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Poll: 42 million Mexicans would opt for living in the U.S. if they could
 
El Sol de Mexico  (Mexico City; also in some forty other papers of the "o.e.m." nationwide chain) 5/6/08
 
A poll by the Mitofsky Consultants shows that 40.7 % of Mexicans, some 42 million persons, would opt for living in the United States if they could; in 2005, only 21% answered the same question in the affirmative.

The polling firm contacted one thousand persons older than 18 from April 24 to 29 and found that 50.5 % of those between 18 and 29 years of age answered the question in the affirmative, as did 42.1 % of those between 30 & 49 years of age. Of those 50 years or older, 22.3 % were also inclined to do so.

And 43.6 % of middle class persons also answered in the affirmative.

The polling firm also said that three of every ten Mexicans, that is to say around 30 million persons, would accept going to the United States even in an illegal condition. The poll also showed that four out of ten Mexicans have a relative in the United States. Some 20 million persons of Mexican origin live "in that country" (read: the U.S.) of which half do so illegally. Every year half a million Mexicans cross over into the United States in search of better working conditions.
 
The month of May has already brought about 80 executions in Mexico including federal agents and state and city police officers, all attributed to revenge or settlement of accounts by organized crime groups.

The government has been forced to increase its federal and military personnel forces in Sinaloa, Guerrero, Chihuahua and Baja California due to the increase of murders of military and police at all levels. Just yesterday there were six executions in Sinaloa, three in Guerrero, three in Michoacan, two in Chihuahua, two in Distrito Federal, one in Durango and one in Jalisco.
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El Diario  (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua)  5/6/08
 
Four different actions by the military in the state of Chihuahua resulted in the seizure of 9.6 tons of marihuana, a number of assault rifles, over a thousand rounds of ammo and some radio communication equipment.
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El Financiero  (Mexico City)  5/6/08
 
When an Italian tourist in Cancun came out of a convenience store near his hotel after buying some beer he was beaten and robbed of 500 Euros and 600 dollars. But the thieves were three Cancun policemen whom he later identified; all three have been charged.
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El Pulso  (San Luis Potosi, S.L.P.)  5/6/08
 
The wave of violence in Chihuahua caused thirteen other deaths in that state between the weekend and this Monday, mostly in confrontations between different organized crime groups.
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El Debate  (Culiacan, Sinaloa)  5/6/08
 
The state of Sinaloa's Att'y. Gen. acknowledged that State Ministerial Police members are resigning their positions because of the wave of violence which has occurred in the last few days, but he declined to say how many agents have done so. The mortal attacks against the police agents began on April 3rd, then were repeated eleven days later. On the 28th there was yet another and two days later two more agents were killed.

The paper's main editorial again deals with the lawlessness which they say prevails in Culiacan and neighboring Navolato and which holds Sinaloa in a state of siege.
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Milenio  (Mexico City)  5/6/08
 
(Portions of the first & last paragraphs of an op/column by Luis Miguel Gonzalez, "The era of internal migration")
 
Construction workers from Oaxaca in Jalisco, day laborers from Veracruz in Sinaloa, the Sinaloan middle class in Tijuana, Distrito Federal professionals in Colima. In every case there are hundreds or thousands. They are evidence of an internal migration, a phenomenon which is similar in size to the migration to the United States, without the same public awareness. Theory holds that a migrant population enriches the area where they settle. In practice, it generates tensions derived from the contrast of the cultures and the competition for scarce resources.. The majority of our cities is not prepared to assimilate this internal migration. They have neither the physical infrastructure nor the mentality.
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La Prensa Grafica  (San Salvador, El Salvador)  5/6/08
 
There were 3,491 murders in El Salvador by the end of 2007, a drop of 437 compared with 2006. And as of last Sunday there has been a reduction of 167 murders this year in comparison with 2007; but the daily murder average this year is 8.7.