Honduran gangs have expanded in the last decade and are now in 40 percent of the Central American country’s territory, with gang members increasingly targeting people in the middle class, an official said Wednesday. …read more
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The Italian justice ministry says a former CIA station chief who was convicted in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a street of Milan has been detained in Panama.
Robert Seldon Lady, the former Milan station chief, was sentenced by an Italian appeals court earlier this year in the extraordinary rendition case to nine years in prison after being tried in absentia in Italy.
The ministry said it didn’t immediately have details on when or where in the Central American country Lady was detained.
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Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the notoriously brutal leader of the feared Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in the first major blow against an organized crime leader by a Mexican administration struggling to drive down persistently high levels of violence, a U.S. federal official confirmed.
Trevino Morales, known as “Z-40,” was captured by Mexican Marines in Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican media reported. The U.S. official who confirmed the media reports was not authorized to speak to the press and asked not to be identified.
Trevino’s capture removes the leader of a corps of special forces defectors who splintered off into their own cartel and spread across Mexico, expanding from drug dealing into extortion and human trafficking.
Along the way, the Zetas authored some of the worst atrocities of Mexico’s drug war, slaughtering dozens, leaving their bodies on display and gaining a reputation as perhaps the most terrifying of the country’s numerous ruthless cartels.
The capture of Trevino Morales is a public-relations victory for President Enrique Pena Nieto, who came into office promising to drive down levels of homicide, extortion and kidnapping but has struggled to make a credible dent in crime figures.
At the same time, Pena Nieto’s pledge to focus on citizen safety over other crimes sparked worries among U.S. authorities that he would ease back on a bi-national strategy aimed at decapitating drug cartels. The arrest of Trevino, a man widely blamed for both massive northbound drug trafficking and the deaths of untold scores of Mexicans and Central American migrants, will almost certainly earn praise from Pena Nieto’s U.S. and Mexican critics alike.
Trevino Morales’ rise from the streets of Nuevo Laredo to the top of Mexico’s drug trafficking world was fueled by a brutality that stunned a population inured to violence.
He began his career as a teenage gofer for the Los Tejas gang, which controlled most crime in his hometown across the border from Laredo, Texas. He soon graduated from washing cars and running errands to running drugs across the border, and was recruited into the Matamoros-based Gulf cartel, which absorbed Los Tejas when it took over drug dealing in the valuable border territory.
Trevino Morales joined the Zetas, a group of Mexican special forces deserters who defected to work as hit men and bodyguards for the Gulf cartel in the late 1990s.
Stories about the brutality of “El Cuarenta,” or “40” as Trevino Morales became known, quickly become well-known among his men, his rivals and Nuevo Laredo citizens terrified of incurring his anger.
“If you get called to a meeting with him, you’re not going to come out of that meeting,” said a U.S. law-enforcement official in Mexico City, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
One technique favored by Trevino Morales was the “guiso,” or stew, in which enemies would be placed in 55-gallon drums and burned alive. Others who crossed the commander who be beaten with wooden planks. The Zetas
Around 2005, Trevino Morales was promoted to boss of the Nuevo Laredo territory, or “plaza” and given responsibility for …read more
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Former world soccer powerbroker Jack Warner has resigned from his post as the national security minister of Trinidad & Tobago.
In a brief statement Sunday night, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says that Warner decided to resign from the Cabinet and that she accepts his decision. She thanks Warner for his service to the nation and advises the governor general to appoint another lawmaker to the post.
The resignation comes days after an ethics panel of the Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Football released a report charging that Warner and a former secretary general of the group enriched themselves through fraud during their terms with the organization.
Trinidad’s opposition had demanded Warner’s resignation.
He is also a former vice president of the world soccer body, FIFA.
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Paraguay is poised to elect as its new president a conservative candidate from the party that backed strongman Alfredo Stroessner during 35 years of iron rule, returning the executive branch to the wealthy interests that have traditionally dominated this poor South American nation despite the election of a leftist ex-bishop in 2008.
Sunday’s vote is also an important milestone in Paraguay‘s attempt to regain the international acceptance it lost when neighboring nations objected to the fast-track removal of President Fernando Lugo. The expedited impeachment of Lugo last year conformed to Paraguay‘s constitution but was criticized by its neighbors as an “institutional coup” that threatened democracies around the region.
Regional blocs such as Mercosur suspended Paraguay‘s membership following Lugo’s ouster, but all signs indicate that Paraguay‘s neighbors will re-engage the country after the election to replace Federico Franco, who served out Lugo’s term and is not eligible to seek a new one.
Most polls indicate that tobacco magnate and soccer executive Horacio Cartes of the Colorado Party, which held power for 61 years before losing to Lugo at the polls, will win handily over his chief rival, Sen. Efrain Alegre of Franco’s Liberal Party.
A handful of candidates trail them, including Anibal Carrillo of the leftist Guasu Front coalition led by Lugo, who is seeking to return to politics as a senator.
A presidential candidate can be declared winner with a plurality, and there is no runoff.
Some likened the vote to the 2009 presidential election in Honduras that gave other nations reason to re-embrace the Central American country five months after President Manuel Zelaya was grabbed by soldiers while still in his pajamas and flown to Costa Rica.
“The election in Honduras ultimately was important,” said Gregory Weeks, a political scientist specializing in Latin America at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “It was contested and there might have been controversy, but what it did was it got the country sufficiently past the crisis to allow it to be accepted by all the rest of the region again.”
Whoever wins in Paraguay will have to deal with problems that have been endemic for decades in this landlocked nation of about 6.2 million people, most notably the yawning gulf between the haves and have-nots.
Paraguay is South America’s No. 3 producer of soy,
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The leader of Trinidad’s main opposition party is seeking the resignation of former world soccer vice president Jack Warner, who currently serves as the island’s national security minister.
Opposition leader Keith Rowley said late Friday that he will present the issue for debate in Parliament next week.
His comments came just hours after CONCACAF‘s ethics and integrity committee released a report stating Warner and the former secretary general of the Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Football enriched themselves through fraud during their terms with the organization.
Warner is a former vice president of the world soccer body FIFA who oversaw North American and Caribbean soccer for almost 30 years. He resigned in June 2011 to avoid investigation into a bribery scandal.
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Salvadoran authorities say a 4-year-old Mexican girl found in their Central American country had been kidnapped.
Salvadoran Attorney General Luis Martinez says a 43-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly snatching her from Texcoco, Mexico, and bringing her to El Salvador earlier this month.
Martinez says prosecutors suspect the man was part of a human trafficking ring.
Mexico‘s Foreign Relations Department said Sunday the girl had been flown home and was reunited with her mother.
Martinez says tests indicated the girl had been sexually abused, but said she appeared in good spirits.
She vanished from her home near Mexico City on April 1. Martinez says the suspect reportedly dumped her at a home in El Salvador, where residents alerted police.
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Salvadoran mercenaries are plotting with Venezuela‘s opposition candidate to assassinate interim President Nicolas Maduro. But wait, the plot thickens. Central American agents, along with former U.S. diplomats, are also plotting to kill the opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles.
Those are just two of the conspiracy theories that Maduro has put forth ahead of Sunday’s election to replace Hugo Chavez. Maduro, who is running as Chavez’s hand-picked successor, also says the government has launched an investigation to determine if someone — U.S. agents, he has hinted — inoculated Chavez with the cancer that killed him March 5.
Opposition leaders called the allegation laughable, but government officials insist it’s no joke. Such conspiracy theories don’t seem all that wild to some Latin Americans who resent decades of U.S. meddling in their affairs. In Venezuela, relations with the U.S. deteriorated after Washington briefly endorsed a coup that toppled Chavez for two days in 2002.
Maduro claims his political opponents have hired mercenaries from El Salvador to assassinate him. He has offered no proof, but during a rally Sunday he accused a former aide to Capriles of being the plot’s mastermind.
Capriles called the claim “contradictory and ridiculous.” He recalled that less than two weeks ago, Maduro claimed that former U.S. diplomats Otto Reich and Roger Noriega were plotting to kill Capriles with the aide of Central American mercenaries. The U.S. State Department has dismissed the allegations too.
Maria Isabel Puerta, a political science professor at the University of Carabobo, said Maduro is spinning conspiracy theories to distract from pressing domestic problems, especially food shortages and chronic electrical blackouts, and shift the blame to government foes. Along with the plots to assassinate both presidential candidates, Maduro says the Salvadoran mercenaries are plotting to infiltrate the state-run power company and sabotage the country’s power grid.
“It insinuates the transfer of responsibilities to the enemy, even though it seems strange,” Puerta said.
Maduro’s political opponents say the interim president is simply following Chavez’s playbook. Throughout his 14-year-old rule, Chavez and his allies frequently warned that government foes were plotting to kill him, topple his government or destabilize the country.
Miguel Perez Pirela, the host of a program on state television, claimed last year that a newspaper crossword puzzle had a hidden call to kill Chavez’s older brother, Adan. Intelligent agents went so far as to question the author of the …read more
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On this day in economic and financial history …
The United Fruit Company was formed on March 30, 1899, the result of a merger between the nearly bankrupt Tropical Trading and Transport Company and Boston Fruit. On its formation, United Fruit was already a giant in its field, with railroads, steamships, and plantations spread across the tropics. It would grow into an enterprise that clashed with governments. The phrase “banana republic” arose from United Fruit‘s efforts to bend entire Central American nations to its purposes, particularly in the growing of bananas, which are notoriously quick to rot and thus require greater control over their production to ensure a uniform — and profitable — product.
In Reason, Ira Stoll recently recounted the company’s sheer size:
It seems almost quaint to think that a company specializing in bananas might have once been considered a capitalist giant on the level of today’s firms, but so it was — at its height in the first half of the last century, United Fruit owned one of the largest private navies in the world. It owned 50% of the private land in Honduras and 70% of all private land and every mile of railroad in Guatemala.
The company’s transformation of the banana trade was a key element of Peter Chapman’s Bananas, which a New York Times article on United Fruit covered in 2008:
“[United Fruit was] more powerful than many nation states … a law unto itself and accustomed to regarding the republics as its private fiefdom.” United Fruit essentially invented not only “the concept and reality of the banana republic,” but also, as Chapman shows, the concept and reality of the modern banana. “If it weren’t for United Fruit,” he observes, “the banana would never have emerged from the dark, then arrived in such quantities as to bring prices that made it available to all.”
Today, “the banana is the world’s fourth major food, after rice, wheat, and milk.” But when a Brooklyn-born twentysomething named Minor Keith planted a few banana cuttings next to a railroad track in Costa Rica in the early 1870s, it was virtually unknown outside its native environs. … Until its demise a hundred years later, United Fruit controlled as much as 90 percent of the market.
United Fruit was fictionalized in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and managed to take part in multiple political uprisings and fiascos, including the “banana massacre” in 1928 Colombia and the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’etat. On both occasions, U.S. military forces intervened in Central America on the company’s behalf. United reached its apex in the years bookending World War II, after Sam “Banana Man” Zemurray took the reins — United Fruit‘s overextension before the Great Depression had jeopardized the wealth he’d gained from selling United his competing fruit company, prompting a takeover bid.
United Fruit became United Brands in 1970 and is now Chiquita …read more
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President Obama will travel to Mexico and Costa Rica May 2-4. This trip is an important opportunity to reinforce the deep cultural, familial, and economic ties that so many Americans share with Mexico and Central America.
In Mexico, the President looks forward to meeting with President Peña Nieto, with whom he spoke by telephone today. The President welcomes the opportunity to discuss ways to deepen our economic and commercial partnership and further our engagement on the broad array of bilateral, regional, and global issues that connect our two countries. In Costa Rica, the President looks forward to the opportunity to meet with President Chinchilla as well as heads of state of the other Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, whom President Chinchilla has graciously offered to host. The trip will be an important chance to discuss our collective efforts to promote economic growth and development in Central America and our ongoing collaboration on citizen security.
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MEXICO CITY — Brad Guzan swatted away shot after shot and the Americans hung on for a 0-0 draw with Mexico on Tuesday night, earning only their second point in a World Cup qualifier at Azteca Stadium.
The tie moved the U.S. into third place in World Cup qualifying for the North and Central American and Caribbean region after three of 10 matches, one point behind Panama and behind Costa Rica on goal difference. The Americans and Costa Ricans both have four points, but the Ticos, who earlier Tuesday lost their appeal over Friday’s loss to the United States in a Colorado snow storm, are ahead on goal difference.
Thousands of Salvadorans have made a Palm Sunday march through the streets of San Salvador to honor the martyred Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero and express hope the new pope will advance him along the path to sainthood.
Many marchers carried signs referring to Romero as a saint after emerging from Mass at the church where he was assassinated 33 years ago by gunmen linked to the military government of the time.
Romero had criticized the violence of the Central American nation’s government and defended the poor. His killing exacerbated a civil war that continued for 12 more years.
Leaders of El Salvador’s church say they hope new Pope Francis will beatify Romero. And the capital’s Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas told worshippers Sunday that Romero warrants being canonized, or sainted.
The U.S. State Department, which spends millions of taxpayer dollars a year on the Honduran National Police, has assured Congress that money only goes to specially vetted and trained units that don’t operate under the direct supervision of a police chief once accused of extrajudicial killings and “social cleansing.”
But The Associated Press has found that all police units are under the control of Director General Juan Carlos Bonilla, nicknamed the “Tiger,” who in 2002 was accused of three extrajudicial killings and links to 11 more deaths and disappearances. He was tried on one killing and acquitted. The rest of the cases were never fully investigated.
Honduran law prohibits any police unit from operating outside the command of the director general, according to a top Honduran government security official, who would only speak on condition of anonymity. He said that is true in practice as well as on paper.
Celso Alvarado, a criminal law professor and consultant to the Honduran Commission for Security and Justice Sector Reform, said the same.
“Every police officer in Honduras, regardless of their specific functions, is under the hierarchy and obedience of the director general,” he said.
The official line from Honduras, however, is that the money does not go to Bonilla.
“The security programs that Honduras is implementing with the United States are under control of the ministers of security and defense,” said Foreign Minister Arturo Corrales, who negotiates the programs with the State Department.
But the security official attributed the contradiction to the politics necessary in a country in the grip of a security emergency.
With 91 murders per 100,000 people, the small Central American nation is often called the most violent in the world. An estimated 40 percent of the cocaine headed to the U.S. — and 87 percent of cocaine smuggling flights from South America — pass through Honduras, according to the State Department.
The allegations against Bonilla, along with other concerns about police and military killings, prompted the U.S. Congress to freeze an estimated $30 million in Honduran aid last August. Most has been restored under agreements with the U.S. Department of State over the monitoring of Honduran operations receiving U.S. money.
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By Alistair Bell
WASHINGTON — As Congress delves deeper into the immigration debate, members of both parties agree that an unloved system that gives temporary residence to nearly 300,000 foreigners in the U.S. is broken.
The program was introduced in 1990 to aid countries facing war or natural disaster, but immigrants who won the temporary status end up staying long after the crisis at home ends by rolling over their visas every 18 months.
Lawmakers and presidents have turned a blind eye to the loophole over the years so as not to lose Latino votes but they can no longer ignore it.
A congressional aide said a bipartisan group of senators is now studying changes to the Temporary Protected Status system, as it draws up legislation for a wider immigration reform sought by President Barack Obama.
Working out what to do with the mostly Central American temporary residents illustrates the breadth of the challenge in reshaping U.S. immigration law, a complex web of regulations and exceptions that has not been overhauled since 1986.
“We have people who have been on temporary status for 20 years,” said Zoe Lofgren, the ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives Immigration Sub-Committee.
She favors finding a way for the temporary immigrants to eventually become U.S. citizens. “Their life is here now and better we should regularize that,” she said.
But opponents of heavy immigration, many of them Republicans, want to limit the number of times a foreigner may renew a temporary visa.
On a better footing than the 11 million undocumented foreigners, the holders of temporary permits nevertheless struggle to hold down long-term jobs, face travel restrictions and live in fear of deportation.
Employers often balk at hiring an immigrant whose status — at least on paper — is temporary.
Stumbling Block
Victor Martell, a Salvadorean businessman in Chicago, says he lost the chance at a $120,000-a-year job because of his TPS visa, which he has held for 12 years.
Trained in SAP business software, Martell passed rigorous interviews at a well-known company and met with its management twice to explain an inventory management project he developed.
“I already had a start date and I went into HR to sign the documents and presented my TPS,” he said. The next day, the company told him by email that he did not get the job, without an explanation. “It was very obvious to me that after they saw a TPS, they killed it.”
Groups of lawmakers in both the Senate and House are struggling to agree on larger immigration issues including whether to legalize the status of illegal immigrants and how to …read more
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By Reuters
Filed under: Alternative Investment, Commodities & Futures, Food & Beverage, Investing
By David Brough
LONDON — A handful of the world’s biggest merchants play a tense, high stakes game every few weeks and a well-connected newcomer from Asia just sat down at the table.
The stakes are in sugar often worth hundreds of millions of dollars; the occasion is the expiry of futures contracts.
Five leading American and European trade houses — Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, ED&F Man, Sucden, and Bunge — have typically jockeyed for the best position ahead of the delivery and receipt of sugar when futures contracts expire, which happens nine times a year.
At the latest raw sugar futures expiry last week, the exclusive club was joined by Singapore-based Wilmar International Ltd., sole receiver of 152,762 tonnes of Central American and Brazilian sugars worth around $61 million.
The expiries are risky because a bet that leaves a player holding large amounts of physical sugar can reap huge rewards when supplies are tight and prices are rising, but a trade house can face eye-watering losses if the harvest’s outlook improves or demand is dented at the last moment.
Wilmar is taking delivery through a sugar futures expiry for the first time since entering the market three years ago.
Need to Move Fast
This delivery is barely more than a quarter of the size of the previous raw sugar expiry, for the October 2012 contract, which saw Bunge receive almost 600,000 tonnes, valued at roughly $240 million.
Analyst Jonathan Kingsman said Wilmar will have to be nimble to sell the Brazilian sugar that it acquired through the expiry ahead of the country’s coming crop, which starts around April and is expected to be abundant — potentially weighing on prices.
“People [traders] were wary of taking delivery of Brazilian sugar with a big new Brazilian crop expected to start early — you would have to move quickly to get it out if values come down,” said Kingsman, head of agriculture at data and information provider Platts.
Much futures business is done by financial investors who trade promises involving sugar but close out the bets before they risk taking actual delivery of the raw sugar traded on InterContinental Exchange (ICE) or white sugar from NYSE Liffe.
As the expiry draws closer for a contract such as the ICE current front month futures, only those players with a real interest in the physical commodity remain.
Trade sources said Wilmar fits the bill, with strong business ties in Central America, and would have no difficulty finding customers for Central American sugars within that region or in big importers China or Indonesia.
Cargill Setback
U.S. agribusiness Cargill was often in the past a major receiver of sugar but has been keeping a lower profile after an aggressive bullish bet misfired.
In January last year Cargill reported its worst quarterly earnings since …read more
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One of Gregoria Contreras‘ first childhood memories was the moment she last saw her parents.
Fighting between government troops and guerrillas had broken out around the 4-year-old girl’s family home in the countryside of this Central American country. The soldiers took advantage of the confusion and seized Contreras and her two siblings, who were under the age of 2.
“We all fled the house and suddenly it all ended because they captured us and our parents disappeared,” said Contreras, now 35 and living in neighboring Guatemala.
Contreras was just one of hundreds of children who disappeared under a variety of circumstances during El Salvador‘s brutal, 13-year civil war, which left some 75,000 people dead and thousands more missing. In most cases, the parents have yet to find out what happened to their children, while a few hundred of the missing have been identified after giving investigators DNA samples and other evidence.
Now, a human rights group, Probusqueda, is uncovering another macabre, and mostly unknown twist to the tragedy. In Contreras’ and at least nine other cases, low-to-mid-ranking soldiers abducted children in what an international court says was a “systematic pattern of forced disappearances.” Some of the soldiers raised the children as their own, while others gave them away or sold them to lucrative illegal adoption networks. In Contreras’ case, an army private spirited her away, raped her and gave her his own surname.
The crimes make El Salvador the second Latin American country proven to engage in such child abductions during internal Cold War-era conflicts. Argentina‘s military kidnapped hundreds of children of political opponents, and the prosecution of those responsible three decades later led to the indictment of top officers, including army Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla, then-head of Argentina‘s military junta.
No one has revealed the full scope of the child abductions in El Salvador. The number of confirmed abductions will likely rise if the country’s Defense Department makes public files from the civil war era.
Contreras and eight other victims of military abductions successfully sued their government in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, demanding the military release more information. Three years later, the military hasn’t turned over the requested files and the officers, most of them retired, suspected of adopting stolen children have refused DNA tests.
“Without those files we can’t say this or that officer is responsible,” said the country’s attorney general, Oscar …read more
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Honduran President Porfirio Lobo has deployed 1,400 soldiers to fight street gangs in the country’s two biggest and most violent cities.
The troops began patrolling the capital of Tegucigalpa and the city of San Pedro Sula on Friday.
Lobo says the soldiers will coordinate with police to patrol neighborhoods that are hotspots for crime. He says 800 soldiers have been assigned to Tegucigalpa and 600 to San Pedro Sula.
National Police Director Juan Bonilla says this is part of a “frontal attack against crime.”
According to Honduras‘ National Autonomous University, the Central American nation recorded 7,173 homicides in 2012 and 7,014 in 2011. Honduras has 8 million people.
The Honduran congress approved once again a “model cities” project that the country’s Supreme Court had previously declared unconstitutional because it would create special development zones outside the jurisdiction of ordinary Honduran law.
Congressman Rodolfo Irias of the ruling National Party says the law “includes the necessary modifications” to answer concerns about unconstitutionality.
The vote was 110 to 13, with 5 abstentions.
The court’s rejection of the plan led Congress to fire four of the court’s five justices in December.
The plan would create “special development regions” with their own independent tax and justice systems, to spur economic growth in this Central American country struggling with corruption and crime.
The project was opposed by civic groups as well as the indigenous people.
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla says her nation, Mexico and Colombia have opened talks with U.S. officials to prepare for the legalization of marijuana in some U.S. states.
She said in an Associated Press interview that the Central American nations worry about what the effect that legalization in some U.S. states will have on the battle against international drug cartels.
Chinchilla says the drug cartels that have become entrenched in Mexico “pose a very important menace to our country” and U.S. cooperation is needed because it is a huge consumer of those drugs.
She also says “it’s very hard to pretend that they are going to disappear. What is happening is that they move from one country to another.”
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A Nicaraguan judge has sentenced 18 Mexicans who posed as a television crew to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering stemming from $9.2 million found in their news vans.
Judge Edgard Altamirano says the 17 men and one woman deserve the harshest penalty possible under the Central American nation’s law. Altamirano said Friday’s sentencing that each of those convicted must also pay a $9.2 million fine.
The 18 fake journalists were arrested in August near Nicaragua‘s northern border with Honduras in six vans bearing logos like those used by Mexican television giant Televisa. Gym bags stuffed with bundles of cash were found stashed in compartments inside the vehicles.
Televisa says none of the 18 worked for it and the vans aren’t part of the company’s fleet.
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