Mes: agosto 2019

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(AP) MISRATA, Libya – One of the young Libyan rebels credited with capturing Muammar Qaddafi in a drainage ditch nearly a year ago died Tuesday of injuries after being kidnapped, beaten and slashed by the late dictator’s supporters – the latest victim of persistent violence and instability in the North African country. The death of Omran Shaaban, who had been hospitalized in France, raised the prospect of even more violence and score-settling, with the newly elected National Congress authorizing police and the army to use force if necessary to apprehend those who abducted the 22-year-old and three companions in July near the town of Bani Walid. Libya is battling lingering pockets of support for the old regime, and its government has been unable to rein in armed militias in a country rife with weapons. Earlier this month, a demonstration at the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi turned violent, killing four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Shaaban was praised as a “dutiful martyr” by the National Congress, although his family says he never received a promised reward of 1 million Libyan dinars ($800,000) for capturing Qaddafi on Oct. 20, 2011, in the former leader’s hometown of Sirte. The eccentric dictator was killed later that day by revolutionary fighters. The Libyan government said it would honor Shaaban with a funeral befitting a hero. His body was greeted at...

(AP) MEXICO CITY – Mexican officials say they have struck a major blow against a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, arresting one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban,” and placing him on display in a Thursday morning press conference. Velazquez Caballero allegedly has been fighting a bloody internal battle with top Zetas’ leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, and officials have said the split was behind a recent surge in massacres and shootouts, particularly in northern Mexico. Masked marines displayed the burly, handcuffed suspect alongside two alleged accomplices and a table of guns and other contraband seized during his arrest. Velazquez Caballero is the third alleged cartel leader to be taken into custody this month. All are accused of leading factions of the Gulf Cartel or Zetas, former allies now feuding over valuable smuggling territory along the U.S. border. The alleged heads of the two main factions of the Gulf group, Mario Cardenas Guillen and Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, were also seized in Navy operations in northern Mexico. In the waning months of President Felipe Calderon’s presidency, the arrests add to the list of cartel figures taken out of action as part of his U.S.-backed strategy of removing the leadership of drug-smuggling organizations. Calderon and the Obama administration say the strategy is working, but many independent groups say it has helped fuel...