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News Article for 5/6

Miss Teen Mexico is going to be leading a 5K-walk-a-thon to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Cranford.  Guadalupe Hernandez (Miss Teen Mexico 2010-2011) says that she hopes to see many families from Bridgeton and neighboring communities join her in the walk-a-thon.  She also said that she has always been passionate about helping the suffering children living with cancer since she was little.

Her mother lost a younger brother to cancer and when Guadalupe was 12, she was moved to grow her hair out.  She let it grow out very long and then cut off 14 inches to help children with cancer.  Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system and approximately 74,000 people will be diagnosed with this this year in the U.S.  She said her goal is to hopefully make this an annual even and raise $2,000.

http://www.nj.com/bridgeton/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1304515516204070.xml&coll=10

News Article for 4/29

At the beginning of the year, Mexico's schoolchildren were put on a diet.  But, there are many ways to cheat on the diets because of the New Year's resolutions.  Some of the food's that are allowed to be sold in the school's are: lollipops, potato and corn chips, and cookies.  The message is kind of going through, but the portions are smaller.  Soft drinks are banned in elementary schools, the chips are baked and not fried.

Mexico is one of the fattest countries in the world because the obesity starts really early.  The government says that one in three children are overweight or obese.  The education minister at one school said that the rules removed about 90% of fried foods from schools.  Children start heading home from school and there are vendors all over on a narrow street selling candy, chips, nachos and ice cream.  A lot of them bought a snack for the way home, but they haven't forgot the lessons from school.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/americas/14mexico.html?ref=mexico

News Article for 4/21

There have been twenty-two Zetas drug gang members that have been held in the latest arrests over the killings of 145 people.  All of the arrests brought the total of detained to 55, which included 16 police officers for the involvement with the mass graves in San Fernando, Tampaulipas state.  Five women were accused of involvement in organized crime, murder, kidnapping and violating firearms laws by marines.

So far, a total of 145 bodies have been found from the mass graves.  Those graves lie on a path that used regularly by migrants heading for the U.S.  Authorities blame the Zetas for the massacre of 72 migrants in Tamaulipas because they have been blamed for other battles.  In 2006, more than 34,600 people were killed during the Mexican drug violence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110420/wl_afp/mexicocrimedrug_20110420011240

News Article Summary 4/15

In Morelia, Mexico, there were eight tortured bodies of young men found dumped on a roadside.  All of the men were found with a gunshot to the head.  The attorney general's office in Michoacan state said the bodies were found near the border of Jalisco state, where they were partly covered by bales of straw and some were half-clothed.  All of the victims were all between 22 and 25 years old.  Two of the men were wearing women's underwear and their fingernails were painted.  The meaning of that was unclear, but drug cartels are known to insult rivals by suggesting they are homosexuals.

On the same day, there was another body found in a pit in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa.  Now the number of corpses found there is up to the number 13.  Apparently some of the bodies had been in the pits for six months.  All of the bodies are going through DNA tests and police are searching for the property owners where they were found by a farmer.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42595319/ns/world_news-americas/42589638