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ZAPATA COUNTY FAIR

STEERS, HEIFERS, HOGS

Graphic courtesy of Texas Tribune

This map shows average arsenic concentrations in community public water supplies from 2014-2015.

Photo by Victor Strife | The Zapata Times

From left, Gloria Rodriguez, Fernando Rodriguez, Janie Rodriguez and David Rodriguez pose with exhibitor Rene Martinez, right, after purchasing his Grand Champion Heavy Steer Saturday afternoon during the 2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Auction.

List of winners for livestock, showmanship THE ZAPATA TIMES

After more thank a week of festivities, the Zapata County Fair concluded this weekend.

Along with the ZCFA Parade, a tight jean contest, street dancing and concerts, the livestock competition took place throughout Friday and Saturday. Below are the winners for both livestock and showmanship.

2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Winners Steers Grand Champion – Rene Martinez Reserve Champion – Mario Landa 1st Place Light Steer –

Carlos Martinez 2nd Place Light Steer – Javier Flores 3rd Place Light Steer – Osiel Gonzalez 4th Place Light Steer – Xavy Rodriguez 5th Place Light Steer – Kaycee Rodriguez 6th Place Light Steer – Daniel Rodriguez 1st Place Medium Steer – Jolissa Paredes 2nd Place Medium Steer – Carlos Gutierrez 3rd Place Medium Steer – Carla Gutierrez 4th Place Medium Steer – Kiveli Munoz 5th Place Medium Steer – Osiel Gonzalez 6th Place Medium Steer – Helga Vela 3rd Place Heavy Steer – Anibal Salinas 4th Place Heavy Steer – Javier Flores 5th Place Heavy Steer –

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Christina Landa 6th Place Heavy Steer – Rene Martinez Heifers Grand Champion – Carla Gutierrez Reserve Champion – Osiel Gonzalez 3rd Place – Kristopher Hinkel Hogs Grand Champion – Carlos J. Garcia Reserve Champion – Derek Garcia 1st Place Light Hog – Tyler J. Garza 2nd Place Light Hog – Laura Villarreal 3rd Place Light Hog – Emily M. Martinez 4th Place Light Hog – Delfino Lozano 5th Place Light Hog – Rogelio Garza 6th Place Light Hog – Victoria Garcia 1st Place Medium Hog

– Carlos J. Garcia 2nd Place Medium Hog – Jose M. Ramirez 3rd Place Medium Hog – Ana Bravo 4th Place Medium Hog – Joey Gutierrez 5th Place Medium Hog – Derek Garcia 6th Place Medium Hog – Madison Lozano 1st Place Medium Heavy Hog – Jose M. Ramirez 2nd Place Medium Heavy Hog – Leesela Garza 3rd Place Medium Heavy Hog – Oscar Garza 4th Place Medium Heavy Hog – Rafael Garcia 5th Place Medium Heavy Hog – Amanda Gutierrez 6th Place Medium

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High arsenic levels in many Texans’ water Bruni cited as city with toxic amounts of cancer-causing chemical

By KIAH COLLIER TEXAS TRIBUNE

Tens of thousands of Texans live in places where the drinking water contains toxic levels of arsenic — a known carcinogen — and the state isn’t doing enough to discourage them from consuming it, according to a new report from an environmental group.

Analyzing state data posted online, the Washington D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project found that 34 rural drinking water systems serving about 51,000 Texans have exceeded the federal drinking water limit for arsenic for at least a decade — many by

a long shot. The report, titled “Don’t Drink The Water,” also found that Texas requires public water utilities to use less urgent language than some other states in the notices they send to customers when their drinking water exceeds the arsenic standard.

Since 2006, the federal Safe Drinking Water Act has required the nation’s public water systems to limit arsenic levels to 10 parts per billion — down from 50 parts per billion previously. Most of the public water systems cited in the Environmental Integrity Project report, published Monday, have

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2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Mexico Rubio loses Florida, drops out of race nabs cartel leader

By SERGIO BUSTOS ASSOCIATED PRESS

By MARIA VERZA AND EDUARDO CASTILLO ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — A suspected drug cartel boss linked to a string of deadly weekend gunbattles in a northern border city was arrested at a horse-race track in the capital, Mexican officials said Monday.

Federal police captured Cleofas Alberto Martinez Gutierrez on Sunday based on intelligence provided by the military, National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said.

Sales said the 31-year-old man was detained with weapons, drugs and false identification. He allegedly was in charge of the group involved in the shootouts earlier Sunday in which nine suspected criminals died as raids by security

See LEADER PAGE 11A

MIAMI — Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio dropped out of the race for president on Tuesday, ending his White House bid after a humbling loss in his home state to Donald Trump.

“It is not God’s plan that I be president in 2016 or maybe ever,” Rubio told a crowd of supporters in Miami.

While he didn’t name winner Trump, Rubio warned against embracing his brand of divisive politics: “I ask the American people, do not give into the fear, do not give into the frustration,” Rubio said.

Rubio’s decision was prompted by losses in all but three of the presidential nomination contests, but Florida’s winner-takeall primary proved the most devastating. Only six years earlier, he was a tea party favorite who crushed the GOP’s “establishment” candidate to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

But the political tables turned on the Florida senator as a 2016 presidential candidate who was lam-

Photo by Paul Sancya | AP

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a Republican primary night celebration rally at Florida International University in Miami, Fla., Tuesday. basted as mainstream in a year when voters cried out for an outsider.

In the final week, he dedicated time and resources almost exclusively to the Sunshine State, urging voters to stop Trump from “hijacking” the Republican Party. He went so far as to tell his supporters in Ohio to vote for Buckeye State governor John Kas-

ich since his chances were better to win there.

Despite his intense rivalry with Trump, Rubio only indirectly criticized him during much of the campaign. He pivoted to an allout assault on the businessman’s character and ethics after a dismal March 1 Super Tuesday performance when he clinched only one of the 11 contests.

In recent weeks, the attacks deviated from policy to personal. At one point, Rubio equated Trump’s small hands with his manhood. Trump began regularly referring to the senator as “little Marco.” But the strategy backfired with voters and donors and Rubio later said he regretted the attacks.

Like other Republicans,

Rubio had pledged to support the eventual GOP nominee. But, in recent days, he expressed having second thoughts. He told reporters Saturday that the chaos and divisiveness at Trump’s rallies, including the one in Chicago canceled last week, had made it harder for him to view the front-runner as a viable candidate.

Even before the establishment came out in droves to back the 44-year old senator, he seemed destined for the national spotlight.

Time magazine placed him on its cover in early 2013, dubbing him the “Republican Savior.”

In under a decade, he had gone from West Miami commissioner to state legislator to Florida House Speaker. In 2010, he challenged a sitting governor — christened by establishment Republicans — for a U.S. Senate seat and won after starting more than 50 percentage points behind in the polls, catapulted by a wave of Tea Party supporters.

The Senate wasn’t enough for the ambitious

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Zin brief CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016

AROUND TEXAS

TODAY IN HISTORY

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

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Thieves, Greasers, and Mongrels: The Great Emancipator Encounters the Immigrant. 7 p.m. TAMIU Student Center Ballroom, 5201 University Blvd. Free and open to the public. Please join us for our International Bank of Commerce Keynote Speaker Series presentation featuring Dr. Jason H. Silverman, the Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr. Professor of History at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC.

Today is Wednesday, March 16, the 76th day of 2016. There are 290 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 16, 1926, rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket at his Aunt Effie’s farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.

On this date: In 1751, James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Virginia.

In 1802, President Thomas Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter” was first published.

In 1945, during World War II, American forces declared they had secured Iwo Jima, although pockets of Japanese resistance remained.

In 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese civilians was carried out by U.S. Army troops; estimates of the death toll vary between 347 and 504.

In 1974, the Grand Ole Opry House opened in Nashville with a concert attended by President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat. In 1984, William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by Hezbollah militants (he was tortured by his captors and killed in 1985).

In 1991, a plane carrying seven members of country singer Reba McEntire’s band and her tour manager crashed into Otay Mountain in southern California, killing all on board. U.S. skaters Kristi Yamaguchi, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan swept the World Figure Skating Championships in Munich, Germany.

Ten years ago: Iraq’s new parliament met briefly for the first time; lawmakers took the oath but did no business and adjourned after just 40 minutes, unable to agree on a speaker, let alone a prime minister. The Senate narrowly passed a $2.8 trillion electionyear budget blueprint.

Five years ago: Pakistan abruptly freed CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis, who had shot and killed two men in a gunfight in Lahore, after a deal was reached to pay $2.34 million to the men’s families.

One year ago: Los Angeles prosecutors filed a first-degree murder charge against real estate heir Robert Durst in the killing of his friend, Susan Berman, who had acted as Durst’s spokeswoman after his wife, Kathleen, disappeared in 1982.

Today’s Birthdays: Comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 90. Movie director Bernardo Bertolucci is 75. Game show host Chuck Woolery is 75.

Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker is 74. Country singer Robin Williams is 69. Actor Erik Estrada is 67. World Golf Hall of Famer Hollis Stacy is 62. Rapper-actor Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) is 57. Actress Lauren Graham is 49. Actor Judah Friedlander is 47.

Rhythm and blues singer Jhene Aiko is 28.

Thought for Today: “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” — From “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (1804-1864).

THURSDAY, MARCH 17 South Texas Food Bank St. Patrick’s Day Bowling Tournament. 5:30 p.m. Jett Bowl. A family fun event.

Sponsorship is $175 per lane. For information call the South Texas Food Bank, 956-726-3120 or Salo Otero, 956-324-2432.

Preschool Read & Play. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Story time and crafts for preschoolers. For more information, contact Priscilla Garcia at priscilla@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Family Story Time & Crafts. 4-5 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. For more information, contact Priscilla Garcia at priscilla@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

“Jesus Christ Superstar.” 8 p.m.

Laredo Little Theatre, 4802 Thomas Ave.

FRIDAY, MARCH 18 A Fresh Start to a Healthier You. 4:30-5:30 p.m. The kitchen at McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Learn practical cooking and shopping tips and recipes for success. For more information, contact Angie Sifuentes, Webb County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, 956-523-5290, angelica.sifuentes@ag.tamu.edu.

“Jesus Christ Superstar.” 8 p.m.

Laredo Little Theatre, 4802 Thomas Ave.

SATURDAY, MARCH 19 Easter Egg Hunt. 3 p.m. Bruni Plaza Branch Library, 1120 San Bernardo Ave. Free. Easter egg coloring, crafts, face painting, Easter bunny pictures, Easter egg hunt, food.

El Centro de Laredo Farmers Market. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jarvis Plaza, 1353 Matamoros St. Free and open to the public. Fresh, local, seasonal produce available for purchase.

Live music by Nixon Boys & DJ The Pop Rocks. Baile folklorico with Gabriela Garcia-Mendoza.

Emmy Award-winning soprano Adrienne Danrich with Laredo Philharmonic. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Recital Hall, TAMIU. $15-$20. They will perform Heitor Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 and Henry Purcell’s Dido’s Lament.

“Jesus Christ Superstar.” 8 p.m.

Laredo Little Theatre, 4802 Thomas Ave.

SUNDAY, MARCH 20 “Jesus Christ Superstar.” 3 p.m.

Laredo Little Theatre, 4802 Thomas Ave.

MONDAY, MARCH 21 Chess Club. Every Monday from 4-6 p.m. LBV – Inner City Branch Library. Free for all ages and skill levels. Basic instruction is offered. For more information call John at 956795-2400 x2520.

Photo by Ben Torres/The Dallas Morning News | AP

In this March 14 photo, Ana Henriques places her hands on a portrait of her son Jose Cruz, 16, as she is consoled by friend Norma Velasquez during a candlelight vigil for her son, who was shot by an off-duty Farmers Branch police officer outside a Shell gas station in Addison, Texas.

Officer ‘feared for his life’ ASSOCIATED PRESS

ADDISON — The attorney for an off-duty suburban Dallas police officer who fatally shot a 16-year-old and wounded another juvenile said Tuesday that his client fired his gun because he feared for his life, but would not say whether either boy was armed.

Attorney Chris Livingston said Farmers Branch police officer Ken Johnson “fired his weapon because he felt in fear of his life and he felt that fear was justified.” But Livingston would not provide specifics about what prompted the shooting Sunday evening.

Officials say after Johnson saw a vehicle being burglarized in his Farmers Branch apartment complex parking lot, he chased suspects as they fled. After the suspects’ vehicle spun out about a half-mile away in Addison, an altercation led to the shooting.

San Antonio priest, Notre Interstate 10 closes near Court lets Texas join suit Dame theologian kills self Beaumont due to flooding alleging federal overreach SAN ANTONIO — A Roman Catholic priest and Notre Dame theologian has killed himself at his Texas home months after being accused of sexually abusing an orphan in the 1980s.

San Antonio police responding to a report of a shooting Monday found the Rev. Virgilio Elizondo.

He was 80.

The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head.

BEAUMONT — Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas has shut down due to flooding of the nearby Sabine River following last week’s heavy rains.

The Texas Department of Transportation on Tuesday announced the closure of I-10 near Beaumont. Gov. Greg Abbott declared 17 counties disaster areas due to the impact of high water from last week’s storms.

AUSTIN — A court has allowed Texas to join a group of families suing the federal government, alleging unconstitutional seizure of land along the Texas-Oklahoma border.

State Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted the state’s intervention in a lawsuit filed in November.

Man charged with murder, body found under car

Former police cadet sentenced in shooting

Search continues for girl after father found slain

AMARILLO — A man is charged with murder for allegedly running over a woman with his car during an argument in Amarillo.

Amarillo police say they found the body of 27-year-old Kristen King under a car Monday afternoon after a caller alerted authorities that a person was trying to run someone over with a vehicle.

GALVESTON — A jury has sentenced a former Galveston Police Department cadet to 27 years in prison for fatally shooting her boyfriend.

Twenty-four-year-old Claudia Kristine Esquivel was convicted Monday of shooting and killing 27-year-old Christopher Chapa in June 2014. Esquivel graduated from police academy just weeks before the shooting.

HOUSTON — Investigators are searching for a 14-year-old Houston-area girl amid concerns she was with her father when he was slain and his burned body dumped near a ditch.

The FBI has joined the investigation into the disappearance of Adriana Coronado of Katy. The girl was last seen Saturday in Katy.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

TUESDAY, MARCH 22 Knitting Circle. 1-3 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Please bring yarn and knitting needles. For more information, contact Analiza PerezGomez at analiza@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Crochet for Kids. 4-5 p.m.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Please bring yarn and a crochet needle. For more information, contact Analiza Perez-Gomez at analiza@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Rock wall climbing. 4-5 p.m.

LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Free. Take the challenge and climb the rock wall! Fun exercise for all ages. Must sign release form.

For more information, contact John Hong at 795-2400 x2521.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 Spanish Book Club. 6-8 p.m.

Laredo Public Library – Calton. For more information, call Sylvia Reash at 763-1810.

Jose Raul Cruz was killed and the other juvenile, who was also shot, was hospitalized.

The Farmers Branch and Addison police chiefs said at a news conference Tuesday that many details won’t be revealed until their investigations are complete, including whether either juvenile had a weapon. Addison police are investigating the shooting, while Farmers Branch police are investigating the initial encounter as well as personnel issues. The police chiefs met earlier in the day with the family of the teen who was killed.

“We will not rush this investigation,” Farmers Branch police Chief Sid Fuller said, adding, “We’re not being secretive, we’re being thorough.”

Addison police Chief Paul Spencer said officials believe there are witnesses who haven’t come forward.

Florida woman fights to keep pet alligator at home LAKELAND, Fla. — A Florida woman is fighting to keep her 6foot-long pet alligator in her home.

The 125-pound reptile named Rambo wears clothes, rides on the back of a motorcycle and has a bedroom in Mary Thorn’s home in Lakeland.

Thorn has had a license for the alligator for 11 years, but it recently grew to 6 feet. Wildlife officials say that size alligator must have 2.5 acres of land.

Thorn tells the Orlando Sentinel that even if she had land available, Rambo can’t be left outdoors because of sensitivity to sunlight.

Fans use Lovecraft’s fame to promote Providence PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Fans of H.P. Lovecraft’s writings are trying to use the growing fame of the early 20th century fantasy-

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Lovecraft so identified with Rhode Island’s capital city that he wrote “I am Providence” in a letter. His headstone bears the phrase. Some of Lovecraft’s bestknown works are set in Provi-

dence.

Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of his death. A light rain fell as about 20 people gathered where Lovecraft’s childhood house once stood for the unveiling of a marker.

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Zapata County Fair

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016

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Flurry of festivities at the fairgrounds

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A pair of lambs rest in their stall as they wait to be exhibited Saturday afternoon during the 2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Auction at the fairgrounds.

Chickens rest in their cage as they wait to be exhibited Saturday afternoon during the 2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Auction at the fairgrounds.

Photo by Victor Strife | The Zapata Times

Rene Martinez exhibits his Grand Champion Heavy Steer Saturday afternoon during the 2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Auction at the fairgrounds.

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Photo by Victor Strife | The Zapata Times

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Laura Villarreal exhibits her lightweight hog Saturday afternoon during the 2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Auction at the fairgrounds.

Javier Flores unties a steer from a stall as he prepares to exhibit it Saturday afternoon during the 2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Auction at the fairgrounds.

A pair of steer rest in their stall as they wait to be exhibited Saturday afternoon during the 2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Auction at the fairgrounds.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016

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OTHER VIEWS

Tearing down memories Every time I read my print edition replica of the Houston Chronicle online, I read where they’ve torn down something else from the great memories of my past. (The headline reference to Old Coot, is a club I organized a few years back. Anyone either past retirement age and/or disenchanted with what young whippersnappers are doing to our world can be a member.)

Latest in the Sad Headline Category is the announcement that they knocked down the old Houston Club building.

No, I didn’t belong to the club or any other such bastion of exclusivity but my first job upon graduation from college with that wonderful JOURNALISM DEGREE was as associate editor of a magazine for an association headquartered in that building.

Texas Industry was the magazine and the association was the then-Texas Manufacturers Association, an organization devoted primarily to the boosting of the manufacturing segment of Lone Star state business. It is today the Texas Association of Business and is located in Austin closer to the halls of state government.

TMA’s iron-fisted ruler in those days was Ed Burris, executive vice president of TMA, and who scared me because I listened to my boss, Opal Hill Munz (use all three names, please), Texas Industry’s very literate, stylish, dignified editor, but who could also swear with any guttermouthed sailor. Burris could be scary but no more so than Opal Hill Munz.

TMA and Texas Industry were both in the Houston Club Building (although thankfully on separate floors) which was good for the image but another important reason (perhaps equally so) was that our Houston regional director (meaning membership sales), Col. Bill Saffarans (U.S. Army, Ret.) could sit at a pinochle table in the club all day — playing and winning — and sell enough memberships to fund the association entirely. TMA had the state divided into six regions. That was the more lucrative times for the oil industry, primarily headquartered in Houston and the major reason for being there instead of Austin.

Opal Hill Munz and I

shared an office suite with Col. Bill and his secretary.

Col. Bill was rarely in but he showered us regularly with some of the niceties of the club. He’d have the club send up a cart of coffee, rolls and pastries.

And, once in a blue moon, he’d have them wheel in with lunch. Of course, Opal Hill Munz (all three names, remember) didn’t believe in lunch breaks or in leaving until well after 5 p.m. (our day started at 8 a.m.). All of that for 300 bucks a month. And, I had to wear a suit, tie, hat and carry an umbrella and brief case, per Opal Hill Munz’s orders.

We must be professional and dignified.

I’d been led to believe in some quarters in college journalism, that magazines were the ultimate. Of course, two years at the magazine, squirming under Opal Hill Munz’s glaring, drill-bit eyes, made me realize that country editing was what I was meant to be doing no matter what some higher education professors sang hallelujah about.

But, back to the Houston Club Building. There was no parking in the building available to lowly associate editors (not that I could afford it on $300 per month), so I parked a few blocks away in a cheap parking lot (no street parking and no free places). At least my new 1960 Morris Minor was economical gaswise.

While Houston’s traffic in those days wouldn’t approach today’s rush hour (s) jams, it was nervewracking enough to this country boy. Thankfully, there were several good burger and sandwich places near the Houston Club Building because I couldn’t afford lunch there much less the club membership.

I’ve been disdainful of exclusivity ever since even though the days in that building did produce some good memories and great experience. And, one great outcome was that it sent me directly into the country editing business.

Willis Webb is a retired country newspaper editor of more than 50 years experience. He can be reached by email at wwebb1937@att.net.

EDITORIAL

Make education more affordable HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is on to something when he complains about recent tuition increases at the University of Texas at Austin and other public universities. He and state Sen. Kel Seliger, the Amarillo Republican who chairs the Senate Higher Education Committee, sent a letter to public university presidents and chancellors last week decrying the increased financial burden students and their families will have to bear. Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbott has convened a tri-agency task force charged with studying how to make college more affordable and how to help students enter the workforce more quickly

with marketable skills.

We applaud both efforts, and we look both to state government and to public higher education for solutions. One place to start is to return tuition rate-setting to the Legislature.

Lawmakers relinquished control in 2003.

Since then, tuition at Texas colleges and universities has more than doubled and fees have continued to spiral upward, in part because those same lawmakers who handed over rate-setting powers also have consistently cut state funding. That way, they can complain about rising costs and the increasing burden of student debt without taking responsibility for resolving the problems.

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A new shame-based moral system is coming into place In 1987, Allan Bloom wrote a book called “The Closing of the American Mind.” The core argument was that American campuses were awash in moral relativism. Subjective personal values had replaced universal moral principles.

Nothing was either right or wrong. Amid a wave of rampant nonjudgmentalism, life was flatter and emptier.

Bloom’s thesis was accurate at the time, but it’s not accurate anymore. College campuses are today awash in moral judgment.

Many people carefully guard their words, afraid they might transgress one of the norms that have come into existence. Those accused of incorrect thought face ruinous consequences. When a moral crusade spreads across campus, many students feel compelled to post in support of it on Facebook within minutes. If they do not post, they will be noticed and condemned.

Some sort of moral system is coming into place.

Some new criteria now exist, which people use to define correct and incorrect action. The big question is: What is the nature of this new moral system?

Last year, Andy Crouch published an essay in Christianity Today that takes us toward an answer.

Crouch starts with the distinction the anthropologist Ruth Benedict popularized, between a guilt culture and a shame culture. In a guilt culture you

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know you are good or bad by what your conscience feels. In a shame culture you know you are good or bad by what your community says about you, by whether it honors or excludes you. In a guilt culture people sometimes feel they do bad things; in a shame culture social exclusion makes people feel they are bad.

Crouch argues that the omnipresence of social media has created a new sort of shame culture. The world of Facebook, Instagram and the rest is a world of constant display and observation. The desire to be embraced and praised by the community is intense. People dread being exiled and condemned.

Moral life is not built on the continuum of right and wrong; it’s built on the continuum of inclusion and exclusion.

This creates a set of common behavior patterns. First, members of a group lavish one another with praise so that they themselves might be accepted and praised in turn.

Second, there are nonetheless enforcers within the group who build their personal power and reputation by policing the group and condemning those who break the group

code. Social media can be vicious to those who don’t fit in. Twitter can erupt in instant ridicule for anyone who stumbles.

Third, people are extremely anxious that their group might be condemned or denigrated.

They demand instant respect and recognition for their group. They feel some moral wrong has been perpetrated when their group has been disrespected, and react with the most violent intensity.

Crouch describes how video gamers viciously went after journalists, mostly women, who had criticized the misogyny of their games. Campus controversies get so hot so fast because even a minor slight to a group is perceived as a basic identity threat.

The ultimate sin, Crouch argues, is to criticize a group, especially on moral grounds. Talk of good and bad has to defer to talk about respect and recognition.

Crouch writes, “Talk of right and wrong is troubling when it is accompanied by seeming indifference to the experience of shame that accompanies judgments of ‘immorality.’”

He notes that this shame culture is different from the traditional shame cultures, the ones in Asia, for example. In traditional shame cultures the opposite of shame was honor or “face” — being known as a dignified and upstanding citizen. In the new shame

culture, the opposite of shame is celebrity — to be attention-grabbing and aggressively unique on some media platform.

On the positive side, this new shame culture might rebind the social and communal fabric. It might reverse, a bit, the individualistic, atomizing thrust of the past 50 years.

On the other hand, everybody is perpetually insecure in a moral system based on inclusion and exclusion. There are no permanent standards, just the shifting judgment of the crowd. It is a culture of oversensitivity, overreaction and frequent moral panics, during which everybody feels compelled to go along.

If we’re going to avoid a constant state of anxiety, people’s identities have to be based on standards of justice and virtue that are deeper and more permanent than the shifting fancy of the crowd. In an era of omnipresent social media, it’s probably doubly important to discover and name your own personal True North, vision of an ultimate good, which is worth defending even at the cost of unpopularity and exclusion.

The guilt culture could be harsh, but at least you could hate the sin and still love the sinner. The modern shame culture allegedly values inclusion and tolerance, but it can be strangely unmerciful to those who disagree and to those who don’t fit in.

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Third straight Iditarod win

By MARK THIESSEN ASSOCIATED PRESS

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden attend a reception in the White House, Tuesday.

Obama dismayed by vulgarity

By KEVIN FREKING ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was dismayed by “vulgar and divisive rhetoric” directed at women and minorities as well as the violence that has occurred in the 2016 presidential campaign, a swipe at Republican front-runner Donald Trump that also served as a challenge to other political leaders to speak out and set a better example.

“The longer that we allow the political rhetoric of late to continue and the longer that we tacitly accept it, we create a permission structure that allows the animosity in one corner of our politics to infect our broader society,” Obama said. “And animosity breeds animosity.”

Without mentioning the GOP candidate by name, Obama used a unity luncheon at the Capitol to express his concern with the nation’s political discourse and the protests that have escalated to attacks at the Trump rallies. The candidate has spoken of barring Muslims from entering the country and deporting immigrants living here illegally.

Obama pleaded for civility and said political leaders can either condone “this race to the bottom” or reject it.

“We have heard vulgar and divisive rhetoric aimed at women and minorities, and Americans that don’t look like us or pray like us or vote like we do,” Obama said at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon.

Obama also emphasized that efforts to shut down free speech were “misguided.” Protesters forced Trump to cancel a rally in Chicago on Friday. He said he rejects “any effort to spread fear or encourage violence or shut people down while they are trying to speak.”

“We live in a country where free speech is one of the most important rights that we hold. In response to those events we’ve seen actual violence, and we’ve heard silence from too many of our leaders,” Obama said.

Trump’s political rivals and others blame him for sowing division, rather than unity, across the country. Trump says he’s done no such thing and calls himself a “uniter.”

Obama said that while some may bear more of

the blame for the ugly political climate, everyone bears responsibility for reversing it.

“It is a cycle that is not an accurate reflection of America. It has to stop,” Obama said. “And I say that not as a matter of political correctness, it’s about the way that corrosive behavior can undermine our democracy and our society and even our economy.”

The president reminded the audience of Republicans and Democrats, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., that the world is watching the U.S. candidates and what they say.

“In America there aren’t laws that say we have to be nice to each other. ... But there are norms, there are customs, there are values that our parents taught us and that we try to teach to our children,” the president said.

He said people should not be afraid to take their children to a debate or a rally.

Obama received a standing ovation at the conclusion of his remarks.

Ryan also spoke at the event, as did Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.

Ryan said earlier Tuesday that all candidates have an obligation to do what they can to provide an atmosphere of harmony at campaign events and not incite violence.

Obama said he appreciated Ryan’s comments.

And he said that even though the two men disagree on politics, he would not insult the House speaker “as a man.”

“The point is we can have political debates without turning on one another,” Obama said.

“We can disagree without assuming it is motivated by malice.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he spoke to Trump on Tuesday and asked him to condemn violence no matter who is responsible. It was the first time the two men have spoken since December.

“I appreciate his call, and I took the opportunity to recommend to him that no matter who may be triggering these violent expressions or conflicts that we have been seeing at some of these rallies, it might be a good idea to condemn that and discourage it no matter what the source of it is,” McConnell said.

NOME, Alaska — Dallas Seavey did more with less this year at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

He set a record pace early Tuesday morning when he won his third straight Iditarod and fourth race in the last five years.

And he did it with just six dogs, after starting the race nearly 1,000 miles across Alaska with 16.

No other musher this year has fewer dogs.

And the record Seavey beat? It was the one he set in 2014, when he brought only seven dogs into Nome.

“The key is always to run the dogs you have, on the trail you have, the best way you can moving forward,” Seavey said.

This year a virus hit two of his dogs hard, and he said it was apparent on the first day of the race he’d have to drop them. One, a dog named Hero who led him to Nome last year, hurt the most, he said.

Worry set in when he lost two more dogs.

“Then you try to formulate a plan using those elements that might be able to get you to Nome quickly,” he said. “It was a concern, but not a showstopper.”

Seavey completed the nearly 1,000-mile race in a record time of 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, 16 seconds. He arrived in Nome at 2:20 a.m.

He said at the finish that he spent the first two-thirds of the race “dead on my feet” and had never been so tired.

“This was a heck of a trip, all the way from the start. It was up and down,”

Photo by Mark Thiessen | AP

Dallas Seavey poses with his lead dogs Reef, left, and Tide after finishing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Tuesday, in Nome, Alaska. Seavey won his third straight Iditarod. said Seavey, who picked up $75,000 and a new pickup for winning the race.

The Iditarod started March 6 in Willow, about 50 miles north of Anchorage, and took mushers across two mountain ranges, down the mighty Yukon River and along the wind-scoured Bering Sea coast.

Eighty-five mushers began the race, but 12 have so far scratched, including four-time champion Lance Mackey. He dropped out Monday, citing personal health concerns.

Seavey’s record time beat his previous record set in 2014 of 8 days, 13 hours, 4 minutes, 19 seconds. His only loss during the past five years was to his father, Mitch Seavey, who won in 2013.

Mitch Seavey took second place in this year’s race, coming in just after his son early Tuesday morning.

The Seaveys are close, but also competitive.

“Win or lose the race or not doesn’t change the fundamentals of our relationship — that as family and friends,” Mitch Seavey said, reiterating how proud he is of his son’s accomplishments.

“It’s an interesting dynamic to be the biggest competitors and best friends at the same time,” he said.

Dallas Seavey said his record breaking run had to have three elements, a phenomenal dog team, a very good trail and the final element was a nod to his father.

“It requires stiff competition. Without that competition, you’re not going to push the team that will allow them to break the record,” he said. If his father wasn’t within minutes of his team, he said he

wouldn’t have urged them along as hard as he did.

The 2016 Iditarod will partly be remembered for an attack on two mushers on the trail near the checkpoint in Nulato. Arnold Demoski is accused of intentionally driving a snowmobile into musher Aliy Zirkle’s team and then the team of four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King. One of King’s dogs was killed, and at least two other dogs were injured.

Zirkle finished in third place Tuesday morning, and King was running in 10th place.

Demoski has said he was returning home from a night of drinking when he struck the teams. He was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Demoski’s attorney, Bill Satterberg, declined comment to The Associated Press on Monday.

Train derailment cause unknown

By ROXANA HEGEMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

WICHITA, Kan. — A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people, and investigator said Tuesday.

National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener did not say if the feed truck was the cause of the Amtrak Southwest Chief ’s accident the day earlier.

But he said the impact of the truck from the Cimarron Crossing Feeders shifted the train tracks 12 to 14 inches. The train was traveling 60 mph when the engineer applied emergency brake, stopping 18 seconds later.

Amtrak’s Southwest Chief was carrying more than 140 people when it derailed early Monday, moments after an engineer noticed a significant bend in a rail and applied the emergency brakes, authorities said. At least 32 people were hurt, two of them critically.

Investigators reviewed data from cameras and recorders on the train as well as the condition of the rails and crew performance.

Weener had said on Monday that the engineer was vigilant and noticed the variation on the track,

Photo by Daniel Szczerba | AP

Passengers gather after a train derailed near Dodge City, Kan., Monday. An Amtrak statement says the train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago early Monday when it derailed just after midnight. causing him to brake. The track had been inspected last week, he said.

The train, which had about 130 passengers and 14 crew members, was making a 43-hour journey from Los Angeles to Chicago when it derailed shortly after midnight along a straight stretch of tracks in flat farmland near Cimarron, a small community about 160 miles west of Wichita.

Eight cars derailed, and four of them ended up on their sides.

Four of them remained hospitalized Monday night, including two people who were airlifted to Amarillo, Texas. The rest

had been released.

The tracks run along Highway 50, which has no barrier that would prevent a vehicle from leaving the roadway and driving near or onto the tracks. The road and tracks are separated by a shallow depression.

Daniel Aiken, of Lenexa, Kansas, said he heard screaming as he climbed out of an overturned car. He stopped to smell a fluid that was flowing through the car, fearful that it was fuel, but was reassured when he realized it was water.

“Once people realized the train wasn’t going to blow up, they calmed

down,” he said.

Visibility at the accident site was relatively clear at the time of the derailment.

The future of the Southwest Chief service — the only Amtrak route through Kansas, with stops at six cities — had been uncertain in recent years. Amtrak had warned it might stop or reroute the line because of disputes over who would pay to install safety technology, but officials reached a deal last year.

Tens of millions of dollars were invested in improving parts of the rail line in Colorado and Kansas.

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‘Indiana Jones’ to return with Ford

By JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — “Indiana Jones” is swinging back into theaters with Harrison Ford reprising the iconic role and Steven Spielberg directing.

The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that the fifth film in the action adventure series will open July 19, 2019. The last “Indiana Jones” movie was 2008’s poorly received “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which co-starred Shia LaBeouf as Indiana’s son. It followed a nearly 20-year gap in the franchise after 1989’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”

Another “Indiana Jones” film has long been rumored, occasionally with whispers of different actors taking over the role from the 73-year-old Ford. But

Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision | AP file

In this Jan. 10 file photo, Harrison Ford arrives at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Spielberg has repeatedly insisted Ford would never be replaced. The actor’s return as his famous fedora-wearing archaeologist comes shortly after reprising his equally iconic Han Solo in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

“Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history, and we can’t wait to bring him back to

the screen in 2019,” said Alan Horn, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios. “It’s rare to have such a perfect combination of director, producers, actor and role, and we couldn’t be more excited to embark on this adventure with Harrison and Steven.”

The film, not yet titled, will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

Kelly gets Fox special ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly is graduating to the Fox broadcast network — at least for one night.

Fox announced Tuesday that Kelly will host a prime-time special in May, featuring celebrity interviews from politics and entertainment. One of Fox News’ biggest stars has in-

creased her profile in recent months with her noholds-barred debate moderating perKELLY formances.

The network said it has hired television executive Bill Geddie, formerly Barbara Walters’ right-hand man at “The View,” to produce

the special.

It’s not hard to imagine Kelly getting more such opportunities if the May 23 special goes well. With Walters’ retirement, no one has inherited her mantle as a go-to person for celebrity television interviews.

For one night at least, the special will put Kelly in direct competition with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.

Jagger talks ‘Chapo’ ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — The Rolling Stones made a triumphant return to Mexico a decade after they last performed in the country, delighting a crowd of about 60,000 fans who packed a sports stadium in the capital.

Mick Jagger celebrated Monday night’s concert by poking fun at actor Sean Penn, whose secret interview with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman while the convicted drug lord was a fugitive from justice has provoked controversy in Mexico.

“Sean Penn came to interview me at the hotel, but I escaped,” the British band’s frontman said to cheers and roars of laughter.

Penn’s article was published by Rolling Stone magazine in January a day after Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was recaptured by Mexican authorities following his second brazen prison escape months earlier.

Speaking in a heavily accented but charming Spanish, Jagger said the Stones were “having a great time in Mexico” and expressed fondness for the city’s iconic Zocalo, or main square, for “lucha libre” wrestling and for the ancient pyramid ruins of Teotihuacan outside the capital.

“It has been 10 years since we last came to Mexico,” Jagger said. “It’s cool to be back.”

He also joked that the band enjoyed drinking tequila but now they prefer mezcal, another agave-based spirit which is known for its smoky flavor.

Performing beneath three huge video screens at the Foro Sol arena, the band kicked off the show with the classic “Start Me Up.” “Hola Mexico!

Hola guey!” Jagger exclaimed, employing a uniquely Mexican slang word that roughly translates as “dude,” before launching into “Tumbling Dice.”

Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts powered through other hits including “It’s Only Rock ’n Roll (But I Like It),” “Out of Control,” “Wild Horses” and “Paint It Black,” before sending the crowd home with a rousing rendition of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”

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Ron Wood, left, and Mick Jagger, perform during The Rolling Stones’ Ole Tour at Foro Sol in Mexico City, Monday. wildly popular in Mexico, and many local fans refer to the band as “Their Satanic Majesties” in a nod to the title of their 1967 album.

The Stones will play a second show Thursday in Mexico, the penultimate stop on their “Ole” tour of Latin America.

Then they’re off to Havana for a historic free concert on March 25, three days after U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his own landmark visit to communi-

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Like on other stops on the tour, it fell to a starstruck local band to warm up the crowd in Mexico City.

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Ribereña en Breve BOLSAS DIÁLISIS La Presidenta Municipal del DIF en Miguel Alemán, México, Andrea Aguirre de Cortez, informa que tienen a disposición de la comunidad Bolsas para Diálisis. Personas interesadas deben acudir a las oficinas del DIF en Puerto de Chetumal #130 en la Col. San Germán de Miguel Alemán.

DONACIÓN Las distintas escuelas que trabajan en el marco del Centro de Asistencia Infantil Comunitario de Miguel Alemán, México, recibieron la donación de 194 juegos de platos, vasos y cubiertos. Las escuelas beneficiadas, y que forman parte del programa “Primero Desayunos” son CAIC Solidaridad, CAIC Los Guerra, CAIC Mirador, CAIC Arcabuz, Esc. Prim. “Mártires de la Revolución” del Poblado Los Ángeles, Esc. Prim.

“Guillermo Prieto” del Poblado Guardados de Arriba y por ultimo la Esc. Prim.

“Profr. Severiano M. Garza” de Arcabuz.

INAUGURACIÓN Se llevó a cabo el primer juego de exhibición en el recién modelado “Parque México” en Miguel Alemán, México, el domingo. El encuentro fue entre el club de béisbol Sultanes de Monterrey y la selección de Miguel Alemán. En el partido los Sultanes se impusieron 11 carreras a cero. El Parque México fue remodelado con inversión de 5 millones de pesos, en su primera etapa.

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CIUDAD DE MÉXICO — Fuerzas federales detuvieron a Cleofás Alberto Martínez Gutiérrez, un presunto líder criminal vinculado a los enfrentamientos que tuvieron lugar el domingo en la fronteriza ciudad de Reynosa, en el noreste del país, y en los que murieron nueve supuestos delincuentes.

El comisionado nacional de Seguridad, Renato Sales, informó el lunes del arresto que, según dijo, tuvo lugar el domingo en la Ciudad de México a manos de la policía federal y gracias a información de inteligencia proporcionada por el ejército.

Sales dijo que Martínez Gutiérrez, de 31 años, al que se detuvo con dos identificaciones apócrifas, dos armas cortas y 600 gramos de cocaína y heroína, estaba “al mando” del grupo implicado en los eventos del domingo pero no hizo más aclaraciones al respecto.

Añadió que el detenido coordinaba a un grupo de homicidas, secuestradores y vendedores de droga en Reynosa.

Un funcionario estatal que pidió el anonimato por no estar autorizado a divulgar datos de la operación, informó a la AP que el dete-

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Omar García, comisionado de Inteligencia de la Policía MARTÍNEZ Federal, explicó a Radio Fórmula que tanto la policía federal como el ejército llevaban cuatro meses siguiendo a Martínez Gutiérrez, al que apodaban “el comandante Cleofás” o “el güero Cleofás”.

Detalló que Martínez Gutiérrez estaba en la capital “en días de descanso” y fue detenido en el hipódromo de la ciudad a donde acudió a ver unas carreras de caballos. No opuso resistencia a su arresto, “en realidad se sorprendió de que fuera detenido en Ciudad de México”, añadió el funcionario.

Los incidentes del domingo en Tamaulipas fueron parte de un operativo federal que tenía como objetivo detener al supuesto jefe de Martínez Gutiérrez, identificado como Juan Manuel Loza, alias “El Comandante Toro”, indicó otro funcionario que también solicitó el anonimato por no poder hacer declaraciones públicas sobre el tema.

El operativo conllevó la muerte de nueve presuntos delincuentes en dos enfrentamientos distintos.

Además, miembros del mismo grupo criminal despojaron a particulares de camiones y coches para organizar bloqueos carreteros que TORRE acabaron con algunos vehículos incendiados, indicó Renato Sales.

El comisionado señaló también que el grupo de coordinación de Tamaulipas, en el que participan fuerzas de seguridad de todos los niveles del gobierno, acordó reforzar los patrullajes terrestres y aéreos en Reynosa.

En abril de 2015, Reynosa vivió una situación similar de bloqueos y enfrentamientos cuando las autoridades lanzaron otra operación contra otro cabecilla del cartel del Golfo.

Tamaulipas es un estado que ha padecido diversas olas de violencia desde hace varios años, sobre todo a partir de 2010, cuando comenzó un enfrentamiento entre el cártel del Golfo y sus antiguos aliados de Los Zetas, Sin embargo, el gobernador del estado, Egidio Torre Cantú, reiteró su compromiso para enfrentar en toda su capacidad a los grupos del crimen organizado que operan en la entidad y reconoció los esfuer-

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CONCURSO DE DIBUJO El Sistema DIF de Miguel Alemán, México, invita al Quinto concurso de dibujo sobre trabajo infantil. Habrá dos categorías (Categoría A para niños y niñas de 6 a 12 años de edad; y, Categoría B, para niños y niñas de 13 a 17 años de edad). El dibujo se debe realizar en media cartulina blanca (35cm x 50cm), utilizar colores de madera, plumones, óleo, acuarela o colores de cera, y anexar en un sobre una descripción con una propuesta para eliminar las peores formas de trabajo infantil. La propuesta debe ser de dos a cuatro párrafos en letra de molde legible. Incluir al reverso del dibujo su título, nombre completo del participante (como indica el acta de nacimiento), edad, grado escolar, nombre de la escuela, teléfono, domicilio particular, y municipio. La fecha límite para entregar el trabajo es el 13 de mayo en las oficinas del DIF-Miguel Alemán, calle Puerto de Chetumal # 130 en la Colonia Jardines de San Germán. Más información llamando al 972-0155.

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SUPERIOR: Un grupo de estudiantes de Zapata High School visitaron las instalaciones de University of Texas en Austin, como una de las alternativas para estudiar su educacion superior. INFERIOR: Alumnos de Zapata Elementary School realizaron una visita al University of Texas en Austin. Ellos pudieron recorrer el dormitorio Kinsolving, participar en actividades de ingenieria y al aire libre.

BÚSQUEDA DE HUEVOS DE PASCUA La Comisión de Parques y Entretenimiento de Roma, Texas. Invita a la 4ª Búsqueda de Huevos de Pascua el sábado 19 de marzo a partir de las 10 a.m. en el Parque Municipal Roma. Habrá comida, premios, juegos y fotografías con el Conejo de Pascua.

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Radica Ocampo en Tamaulipas Nota del Editor: Melchor Ocampo fue un personaje de renombre en Tamaulipas y sus días los aprovecha de peculiar manera.

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B&G CLUB DE ZAPATA PIDE APOYO El Boys and Girls Club de Zapata tiene proyectado una búsqueda de cascarones de pascua para sus integrantes el viernes 25 de marzo. Por esta razón están solicitnado el apoyo de los padres de familia y comunidad en general para que donen cascarones de pascua o snacks. Informes en el 956-765-3892.

zos de las autoridades federales y estatales en el combate a la violencia, durante una reunión del Grupo de Coordinación Tamaulipas.

En un recuento de agresiones recibidas por las autoridades a manos de grupos delictivos, en lo que va del año, se han registrado 20 agresiones contra miembros de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, Secretaría de Marina, Policía Federal y Fuerza Tamaulipas, con un saldo de 38 delincuentes abatidos pertenecientes a distintos grupos del crimen organizado.

En enero se registraron agresiones a las autoridades en los municipios de Matamoros, Reynosa, Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, Nuevo Laredo, San Fernando y Llera con un saldo de 17 delincuentes abatidos.

Durante febrero, cinco agresiones fueron registradas en los municipios de Valle Hermoso, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo y González, donde ocho atacantes fueron abatidos.

Hasta el 13 de marzo, se registraron seis agresiones en Nuevo Laredo, Miguel Alemán y Reynosa, con un saldo de 13 delincuentes abatidos, incluyendo los nueve individuos que fallecieron en un enfrentamiento el domingo en Reynosa, tras el operativo especial de las fuerzas federales y estatales.

ESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Melchor Ocampo imprime su sello a la generación de la Reforma. Intelectual de vanguardia, un día recorre el río Pánuco, inciando así su estancia en Tamaulipas.

Los partidarios de la carta magna de 1857 acumulaban descalabros. Ello produce desavenencias al interior del gobierno legítimo, bajo la presidencia de Benito Juárez. Ante presiones del grupo de Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, al declinar en enero de 1860 Ocampo abandona el gabinete. Lo releva Santos Degollado, que corre meses después con igual suerte.

El conteo regresivo de la Guerra de Reforma comienza a ser favorable para la causa progresista, que cierra en 1861 con un triunfo sobre los conservadores.

El temple de Ocampo resiste mejor los vaivenes políticos que Degollado. Considerándolo un “entrañable amigo”, “Ocampo teme que (Santos por) tan noble corazón se pierda en el golfo de las ingratitudes”, puntualiza José C. Valadés. En consecuencia, agrega, “resuelve… Melchor ir con el propio Degollado a Tampico, donde… Santos reorganizará el ejército constitucional… para desafiar de nuevo a… (Miguel) Miramón”.

“Un mes permanece don Melchor en Tampico. Ve ponerse a… Santos en camino hacia los campos de batalla”, esclarece Valadés.

Gastón García Cantú escribió que

ciertas dudas “sobre la naturaleza de los errores humanos llevaron a Ocampo a traducir” del francés “parte de fragmentos de ‘Filosofía de la miseria’, de (Pierre Joseph) Proudhon”.

“Lamentablemente”, prosigue, “no conoceremos nunca las reflexiones marginales de Ocampo al libro de marras; ellas pudieron revelarnos lo que una conciencia como la suya tuvo de la lucha de su tiempo”, aunque “puede afirmarse que las ideas de Proudhon no se advierten en la obra de Ocampo”.

Gente del reaccionario Leonardo Márquez, en Michoacán, da muerte a Ocampo en 1867. Santos pretende capturar a los malhechores; pero muere también. En 1868, Tamaulipas da el nombre de Ocampo al municipio antaño llamado Santa Bárbara.

(Con permiso del autor, publicado en La Razón, el 26 febrero)

La semana pasada se registraron varios incidentes violentos en las ciudades de Nuevo Laredo y Miguel Alemán, México, confirmaron autoridades a través de comunicados de prensa.

En ambas ciudades elementos de la Secretaría de Marina y de la Defensa Nacional fueron agredidos por civiles armados. El saldo total fue de cuatro presuntos delincuentes muertos.

Alrededor de las 5 p.m. del 10 de marzo, personal de Marina recorría la brecha Los Aldamas, rumbo al poblado El Nogalito en Miguel Alemán, cuando fueron agredidos por unos hombres que viajaban a bordo de una Jeep Cherokee color negro.

Cuando los oficiales respondieron el ataque dieron muerte a un joven de unos 20 años de edad, el cual tenía en su poder un arma larga con cargador abastecido, indica el reporte del Gobierno de Tamaulipas.

Otros sospechosos lograron escapar, pero autoridades decomisaron armas y granadas.

Ese mismo día en Nuevo Laredo, alrededor de las 7 p.m., en el Fraccionamiento Villas de San Miguel, elementos del ejército fueron atacados por civiles que iban en una Ford Escape, en el crucero de San Armando y San Fabián.

Los militares repelieron la agresión y dieron muerte a un joven de unos 25 años, el cual no ha sido identificado. Otros se dieron a la fuga.

El 11 de marzo, oficiales fueran agredidos en estos mismos municipios donde dieron muerte a dos atacantes, siendo en Nuevo Laredo donde se registró el primero de los incidentes, en las inmediaciones de un centro comercial en la colonia La Fe, donde un convoy militar fue atacado por individuos. Ahí los militares dieron muerte a una persona identificada como Rubén Rafael Medina Núñez, de 23 años.

Más noche, en el poblado Ángeles, de Miguel Alemán, militares respondieron a un ataque y dieron muerte a Juan Gilberto Garza Bosque, de unos 30 años. Se confiscó un auto Chevrolet y un arma larga.

Otros agresores huyeron.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016

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Texas head coach Shaka Smart has brought the Longhorns to the NCAA Tournament in his first year with the program after coming over from VCU. Texas meets Northern Iowa on Friday in the first round of the tournament.

Longhorns among NCAA Tournament teams with a first-year staff

By STEVE MEGARGEE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.

— One year after they were linked in the offseason coaching carousel, Texas, VCU and Chattanooga have something else in common: All three are in the NCAA Tournament with their new staffs.

Texas hired Shaka Smart away from VCU last April.

VCU replaced Smart with Will Wade, a former VCU assistant who had spent the last two seasons as Chattanooga’s head coach. Chattanooga hired Matt McCall, a former Florida assistant.

And everyone is happy.

Each coach is well aware of how the others are faring. Smart acknowledges he still keeps up with VCU, which could end up meeting Texas in a West Region semifinal next week. Wade said he can’t help but cheer for Chattanooga when he watches his former team on television.

“I was more nervous watching them than I am when we play,” Wade said.

“My wife almost had to leave the room because I was yelling at the TV so much.”

Texas (20-12) and VCU (24-10) are both playing in Oklahoma City this week, with Texas taking on Northern Iowa (22-12) and VCU meeting Oregon State (19-12) on Friday. Chatta-

nooga (29-5) is the No. 12 seed in the East Region and plays Indiana (25-7) on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa.

“It’s not my team anymore, but it’s not like you can go from that to nothing,” Smart said of VCU. “So I follow them very closely. I pull for those guys.”

These three schools are among 10 NCAA Tournament teams with new coaches, the highest number since 2008 and a dramatic increase from last year’s total of two, according to STATS LLC. Other teams to make the field with new coaches include Buffalo (Nate Oats), Green Bay (Linc Darner), Hawaii (Eran Ganot), Holy Cross (Bill Carmody), Iowa State (Steve Prohm), Little Rock (Chris Beard) and Wisconsin (Greg Gard).

The connections linking Smart, Wade and McCall go beyond the events of last April.

Wade worked as an assistant on Smart’s VCU staff from 2009-13 before beginning his head coaching career at Chattanooga.

Smart and McCall both were assistants for Billy Donovan at Florida, though not at the same time.

McCall said he first met Smart several years ago at a camp when Smart was an assistant at Clemson and McCall was a director of

basketball operations at Florida. McCall said he also knew Wade through their connection to Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt.

Wade was a student manager at Clemson when Shyatt was coaching there, while McCall and Shyatt previously worked together at Florida.

McCall said he received advice from both Smart and Wade — and some other coaches — after taking over at Chattanooga. The Mocs won the Southern Conference title despite losing preseason conference player of the year Casey Jones to a season-ending ankle injury in December.

“To have three guys in the same circle right there who are in the NCAA Tournament is rare,” McCall said. “I think a lot of the credit goes to coach Donovan. I know he prepared me as a head coach for this opportunity. I owe the world to him, and I know Shaka would speak the same way about Billy and I know Will would say the same about Shaka.”

Chattanooga forward Justin Tuoyo has played for all three coaches.

He began his career playing for Smart at VCU and transferred to Chattanooga in 2013 in part because of the relationship he had developed with Wade. Now he has helped lead the Mocs to the NCAA Tournament in

McCall’s debut season.

Tuoyo said he still exchanges text messages with Wade just about every week and that his former coach sent congratulations after Chattanooga won the Southern Conference Tournament. But he also has enjoyed playing for McCall.

“It’s just fun to play for

him, that’s the biggest thing,” Tuoyo said.

Now all three coaches are in the tournament, and the bracket sets up a potential Sweet 16 showdown between Wade’s Rams and Smart’s Longhorns.

Wade isn’t looking forward to the possibility of matching up with his for-

mer boss, and Smart acknowledges it would be “odd” to coach against his former players.

“It’s tough when you play friends,” said Wade, who exchanges frequent texts with Smart. “You’d rather not. But if you do, you’ve got to roll it out and play.”

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Google protects from hackers

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is disclosing how much of the traffic to its search engine and other services is being protected from hackers as part of its push to encrypt all online activity.

Encryption shields 77 percent of the requests sent from around the world to Google’s data centers, up from 52 percent at the end of 2013, according to company statistics released Tuesday.

The numbers cover all Google services expect its YouTube video site, which has more than 1 billion users. Google plans to add YouTube to its encryption breakdown by the end of this year.

Encryption is a security measure that scrambles transmitted information so it’s unintelligible if it’s intercepted by a third party.

Google began emphasizing the need to encrypt people’s online activities after confidential documents leaked in 2013 by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. government had been vacuuming up

Photo by Virginia Mayo | AP file

In this March 23, 2010, file photo, the Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Brussels. personal data transferred over the Internet. The surveillance programs exploited gaping holes in unencrypted websites.

While rolling out more encryption on its services, Google has been trying to use the clout of its influential search engine to prod other websites to strengthen their security.

In August 2014, Google revised its secret formula for ranking websites in its search order to boost those that automatically encrypted their services.

The change meant websites risked being demoted in Google’s search results and losing visitors if they didn’t embrace encryption.

Google is highlighting its own progress on digital security while the FBI and Apple Inc. are locked

in a court battle over access to an encrypted iPhone used by one of the two extremist killers behind the mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, in December.

Google joined several other major technology companies to back Apple in its refusal to honor a court order to unlock the iPhone, arguing that it would require special software that could be exploited by hackers and governments to pry their way into other encrypted devices.

In its encryption crusade, Google’s is trying to make it nearly impossible for government spies and other snoops from deciphering personal information seized while in transit over the Internet.

“Our aim with this pro-

ject is to hold ourselves accountable and encourage others to encrypt so we can make the web even safer for everyone,” Google encryption “evangelists” Rutledge Chin Feman and Tim Willis wrote in a blog post .

The statistics show that Google’s Gmail service is completely encrypted as long as the correspondence remains confined to Gmail. Mail exchanges between Gmail and other email services aren’t necessarily encrypted.

Google’s next most frequently encrypted services are maps (83 percent of traffic) and advertising (77 percent, up from just 9 percent at the end of 2013).

Encryption frequency falls off for Google’s news service (60 percent) and finance (58 percent).

Google, owned by Alphabet Inc., says it’s still trying to overcome some of the technical problems that have made it more difficult to encrypt some of its services. Some older devices are also unable to handle modern encryption standards, according to Google.

Nearly 96 percent of Google’s unencrypted traffic comes from mobile devices.

Instagram to change order

By BRANDON BAILEY ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Instagram users could soon notice something different in their feeds: Instead of showing users the most recent posts first, the mobile photo-sharing app says it will give higher priority to posts that each user is likely to care about most.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because that’s how Facebook decides what to show users of its online social network. Facebook Inc., which owns Instagram, has long used a complex formula to emphasize items it hopes will be “relevant” to each user, based on factors like whether the post came from a close friend or how the user responded to similar posts.

Instagram had previously acted more like rival Twitter, showing every post in reverse-chronological order. But as its audience has grown to more than 400 million users, Instagram says it’s become harder for users to keep up with the gusher of photos and videos posted by friends and other accounts

they follow.

“This means you often don’t see the posts you might care about the most,” the service said in a message to users on Tuesday. Instagram plans to introduce the new formula gradually, giving weight to the kind of factors Facebook considers in its news feed. The service says users will still be able to find all the posts they used to see, although they won’t be in the same order.

That gradual introduction seems intended to avert any potential backlash from users who don’t like the new system. Facebook annoyed some early users when it changed from reverse-chronological ordering to its current formula several years ago. Twitter has also run into user complaints whenever it hints at changing its approach.

The change comes as Instagram is also showing more commercial messages. While the new formula doesn’t affect advertising, Instagram needs to keep users engaged and interested if it wants to maintain its audience for paid postings.

Valeant shocks with missed quarterly results

By LINDA A. JOHNSON ASSOCIATED PRESS

Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals crashed Tuesday after the embattled drugmaker failed to reassure investors that it’s getting back on track and even conceded for the first time that it’s technically in danger of defaulting on its debt.

The company faces a virtual Murphy’s Law of problems: falling sales, increased pressure to cut drug prices, massive debt, three ongoing federal probes of its accounting and pricing practices, and shareholder lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada.

Valeant’s already depressed shares took their biggest one-day tumble ever, falling just over 50 percent Tuesday after the company finally reported its overdue fourth-quarter results, which missed profit expectations. Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. also slashed all its 2016 financial forecasts and said its business model, based largely on huge price hikes for its drugs, is no longer viable, given strong pushback from payers and other strains.

The turmoil led Pershing Square Capital Management — activist investor

Bill Ackman’s hedge fund and one of Valeant’s biggest shareholders — to send its own investors a note stating it will “take a much more proactive role at the company to protect” its investment.

Pershing wrote that Valeant’s businesses are “worth multiples of” the current price, but that shares won’t hit that value until management regains shareholder confidence.

The note added that Valeant “shocked the market” with revenue and earnings forecasts that don’t seem to fit with “favorable prescription trends” or management’s comments on the strength of its businesses.

Valeant CEO Michael Pearson told the analysts on a lengthy conference call that an ongoing probe of Valeant’s 2014 financial reporting by an ad hoc committee it appointed means Valeant won’t be able to file its annual financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission until sometime in April at the earliest.

That would miss filing deadlines of March 16 and March 30 contained in Valeant’s agreements with bondholders and creditors, respectively. If those debtors chose to declare the company in default on its debt,

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Specialist Peter Giacchi calls out prices at the post that handles Valeant Pharmaceuticals on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. which totals about $30 billion, Valeant could be forced to make repayments faster and see limits on future borrowing.

Analysts were further upset when the company incorrectly said in a press release that adjusted profit for the four quarters beginning in April would be $6.2 billion to $6.6 billion. A slide included in Valeant’s presentation to analysts had the correct number, $6 billion.

“It’s kind of the Inspector Clouseau school of management,” said Erik Gordon, a professor and pharmaceuticals analyst at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. “This is a fabulous example of getting everything wrong” when you’re trying to reassure investors.

Analyst Steve Brozak,

president of WBB Securities, likewise said the gaffe raised questions about whether any of Valeant’s statements could be trusted.

“There is no predicting what happens next,” Brozak said. “Valeant has had its worst day ever — so far.”

Pearson, who recently returned from a two-month medical leave, said his team can turn things around and return to growth.

“We do think we have a plan that will produce cash flow and allow paying down debt,” he told analysts, adding, “In terms of management credibility, we have to earn it.”

Investors, already livid that Valeant shares had plunged from their $263.81 high last August, didn’t buy Pearson’s pitch. They sold off shares furiously, driving

the price down $35.53, or 51.5 percent, to $33.51. Trading volume for the day exceeded 137 million shares, more than 14 times normal volume.

Valeant is facing an SEC investigation of its accounting from 2014, plus scrutiny from Congress and attorneys general in two states over its practice of buying rights to old drugs and raising their prices a few hundred percent. Valeant said it now will stick to modest or no price increases, noting demands from insurers for much-bigger discounts.

The company has made some concessions to shareholders, this month adding three directors to its board, including a Pershing Square executive.

Pearson said Valeant is in confidential discussions with partners on selling some noncore assets and hopes to use that and other money this year to pay off $1.7 billion of its debt, accumulated from a spree of acquisitions in recent years.

Valeant reported preliminary, unaudited results showing it lost $336.4 million, or 98 cents per share, in the three months ended Dec. 31. Excluding one-time items, earnings were $2.50 per share, far short of the $2.64 that analysts expected.

Revenue totaled $2.79 billion, just over projections for $2.76 billion. The company said sales were down or below expectations by a total of $1.3 billion in its dermatology, gastrointestinal, ophthalmology, women’s health and Western Europe businesses, among others.

Deb Jorn, the executive vice president in charge of Valeant’s U.S dermatology and gastrointestinal businesses, resigned on March 3.

Valeant, which is based in Laval, Quebec, now anticipates a first-quarter adjusted profit between $1.30 and $1.55 per share on revenue in a range of $2.3 billion to $2.4 billion. Its prior outlook was for an adjusted profit between $2.35 and $2.55 per share on revenue of $2.8 billion to $3.1 billion.

For 2016, the company now foresees an adjusted profit between $9.50 and $10.50 per share on revenue of $11 billion to $11.2 billion. Its previous forecast was for an adjusted profit between $13.25 and $13.75 per share on revenue of $12.5 billion to $12.7 billion.

Analysts polled by FactSet expect first-quarter profit of $2.62 per share on revenue of $2.84 billion and a 2016 profit of $13.27 per share on revenue of $12.42 billion.

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Senior IS commander dies

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA AND BASSEM MROUE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui, left, is flanked by her lawyer Laura Sgro as she leaves the Vatican during a pause of her trial, Tuesday.

Vatican official felt pressured

By NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — A Vatican monsignor said Tuesday he never felt threatened by two journalists to whom he passed confidential documents — but did fear the colleague who introduced them.

Monsignor Angelo Lucio Vallejo Balda, a former high-ranking official in the Vatican’s finance office, made the concession during cross-examination Tuesday in the Vatican’s leaks case.

Italian journalists Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi wrote blockbuster books last year about Vatican waste, mismanagement and greed. Key documents came from a papal reform commission that Vallejo directed.

Vatican prosecutors have accused the journalists of illegally “soliciting and exerting pressure” on Vallejo to obtain the documents and of publishing them, itself a crime under Vatican City State law. Prosecutors have cited threats Vallejo said he received from the journalists.

Vallejo admitted he gave documents to the journalists. But he said he did so because he felt pressured by the woman who introduced them: Francesca Chaouqui, a flamboyant communications expert and a member of the reform commission.

Nuzzi and Fittipaldi face up to eight years in prison if convicted of putting pressure on Vallejo to obtain the documents and publish them.

Vallejo, Chaouqui and Vallejo’s assistant Nicola Maio are accused of forming a criminal organization and providing the documents.

Vallejo testified that the only threats he experienced came from Chaouqui, whom he believed to be a high-ranking official in Italy’s secret services with connections to powerful Italians, including a brother of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

“I will destroy you in all the newspapers and you know I can do it,” read one WhatsApp message from Chaouqui to Vallejo that was read in court.

While Vallejo said Nuzzi once told him that “Francesca can hurt you,” he conceded that neither journalist directly threatened him.

Nuzzi’s attorney Roberto Paolombi pressed him on the point: “Did you feel threatened, or were you

threatened?”

“I felt threatened,” Vallejo said.

Fittipaldi, meanwhile, testified that he received only 20 pages from Vallejo and found them of such “little journalistic value” that he used them for just seven lines in his book. He said the book was nearly finished before he even met Vallejo.

Fittipaldi challenged the prosecutor to specify the offense he supposedly committed, given it’s a journalist’s job to ask sources for information.

“I don’t see any crime here,” Fittipaldi said. “This is part of my job.”

Fittipaldi’s book “Avarice,” and Nuzzi’s book “Merchants in the Temple,” detailed millions of euros in lost potential rental income from the Vatican’s real estate holdings, millions in missing inventory from the Vatican’s tax-free stores, the exorbitant costs for getting someone declared a saint and the greed of bishops and cardinals lusting after huge apartments.

The books were based on documents produced by a reform commission that Pope Francis appointed in 2013.

BAGHDAD — Omar alShishani, a top Islamic State commander who was a magnet for fighters from the former Soviet Union, has died of wounds suffered in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday.

Al-Shishani, who was wounded in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month, died on Monday evening outside the Islamic State group’s main stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, the two told The Associated Press. A U.S. military spokesman confirmed the reports.

The IS-affiliated Aamaq news agency cited an unnamed source as denying that al-Shishani was wounded or killed, without providing any evidence that he was still alive.

The red-bearded alShishani, who was in his 30s, was one of the most prominent IS commanders, appearing in several online videos leading fighters into battle. He served as the top commander in Syria before being appointed to lead three elite units that carried out special missions in Syria and Iraq, according to Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi scholar who closely follows the group.

Al-Shishani, whose real name was Tarkhan Batirashvili, was born in the Pankisi Valley, a predominantly ethnic Chechen region within the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

He did military service in the Georgian army but was discharged after an unspecified illness, a former neighbor told The Associated Press in 2014. Georgian police later arrested him for illegal possession of

Photo courtesy of SITE Intel Group | AP

This image made from militant video, which has been verified by SITE Intel Group and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Mohammed Emwazi, known as "Jihadi John," holding a knife. A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John." arms, the neighbor said.

Upon his release in 2010, Batirashvili left for Turkey.

He first surfaced in Syria in 2013 with his nom de guerre, which means “Omar the Chechen” in Arabic, leading an al-Qaida-inspired group called “The Army of Emigrants and Partisans,” which included a large number of fighters from the former Soviet Union.

Some 1,500 battle-hardened fighters from the Caucasus region joined IS because of al-Shishani, alHashimi said.

He first showed his battlefield prowess in August 2013, when his fighters proved pivotal in taking the Syrian military’s Managh air base in the north of the country. Rebels had been trying for months to take the base, but it fell soon after al-Shishani joined the battle, said an activist from the region, Abu al-Hassan Maraee.

In a video released in the summer of 2014, after IS swept across northern and western Iraq and declared an Islamic caliphate, alShishani stood next to the

group’s spokesman and other fighters as they declared the elimination of the border between Iraq and Syria.

A U.S. airstrike targeted al-Shishani on March 4 near Syria’s eastern town of Shaddadeh, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said last week. Al-Shishani had been sent there to bolster IS fighters “following a series of strategic defeats,” Cook said in the statement.

Rami Abdurrahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that after al-Shishani was wounded, IS “brought a number of doctors to treat him, but they were not able to.”

Abdurrahman, whose group monitors the conflict through a network of activists inside Syria, said alShishani died in a hospital in the suburbs of Raqqa.

The Iraqi intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to brief media, said the IS commander was buried in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour on Tuesday.

The Iraqi official said IS named an Iraqi to replace

al-Shishani but did not give his name.

The spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren, said Tuesday that the coalition was able to “assess that he is dead” and that it “got the word Monday morning.”

Warren described alShishani as a “very important figure” in the Islamic State group, who was hit as part of a stepped-up campaign of U.S.-led airstrikes targeting IS leadership.

Al-Shishani was in the area of Shaddadeh “along with about a dozen other fighters who were in one spot ... and we struck it,” Warren said last week.

Al-Hashimi said the U.S. decision to target top IS figures could have a major impact. “Maybe the death of al-Baghdadi will lead to a rapid collapse,” he said, referring to the top IS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Iraqi officials said in November 2014 that al-Baghdadi was wounded in an airstrike. He has not been seen since then, but has released audio messages calling on his followers to step up attacks.

IS, which emerged from al-Qaida’s branch in Iraq, has many Iraqis among its top leaders. It exploited the chaos of Syria’s civil war to capture large areas in that country’s north and west before sweeping into Iraq in 2014. It has suffered setbacks since then, but still controls large parts of both countries, including Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul.

The U.N. has estimated that around 30,000 foreign fighters from 100 countries are actively working with the Islamic State, al-Qaida or other extremist groups.

An earlier estimate by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization said IS fighters include 3,300 Western Europeans.

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The last direct flight carrying stranded Cuban migrants from Costa Rica has arrived in Mexico, ending an effort that transported 6,003 Cubans, including some from Panama, Mexico’s Interior Department said Tuesday.

Nearly 8,000 Cuban migrants had been stuck in Costa Rica after Nicaragua began refusing passage to them in November. Others had been stuck in Panama, on a land route that saw Cubans flying to Ecuador and then making their way overland through Central America to reach the U.S. border.

Ecuador began requiring vi-

sas for Cubans late last year, effectively blocking the route to most would-be migrants.

Costa Rica’s Foreign Relations Ministry said the last flight Tuesday included 50 migrants who couldn’t pay for the chartered flights to Mexico, and got tickets subsidized by international aid groups. Costa Rica had

housed thousands of Cubans for months at 44 shelters.

The Central American country said it had sent a total of 4,817 Cubans to Mexico. Hundreds more came from Panama, where they had been stuck after Costa Rica stopped accepting the migrants in December.

Costa Rica had issued a

total of 7,802 temporary transit visas for Cubans, which suggests that about 2,985 migrants didn’t take advantage of the air bridge and made their way north alone or by hiring immigrant smugglers. It is still unclear what will happen to about 50 Cubans who entered Costa Rica illegally; they are fighting deporta-

tion.

During the effort to transport the Cubans out, many were flown to Mexican border cities on a total of 38 flights. Others traveled on buses, and then made their way to the U.S. border from southern Mexico. Most of the Cubans have ultimately presented themselves at Mexican border crossings.

age them to seek alternate sources of water.

"This isn’t about whether it’s illegal for somebody to keep drinking out of their tap, but it’s about what they should be advised to do, and I think people take public health advisories fairly seriously, if they’re clear enough," he said.

The notice that Texas currently requires public water utilities to send out in the event of high arsenic levels says, "This is not an emergency."

"However, some people who drink water containing arsenic excess of the (arsenic limit) over many years could experience skin damage or problems with their circulatory system, and may have an increased risk of getting cancer," it continues. "You do not need to use an alternative water supply.”

That language is recommended by the EPA and most states employ similar or identical language, said

Honeycutt, who believes it is adequate. Changing it would require EPA approval, said Linda Brookins, director of the TCEQ’s water supply division.

The Environmental Integrity Report also places onus on the EPA for not requiring states to do more.

It found that a handful of states, including Florida, Michigan and Maine, voluntarily require public water utilities to send notices that specifically discourage consumption of water containing high levels of arsenic.

The rest likely do not go that far because they are not required to and don’t want to be bearers of bad news, Schaeffer said. Seeking an alternate source of water can be difficult and expensive, he acknowledged, explaining that you can’t get rid of arsenic by boiling it. But he said people have the right to know so they can at least try to act.

WATER Continued from Page 1A long-term average arsenic concentrations of 10 to 20 parts per billion, although some are much higher.

For the past two years, for example, about 650 people in the South Texas town of Bruni have received drinking water containing more than 80 parts per billion of arsenic, which is known to cause lung, kidney and other types of cancer. The inorganic contaminant, which has no distinct taste or smell, is widespread in soil and groundwater in much of the world.

However, state officials say the arsenic levels cited in the report do not pose an immediate health threat because the federal drinking water standard for arsenic is overly cautious.

Arsenic levels in drinking water “are higher than we’d like for them to be and that’s why we’re working to get them below the standard, but it’s not a ‘Stop drinking your water’

issue,” said Michael Honeycutt, director of the toxicology division at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

Studies show that “if you start getting above 100 to 150 parts per billion, that’s when you start to see the health effects,” said Honeycutt. He said he wouldn’t have a problem drinking the water in Bruni but added that “it might not taste very good” because water in that part of the state has higher levels of particles and pollutants.

Last year, the TCEQ renewed its contract with a Massachusetts consulting firm to scrutinize the true health risks of arsenic; Gradient previously had helped the agency build a case questioning the public benefits of reducing smog levels in Texas cities like Dallas and Houston — benefits that the vast majority of experts say would be significant.

Gradient is expected to

deliver a report in late July, Honeycutt said.

The Environmental Integrity Project report says new evidence suggests that the cancer risk associated with arsenic may be much higher than previously thought, noting that the EPA currently is revising its assessment of cancer risks to account for more recent science.

“A 2010 draft of the assessment indicated that the risk of getting cancer from drinking water containing 10 (parts per billion) of arsenic is closer to 1 in 136, more than 17 times higher than current assumptions,” the report says. The EPA’s current assumptions are that the risk of developing cancer after drinking water containing 10 parts per billion of arsenic over a lifetime are 1 in 2,000.

Many scientists say the increased risk of cancer in humans who drink water, inhale dust or ingest soil contaminated with high

levels of inorganic arsenic puts the chemical’s danger level in the same category as that of smoking cigarettes.

The arsenic concentrations cited in the report "needless to say represent a threat to public health,” said Houston environmental toxicologist Stephen King, noting links to cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory and other health issues. "This is significant and my recommendation is that anyone drinking water with an arsenic concentration at 10 (parts per billion), should not drink the water" or use it to prepare food.

Regardless of the exact health risks associated with arsenic, Environmental Integrity Project Director Eric Schaeffer said they are indisputably high enough that people whose drinking water exceeds the federal limit — particularly pregnant women and children — should receive notices that encour-

RUBIO Continued from Page 1A Cuban-American who at an early age dreamed of playing pro-football but, instead, became a successful politician.

A married father of four, he used the symbolic Miami Freedom Tower as the backdrop to launch his presidential campaign, where tens of thousands of his fellow Cuban-Americans had been processed as refugees.

“The time has come for our generation to lead the way toward a new American Century,” he told the crowd in first presenting what would be his campaign theme.

He promised lower taxes, less regulations, tighter federal spending, modernizing immigration laws, and repealing and replacing Oba-

maCare.

Yet, it was his immigrant family’s story that was most appealing. The bartender dad; the Kmart clerk mom. Leaving Cuba. Realizing the American Dream.

At the time, Rubio’s friend and one-time mentor, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, seemed his biggest hurdle to get to the Oval Office. After all, both had Hispanic families (Bush’s wife is MexicanAmerican) and spoke flawless Spanish.

Enter Trump. By midsummer, he turned the Bush-Rubio rivalry into a telenovela without the sizzle. Bush dropped out after South Carolina.

Rubio had rarely attacked Trump or his other GOP rivals during much of

the campaign. Instead, he and his team embarked on a stay-under-the-radar strategy, emphasizing his foreign policy chops on frequent Fox News appearances while slamming President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

In the Iowa caucuses, he came in a better-than-expected third place, nearly beating Trump for second.

He then banked on a big showing in New Hampshire but a stunningly poor debate performance — in which he frequently repeated talking points and was called a “scripted” politician by rival Chris Christie — led to a dismal fifth place.

“Our disappointment tonight is not on you. It’s on me,” he told supporters that

LEADER Continued from Page 1A night.

Rubio rebounded in South Carolina, where he came in second place behind Trump and had edged Ted Cruz, Nevada, where Rubio spent part of his childhood, delivered another second place finish.

But questions arose about which state Rubio could realistically win. The campaign dismissed the chatter, saying they were running a national campaign but the doubts grew deafening on March 1, Super Tuesday, when Rubio collected just one won of 11 contests.

The losses only mounted for Rubio, who only managed to win Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. And the final blow came at home.

forces erupted into clashes and gang members set up roadblocks and lit vehicles on fire in Reynosa, which is across from McAllen, Texas.

Sales did not name the group, but another government official said Martinez is believed to be the Gulf Cartel’s No. 2 boss in Reynosa. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and agreed to discuss the case only if not quoted by name.

Federal police intelligence chief Omar Garcia told Radio Formula that agents had been tracking Martinez for four months and he was on a leisure trip in the capital when he was taken into custody at the track.

Martinez did not resist arrest, Garcia said. “In reality, he was surprised to be detained in Mexico City.”

The state of Tamaulipas, where Reynosa is located, has suffered several waves of drug violence.

The Gulf Cartel battled with its former allies, the Zetas, for a number of years, but officials say that violence since 2015 has often resulted from a dispute between rival Gulf factions.

Officials said the Sunday raids targeted the cartel’s top boss for Reynosa.

Similar gunbattles broke out in April 2015 when authorities launched an offensive against another local leader of the Gulf Cartel.

WINNERS Continued from Page 1A Heavy Hog – Amanda Gutierrez 3rd Place Heavy Hog – Andrea Reyes 4th Place Heavy Hog – Ivan Guerra 5th Place Heavy Hog – Ryan Guerra 6th Place Heavy Hog – Danny Villarreal Lambs Grand Champion – Elaine Lopez Reserve Champion – Carlo Garcia 2nd Place Light Lamb – Carlo Garcia 3rd Place Light Lamb – Eduardo Lopez 4th Place Light Lamb – Michael Garcia 5th Place Light Lamb – Nadina Rodriguez 6th Place Light Lamb – Jo Ellie Martinez 1st Place Medium Lamb – Sofia Ramirez 2nd Place Medium Lamb – Jocelyne Garcia 3rd Place Medium Lamb – Jocelyne Garcia 4th Place Medium Lamb – Elaine Lopez 5th Place Medium Lamb – Rene Munoz 6th Place Medium Lamb – Erick Garcia 1st Place Medium Heavy Lamb – Alyssa Flores 2nd Place Medium Heavy Lamb – Erick Garcia 3rd Place Medium Heavy Lamb – Mario Alaniz 4th Place Medium Heavy Lamb – Alexsandra Benavides 5th Place Medium Heavy Lamb – Matthew Roberts 6th Place Medium Heavy Lamb – Alyssa Flores 2nd Place Heavy Lamb – Andrea Gutierrez 3rd Place Heavy Lamb –

Michael Garcia 4th Place Heavy Lamb – Xavy Rodriguez 5th Place Heavy Lamb – Aaron Michael Cruz 6th Place Heavy Lamb – Matthew Roberts Goats Grand Champion – Carlos Barrera Reserve Champion – Luis Lozano 1st Place Light Goat – Ana Bravo 2nd Place Light Goat – Luis Lozano 3rd Place Light Goat – Marco Bustamante 4th Place Light Goat – Carlos Barrera 5th Place Light Goat – Kathryn Ramirez 6th Place Light Goat – Jose D. Guerra 1st Place Medium Goat – Delyssa Salinas 2nd Place Medium Goat – Dalina Garcia 3rd Place Medium Goat – Kaitlyn Ramirez 4th Place Medium Goat – Kristyn Ramirez 5th Place Medium Goat – Mirely Munoz 6th Place Mediujm Goat – Aaron Tyler Cruz 3rd Place Medium Heavy Goat – Kiveli Munoz 4th Place Medium Heavy Goat – Leonardo Munoz 5th Place Medium Heavy Goat – Rudy Bravo 6th Place Medium Heavy Goat – Kaitlyn Ramirez 1st Place Heavy Goat – Rudy Bravo 2nd Place Heavy Goat – Abram Guerra 3rd Place Heavy Goat – Jose D. Guerra 4th Place Heavy Goat – Nayeli Lopez 5th Place Heavy Goat – Naomi Trejo

6th Place Heavy Goat – Kristyn Ramirez Rabbits Grand Champion Broiler Rabbit – Arlina Saenz 1st Place Broiler Rabbit – Alyssa Alaniz 2nd Place Broiler Rabbit – Karina Alaniz 3rd Place Broiler Rabbit – Krystyna Gray 4th Place Broiler Rabbit – Tannor Moreno 5th Place Broiler Rabbit – Cesar Uribe 6th Place Broiler Rabbit – Alexander Gray Grand Champion Fryer Rabbits – Daniella Santos 1st Place Fryer Rabbits – Alexander Gray 2nd Place Fryer Rabbits – Caleb Guerra 3rd Place Fryer Rabbits – Alyssa Alaniz 4th Place Fryer Rabbits – Aissa Esquivel 5th Place Fryer Rabbits – Noe Lopez 6th Place Fryer Rabbits – Natalee Guerra Poultry Grand Champion Turkey Hen – Kassey Alaniz Reserve Champion Turkey Hen – Kiana Villarreal 1st Place Light Turkey Hen – Carlos Hurtado 2nd Place Light Turkey Hen – Uriel Alaniz 3rd Place Light Turkey Hen – Jacob Gonzalez 4th Place Light Turkey Hen – Giselle Bustamante 5th Place Light Turkey Hen – Edgardo Camarillo 6th Place Light Turkey Hen – Robert Siller 3rd Place Heavy Turkey Hen – Ricky Solis 4th Place Heavy Turkey Hen – Giselle Bustamante 5th Place Heavy Turkey Hen – Guillermo Pina

6th Place Heavy Turkey Hen – Guillermo Pina Grand Champion Chickens – Johnny Meza 1st Place Chickens – Cristina Rodriguez 2nd Place Chickens – Triana Rodriguez 3rd Place Chickens – Jozlynn Garza 4th Place Chickens – Mario Mendoza 5th Place Chickens – Mateo Mendoza 6th Place Chickens – Alyssa Ramos Metalwork Grand Champion – Rogelio Cantu 2nd Place – Elias Medina 3rd Place – Clyde Guerra 4th Place – Raquel Almaguer 5th Place – Roel Ruiz 6th Place – Hugo Martinez

2016 Zapata County Fair Livestock Showmanship Winners Steers Jr. Showmanship Champion – Carlos Martinez 2nd Place – Kiveli Munoz 3rd Place – Daniel Rodriguez 4th Place – Xavy Rodriguez 5th Place – Gabriel Barrera 6th Place – Osiel Gonzalez Sr. Showmanship Champion – Mario Landa 2nd Place – Kristopher Hinkel 3rd Place – Christina Landa 4th Place – Jolissa Paredes

5th Place – Kaycee Rodriguez 6th Place – Carla Gutierrez Hogs Jr. Showmanship Champion – Tyler J. Garza 2nd Place – Ana Bravo 3rd Place – Joel Cavazos 4th Place – Derek Garcia 5th Place – Oscar Garza 6th Place – Joey Gutierrez Sr. Showmanship Champion – Jose M. Ramirez 2nd Place – Andrea Reyes 3rd Place – Amanda Gutierrez 4th Place – Carlos J. Garcia 5th Place – Leesela Garza 6th Place – Neysa Lopez Lambs Jr. Showmanship Champion – Elaine Lopez 2nd Place – Michael Garcia 3rd Place – Alexsandra Benavides 4th Place – Xavy Rodriguez 5th Place – Jo Eliie Martinez 6th Place – Katalina Garcia Sr. Showmanship Champion – Aaron Michael Cruz 2nd Place – Mario Alaniz 3rd Place – Carlo Garcia 4th Place – Andrea Gutierrez 5th Place – Jocelyne Garcia 6th Place – Sofia Ramirez Goats Jr. Showmanship Champion – Carlos Barrera 2nd Place – Luis Lozano 3rd Place – Ana Bravo 4th Place – Rudy Bravo 5th Place – Ryan Moya 6th Place – Kiveli Munoz

Sr. Showmanship Champion – Jose D. Guerra 2nd Place – Aaron Michael Cruz 3rd Place – Kaitlyn Ramirez 4th Place – Marco Bustamante 5th Place – Rebecca Villarreal 6th Place – Carlos Flores Rabbits Jr. Showmanship Champion – Kayla Pina 2nd Place – Helena Garza 3rd Place – Claudia Garza 4th Place – Lily Castillo 5th Place – Becca Ochoa 6th Place – Ricardo Cantu Sr. Showmanship Champion – Daniella Santos 2nd Place – Alyssa Alaniz 3rd Place – Arlina Saenz 4th Place – Selene Garza 5th Place – Angelica Alvarez 6th Place – Andrea Garza Poultry Jr. Showmanship Champion – Kiana Villarreal 2nd Place – Giselle Bustamante 3rd Place – Jimmy Griffin 4th Place – Kayla Pina 5th Place – Daniella Ramirez 6th Place – Jannel Esquivel Sr. Showmanship Champion – Andrea Hurtado 2nd Place – Mario Mendoza 3rd Place – Cristina Rodriguez 4th Place – Alyssa Ramos 5th Place – Jenicia Guevara 6th Place – Johnny Meza

12A THE ZAPATA TIMES

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016