In an interview with the Rio Grande Valley’s “Action 4 News”, Tiffany Young-Hartley, dry eyed and stone faced, recounts how they moved to Reynosa, naive to the violence that had been confronting the borderlands. To her, the violence came as a “complete shock”. In the interview with Action 4′s Katie Lopez, one of the valleys more competent reporters, she recalls details seemingly just now coming to mind.
Breaking News and conflicting reports in the last hour concerning the alleged murder of David Hartley on Falcon Lake on September 30. Tamaulipas State police Commander Juan Carlos Ballasteros is supposed to have confirmed that two suspects have been identified and are being sought in the incident that has gained international attention. Juan Pedro Saldivar Farias, conveniently known as “Zeta 27″, and his brother Jose Manuel, known as “Zeta 31″, are suspects in a string of murders, kidnappings, armed robberies and fires. The brothers are from the town of Nuevo Guerrero, a few klicks south of where the alleged murder occurred.
For the past nine days, we’ve been following the news stories about the alleged attack on Tiffany and David Hartley, the US couple who were jet skiing on Falcon Lake in Texas, when the husband David was supposedly shot and killed while trying to elude “lake pirates”. And with each interview of the “widow”, each new revelation or speculation, we are of the opinion, as are many, that there is something very wrong with the scenario we are being presented.
MEXICO CITY — Gruesome murders appear to be commonplace in Mexico. The severed heads of eight men found in pairs along highways in Durango. Seventeen people massacred at a birthday party in Torreon. The bodies of 55 people found dumped in a mine near the town of Taxco. Mexicans and their American neighbors are being bombarded by news of shootouts, bombings, kidnappings and executions as drug smugglers battle each other and the government for control of the narcotics trade. But a closer look at the latest official statistics indicates that much of Mexico has modest murder rates. The horrific violence that is jacking up the national death toll is largely in nine of Mexico’s 31 states. Despite a wave of MORE
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence and 100 years since the country’s revolution, the Mexican government is sponsoring its first Rose Parade float in over 40 years. “With this float we’re going to tell 40 million people watching on TV that it’s Mexico’s birthday,” said Juan Marcos Gutierrez-Gonzalez, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles. “There’s no better way to do it.” In a presentation Tuesday announcing next year’s year-long festivities for the county’s historic milestones, officials from the Mexican consulate unveiled the frame of the float. It depicts moments and symbols of the independence and revolution. Across the middle, six-foot letters spell out “M xico 2010.” At the head of the float stands a replica of MORE
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