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NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG TAKE BACK
Over 1 ton of unwanted meds collected Law enforcement official says public’s response made for a successful event By César G. Rodriguez ZA PATA T I ME S
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced it collected more than 1 ton of unwanted prescribed medication during the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day that took place over the weekend. Assistant Special Agent in Charge James R. Reed said
authorities collected 1,433 pounds in Laredo, Zapata and Cotulla. Law enforcement collected an additional 1,355 pounds in Eagle Pass, Uvalde, Brackettville and Del Rio. “The public’s response to this event was great. This successful event was made possible by the outstanding contribution of our community-based partners: The Webb County
The Drug Enforcement Administration said they collected about 1,433 pounds of unwanted prescribed mediation from the Laredo, Zapata and Cotulla areas during the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
Community Coalition of (Serving Children and Adults in Need); Webb-Zapata-Jim Hogg County Medical Society; and the TAMIU College of Nursing & Health Science,” Reed said. Assisting agencies included the Webb and Zapata County District Attorney’s Office, U.S. Border Patrol, the Laredo Police Department, Webb County Back continues on A8
MEXICO’S WAR ON DRUGS
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TIJUANA, MEXICO
STANDOFF AT THE BORDER ENDING
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Relatives and comrades of the 43 students of the teaching training school in Ayotzinapa who went missing on September 2014 hold a demonstration to mark 43 months since their disappearance in Mexico City on April 26, 2018.
Case of missing shines light on military
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People who traveled with the annual caravan of Central American migrants rest where the group set up camp to wait for access to request asylum in the US, outside the El Chaparral port of entry building at the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico on Monday.
Accusations of human Some caravan members allowed to apply for asylum rights violations during By Kirk Semple combat operations surface NEW YORK TIME S
By Paulina Villegas N EW YORK T I ME S NEWS
MEXICO CITY — On a cold night in December 2009, three relatives in the Mexican state of Chihuahua were taken away by a group of armed men in military uniforms and were never seen again. Now the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights is examining the disappearances of the three civilians — Nitza Paola Alvarado Espinoza, José Ángel Alvarado Herrera and Rocío Irene Alvarado Reyes — for the first time. Their story is part of a case that the court — an independent judicial body with legal authority in Mexico — heard over two days, ending Friday. It involves accusations of human rights violations by the Mexican military during government operations that began more than a decade ago to combat drug trafficking and organized crime. The case sheds light on the broader effect that the militarization of public security has had on large parts of the country since troops were first mobilized for anti-narcotics operations in 2006. “My family is just one case among the thouMissing continues on A11
TIJUANA, Mexico — Several members of the Latin American migrant caravan that has enraged President Donald Trump were allowed to step onto U.S. territory to apply for asylum late Monday, ending a border standoff that had lasted more than a day and marking the beginning of the final chapter of the group’s monthlong odyssey. Shortly after 7 p.m. local time, eight migrants who, like most of the caravan’s participants, said they were fleeing violence in their homeland, passed through the metal gate separating Tijuana from San Diego, entered the immigration checkpoint and began the process to petition for sanctuary, caravan organizers said. The contingent that was admitted included four children and three women — the children’s mothers — and an 18-year-old man. The organizers said they did not know whether more of the migrants would be permitted to enter Monday night. The news was greeted with a guarded sense of relief by the caravan’s participants, many of whom had
Hans-Maximo Musielik / Associated Press
A migrant father and child rest where they set up camp to wait for access to request asylum in the US, outside the El Chaparral port of entry building at the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico on Monday.
been hunkering down for more than a day in a makeshift encampment at the entrance to the border crossing waiting for the logjam to break. “On one hand, I’m very happy that it’s finally beginning, that perhaps they will start to accept us little by
little,” said Orfa MarÃn, a Honduran immigrant who has been traveling with her three children and her partner and was not among the first group to pass into the United States. “But on the other hand, we have to wait here Border continues on A11