The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 140, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 20, 2010 Page: 11 of 20
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SUNDAY, Ji si 20, 2010
Cancun police find 12 decomposing inside caverns
President Felipe Calderon sent said Friday
year-old girls were among 15
As oil spews in Gulf, BP chief in yacht race
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Quintana Roo state, where
Cancun is located, is a trans-
shipment point for cocaine
being smuggled from
Colombia to the United States
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ed Cancun’s police chief,
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gate whether he protected the
Zetas drug gang A former
governor of the state was sen
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statement BP time it has approached its peak told lawmakers on a U.S
APLONDON BP chief
xecutive Tony Hayward,
often criticized for being tone
deal to 1 S concerns about
the worst oil spill m American
history .....I time off Saturday
to attend i glitzy yacht race
off I ngland Isle of Wight
Spokeswoman Sheila
Williams said Hayward took a
break from overseeing BP
efforts to stem the undersea
gusher in Gulf ol Mexico to
watch his boat "Bob" partici-
pate in the IP Morgan Asset
Management Round the
Island Race
di cribed Hayward's day off capacity.
as "a ran moment of private British environmental
time and said that "no matter groups immediately slammed
when hi is, he is always in Hayward's outing Charlie
touch with what is happening Kronick of Greenpeace said
within BP and can direct Hayward was "nibbing salt
recovery operations if into the wounds'" of Gulf resi-
required dents whose livelihoods have
I hat is hi ly lo be a hard been wrecked by the disaster,
sell in Gulf tai s struggling to "Clearly it is incredibly
deal with tlie up to 120 million insulting for him to be sailing
gallons of oil that have in the Isle of Wight," he said.
scape d from a blown-out Hugh Walding, the coordi
undersea well nator of the Isle of Wight
X pair of relief wells that Friends of the Earth, said
Defense Department aid in a General’s Office
statement. The girls were riding in a
They found $1 million in car with three men Thursday
cash, four guns and $80 in night when assailants opened
take cash in the first house, lire The girls were killed
the department said In a sec inside the car while the men
olid, they discov ered $28 400, med to flee and were shot
cocaine a gun expensive dead on the street. Sandoval
watches and other jewelry said
Drugs were found in the third Police had no immediate
house. suspects.
I he department did not ay Ciudad Juarez, across from
what cartel might ha owned El Paso, Texas is one of the
the money There were no deadliest cities in the world
arrests because of a turf war between
Sinaloa state is a strong the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels
decomposing bodies in four men have led them to all the
caverns and were searching clandestine graves - dried up
for more cadavers in violence sinkhole caves, known as
blamed on drug gangs in the cenotes.
popular resort city, officials Quintana Roo state
said Friday Attorney General Francisco
Earlier thi month, police Alor said Friday that nine
discovered six other bodies, alleged hit men detained three
three of them cut open and days earlier led police to the
their hearts removed, in a sim 12 bodies
ilar cavern near the Mexican Alor said three of the sink-
resort Three of the bodies had holes are in an area covered
the letter Z" carved on their with scrub vegetation near a
abdome n .1 possible refer residential area and the fourth
laundering and helping a car diets seized more than $1 mil hold of the cartel with the
tel smuggle narcotics lion in cash from a house in a same name, led by kingpin
More than 22,700 people northern state that is the home Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman
have died nationwide in drug base of the country’s most in the northern border city
violence since late 2006, when powerful cartel authorities of Ciudad Juarez, two 15
soldiers and federal police to Soldiers acting on an people killed in a 24-hour
battle the cartels, anonymous tip raided three period, said Arturo Sandoval
Cartel hit men have been houses Thursday in Culiacan, a spokesman for the
know to use mass dumping the capital of Sinaloa, the Chihuahua state Attorney
Th day yacht race is tainment system is capturing resolve the crisis as badly as
one of III worlds largest, or incinerating more than I he did, adding I'd like my
attracting hundreds of boats million gallons (3.8 million life back."
and thousands of sailors liters) of oil daily, the first On Thursday, Hayward
won't be done until August is Haywards choice of venue
the best bet to stop the mas was sure to arouse anger
sive spill that was set off by an "I’m sure that this will be
oil rig explosion that killed 11 seen as yet another public-
workers on April 20 BP has relations disaster,' Walding
been hammered for its said.
response, in part because of Hayward's public persona
comments by Hayward that has already denied the compa-
Gulf Coast residents horrified ny's image Hayward angered
by the spill consider insensi many in the United States
tive. when he was quoted in the
By late June, the oil giant Times of London as suggest-
hopes it can keep nearly 90 ing that Americans were par
percent of the flow from hit ticularly likely to file bogus
ting the ocean Coast Guard claims He later shocked resi
Adm Thad Allen on Friday dents in Louisiana by telling
said a newly expanded con them that no one wanted to
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