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To: LNewman
Here's the story: "Bombs placed in two banks in State of Mexico"

These people seem to be so vague and confused I suspect they're more of a threat to themselves than whoever they're targeting

...or it could be another example of how nothing can be accomplished there without a bribe being involved.

17 posted on 11/19/2005 9:52:10 AM PST by NewRomeTacitus (Silly rabbit - rights are for citizens!)
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To: NewRomeTacitus; All


Nope, no terrorism going on in Mexico.
Thanks for the link, here's the article.


Bombs placed in two banks in State of Mexico

BY GLORIA PEREZ /Associated Press
El Universal
November 19, 2005
TOLUCA, State of Mexico Two bombs were planted Friday at branches of a Spanish-owned bank on the outskirts of Mexico City, the latest in a series of attacks against foreign financial institutions in the last four years.

The first device exploded before dawn just below the window of a branch of Bancomer, owned by Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, State of Mexico Attorney General Alfonso Navarrete said at a news conference.

The bomb shattered glass, wrecked computers and tossed furniture on its side, but caused no deaths or injuries.

A second device was found on fire around midday in a nearby branch of the same bank, State of Mexico police said. The device failed to detonate.

Navarrete described the explosives as "rudimentary" devices.

In the wreckage of the first bomb, police found a letter claiming responsibility for the attacks from the previously unknown Barbarous Mexico Revolutionary Workers' Commando, Navarrete said.

The same group sent an e-mail to The Associated Press railing against "neoliberal reorganization and capitalist expansion." The e-mail specifically criticized U.S. businesses in Mexico, including Wal-Mart and McDonald's, and the U.S.-backed proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. U.S. President George W. Bush and President Vicente Fox have been pushing for the free-trade zone, which would stretch from Canada to Chile.

Bancomer issued a statement saying they would work hand-inhand with Mexican authorities to find the culprits of the attacks. The statement said the damage was superficial and the bank would reopen as soon as possible.

Police made no arrests Friday.

The attacks were similar to others made against foreignowned banks in recent years.

In May 2004, devices exploded outside three banks in Jiutepec, just outside Mexico City. The overnight explosions caused major damage but no injuries. Those bombs targeted branches of Banamex, BBVA-Bancomer and Santander Serfin. Explosives left outside a HSBC bank did not go off.

Authorities found a note near the 2004 bombing sites signed by a group calling itself the Comando Jaramillista Morelense 23 de Mayo in tribute to the peasant leader Rubén Jaramillo, who was murdered along with his family by government forces on May 23, 1962. The note criticized Fox's pro-business policies.

In August 2001, three explosives packed into tin cans detonated and two more were defused at branches of Banamex, which was being purchased by U.S.-based Citibank. A small leftist group called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People claimed responsibility.

Police arrested five alleged members of the group and charged them with organized crime and terrorism. The men were acquitted because of lack of evidence.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/miami/15822.html


19 posted on 11/19/2005 2:17:09 PM PST by WatchingInAmazement ("Nothing is more expensive than cheap labor," prof. Vernon Briggs, labor economist Cornell Un.)
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