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WORLD NEWSWednesday 20 January 2016

Mexico probes possible money tie with actress, drug boss

MEXICO CITY (AP) — There volving the actress’ tequila where she lives. week that many people through a storm sewer.
are indications that drug business. But she said they “We have an investigation are making up “items they Guzman is being held in
lord Joaquin “El Chapo” don’t have “legal certain- in the tequila case,” Go- think will make good sto- the same maximum secu-
Guzman had business deal- ty” a crime was committed. mez said, ries.” rity prison he escaped from
ings with actress Kate del Del Castillo arranged adding that information Authorities say the meeting through a mile-long (1.5-ki-
Castillo, who arranged a Penn’s Oct. 2 interview leads officials to believe between Penn, del Cas- lometer) tunnel in July.
meeting between the drug with Guzman, which was the leader of the Sinaloa tillo and Guzman helped Gomez said authorities are
boss and actor Sean Penn, published by Rolling Stone drug cartel gave funds to them locate the drug lord, also investigating del Cas-
Mexico’s attorney general magazine on Jan. 9, a day that business. though he managed to es- tillo’s spending for the trip
said in an interview pub- after the fugitive Guzman Gomez said Penn wasn’t cape capture at that time. to meet Guzman.
lished Tuesday. was recaptured. under investigation for any Three months later, “We have to make sure
Arely Gomez told the news- Gomez said officials want crime. Mexican marines raided who provided the airplane,
paper El Universal that offi- to question del Castillo, Del Castillo hasn’t replied a safe house in the city of who paid for it, all of the lo-
cials are investigating pos- possibly at a Mexican con- to requests for comment. Los Mochis and Guzman gistics of the trip,” Gomez
sible money laundering in- sulate in the United States, On Twitter, she said last was arrested after fleeing said.q

Several election offices attacked in Haiti as runoff nears

Protesters run past a burning car during a protest against President Michel Martelly’s government cars pelted with rocks. A Cap-Haitien and at least
to demand the cancellation of the Jan. 24, elections, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. truck and an SUV were two others were damaged
torched by young men by hurled rocks. Henri said
(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) near a police station. the three offices that were
Police dispersed opposi- set ablaze “weren’t totally
DAVID McFADDEN eral electoral offices were ing for new elections and tion protesters and cleared destroyed” because locals
Associated Press attacked in northern towns the immediate removal most roadblocks by late af- managed to douse the
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) as the country prepares for of outgoing President Mi- ternoon. Officers scattered flames.
— Stone-throwing demon- a Jan. 24 presidential and chel Martelly, among other some demonstrators with Gerardo de Icaza, elec-
strators this week smashed legislative runoff. grievances. Roads were tear gas in the downtown toral observation direc-
car windows and set at Roughly 2,000 protesters blocked with flaming tire slum of Bel Air, one of many tor at the Organization of
least two vehicles ablaze took to the streets in down- barricades and more than impoverished areas where American States, tweeted
in Haiti’s capital, after sev- town Port-au-Prince call- a dozen motorists had their young people who’ve nev- Monday that the OAS mis-
er held any kind of steady sion “deplores and strongly
job are easy pickings for condemns” the violence
political actors looking for targeting offices of Haiti’s
protesters for hire. Provisional Electoral Coun-
High school science teach- cil. The OAS called on
er Elisme Nerius walked his Haitian political actors to
9-year-old son home from reject violence and “act
school near a barricaded peacefully.” Last month,
intersection where black several government build-
smoke was still billowing ings were burned and one
from burning tires. demonstrator was killed in
“My hope is that when my scattered violent protests
boy is old enough to vote sparked by the release
this country can finally hold of final legislative elec-
decent and calm elec- tion results. Campaigning
tions,” Nerius said. for Haiti’s presidential run-
In northern Haiti, Police In- off kicked off earlier this
spector Michel Henri said month, but only govern-
three electoral offices were ment-backed candidate
set on fire late Sunday in Jovenel Moise has been
towns around the city of campaigning.q

Argentina’s Nisman remembered 1 year after his death

ANA MANO tended the act in Buenos want justice.” The prosecu- his death, Nisman had arrest orders enforced by
Associated Press Aires, along with city offi- tor was found dead in the presented a claim against Interpol for three Iranians
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina cials. bathroom of his Buenos then-president Cristina Fer- accused of involvement in
(AP) — Jewish rights groups Organizers read a letter Aires apartment on Jan. nandez for an alleged cov- the bombing.
organized acts in several written by Nisman’s daugh- 18, 2015 with a bullet to his er up in the attack on the Security Minister Patricia
Argentine cities this week ters Iara and Kala, who met head. At the time he was in- Jewish community center. Bullrich told reporters dur-
to mark the first anniversary new President Mauricio vestigating the 1994 bomb- She denied the charges. ing the Buenos Aires event
of prosecutor Alberto Nis- Macri at his private resi- ing of a Jewish community Macri has now since or- that Argentine law allows it
man’s death. dence over the weekend. center that killed 85 peo- dered the declassification to try the men in absentia.
The events included Nisman’s daughters did ple. Authorities have not of files related to Nisman’s Ricardo Saenz, a fellow
marches in Buenos Aires, not attend the Buenos Ai- determined Nisman com- death. The Macri govern- prosecutor of Nisman, said
Cordoba, Parana and San res event, but his mother, mitted suicide or was killed, ment’s foreign and security during the ceremony that
Luis. Vice-President Gabri- Sara Garfunkel, was pres- as some have asserted. No ministries on Dec. 18 reiter- retaining the international
ela Michetti and Security ent, along with hundreds of one has been convicted ated Argentina’s interest arrest orders was “essen-
Minister Patricia Bullrich at- people who chanted: “We in the case. Shortly before in retaining international tial” to solving the crime. q