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13 people missing in Mexico after vigilantes withdraw
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thir- to be self-defense forces sent in to take charge of “There appear to be a four other people as disap-
teen people have been from surrounding towns, security. number that have gone peared.
reported as having gone took over Chilapa on May But some residents claim unreported, because some Violence has been so bad
missing during vigilantes’ 9, purportedly to end vio- the vigilantes worked for people are afraid to file in Chilapa that a mayoral
brief occupation of a vi- lence in a city being fought Los Ardillos. complaints ... That is some- candidate was killed there
olence-wracked city in over by the rival Rojos and Ramon Navarrete, the thing we can understand,” in early May and a can-
southern Mexico, Ardillos drug gangs. head of the Guerrero state Navarrete said. didate for governor was
a human rights official said The vigilantes disarmed lo- human rights commission, The Guerrero state pros- stopped by armed men in
Tuesday. cal police and forced the said 13 people had been ecutor’s office said in a April.
The disappearances add- police chief out, saying reported missing between statement later in the day Ten bodies and 11 severed
ed to confusion surround- they suspected some of- May 9 and mid-month, that it had opened inves- heads were discovered in
ing the takeover of the city ficers worked for Los Rojos. when the vigilantes with- tigations after receiving clandestine graves in Chi-
of Chilapa by so-called The vigilantes later returned drew. He said residents ap- seven reports of 11 people lapa in January, with most
“community police” earlier the police weapons, a new parently waited for the vigi- being kidnapped between the bodies having their
this month. chief was named and state lantes to leave before filing May 12 and May 15. It said hands tied and showing
The vigilantes, claiming and federal police were police reports. other families had reported signs of torture.q
Chinese PM starts South American investment tour
GABRIEL LUIZ mier’s first on a four-nation for its commodities. commodity prices are go- ica. “Chinese trade and
investment was Latin Amer-
BRAD BROOKS South American tour that “We’re moving into a differ- ing down,” said Kevin Gal- ica’s best friend for a de-
cade, and now everybody
Associated Press includes Chile, Peru and ent era, because China’s lagher, professor of inter- is in a panic.”
China remains the top trad-
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — ing partner for Latin Amer-
ica and the Caribbean,
China’s Premier Li Keqiang with $112 billion of the re-
gion’s exports heading to
and Brazilian President China in 2013, according to
Gallagher. Li’s trip began in
Dilma Rousseff agreed Brazil with the signature of
35 agreements that total
on Tuesday to embark on a $53 billion investment in
infrastructure, energy and
studies for an ambitious rail- mining among other areas
over the next six years.
way linking Brazil’s Atlantic Chinese banks will back
projects of state-run oil
coast with a Pacific port in company Petrobras for $7
billion, a relief for the firm
Peru, and announced bil- embroiled in a corruption
scandal that has blocked
lions in other investments access from credit markets.
The kickback investigation
and trade deals. has implicated Brazil’s big-
gest construction and engi-
Rousseff emphasized the neering firms, delaying ex-
isting petrochemical com-
importance of the project plexes and key equipment
needed to tap offshore
to cut down the time and fields works. q
cost to move commodities
to the Asian market.
“A new path to Asia will
open for Brazil,” said Rous-
seff. “It will cross our coun-
try from east to west, and
the South American conti-
nent.” The memorandum
of agreement to begin fea- China’s Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, attend a signing ceremony
at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Brazil is Li’s first stop
sibility studies on the trans- on his four-nation South American tour that includes Chile, Peru and Colombia.
Andean railway will also (AP Photo/Cadu Gomes
involve the Peruvian gov- Colombia. It comes as the economy is transforming national relations at Boston
continent feels the pinch of to being consumer based University with expertise in
ernment. Rousseff invited lessening Chinese demand and it’s slowing down, so China’s ties to Latin Amer-
Chinese companies to par-
ticipate.
The stop in Brasilia is the pre-
Survivors stunned by loss in Colombian town hit by flood
LUIS BENAVIDES a pre-dawn mudslide the killed but God willed it this a loud rumble and neigh- a precise estimate of how
Associated Press way,” said Henao, who sur- bors’ shouts, barely having many are missing.
SALGAR, Colombia (AP) — killed at least 65 people. vived along with his wife enough time to gather their Many of the dead are be-
Hector Raul Henao weeps by forcing open a door loved ones. lieved buried in the grey
as he surveys the barren “I lost half my life,” he said against a raging current The death toll, which au- moonscape along with
landscape of mud and up- and fleeing to the jungled thorities put at 65, was likely dozens of homes, bridges
rooted trees that for years Tuesday amid tears. mountain rising directly to grow as an undeter- and even a grade school
was a vibrant community from their home. mined number of people, that locals say is where for-
of small coffee farmers. Off When the earth rumbled, As the small mountain town perhaps as many as 100, mer President Alvaro Uribe
in the distance, across the of Salgar began digging remained unaccounted studied as a child growing
still raging La Libordiana ra- his 20-year-old son and out after Monday’s dev- for. up in his mother’s home-
vine, he points to the zinc- astation, the tales of hu- Authorities said they were town.
roofed house he fled — two-month-old grand- man tragedy multiplied. too busy searching for bod-
one of just two left standing Survivors recalled being ies and assisting survivors at Continued on Page 27
in an area devastated by daughter were asleep at stirred from their beds by makeshift shelters to give
another house directly in
the flash flood’s path.
Both were killed along with
several neighbors, many of
whose bodies he says are
still trapped in the mud.
“I wish I had been the one
