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12/23/2017 4:51:59 PM
Mexican YouTube star, 17, found dead after insulting notorious cartel boss

Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales, known for viral binge-drinking videos, gunned down by armed men in bar in Jalisco after hitting out at infamous drug lord 'El Mencho'

Samantha Schmidt
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Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was born in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a Mecca for cartels and the land of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman. Lagunas grew up never knowing his father. His mother left him with his grandmother as a child.

Lagunas left his hometown at the age of 15 without finishing high school, moving to the nearby municipality of Culiacan and washing cars to make a living, he said in an interview in July. It was in this adopted town that he took on the nickname that would later become known across cyberspace: “El Pirata de Culiacan,” or “The Pirate of Culiacan.”

He started landing invitations to more and more parties, and soon fell into a life of excessive drinking. He would post videos on social media showing him chugging beer and bottles of whiskey, sometimes getting so drunk he would pass out. The videos started going viral. In the years that followed, the bingeing teenager became a perverse YouTube sensation. At the age of 17, he racked up more than a million followers on Facebook and more than 300,000 on Instagram. His social media fame started earning him spots in music videos and at promotional events.

His baby face, matched with his belligerent, clownish behaviour, entertained the masses. Yet it was easy to forget that he was still a boy. He drew a beard on his chin to look older. He tattooed his arms - a pirate on one, a tiger on the other. He posted pictures on Instagram with large guns, half-naked women and luxury cars.

The drinking age in Mexico is 18, but “El Pirata de Culiacan” drank as if he had no limits. Like many teenage boys, he lived as if he was invincible, saying whatever he wanted about whomever he wanted. It was all a big game, a big party.

But in Sinaloa, one of Mexico's most violent states, no one is invincible - especially when you mess with the wrong people.

In one recent video posted online, a seemingly intoxicated Lagunas was recorded taking a stab at Nemesio Ocegera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho.” Cervantes happens to be one of Mexico's most dangerous drug lords, according to US government officials, the leader of the New Generation Cartel of Jalisco.

“El Mencho a mí me pela la verga” he said, which means, more or less, “El Mencho, peel my cock,” according to El Pais.

And on Monday night, while he and his friends partied at a bar in Jalisco, a group of armed individuals burst in and fired at Lagunas, the Attorney General of Jalisco, Raul Sanchez Jimenez, told Mexican media outlets. The teenager died, sustaining between 15 and 18 bullet wounds. Authorities managed to identify Lagunas by his tattoos.

Prosecutors have not determined the identities or motives of those responsible. But they confirmed to news outlets that they are investigating a possible link to the recent videotaped insult towards El Mencho.

El Mencho is one of the last people anyone would want to offend.

His cartel, the New Generation, is relatively new, coalescing less than a decade ago. It stemmed from the remnants of another group, the Milenio cartel, and makes money by selling guns, stealing gasoline, extortion and kidnapping, The Washington Post's Josh Partlow wrote in 2015. It is one of the fastest rising drug cartels in Mexico, operating in several Mexican states and forging underworld ties around the globe.

The group has been linked to thousands of murders, according to a Rolling Stone profile. Many of them have been traced specifically to their leader, “El Mencho,” who is reportedly a former police officer.

Lagunas' death comes during a year that is on track to become the bloodiest on record in Mexico. In the first 10 months of 2017, 20,878 murders were counted nationwide, an average of 69 murders a day, Reuters reported.

It's a dangerous time and place for anyone, but especially for a teenage boy living recklessly in search of fame.

“He opted to make a career as a broken toy of cyberspace, a path he carved out drink by drink and that left him with enemies of flesh and blood,” Univision reporter Fernando Mexía wrote in an article titled “The poisoned fame of 'El Pirata.'”

The YouTube star managed to “transcend borders,” even landing in Rolling Stone - not for his fame, but for his death. His killing “gave him the popularity he never imagined,” Mexía wrote.

As the teenager's celebrity rose, activists criticised the musicians, bands and promoters who featured him drinking in music videos. The attention only encouraged his dangerous behaviour and promoted the alcoholism of a minor, critics told Univision.

“There are a lot of people who criticise him, but the truth is... that's why 'El Pirata' got started,” said one artist, Luis Adame, of Ultimo Escuadron. “Everyone in their own way tries to find a way to get ahead.”

In recent interviews, Lagunas seemed to come to terms with his vices. He hoped to pursue a singing career, and reportedly had signed a contract with a record label.

Speaking to Pepe Garza, a radio host and producer, in July, Lagunas said he knew he needed to rein in the drinking.

“You drink a lot all at once, and the body isn't meant for that,” Garza said to him.

“People ask me, 'How do you do it? How do you handle drinking so much?” the teenager responded. “I just laugh, I say 'I don't know how I do it.'”

But, he said, “they're right... sometimes I go too far.”

The host wished him the best with his career, encouraging him to get a grip on the partying, “so that he can last many years.”

After hearing the news of his death, fellow Instagram celebrity and promoter Beto Sierra remembered Lagunas as a cheerful, positive, fun friend.

Sierra recalled encouraging him to calm down and control the drinking. “He told me that he wanted to change, but on the weekend, there was no lack of bad influences,” Sierra wrote on Instagram.

“You were living a fast life... you never listened, and I don't judge you,” he said. “Those who knew you know you were a good person.”

The Washington Post

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12/23/2017 5:30:53 PM
DECEMBER 21, 2017 / 7:49 AM / 2 DAYS AGO
Pope says foes make reforming Vatican as hard as cleaning Sphinx with toothbrush


VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis issued a stinging new critique of the Vatican’s top administration on Thursday, saying “traitors” stood in the way of his reforms and made any change as hard as cleaning Egypt’s Sphinx “with a toothbrush”.


Pope Francis delivers his message to the Roman Curia on the occasion of Christmas in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican, December 21, 2017. REUTERS/ Claudio Peri/pool

For the fourth year running, Francis used his annual Christmas greetings to the Roman Catholic Church’s central bureaucracy, or Curia, to lecture the assembled cardinals, bishops and other department heads on the need for change.

“Reforming Rome is like cleaning the Sphinx of Egypt with a toothbrush,” he said, quoting a 19th-century Belgian churchman. The phrase did not evoke much laughter when the pope read it in the frescoed Clementina Hall of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace.

Since his election as the first Latin American pope in 2013, Francis has been trying to reform the Italian-dominated Curia to bring the Church’s hierarchy closer to its members, to enact financial reforms and guide it out of scandals that marked the pontificate of his predecessor, former Pope Benedict.

But he has encountered resistance, particularly as some departments have been closed, merged or streamlined.

Francis said some in the bureaucracy - the nerve center of the 1.2-billion-member Church and whose members are entrusted with carrying out the pope’s decisions - were part of “cliques and plots”. Francis called this “unbalanced and degenerate” and a “cancer that leads to a self-referential attitude”.

In his address on Thursday, he spoke of those “traitors of trust” who had been entrusted with carrying out reforms but “let themselves be corrupted by ambition and vainglory.”



Pope Francis greets the Roman Curia on the occasion of Christmas in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican, December 21, 2017. REUTERS/Claudio Peri/Pool

When they are quietly let go, he said, “they erroneously declare themselves to be martyrs of the system ... instead of reciting a ‘mea culpa’” (Latin for “my fault”).

Francis did not cite any specific examples.

Last June the Vatican’s first auditor general resigned suddenly. He later said he was forced to step down because he had discovered irregularities but the Vatican said he had been spying on his superiors.

Earlier this month, the Vatican bank’s deputy director was fired under circumstances that have not been explained.

In July, in a major shake-up of the Vatican administration, Francis replaced Catholicism’s top theologian, a conservative German cardinal who has been at odds with the pontiff’s vision of a more inclusive Church.

Francis said the overwhelming majority of Curia members were faithful, competent and some saintly.

Later, in a separate meeting with lay Vatican employees and their families, Francis asked forgiveness for the failings of some Church officials.

He spoke hours before the funeral of Cardinal Bernard Law, the ex-Archbishop of Boston who resigned in disgrace after covering up years of sexual abuse of children by priests and whose name became a byword for scandal in the Catholic Church.


Reporting by Philip Pullella; editing by Mark Heinrich


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12/24/2017 9:18:10 AM

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12/24/2017 10:23:46 AM
UN Security Council imposes new sanctions on North Korea
EDITH M. LEDERER


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions against North Korea on Friday in response to its latest launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang says is capable of reaching anywhere on the U.S. mainland.

The resolution adopted by the council includes sharply lower limits on North Korea's refined oil imports, the return home of all North Koreans working overseas within 24 months, and a crackdown on ships smuggling banned items including coal and oil to and from the country.

But the resolution doesn't include even harsher measures sought by the Trump administration that would ban all oil imports and freeze international assets of the government and its leader, Kim Jong Un.

The resolution, drafted by the United States and negotiated with the North's closest ally China, drew criticism from Russia for the short time the 13 other council nations had to consider the draft, and last-minute changes to the text. Two of those changes were extending the deadline for North Korean workers to return home from 12 months to 24 months — which Russia said was the minimum needed — and reducing the number of North Koreans being put on the U.N. sanctions blacklist from 19 to 15.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said after the vote that "the unity this council has shown in leveling these unprecedented sanctions is a reflection of the international outrage at the Kim regime's actions."

The Security Council has stood united for the 10th time "against a North Korean regime that rejects the pursuit of peace," she said.

President Donald Trump tweeted the 15-0 vote, adding: "The World wants Peace, not Death!"

China's deputy U.N. ambassador, Wu Haitao, said it's "imperative" to pursue a peaceful settlement and resume dialogue and negotiations at an early date, warning that resorting to force "will only lead to disastrous consequences."

Deputy Russian Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov also demanded that key parties display "openness to genuine, meaningful political dialogue." Stressing the importance of "creative approaches," he said that "isolation and pressure must give way to dialogue and talks."

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also called for a political solution, "which requires de-escalation and open communication channels now," his spokesman said.

Haley recalled that the previous sanctions resolution approved in September, when combined with earlier measures, would ban over 90 percent of North Korea's exports reported in 2016.

That resolution, adopted in response to North Korea's sixth and strongest nuclear test explosion on Sept. 3, banned North Korea from importing all natural gas liquids and condensates. It also banned all textile exports and prohibited any country from authorizing new work permits for North Korean workers — two key sources of hard currency for the northeast Asian nation.

Haley told the council Friday that the new resolution "bans all remaining categories of major North Korean exports — a loss of nearly $250 million in revenue to the regime."

Here are key provisions of the new sanctions:

—The import of refined oil products, including diesel and kerosene that are key to North Korea's economy, is capped at 500,000 barrels a year. That represents a reduction from the 4.5 million barrels North Korea imported in 2016, and a cap of 2 million barrels in September's resolutions. And it means the North's refined oil imports have been cut by 90 percent.

—The import of crude oil is capped at 4 million barrels a year and countries supplying oil are required to provide quarterly reports to the Security Council committee monitoring sanctions on North Korea.

—North Korea is banned from exporting food and agriculture products, machinery, electrical equipment, earth and stones, wood and vessels — and all countries are banned from importing these items.

—All countries are banned from exporting industrial machinery, transportation vehicles, iron, steel and other metals to North Korea.

—All countries must expel North Korean workers and safety monitors by the end of 2019. The resolution expresses concern that earnings from these workers are being used to support the country's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. According to the U.S. Mission, there are nearly 100,000 overseas North Korean workers, with about 50,000 in China and 30,000 in Russia.

—U.N. member states are authorized to seize, inspect and impound any ship in their ports or territorial waters suspected of being involved in illegal smuggling and evasion of U.N. sanctions. The resolution expresses "great concern" that North Korea is illegally exporting coal and other prohibited items "through deceptive maritime practices and obtaining petroleum illegally through ship-to-ship transfers."

—All countries are banned from providing insurance or re-insurance to North Korean-affiliated ships believed to be involved in illegal smuggling and sanctions evasion and are required to de-register these vessels.

—Fifteen North Koreans, including 13 representing banks overseas, and the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces were added to the U.N. sanctions blacklist. The two others facing a travel ban and asset freeze are Kim Jong Sik, identified as a leading official guiding North Korea's development of weapons of mass destruction, and Ri Pyong Chul, an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea and first vice director of the Munitions Industry Department.

North Korea's test on Nov. 29 of its most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile yet was its 20th launch of a ballistic missile this year, and added to fears that it will soon have a military arsenal that can viably target the U.S. mainland.

British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said the Security Council was sending "a very strong united signal to the North Korean regime that enough is enough — that they must stop their nuclear program and they must stop their intercontinental ballistic missile program."

France's U.N. ambassador, Francois Delattre, said: "We believe maximum pressure today is our best lever to a political and diplomatic solution tomorrow ... (and) our best antidote to the risk of war."

The new resolution reiterates the Security Council's regret at North Korea's "massive diversion of its scarce resources toward its development of nuclear weapons and a number of expensive ballistic missile programs." It notes that 41 percent of the population is undernourished.

The resolution reaffirms the council's support for a resumption of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program aimed at the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

It also reiterates the importance of maintaining peace and stability in northeast Asia and "expresses its commitment to a peace, diplomatic and political solution to the situation ... through dialogue."


(Yahoo)


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12/24/2017 10:44:23 AM

Chicago Violence Reaches New Heights, Possible Media Blackout

Martial law declared in Chicago as U.N. forces enter city streets.

Unconfirmed but reported by Neon News, military forces and armored vehicles have supposedly been spotted marching through the streets of Chicago. Violence in the city has reached a point that will no longer be tolerated by authorities. Martial law has been declared over the nation’s third largest city, according to the website Neon Nettle.

The city affectionately called ‘Chiraq’ accounts for more homicides than active warzones. The city itself is beginning to resemble a warzone with the appearance of heavily armed men with face coverings marching down the street in stride with giant armored vehicles.

The vehicles themselves and the armament being carried resemble that of the United Nation’s peace keeping forces. There has been little to no news coverage about the emergence of an occupying military force arriving on American soil.


One local radio personality, Matt Dubiel, attempted to cover the events on his radio show. Radio station WCKG 1530 AM operations were shut down almost immediately after Dubiel made mention of eye witness reports describing troops on the ground from an Alex Jones segment. The DJ believes the moment after the vehicles were identified as United Nations, the radio station was taken off the air.

Matt Dubiel claims to have been followed and then arrested after witnessing the arrival of the military equipment.

On September 29, 2015, the Department of Justice arranged, along with several major metropolitan cities, to initiate a global police force. The program titled, “The Strong Cities Network,” was showcased as an anti-terror network aimed at defeating domestic extremism.

During a United Nations General Assembly, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced retinue of cities across the United States to be included. Some of the original cities include Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, Minneapolis, New York, and San Diego.

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin traveled to New York to address the United Nations on Thursday, December 14th. The commissioner met with officials from the United Nations pleading for help to address the gruesome crime rate for Chicago. In his meeting with the assistant secretary-general for peace building support, Boykin voiced his concern for the need of a peace keeping force in lieu of the national guard.



Calling the situation a quiet genocide, the commissioner said he could not wait for the city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, to put another thousand officers on the streets. He continued to second guess the mayor, pondering if that would be the right answer to the problem.

When asked how United Nations’ peace keepers were different from the forces of the national guard, Boykin responded that the national guard is not trained for peace keeping operations. After his meeting last week, the United Nations announced they would send top officials into the city to address the situation.

In early September, footage was taken of a sizeable number of United Nations’ assets held in Hagerstown, Maryland. Just outside of Washington D.C., large white crates stamped with the letters UN block the view from the fence onto the installation.

Using a drone, images were taken of over 50 heavily armored vehicles and various pieces of equipment. All of the vehicles are completely white and stamped with the letters UN. The vehicles range from single transport trucks to armored caravans. There are fuel carriers and cargo vans. Small engineering vehicles for clearing roads and what appears to be an RV are all on the lot.

The equipment, including generators and cranes, seem more than sufficient enough to supply a small army. The peace keeping materials were found behind a government owned warehouse. Sitting in the rear parking lot, the vehicles appear poised for a rapid response in a domestic deployment. Could the officials of Chicago been planning to implement martial and import an occupying force to combat President Trump?

The vehicles witnessed in Chicago resemble the peace keeping forces stationed in Maryland. The vehicles in Illinois, however, are all black and have no visible writing on them. The forces alongside the vehicles are not typical blue hat U.N. personnel. Drabbed in all black, the forces have no identifying print on their combat garb.

Chicago is a sanctuary city. Mayor Emanuel has vowed the city is a Trump free zone and scoffed at the offer to have the national guard intervene in the vapid battlegrounds. Emanuel wants to put another thousand officers on the streets and implement after school programs for kids.

Not mentioning how to pay for these programs, Rahm Emanuel has also acclaimed the great success of the city’s efforts so far. Chicago’s death toll is down 15% from last year, 624 and 734 homicides respectively.



(conservativedailypost.com)

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