Social media fuel Mexican youth protests

The demonstrators have no clear leader. Many say Twitter posts and Facebook groups brought them to the streets of Mexico's capital and cities around the country.
With presidential elections less than six weeks away, they are protesting media coverage of the campaign and criticizing the candidate widely seen as the front-runner.
Local media reports have described it as "the Mexican Spring," drawing a comparison with massive protests pushing for political change in the Middle East.
The surge of student activism has drawn attention at a key time during campaigning in the politically polarized country, where security concerns and economic problems have been top issues for candidates vying for the presidency.
"It was about time that Mexico woke up, that it stopped watching television," said Leonardo Mata, a student at Mexico City's Metropolitan Autonomous University who joined thousands marching in the capital on Wednesday.

Mexico stops entry of Libya's Saadi Gaddafi

The Mexican authorities say they have stopped a plot by a criminal gang organization to smuggle one of the sons of Libya's ex-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi into the country. Saadi Gaddafi has been under house arrest in the West African state of Niger since he fled Libya in September. His lawyer, Nick Kaufman, denied Mr Gaddafi had ever tried to flout a UN travel ban and escape. Mexican officials say the plot came to light through intelligence reports.
It involved buying a number of properties in Mexico, including one near the resort of Puerto Vallarta, using false names and documents, they said.

Mexican Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire said the plan involved a criminal ring "of international dimensions," but it was uncovered in September before it could be carried out. The ring involved people from several different countries, including Mexico, Denmark and Canada, Mr Poire told a news conference in Mexico City.

Police find girls, drugs and fighting cocks in Acapulco jail

No wonder with that kind of prison crime rates soring and the bd guys give a @#$&, they are just limited in their movement, that's all. What a joke.....
Police in Acapulco in south-west Mexico have found inmates in possession of 100 flat screen televisions, as well as DVD players, fighting roosters and two sacks of cannabis.
They said they also found 25 women living in the men's section of the prison - six were inmates, while 19 were described as illegal residents and alleged in media reports to be prostitutes.



Anonymous versus Mexico's Zetas drug cartel

An Internet video is threatening Mexico's Zetas drug cartel with exposure of its allies in the local police and news media this week unless the gang frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as "Anonymous."
The YouTube message, which claims to be from Anonymous "Veracruz, Mexico and the world," says it is "tired of the criminal group the Zetas, which is dedicated to kidnapping, stealing and extortion," and threatens to fight back with information instead of weapons.
It said it knows of police officers, journalists, taxi drivers and others working with the Zetas.
The video refers to an unidentified person kidnapped in the coastal city of Veracruz, and says: "You have made a great mistake by taking one of us. Free him."