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WORLD NEWSFriday 25 September 2015
Mexico to create new prosecutor for country’s disappeared
MARK STEVENSON Ayotzinapa students chant during a rally by parents and ed to mislead them. government has said local
Associated Press supporters of 43 missing teacher’s college students in the Sanchez said after the police from Iguala and the
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Presi- Zocalo, Mexico City’s main square, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. meeting that there was not nearby town of Cocula ille-
dent Enrique Pena Nieto a clear timeframe for when gally detained the students
told the families of 43 stu- (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) the demands would be an- and turned them over to
dents who disappeared a swered, but that it would the local drug gang Guer-
year ago in southern Mexi- government. The students’ tionally supervised investi- be done promptly. reros Unidos, which then
co during a meeting Thurs- “Again and again we ask allegedly killed them and
day that he would create disappearance on Sept. gation of the disappear- ourselves how could we incinerated their remains.
a new special prosecutor trust again in an institution The families have never ac-
for all of the country’s thou- 26, 2014, brought the issue ances and an investigation that tricked us,” the families cepted that version.
sands of missing people. wrote in the letter delivered The government has said
Eduardo Sanchez, the pres- back into the spotlight. of into those responsible for to the president. that it has identified two
ident’s spokesman, told Sanchez said Pena Nieto of the students from the
reporters after the closed- Among the families’ de- the initial inquiry, which the told the families: “We’re burned remains recovered
door meeting that the fam- on the same side. You and from a river in Cocula.
ilies had presented eight mands are a new interna- families believe was intend- I are looking for the same A team of international
demands and that Pena thing.” experts sent by the Inter-
Nieto had instructed his The students disappeared American Commission on
Cabinet to analyze each Sept. 26, 2014, in the city of Human Rights, which spent
and get back to them. Iguala. They had gone there six months reviewing the
More than 25,000 people to commandeer buses that government’s investiga-
have disappeared in Mex- they wanted to use to at- tion, found a number of
ico between 2007 and July tend a commemoration shortcomings and points of
31, 2015, according to the in Mexico City. The federal concern. q
Woman accused of murder-for-hire extradited to Puerto Rico
DANICA COTO to the U.S. territory Thursday she appeared in court. She that it was talking with FBI tember 2005 in the his-
Associated Press after a lengthy internation- flew in from Spain, where officials about the custody toric area of Puerto Rico’s
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) al manhunt. a court ordered her ex- of Vazquez’s baby, who capital as he and Vazquez
— A Puerto Rican woman Aurea Vazquez Rijos ar- tradition nearly two years was born in Spain. walked near a bar he had
accused of hiring a hit man rived with her month-old ago on the condition she A U.S. grand jury charged bought for her. They had
to kill her wealthy Canadi- baby and was escorted by doesn’t receive the death Vazquez in June 2008 with met that night to discuss
an husband was extradited FBI agents just hours before penalty or life imprison- offering a man $3 million their pending divorce.
ment without parole if con- to kill real estate developer Vazquez refused to coop-
victed. Adam Anhang, a Winnipeg erate with police and filed
Vazquez did not speak native who had moved to a civil lawsuit against An-
during the brief court ap- Puerto Rico a year before hang’s family shortly after
pearance and had not yet he was killed. The indict- his death seeking $1 mil-
been appointed a lawyer. ment said Anhang had an lion in damages and mil-
She will remain in custody estimated net worth of $24 lions more from his estate.
until an Oct. 8 hearing. million. A judge dismissed the suit.q
Puerto Rico’s government He was beaten and Vazquez then vanished
said in a brief statement stabbed to death in Sep- from Puerto Rico.q
US signs pact with USVI agency on pollution
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. tion Agency and the Jus- Virgin Islands authority will
Virgin Islands (AP) — The tice Department. spend roughly $12.2 mil-
water and power author- They say it resolves nu- lion to comply with the
ity in the U.S. Virgin Islands merous violations of the pact and will also pay
has signed an agreement Clean Air Act by the Virgin $1.3 million in penalties.
with federal agencies to Islands Water and Power EPA Regional Administra-
slash the amount of air Authority at its Krum Bay tor Judith Enck says the
pollution from two plants. plant on St. Thomas and settlement will “drastically
The settlement was an- its Cruz Bay facility on St. reduce the amount of
nounced Thursday by the John. air pollution in the Virgin
U.S. Environmental Protec- Federal officials say the Islands.”q
