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Dozens of Bodies Found in Mexican Border State
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said. Security forces investigating reports that a passenger bus had been hijacked in the area conducted a raid that netted 11 suspected kidnappers and freed five kidnap victims. Then they made a grisly discovery - a total of eight pits, containing a total of 59 corpses. One of the pits held 43 dead. The bodies are being examined to determine whether they were bus passengers ...
Ecuador Expels US Ambassador in WikiLeaks Flap
By not in system - AOL NewsQUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuador said Tuesday it is expelling the U.S. ambassador over a diplomatic cable divulged by WikiLeaks that accuses a newly retired police chief of a long history of corruption and speculates that President Rafael Correa was aware of it. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced Ambassador Heather Hodges' expulsion at a news conference. AFP / Getty Images The Ecuadorean government has ordered U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges to leave the country after a leaked diplomatic cable quoted her as saying Ecuador's president appointed a chief of police he knew to be ...
Bus Crash Kills Dozens in Ecuador
By not in system - AOL NewsQUITO, Ecuador - Rescue workers say a bus ran off a foggy, rainy mountain road in Ecuador and plunged about 1,100 feet, killing at least 35 people and injuring 34 others. Red Cross worker Jorge Arteaga says by telephone that Friday's accident occurred before dawn in the western province of Manabi. AFP / Getty Images People look at the wreckage of a bus that fell into a deep ravine near La Crespa, Ecuador, on Friday. The Red Cross sent 30 volunteers and five ambulances to the scene. Police said late Friday that at least 35 people were killed in the accident and another 34 were ...
Villagers Flee Erupting Volcano in Ecuador
By not in system - AOL NewsQUITO, Ecuador (Dec. 5) -- The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is billowing ash into the sky and sending super-hot pyroclastic flows surging down its slopes, causing authorities to evacuate nearby villages. Hugo Yepez, director of Ecuador's Geophysical Institute, says no one has been injured nor any village damaged. He says people within 8 miles of the volanco's center were evacuated Saturday as a precaution. An eruption of ash from Tungurahua last May caused a one-day shutdown of the international airport at Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil. Thousands of people in near the volcano also were ...
WikiLeaks Founder's Mom: 'Don't Hunt My Son'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Dec. 1) -- The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has gone into hiding in Australia, saying she's "reacting as any mother would" and is extremely "distressed" by a global manhunt targeting her son. Christine Assange, who runs a puppet theater in Australia's Queensland state, told the country's Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper that she's temporarily moved to an undisclosed spot on the coast to escape media scrutiny. "He's my son and I love him, and obviously I don't want him hunted down and jailed. I'm reacting as any mother would. I'm distressed," Assange told Australia's ABC Radio ...
Where in the World Is Julian Assange?
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Nov. 30) -- Seemingly everyone wants a piece of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange this week, with Interpol, Sweden, the United States, Australia, Sarah Palin, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill O'Reilly joining the posse. Palin says he should be hunted down "like al-Qaida." O'Reilly calls him a "sleazebag." Government officials want him tried for espionage, and Interpol is after him for alleged sex crimes. Others want him banned from the Internet. Good luck with all of that. The 39-year-old recluse and self-described misfit -- whose latest secret-documents dump comprises more than 250,000 ...
2 Miners Found Dead After Ecuador Tunnel Collapse
By not in system - AOL NewsQUITO, Ecuador (Oct. 16) -- Search teams found the bodies of two miners Saturday and were still looking for two other men missing since a tunnel collapsed 490 feet (150 meters) underground the previous day. Deputy Mining Minister Jorge Espinosa identified the two known dead as Walter Vera and Paul Aguirre. He said searchers still held hopes they could rescue the two missing miners, Pedro Mendoza and Angel Vera. "We hope to find the two other miners alive because they were in a spot that probably was not affected" by the cave-in, Espinosa told The Associated Press. Sponsored Links Juan ...
Ecuador: 4 Miners Trapped After Tunnel Collapses
By not in system - AOL NewsQUITO, Ecuador (Oct. 15) -- A tunnel collapsed in a gold mine in southern Ecuador on Friday, trapping four miners 490 feet (150 meters) underground. Authorities said rescue efforts were under way. A miner who survived the cave-in told authorities that four of his colleagues remain trapped in the mine, located near the city of Portovelo, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Quito. The mine is operated by the Ecuadorean company Minesadco. The collapse happened at 3:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. EDT; 0830 GMT) and blocked a tunnel, trapping the workers at the fifth level of the mine, ...
3 Police Colonels Investigated in Ecuador Revolt
By not in system - AOL NewsQUITO, Ecuador (Oct. 2) -- Three police colonels were under criminal investigation Saturday for failing to prevent a massive protest by their subordinates against President Rafael Correa that spun out of control, claiming at least five lives. The three are being investigated for negligence, rebellion and attempted assassination, said Prosecutor Gonzalo Marco Freire. Ordered arrested on Friday, they were released Saturday on their own recognizance by a judge who barred from leaving the country. Freire told The Associated Press that the three "should have known what their subordinates were ...
Ecuador's Rebellion Quelled, but Not Its Fiscal Woes
By Emily Schmall - AOL News
(Oct. 1) -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said today he would offer "no pardon or forgiveness" to the national police force for its role in what he claimed was an attempt to overthrow him. But while he has regained the upper hand, Correa is still hard-pressed for answers to the severe economic problems that lurk behind Thursday's violent clash, which killed at least three people, according to The Associated Press. Correa had to be rescued by the military after police barricaded him Thursday in a Quito hospital, where he was treated for inhaling tear gas police fired at him in a ...
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