MARATHON, Florida (CNN)  -- Juan Lopez reads meters with one eye and looks for snakes with the other. Lopez is a member of the "Python Patrol," a team of utility workers, wildlife officials, park rangers and police trying to keep Burmese pythons from gaining a foothold in the Florida Keys. Members of the Python Patrol show off a giant snake that stretched more than 20 feet. Officials say the pythons -- which can grow to 20 feet long and eat large animals whole -- are being ditched by pet owners in the Florida Everglades, threatening the region's endangered species and its ecosystem. "Right now, we have our fingers crossed that they haven't come this far yet, but if they do, we are prepared," Lopez said. Burmese Pythons are rarely seen in the middle Florida Keys, where Lopez works. The Nature Conservancy wants to keep it that way.  Watch huge python wrap around a CNN reporter » The Python Patrol program was started by Alison Higgins, the Nature Conservancy's Florida Keys conservation manager. She describes it as an "early detection, rapid response" program made up of professionals who work outside. Eight Burmese pythons have been found in the Keys. "If we can keep them from spreading and breeding, then we're that much more ahead of the problem," Higgins said. Utility workers, wildlife officials and police officers recently attended a three-hour class about capturing the enormously large snakes. Lt. Jeffrey L. Fobb of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Response Unit taught the participants how to capture pythons. "There's no immutable laws of snake catching. It's what works," Fobb said as he demonstrated catching a snake with hooks, bags, blankets and his hands. "We're doing it in the Florida Keys because we have a lot to protect," Higgins said. "The Burmese pythons that are coming out of the Everglades are eating a lot of our endangered species and other creatures, and we want to make sure they don't breed here." Where the snakes are breeding is just north of the Keys in Everglades National Park. An estimated 30,000 Burmese pythons live in the park. The Everglades, known as the "River of Grass," is a vast area with a climate perfect for these pythons to hide and breed. And breed they do: The largest clutches of eggs found in the Everglades have numbered up to 83. The snakes grow like they're on steroids. With a life span of 30 years, these pythons can weigh as much as 200 pounds. And the larger the snake, the bigger the prey. Biologists have found endangered wood rats, birds, bobcats and other animals in their stomachs. Two 5-foot-long alligators were found in the stomachs of Burmese pythons that were caught and necropsied, officials say. Officials also say Burmese pythons can travel 1.6 miles a day by land, and they can swim to reach areas outside the Everglades. This nonvenomous species was brought into the United States from Southeast Asia. Everglades National Park spokeswoman Linda Friar says biologists believe that well-intended pet owners are to blame for their introduction into the Everglades. "These pets were released by owners that do not understand the threat to the ecosystem," she said. Higgins says 99,000 of the popular pets were brought into the United States from 1996 to 2006, the most recent data available. She says they are an easy species to breed, and you can buy a hatchling for as little as $20. The problem with these pets, Friar says, is that they get too big for their owners to handle. Making the owner aware of what to expect when the animal becomes full-grown is a priority. "The pet trade is pretty supportive in educating people," Friar said. She hopes a "Don't let it loose" message campaign makes an impact on pet owners. Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, a supporter of restoring the Everglades, has introduced a bill that would ban importing the python species into the United States.

Question: What kind of endangered species are they eating?

Question: What does Python Patrol aim to do?

Question: What is Python Patrol?

Question: How long do Burmese pythons grow to be?

Question: Where have the snakes been dumped?

Question: What have pet owners been doing?

Question: What are the snakes eating?

Question: What can pythons do?

Answer: wood rats, birds, bobcats

Answer: to keep Burmese

Answer: from gaining a foothold in the Florida Keys.

Answer: 20 feet

Answer: Florida Keys,

Answer: are being ditched by

Answer: a lot of our endangered species and other creatures,

Answer: grow to 20 feet long and eat large animals whole

Summary:
"Python Patrol" aims to keep giant Burmese pythons from reaching Florida Keys .
Pet owners have been dumping the snakes in the Everglades .
Burmese pythons can grow more than 20 feet long and eat animals whole .
The snakes "are eating a lot of our endangered species," conservationist says .


MARDAN, Pakistan (CNN)  -- A family of 18 Pakistani men, women and children trudges down a dirt road toward a refugee camp. These children are among the thousands of refugees this week at the Jalozai camp in western Pakistan. Adolescent girls carry infants on their hips, while the men lug bundles of belongings on their backs. "Come, stay close to me," said one woman wrapped in brightly colored robes, speaking to three children trailing behind her. "This one is empty," a white-bearded Pakistani police officer tells the family, pointing toward a tent. The women and children scramble under the canvas flap, as Salar Khan explains what led his family to flee to Mardan. "Mortars destroyed three houses in my village," he said. "It was dangerous. A piece of shrapnel almost pierced my child's leg." Khan said his family left their home Wednesday morning in Sultanwas, a town in Buner district. Now, they are living in Mardan's rapidly growing tent city of more than 1,400 other displaced Pakistanis. Five days ago, it was an empty field.  Watch as CNN's Ivan Watson tours a refugee camp » Khan's family has joined tens of thousands of other Pakistanis fleeing south to escape the escalating conflict between the military and Taliban militants in northwestern Pakistan. Meanwhile, columns of Pakistani troops in military trucks head in the opposite direction, hauling field guns north toward the conflict zone. Pakistani families have fled the area any way they can: on foot, by hitching rides on the back of trucks and by stowing their belongings on the roofs of cars. As fighting has spread from the districts of Buner and Lower Dir to the Taliban stronghold in the Swat Valley, camps for displaced people are cropping up across northwest Pakistan. The United Nations said the new exodus is exacerbating an already existing humanitarian crisis. Since August, the U.N. has registered more than 500,000 Pakistanis forced to flee their homes by fighting in other northwestern parts of the country. "Last year ... 4 million people worldwide lost their homes, out of which you have half a million displaced in Pakistan," said Manuel Bessler, a top U.N. official in Islamabad. Bessler spoke on a rooftop, overlooking the sprawling Jalozai refugee camp in western Pakistan. Until recently, the camp housed refugees from neighboring Afghanistan. The Afghans are now gone, replaced by more then 49,000 Pakistanis. Administrators are preparing space for 35,000 others. With help from U.N. agencies, the Pakistani government and other aid organizations, residents get access to medical care, children's schools and training programs to teach them how to rebuild their damaged homes if and when they get to return. Tensions have been building in the Jalozai camp. Two months ago, Pakistani police shot and killed one demonstrator after residents protested, blocking roads, throwing stones and demanding compensation for homes damaged by the fighting. This week, a crowd of several hundred agitated men gathered at the entrance, angry about a delay of several days in the monthly distribution of food aid. Some accused camp administrators of corruption, allegations that aid workers have denied. "The wheat we've been given is substandard, and people are getting sick instead of being fed," said one man named Gulzada. "Our houses have been destroyed," said another man called Anwar. "There's no tea, no sugar, no wheat, no lentils. All that we have are the clothes we are wearing." A fresh wave of displaced Pakistanis will only aggravate tensions, said Bessler, the U.N. official. "This is a factor that is destabilizing not only in the camp but in the country as a whole," he warned. Only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Pakistanis are ending up in camps. Many more have settled with host families or have resorted to paying rent in other cities. The influx of ethnic Pashtuns from northwest Pakistan upset the delicate demographic balance last month in the port city of Karachi. That led to ethnic clashes between Pashtuns and the resident Muhajir community,

Question: Where have tensions built?

Question: What number has fled?

Question: how many flee south?

Question: Where did they flee

Question: Where are tensions building

Question: What are the refugee camps for?

Question: What is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis?

Answer: in the Jalozai camp.

Answer: 500,000

Answer: tens of thousands

Answer: Mardan.

Answer: in the Jalozai camp.

Answer: displaced people

Answer: the new exodus

Summary:
Tens of thousands flee south to escape conflict between military and Taliban .
Refugee camps for the displaced are cropping up across northwest Pakistan .
Latest exodus is exacerbating humanitarian crisis, U.N. says .
Tensions have been building in Jalozai camp in western Pakistan .


MARDAN, Pakistan (CNN) -- Inside a hospital ward in northwest Pakistan, I found myself surrounded by sobs and screams. One scream was so high-pitched that I didn't think it was human. These were the sounds of agony, and they belonged to innocent civilians who were injured in the cross fire of Pakistani troops and the Taliban in the Swat Valley. CNN's Reza Sayah with Shaista, who lost most of her family in an explosion as they fled fighting. Behind each cry at this ward was a story of loss. Doctors told me no one here had lost more than Shaista, an 11-year-old girl who watched as an explosion instantly killed most of her family. Shaista and her family were among hundreds of thousands of people who fled Pakistan's Swat Valley on the day the Pakistani Army launched an all-out offensive against the Taliban.   She says she was walking along a road with her family when a mortar shell suddenly fell from the sky. "We were coming," Shaista told me, "then my mother died, my brother died, and my two sisters also died."  Watch Reza Sayah's interview with Shaista » Doctors said the explosion shattered Shaista's foot. Moments later she passed out. The next time she woke up she was in the female orthopedic ward of the GHQ Hospital in Mardan.   Doctors said Shaista will recover from her shattered foot, but the trauma of losing a family will last a lifetime. "She kept saying it all happened in front of me," said Salma Shaheen, a nurse. "She said something fell on top of my mother and she got cut in half." It was clear that Shaista had won over the hearts of the doctors and nurses who said that they, in three days, had treated more than 800 civilians injured in the battle zone. Like many hospitals in northwest Pakistan, this one was under equipped. To hold an elderly woman's broken leg together, doctors had made a make shift traction using a brick, a plastic shopping bag and rope.  Watch Reza Sayah's report from inside the hospital » Shaista said her father is missing. Her only guardian is her uncle, Muhammad Sher, who found Shaista after searching area hospitals. "I'm just going to tell her, 'you're my daughter,'" said Muhammad. "I'm going to educate her, teach her the Koran and do what I can for her." Sixty miles away from the hospital, the battle between Pakistani troops and the Taliban raged on. On Wednesday General Athar Abbas, the army's top spokesman, told CNN the troops were making significant progress but the most intense stage of the fighting in the battle zones' most populated areas was still to come -- a near guarantee of more sobs and screams at area hospitals.

Question: Where did Sayah meet Shaista?

Question: What fell from the sky as Shaista was walking on a road?

Question: Where did CNN's Reza Sayah meets Shaista ?

Question: Who was among the people fleeing fighting?

Question: What are the people fleeing from?

Answer: hospital ward in northwest Pakistan,

Answer: a mortar shell

Answer: hospital ward in northwest Pakistan,

Answer: Shaista and her family

Answer: Pakistani Army launched an all-out offensive against the Taliban.

Summary:
CNN's Reza Sayah meets Shaista in a crowded hospital in northwest Pakistan .
Shaista's family among hundreds of thousands of people fleeing fighting .
Shaista says they were walking on a road when a mortar fell from the sky .
The girl's uncle finds her in the hospital; doctors say her shattered foot will recover .


MARIANNA, Florida (CNN) -- Leaning against his cane, Bryant Middleton shuffled toward the makeshift cemetery. Tears welled in his eyes as he leaned down to touch one of the crosses. Bryant Middleton kneels by a row of white crosses on the grounds of a former reform school he attended. "This shouldn't be," he said. "This shouldn't be." Thirty-one crosses made of tubular steel and painted white line up unevenly in the grass and weeds of what used to be the grounds of a reform school in Marianna, Florida. The anonymous crosses are rusting away but their secrets may soon be exposed. When boys disappeared from the school, administrators explained it away, said former student Roger Kiser. They'd say, "Well, he ran away and the swamp got him," Kiser recalled. Or, "The gators got him." Or, 'Water moccasins got him." Kiser and other former students believe authorities will soon find the remains of children and teens sent to the Florida School for Boys half a century ago.  Watch Middleton kneel by the crosses » On the orders of Gov. Charlie Crist, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement last week opened an investigation to determine if anyone is buried here, whether crimes were committed, and if so, who was responsible. A group of men in their 60s, who once attended the school, have told investigators they believe the bodies are classmates who disappeared after being savagely beaten by administrators and workers. The FDLE is just beginning its investigation, so there is no way to know if there is any truth to the allegations. The investigation will be challenging. Finding records and witnesses from nearly half a century ago will be difficult if not impossible. Many of the administrators and employees of the reform school are dead. Read more about the investigation Middleton is 64 now, a former Army Ranger. He was 14 then, a wayward boy. He was sent to the Florida School for Boys for breaking and entering. He recently accompanied CNN to the school grounds. "This is a travesty against mankind and the state of Florida should be ashamed of themselves," he said, choking back tears. "It's as if they were tossed out here like they were nothing but garbage. And it's just downright criminal. Somebody needs to be accountable for this." A single-story, nondescript building anchors the other side of the property. The white cinder block structure looks so simple, so bland, that it is difficult to imagine the pain, terror and torture it conjures up in the men who say their childhoods were ravaged within its four walls. The building was known as "the white house."  Watch a former student return to the building » Middleton said he was brought there six times. He recalled that his tormentors, including one known as "the whipper," would turn on a large industrial fan to muffle the screams of the boys who were beaten with long leather straps, reinforced with metal.  See photos from Middleton's reform school days » Dick Colon said he went to the white house 11 times during his 30 months at the school. He's one of four men known as "the White House Boys." Colon, Kiser, Robert Straley and Michael O'McCarthy, the original four White House Boys, spoke out about the 31 crosses and their boyhood abuse and pushed for an investigation. Colon recalls his visits to the white house as if they were yesterday: He said he was forced to lie face down in a blood-soaked pillow -- a pillow with small pieces of lips, tongue and skin on it from the previous boy. He'd clench the metal bar of the bed. The ceilings were low. He would hear the strap hit the ceiling and make a "tick" sound before it swung down on him. "After that tick, you'd go 'Aaaahh,' and then you'd grab that bar, and go 'Ooooohhhhhhh,' and the spindles of the bed would bounce, and

Question: Who recalls beatings by a guard?

Question: Who talks about brutal days at a Florida reform school?

Question: What was the guard called who did the beatings?

Question: Where was the school located?

Question: What does one student recall hearing?

Question: Who has regrets about being too afraid to help a boy left to tumble in a dryer?

Answer: Middleton

Answer: Bryant Middleton

Answer: "the whipper,"

Answer: Marianna, Florida.

Answer: They'd say, "Well, he ran away and the swamp got him,"

Answer: Bryant Middleton

Summary:
Former students talk about brutal days at a Florida reform school .
One recalls hearing the tip of a whip hit the ceiling before it came down on him .
Another regrets being too afraid to help a boy left in a tumble dryer .
Third remembers beatings by a guard called "the whipper"


MATURA, Trinidad (CNN) -- With its white sand and clear, blue water, Trinidad's Matura Beach looks like a postcard. It's a far cry from its recent past, when leatherback sea turtle carcasses littered the ground and kept tourists away. Suzan Lakhan Baptiste's efforts have turned a beach from a leatherback turtle graveyard to a nesting colony. "Twenty years ago, this was a graveyard," Suzan Lakhan Baptiste said of the six-mile stretch of beach near her home. "The stench was horrendous. You could smell it for miles," she said. Saddened and frustrated, Baptiste launched a crusade to help end the slaughter of the gentle giants. Today, she and her group are succeeding: What was once a turtle graveyard is now a maternity ward -- one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world. It hasn't been an easy fight for Baptiste or the turtles. For 100 million years, the creatures have traveled the world's oceans, outliving the dinosaurs. Over the last 30 years, they have become critically endangered worldwide because of fishing, pollution and hunting. For centuries, they've been hunted throughout the Caribbean for their meat and fins, and also for their eggs, which some people prize as aphrodisiacs. "Turtles are in serious trouble," Baptiste said. Every year, female leatherbacks make their way onto the beach, laying their eggs deep in the sand. It is a long, complicated ritual during which the enormous, slow-moving animals are easy prey for poachers. "Leatherbacks [are] very vulnerable," Baptiste said. "They cannot pull their head and flippers back into the shell. They have no sense of defense to actually protect themselves." By the 1980s, nearly one in three turtles that nested on Matura Beach were killed. When the government asked for volunteers to help protect the endangered creatures, Baptiste and several others answered the call. In 1990, they started Nature Seekers, one of Trinidad's first environmental groups. 'Crazy Turtle Woman' For years, Baptiste and her group patrolled the beaches every night of turtle nesting season. She often walked alone until sunrise. Locals mocked her efforts, calling her the "Turtle Police" or "Crazy Turtle Woman," yet her dedication to the unpaid work was fierce; when it conflicted with her day job, she quit and found a new job. Leatherbacks were a vital source of income for some members of her village, and the poachers who prowled the beaches with machetes could be threatening. When Baptiste's then-husband was injured during a patrol, she became more determined to stand her ground. "I was very vigilant," she said, adding that at times, she even got into physical fights. But Baptiste persisted, and a prestigious award from the United Nations Environment Program helped validate her efforts. She and her group also worked hard to convince the villagers that using the turtles for eco-tourism could create a more sustainable income. "I wanted to show that a turtle is [worth] so much more to us alive than dead," Baptiste said. Gradually, her message of conservation turned the tide of public opinion, and after nearly two decades under Baptiste's leadership, Nature Seekers has largely won its battle. Today, the leatherbacks' survival rate on Matura Beach is virtually 100 percent. "Here, turtle slaughter is a thing of the past," Baptiste proclaimed. Even "Papa George," a village elder who used to hunt leatherbacks with his father, can attest to the cultural shift. "Suzan brought around the change," he said. "They don't kill the turtles anymore ... because of the visitors." Nearly 10,000 tourists a year, most of whom are Trinidadian, now visit Matura Beach, and many locals make a living by providing them with accommodations, food and souvenirs. Since the beach is a prohibited area during the nesting season, Nature Seekers' members act as guides, explaining the turtles' ancient rituals to visitors.

Question: What group did Baptiste create?

Question: Who helped end leatherback turtle slaughter in her community?

Question: What did Baptise do?

Question: What promotes turtle conservation throughout the Caribbean?

Answer: Nature Seekers,

Answer: Baptiste

Answer: Baptiste launched a crusade to help end the slaughter of the gentle giants.

Answer: Nature Seekers, one of Trinidad's first environmental groups.

Summary:
Suzan Lakhan Baptiste helped end leatherback turtle slaughter in her community .
Her nonprofit Nature Seekers promotes turtle conservation throughout the Caribbean .
The group's efforts contribute to eco-tourism in the area .
Do you know a hero? Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes .


MBOLA, Tanzania (CNN)  -- Moved by a 2007 trip to Ghana, singer/songwriter John Legend joined the fight to end extreme poverty in his lifetime. And based on his experiences in poor, rural areas of Africa, he says, real change is possible. John Legend says "Mama" Mwadawa Ruziga's role in uplifting her community inspired him. "I don't want people to only see Africa as a bunch of victims," Legend says. "The people that I've come across in these extremely impoverished villages, they want to work. They want to participate in their own development." To help people lift themselves out of poverty, Legend founded the Show Me Campaign, named after one of his songs. Partnering with economist Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Promise organization, Legend's group adopted Mbola, a remote village in Tanzania that has little access to drinking water and improved farming techniques, according to Millennium Promise. "The folks in Mbola are starting at a supreme disadvantage. Most of them are living on less than a dollar a day," Legend says. "It's difficult for them to even survive." On his 2007 visit to Mbola, Legend met "Mama" Mwadawa Ruziga, a single mother of two who was freeing herself from poverty. Her entrepreneurial spirit impressed Legend and solidified his belief that sustainable development at the community level can work in the fight against poverty. Ruziga leads a local business collective that sells products -- like wine, jam and juice -- that it makes out of indigenous fruits. "I was really inspired by her willingness to not just wait for a handout, but really take an active role in helping to uplift her community," he says. Through the Show Me Campaign, Legend has pledged to raise $1.5 million over five years to support programs similar to Ruziga's that are aimed at alleviating poverty in Mbola. But this is not just about cutting a check, he says. "You can always go in and bring an influx of money and address things temporarily. But if development's not sustainable, then something's wrong," Legend says. "This is about teaching them how to farm better, improving the education system, getting water pumps. The idea is that [the community] will continue to sustain themselves over time." Before joining her collective, Ruziga, 47, says her life was at an all-time low. For years, she suffered through malaria and droughts. "The only thing I did was farming, then I would just sit idle with nothing to do. But after joining the group, my life changed for the better, slowly by slowly," Ruziga says. In addition to agricultural processing, Ruziga's group focuses on horticulture and tree planting. Ruziga herself has been instrumental to the success of the group, traveling to trade shows in the Tanzanian cities of Tabora and Dar es Salaam to sell their products. "Our group has spread to other areas of Tanzania, and we've experienced great success because many people have come to know about us," Ruziga says.  Watch Legend talk about meeting Ruziga, and see her group making products » Six different villages have adopted the group's successful model. "I think she's a great example of someone who's given the tools to succeed, having the energy, having the follow-through, having the leadership skills to go ahead and do it," Legend says. Not only has Ruziga's group changed her own life, but other members' lives have also improved. This is the first time that some of them have ever earned an income. "Now they are more educated than before," Ruziga says. "The group provides them with a platform to exchange and explore ideas, and the revenue collected enables the members to cater for their basic needs." Ruziga believes that the future depends on women taking an active role in their future and says her community is happy with the help and encouragement Legend offers them. For Legend, Ruziga's passion is inspiring and motivating.

Question: Who  leads a business collective?

Question: Who is lifting herself and others from poverty?

Question: Who visited Tanzania?

Question: What does Ruziga's collective make products from?

Question: Who is Legend's hero?

Question: Where did the singer visit?

Answer: Mwadawa Ruziga,

Answer: "Mama" Mwadawa Ruziga's

Answer: John Legend

Answer: indigenous fruits.

Answer: "Mama" Mwadawa Ruziga's

Answer: Mbola,

Summary:
Legend's hero, "Mama" Mwadawa Ruziga, is lifting herself and others from poverty .
They met when the singer/songwriter visited Tanzania on an anti-poverty campaign .
Ruziga leads a business collective that makes products from local fruits, sells them .
This is the first time some members of her group have ever earned an income .


MEDELLIN, Colombia (CNN) -- This city's drug underworld is littered with "poseurs" -- lowlife triggermen pretending they're the real hard cases. Samir Romero, wanted by police for two murders, was killed in  August. He was shot 13 times. But a longstanding and trusted source, with intimate knowledge of Medellin's violent subculture, assured me the two men I was about to meet were the real deal. My destination: a single-story home in the city's notorious "Commune 13" district where I had set up a meeting with two hit men, who have for years hired their lethal services out to the cocaine cartels. Inside the house, a man called "Red" sat on a couch toying a fully loaded 9mm Ruger pistol. "This will stop somebody nicely," he said, as I glanced at it. His face and arms were covered in burn marks. He said it was a testament of the day a barrel of acid spilled onto him as he was working in a clandestine cocaine processing lab in northern Colombia. Red explained that after the accident, the lab foreman tossed him out, half-dead, into a jungle clearing. What little strength he had left, he said he used to bat away vultures. And, against the odds, he made his way to safety and slowly recovered. When Red left the clinic months later, he said he went straight back to the drug lab and gunned down the foreman and three of his henchmen. That wasn't his first killing though, he told me. When he was just 11 years old, Red recounted, he took a razor to the throat of a neighborhood drug pusher who had been molesting his little sister. The other man, "C", sat quietly as I listened to Red. Like Red, my source told me, "C" was also the so-called "chief" of a number of neighborhoods -- running local drug-peddling operations, extortion rackets and organizing hits for a big cartel boss he simply referred to as "El Cucho," or "The Old Man." It was a hot morning and he was shirtless. His chest was branded with a tattoo of the Virgin Maria Auxilatrix, known in Colombia as the "Virgin of the Assassins." Hitmen, or "sicarios" as they call them here, revere her and pray to her for protection against arrest or death and for help to carry out their killings.  Watch as Medellin law enforcement moves from killing to killing » During our time with the hit men they offered a fascinating insight into their violent world -- from how much they get paid to what their mothers think of their lifestyle: Penhaul: Why are Medellin's drug bosses and the street gangs in a war right now? "RED": "These problems come about because they're looking for a good man to run things. We have to find him and, in order to find him, what's happening right now has to run its course." "C": "Medellin has exploded right now because different groups want to control it and earn money and gain territory. The authorities locked up, extradited, or cut cooperation deals with the big guys, the ones who controlled all this. Those were the ones people respected. Now there's no respect and anybody who has a bunch of money is grabbing a few kids from a poor neighborhood and putting them to work."  Penhaul: What are the cartel bosses paying for a contract killing now? "C": "If you're talking about a contract hit then right now you can get four or five million pesos (between US$2,000 and $2,500) to kill some idiot slimeball. Then of course there are bigger hits where you can earn 15 (million) or 20 million (between $7,500 and $10,000). Some of those hits pay pretty well. There's a lot of people around here with a lot of money and they're using it for bad things. Sometimes even the politicians will pay

Question:
Who are talking about their careers?
What is the cost of a hitman kill?

Answer: Red.

Answer: (between $7,500 and $10,000).

Summary:
Colombian hitmen talk about their careers to CNN .
One says a kill costs between $2,000 and $10,000 .
Second hitman: After the first kill you panic, the second is a medicine .
They live in Medellin, the Colombian city in the middle of a drug war .


MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Three men have been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death last week of a University of Memphis football player, Memphis police announced Monday.

Police investigating a car crash on September 30 found Taylor Bradford, 21, fatally wounded near the campus residence hall area.

He had apparently gotten into his car after being shot, and drove a short distance before crashing into a tree.

Bradford -- a 5-foot-11, 300-pound defensive lineman from Nashville -- was pronounced dead at Regional Medical Center.

Memphis Police Department Director Larry Godwin said DeeShawn Tate, 21, Victor Trezevant, 21, and Courtney Washington, 22, had been charged with murder in perpetration of attempted aggravated robbery.

Homicide investigators developed the case against the three men with the help of a citizen's tip and Crimestoppers, he said.

Godwin said the investigation continues, and "we do expect additional arrests in this case."

"It was an attempted robbery, aggravated robbery," he said. Bradford "was targeted because of some information that was out there and the fact that they believed he had some cash, or he had something that they wanted."

Godwin said none of the three arrested suspects were students at the university, but he would not rule out that other suspects could be students.

Shelby County District Attorney General William L. Gibbons said the three suspects would make an initial court appearance as early as Tuesday.

He said prosecutors were considering seeking the death penalty in the case, but no decision had been made.

"Whether or not it will be would be premature for me to say," Gibbons said. "There are a lot of factors that go into it. We'll make a determination at the appropriate time."

Officials at the 21,000-student school said Bradford, a marketing major who lived on campus, was popular with the football team and on the campus as a whole.

He had transferred from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and was 36 credit hours short of graduation. E-mail to a friend

Question: What did the player do after he was shot?

Question: What happened after the shooting?

Question: What University was Bradford an attendening?

Question: What did the player crash into with his car?

Question: What are the charges against the killer?

Question: Which university did Taylor Bradford attend?

Question: When was he shot?

Question: Where did he go to school?

Question: What were 3 people charged with?

Question: Who was shot on September 30?

Question: What number of people were charged?

Question: What did he crash into?

Question: Who got in his car and drove off?

Question: What athlete was shot?

Question: What did Taylor Bradford do after he was shot?

Question: What number of people where charged with his murder?

Question: When was Taylor Bradford shot?

Answer: and drove a short distance before crashing into a tree.

Answer: drove a short distance before crashing into a tree.

Answer: of Memphis

Answer: a tree.

Answer: murder in perpetration of attempted aggravated robbery.

Answer: of Memphis

Answer: September 30

Answer: University of Memphis

Answer: murder

Answer: Taylor Bradford,

Answer: Three men

Answer: a tree.

Answer: Taylor Bradford,

Answer: Taylor Bradford,

Answer: gotten into his car

Answer: Three

Answer: September 30

Summary:
University of Memphis athlete Taylor Bradford, 21, was shot September 30 .
Three charged with murder in perpetration of attempted aggravated robbery .
After player was shot, he got in his car, drove off and then crashed into a tree .
The killing spurred school officials to temporarily lock down the campus .


MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- When James Earl Ray bought a white Mustang in the summer of 1967, he stood on a streetcorner in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and pulled the cash out of his shirt pocket, $2,000 in all. James Earl Ray paid $2,000 cash for a white Mustang, similar to this one, the seller told the FBI. "Mostly twenties, with some $100 bills," the seller would later tell the FBI about the sale to Ray, later convicted of assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "He must have had a roll of twenties, if he paid that guy $2,000 in twenties, that'd be a lot of money," said Jerry Ray, James Earl Ray's brother. Police Capt. John Light, who was chief of detectives that year in Ray's hometown of Alton, Illinois, suspects the wad of money came from a still-unsolved bank robbery. While Ray was on the run as a prison escapee from Missouri that summer, two men walked into the Bank of Alton with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun. Both wore stocking masks. The leaner man went behind the counter, scooped up the cash and fled with close to $30,000.  Ray, King crossed paths before shooting »  Within a day or two of that robbery, Ray would leave the area and head to Canada -- just as he did almost a year later when he fled the scene in Memphis, Tennessee, after King's murder. Light told CNN the stolen bank money consisted mainly of $20 bills. The partially burned shotgun and the stocking masks were found abandoned in a wooded area near a cemetery where Ray's mother is buried. Ray returned from Canada and bought the Mustang after seeing a classified ad in Birmingham the month after the robbery. In the months to come, Ray would keep spending $20 bills. When Ray underwent plastic surgery in Los Angeles 30 days before King's death, he paid in cash -- denomination unknown. When he drove back to Birmingham six days before the murder to buy a .30-06 high-powered hunting rifle for just under $250, the gun store salesman later told investigators, "I remember he paid for the gun with $20 bills, paid cash." On April 4, 1968, only hours before King would die, the landlady at the boarding house where Ray rented a room told police, "He gave me a $20 bill" when he paid for a week's rent just across the street from the Lorraine Motel. In the sporting goods store where Ray went to buy binoculars, the salesman told police, "He gave me two twenties; I think he had two twenties left... The bills came out of his right pocket, neatly folded, and nothing but bills." For Light, the bank holdup is the most likely answer to the question of where Ray got the money to travel as a fugitive to Canada and Mexico, then to flee again to Canada and finally London, England, after King's murder. "Thirty-thousand dollars back in 1967 was a lot of money," Light said. In London, Ray ran short of money. Four days before he was caught, he robbed a bank. His thumbprint was found on the holdup note. He got little more than $200 -- enough to buy an airline ticket to Brussels, Belgium, where he hoped to join mercenaries fighting to keep white rule in southern Africa. He was stopped at a London airport when a police sergeant spotted his phony Canadian passport. Ray lived very cheaply on the run. He got change back for his $20 bill at the Memphis boarding house -- a week's rent there was $8.50. The original prosecutors in the Memphis case decided it would not have cost that much for all of Ray's travels. "He was living on a dollar to two dollars a day," said current prosecutor John Campbell. "He was even darning his own socks to be able to save money."

Question:
What did Ray do before King's death?
What do the prosecutors believe?
What is the opinion of prosecutors?
What was found near burial plot?
what did he buy?
where they found weapons?
What do prosecutors believe?

Answer: bought a white Mustang

Answer: it would not have cost that much for all of Ray's travels.

Answer: "He was living on a dollar to two dollars a day,"

Answer: The partially burned shotgun and the stocking masks

Answer: white Mustang

Answer: wooded area near a cemetery

Answer: "He was living on a dollar to two dollars a day,"

Summary:
Police: James Earl Ray's money came from a bank robbery in his hometown .
Gun, masks used in robbery found near burial plot of Ray's mother .
Ray bought a Mustang and underwent plastic surgery before King's death .
Prosecutors believe he lived very cheaply on the run .


MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- A moderately strong earthquake rocked Mexico City on Friday afternoon, shaking the earth in the sprawling capital. People in Mexico City stream into the street as a magnitude 5.7 earthquake hits. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.7, and placed the epicenter near the city of Puebla, about 85 miles southeast of Mexico City. It hit at 2:24 p.m. local time. The Mexican seismological service measured the quake at 5.9. People in the city reported the earth and buildings shaking. Thousands of panicked people streamed into the streets as stopped cars snarled traffic. Parts of the city were without electricity Friday afternoon but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Earthquakes are a frightening experience for the 20 million residents of Mexico City, where thousands of people perished in a massive quake in 1985. The city, built on volcanic ash and clay, is particularly vulnerable to temblors. Aldo Pontecorvo of the humanitarian agency World Vision said the shaking lasted about 20 seconds. It came out of nowhere and "without any warning," said Pontecorvo, who said he was in his office when the quake struck. Earlier this month, a moderate earthquake was measured off the coast of Mexico's western Baja California peninsula.

Question: What was the quake magnitude

Question: How much damage has been caused?

Question: Where were thounsand killed

Question: How many did the 1985 Mexico City quake kill?

Question: Where was the 1985 quake?

Question: What was the quake measured at?

Question: What did the U.S. Geological Survey measure the quake at?

Question: What did people do?

Question: In what year were thousands killed

Question: How many were killed in the 1985 earthquake in Mexico city?

Question: What happened in 1985?

Question: What is the magnitude of the Quake?

Question: What was the earthquake?

Question: How many were injured in this quake?

Question: What number panicked?

Question: which year was the quake

Answer: 5.7

Answer: no immediate reports of injuries or

Answer: Mexico City,

Answer: thousands of people perished in a massive

Answer: Mexico City,

Answer: The U.S. Geological Survey

Answer: magnitude 5.7,

Answer: streamed into the streets

Answer: 1985.

Answer: thousands of people

Answer: thousands of people perished in a massive quake

Answer: 5.7

Answer: moderately strong

Answer: no immediate reports of injuries

Answer: Thousands

Answer: 1985.

Summary:
U.S. Geological Survey measures quake at magnitude 5.7 .
Thousands of panicked people stream into the streets .
No immediate reports of injuries or damage .
1985 earthquake killed thousands in Mexico City .


MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon outlined a series of economic recovery measures Wednesday, including freezing gasoline prices for the rest of the year and lowering natural gas prices by 10 percent. Mexican President Felipe Calderon announces his economic recovery proposals on Wednesday. Calderon also announced an ambitious agenda to help rebuild the nation's highways, bridges and other public-use facilities. The National Infrastructure Program, as he called it, will spend 570 billion pesos ($42 billion). Petroleos Mexicanos, the nationally owned oil industry, will receive an additional 17 billion pesos ($1.2 billion). Calderon made his wide-ranging announcement in a nationally televised speech attended by his wife, Cabinet members, governors and other public and private officials. He said Mexico is in better shape this year to fight off recession than it was in previous instances. The recovery plan will address five areas: employment aid, family finances, competitiveness, infrastructure, and actions toward public spending that is more transparent and efficient. In all, Calderon promised to spend billions of pesos to help Mexicans weather the global financial storm. For example, Calderon pledged 2.6 billion pesos ($193 million) to improve a Social Security program for unemployed Mexicans, increasing from two months to six months the time they will receive medical and maternity coverage. Other programs he announced also carried hefty price tags. The government will spend 2.2 billion pesos ($163 million) to help Mexicans who are unemployed or underemployed, Calderon said. The recovery measure includes financing to help poor families buy more energy-efficient electrical appliances. The government will set aside 750 million pesos ($55 million) to pay 50 percent of the costs of replacing old appliances. To help businesses, the federal government will make at least 20 percent of its purchases from small- and medium-size companies, Calderon said. The government also will establish a 5 billion peso ($372 million) fund to start a "Made in Mexico" program for businesses to sell supplies to the national petroleum industry.

Question: Which commodity will have its price frozen?

Question: What size companies will be helped?

Question: Who is the Mexican leader that's being quoted?

Question: What prices will be frozen for the rest of the year?

Question: Who will be aided by the plan?

Question: Number of pesos that will be spent?

Question: What else did the plan also call for?

Question: How many pesos will be spent?

Question: How long will the prices be frozen?

Question: What is Mexican currency called?

Question: How much money will be spent?

Answer: gasoline

Answer: small- and medium-size

Answer: President Felipe Calderon

Answer: gasoline

Answer: unemployed Mexicans,

Answer: 570 billion

Answer: rebuild the nation's highways, bridges and other public-use facilities.

Answer: 570 billion

Answer: for the rest of the year

Answer: pesos

Answer: 570 billion pesos ($42 billion).

Summary:
Mexico leader says gasoline prices will be frozen for rest of year .
Also planned is ambitious program to rebuild nation's infrastructure .
Billions of pesos will be spent to help Mexicans weather financial storm .
Plan also calls for steps to aid small- and medium-size companies .


MEXICO CITY (CNN) -- The death toll in a plane crash that claimed the life of Mexico's interior minister and two other high-ranking officials has risen to 13, Mexico City prosecutor Miguel Angel Mancera said Wednesday, according to Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency.

The scene of Tuesday night's plane crash in Mexico City was one of panic and confusion, a witness says.

The small plane carrying Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino and seven others crashed in central Mexico City on Tuesday night.

A witness described "moments of panic and confusion" after the crash, as burning people asked for help and others ran from the scene.

The crash injured 40 people on the ground, said government spokesman Marcelo Ebrard. All eight passengers and crew on board the plane were killed, the spokesman said. Two of the dead are women, Mancera said.

Also among the dead were Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, a former deputy attorney general, and Miguel Monterubio Cubas, the director of social communication, President Felipe Calderon said in a televised address Tuesday night.

In Mexico, the minister of the interior oversees domestic affairs, particularly national security, law enforcement and the war on drugs. It is Mexico's second-most-powerful post.

Vasconcelos was one of Mexico's top experts on the fight against narcotraffickers and was said to have a price on his head.

"I want to express my deepest condolences to the families of the victims and my absolute support during this difficult time," Calderon said.

Mourino, he said, "was one of my closest colleagues and one of my best friends. ... With his death, Mexico loses a great Mexican."

At least 12 cars were burned and two buildings were damaged, Notimex said.  Watch video footage of the aftermath of the crash Â»

No cause for the crash was immediately given, but Calderon assured the nation that the results of the investigation will be made public.

The Learjet 45 did not explode in the air, said Luis Tellez, secretary of communication and transportation.

When there is an explosion in the air, Tellez said at a news conference Wednesday, pieces of the airplane are scattered over a wide area. But the wreckage in this instance was limited to a small area, he said.

Tellez said Wednesday the pilot did not report an emergency, Notimex said.

An audio recording released Wednesday of what Mexican officials said was dialogue between the pilot and the airport control tower did not appear to have an emergency call from the aircraft. The recording could be linked to off the Notimex Web site.

The plane was traveling from the north-central city of San Luis Potosi to Mexico City, Calderon said. The cities are about 220 miles (355 km) apart. The Learjet was built in 1998 and carried identification call letters of XCVMC, Tellez said.

Agustin Arellano, director of the federal agency that oversees Mexican airspace, said the aircraft's flight path, altitude and velocity were within accepted standards for a landing at Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport.

The information was retrieved from the airplane's flight data recorder, Arellano said at the news conference with Tellez.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it has sent a team of investigators, led by senior aviation accident investigator Joe Sedora. The team includes technical advisers from the NTSB, the Federal Aviation Administration, Learjet and Honeywell International, it said.

Mourino had just given a speech in San Luis Potosi, detailing the administration's efforts to combat drug traffickers, kidnappers and other criminals.

When Calderon took office in December 2006, Mourino said, the new president focused on combating crime.

"It was decided to combat criminal groups with all available power in order to confront them, to reduce them and to fulfill the essential mandate of all authority, which is none other than to guarantee peace, tranquility and security for its citizens," Mourino said in his speech.

Calderon has unleashed federal police and soldiers in several states across Mexico and tightened controls on money laundering and corruption among local and municipal police forces, which

Question: What is the country's second most powerful post?

Question: Which important Mexican politician died in the crash, specifically?

Question: How many were killed because of the crash?

Question: How many died in this Mexican plane crash?

Question: Who was killed in the plane crash?

Question: What is the death toll in Mexican plane crash?

Question: Who is the Interior minister?

Question: What was the death toll of the Mexican plane crash?

Answer: the minister of the interior

Answer: Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino

Answer: 13,

Answer: 13,

Answer: Mexico's interior minister

Answer: 13,

Answer: Juan Camilo Mourino

Answer: 13,

Summary:
NEW: U.S. agency sends investigative team to help .
Death toll in Mexican plane crash rises to 13, report says .
Mexico's interior minister and two high-ranking officials among those killed .
Interior minister is country's second most-powerful post .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)   -- Mexicans in the United States sent home 12.2 percent less money this past August than the same month last year, the Banco de Mexico said Wednesday. Mexicans in the U.S. are sending fewer dollars home and are suffering from a tough economy. That translates into remittances of $1.9 billion, versus $2.2 billion last year, said the bank, which blamed tough economic times in the United States for the decline. "The prolonged deceleration of economic activity in the United States has adversely affected the opportunities for employment in that country and, consequently, those of the Mexican migrants," the bank said in a statement posted on its Web site. August's tally quickens a trend -- during the first eight months of the year, remittances fell 4 percent to $15.6 billion, the statement said. The numbers translate easily into stories of hardship. Marilyn Pena lives outside Mexico City and depends on remittances to get by. Her father migrated to Chicago 12 years ago to find work and, in good months, sends his daughter about $200 per week. But last week he sent nothing. "He told me he has no more work because of the situation there," Pena said. "Temporary workers are always the first to lose their jobs in crises like this one," said Luis Pena, an economist. "Since many Mexicans in the United States are there illegally, they are most vulnerable to unemployment." Some economists predict the drop will increase by year's end to 20 percent. After oil exports, remittances are Mexico's second-largest source of foreign currency. In Atlanta, Georgia, which has one of the greatest concentrations of Mexican residents in the southeastern United States, Yasmin Gutierrez runs a company that Mexican immigrants use to send dollars abroad. "Before, they used to come every week and they used to send big amounts and lately, well, nothing, or almost nothing. Some clients are no longer coming, and those that are coming are sending small amounts." Rosina Gonzalez, who ran a Western Union office in Atlanta several years ago and recently returned to the job, said she has noticed a big change. Back then, "everyone was sending money to Mexico, Mexico, Mexico -- a lot of money," she said. "Now, I'm returning to work after four or five years and the norm now is that the people who used to send money to Mexico are asking the people in Mexico to send money here." Some are abandoning their hope for a slice of the American dream by opting to return to their country. The woman running the foreign-currency exchange service Afex, also in Atlanta, said business is so bad she is afraid of losing her job. CNN's Harris Whitbeck in Mexico City and Viviana Fernandez in Atlanta contributed to this story.

Question: By what percentage do some economists predict the drop will increase by year's end?

Question: What is Mexico's largest source of foreign currency?

Question: Who sent back less money ?

Question: What might the drop in remittances  increase to by the end of the year?

Question: What percentage less money did Mexicans send back to Mexico than last August?

Question: What percentage less money had Mexicans sent back this year?

Question: What is Mexico's second-largest source of foreign currency?

Question: What is Mexico's  main source of foreign currency?

Answer: 20 percent.

Answer: oil exports,

Answer: Mexicans in the United States

Answer: 20 percent.

Answer: 12.2 percent

Answer: 12.2 percent

Answer: remittances

Answer: oil exports,

Summary:
Bank: Mexicans in U.S. sent 12.2 percent less money back to Mexico than last August .
Some economists predict the drop will increase by year's end to 20 percent .
After oil exports, remittances are Mexico's second-largest source of foreign currency .
Some migrant workers are opting to return to Mexico .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- A federal judge ordered 10 municipal police officers arrested Saturday in connection with the slayings of 12 off-duty federal agents in southwestern Mexico, the attorney general's office said. The recent spate of violence was sparked by the arrest of high-ranking drug cartel member Arnoldo Rueda Medina. The federal officers' bodies were found Tuesday on a remote highway in Michoacan state, where at least 18 federal agents and two soldiers have been killed since July 11 due to drug-related violence. Video from the scene showed three signs, known as narcomensajes, or narcomessages, left by the killers. They all stated the same thing: "So that you come for another. We will be waiting for you here." The officers arrested Saturday are on the police force in the city of Arteaga. Mexican President Felipe Calderon, whose home state is Michoacan, responded to the violence by dispatching 1,000 federal police officers to the area. The infusion, which more than tripled the number of federal police officers patrolling Michoacan, angered Michoacan Gov. Leonel Godoy Rangel. He called it an occupation and said he had not been consulted. Authorities said Wednesday they were searching for the governor's half-brother, who they say is a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel. The cartel is blamed for most of the recent violence in the state. The governor's brother, Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano, was elected July 5 to the lower house of Congress. The governor has publicly urged his brother to surrender. There were no reports of his apprehension as of late Saturday. The sudden spike in violence followed the arrest July 11 of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, described as a high-ranking member of La Familia. La Familia members attacked the federal police station in Morelia to try to gain freedom for Rueda shortly after his arrest, authorities said. When that failed, cartel members attacked federal police installations in at least a half-dozen Michoacan cities. Under Mexican law, the officers arrested Saturday will be held for 40 days while officials determine whether to formally charge them.

Question: Who were arrested?

Question: In which city are the agents found?

Question: what did the governor call for

Question: when were they arrested

Question: who was arrested

Question: where were found the bodies of the agents?

Question: What does the Governor call for?

Question: How many were killed?

Question: Who was arrested Saturday?

Question: Who were found Tuesday?

Question: Who was arrested/

Question: Where  did it occur?

Answer: 10 municipal police officers

Answer: Michoacan state,

Answer: his brother to surrender.

Answer: Saturday

Answer: 10 municipal police officers

Answer: on a remote highway in Michoacan state,

Answer: his brother to surrender.

Answer: at least 18 federal agents and two soldiers have been

Answer: 10 municipal police officers

Answer: federal officers' bodies

Answer: 10 municipal police officers

Answer: in southwestern Mexico,

Summary:
Officers arrested Saturday are on the police force in the city of Arteaga .
Slain agents were found Tuesday on a remote highway in Michoacan state .
Governor calls infusion of federal agents in Michoacan an occupation .
Governor's half-brother, said to be key figure in drug cartel, still at large .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- A recently retired Mexican army general whose bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday near Cancun had taken over as the area's top antidrug official less than 24 hours earlier, officials said. A soldier guards the forensics office where the body of a slain former general was taken in Cancun, Mexico. Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez, his aide and a driver were tortured before being killed, said Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo. He said there was no doubt Tello and the others were victims of organized crime. "The general was the most mistreated," Rodriguez said at a Tuesday night news conference monitored by El Universal newspaper. "He had burns on his skin and bones in his hands and wrists were broken." An autopsy revealed Tello also suffered broken knees and was shot 11 times, Mexico City's Excelsior newspaper said. Tello had just been appointed a special drug-fighting consultant for Gregorio Sanchez Martinez, the mayor of the Benito Juarez municipality, which includes the city of Cancun. Tello, who retired from the army in January at the mandatory age of 63, had moved to the resort area three weeks ago. The three victims were found inside a white Toyota  pickup truck outside of Cancun on the road to Merida. The truck belongs to the Benito Juarez municipality, Excelsior said, citing Luis Raymundo Canche, an assistant prosecutor for Quintana Roo state. The three men were abducted Monday night, possibly in Cancun, tortured and then later shot to death, El Universal said, citing prosecutor Rodriguez. The bodies were found with their hands bound, the newspaper said. The killings happened around 4 a.m., the prosecutor said. The other two victims were identified as Lt. Julio Cesar Roman Zuniga, who was Tello's aide and the chief bodyguard for Mayor Martínez, and civilian driver Juan Ramirez Sanchez. Tello is the second high-ranking army officer to be killed in the area in the past few years. Lt. Col. Wilfrido Flores Saucedo and his aide were gunned down on a Cancun street in 2006. That crime remains unsolved. The killings come as Mexico grapples with the highest violent-death rates in its history -- around 5,400 slayings in 2008, more than double the 2,477 reported in 2007, according to Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has characterized the battle among drug cartels and with government authorities as a "civil war." On Tuesday, 12 men were gunned down in Chihuahua state in northern Mexico, Excelsior reported Wednesday. Eight other people were shot and killed in Chihuahua last weekend. More than 200 people have been killed this year in Ciudad Juarez, the largest city in Chihuahua and considered the most violent town in Mexico, El Tiempo newspaper said, citing local authorities. Last year, according to the National Commission on Human Rights, there were 1,900 organized crime killings in the state of Chihuahua. About 1,600 of those slayings occurred in Ciudad Juarez.

Question: How many times was Quiñonez shot?

Question: How many times was the general shot?

Question: Who was tortured before being killed?

Question: Who moved to Cancun?

Question: Name of the retired general?

Question: Age of the former general?

Question: What was Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez's rank?

Question: Where had he moved to the week before?

Question: What happened to the general before he was killed?

Question: When did this officer move to Cancun?

Question: What did prosecuters say?

Answer: 11

Answer: 11

Answer: Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez,

Answer: Tello

Answer: Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez,

Answer: 63,

Answer: Retired Gen.

Answer: resort area

Answer: Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez, his aide and a driver were tortured

Answer: three weeks ago.

Answer: The three men were abducted Monday night, possibly in Cancun, tortured and then later shot to death,

Summary:
NEW: Retired general tortured before being killed, prosecutor says .
NEW: Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez shot 11 times, paper reports .
NEW: Former general, 63, moved to Cancun area just weeks ago .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- A suspect in police custody calls himself a "stewmaker" for a Mexican drug lord, saying he disposed of about 300 bodies by dissolving them in acid. Santiago Meza Lopez has asked for forgiveness from the families of those he says he targeted. Santiago Meza Lopez was arrested Thursday in Ensenada, Baja California, but it took police 24 hours to identify him. He says he works for drug lord Teodoro Garcia Simental, also known as "el Teo," a powerful drug trafficker. Meza, who is shown handcuffed and flanked by guards in video released by the government, calls himself "Teo's stewmaker" and says he was paid $600 a week for his macabre duties. The victims, he said, were men who owed Garcia something or had betrayed him. A native of Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Meza was arrested along with three other people, including a minor female who said she was contracted for a social event. Other people sought by police were in the area at the time but were able to escape, officials said. Now, Meza is asking for forgiveness. "To the families, please forgive me," he said in the video. Mexican police have not specifically said whether they believe that all elements of Meza's story are credible. He has told police where he buried some of the bodies. Now authorities, along with citizens groups and the families of the disappeared, are searching for them. They hope Meza could have information about the location of their friends and relatives. Authorities say Garcia formed part of the Arellano Felix cartel but is currently said by intelligence sources to be operating with the Sinaloa cartel. Officials say seven brothers and four sisters of the Arellano-Felix family inherited the Tijuana, Mexico-based drug cartel from Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo in 1989, after his arrest for drug trafficking. Today, the notorious cartel is split into two factions that have engaged in brutal fighting that has accounted for nearly all the violence in Tijuana, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. More than 400 people were killed last year in drug-related violence. Eduardo Arellano-Felix, who police said was the last remaining brother to have an active role in the cartel, was arrested in October. CNN's Carolina Sanchez and CNN en Espanol's Krupskaia Alis in Mexico City contributed to this report.

Question: Who did the suspect say he worked for?

Question: In what nation is the powerful drug trafficker the suspect claimed he worked for?

Question: What is the amount of money the person got paid a week?

Question: What was the suspect accused of?

Question: How much did the suspect make a week?

Question: What did the police say about the man's story?

Question: What information are some people hoping the suspect has?

Question: How much was the suspect paid, each week, to take care of those who owed the drug lord money?

Question: Who was paid $600 dollars a week?

Question: Who did the suspect say he worked?

Question: What did the families hope for?

Question: What do families hope to find?

Answer: drug lord Teodoro Garcia Simental, also known as "el Teo," a powerful drug trafficker.

Answer: Mexico

Answer: $600

Answer: he disposed of about 300 bodies by dissolving them in acid.

Answer: $600 a

Answer: have not specifically said whether they believe that all elements of Meza's

Answer: about the location of their friends and relatives.

Answer: $600

Answer: "Teo's stewmaker"

Answer: drug lord Teodoro Garcia Simental,

Answer: information about the location of their friends and relatives.

Answer: information about the location of their friends and relatives.

Summary:
Suspect says he worked for powerful Mexican drug trafficker .
He says he got $600 a week to deal with those who owed drug lord .
Police have not said whether they find man's story credible .
Families hope he could have information on their missing loved ones .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Another child has died from last week's fire at a day care center in northwestern Mexico, bringing the death toll to 45, the state-run Notimex news agency said. A crib and baby seats sit outside the scene of a deadly day care center fire in Mexico. The child died Friday in a hospital in the city of Guadalajara, Notimex said. The news agency did not provide any additional information. A fire raged through the ABC day care center on June 5 in the city of Hermosillo in Sonora state. Officials said an air-conditioning unit in a government-run warehouse in the same building as the day care center caused the blaze. In another development Friday, three officials from the Mexican Institute of Social Security were fired, Notimex reported. The social security institute oversaw the ABC day care facility. Earlier, the Institute of Social Security removed its Sonora director, Arturo Leyva Lizarraga. Leyva Lizarraga was "separated" from the agency Wednesday to "facilitate the investigative process," according to Notimex. The same wording was used in announcing Friday's firings. Earlier in the week, two other people who ran the center resigned from the government jobs they held. Also Friday, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said officials had found safety irregularities at the day care center in 2005, Notimex said. He declined to detail those irregularities but said authorities are investigating if anything was done about them. Any negligent officials will be punished once the investigation is completed, Medina said.

Question: What is the death toll in Mexico day care?

Question: What happened on June 5?

Question: How many officials have been dismissed?

Question: Where is the day care center?

Question: when fire was started

Question: On what date did the fire take place?

Question: where death toll rised to 45

Question: Death toll rises to what number?

Question: whats happend in sonora

Question: What is the death toll in the day care center fire?

Question: In which state did the fire take place?

Answer: 45,

Answer: fire raged through the ABC day care center

Answer: three

Answer: northwestern

Answer: June 5

Answer: June 5

Answer: Mexico,

Answer: 45,

Answer: A fire raged through the ABC day care center on June 5 in the city of Hermosillo in

Answer: 45,

Answer: Mexico.

Summary:
NEW: Three officials from supervisory agency dismissed .
Death toll in Mexico day care center fire rises to 45, officials say .
Fire tore through building in Sonora state on June 5 .
Fire started in air-conditioning unit in adjacent warehouse, officials say .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Auto insurers report that about 60,000 vehicles were stolen in just over a year in Mexico, the highest figure in the past decade.

Mexico City, Mexico, has a well-deserved reputation for heavy traffic. Now car thefts may be added to the list.

That's no surprise to Guillermo Cruz, who has bought two new cars this year: the first after his original car was stolen, and the second three months later after two armed men pointed guns at him, got in and drove off with Cruz inside.

"They dropped me off in the street and I thought they had already left, and I went back" to where they had taken it, he said.

"And still they hadn't left; they were inside the car. And one man said to the other, 'Let's shoot him because he's becoming annoying.' "

According to the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions, the capital of Mexico City is a favorite site for car thieves to work.

"If we talk about data from the federal district, we can say that we have 16,000 automobiles stolen, an increase of 10 percent from October 2007 to September 2008," said Recaredo Arias, a spokesman for the association.

He said drug traffickers have contributed to the increase by pushing other bands of criminals into new lines of business.

"Perhaps they are taking up so much space from the point of view of the sources of income as from the point of view of supply and distribution of drugs to these bands and, as a result, the bands are looking for other types of crimes," he speculated.

Authorities say they are making efforts to fight the crime, though some observers predict that the incidence of car theft will rise further as the world economic crisis worsens.

Question: Where is this problem the worst?

Question: Where is the problem particularly acute?

Question: What will cause this problem to get worse?

Question: What did one Mexican man say?

Question: What do observers predict will happen to car thefts?

Question: What did one Mexican man say he's had happen to him?

Question: How many vehicles were stolen?

Question: What did Mexican insurers report?

Question: Where is car theft particularly a problem?

Question: Where is the problem especially acute?

Question: How many cars did a Mexican insurer say were stolen in a year?

Answer: Mexico City

Answer: Mexico City

Answer: world economic crisis worsens.

Answer: "And still they hadn't left; they were inside the car. And one man said to the other, 'Let's shoot him because he's becoming annoying.'

Answer: rise further

Answer: has bought two new cars this year: the first after his original car was stolen, and the second three months later after two armed men pointed guns at

Answer: about 60,000

Answer: 60,000 vehicles were stolen in just over

Answer: Mexico City,

Answer: Mexico City, Mexico,

Answer: about 60,000 vehicles

Summary:
About 60,000 vehicles were stolen in just over a year, Mexican insurers report .
The problem is particularly acute in the capital of Mexico City .
Observers predict car thefts will rise further as world economic crisis worsens .
One Mexican man says he's had two new cars stolen in three months .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Beginning December 1, Mexico City plans to hand out free medicine to elderly men with erectile dysfunction, the local government said. Medications such as Viagra, Levitra or Cialis reportedly will be offered under medical supervision. "Everyone has the right to be happy," said Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, governor of the federal district that encompasses the Mexican capital. "We have to protect people -- senior citizens above all," he said in a statement Thursday. "Many of them are abandoned and lack money. They don't have medical services, and a society that doesn't care for its senior citizens has no dignity." The government said it plans to offer Viagra, Levitra or Cialis -- medication used to treat erectile dysfunction -- under adequate medical supervision. It cited figures saying that 70 percent of elderly men suffer from the condition. To obtain the medicine, men must first undergo a "very, very detailed" medical check to screen for and possibly treat ailments such as hypertension and diabetes, the government said. Centers in Mexico City also will offer a variety of treatment to elderly men and women.

Question: What must elderly men in Mexico City undergo?

Question: Where will elderly men receive medical screening?

Question: What condition will the medicine treat?

Question: What problem will be resolved with free drugs in December?

Question: What right does eveyone have?

Question: What affliction are elderly men suffering from?

Answer: a "very, very detailed" medical check to screen for and

Answer: Mexico City

Answer: erectile dysfunction,

Answer: erectile dysfunction,

Answer: to be happy,"

Answer: erectile dysfunction,

Summary:
Elderly men in Mexico City must undergo medical screening first .
Free medicine will be out handed out to those with erectile dysfunction in December .
"Everyone has the right to be happy," official says .
Figures show 70 percent of elderly men suffer from condition, local government says .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Buses that carry women only are experiencing a smooth ride with passengers in Mexico's capital. A woman rides on a bus exclusively for female passengers last month in Mexico City. Fans of the new service call their daily commutes more pleasant now that bus rides steer clear of too-close-for-comfort contact with men. "We're not just talking about sexual harassment, about rapes or about incidents of violence," said Ariadna Montiel, director of the Network of Passengers' Transportation for the Government of the Federal District. "But also about touching, staring, which is what generally occurs on public transport." The single-sex service, which started in January, is available on four major lines in the city, and it's expected to expand to another 15. Other plans include replacing male drivers with women. One woman described the service as "excellent," saying it's "more comfortable too because it doesn't make as many stops." Another passenger said she feels more comfortable and safer. Last year, the government received seven complaints of sexual abuse aboard the city's buses, which provide 200 million rides each year, officials said.  Authorities said that a single complaint is enough to justify taking such measures. Juan Flores, who has driven buses in Mexico City for 15 years and now steers one for women only, said he even notices a difference. "I feel more tranquil, I work more peacefully and the interior of the bus is cleaner," he said. E-mail to a friend CNN's Mario Gonzalez contributed to this report.

Question: Who did the complaining?

Question: when was 7 complaints made

Question: where is the service available

Question: What number of major lines is the single-sex service available on?

Question: What do passengers on female only buses describe their commutes as being?

Question: What was the number of reports of sexual assaults on buses made last year?

Question: What did they complain about?

Question: Where were the complaints made to?

Question: Where did the sexual abuse take place?

Question: Are their plans to expand single-sex services?

Question: What buses provide the most pleasant commutes?

Question: Where is single-sex service available?

Question: Where is the service available?

Question: What do passengers describe their commutes as?

Answer: women

Answer: Last year,

Answer: Mexico City.

Answer: four

Answer: more pleasant now that bus rides steer clear of too-close-for-comfort contact with men.

Answer: seven

Answer: sexual abuse aboard

Answer: government

Answer: aboard the city's buses,

Answer: expected

Answer: that carry women only

Answer: MEXICO CITY,

Answer: MEXICO CITY,

Answer: more pleasant now that bus rides steer clear of too-close-for-comfort contact with men.

Summary:
Passengers on female-only buses describe their commutes as more pleasant .
Seven complaints of sexual abuse aboard Mexico City buses made last year .
Single-sex service is available on four major lines in Mexican capital .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Eight people were killed and 101 were wounded in two explosions during a celebration of Mexico's independence day Monday night, a Mexican official said Tuesday. Wounded people get help after blasts Monday night during an independence day event in Morelia, Mexico. Two people remained in grave condition, said Roman Armando Luna Escalante, secretary of health in Michoacan state. Eleven of the wounded were children, Luna Escalante said. None of them are gravely injured. The explosions occurred around 11 p.m. near the governor's residence in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan. The second blast happened shortly afterward a few blocks away. Officials would not say if they have any suspects or if any group has claimed responsibility. Some experts pointed to drug cartels or insurgents. "It could be a warning to the federal government, which has put a lot of money and manpower to deal with drugs, which are very powerful there," said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank on Western Hemisphere affairs. "It could be leftist guerrilla groups that occasionally throw a bomb. "The problem is that this is part of a real wave of violence that is consuming Mexico." Last week the bodies of 24 people, bound and shot execution-style, were found in Atlapulco, a town just south of Mexico City. Those killings Friday came roughly two weeks after tens of thousands of Mexicans marched on the nation's capital, calling for greater government action against the wave of violent crime. Non-governmental groups estimate there have been more than 1,500 killings in Mexico this year linked to organized crime. In late August, Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors to develop a plan to battle the rise in violent crime. Calderon, who was born in Morelia, condemned the attacks and said federal officials will redouble efforts to help state authorities investigate. More than 1,500 soldiers and federal police were maintaining order Tuesday, which marks the 198th anniversary of what Mexicans regard as their independence day. Festivities typically start the night before because on September 16, 1810, shortly before dawn, a priest in a village in the state of Guanajuato rang a church bell and called on Mexicans to fight for independence from Spain. The celebration in Morelia on Monday night was one of hundreds nationwide to celebrate that call for independence, which Mexico formally achieved in 1821.

Question: Who set of the explosions?

Question: What was being celebrated when the explosions happened?

Question: How many were wounded?

Question: What did the Mexican president say?

Question: Who did the Mexican president say will help in the investigation?

Question: How many people died?

Question: During which celebration did the explosions occur?

Question: How many blasts were there?

Question: When did the explosions occur?

Question: Who says federal officials will help?

Question: How many people were killed?

Question: Where is Morelia?

Answer: drug cartels or insurgents.

Answer: Mexico's independence day

Answer: 101

Answer: "It could be a warning to the federal government, which has put a lot of money and manpower

Answer: federal officials

Answer: Eight

Answer: Mexico's independence day

Answer: two

Answer: celebration of Mexico's independence day Monday night,

Answer: Calderon,

Answer: Eight

Answer: Mexico.

Summary:
NEW: Death toll rises to eight in two blasts, official says; more than 100 wounded .
NEW: Mexican president says federal officials will help investigate .
Explosions occurred during independence day celebration in Morelia .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- In response to a spate of attacks allegedly by a drug cartel, Mexico more than tripled the number of federal police officers patrolling the state of Michoacan, a government spokeswoman said. Drug violence is up in Michoacan state, shown by recent attacks on police in at least a half-dozen cities. The government on Thursday dispatched 1,000 federal police officers to Michoacan state in southwest Mexico, increasing its presence to 1,300 total, Public Safety spokeswoman Veronica Penunuri told CNN. At least 18 federal agents and two soldiers have been killed since the weekend in Michoacan, the home state of President Felipe Calderon. The sudden spike in violence followed the arrest Saturday of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, whom authorities described as a high-ranking member of the drug cartel known as La Familia Michoacana. Cartel members first attacked the federal police station in Morelia to try to gain freedom for Rueda, authorities said. When that failed, drug gangs attacked federal police installations in at least a half-dozen Michoacan cities, according to authorities. The Michoacan cartel also is accused in the slaying of 12 federal police officers whose bodies were found Tuesday on a remote highway. Video from the scene showed three signs, known as narcomensajes, left by the killers. They all stated the same thing: "So that you come for another. We will be waiting for you here." Since Calderon went after the drug cartels shortly after coming into office in 2006, more than 10,000 people have died across Mexico, about 1,000 of them police. The state of Michoacan, on Mexico's southwest Pacific coast, is not alone in the wave of violence sweeping the country. The border city of Ciudad Juarez set a record this weekend when its toll of drug-related deaths for the year topped 1,000, a distinction the Mexican city did not reach last year until September.

Question: How many federal police officers were slayed?

Question: How many police officers is La Familia accused of killing?

Question: What are the government responding to?

Question: Who have been accused of the slayings?

Question: What caused the sudden spike in violence?

Question: Where were the deadly attacks?

Question: What day was the high ranking drug cartel member arrested?

Question: What has more than tripled?

Question: What government is responding to deadly attacks in Michoacan?

Question: What did Mexican government respond to?

Question: How many federal police officers were slayed?

Question: Where were the deadly attacks?

Question: Who is accused in the slayings of 12 federal police officers?

Question: who is accused?

Question: how many police officers were there?

Question: where was deadly attacks happen?

Question: What caused a sudden spike in violence?

Question: What caused the sudden spike of violence?

Answer: 18

Answer: 12 federal

Answer: a spate of attacks allegedly by a drug cartel,

Answer: The Michoacan cartel

Answer: followed the arrest Saturday of Arnoldo Rueda Medina,

Answer: Michoacan state,

Answer: Saturday

Answer: the number of federal police officers patrolling the state of Michoacan,

Answer: Mexico

Answer: a spate of attacks allegedly by a drug cartel,

Answer: 18

Answer: Michoacan state,

Answer: The Michoacan cartel

Answer: The Michoacan cartel

Answer: 1,300 total,

Answer: Michoacan state,

Answer: arrest Saturday of Arnoldo Rueda Medina,

Answer: the arrest Saturday of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, whom authorities described as a high-ranking member of the drug cartel known as La Familia Michoacana.

Summary:
Mexican government responding to a spate of deadly attacks in Michoacan .
The number of federal police officers patrolling the state has more than tripled .
Sudden spike in violence follows arrest Saturday of high-ranking drug cartel member .
La Familia Michoacana accused in the slayings of 12 federal police officers .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country's 32 governors Thursday to create a plan to combat the nation's staggering rise in crime and kidnappings. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has noted that kidnappings have reached an alarming level. In a heavily guarded meeting at Mexico's National Palace, the leaders devised a plan that detailed 65 specific actions to could be taken in the next several months. Those actions are aimed at helping families like that of prominent businessman Alejandro Marti. He told the group that the new focus on kidnapping has come too late for his 14-year-old son, Fernando. Fernando was grabbed from a car on a busy street at a fake police checkpoint this year. The next day, his chauffeur and bodyguard were found bound and strangled in the trunk of a car. Next to their bodies, police found a yellow chrysanthemum, a calling card from a gang that calls itself the Band of Flowers. Some investigators believed the flower was a coded message to police telling them not to investigate too closely, that the kidnappers were police, also. In July, Fernando's decomposed and bullet-ridden body was found stuffed in the trunk of a car. At least one police officer and one civilian have been taken into custody, accused of involvement in the kidnapping and killing, police and Alejandro Marti said. Marti told the group of leaders to do a better job to protect other children like his son. "There are university students who could do their jobs better than you can," Marti scolded the group. To address the crime increase, Mexican leaders called Thursday for building special prisons exclusively for kidnappers, bolstering the justice system, cleaning up corrupt police forces, clamping down on kidnapping tools such as prepaid cell phones and money laundering. Calderon noted at the meeting that kidnappings had reached an alarming level. "The truth is we are all responsible," Calderon told the group. "We must recognize the traditional way of combating crime has not been sufficient. We must act in a more coordinated and vigorous manner." According to official figures, there have been 314 kidnapping in Mexico this year. The numbers topped 700 in 2007. Authorities say the real figures may be even greater because victims often don't report crimes to a police force they don't trust. Experts say the rise is also a result of a perception sense that crimes go unpunished. Non-governmental groups estimate that there have been more than 1,500 killings in Mexico this year linked to organized crime. The group of leaders pledged to implement changes within the next three months. Activists said they hoped the one-day crime summit does not end up becoming just a photo-op.

Question:
The were killed in what fashion?
Who is Marti's son?
Who's son did what?
What is Marti's occupation?
Who is Alejandro Marti?

Answer: strangled

Answer: Fernando.

Answer: Fernando was grabbed from a car

Answer: businessman

Answer: prominent businessman

Summary:
Actions are aimed at helping families like that of businessman Alejandro Marti .
Marti's son Fernando, his chauffeur and bodyguard were killed after kidnapping .
Marti told group of leaders to do better job to protect other children like his son .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Mexican authorities have detained the country's former drug czar on suspicion that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers, Mexico's attorney general said Friday.

Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 through August of fighting organized crime in Mexico.

Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 until this August of the attorney general's office that specializes in combatting organized crime.

Ramirez is accused of meeting with members of a drug cartel while he was in office and agreeing to provide information on investigations in exchange for the bribes, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza said at a news conference Friday.

The arrest was part of an ongoing investigation called "Operation Limpieza," or "Operation Cleanup," the attorney general said. The operation targets officials who may have passed information to drug cartels.

The arrest was announced Thursday night, four days after the house arrest of Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, the director for International Police Affairs at Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency and the head of Mexico's Interpol office.

Authorities say more than 30 officials have been arrested since July in connection with the anti-corruption operation.

Interpol, which is based in France, announced Wednesday it is sending a team of investigators to Mexico to investigate the possibility that its communications systems and databases may have been compromised, a prospect raised by the arrest of Gutierrez, the top official working with the agency in Mexico.

"A war of master proportions" between authorities and narcotics traffickers and traffickers among themselves has left more than 4,300 dead so far this year, according to the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, an independent research and information organization. By comparison, the council said in a report this week, there were 2,700 drug-related deaths in 2007.

"Homegrown drug cartels operating from both within and outside the country are engaging in a vicious turf war to seize control of major trafficking corridors while engaging in almost open warfare against the mobilized forces of the state," the council said about what it calls "narco-fueled crime."

Mexican leaders have been trying to tamp down the violence by tightening controls on money-laundering and cracking down on corruption among local and municipal police forces infiltrated by drug traffickers. It may not be enough.

"Due to pervasive corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican government, and the almost effortless infiltration of the porous security forces by the cartel, an ultimate victory by the state is far from certain," the Hemispheric Council concludes.

Drug trafficking in Mexico is a $20 billion- to $50 billion-a-year industry, as much as the nation earns from tourism or remittances from Mexicans living in the United States, said Robert Pastor, a former National Security adviser to President Jimmy Carter and now a professor of international relations at American University in Washington. He has been studying Latin America for more than four decades.

"This is a huge industry with an extraordinary capacity to corrupt and intimidate the country. And they're doing both right now," said Pastor, also a former director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program.

The drug cartels are paying some Mexican officials bribes of $150,000 to $450,000 a month, authorities have said. This in a country where the per capita income is $12,500 a year and one of every seven Mexicans lives in poverty, according to the CIA World Factbook.

Question: What was Noe Ramirez Mandujano arrested for?

Question: who was arrested?

Question: What is the current dead count for this year?

Question: what is the number of officials arrested?

Question: how many officials were arrested

Question: What was the reason behind his arrest?

Question: how many died this year?

Question: What is the range of money cartels pay to officials?

Question: Who pays bribes to the officials?

Answer: that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes

Answer: Noe Ramirez Mandujano

Answer: 4,300

Answer: more than 30

Answer: more than 30

Answer: that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers,

Answer: 4,300 dead so far

Answer: $450,000

Answer: country's former drug czar

Summary:
Noe Ramirez Mandujano arrested, suspected of taking $450,000 a month in bribes .
About 30 officials arrested in massive operation investigating collusion with cartels .
Report: 4,300 dead this year in war between authorities and narcotics traffickers .
Drug cartels pay some officials bribes of $150,000 to $450,000 a month .


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Mexican authorities have detained the country's former drug czar on suspicion that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers, Mexico's attorney general said Friday. Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 through August of fighting organized crime in Mexico. Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 until this August of the attorney general's office that specializes in combatting organized crime. Ramirez is accused of meeting with members of a drug cartel while he was in office and agreeing to provide information on investigations in exchange for the bribes, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza said at a news conference Friday. The arrest was part of an ongoing investigation called "Operation Limpieza," or "Operation Cleanup," the attorney general said. The operation targets officials who may have passed information to drug cartels. The arrest was announced Thursday night, four days after the house arrest of Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, the director for International Police Affairs at Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency and the head of Mexico's Interpol office. Authorities say more than 30 officials have been arrested since July in connection with the anti-corruption operation. Interpol, which is based in France, announced Wednesday it is sending a team of investigators to Mexico to investigate the possibility that its communications systems and databases may have been compromised, a prospect raised by the arrest of Gutierrez, the top official working with the agency in Mexico. "A war of master proportions" between authorities and narcotics traffickers and traffickers among themselves has left more than 4,300 dead so far this year, according to the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, an independent research and information organization. By comparison, the council said in a report this week, there were 2,700 drug-related deaths in 2007. "Homegrown drug cartels operating from both within and outside the country are engaging in a vicious turf war to seize control of major trafficking corridors while engaging in almost open warfare against the mobilized forces of the state," the council said about what it calls "narco-fueled crime." Mexican leaders have been trying to tamp down the violence by tightening controls on money-laundering and cracking down on corruption among local and municipal police forces infiltrated by drug traffickers. It may not be enough. "Due to pervasive corruption at the highest levels of the Mexican government, and the almost effortless infiltration of the porous security forces by the cartel, an ultimate victory by the state is far from certain," the Hemispheric Council concludes. Drug trafficking in Mexico is a $20 billion- to $50 billion-a-year industry, as much as the nation earns from tourism or remittances from Mexicans living in the United States, said Robert Pastor, a former National Security adviser to President Jimmy Carter and now a professor of international relations at American University in Washington. He has been studying Latin America for more than four decades. "This is a huge industry with an extraordinary capacity to corrupt and intimidate the country. And they're doing both right now," said Pastor, also a former director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program. The drug cartels are paying some Mexican officials bribes of $150,000 to $450,000 a month, authorities have said. This in a country where the per capita income is $12,500 a year and one of every seven Mexicans lives in poverty, according to the CIA World Factbook.

Question: How many people died this year in the war between authorities and traffickers?

Question: What is the death toll in the drug war this year?

Question: How much are drug cartels paying in bribes?

Question: The dollar amount of bribes drug cartels paid was believed to be as high as how much?

Question: Who was arrested?

Question: Who was arrested for taking bribes?

Question: Who was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes?

Question: Why was he arrested?

Question: How much money per month is given in bribes by the cartels?

Question: How many officials were arrested in a collusion investigation?

Question: Where did the arrest take place?

Answer: more than 4,300 dead

Answer: more than 4,300

Answer: $150,000 to $450,000 a month,

Answer: $450,000 a month,

Answer: Noe Ramirez Mandujano

Answer: Noe Ramirez Mandujano

Answer: Noe Ramirez Mandujano

Answer: accepted $450,000 a month in bribes

Answer: $450,000 a

Answer: 30

Answer: Mexico.


MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN)  -- Mexican officials said they have identified two suspects in this week's slayings of two Americans in northern Mexico. Mourners carry the coffin of Benjamin LeBaron, 32, on Thursday in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. A security camera at a toll booth near the municipality of Galeana captured images of the suspects, Chihuahua state Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez said Thursday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported. Gonzalez declined to name the suspects, other than to say they belong to a crime organization known as "La Linea" (The Line). The toll booth cameras show four trucks or sport utility vehicles in which 12 suspects were riding, she said. No arrests had been reported by Friday. Benjamin LeBaron, 32, and his brother-in-law, Luis Widmar, who was in his mid-30s, were beaten and shot to death after armed men stormed into their home Tuesday morning in Galeana. Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua attorney general's office, said earlier this week that a note was found on LeBaron's body but he could not confirm the contents. Local media reported the note indicated the slayings were in retribution for the capture of 25 drug suspects in a nearby town. LeBaron's younger brother, Eric, was kidnapped in May and returned unharmed a week later. The kidnapping prompted LeBaron to become a nationally recognized anti-crime activist who moved the local community to take a stand. "There are no leaders here, or we are all leaders," LeBaron's brother Julian LeBaron told CNN affiliate KINT-TV in El Paso, Texas, this week. "If they kill my brother, another three will take his place. And if they kill us, another hundred will take their place. We are not giving up. No way." The LeBaron brothers belonged to the "Community of LeBaron" in the municipality of Galeana, a township founded by ex-communicated Mormons. CNN's Mayra Cuevas-Nazario contributed to this report.

Question: Who did gunmen kill in northern Mexico?

Question: What was the motive?

Question: What captured images of the two suspects?

Question: What did the note say?

Question: Where were the cameras?

Question: Who did the gunmen kill in Northern Mexico?

Answer: Benjamin LeBaron,

Answer: retribution for the capture of 25 drug suspects

Answer: A security camera at a toll booth

Answer: the slayings were in retribution for the capture of 25 drug suspects in a nearby town.

Answer: at a toll booth near the municipality of Galeana

Answer: two Americans

Summary:
Gunmen killed Benjamin LeBaron and brother-in-law this week in northern Mexico .
Security camera at toll booth captured images of two suspects, news agency says .
No arrests have been reported in the Americans' slayings .
Note reportedly found that says killings were retribution for drug arrests .