Shenandoah police also murdered an18 year old Puerto Rican in custody

New shocking revelations are coming to the surface concerning the all-White police department in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. On Tuesday a federal grand jury charged the police chief, a captain, a lieutenant and another cop on a variety of crimes that included the attempted cover up of the hate beating death of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez by six White youths and the extortion of gambling businesses and prostitutes in the town. Professor Montejano talked about this case in our last lecture.
Now Attorney John Karoly filed suit against Chief Matthew Nestor, Captain Jamie Gennarini and the borough of Shenandoah for the murder of 18-year-old David Vega, a Puerto Rican, while he was in jail on a minor infraction in 2004.

http://www.aztlan.net/shenandoah_dirty_cops.htm

Posted By Braulio Felipe Ocampo

Indictment accuses Colombians of supplying cocaine to Mexican drug cartels

Friday, Feb. 12, 2010

By DANNY ROBBINS

The Associated Press

http://www.star-telegram.com/texas/story/1966340.html

DALLAS -- A group of Colombians is accused of supplying Mexican drug cartels with cocaine in a federal indictment that authorities described Friday as a strike at the cartels' reach in the United States.

The indictment, returned by a Plano grand jury in October and unsealed Feb. 5, charges 25 defendants with conspiracy to transport cocaine into the U.S. and the manufacture and distribution of cocaine for importation.

John Bales, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, said investigators believe that they are member of the Gaitan cartel.

"This case is as much about the Mexican cartels as it is about the Gaitan organization," he said at a news conference announcing the indictment.

The case is the first time that he has sought to prosecute individuals outside the country for their role in the drug trafficking chain, Bales said...Read More

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[Posted by Michael Felix]

East Salinas neighbors team up to protect Alisal students after gang slaying

The violence and taunting that had been allowed to exist finally struck a deeper nerve with residents, school and community officials and business interests on Jan. 12, 2009. That's when a 15-year-old Alisal High student walking to school was fatally shot in a gang-related incident on the 700 block of Burke Street.

The neighborhood said enough is enough and appealed to Salinas Councilman Tony Barrera for help in making the street safer.

Now, more than a year after the homicide, Barrera and others have gathered some resources to improve the area. Local businesses have donated money for landscaping improvements and for surveillance video. Alco Water Co. said it will spend about $65,000 to install two surveillance cameras and provide better lighting in the area, a walkway and plant flowers, said Alco President Tom Adcock. McShane's Nursery and other businesses are also pitching in.

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100212/NEWS01/2120316/East-Salinas-neighbors-team-up-to-protect-Alisal-students-after-gang-slaying

Posted by Jeanette Pantoja

Greenfield Library Offers Triqui Classes

The Greenfield branch of the Monterey County Free Libraries is offering Triqui language classes for Spanish speakers, concerned about keeping their language alive. Greenfield has the largest population of Triqui speakers outside of Oaxaca. There are as many 10,000 Triqui people, an indigenous group from Mexico, in the community.

http://www.thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102130311

[posted by Andrew Brown]

Census Bureau making mistakes in campaign to get minorities to fill out forms

WASHINGTON -- The government is fumbling some efforts to assure immigrants that U.S. census data won't be used against them, including gaps in outreach and foreign language guides that refer to the decennial count as an investigation.

With the launch of the head count weeks away, the Census Bureau's outreach has been falling short in at least a dozen major cities, such as Chicago, Dallas, New York, Seattle and San Jose, Calif., according to a report released Monday by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Many states are on the cusp of gaining or losing U.S. House seats and face a redrawing of legislative boundaries that may tilt the balance of political power.

http://www.star-telegram.com/texas/story/1939244.html

[Posted by Aaron Mendez]