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rj 1 I I I I II I II 12A MEXICO THE AMERICAS Paso Times Friday, May 12, 2006 Mexican cartel member gets 44 years in jail A i ll rest for their involvement in a par- Mexican and U.S. authorities say United States, since his arrest in ty for thousands of children in a Cardenas has continued to run the 2003. He is being held at the top-northern Mexican border city that Gulf Cartel, which moves tons of security La Palma prison west of Cardenas allegedly financed. cocaine and marijuana into the Mexico City. Associated Press MEXICO CITY An alleged top collaborator of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Osiel Cardenas was sentenced to 44 years in prison for organized crime, attempted homicide and illegal arms possession convictions, authorities said Thursday.

Adan Javier Medrano, alias "The Professional," was convicted of smuggling drug money from the United States into Mexico and distributing cocaine north of the border, the federal Attorney General's Office said in a news release. A member of Cardenas' Gulf Cartel since 1999, Medrano was also a gunman for the organization and was in charge of verifying the quality and quantity of drugs it received in die southern state of Chiapas and Guatemala, the release said. Last week, Mexican authorities placed six people under house ar ft 3 Ca Squash Blossoms, Earrings, Bracelets. Necklaces, (c Pendants. Watch Tins.

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We don't know the source," said Francisco Anglesio, environmental undersecretary for Santa Cruz province where the deaths occurred, speaking with reporters in southern Argentina. CANADA First grizzly-polar bear in wild confirmed TORONTO A DNA test has confirmed what zoologists, hunters and aboriginal trackers in the far northern reaches of Canada have dreamed of for years: the first documented case of a grizzly-polar bear in the wild. Roger Kuptana, an Inuit tracker from the Northwest Territories, suspected that the American hunter he was guiding had shot a hybrid bear after noticing its white fur was spotted brown and it had the long claws and slightly humped back of a grizzly. Territorial officials seized the bear's body, and a DNA test from Wildlife Genetics International, a lab in British Columbia, confirmed the hybrid was born of a polar bear mother and grizzly father. "It's something we've all known was theoretically possible because their habitats overlap a little bit and their breeding seasons overlap a little bit," said Ian Stirling, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Alvarez also accused rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos of taking a contradictory position by supporting protesters in their violent clash last week with police in San Salvador Atenco. "The Zapatista National Liberation Army has an obligation to hand over their weapons, and leave behind the deplorable threat of violence they represent," Alvarez wrote in an open letter to the rebels. "Marcos is being incongruous by taking up causes that have expressed themselves violently." Bribery survey: Bribing government officials for services such as trash pickup and hearing court cases remains a way of life for Mexicans, according to a survey. Survey respondents paid bribes 10 percent of time when they asked for public services last year, roughly the same as in 2001, the Mexican chapter of Transparency International said in a biannual report Tuesday, Times wire reports.