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Fuentes indican que la frustración del gobierno mexicano con los esfuerzos de EU para detener el flujo de armas hacia el sur lo ha llevado a adoptar este original enfoque.
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Washington.- CBS News reportó que el Gobierno de México ha contratado a una firma legal para explorar la posibilidad de presentar cargos civiles contra los fabricantes y distribuidores de armas de Estados Unidos, debido al flujo de armamento que cruza la frontera.

Fuentes indican que la frustración del gobierno mexicano con los esfuerzos de EU para detener el flujo de armas hacia el sur lo ha llevado a adoptar este original enfoque.

La firma legal está analizando la posibilidad de presentar cargos que podrían incluir una demanda civil en base a la ley RICO para el control del crimen organizado.

Un representante del Procurador General de México firmó el contrato para los servicios legales el 2 de noviembre del 2010, en la la sede de la Embajada mexicana en Washington.

El 5 de noviembre del 2010, el Presidente Felipe Calderón le expresó su frustración a Peter Greenberg, corresponsal de CBS News: 'Decomisamos más de 90 mil armas.


Estoy hablando de unas 50 mil armas de asalto, metralletas AR-5, más de 8 mil granadas y casi 10 millones de balas.

Cifras impresionantes y de acuerdo a todos esos casos, los que pudimos rastrear, la mayoría son armas estadounidenses'.

De acuerdo con algunas fuentes, los investigadores usarán los números de serie y fabricación de las armas incautadas por las autoridades mexicanas para ubicar a sus distribuidores y fabricantes en Estados Unidos.

Christopher Renzulli, quien ha representado a los fabricantes de armas estadounidenses durante 15 años, dice creer que éste sería un caso difícil de ganar para el Gobierno mexicano: 'La Ley de Protección del Comercio Lícito de Armas prohibiría ese tipo de demanda desde un principio.

La ley, aprobada en el 2005, ha hecho que varias demandas contra los fabricantes de armas sean rechazadas por los tribunales'.

Sin embargo, fuentes allegadas al caso señalan que la firma legal contratada por el gobierno mexicano -Reid Collins & Tsai, de Nueva York- no cree que la ley federal sea un obstáculo para el caso.

Richard Feldman, presidente de la Asociación Independiente de Armas de Fuego de Estados Unidos y ex ejecutivo de la asociación de la industria, dijo: 'tal vez nosotros deberíamos demandar al Gobierno de México por no evitar el flujo de drogas a Estados Unidos'.



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Incredible shrinking mayor: After 9 years of dominating N.Y. politics, Bloomberg's power receding

Kevin D. Williamson

Sunday, April 3rd 2011, 4:00 AM

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The blizzard was the least of it. It's been downhill for Mike Bloomberg since he not only failed to pick up the snow but seemed to not quite understand why it needed picking up. Never has he been less the master of his own destiny - let alone the city's.

Yes, it's official. Mayor Mike's political stock has been downgraded, in no small part because his new competitor in the political marketplace, Gov. Cuomo, just handed him his hat.

After the frisky new governor brushed off Bloomberg's complaints about state aid cuts and his predictions of dire consequences as so much piffle, the mayor last week responded in very high dudgeon, calling Cuomo's budget deal "an outrage."

That outrage lasted about 24 hours, at the end of which the mayor, quietly chastened, dutifully reevaluated the deal and proclaimed it an example of "good government, a good leader making hard and tough decisions, which aren't always popular."

What happened to Bloomberg's clout?

To find out where it went, we have to understand what defined it in the first place. Bloomberg's charisma, such as it was, was the charisma of competence. After Rudy Giuliani slayed dragons like welfare and crime, Michael Bloomberg promised an era of omnicompetent, innovative, business-style management.

Amid the heady days of the first two terms, as so many things seemed to click into place, so high was he riding that Bloomberg was regularly talked about as presidential material - as the one man who might be able to win independents, Republicans and Democrats in sufficient numbers to bridge the two-party divide.

Then came the rupture. Start with the fact that very notion of business-style management has taken a pretty serious hit across America over the past two years, especially when associated with Wall Street. Then mix in lingering resentment about the undemocratic way he won a third term.

Add to that a real blizzard and a political one:

Mr. Bottom Line was caught sleeping as consultants from CityTime were indicted for allegedly bilking the city of $80 million. He left New Yorkers scratching their heads after a secretive process resulted in the appointment of former Hearst executive Cathie Black as schools chancellor, even though she has zero background in educational administration.

And she didn't help his school-reform agenda: Together, they went begging for changes to the "last-in, first-out" procedure, which hamstrings school administrators with strict seniority rules, and came up empty-handed.

Even if Bloomberg had played his hand perfectly - and he hasn't - the inevitabilities of lame-duck politics were sure to be working against a mayor who's serving one more term than he should have, whose high-handed style never earned him much public affection and who is suddenly overshadowed by a governor who has energetic public support and knows how to work the levers of power.

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Chicago Cubs Can't Believe They're Doing This Again

April 1, 2011 |

CHICAGO—Cubs players, coaches, and management expressed disbelief Thursday, questioning whether they were out of their minds for participating in another Major League Baseball season.

"Why the hell are we still putting ourselves through this?" left fielder Alfonso Soriano said during an Opening Day press conference, adding that no one on the team has ever been happy at the end of the season, during the season, or at the beginning of the season, which, according to Soriano, is when everyone actually feels the most hopeless. "We just have to admit to ourselves that the Chicago Cubs should not be playing in a professional baseball league. Can we all just do that and put an end to this misery?"

While attending his last batting practice before Opening Day, third baseman Aramis Ramirez acknowledged he has struggled to understand why the Cubs would bother playing in yet another pointless baseball season when, he said, it will be abundantly clear a month before the All-Star break that the team has no chance of getting to the World Series.

Growing increasingly frustrated, Ramirez slammed his helmet to the ground and launched into a tirade, saying that agreeing to take part in another 162 games was a waste of everyone's time.

"Another spring, summer, and fall out the fucking window," Ramirez said as several of his teammates, coaches, and team chairman Tom Ricketts nodded their heads in agreement. "I don't even know why we're here. Seriously, Ryan [Dempster], why are you here right now? Kosuke [Fukudome], what do you expect to get out of all this? Kerry [Wood], that you came back to this team after playing for the New York Yankees makes me fucking sick to my stomach for you and your family."

"Year after year we all know this is going to end badly, but here we are," Ramirez added. "It's the very definition of insanity."

Manager Mike Quade, visibly exasperated by a spring training he described as "the same old pathetic shit," echoed the sentiment of his players, admitting that the Cubs were destined to put all of their fans, family, and friends through hell in a "miserable, futile season." Insisting the Cubs would accomplish nothing special in 2011, Quade predicted the team would temporarily raise expectations after a fairly decent start, lose several key players to injuries, fall into a slump for two crucial months, and then provide a torturous glimmer of hope with a brief comeback that would ultimately be followed by complete and utter collapse.

Quade added that even if the Cubs were to somehow make the World Series, they would inevitably lose in a devastating fashion that would physically and emotionally destroy anyone associated with the team in any way for decades to come.

"There's nothing I can do as a manager that's going to make a difference," said Quade, who in between hitting ground balls to his infielders could be heard mumbling, "I hate my life." "Christ, am I really about to put myself through six excruciating months of tinkering with batting orders and pitching rotations as if we have a serious shot of ending a century of mediocrity? It's fucked up, but the answer is yes. And hearing myself say that makes me feel like I'm having a massive anxiety attack."

"Every time I walk out to the mound I just assure the guys that at least we will all be dead eventually," Quade continued.

When asked to voice their thoughts on the hopeful promise of Opening Day, several Cubs responded with "Ugh," "Not this crap again," "Thanks for ruining a perfectly nice day, asshole," "We're going nowhere," and "Please, make this nightmare stop."

Despite the rampant cynicism and despair coming from the Cubs' clubhouse, team president Crane Kenney remained optimistic, saying there was still hope that a wealthy investor would eventually buy the franchise and mercifully shut it down for good.

"Some of the folks around here say that I'm a dreamer, or that I have my head in the clouds because I believe there's somebody out there who will save us from the Cubs," Kenney said. "But if that's the case, then I'm no more deluded than those poor fucks in the stands who actually believe the Cubs will win a World Series in their lifetimes."

"I guess they're the most pathetic in all of this, because they choose to come back," Kenney added. "And pay good money to do so."

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