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WORLD NEWSThursday 5 November 2015

Mexico exhumes student killed when 43 disappeared

MARIA VERZA testing after an indepen- Isidro Burgos Rural Teach- killed and incinerated in a by drug cartels on their vic-
Associated Press dent commission formed ers College of Ayotzinapa giant pyre at a trash dump, tims. But the same report
SAN MIGUEL TECOMATLAN, by the Inter-American came under attack while saying the fire described in also said an animal may
Mexico (AP) — Mexican Commission on Human commandeering buses for the attorney general’s in- have been responsible for
and Argentine experts on Rights determined that a a protest. The cases of the vestigation could not have the disfiguring, a possibil-
Wednesday began ex- first autopsy was marred by three students and three occurred. ity that his family calls a
huming the body of a stu- inconsistencies and con- bystanders slain have been Mondragon, 22, was mar- “mockery.”
dent who was found dead tradictions. Mondragon’s mostly forgotten in the furor ried with a 2-month-old The independent experts of
with his face skinned off the family has also demanded over the 43 missing students, child when he was killed. the Inter-American Com-
morning after 43 of his col- new tests. whose fate is still unknown His original autopsy, con- mission on Human Rights
leagues disappeared at Mondragon was one of six more than a year later. The ducted by the state pros- concluded that Mondrag-
the hands of police and a people killed in September same group of experts has ecutor, said the skin on on’s body showed “visible
drug gang. 2014 in Iguala, in the south- previously dismantled the his face could have been signs of torture,” but the
Julio Cesar Mondragon’s ern state of Guerrero, when government’s official ver- peeled off by a knife, a ter- state investigation made
remains will undergo new students from the Raul sion that the students were ror tactic known to be used no mention of that.q

Next Guatemala president vows clean government

Guatemala’s President-elect Jimmy Morales, a former come- International Commission cal,” Morales said. “But if I 2021.
dian, gestures during an interview in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Against Impunity in Guate- continue to be the Jimmy “When they ask me, I will
Nov. 3, 2015. Morales’ biggest campaign pledge was to fight mala, to help vet his pro- Morales I have been, the do so with great pleasure,”
the entrenched corruption that forced the resignation of his pre- posed Cabinet in a bid to people will see that and he said.
decessor, Otto Perez Molina. ensure an honest govern- there is the example.” Morales’ first-place finish in
ment in a country where Former President Otto Per- the opening round of vot-
(AP Photo/Luis Soto) many have long consid- ez Molina, who resigned ing and then a landslide
ered that an oxymoron. just days before the first runoff victory Oct. 25 over
SONIA PEREZ D. the previous leader, vowed “I already approached round of presidential voting former first lady Sandra Tor-
Associated Press this week to bolster the in- (them) and I asked them in September, had been res has been widely inter-
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — vestigative bodies that to help me to look into seen by analysts as loath preted as a “punishment
Jimmy Morales, the TV blew the lid on the graft people ... the people who to renew the mandate of vote,” with outraged Gua-
comic elected Guatema- scandals. will be serving the public,” the U.N. commission, which temalans rejecting candi-
la’s next president amid He said he will turn to those Morales said in an interview was set up to investigate dates seen as tied to the
widespread anger over very entities, Guatemalan with The Associated Press. criminal networks in Gua- establishment.
corruption that took down prosecutors and the U.N. After he takes office Jan. temala. But as a customs But Morales said voters
14, the political neophyte graft scandal snowballed were attracted to him not
who ran as a self-styled and took down Perez Mo- just because he’s never
outsider will come under lina’s then-vice president, held office before.
pressure quickly to show Roxana Baldetti, he appar- “If it’s true, the ‘punish-
concrete progress on cam- ently decided it was politi- ment vote’ that you’re
paign promises to battle cally impossible to do oth- talking about, why didn’t
corruption and govern with erwise. Today both Perez that go to someone else?”
transparency. He said he Molina and Baldetti are in Morales said. “So then,
plans to uphold the law jail awaiting prosecution. what was done well? An
and lead by example. Morales said one of his first example was held up that
“If I enter government as acts as president will be to there was leadership, ad-
middle class and get rich seek to extend the com- ministrative capability and
overnight, that’s not logi- mission’s mandate through transparency.q

Thousands of crocodiles go hungry at Honduras farm

FERNANDO ANTONIO Rosenthal family, were were supposedly raised for cluding lions and monkeys. said. The U.S. Justice De-
Associated Press seized during a probe into their skins. Calls seeking comment partment announced Oct.
SAN MANUEL CORTES, Hon- accusations they were op- The workers said there were from the company that 7 that it had indicted for-
duras (AP) — A U.S. investi- erating a money launder- about 9,000 crocodiles at manages the farm rang un- mer Honduran Vice Presi-
gation into alleged money ing network linked to drug the farm, but authorities answered. dent Jaime Roland Rosen-
laundering for drug traf- trafficking. Farm employees said the number probably The crocodiles normally thal, his son Yani Benjamin
fickers by one of Honduras’ told The Associated Press was closer to 7,500. chow down on almost any Rosenthal and nephew
most powerful families has on Wednesday that the “There have been difficul- kind of meat — they usually Yankel Rosenthal under the
resulted in some unusual animals went without food ties in feeding (the croco- get chicken guts, heads, Kingpin act. Yankel Rosen-
victims: thousands of hun- for more than a month, but diles),” Dubon told the AP feet and spoiled chicken — thal was arrested in the
gry crocodiles. were finally fed over the by telephone. and Mejia said they need United States.
At least 7,500 crocodiles weekend thanks to dona- He said he asked private a total of 9,000 to 12,000 The Justice Department
on a private farm in north- tions. Worker Antonio Mejia companies to donate pounds of food a day. said the Rosenthals “pro-
ern Honduras have been said at least 200 small croc- money to buy food for the Farm worker Marco Lazo vide money laundering and
poorly fed in recent weeks odiles had died, but Pablo crocodiles and on Sunday said sometimes a horse is other services that support
because of a lack of re- Dubon, northern regional officials obtained about chopped up and thrown the international narcotics
sources, authorities and director of Honduras’ Forest 23,000 pounds of food, into the mix. “They have trafficking activities of multi-
employees at the property Conservation Institute, said most of it chicken. gone hungry for about 45 ple Central American drug
said. The bank accounts he doubted that claim. Also going hungry at the days,” before the donated traffickers and their criminal
of the farm’s owner, the Mejia said the crocodiles farm were 12 mammals, in- food arrived Saturday, he organizations.”q