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WORLD NEWSWednesday 11 November
UN officials say Honduran Indians face land invasions
MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Indi-
ans on Honduras’ Carib-
bean coast are suffering
invasions of their lands by
squatters, loggers, palm-oil
planters and drug traffick-
ers, a U.N. official said Tues- manding the government
day.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the
United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the rights of
Argentina top court orders disclosure of YPF-Chevron deal
A. CALATRAVA
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
(AP) — Argentina’s Su-
preme Court on Tuesday
ordered the government-
run YPF energy company
to disclose clauses of an
investment deal with U.S.-
based Chevron Corp. to
produce oil and gas by
hydraulic fracturing in one
of the world’s largest shale
deposits.
The decision, published
on the website of the offi-
cial judicial news agency,
follows a request by Sen.
Hector Giustiniani after
YPF refused to disclose
environmental and other
information on the project
in the southern province
of Neuquen.
The decision, signed by
three of the four Argen-
tina top justices, said that
Mexico reports 12 killed in shooting at cockfight
JOSE ANTONIO RIVERA
Associated Press
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP)
— Gunmen burst into a
clandestine cockfight
in southern Mexico and
sprayed the crowd with
bullets, killing 12 people
and wounding five others,
officials said late Monday.
The prosecutors’ office in
the southern state of Guer-

indigenous peoples, said from invaders who come because they (traffickers) boring Nicaragua earlier
drug traffickers cut down in and occupy their land, make a landing site” for this year. In March, Indians
trees to carve airstrips from whether these are agricul- drug flights, she said. “The in Honduras seized and
the jungle, recruited Indian tural land owners or log- young people don’t have then released some squat-
youths into the trade and gers, and they mentioned livelihood activities, and so ters they accuse of acting
bought up land to launder that even drug traffick- they are easy prey to these as pawns of big palm oil
money. Honduran Miskitos ers are entering their ter- drug traffickers.” She also planters and loggers to il-
and other groups are de- ritories,” Tauli-Corpuz said expressed concern at the legally clear the land.
by telephone following a trafficking and prostitution Tauli-Corpuz, said the Hon-
help them protect their ter- visit to Miskitos and other of indigenous women. duran government is trying
ritory in the swampy, heav- ethnic groups in western The Miskito complaints are to raise money to compen-
ily forested region. “There Honduras. “Some of their similar to problems that led sate settlers for their evic-
is no protection basically lands are stripped of trees to confrontations in neigh- tion. q

In this 2013 photo, Ali Moshiri, Chevron’s head of Latin America, Repsol’s controlling stake the deal.
Middle East and Africa, right, speaks with Miguel Galuccio, in YPF in 2012. Last year, a federal ap-
CEO of Argentina’s state-controlled YPF oil company, before They dismissed claims that pellate court ordered a
the start of a joint news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. releasing confidential in- criminal investigation into
Argentina’s Supreme Court is ordering the YPF state-run energy formation could affect the approval of the billion-
company to publicly disclose clauses of an investment deal the development of the dollar deal at the Vaca
with U.S.-based Chevron Corp. to produce oil and gas by deal. Muerta shale deposit.
hydraulic fracturing in one of the largest shale deposits in the Opposition politicians, en- Then-Cabinet chief Jorge
world. The decision was published on the site of the official vironmental groups and Capitanich denied last
judicial news agency Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. others criticized potential year that there were any
environmental problems “secret clauses,” but said
(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) and the government’s re- it did have confidential
fusal to release all of the elements “typical of an
as a state-run company, information on its activi- contract’s provisions. investment of this nature.”
YPF must allow access to ties. Argentina took over Giustiniani had alleged Chevron announced its
that the deal had se- first substantial investment
cret clauses, including a in the Vaca Muerta shale
“commitment that would deposit the day after Pres-
force the country to hand ident Cristina Fernandez’s
over the rights to the third- government lowered cur-
largest deposit of uncon- rency and tax restrictions
ventional oil and gas for on investors that spend
the next 35 years.” He also at least $1 billion in the oil
said one clause would en- sector.
sure that Chevron would The government has said
continue to get royalties that the deal was transpar-
even if it pulled out from ent and constitutional.q

rero said the attack oc- According to a law en- also confirmed the shoot- A law enforcement of-
curred in Cuajinicuilapa, forcement official who ing, saying the dead ficial in the city said one
a town near the border was not authorized to be were mostly young males, other person was seriously
with Oaxaca state on the quoted by name, one of though at least one wom- wounded in the attack.
southern Pacific coast. the dead was a 12-year- an was also killed. The official also was not
Some in the crowd ap- old boy whose father al- In the resort of Acapulco, authorized to be quoted
parently shot back at the legedly headed a local further to the west, uniden- by name.
attackers; prosecutors de- crime gang. However, po- tified assailants opened The motive in the attack
scribed it in a statement as lice were unable to con- fire on an amateur soccer was still under investiga-
“a confrontation.” firm the motive in the at- match on the outskirts of tion. The dead and injured
Two of the dead were un- tack. the city, killing three peo- were apparently specta-
der the age of 18. Police in Cuajinicuilapa ple on Sunday. tors at the match.q