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Federal authorities saidthey have arrested a wom-an linked to a humansmuggling organizationthat operates out of Zapa-ta County, records recent-ly filed in federal courtshow.

A criminal complaintdated March 13 chargesLaura Zavala, of Zapata,with transporting illegalimmigrants.

“Laura Zavala has beenidentified by the ZapataBorder Patrol intelligenceunit as a facilitator/orga-nizer/scout operating forthe Zavala smuggling or-ganization,” states thecriminal complaint.

Authorities allege theZavala smuggling organi-zation is considerably af-fecting the following areasin Zapata County: Las La-jas, Las Tortolas, Clareno

and Blanca Vela. Court re-cords further identifiedLuis Daniel Mendoza-Mendoza, of Pearsall, as aco-defendant in the case.He too is charged in thesame complaint.

Federal authorities alsodetained a juvenile identi-fied as Mendoza-Mendo-za’s nephew. He was pro-cessed accordingly. Men-doza-Mendoza and Zavala

remained in federal custo-dy.

U.S. Border Patrol de-tained the juvenile, Men-doza-Mendoza and Zavalaon March 10 for conspir-ing to smuggle eight un-documented people.

Earlier that day, agentsobserved a blue Ford Ex-plorer and a green FordExplorer traveling southon U.S. 83 behind a black

Ford Expedition. Agentssaid they recognized theblack Expedition from aprevious encounter in ahuman smuggling case inZapata.

“(Agents) were mindfulthat the driver of theblack Ford Expedition is afemale previously identi-fied as Laura Zavala, whoresides in Zapata, Texas,”records state.

Based on those observa-tions, they decided to takea closer look at the greenExplorer. Agents said theyobserved several peopleinside the green Exploreras it swerved onto theshoulder of the highwayfor no apparent reason.

Agents said they activa-ted the emergency lightson the unit to conduct animmigration inspectionon the occupants of thevehicle. Agents identified

ZAVALA SMUGGLING ORGANIZATION

Facilitator arrestedFleet of vehicles found with immigrants

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

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“Laura Zavala has been identifiedby the Zapata Border Patrolintelligence unit as a facilitator/organizer/scout operating for theZavala smuggling organization. CRIMINAL COMPLAINT

A recent traffic stop inZapata County landed twosuspected human smug-glers behind bars, accord-ing to court documents.

Federal authoritiesidentified them as Roy Ra-mirez and Adolfo de laCruz Jr., both from Lare-do, states a criminal com-plaint filed against themMarch 16. They werecharged with transportingpeople who had enteredthe country illegally. Bothare in federal custody ona $75,000 bond.

Their arrest occurred

March 12 by U.S. 83 andMesa Salinas Road, southof Zapata. That day, a Tex-as Department of PublicSafety trooper cited Rami-rez for allegedly drivingin the left lane when notpassing and for not havinga driver’s license, accord-ing to court documents.

The trooper then calledU.S. Border Patrol for as-sistance believing some ofthe occupants were in thecountry illegally. On arriv-al, agents determined thatfive occupants did nothave legal status to be inthe United States and took

ZAPATA COUNTY

Two bustedfor humansmugglingBorder Patrol found five illegal

immigrants in the car of Laredo menBy CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

THE ZAPATA TIMES

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A federal judge has or-dered Zetas drug cartelleader Omar Treviño Mo-rales, known as “Z-42,” toprison on kidnappingcharges, Mexico’s attor-ney general said Monday.

In addition, Tamauli-pas authorities an-nounced they arrestedRamiro Perez Ramos,known as “El Rama” or“Comandante Rama,”who was identified by theNational Security Com-

mission as the regionalcommander for the Zetasand a leader for the groupin Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.The arrest happened Mon-day, authorities said.

Mexican prosecutors are

accusing Treviño of kid-napping several people inTamaulipas in 2005. AMexican federal districtcourt found enough proba-ble cause to allege thatTreviño allegedly carried

out the kidnappings.He remains in custody

at a prison in Almoloya deJuárez, located northeastof Toluca in Central Mexi-co.

On March 4, Mexican

authorities announcedTreviño’s capture at ahome in San Pedro GarzaGarcia, located southwestof Monterrey in Nuevo Le-on state.

Treviño was also want-ed in the United States.An indictment filed in2008 in the Southern Dis-trict of Texas charged himwith multiple counts ofconspiracy to possess withintent to distribute mari-juana and cocaine andmoney laundering.

ZETAS DRUG CARTEL

‘Z-42’ captured on kidnapping charges

TREVIÑO MORALES

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

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Mexican prosecutors are accusing Treviño ofkidnapping several people in Tamaulipas in 2005. A… court found enough probable cause to allege thatTreviño allegedly carried out the kidnappings.

LYNCHBURG, Va.— Launching his bidfor the Republicanpresidential nomina-tion, Sen. Ted Cruz ofTexas asked Chris-tian conservative vot-ers to imagine aUnited States with-out the IRS, Obama-

care or abortionrights — and

to imaginethey canmake thathappen bysupportinghim.

His aspi-rational ap-

peal on Mon-day, aimed at

America’s most con-servative voters,

could quickly run in-to challenges in win-ning over moderatevoters — and eventu-ally deep difficultiesin governing shouldCruz win the WhiteHouse.

But it’s a message

that Cruz, the firstmajor 2016 contenderto declare himself acandidate, is expect-ed to forcefully em-phasize in the com-ing year before vot-

2016 ELECTION

CRUZ RUNSFOR PRESIDENTSenator targets conservatives

By PHILIP ELLIOTTASSOCIATED PRESS

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas poses for a photograph withmembers of the audience after announcing his cam-paign for president, Monday, at Liberty University, inLynchburg, Va.

Photos by Andrew Harnik | AP

10A THE ZAPATA TIMES International WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015

JERUSALEM — After a strongperformance in last week’s par-liamentary election, Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu seemsto be cruising toward forming anew government of hard-line andreligious parties. But in thesmoke-and-mirrors world of Is-raeli politics, a centrist govern-ment more amenable to peace ne-gotiations could easily emerge atthe last minute instead.

With his “natural partners,”Netanyahu could control a com-fortable 67-seat majority in par-liament — but such a govern-ment would probably set on a col-lision course with theinternational community. Al-ready the talk is of more settle-ment construction in the WestBank, steps against foreign advo-cacy groups that support the Pal-estinians or the opposition, and arenewed push for a law formaliz-ing Israel as a Jewish state de-spite the large Arab minority.

Calls are mounting for an al-ternative. President Reuven Riv-lin, expected to formally task Ne-tanyahu with forming a coalitionon Wednesday, has made nationalunity a priority and has calledfor “as wide a coalition as possi-ble” to ensure representation ofall groups in Israeli society.

For now, both Netanyahu andhis chief adversaries — the cen-trist Zionist Union and Yesh Atidparties — are saying a “unitygovernment” is out of the ques-tion. The bruising campaign fea-tured harsh personal attacks onall sides, and bad feelings linger.In the final days, Netanyahumade strident appeals to his basethat have saddled him with accu-sations of racism against Israel’s2 million Arab citizens and ofabandoning his previously statedsupport for an eventual Palesti-nian state. On both counts he hasbeen trying in vain to apologizeand backtrack, adding to thecharged atmosphere. After such adivisive period, there seems to belittle appetite to reconcile.

Yet this could all change in thecoming weeks as Netanyahu cob-bles together his coalition, poten-tial partners make demands forgovernment ministries, his oppo-nents ponder four long years inthe opposition and the worldcommunity makes clear howdimly it would view a govern-

ment cool to making concessionsfor peace.

Here are some reasons whythe Israeli government may endup looking far different thanwidely expected:

Relieving InternationalPressure

Netanyahu came under heavyinternational criticism for cam-paign rhetoric that was seen asracist and anti-peace. AlthoughNetanyahu has claimed his com-ments were misunderstood, theWhite House remains uncon-vinced, and President BarackObama is threatening to reassessAmerican policy toward Israel.

The possibilities for harassingIsrael are great, beginning withU.S. removing its near-automaticveto on anti-Israel maneuvers atthe U.N. Security Council, proba-bly clearing the way for worldrecognition of a Palestinian stateon all lands the Palestiniansseek. And if the United Statessends the signal, the floodgatescould open for real. Israel couldface constant pressure at otherinternational bodies as well asfrom the European Union. Inter-national boycott movements areprimed to spring into action. Im-ports on goods made in Israel’sWest Bank settlements could bebanned and Israeli officers andofficials could be denied entry at

various ports of call.None of this would likely occur

if the government were insteadcomposed of centrist parties plusNetanyahu’s Likud — with theprime minister once again pro-claiming his theoretical supportof Palestinian independence. HisLikud Party colleagues — most ofthem opponents of Palestinianstatehood — would be mutteringand peeved. But they would beCabinet ministers, some in posi-tion to continue the settlement ofthe occupied territories with thesame machinations that have de-posited nearly 600,000 Jews on oc-cupied land to this day, most ofthem in the years since the peaceprocess first began two decadesago.

While the personal relation-ship between Obama and Netan-yahu seems badly and maybe ir-reparably harmed, in the grandscheme of things, a centrist gov-ernment might enable the stormclouds to pass.

The Hapless OppositionIsrael’s moderate Labor Party

— now rebranded as the ZionistUnion — has won two electionsoutright in the past four decades,in 1992 and 1999. Each time it los-es, its leaders face the same cruelchoice: Try to rebuild in opposi-tion, or agree to join Likud in a“broad-based” government of

“unity.”Some moderates, angry at the

outcome of the vote, are urgingtheir leaders to let the national-ists rule in peace, so that the peo-ple may understand what theyhave done. But the lure of unityis tempting. On one hand, despitethe loss, one sits in government;and on the other, there is a strongurge toward damage control — agenuine sense by the moderatesthat they must contain the hard-line agenda of building settle-ments that would deepen Israel’sisolation and cause damage in avariety of ways.

The prospect of a return topower at the ballot box is in anycase fading a little in light of lastweek’s loss, which was crushingafter some unusually high hopes.Surveys had shown most Israelisto be sick of Netanyahu and astunning parade of top Israeli se-curity beseeched voters to endhis reign. The cost of livingseemed to leave masses of Israelisin despair and small scandalspiled on as well. The last polls,four days before the vote, au-gured very well indeed. But atthe last minute, with Netanyahusounding the alarm on TV andradio, masses of Likud voters ral-lied back to base.

Isaac Herzog, the head of theZionist Union, has particularcause for concern. Many arewondering how they ever thoughtthat Herzog, slight of frame and

high-pitched of voice, could wrestthe leadership in such a security-obsessed nation. If he wishes tosurvive politically, a unity gov-ernment may be the ticket —even if for the moment claimingotherwise is key.

He’s Done It BeforeNetanyahu is forming his

third consecutive government,and he has a history of bringingin centrist partners — suggestinghe, too, has little wish to carryout Likud policy to the full. In2009, he made Labor Party leaderEhud Barak his defense minister,and in 2013 he brought in dovishex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni tobe his chief peace negotiator.These people gave Netanyahu’sgovernment international re-spectability and helped shieldhim from global criticism forhard-line policies toward the Pal-estinians — exactly according toplan. Herzog or Yesh Atid’s YairLapid — who was also financeminister for most of Netanyahu’slast term — could play similarroles in coming years.

A Clamor For UnityFollowing an especially pola-

rizing election campaign, Netan-yahu is under pressure to repairthe rifts in Israeli society. In afirst step, Netanyahu apologizedMonday for what he acknowl-edged were offensive commentsabout Arab voters. Leading Arabpoliticians swiftly rejected hiscall.

There has also been unseemlysniping in recent days betweenEuropean-descended Jews —moderates mostly — and Sephar-di Jews of Middle Eastern de-scent who heavily back Likud.The former stand accused of eli-tism and an inability to commu-nicate — and the latter of tribal-ism, voting against their own in-terests and dooming Israel todestruction. Tensions between re-ligious Jews — part of Netanya-hu’s traditional bloc — and secu-lar ones who dominate the mod-erate camp have flared up aswell.

As the dust settles and temperscool in the coming weeks, Netan-yahu may be looking for a magicbullet to unify the nation oncemore.

Analysis: Israel seeks government unityBy JOSEF FEDERMAN AND DAN PERRY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this March 17 file photo, Bedouin women wait to cast their votes in Rahat, Israel on for parliament elections. Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be cruising toward forming a new government of hardline and religious parties.

Photo by Tsafrir Abayov | AP file

SEYNE-LES-ALPES,France — A Germanwingsjet carrying 150 people fromBarcelona to Duesseldorfslammed into a remote sec-tion of the French Alps onTuesday, sounding like anavalanche as it scatteredpulverized debris across arocky mountain and downits steep ravines. All aboardwere assumed killed.

The pilots sent out no dis-tress call and had lost radiocontact with their controlcenter, France’s aviation au-thority said, deepening themystery over the A320’smid-flight crash after a sur-prise 8-minute descent.

“The site is a picture ofhorror. The grief of the fam-ilies and friends is immea-surable. We must now standtogether. We are united inour great grief,” GermanForeign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in astatement after being flownover the crash scene andbriefed by French author-ities.

The crash left officialsand families across Europereeling in shock. Sobbing,grieving relatives at bothairports were led away byairport workers and crisiscounselors. One Germantown was rent with sorrowafter losing 16 high schoolstudents coming back froman exchange program inSpain.

“This is pretty much theworst thing you can imag-ine,” a visibly rattled Hal-tern Mayor Bodo Klimpelsaid at a hastily called pressconference.

As helicopters were de-ployed to reach the crashsite, German ChancellorAngela Merkel urged re-porters not to speculate onthe cause.

“We still don’t knowmuch beyond the bare in-formation on the flight, andthere should be no specula-tion on the cause of thecrash,” she said in Berlin.“All that will be investigated

thoroughly.”Lufthansa Vice President

Heike Birlenbach told re-porters in Barcelona thatfor now “we say it is an ac-cident.”

In Washington, the WhiteHouse said American offi-cials were in contact withtheir French, Spanish andGerman counterparts.

“There is no indication ofa nexus to terrorism at thistime,” said U.S. National Se-curity Council spokeswo-man Bernadette Meehan.

Photos of the crash siteshowed scattered whiteflecks across a stony moun-tain and several larger air-plane body sections withwindows. French officialssaid a helicopter crew thatlanded briefly in the areasaw no signs of life.

“Everything is pulver-ized. The largest pieces ofdebris are the size of asmall car. No one can accessthe site from the ground,”Gilbert Sauvan, president ofthe general council, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, told TheAssociated Press.

French Interior MinisterBernard Cazeneuve said ablack box had been locatedat the crash site and “willbe immediately investigat-ed.” He did not say whetherit was a data recorder or acockpit voice recorder.

Germanwings is low-costcarrier owned by Lufthan-sa, Germany’s biggest air-line, and serves mostly Eu-

ropean destinations. Tues-day’s crash was its firstinvolving passenger deathssince it began operating in2002. The Germanwings lo-go, normally maroon andyellow, was blacked out onits Twitter feed.

Germanwings said Flight9525 carried 144 passengers,including two babies, andsix crew members. Officialsbelieve 67 Germans were onboard, including the 16 highschool students from Hal-tern and two opera singers.

Barcelona’s Gran Teatredel Liceu says German con-tralto Maria Radner wasaboard the crashed planealong with her husband andbaby. The opera house inDuesseldorf said bass bari-tone Oleg Bryjak, was alsoon the plane.

Dutch officials said onecitizen was killed.

The plane left BarcelonaAirport at 10:01 a.m., thenbegan descending againshortly after reaching itscruising height of 38,000feet, Germanwings CEOThomas Winkelmann toldreporters in Cologne. Thedescent lasted eight min-utes.

Eric Heraud of theFrench Civil Aviation Au-thority said the Germanw-ings plane lost radio contactwith a control center at10:30 a.m. Tuesday, but “nev-er declared a distress alertitself.” He said the combina-tion of loss of radio contract

and the plane’s quick de-scent prompted the controlcenter to declare a distresssituation.

“We cannot say at themoment why our colleaguewent into the descent, andso quickly, and without pre-viously consulting air traf-fic control,” said Germanw-ings’ director of flight oper-ations, Stefan-Kenan Scheib.

The plane crashed at analtitude of about 2,000 me-ters (6,550 feet) at Meolans-Revels, near the popular skiresort of Pra Loup. The siteis 700 kilometers (430 miles)south-southeast of Paris.

“It was a deafening noise.I thought it was an ava-lanche, although it soundedslightly different. It wasshort noise and lasted just afew seconds,” SandrineBoisse, the president of thePra Loup tourism office,told the AP.

Interior Ministry spokes-man Pierre-Henry Brandettold BFM television he ex-pected “an extremely longand extremely difficult”search-and-rescue operationbecause of the area’s re-moteness. The weather inthe area deteriorated Tues-day afternoon, with a chillyrain falling.

Winkelmann said the pi-lot, whom he did not name,had more than 10 years’ ex-perience working for Ger-manwings and its parentairline Lufthansa.

The aircraft was deliver-ed to Lufthansa in 1991, hadapproximately 58,300 flighthours in some 46,700 flights,Airbus said. The plane un-derwent a routine check inDuesseldorf on Monday, andits last regular full checktook place in the summer of2013.

Winkelmann said teamsfrom Airbus, Germanwings,Lufthansa and Lufthansa’stechnical division had ar-rived in France and were ontheir way to the crash site.

The municipal sports hallof Seyne-les-Alpes, 6 milesfrom the Val d’Allos ski re-sort, was being set up totake bodies from the crash.

Plane crash in Alps kills 150 By LORI HINNANT AND CLAUDE PARIS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A rescue helicopter flies over debris of the Germanwings passengerjet, scattered on the mountain side of the French Alps, Tuesday.

Photo by Claude Paris | AP

NEW DELHI — The In-dian Supreme Court onTuesday struck down asection of a law that al-lowed the authorities tojail people for offensiveonline posts, in a judg-ment that was regardedas a landmark ruling onfree speech in India.

The law stipulated thata person could be jailedfor up to three years forany communication on-line that was, among oth-er things, "grossly offen-sive," "menacing" or"false," and for the pur-pose of causing "annoy-ance," "inconvenience" or"injury." The provisions,which led to highly pub-licized arrests in recentyears, had been roundlycriticized by legal expertswho called them vagueand argued that they hadbeen used in some casesto stifle dissent.

Calling the wording sovague that "virtually anyopinion on any subjectwould be covered by it,"the court said "if it is towithstand the test of con-stitutionality, the chillingeffect on free speechwould be total."

Sunil Abraham, the ex-ecutive director of theCenter for Internet & So-ciety, which is based inBangalore, called the de-cision "amazing."

"It is in continuation ofa great tradition in India:that of apex courts consis-tently, over the years, pro-tecting the citizens of In-dia from violations of hu-man rights," he said.

India is considered bysome to be one of theworld’s most freewheelingdemocracies, but the lawreflected the ambivalencewith which Indian offi-cials have sometimestreated freedom of expres-

sion, occasionally citingthe Constitution’s allow-ance of "reasonable re-strictions" on free speechin order to ban books,movies and other materi-al about subjects like sex,politics and religion.

The government re-cently blocked the screen-ing in India of the BBCdocumentary "India’sDaughter," about the Del-hi gang rape in 2012 thatmade international news.

The law, the Informa-tion Technology (Amend-ment) Act, was passed byparliament shortly afterthe three-day terrorist at-tacks on Mumbai in 2008.It granted the authoritiesmore expansive powers tomonitor electronic com-munications for reasonsof national security. Thatsection was not a part ofthe court case.

In the past, critics havebeen particularly worriedthat the section of the lawthat was struck down wasripe for misuse at thehands of police officialsoften beholden to politicalparties.

Last week, a youngman in the northern Indi-an state of Uttar Pradeshbecame one of the latestpeople to be arrested un-der the law when the po-lice said he incorrectly at-tributed a polarizingstatement to the lawmak-er Azam Khan on Face-book.

Other highly pub-licized cases include thearrest in 2012 of a profes-sor accused of sharingcartoons mocking thechief minister of WestBengal state on Facebookand the arrest of twoyoung women after oneshared a Facebook postcriticizing the virtualshutdown of Mumbai fol-lowing the death of a re-vered right-wing politicalleader there.

India votes forfree speach

By NIDA NAJAR AND SUHASINI RAJNEW YORK TIMES

ers start to pick nominees.“God’s blessing has been on

America from the very begin-ning of this nation, and I be-lieve that God isn’t done withAmericans,” Cruz declared atLiberty University, a Christianschool founded by the late Rev.Jerry Falwell.

“I believe in you. I believe inthe power of millions of coura-geous conservatives rising upto reignite the promise ofAmerica. And that is that iswhy, today, I am announcingthat I am running for presidentof the United States of Ameri-ca.”

Cruz won’t be the sole GOPcontender for long. Two Senatecolleagues, Kentucky’s RandPaul and Florida’s Marco Ru-bio, are eyeing campaignlaunches soon. And formerFlorida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wiscon-sin Gov. Scott Walker and NewJersey Gov. Chris Christie, areexpected to follow, among oth-ers.

The 44-year-old Cruz is bet-ting his White House hopes onprofoundly conservative votersand their opposition to policiesthey find abhorrent.

Within such circles, there isdeep distrust of the IRS, whichwas revealed last year to havebeen scrutinizing tea partygroups’ nonprofit status.

Scuttling President BarackObama’s health care legisla-tion, called by some “Obama-care,” is a rallying cry, as well.And abortion is a major issuefor Christian conservativeswho have tremendous sway inthe lead-off caucus and primaryelection states of Iowa andSouth Carolina.

During his 30-minute kickoffspeech, delivered like a sermonwithout notes or cue cards,Cruz made clear he sees elec-toral potential in his unbend-ing advocacy.

“Today, roughly half of born-

again Christians aren’t voting— they’re staying home,” Cruzsaid. “Imagine, instead, mil-lions of people of faith allacross America coming out tothe polls and voting our val-ues.”

Following his election to theSenate in 2012, the former Tex-as solicitor general quickly es-tablished himself as an uncom-promising figure willing to takeon Democrats and sometimesRepublicans, too. Divisive with-in his own GOP, he won praisefrom tea party activists forleading the effort to shut thefederal government during anunsuccessful bid to block mon-ey for the health law.

He spoke on the fifth anniver-sary of that law — legislationthat prompted Cruz to stand formore than 21 hours in the Sen-ate to denounce it in a speechthat delighted his supportersand other Obamacare foes.

Cheers rose Monday in thehall when Cruz reminded thecrowd that Liberty Universityfiled a suit against the lawright after its enactment.

But the partial governmentshutdown was not widely pop-ular, and Democrats signaledthat it would be central to theircriticism of the first-term sen-ator.

“His reckless approach togoverning would make lifeworse, not better, for Ameri-cans and he isn’t the type offighter that America’s middle-class families need,” Democrat-ic National Committee chairDebbie Wasserman Schultz saidin a statement.

The son of an Americanmother and Cuban-born father,Cruz would be the first Hispan-ic president.

To the enthusiastic crowd, heurged students to “imagine apresident that finally, finally, fi-nally secures the borders.”

He also nodded to the tea par-

ty, which emphasizes limitedfederal spending and a libertar-ian-leaning view of govern-ment.

“Imagine a simple flat tax,”he said. “Imagine abolishingthe IRS.”

He left unexplained how thegovernment would collect taxeswithout the Internal RevenueService. The flat tax has nevergone anywhere in Congress be-cause the only way it can workis either by dramatically cut-ting spending or significantlyincreasing taxes for most low-and middle-income families.Now, wealthy families in gener-al pay federal income taxes athigher rates than the rest of thepopulation.

On abortion, Cruz said:“Imagine a federal governmentthat works to defend the sancti-ty of human life.”

By announcing a candidacythat has long been obvious,Cruz triggers accounting andreporting requirements for themoney he is raising and spend-ing. To help build his campaignaccount, he is heading thisweek to donor-heavy New York.

For his announcement, Cruzbypassed Texas, which he rep-resents in the Senate, as well asearly nominating states such asNew Hampshire, where MittRomney kicked off his cam-paign for the GOP nominationin 2012, and Iowa.

By getting in early — in alate-night message on Twitterand then his kickoff speech —Cruz was hoping to claim own-ership of the influential cornerof the Republican Party forwhom cultural issues are su-preme. It was a move at crowd-ing out figures such as formerArkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee,a former Baptist pastor, andformer Sen. Rick Santorum,who has made his Catholicfaith a cornerstone of his politi-cal identity.

CRUZ Continued from Page 1A

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015 THE ZAPATA TIMES 11A

George F. Edwards, 63,was born on September 8,1951. He passed away onFriday, March 20, 2015 atLaredo Medical Center inLaredo, Texas.

Mr. Edwards is preced-ed in death by his parents,George A. and Helen D.Edwards and a sister, Do-lores Edwards.

Mr. Edwards is survivedby his sister, Barbara A.(Jim) Campbell; nephews,Billy (Mary) McCollum,John (Kelly) McCollum;great-grandnephews andgrandnieces, Jonathan(Tara) McCollum, JamesMcCollum, JeannineMcCollum, Jaime (Josh)Mould, Josh (Melissa)McCollum and by fourgreat-great-grandnieces.

He was born and raisedin Endicott, New York. Heretired in Grand Junction,Colorado and recentlymoved to San Ygnacio,Texas.

A Memorial service willbe held on Saturday,March 28, 2015 we will

open at 10:30 a.m. and theservice will start at 11a.m. at Rose Garden Fu-neral Home in Zapata,Texas.

Funeral arrangementsare under the direction ofRose Garden FuneralHome Daniel A. Gonzalez,funeral director, 2102 N.U.S. Hwy 83 Zapata, Texas.

GEORGE F. EDWARDS

Sept. 8, 1951 – March 20, 2015

them into custody. Rami-rez and a passenger identi-fied as de la Cruz were al-so detained and taken tothe Zapata Border PatrolStation.

Once there, Ramirez in-voked his right to an attor-

ney. But de la Cruz choseto speak to authoritiesabout the incident, recordsshow.

“De la Cruz states hewas asked by (Ramirez) totravel with him to Zapata… to pick up a group of il-

legal (immigrants). De laCruz continued by sayingthat Ramirez asked himfor help because he neededa car, which de la Cruzhad,” states the complaint.

Records add the men ex-pected $200 per person

smuggled. They were go-ing to split the money.Both had instructions todrive the immigrants toLaredo.

(César G. Rodriguezmay be reached at 728-2568or cesar@lmtonline.com)

SMUGGLING Continued from Page 1A

‘El Rama’Regarding Perez, the suspected

Zetas commander, his capture al-so resulted in the arrest of sever-al of his accomplices. Authoritiesidentified them as Carlos Rober-to “El Pato” Hernández, Hum-berto Eleuterio “El Sonrics” Gu-tiérrez Martínez, Luis Rolando

“El Guicho” Caudillo Garza andDaniel Israel “El Piedrolo” Peñade la Rosa.

Reports indicate the men werearrested early Monday. Mexicanfederal and state authorities saidthey also seized three assault ri-fles, three ammo clips, ammo, ahand grenade and narcotics froma vehicle the men were in.

ZETAS Continued from Page 1A

the driver as a juvenile whoclaimed to be a U.S. citizen.The five passengers were de-termined to be immigrantswho had crossed the border il-legally, according to court doc-uments.

Agents then suspected theother two vehicles were con-nected to the case.

Authorities then spotted theblue Explorer, which hadstopped just south of where thegreen Explorer was pulledover. Identified as the driver,Mendoza-Mendoza claimed hisvehicle was overheating andstated he needed water. Mendo-za-Mendoza was “visibly shak-en and sweating profusely,” ac-cording to the complaint.

Following a brief interview,agents determined Mendoza-Mendoza was a Mexican citi-zen with no legal status to bein the country. Then, agents al-leged they found two blackhandheld two-way radios ateach Explorer. All four radioswere the same brand and mod-el number, according to courtdocuments.

Authorities then encoun-tered the black Expedition bySiesta and Weslaco lanes in Za-pata. Zavala was identified asthe driver. Given prior infor-mation on Zavala, agents re-sponded to Las Lajas property,where they apprehended threeillegal immigrants in the near-

by brush.All were taken to the Zapata

Border Patrol station.In a post-arrest interview,

Mendoza-Mendoza told agentsZavala calls him to go pick upimmigrants in Zapata to drivethem to Laredo. Zavala askedhim if there was anyone willingto transport immigrants. Men-doza-Mendoza then contactedhis nephew, the juvenile. Zavalaallegedly instructed Mendoza-Mendoza and his nephew toleave Laredo at 5 a.m. March 10.

While en route, Mendoza-Mendoza allegedly stated hewas in constant communicationwith his nephew and Zavala us-ing the two-way radios untilBorder Patrol caught up to thesmuggling attempt. Zavala al-legedly instructed Mendoza topull over and pretend to havecar problems, records show.

Zavala also agreed to speakwith authorities without an at-torney present. She stated shehad received a phone call in-structing her to scout for immi-grants at pre-determined loca-tion in Zapata. The caller hadallegedly arranged for two vehi-cles to drive from Laredo to Za-pata to pick up the group. Courtrecords identified those peopleas Mendoza-Mendoza and hisnephew.

(César G. Rodriguez may bereached at 728-2568 or ce-sar@lmtonline.com)

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SAN FRANCISCO —Google has lured awayMorgan Stanley’s chief fi-nancial officer, Ruth Porat,to be its CFO at a timewhen the Internet searchleader and its Silicon Val-ley peers are under fire forhiring and promoting toofew women.

The appointment an-nounced Tuesday fills avoid that opened earlierthis month after Google’sCFO of the past sevenyears, Patrick Pichette, an-

nounced hisplans to re-tire.

Porat, 58,will becomeGoogle’shighest-rank-ing femaleexecutive

when she starts her newjob on May 26. Her last dayat Morgan Stanley will beApril 30, ending a 28-yearcareer at the New York in-vestment bank.

Google Inc. and otherSilicon Valley heavy-weights, including AppleInc. and Facebook Inc., are

trying to add more womento their payrolls. The pushbegan during the past 10months after the compa-nies released data reveal-ing that women only filled15 to 20 percent of the techjobs, which tend to pay themost.

Kleiner Perkins, a ven-ture capital firm that hasfinanced Google and otherprominent technologycompanies, is currentlyembroiled in a San Fran-cisco trial that is airingembarrassing allegationsof sexual discrimination.In the past week, sexual

discrimination lawsuitshave been filed by womenwho formerly worked atFacebook and Twitter.

Porat’s defection from atop job on Wall Streetserves as the latest remind-er of the technology indus-try’s allure as its productsreshape culture and enrichthe companies creatingthem.

Google has been at theforefront of upheaval dur-ing the past 15 years. Thecompany boasts the topmobile operating system inAndroid and the most pop-ular video site in YouTube.

Google hires Wall Street CFOBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25“Unsettled/Desasosiego: Chil-

dren in a World of Gangs” at TAMIUStudent Center Ballroom, from 7:30p.m. to 9 p.m. Presentation on thehistory behind Central America’s in-security, resulting in undocumentedCentral American children and youthseeking entry into the United States.Free and open to the public. Call326-2820.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26Spanish Book Club, 6 p.m. to 8

p.m. Laredo Public Library, CaltonRoad. Call Sylvia Reash 763-1810.

The Villa San Agustin de Lare-do Genealogical Society will meet atSt. John Neumann Catholic Church.3 to 5 pm. Presentation, “The Rich-ness of Mexico: Its history and cul-ture.” Contact Sanjuanita Martinez-Hunter, PhD at 722-3497 for moreinformation.

Laredo Border Slam. Spokenword competition. 2nd and 4thThursday of each month. Three min-utes to perform an original work.Two rounds. Five random judgesfrom the audience. Cash and quirkyprizes. BYOB. Raffle. Gallery 201. 513San Bernardo. 9-11PM. $2 suggesteddonation at the door.www.face-book.com/laredoborderslam

FRIDAY, MARCH 27TAMIU Lamar Bruni Vergara

Science Center Planetarium. The Se-cret of the Cardboard Rocket, 6 p.m.Extreme Planets, 7 p.m. Admission is$4 for children and $5 for adults.Admission is $4 for TAMIU students,faculty and staff. Call 956-326-DOME(3663).

The Josh Abbott Band and Ke-vin Fowler will perform at a countrywestern dance-concert at 8 p.m. atCasa Blanca Ballroom to benefit theSouth Texas Food Bank. Tickets are$25 pre-sale at Mike’s, Kelly’s andCasa Raul Western Wear, Big BuckStudios and bryanpromotions.com.Tickets $30 at door. Call STFB mar-keting director Salo Otero at 324-2432.

St. Augustine School will holdits 3rd annual Casino Night. 8 p.m.to 12:30 a.m. Laredo Center for theArts. This is St. Augustine’s largestfundraiser. The community is invited.

SATURDAY, MARCH 2866th annual Flower and Art

Show. Fellowship Hall, First UnitedMethodist Church. 1 to 6 p.m. Publicinvited; admission fee.

Texas Food Bank-TAMIU BigEvent at 1907 Freight at Riverside, 8a.m. to 1 p.m. More than 200 TAMIUstudents called the Love Committeewill bag and sort for STFB clientsand paint STFB offices. Erasmo Vil-larreal 763-4408 or 726-3120.

SUNDAY, MARCH 2966th annual Flower and Art

Show. Fellowship Hall, First UnitedMethodist Church. 1 to 6 p.m. Publicinvited; admission fee.

Women’s City Club presentsSundaes with Style, 2:30 p.m. to 5p.m. at the Laredo Country Club. Forreservations call Nancy at 763-9960.

TUESDAY, MARCH 31TAMIU Lamar Bruni Vergara

Science Center Planetarium. The Se-cret of the Cardboard Rocket, 5 p.m.Extreme Planets, 6 p.m. Admissionis $4 for children and $5 for adults.Admission is $4 for TAMIU students,faculty and staff. Call 956-326-DOME(3663).

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1Used Book Sale, 10 a.m. to

noon. Widener Book Room, FirstUnited Methodist Church. Public in-vited; no admission fee.

SATURDAY, APRIL 4Used book and magazine sale

at First United Methodist Church.Widener Book Room. 8:30 a.m. to 1p.m. Public invited; no admissionfee.

TUESDAY, APRIL 7The Alzheimer’s support

group. Meeting room 2, building B ofthe Laredo Medical Center. The sup-port group is for family membersand caregivers taking care of some-one who has Alzheimer’s. For infor-mation, please call 693-9991.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8Used book sale. First United

Methodist Church. 10 a.m. to noon.

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Today is Wednesday, March25, the 84th day of 2015. Thereare 281 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On March 25, 1965, the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. led25,000 people to the Alabamastate capitol in Montgomeryafter a five-day march fromSelma to protest the denial ofvoting rights to blacks. Laterthat day, civil rights activistViola Liuzzo, a white Detroithomemaker, was shot andkilled by Ku Klux Klansmenas she drove a black volunteerto the airport.

On this date:In 1306, Robert the Bruce

was crowned King of Scots.In 1776, Gen. George Wash-

ington, commander of theContinental Army, was award-ed the first CongressionalGold Medal by the ContinentalCongress.

In 1911, 146 people, mostlyyoung female immigrants,were killed when fire brokeout at the Triangle ShirtwaistCo. in New York.

In 1915, the U.S. Navy lostits first commissioned subma-rine as the USS F-4 sank offHawaii, claiming the lives ofall 21 crew members.

In 1947, a coal mine explo-sion in Centralia, Illinois,claimed 111 lives.

In 1954, RCA announced ithad begun producing color tel-evision sets at its plant inBloomington, Indiana.

In 1975, King Faisal of SaudiArabia was shot to death by anephew with a history of men-tal illness. (The nephew wasbeheaded in June 1975.)

In 1990, 87 people, most ofthem Honduran and Domin-ican immigrants, were killedwhen fire raced through an il-legal social club in New YorkCity.

Ten years ago: Losing stillmore legal appeals, TerriSchiavo’s father, Bob Schin-dler, said his severely brain-damaged daughter was “downto her last hours” as she en-tered her second week withoutthe feeding tube that had sus-tained her life for 15 years.

Five years ago: DefenseSecretary Robert Gates ap-proved new rules easing en-forcement of the “don’t ask,don’t tell” ban on gays servingopenly in the military

One year ago: Following atwo-day security summit inThe Netherlands, PresidentBarack Obama declared thatthe gathering had taken “con-crete steps” to prevent nuclearmaterial falling into the handsof terrorists even though Rus-sia and China failed to sign anagreement to beef up inspec-tions.

Today’s Birthdays: Moviereviewer Gene Shalit is 89.Former astronaut James Love-ll is 87. Feminist activist andauthor Gloria Steinem is 81.Singer Aretha Franklin is 73.Singer Elton John is 68. Movieproducer Amy Pascal is 57.Actor-writer-director JohnStockwell is 54. Author KateDiCamillo is 51. Actress SarahJessica Parker is 50. Actor Do-menick Lombardozzi is 39. Ac-tor Lee Pace is 36. Actor SeanFaris is 33. Auto racer DanicaPatrick is 33. Actress-singerKatharine McPhee is 31. Sing-er Jason Castro (“AmericanIdol”) is 28. Rapper Big Sean is27. Rap DJ/producer Ryan Le-wis is 27. Actress-singer AlyMichalka is 26. Actor KiowaGordon is 25. Actress Sey-chelle Gabriel is 24.

Thought for Today:“Scratch a pessimist, and youfind often a defender of privi-lege.” — Lord Beveridge, Brit-ish economist (1879-1963).

TODAY IN HISTORY

HOUSTON — A day after Sen. Ted Cruzannounced he’s seeking the Republican pres-idential nomination, former Gov. Rick Perryon Tuesday refused any discussion of howhis fellow Texan’s move affects his own anti-cipated White House run.

Perry spoke at a Bloomberg-sponsoredbreakfast in Houston where he was askedabout broad topics, including some politics.But Cruz’s name never surfaced, and he ig-nored questions from reporters afterwardabout his potential GOP rival.

Perry, who left office in January after a re-cord-long 14 years as Texas governor, ran un-successfully for president in 2012 but is ex-pected to announce a 2016 bid in May orJune.

“I think elections are interesting process-

es,” he said during the more formal part ofthe program where he was asked about apossible Jeb Bush-Hillary Clinton 2016matchup.

“Key at this particular juncture is the fa-miliarity with the names,” he said. “Havinga name that’s been a president of the UnitedStates and being kin to that name is prob-ably a good thing.”

He said he trusted Americans would beengaged and pay attention to the process,look at candidates’ records and policies andmake a choice that’s based on a candidate’svision and experience and not so much onname or gender.

Asked for his opinion of the best presidentsince Ronald Reagan, Perry said George W.Bush, his predecessor as Texas governor,should get credit for keeping Americanssafe.

AROUND TEXAS

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks at a breakfast meeting, Tuesday, in Houston. A day after Sen. Ted Cruz announcedhe’s seeking the Republican presidential nomination, Perry refused any discussion of how his fellow Texan’s move affects hisown anticipated White House run.

Photo by Pat Sullivan | AP

Perry ignores CruzBy MICHAEL GRACZYK

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Woman tossed burningbottle at abortion groupAUSTIN — An Austin woman

is accused of throwing a burningbottle at an anti-abortion grouppraying outside of Planned Par-enthood Monday evening.

An arrest affidavit states thatmembers of Texas Alliance forLife were praying near the SouthAustin facility when a woman inan SUV tossed a “flaming item”out of the window. Investigatorssaid that one of the women pray-ing stomped out a small fire.

Senate votes syntheticdrug controlled substance

AUSTIN — The Texas Senatehas approved making the syn-thetic drug 25I-NBOMe a con-trolled substance, potentiallybanning it from being sold on-line and in places like conve-nience stores.

Originally developed as a re-search tool for scientists, so-called “25I” has psychedelic ef-fects that mimic LSD.

Texan WWII veteran, 96, finally getting medals

FORT HOOD — A 96-year-oldveteran from West Texas whoserved overseas in World War IIbut never received his medalswill finally get the awards. For-mer Sgt. Clinton Woodley will behonored Friday at Fort Hood.Woodley enlisted in 1940 and wasstationed at Fort Bliss. He de-ployed to the Pacific in 1943.Woodley will also receive theWorld War II Victory Medal, theAmerican Campaign Medal andthe Combat Infantryman Badge.

Traffic stop yields morethan $2.6M of cocaineSAN MANUEL — A South

Texas traffic stop has yieldedmore than $2.6 million worth ofcocaine and led to the arrest ofthe driver.

The Texas Department of Pub-lic Safety on Tuesday announceda trooper confiscated more than42 pounds of cocaine during thestop in Hidalgo County.

Man gets nearly 16 yearsin mortgage fraud casesSHERMAN — A North Texas

man has been sentenced to near-ly 16 years in prison in a $2.4million mortgage fraud scamwith payments sent to his pri-vate mailbox.

Prosecutors say he used mailadvertisements to solicit home-owners having financial prob-lems, saying they could protecttheir credit by transferring thetitles to him and he’d make themortgage payments.

Man gets 10 years afterinjuring deputy in 2013SAN ANTONIO — A jury has

ruled that a man must serve 10years in prison for seriously in-juring a Bexar County sheriff ’sdeputy while driving drunk in2013. Rodrigo Picon-Garcia wassentenced to prison Monday inthe December 2013 wreck thatfractured Deputy Candice Rodri-guez’s spine and broke her leg.

— Compiled from AP reports

Officer behind wheel infatal crash had DUI in ’13

The off-duty New Jersey po-lice officer who was behind thewheel during a wrong-way crashthat killed another officer and afriend last week in New YorkCity had previously had his driv-er’s license suspended for driv-ing under the influence, an offi-cial said Tuesday.

Linden Officer Pedro Abad Jr.,had his license suspended forseven months starting in Octo-ber 2013.

Abad was among four peoplein a car early Friday when hedrove the wrong way on a StatenIsland highway after a night at aNew York strip club, crashinghead-on into a tractor-trailer.

Tsarnaev blamed gradeson loss of loved ones

BOSTON — Three months be-fore he bombed the Boston Mara-thon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told

school officials he had been un-able to concentrate on his stud-ies because he had “lost toomany” loved ones in Chechnyaduring the previous year.

The jury in Tsarnaev’s federaldeath penalty trial was shown aform he filled out to explain his

poor grades at the University ofMassachusetts-Dartmouth in2012. Tsarnaev wrote that Rus-sian soldiers in Chechnya “false-ly accuse and abduct innocentmen under false pretenses andterrorist accusations.”

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Police investigate the crash scene between a truck and a car carrying four peoplein the Staten Island borough of New York, Friday. The car, driving the wrong wayand carrying three off-duty officers, crashed into the truck, killing two.

Photo by Irving Silverstein/Staten Island Advance | AP

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DALLAS — The recentdeath of a Dallas womanwho had received injec-tions at a salon to expandthe size of her buttocks fol-lows other cosmetic-relateddeaths in Texas andaround the country thatauthorities say werecaused by people who ei-ther weren’t licensed orwho injected substancesnot approved by federalregulators.

The family of WykeshaReid, 34, says she died aftervisiting the salon on Feb.18, her fourth time for acosmetic procedure. Whathappened in the hours af-ter the final injection re-mains unclear, but policeresponding to a 911 callfound her body the nextmorning at the business.Dallas police have chargedtwo salon workers for notbeing licensed for the injec-tion procedure.

“Everybody else got bigbooties,” Reid’s mother, Pa-tricia Kelley, told The Dal-las Morning News. “So shewanted a big booty.”

Liquid silicone is not ap-proved for many uses bythe U.S. Food and Drug Ad-ministration, so doctors of-ten won’t perform buttocksinjections. Other legal pro-cedures can be pricey, sothose seeking to modifytheir bodies often seek outcheaper ways to obtain adesired shape. While theU.S. Food and Drug Admin-istration says tallies arenot kept on complaintsstemming from black-mar-

ket injections, deaths fromthe procedures have beenreported in recent years inCalifornia, Georgia, Flor-ida, Pennsylvania, NewYork and elsewhere.

A notorious case in Phi-ladelphia ended earlier thismonth with the murderconviction of a madam-turned-faux cosmetic sur-geon. Prosecutors in thecase said strippers, trans-gender women and “regu-lar girls” who sought injec-

tions at “pumping parties”and airport hotels wereyoung and vulnerable. Andin December, a South Tex-as woman was sentencedto three years in prison forthe death of a customer in-jected with liquid siliconeat the woman’s spa. Prose-cutors say Elva Navarroadmitted she didn’t tell thevictim that similar injec-tions had caused healthcomplications for othercustomers.

“It is not often thatsomeone comes forward tofile a complaint with theMedical Board after under-going those procedures,”Texas Medical Boardspokesman JarrettSchneider said. “Whensomeone is engaging in theunlicensed practice of med-icine we can issue a cease-and-desist order againstthem if we have enough in-formation and evidence.However, it is ultimately acriminal matter before lawenforcement.”

Dallas police Lt. ThomasCastro said Reid’s death isbeing investigated as anunexplained death, and in-vestigators are awaiting

toxicology results from amedical examiner. He de-clined to comment on thesubstance that was alleged-ly injected, and said thatinvestigators are searchingfor the two workers whotreated her as well as atleast one other person whoalso may have received ille-gal cosmetic work at thespa.

“This was new to us inDallas. We don’t know howlong this stuff has been go-ing on,” Castro said.

Women who were cus-tomers of the Dallas salonwhere Reid was found deadtold the newspaper they re-ceived hydrogel injectionsthat were sealed with Su-per Glue. Doses were soldfor $300 or $500.

Doctors performed morethan 3,700 legal buttocklifts and implants in 2012,generating more than $17million, according to theAmerican Society of Plas-tic Surgeons. The averagefee for a legal buttocks im-plant is $4,670, the organi-zation said. So customersoften find cheaper rates of-fered by unlicensed practi-tioners who tout — some-

times falsely — the safetyof their work.

Federal prosecutors sayNavarro provided “liquidsilicone to women to effect(sic) the structure andfunction of their bodies” toat least 30 women. The Hi-dalgo resident falsely toldthem she was trained andcertified to provide the in-jections, authorities said.In addition to the customerwho died in October 2013,another client became sickand was hospitalized in2012.

“My client is not the on-ly one accused of doingthis in South Texas,” TerryCanales, Navarro’s attor-ney, said last summerwhen his client entered aguilty plea. Canales did notreturn a phone messageMonday asking him toelaborate.

A message left withReid’s daughter, KeairaReid, was not returned, butshe told the Morning Newsthat it’s the apparent lackof care for her mom thattroubles her the most.

“I’m very mad becauseanybody could have called911,” she said.

Dangers of black-market cosmetic work

In this Nov. 26, 2013, file photo, Elva Navarro faces a justice of thepeace at the Hidalgo County Jail in Edinburg, Texas.

Photo by Ildefonso Ortiz/The McAllen Monitor | AP file

By DAVID WARRENASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT WORTH — Buried fordecades under millions of pages ofnearly forgotten old court docu-ments lay a political treasure.

The nearly forgotten gem — anold Tarrant County court file thatincluded documents trying to pre-vent the late, famed attorney Mel-vin Belli from representing JackRuby, who shot Lee Harvey Os-wald — was unearthed last week.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegramreports Tarrant County workers,who were continuing a years-longeffort to make electronic copies ofold case files and destroy their pa-per counterparts, found the fileand told Tarrant County DistrictClerk Tom Wilder.

“I thought it was a great piece

of history,” said Wilder, who saidthe case belongs in the “famousfiles” category to ensure the paperversion isn’t destroyed. “We don’twant to destroy a historical case.”

Dozens of other famous files arebeing preserved, including theCullen Davis trials in which hewas prosecuted for the slaying ofhis estranged wife’s daughter andin a murder-for-hire scheme in the1970s; and the Koslow trial, whereKristi Ann Koslow and friendsBrian Dennis Salter and JeffreyDillingham were convicted of kill-ing her stepmother, Caren, and in-juring her father, Jack.

Now the case file of Belli —who also represented superstarssuch as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Muham-mad Ali, the Rolling Stones andMae West — will join other files atthe Tarrant County’s Family Law

Building.The files are put in plastic bags

to protect them from potential wa-ter damage if the sprinkler systemgoes off and are stored on shelvesor in boxes for safekeeping.

“We would have the image fileof this in any event, but I don’twant to destroy the paper,” Wildersaid.

Wilder said he was fascinatedby the two files from 1966 inwhich attorneys encouraged theTexas State Bar to prevent Bellifrom representing Ruby, whogunned down Oswald on live tele-vision after he was arrested forkilling President John F. Kennedy.

Belli tried to prove that Rubywas legally insane when he shotOswald in Dallas more than 50years ago. But Ruby was foundguilty of murdering Oswald and

sentenced to die. Belli “exploded in rage when he

heard the verdict and publicly ac-cused Dallas of being ‘a sick, sick,sick city’ and said Ruby, a Jew,had been the victim of discrimina-tion,” according to a New YorkTimes article about Belli’s death.

Ruby’s sentence and verdictwere overturned when judgesruled that a change of venue re-quest should have been granted.He was preparing for a new trialwhen he became ill and died.

The Tarrant County files in-clude a letter that Belli, based inSan Francisco, sent to 96th Dis-trict Judge Fisher T. Denny onJune 10, 1966.

The letter stated in part, “I haveno intention of being bound by (at-torneys’) advice or suggestions.Knowing the facts, the State Bar

of Texas may act as it is advised,and I say this respectfully.”

Also in the file are letters fromattorneys throughout the stateasking the Texas Bar to sanctionBelli.

“Eventually the cases were dis-missed,” Wilder said. “Both fileshave 99 pages and most are com-plaints about Belli’s conduct.

“Who would want to throwaway (this file)?” Wilder asked.“I’m just not doing it.”

Tarrant County employees havebeen working to input more than3 million paper case files into anelectronic system for years, withthe hope of preserving recordsand freeing up space where old pa-per files are stored.

Officials have said they’d like toput images of files dating back 100years into the system.

JFK-related court case files saved in Fort WorthBy ANNA M. TINSLEY

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

Of course, I knew south-western Louisiana was lowand flat when we movedhere a couple of years ago.What I didn’t realize wasthat with the flat land, clay-ish soil and the significantannual rainfall numbers, Iwould in essence be run-ning a crawfish farm (it’llalways be pronounced thatway to me no matter howDaniel Webster’s book saysto spell it or pronounce it).

After our first little rain,those dirt “chimneys” be-gan to pop up in the back-yard. Thankfully, they don’tseem to appear with anyregularity or large numbersin the front yard. I’m sureLife Mate would find waysto eradicate them if thatwere the case. Crawfishchimneys don’t do anythingfor your landscaping, espe-cially when the same rainsthat produce the chimneysare the impetus for thoseblossoms that Life Matecoos at and cultivates totickle the spring and sum-mer fancy of the traffic onour street.

While the backyard mudvillage doesn’t seem to be athreat to the ability of thegentleman who mows our

yard, it probably doesn’thelp his attitude any whenhe sees a plethora of the ne-farious mudbug chimneys.Just as long as he doesn’tcharge me a higher rateover it or my “live and letlive” attitude toward thecritters could change.

My view of crawfish hasbeen generally accepting. Asa mere boy I used a “fish-ing” apparatus consisting ofa piece of string about 18-24inches long with a smallpiece of raw bacon tied onone end to hunt crawfish. I’dfeed the line into the chim-ney/crawdad hole and leaveit for a few seconds, afterwhich I usually got a “bite.”

However, it’s not like a“bite” from a fish in a pond.You don’t necessarily feel itunless the crawfish is siza-ble and decides to, uh,ahem, “take home the ba-con,” in order to enjoy it asa meal. You patiently waituntil you think maybe acrawfish has begun to chow

down, then you gently drawthe line out and, voila!,there’s a crawfish.

As a youngster, my moth-er assured me the fan-tailed,forward-thrust-clawed, pre-historic-appearing amphib-ian was “too nasty” to eat.

But, as a young man outin the world of service clubstrying events to raise moneyto finance public service ac-tivities, those groups founda crawfish boil was a pop-ular fund-raiser. So, Ilearned to eat crawfish tails.Plus, the ones out of a back-yard hole weren’t really theeating variety so I learnedthat the “boil” offeringswere pond-raised and much“cleaner.”

A series of newspaperpublishing moves producedno areas with crawfish yens,so I went a few years with-out until I saw it done on agrand scale.

In Jasper, Darrell Flurryis a well-known and respect-ed businessman and a suc-cessful logger who has doneexceptionally well. He be-lieves in thanking the com-munity that provides himthat opportunity. For years,his “thank you party” was amajor event, attended by

hundreds. Darrell hired a firm that

specialized in such eventsand they’d boil thousands ofcrawfish for his annualevent.

It was also a freeloader’sheaven, which the geniallogger tolerated as heshowed his appreciation tothose who really helped hisbusiness.

It was there that Ilearned to be an “expert”eater of crawfish. I learnedthe art of breaking the tailand head apart and quicklypeeling the tail enough tosuck the meat out, chew itand move on to the nextone. Seeing how many traysof shells/hulls you can re-turn after polishing off thecrawfish is the “mark of aman” in that realm. Howev-er, I miss the mark on onecount: sucking whatever outof the crawfish head. I’m a“tail” guy all the way.

I would never have won a“championship” in crawfisheating.

Willis Webb is a retiredcommunity newspaper editor-publisher of more than 50years experience. He can bereached by email atwwebb1937@att.net.

COLUMN

I’m an expert crawfish eater

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Let’s see, why does thissound familiar? A charis-matic constitutional schol-ar, with an inspiring lifestory, still in his first Sen-ate term, promising a dra-matic change of direction.… But wait: it’s 2015, andthe candidate, officially asof Monday, is Sen. TedCruz.

Here’s one way to tellMr. Cruz, R-Texas, fromthe winning constitutionalscholar of 2008: Sen. Ba-rack Obama promised tounite the country. Mr. Cruz— not so much. In fact, themost notable characteristicof Mr. Cruz’s brief time inelected politics has beenhis aversion to values thatare essential to democra-cy’s functioning: practicali-ty, modesty and compro-mise.

The platform he de-scribed in his announce-ment speech Monday isabout what you’d expectfrom a candidate whomthe number-crunchers atfivethirtyeight.com calcu-late is right of Barry Gold-water, more conservativethan any serious GOPpresidential hopeful in2012 or than the other po-tential candidates in thiselection. He would endObamacare, establish a flattax, abolish the InternalRevenue Service and putmore resources into secu-ring the border. He prom-ised to repeal "every wordof Common Core," eventhough there is little to re-peal: The federal govern-ment neither wrote nor re-quired adoption of the vol-untary state educationstandards. It’s unclear howthe Republican Party willposition itself on same-sexmarriage next year, butMr. Cruz has no doubt thatthe next president must"uphold the sacrament of

marriage." His words onforeign affairs were mostlya critique of PresidentObama’s Iran policy. In alibertarian turn, Mr. Cruzalso promised to reducegovernment seizure ofemails and other electron-ic records.

Many of his fellow can-didates will agree on manyof these points. Mr. Cruz’sunique contribution — ifone can call it that — hasbeen his confrontational,ideology-driven style andtactics, marked by a refus-al to compromise evenwhen that leads to nation-al dysfunction and embar-rassment. He led Republi-cans to a quixotic, ineffec-tive and costly governmentshutdown in 2013, Con-gress’ nadir since he tookoffice.

It has been more than adecade since Mr. Obamaderided "the pundits" who"like to slice and dice ourcountry into red states andblue states." If those divi-sions have proven less mu-table than he predicted,the answer is not to giveup on progress: it is tolook for leaders who un-derstand that progress andprinciple can go hand inhand, and who have thepragmatic skills to makethat happen. CandidateCruz instead suggested hewill make his consequenc-es-be-damned attitude aselling point. His cam-paign logo consists of starsand stripes shaped into aflame. "Imagine millions ofcourageous conservatives,all across America, risingup together to say in uni-son, ‘We demand our liber-ty,’ "he exhorted his audi-ence on Monday. In a coun-try that needs to take itspolitical disagreementsdown a notch, Mr. Cruz’sargument is that conserva-tives need to crank theirvolume up.

EDITORIAL

Way out inright field

THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Re-cently Belgian ForeignMinister Didier Reyndersposted an image online ofhimself dressed in black-face.

He was taking part in arally in Brussels organizedby Les Noirauds, a societyfounded in 1876 under pa-tronage of the Belgianmonarchy that raises fundsfor children’s charities. Thesociety distinguishes itselfby dressing up as supposed"African noblemen" —blackening their faceswhile wearing anachronis-tic top hats and white ruffs.

Reynders described the tra-dition as a bit of "joy andgood humor."

But many are not im-pressed.

"Shame on you," wrotePeter Bouckaert, a Belgiannational and leading re-searcher at Human RightsWatch, in a tweet that in-cluded an image of Reyn-ders in blackface.

"This man presents animage of our nationabroad," said Wouter VanBellingen, head of the Mi-norities Forum, a rightsgroup in Belgium. "This inunacceptable."

In the United States, ofcourse, blackface carries adeeply racist legacy of slav-

ery, segregation and dis-crimination toward Afri-can-Americans. Thatechoes less in Europe,though critics argue thattraditions of blackfacethere — including the an-nual Dutch practice ofdressing up as Zwarte Piet,a black-faced trickster —come from a similar con-text.

Les Noirauds wereformed near the height ofEurope’s scramble for Afri-ca. When not invading ter-ritories and planting theirflags, various European co-lonial powers went aboutduping and co-opting Afri-can notables into subser-vience.

Belgium has a particu-larly noxious history of im-perialism in Africa. In 1877,Belgium’s King Leopold IIbegan investing and explor-ing in what’s now the Dem-ocratic Republic of Congo.The Congo Free State thatemerged in the mid-1880swas anything but: Thewhole territory was a di-rect property of the Belgianmonarch, whose colonialagents turned it into a vast,hideous labor camp. Bysome accounts, the popula-tion of the colony declinedunder Leopold’s watchfrom 20 million to 8 million— a direct consequence ofBelgian greed and savagery.

COLUMN

Belgian leader in blackfaceBy ISHAAN THAROOR

THE WASHINGTON POST

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The fight over the Con-federate battle flag andwhether it can be includ-ed on a Texas specialtylicense plate has made itsway to the U.S. SupremeCourt, which heard argu-ments in the case Mon-day.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015 Mexico THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

SAN QUINTIN, Mexico— Workers at large, export-oriented farms in the Mex-ican border state of BajaCalifornia have led a weekof violent protests over lowpay, abuses and poor condi-tions, threatening a harvestthat supplies millions ofdollars worth of tomatoes,strawberries and othercrops to the United States.

Burning tires and toss-ing rocks at vehicles, hun-dreds of farmworkers haveblocked Baja’s main north-south highway on and off,and as many as 50,000 arebelieved to be on strikestatewide as of Tuesday.

Baja California Gov.Francisco Vega said overthe weekend that the har-vest — and thousands ofjobs — were at risk. “If thefields continue without aworkforce, the harvestswill be lost and that will af-fect everyone who dependson this part of the econo-my,” his office said in apress statement.

Many of the workers aremigrants from southernMexican states like Guerre-ro and Oaxaca who toil athuge hot-house farms justsouth of Ensenada. Theirdemands — health care,overtime pay, days off, anend to abuse by field bossesand more pay than the $8many earn for a full day ofstoop-labor — echo those offarmworkers 40 years agoin the United States.

“We all saw it as some-thing normal for them(farm owners) to suspendpeople from work for threeor four days, or fire themwithout severance for de-

manding respect for ourrights, for demanding over-time or days off,” said JoseIgnacio Garcia, a 19-year-old who has worked thefields in Baja since he was12 and is expecting his firstchild in August. “We gotused to working more than10 hours a day for 100 pesos($7), but that doesn’t evenbuy the minimum necessi-ties you need to live, to sup-port a family.”

Demonstrations have ex-ploded into rock-throwingscuffles with riot policeand the arrest of about 200protesters. Many business-es in the area have closed,and the highway blockadesprompted the U.S. consul-ate in Tijuana to advisetravelers — who includemany U.S. citizens with re-tirement or vacationhomes on the peninsula —to exercise caution.

Baja California’s stategovernment has used po-lice armored vehicles tobreak up road blockadesand warned “that therewill be no tolerance for

those who use demonstra-tions to act outside thelaw.”

Mexico’s National Hu-man Rights Commissionsaid Tuesday it has startedan investigation into possi-ble human rights viola-tions, after protesters com-plained of police abuse anddetentions.

The growers’ associationrepresenting farms that

dominate the coastal val-leys around San Quintindeclined to respond to re-quests for comment, butsome companies have de-fended their practices andappealed for calm.

“We respect everyone’sright to demonstrate peace-fully ... but we condemnthe violence and looting,”the commercial farm Ber-ryMex, a branch of the U.S.

Reiter Affiliated Compa-nies, said in a statement.While the company didn’tspecifically say what itpays employees, it did saythey get health insurance,overtime and maternityleave, saying “our main ob-jective continues to be thewellbeing of our employ-ees.”

But of those who live inthe area, about 110 miles(180 kilometers) south ofTijuana, 64 percent lackadequate housing and ac-cess to water, power andsanitation; 47 percent lackhealth care services and 59percent of children be-tween 15 and 17 are not inschool, according to Mexi-co’s National Institute ofStatistics and Geography.Many are functionally illit-erate.

Economist AlejandroDiaz Bautista noted the ar-ea lacks elemental servic-es: water, jobs, hospitals,cultural and school facili-ties. Many farmworkersare from indigenous com-munities and speak limited

Spanish.“The economic and so-

cial problems in San Quin-tin have to do with socialinequality,” Diaz Bautistasaid.

Workers say the frustra-tion over grindingly lowpay is mingled with stulti-fying labor and pettyabuse. Protesters say theywant wages raised to about$20 a day, an end to arbi-trary firings and access tohealth care, water andbreaks.

Celina Sierra, 27, whohas worked in the fieldssince she was 14, supportsher two children and hermother on her paycheck.

“We get up at 4 in themorning to wait for thetruck to take us to thefields,” Sierra said. “We getto the fields at 6:30 eventhough we’re not supposedto start work till 7 ... Theynever pay overtime, theytell us we have to finish aharvest and work untilfour or five o’clock in theafternoon, bent over andsometimes without water.”

Baja farmworkers strike for better conditionsBy OMAR MILLAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this March 18 photo, day laborers from the Valle de San Quintinprotest on the side of the main highway near the communal land"Gustavo Diaz Ordaz," in the municipality of Ensenada, south of Ti-juana in Baja California, Mexico.

Photo by Omar Millan | AP

6A THE ZAPATA TIMES Nation WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015

PHOENIX — An Arizonawoman who spent 22 yearson death row in her son’skilling before her convictionwas thrown out said Tues-day she doesn’t know whythe 4-year-old was murderedand had nothing to do withhis death, despite allega-tions from prosecutors.

Debra Milke spoke at anews conference a day afterher case was dismissed inthe 1989 killing of her sonChristopher, who thoughthe was going to see SantaClaus when he was taken tothe desert and shot by twomen who are now in prisonfor his death.

Milke steadfastly deniedbeing involved in the shoot-ing and responded quicklywhen told that prosecutorsstill think she had a part init.

“Based on what?” sheasked.

It was the first timeMilke has spoken publiclyat length since a federal ap-peals court overturned herconviction two years ago.The appellate court foundprosecutors failed to dis-close a history of miscon-duct by the case’s lead in-vestigator, Phoenix policeDetective Armando Saldate.

The misconduct includedmultiple court rulings inother cases that Saldate ei-ther lied under oath or vio-lated suspects’ rights duringinterrogations.

The case rested largelyon Milke’s purported con-fession to Saldate, whodidn’t record the interroga-tion. Milke, now 51, has dis-puted that she confessed.

A voice message left forthe now-retired Saldatewasn’t immediately return-ed Tuesday.

Prosecutors sought to re-try Milke, but the state’shighest court rejected thatbid last week, leading to thecase’s dismissal.

Maricopa County Attor-ney Bill Montgomery saidhe’s confident his officecould have won anotherconviction regardless of anyquestions about Saldate’scredibility. He said numer-ous other witnesses wouldhave testified about incrimi-nating comments made byMilke at the time.

“I have seen nothing inreviewing the entire trial

transcript or anything thathas been brought up sincethat would cause me toquestion the decision of ju-ry when she was first con-victed,” Montgomery said.

Authorities say Milke’smotive was that she didn’twant the child anymore.

Milke said Tuesday shedoesn’t know the reason forher son’s killing “becausethere wasn’t a proper inves-tigation.”

The two men who led theboy to his death were con-victed of murder but re-fused to testify againstMilke. One of the men wasMilke’s roommate.

At the news conference,Milke’s voice cracked withemotion as she read a state-ment saying she sufferedtwo tragedies — the deathof her child and the detec-tive’s false claim that sheconfessed to killing the boy.

Murder case dismissedBy JACQUES BILLEAUD

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Debra Milke speaks as Attorney Lori Voepel listens, Tuesday, inPhoenix. Her case was dismissed earlier this week.

Photo by Matt York | AP

DETROIT — A Detroitmother was arrested Tues-day after the frozen bodiesof a boy and girl werefound in a deep freezer inthe family’s home, policesaid.

Court officers found thechildren’s bodies while car-rying out an eviction orderat the 3-bedroom home inthe apartment complexjust east of downtown. Anautopsy will determinehow they died.

Police initially reporteda woman’s body was foundin the freezer, but latersaid it was actually thebodies of the two childrenin a plastic bag.

The boy was about 11and the girl was 14, saidpolice Chief James Craigwho called it a “terriblefind.”

The woman was not inthe apartment when thecourt officers or police ar-rived. “One of the commu-nity members here ... ap-proached our officers and

advised that they knewwhere the parent was lo-cated,” Craig said.

The children’s motherwas found in a nearbyapartment and questioned.She was arrested laterTuesday. Her name has notbeen released.

Two of the woman’s oth-er children, ages 11 and 17,were found at a neighbor’shome and placed in protec-tive custody.

Neighbor and friend To-ri Childs said she hadn’tseen the two dead childrenin about a year.

“I haven’t seen themsince they were playingwith my step-kids,” Childssaid.

Childs’ mother, CarrieMcDonald, also lives in thelow-income housing com-plex. McDonald said shespoke by phone Tuesdaymorning with the 36-year-old woman.

“She told me this morn-ing, ‘Ms. Carrie, if youdon’t never see me againjust know that I love you,”’McDonald said. “I love her.The mother is a beautiful

person. She was just goingthrough some things.”

The woman’s four chil-dren were not in Detroitschools. Friends said shewas home-schooling them.

“She took her kids outof school because shethought something was go-ing to happen to them,”McDonald said.

The woman has lived inthe complex at least 10years. She was unemploy-ed, was having moneytroubles and had gotten be-hind on her rent. Friendsknew about the impendingeviction.

“She was really behind,but she didn’t have it,”Childs said, referring tomoney to pay the rent.

Court records show ajudgment filed last monthagainst the woman for$2,206 owed to the complex.

Investigators were pre-paring information to pre-sent to the Wayne Countyprosecutor’s office forcharges. The AssociatedPress was unable Tuesdayto determine if she has anattorney.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig and other law enforcement have a short briefing to media as law en-forcement investigates in Detroit where the bodies of two children were found in a freezer, Tuesday.

Photo by Daniel Mears/The Detroit News | AP

Kids found in freezerBy COREY WILLIAMS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUGUSTA, Maine —More than 9,000 Maine res-idents have been removedfrom the state’s food stampprogram since RepublicanGov. Paul LePage’s admin-istration began enforcingwork and volunteer re-quirements late last year,officials said.

The number of peoplethat have been droppedfrom the program has ex-ceeded even the adminis-tration’s expectations.

About 12,000 adults whoaren’t disabled and don’thave children were in theprogram before Jan. 1.

That number has droppedto 2,680 this month, DavidSorensen, spokesman forthe Department of Healthand Services, told The As-sociated Press.

Advocates for the poorsay there aren’t enoughjobs and volunteer posi-tions available to recip-ients, especially in ruralareas, forcing them to losetheir benefits and turn in-stead to their local foodbanks.

“Northern WashingtonCounty really has nevercome out of the recession,so there aren’t economicopportunities that theremight be in other parts ofthe state,” said Barbara

Chatterton, a case manag-er at the Down East AidsNetwork in Machias whosays many of her currentand former clients havebeen impacted by thechange.

Since October, healthyadults without childrenhave been required to workat least 20 hours a week,volunteer or participate ina work-training program tocontinue receiving benefitsin the Supplemental Nutri-tion Assistance Programafter three months. It’s theresult of the administra-tion’s decision to no longerseek a waiver for the feder-al requirement, which ithad used since 2008.

9K Mainers lose food stampsBy ALANNA DURKINASSOCIATED PRESS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2015 Zentertainment PAGE 7A

Actress Angelina Jolie has ig-nited another worldwide conver-sation about cancer, revealing inthe New York Times on Tuesdaythat she had undergone surgery,at age 39, to remove her ovariesand Fallopian tubes to preventovarian cancer. As she did 22months ago, when she announcedthat she had had bilateral mastec-tomies to prevent breast cancer,Jolie cited her elevated risk ofcontracting the disease, the possi-ble consequences and her desireto inform women of their options.

Jolie’s op-ed won praise fromoncologists and health experts forbringing a number of sensitive is-sues into the public discussion,but it also may have raised ques-tions about the complex decision-making process faced by womenat risk for ovarian cancer.

Here is some information thatmay help you evaluate the risk:

— How common is ovariancancer?

About 21,000 women will be di-agnosed with ovarian cancer thisyear, according to Richard Wen-der, chief cancer control officer atthe American Cancer Society, and

14,000 will die during that period.In the general population, onewoman in 80 will develop ovariancancer, said Jamie Bakkum-Ga-mez, a gynecologic oncologist atthe Mayo Clinic in Rochester,Minn. The length of survival de-pends heavily on when the canceris detected.

— But Jolie is at much higherrisk?

Yes. She carries a mutation ofthe BRCA1 gene most common inEastern European Jews that gives

her an 87 percent chance of devel-oping breast cancer and a 50 per-cent chance of developing ovariancancer, according to her article.Plus she has a long history ofwomen in her family dying ofcancer, including her mother, whowas diagnosed with ovarian can-cer at age 49. Women who carry amutation of the BRCA2 also are athigher risk.

It’s believed that less than 1percent of American women car-ry the BRCA gene, Wender said,

but there have been no good pop-ulation studies in the UnitedStates.

— But Jolie doesn’t have can-cer. Why did she have her ovariesremoved?

The sad reality is that there isno reliable screening for ovariancancer, experts say. Most ovariancancers are discovered in the lat-er stages of the tumor’s progress,often after they have metastisizedto other parts of the body, makingtreatment very difficult. Givenher elevated risk of developingthe disease, a risk benefit analy-sis clearly favors the surgery.

— So is this some kind of spe-cial analysis available only to thewealthy and famous?

No. This is the current stan-dard of care. "One of the centralmessages here," Wender said, "isthat she followed the best medicaladvice. This is the same recom-mendation that would be given toany BRCA1 carrier who still hasher ovaries. We have no good wayto detect ovarian cancer."

— What if she were younger orstill wanted to have children?

Women facing this risk are en-couraged to have children as soonas possible, said Marleen Meyers,a medical oncologist.

Jolie writes she had ovaries removedBy LENNY BERNSTEIN

THE WASHINGTON POST

In this Nov. 27, 2014 file photo, director Angelina Jolie poses for photographers dur-ing a photo call for her film "Unbroken" in Berlin, Germany.

Photo by Michael Sohn | AP file

"Can’t act. Slightly bald.Also dances."

That’s what a studio ex-ecutive supposedly wroteabout Fred Astaire afteran early screen test. Andeven if apocryphal, that fa-mous line was somethingto keep in mind whilewatching James Corden’sdebut on Monday as thenew host of "The Late LateShow" on CBS.

Sometimes star powerisn’t obvious.

Corden’s was not evi-dent even after a mono-logue, an elaborately pro-duced video with cameos

by Jay Leno, Shia LaBeouf,Arnold Schwarzeneggerand Meryl Streep; an inter-view with Mila Kunis; andan antic bit alongside TomHanks.

Corden, a portly Britishperformer, was energetic,amiable and cheerfullyself-assured, but not par-ticularly special. So it’sstill not clear why CBSchose him to replace CraigFerguson - and, soonenough, to follow StephenColbert’s show, which willreplace David Letterman’sthis fall.

Most of Monday night’sshow was devoted to ad-dressing that question, notby providing an answer

but by making a pre-emp-tive joke about it.

The star-studded videoskit posited that CBS hadchosen its new host in a

Willy Wonka-esque lottery,slipping the winning ticketfor the job inside a choco-late bar. Comedians like

Chris Rock and JoelMcHale unwrap bars andpretend to be crestfallen tofind no ticket. The piece al-so alluded to complaintsthat networks pick onlywhite males for thesekinds of jobs: Chelsea Han-dler, whose late-night talkshow on E! ended last yearand who would have beena likely candidate, buysthe golden ticket-holdingcandy bar at a newsstandbut then drops it as shegoes to put it in her purse -Corden comes along andscoops it up.

In his opening mono-logue, Corden made fun ofhis obscurity. "I know what

you’re thinking," he toldthe audience. “‘Oh look:Andy Richter’s got his ownshow.’" He does look a lit-tle like Richter, and likeRichter, who is ConanO’Brien’s talk show side-kick, Corden seems suitedto playing second fiddle.

His conversations withKunis and Hanks werepleasant, but not particu-larly witty or outré. He didchallenge Kunis for beingcoy about whether she ismarried to Ashton Kutch-er, the father of her child;he wouldn’t accept her"maybe" as an answer andgrabbed her hand to showa ring.

‘The Late Late Show’ has amiable debutBy ALESSANDRA STANLEY

NEW YORK TIMES

"The Late Late Show" host James Corden (left) chats Monday nightwith his first guests, Tom Hanks and Mila Kunis.

Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS | Washington Post

NEW YORK — AgentsMulder and Scully are mak-ing their television return.

Fox announced Tuesdaythat it will air a six-episoderun of new episodes of “TheX-Files” that will begin thissummer. Stars David Du-chovny and Gillian Ander-son will reprise their rolesas FBI agents Fox Mulderand Dana Scully.

The show’s creator, ChrisCarter, said that he consid-ers the show’s absence likea “13-year commercialbreak.” Carter said that“the good news is the worldhas only gotten that muchstranger.”

“The X-Files” premieredon Fox in September 1993and ran for nine seasons.

‘X-files’to

returnto FOX

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PHOENIX — Brownscoach Mike Pettine expectsquarterback Johnny Man-ziel to take part in theteam’s practices next monthafter leaving rehab.

Pettine said the team hasreceived “good” feedbackabout Manziel, who entereda treatment facility on Jan.28 for an undisclosed prob-lem. A first-round draftpick in 2014, the 2012 Heis-man Trophy winner fromTexas A&M backed upBrian Hoyer before playingpoorly in two starts. Follow-ing the season, Manziel ac-knowledged he should havetaken his job more serious-ly.

Pettine does not knowwhen Manziel will be dis-charged from rehab, but heexpects the young QB to re-turn to football immediate-ly. The Browns will workout on April 20.

“When he is back, it willbe full speed ahead forhim,” Pettine said. “I thinkhe’s very anxious at thispoint.”

Pettine emphasized Man-ziel’s personal issues out-weigh anything related tohis profession.

“Football, it’s a backseat,” Pettine said. “For hisfootball life to get it where

it needs to be, he needs toget the personal life whereit needs to be. ... This takesprecedence, so howeverlong of time he needs, thefootball will be there whenhe gets out.”

While at the owners’meetings, the Browns havehad discussions with HBOabout being featured on“Hard Knocks,” the cablenetwork’s popular realityseries that gives viewersand inside look at an NFLteam during training camp.Pettine knows all about“Hard Knocks” from whenhe was an assistant coachwith the New York Jets.

Pettine said Manziel’s sit-uation is a factor in theBrowns’ hesitancy to be on

the program.“When we decided not to

volunteer for ’Hard Knocks,’we discussed everythingthat was involved with it.That (Manziel) was certain-ly something we needed toconsider. I wouldn’t say(Manziel) loomed large. Youjust weigh everything in.Because being a part of’Hard Knocks,’ knowingthey’re going to look to cov-er the team’s biggest, cur-rent story lines — it’s obvi-ous that he would be apoint of attention.”

From his experience,“Hard Knocks” can be anunnecessary diversion forplayers and coaches.

“It’s hard to be yourself. Iknow (Arizona Cardinals

coach) Bruce Arians spoketo it a year ago. If you haveto change, if you have to bedifferent, then it’s a distrac-tion. If you’re not thinkingabout your job and you’rethinking about somethingelse, for even an instant,then it’s a distraction.

“I saw that as a negative,when guys are different,guys that can’t handle, theyact different, play to thecamera. I see that as a po-tential negative. And thepositives are maybe thesame thing. Guys knowthere’s a camera aroundand something they do canwind up on the show.”

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: CLEVELAND BROWNS

Manziel coming back in AprilASSOCIATED PRESS

Cleveland quarterback Johnny Manziel will return to football-relatedactivities after being in a rehab facility this offseason.

File photo by Bob Leverone | AP

LEXINGTON — Goodteams have tried variousways to beat Kentucky.The game plans have in-cluded getting physicalwith them, trying to forcethe unbeaten Wildcats totake jump shots, double-teaming post players, play-ing up-tempo so Kentuckycan’t set its defense, press-ing them.

These tactics and othershave worked to some ex-tent in box scores, just noton the scoreboard.

No matter who Ken-tucky plays or how wellthey play, the consensusseems to be if the Wildcatsplay to their potential,they won’t lose.

That makes Kentucky’stoughest opponent, well,Kentucky.

Fifth-seeded West Vir-ginia might be Kentucky’sstiffest challenge so far,with the Mountaineers ex-pected to try and use theirdefensive pressure andphysicality to derail theWildcats (36-0) in Thursdaynight’s NCAA Tournamentregional semifinal inCleveland.

One of the burningquestions in college bas-ketball this season is howto beat Kentucky.

The answer seems torest with the Wildcats. ForKentucky to lose with itslength, depth and experi-ence, it feels like each play-er in John Calipari’s nine-deep rotation needs tohave an off night.

It’s possible, just seemsunlikely it’ll happen in thesame game.

“The good news isthere’s enough guys that, if

two or three aren’t playingwell, we can still survive,”the Kentucky coach saidafter watching his teamshoot just 37 percent andget out-rebounded 45-38 byCincinnati, and still ad-vance to the Sweet 16 witha 64-51 win on Saturday.

Calipari isn’t just spew-ing coach speak, the statsback up his observation.

Eight of the nine playersin the rotation are averag-ing between 5.8 and 11.1points per game. Eight dif-ferent players have beenKentucky’s leading scorerthis season.

Even when a team hassome in-game successagainst Kentucky, Caliparihas enough talent to mixand match lineups until hefinds a combination thatworks. Having “reinforce-ments,” as the coach callsthem, has also succeededin wearing down oppo-nents.

“Every team alwaysplays us with differentstrategies,” 6-11 freshmanKarl-Anthony Towns said.“Everyone has differentstuff they do. We don’t getmuch time to scout and wejust have to get into thegroove while the game isgoing on. You just feelthem out.”

Cincinnati tried to takethe physical route, but theWildcats’ height andlength makes beating themup a difficult proposition.

Teams have also tried toshow they’re not intimi-dated with a lot of chatterwhen the game starts,something very noticeableagainst Cincinnati and Ar-kansas.

If anyone beats Ken-tucky, they’ll need a majorassist from the Wildcats.

NCAA BASKETBALL

Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein and the top-ranked Wildcats havewon all 36 games this season as they enter the Sweet 16.

Photo by Timothy D. Easley | AP

UK stillunbeaten

Wildcats may be their own toughestopponent as they enter Sweet 16

By GARY B. GRAVESASSOCIATED PRESS

Jason Garrett constant-ly talks about the rightkind of guy.

It’s a phrase he won’tuse about Greg Hardy. In-stead, the Cowboys headcoach talks about the de-fensive end becoming theright kind of guy.

Garrett made his firstpublic comments about thesigning of Hardy on Mon-day afternoon from theNFL Annual Meeting inScottsdale, Ariz. Garrettaddressed whether it washypocritical of him to signHardy given his emphasison character. He spoke ofthe club’s obligation tomake this work, Hardy’s

need to be accountable anda contract Garrett believeswill allow this to happen.

"First off, we under-stand the seriousness ofdomestic violence," Garrettsaid. "We obviously aren’tfor domestic violence, solet’s get that out at thestart.

"If we didn’t believe thatGreg Hardy could becomethe right kind of guy wewould not have signedhim. We have a lot of confi-dence in the environmentthat we create for our play-ers to bring the best out inthem.

"Now, it’s on us to doour jobs to create the envi-ronment to bring the bestout in him as a player onthe field and as a person

off the field. We believebased on all the researchwe’ve done, all the due dili-gence we’ve done that hecan become the right kindof guy for our team.

"It is also Greg Hardy’sresponsibility."

Garrett said the Cow-boys organization willhold Hardy accountable.

"We made decisionswith players in the pastwho we also believe canbecome the right kind ofguy," Garrett said. "Insome cases, we’ve had realsuccess stories because ofthe environment we creat-ed and how the player re-sponded. In other cases, wemade a decision to bringsomeone in believing he’dbecome the right kind of

guy and it turned out hewasn’t able to do that andwe moved on. We move onas quickly as we can.

"If you think about thecontract we structuredwith Greg Hardy, there isgreat freedom for us tomake the right decision forour football team at anytime if we don’t feel likehe’s becoming the rightkind of guy. We can holdhim accountable that way."

The bottom line: Hardyagreed to a one-year, incen-tive-laced contract that canescalate up to $13.1 millionbased on the number ofgames he plays and sackshe accrues. None of thepayout is guaranteed andit’s improbable he’ll comeclose to the maximum.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

On the defensive

Troubled pass rusher Greg Hardy, pictured, has found his way to Dallas as Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett defended the addition onTuesday.

File photo by Chuck Burton | AP

Garrett defends addition of DE Greg Hardy By DAVID MOORE

MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

ATENCIÓN A VISITANTESAutoridades alrededor

de la frontera tamaulipeca, yen todo el Estado, se en-cuentran realizando los pre-parativos para brindar infor-mación, atención y seguri-dad a los connacionales quecruzan por la frontera du-rante la semana mayor,anunció el Estado.

Durante estas fechas, elgobierno mexicano dará alos visitantes todas las facili-dades desde que arriban ala franja fronteriza hasta suslugares de origen a travésdel programa En Tu CaminoCuentas Con Nosotros, seña-la un comunicado de prensa.

Este esquema contemplaofrecer seguridad y multipli-car la vigilancia en carrete-ras, centrales de autobuses,así como designar Ministe-rios Públicos especializadosen atención al inmigrantepara que reciban en su casoquejas o denuncias.

La estrategia contemplaparaderos seguros instaladospor la Policía Federal en di-ferentes puntos carreteros ymódulos de orientación e in-formación del Instituto Na-cional de Migrante.

SIMPOSIO ANUAL SOBRETRÁFICO DE PERSONAS

El jueves y viernes,25 y 26 de marzo, se reali-zará el Simposio Anual so-bre el Tráfico de Personas,del Colegio del Sur de Te-xas, en el Campus Pecan enMcAllen.

Las personas que acudanal evento recibirán informa-ción y asesorías sobre el fe-nómeno que ha afectado elValle del Río Grande y alnorte de México.

La conferencia se realiza-rá de 8 a.m. a 5:30 p.m.ambos días. El evento esgratuito y abierto al público.El Campus Pecan está ubi-cado en 3201 de W. PecanBlvd.

Para registrarse puede in-gresar a http://academicaf-fairs.southtexascollege.edu/womens_studies/conference/register.html.

FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DECINE

A partir del 26 demarzo y hasta el 29 de mar-zo tendrá lugar el segundoFestival Internacional de Ci-ne de Tamaulipas (FICTAM)2015, en las ciudades deNuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Vic-toria y Tampico, México.

Durante el festival se pro-yectarán los filmes mexica-nos: “Los Hámsters” del di-rector Gilberto González Pe-nilla; “Llévate mis amores”dirigida por Arturo GonzálezVillaseñor; y se estrenará“González: Falsos profetas”bajo la dirección de Chris-tian Díaz Pardo.

Las producciones, queconforman el FICTAM, se po-drán apreciar en el teatroexperimental del Centro Cul-tural Nuevo Laredo, del Par-que Cultural Reynosa, delEspacio Cultural Metropolita-no, en Tampico, y en la Ci-neteca del Centro CulturalTamaulipas, en Ciudad Victo-ria.

Las proyecciones songratuitas. Cada centro cultu-ral ha establecido un horariode proyección, para más in-formación puede ponerse encontacto con el centro de suinterés.

CARRERA CONTRA AUTISMOEl 4 de abril tendrá

lugar la Primera Carrera pa-ra Concientizar sobre el Au-tismo del Condado de Zapa-ta. La carrera comenzará alas 8 a.m. en el Palacio deJusticia del Condado de Za-pata. La preinscripción tieneun costo de 10 dólares enactive.com o en la Cámarade Comercio del Condadode Zapata en 800 de NorthHwy 83 Zapata. El costo deinscripción el día del eventoserá de 20 dólares.

Ribereñaen Breve

Autoridades federales anuncia-ron el arresto de una mujer rela-cionada con una organización detráfico de personas que operaba enel Condado de Zapata, muestranregistros presentados ante una cor-te federal recientemente.

Una querella criminal con fechadel 13 de marzo, acusa a Lauda Za-vala, de Zapata, de transportar in-migrantes indocumentados.

“Laura Zavala ha sido identifica-da por la unidad de inteligencia dePatrulla Fronteriza de Zapata co-mo una facilitadora/organizadora/exploradora que operaba para laorganización de tráfico de drogasZavala”, señala la querella crimi-nal.

Autoridades alegan que la orga-nización de contrabando Zavalaafectaría considerablemente a lassiguientes áreas del Condado deZapata: Las Lajas, Las Tortolas,Clareno y Blanca Vela. Registrosde la corte además identifican aLuis Daniel Mendoza-Mendoza, dePearsall, como coacusado en el ca-so. Él también es acusado de losmismos cargos.

Autoridades federales tambiéndetuvieron a un joven identificadocomo el sobrino de Mendoza-Men-doza. En consecuencia fue procesa-do. Mendoza-Mendoza y Zavalacontinúan en custodia federal.

Patrulla Fronteriza detuvo al jo-ven, a Mendoza-Mendoza y a Zava-la, el 10 de marzo por conspiraciónpara traficar a ocho personas indo-cumentadas.

HechosEse día más temprano, agentes

observaron una Ford Explorer, co-lor azul, y una Ford Explorer, colorverde, viajando hacia el sur sobreU.S. 83., detrás de una Ford Expedi-tion, color negra. Agentes dijeronque reconocieron la camioneta ne-gra por varios encuentros previosen relación a casos de contrabandode personas en Zapata.

“(Los agentes) fueron concientesde que la conductora de la camio-neta Ford Expedition negra, erauna mujer, previamente identifica-da como Laura Zavala, quien resi-de en Zapata, Texas”, señalan do-cumentos.

En base a esas observaciones,decidieron acercarse a la Explorerverde. Agentes dijeron que vierona varias personas dentro de la Ex-plorer color verde mientras ésta gi-raba hacia el arcén de la carreterasin razón aparente.

Agentes dijeron que activaronlas luces de emergencia de la uni-dad para realizar una inspecciónde inmigración a los ocupantes delvehículo. Ellos identificaron al con-ductor como un joven que declaróser ciudadano de EU. Se determinóque los cinco pasajeros eran inmi-grantes indocumentados, que cru-zaron la frontera de manera ilegal,

de acuerdo con documentos de lacorte.

Entonces los agentes sospecha-ron que los otros dos vehículos es-taban relacionados con el caso.

Posteriormente agentes observa-ron la Explorer azul, al sur de don-de la Explorer verde fue orillada.Identificado como el conductor,Mendoza-Mendoza sostuvo que suvehículo se calentó y que necesita-ba agua. Mendoza-Mendoza “tem-blaba visiblemente y sudaba en ex-ceso”, de acuerdo con la querella.

Después de un breve interroga-torio, agentes determinaron queMendoza-Mendoza era ciudadanomexicano, sin estatus legal para es-tar en el país. Entonces, agentessupuestamente encontraron dos ra-dios negros de mano, de dos vías,en cada Explorer. Los cuatro ra-dios eran de la misma marca y nú-mero de modelo, de acuerdo condocumentos de la corte.

Las autoridades encontraron laExpedition color negro en los ca-rriles de Siesta y Weslaco en Zapa-ta. Zavala fue identificada como laconductora. Con información pre-via proporcionada sobre Zavala,los agentes acudieron a una pro-piedad Las Lajas, donde arrestarona tres inmigrantes indocumenta-dos en el área de la maleza cerca-na.

Todos fueron llevados a la esta-ción de Patrulla Fronteriza de Za-pata.

Interrogatorio post arrestoEn un interrogatorio posterior

al arresto, Mendoza-Mendoza dijoa los agentes que Zavala lo llamópara recoger inmigrantes en Zapa-ta para transportarlos a Laredo.Zavala le preguntó si había alguienque quisiera transportar inmigran-tes. Entonces Mendoza-Mendozacontactó a su sobrino, el joven. Za-vala supuestamente dio instruccio-nes a Mendoza-Mendoza y a su so-brino para dejar Laredo a las 5a.m. el 10 de marzo.

Mientras estaban en camino,Mendoza-Mendoza supuestamenteseñaló que estaba en comunicaciónconstante con su sobrino y con Za-vala, utilizando los dos radios has-ta que Patrulla Fronteriza los cap-turó en el intento de contrabando.Zavala supuestamente dio instruc-ciones a Mendoza para detenerse ypretender que tenía problemas conel vehículo, muestran registros.

Zavala también acordó hablarcon autoridades sin la presencia deun abogado. Ella señaló que reci-bió una llamada telefónica dondele dieron instrucciones para explo-rar para inmigrantes en una ubi-cación predeterminada en Zapata.Al parecer, el interlocutor dispusoque los dos vehículos salieran deLaredo a Zapata para recoger algrupo. Registros de la corte identi-ficaron a estas personas comoMendoza-Mendoza y su sobrino.

TRÁFICO DE PERSONAS

Golpe a organismoPOR CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

TIEMPO DE ZAPATA Organización Zavala afectaría a Las Lajas,Las Tortolas, Clareno y Blanca Vela delCondado de Zapata.

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Una detención de trá-fico reciente en el Con-dado de Zapata dejó ados sospechosos de con-trabando de personastras las rejas, de acuerdocon documentos de lacorte.

Autoridades federaleslos identificaron comoRoy Ramírez y Adolfo dela Cruz Jr., ambos de La-redo, señala una quere-lla criminal presentadaen su contra el 16 demarzo. Ellos fueron acu-sados de transportar apersonas que entraronal país ilegalmente. Am-bos se encuentran encustodia federal con unafianza de 75.000 dólares.

Sus arrestos ocurrie-ron el 12 marzo, por U.S.83 y Mesa Salinas Road,al sur de Zapata. Esedía, un oficial del Depar-tamento de SeguridadPública citó a Ramírezpor supuestamente con-ducir sobre un carril iz-quierdo sin paso y porno tener licencia paraconducir, de acuerdo condocumentos de la corte.

Entonces el oficial lla-mó a Patrulla Fronterizapara solicitar asistencia

al creer que algunos delos ocupantes estaban enel país de manera ilegal.Al llegar, agentes deter-minaron que los cincoocupantes no tenían es-tatus legal para estar enEstados Unidos y los to-maron en custodia. Ra-mírez y un pasajeroidentificado como de laCruz también fueron de-tenidos y transportadosa la Estación de PatrullaFronteriza de Zapata.

Una vez ahí, Ramírezinvocó sus derechos a unabogado. Pero de la Cruzeligió hablar con las au-toridades acerca del in-cidente, muestran regis-tros.

“De la Cruz señalóque (Ramírez) le pidióviajar con él a Zapata…para recoger a un grupode (inmigrantes) indocu-mentados. De la Cruzcontinuó diciendo queRamírez le pidió ayudaporque necesitaba un ve-hículo, que de la Cruz te-nía”, señala la querella.

Registros añadieronque los hombres espera-ban 200 dólares por per-sona transportada. Ellosdividirían el dinero. Am-bos tenían instruccionesde conducir a los inmi-grantes a Laredo.

CONDADO

Dan cargos ados por tráficoPOR CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ

TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Las magnificencias deambulanpor la Huasteca antigua. Unas yotras arrancan palabras de admira-ción, multiplicándose al paso deltiempo. Son testimonios que apor-tan matices a nuestra identidad na-cional.

John Chilton retrata con su pro-sa a los pobladores originarios enaños tempranos del virreinato.“Son ellos altos de cuerpo […] conel cabello largo […] andaban […]con arco y flecha”, de modo que

“eran grandes flecheros”, indica eltrotamundos y comerciante inglés.

Casi a la sazón, el visitador Gó-mez Nieto recoge los ancestralesnombres “de tres mujeres [lugare-ñas] y que se llamaba una Ceal y laotra Alive y la otra Toan”.

A inicios de la decimoséptimacenturia, fray Antonio Vázquez deEspinosa anota: “El temple [delrumbo] es muy cálido y húmedo[…] Hay por esta tierra innumera-bles venados que cazan los indioscon flechas […] Toda la tierra [cer-ca del río Pánuco] es muy llana yamena, que parece un pedazo deparaíso”. Vázquez Espinosa sin du-da escribe cautivado por lo que ob-serva.

NocheAl transcurrir el Siglo XX los an-

tiguos prodigios de aquella culturaaún maravillan. “Parecen haber si-do maestros en el arte de la con-cha” y el caracol marino, puntuali-za don Manuel Toussaint, legándo-nos “piezas esculpidas que se hansupuesto eran pectorales […] Artede paciencia, que […] revela ungran sentido de la decoración y delsimbolismo religioso”. Presentanintrincadas figuras y “recibieronun mayor realce al realizarse el va-ciado de ciertas porciones del pec-toral”, agregan Nicola Kuehne Hay-der y Joaquín A. Muñoz Mendoza.

Toussaint describe también laescultura llamada el “Adolescente

huasteco”: “Figura […] esbelta conlas manos en disposición de llevaralgo […]. En su cuerpo desnudo serealzan finos grabados”, al parecer“tatuajes […] Lo más notable es lacabeza del personaje: fuerte, enérgi-ca, con profunda emoción de razahasta en su cráneo deforme, perocon un gran sentimiento de la plás-tica […] Estamos ante una obramaestra”.

Dejemos que “La dama huaste-ca”, del premio Nobel Octavio Paz,cierre estas sencillas líneas: “Ron-da por las orillas, desnuda, saluda-ble, recién salida del baño, reciénnacida de la noche.”.

(Con permiso del autor, según fue-ra publicado en La Razón, Tampico,Tamps)

COLUMNA

Autores cuentan prodigios de HuastecaNota del Editor: Presentamos la se-

gunda de dos partes de un relato acer-ca de la Huasteca.

POR RAUL SINCENCIO CHÁVEZESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

TAMAULIPAS

BELLEZA NATURAL

La Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico y Turismo (SEDET) de Tamaulipas, se encuentra participando en elTianguis Turístico México 2015, que se realiza del 23 al 26 de marzo. Durante el evento se expondrán lasbellezas naturales y ventajas competitivas de Tamaulipas a los asistentes a la muestra que se realiza enAcapulco, Guerrero, con el propósito de aumentar la afluencia del turismo a Tamaulipas. Con el periodovacacional acercándose la secretara a señalado que se encuentra trabajando fuertemente por impulsarlos segmentos turísticos de la entidad, como la pesca y caza deportiva, sus playas, su naturaleza, PueblosMágicos, entre otros.

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