLD NEWSSaturday 11 July 2015
Venezuela to ask UN to mediate Guyana border dispute
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) of Guyana, including an the mounting tensions. shift as a “significant blow.” tween the two South Amer-
— Venezuela said Friday offshore area where the The Guyanese finance min- President David Granger ican countries stems from
it would ask the United Exxon Mobil Corp. recently ister said Thursday that Ven- told Parliament on Thursday an 1899 court ruling that
Nations to help resolve a announced it made a sig- ezuela has decided to stop that Guyana does not have required Venezuela to re-
border dispute with Guy- nificant oil discovery. Vene- buying much of Guyana’s the military capacity to linquish an undeveloped
ana over an area where a zuela, which has the world’s rice crop amid the con- challenge Venezuela and but resource-rich jungle ter-
new oil discovery has been largest oil reserves, issued a flict. Venezuela has in the his government would seek ritory called the Essequibo
made. decree soon after that an- past four years purchased an international judicial that constitutes about two-
The country will send a let- nouncement extending its about 40 percent of Guy- settlement over the border thirds of Guyanese territory.
ter to U.N. Secretary-Gen- territorial claims farther out ana’s rice production, or issue. Maduro responded Venezuela contends the
eral Ban Ki-moon request- into the Atlantic to encom- about 200,000 tons, paying later that night that he was ruling was invalid, and
ing that a formal mediator pass the area where the for it with oil that amounts encouraged by Granger’s many official maps still
be appointed, according discovery was made. to about half of Guyana’s remarks. describe the Essequibo
to Foreign Minister Delcy Earlier this week, Maduro daily supply needs. On Monday, Maduro af- as Venezuelan territory.
Rodriguez. announced he was recall- Peter DeGroot, president of firmed that the conflict Guyana says Venezuela
Venezuela long has ing Venezuela’s ambassa- Guyana’s Rice Millers Asso- would be settled without pledged to abide by the
claimed a significant chunk dor for consultation amid ciation, characterized the violence.The dispute be- ruling, but later reneged. q
Pope offers hope to prisoners in Bolivia’s notorious prison
NICOLE WINFIELD those ills. but we also have the ca- Francis also urged prison more than four in five still
FRANK BAJAK But he urged the inmates pacity to make things an officials and guards to re- awaiting trial. Inmates have
Associated Press not to despair and to not opportunity for genuine fra- habilitate prisoners and not the run of the place, drugs
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) let their suffering lead to ternity,” he said. “Don’t be humiliate them. are cheaper than on the
— Pope Francis urged in- street and money buys sur-
mates at Bolivia’s notori- Bolivia’s President Evo Morales escorts Pope Francis as the pope prepares to depart Viru Viru vival.
ously violent Palmasola pris- airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Friday, July 10, 2015. The pope is departing for Paraguay as part of Two years ago, 36 people
on to not despair on Friday his three-nation South American tour. died in a fierce battle be-
as he wrapped up his visit tween rival gangs using
to Bolivia with a message (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) machetes and homemade
of hope and solidarity for flamethrowers. One of the
those caught up in Bolivia’s violence. afraid to help one another. Palmasola is the most noto- victims was a 1-year-old.
corruption-plagued crimi- “Suffering and deprivation The devil is looking for ri- rious of Bolivia’s 32 prisons, Francis has frequently spo-
nal justice system. can make us selfish of heart valry, division, gangs. Keep built to detain some 800 ken out about the plight of
Francis greeted the in- and lead to confrontation, working to make progress.” people but housing 5,000, prisoners, denouncing the
mates one by one, clasping widespread abuse of pre-
their hands and kissing their trial detention and calling
children, and then listened life sentences a “hidden
intently as a few prisoners death penalty.
told the stories of how they ”He has met with prisoners
ended up at Palmasola. to offer them encourage-
They spoke of their poverty ment, and as pope con-
and the “judicial terrorism” tinued to call a group of
and abuse of power that Argentine inmates he minis-
lets the wealthy bribe their tered to when he was arch-
way to freedom while the bishop of Buenos Aires.The
poor languish in prison. message is consistent with
In his comments, Francis the outreach to the down-
acknowledged the wretch- trodden and marginalized
ed conditions that the in- that Francis has champi-
mates face: overcrowding, oned as pope and in par-
the slow pace of justice, ticular on his three-nation
violence and few opportu- South American pilgrim-
nities for education or reha- age.
bilitation. He said Bolivian
institutions need to address Continued on page 27
Gunmen kill 5 members of a family near Mexican border city
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gun- ther, his son and three of his sa and the neighboring city cellphone app when he street in an upscale neigh-
men believed to belong grandchildren, aged 10 to of Matamoros. was robbed of his watch borhood just blocks from
to a local drug cartel killed 19, Tamaulipas state’s gov- Earlier Thursday, journal- and phone by an assailant the presidential residence.
five members of a family ernment said. ist Pedro Ferriz said he was with a pistol. The robbery drew attention
near the Mexican border The killings took place late robbed at gunpoint while In the video, which was to Mexico City’s problem
city of Reynosa, across from Wednesday. webcasting from his car in posted on local websites, with persistent crime, de-
McAllen, Texas, authorities The gunmen reported- Mexico City. Ferriz is seen taping himself spite the fact the capital
said earlier this week. ly questioned the fam- Ferriz, best known for his ra- when suddenly a scuffle has been largely spared
The assailants arrived at ily about a rival gang, and dio programs, kept record- ensues. the large-scale drug cartel
the family’s home and then shot them to death ing and taped part of his He can be heard saying, violence affecting some
forced the inhabitants out- and ransacked the home own robbery. “I’m on air!” regions of the country.q
side, then killed a grandfa- on a road between Reyno- Ferriz was speaking into a The assault occurred on a
