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Human rights groups working to free Renton woman Nestora Salgado has been held in a Mexican prison since August By Alejandro Dominguez adominguez@larazanw.com
Nestora Salgado of Renton, was arrested Aug. 21 in Mexico. Photo courtesy Salvador Cisneros Silva
Two or three times a year, Nestora Salgado visited her home state of Guerrero, Mexico, to visit relatives still living there and bring clothes to poor children. The Renton resident and naturalized American citizen was still attached to her small, indigenous town of Olinala. The region has been a victim of a big wave of homicides, kidnappings and people being tortured. Last year, when she was at the state, her neighbor was found
dead after suffering torture. That was when she and the rest of the town had enough, said her youngest daughter, Grisel Rodriguez, 23. Since then, Salgado joined the community police and became a leader of that organization. Rodriguez said the police was made of town people and was created under state law. Still, Salgado made enemies, which is why she has been arrested under charges of kidnapping six people, according to Rodriguez. “The crime file is completely fabricated. There’s no proof. This is all political,” Rodriguez said. Salgado was arrested Aug. 21 alongside
13 more people, one week before she was scheduled to return to Washington state. Rodriguez said her mother is being jailed because she wanted a town official to be put on trial. The official was arrested by robbing possessions of homicide victims and the government wanted to release him, but Salgado was adamant for him to be put on trial. “My mother is a brave person and she speaks what she has in her mind when something is wrong,” Rodriguez said. “And that’s the problem, because the government did not like she brought light to the political corruption.” To pressure the Mexican government, [ more Nestora page 12 ]
The Landing developers preparing to sell Sale of property was always part of the plan for shopping center By Brian Beckley bbeckley@rentonreporter.com
Checking it twice... Sasha Marith, 7, reads her Christmas wish list to Santa Claus Saturday during the city’s annual tree-lighting celebration at the Renton Piazza, downtown. Dozens of families braved the frigid temperatures to watch the tree be lit and welcome Santa and Mrs. Claus, who arrived on the back of a fire truck. Santa’s House will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday this weekend and next . Brian Beckley, Renton Reporter
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As occupancy at The Landing is ready to pass the 90 percent mark, developers Pearlmark Harvest Lakeshore, formerly Transwestern Harvest Lakeshore, is preparing to sell the 21-acre shopping center. Though the buyer has not been announced, Senior Property Manager Rod Swift said this week the goal is to complete the sale by the end of the year. “This always has been the plan,” Swift said, adding that the recession slowed the sale plans some. Swift said the buyer is a “large institutional investor” with national experience managing shopping centers, including another property in the area. Swift this week told the City Council not to worry about the future of the property as the buyer plans to make the center part of its “core fund,” or longterm investment asset. “It’s a serious buyer who’s going to take serious care of this property,” he said. Opened in 2007, occupancy at The Landing has been steadily increasing, even through the reces[ more landing page 7 ]