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Female killer in Mexico, citing revenge, targets bus drivers
"Mexican mayor accused of faking death" AP, July 25, 2013
MEXICO CITY — Police have arrested a man who faked his death to beat a rape charge, then got elected mayor of a village in southern Mexico, prosecutors said.
The Oaxaca state prosecutors’ office said Leninguer Carballido was arrested on charges of using fake documents and making false statements.
Carballido was found Tuesday hiding in a heavily fortified room at his family’s home.
Carballido won July 7 elections for mayor of the village of San Agustin Amatengo.
When authorities were looking for him in 2011 in connection with a 2004 rape investigation, his family submitted a death certificate saying he died of natural causes in 2010.
The public records clerk who drew up the fake certificate has also been arrested.
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"As Mexican courts battle scandal, judges slug it out" by Mark Stevenson | Associated Press, August 30, 2013
MEXICO CITY — A Mexican judge sprang from his chair to push and punch two fellow justices during a court session, adding to a string of embarrassments for Mexico’s scandal-plagued judicial system....
The episode in Morelos follows a chain of other cases that have stained judicial reputations.
The National Human Rights Commission declared Tuesday that a former chief justice of the nation’s Supreme Court, as well as Mexico City court officials, had misused the justice system in a vendetta against the justice’s ex-girlfriend, the mother of his two autistic children, keeping her in prison for about a year on trumped-up charges....
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