Consul Ahuja Nears Retirement from Mexican Embassy
Mexican Consul Ricardo Ahuja, after 38 years in service including five in Del Rio, plans to retire at year’s end. He keeps a faded Serbo-Croatian map marking Del Rio and a border dot, a relic from 1974 found in Yugoslavia.
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Ricardo Ahuja
Americas
del Rio
Yugoslavia
Mexico
State Department
Ahuja
Texas
U.s.-Mexico
Eagle Pass
County funds approved for Del Rio rodeo promotion
Val Verde County Commissioners voted to spend 860 from the hotel tax fund to advertise the San Juan Rough Stock Bull Riding Blowout at the Val Verde County Fairgrounds. Fred Contreras, a Del Rio City Council member, sought support for the Sept 30 to Oct 1 event, stating bull riding boosts local turnout alongside Rotary Rodeo and George Paul Memorial.
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San Juan
Val Verde County Fairgrounds
Val Verde County
Fred Contreras
Contreras
del Rio
Rotary
George Paul
Racist extremist Brewer executed in James Byrd Jr. case
Huntsville AP reports Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, was executed for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., a black East Texas man. Byrd, 49, was chained to a pickup and dragged on a rough road. Brewer declined final words, pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. Witnesses included Byrd’s sisters. appeals exhausted, other co defendants John King and Shawn Berry faced sentences.
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Shawn Allen Berry
FBI
James Byrd Jr
Huntsville
Lawrence Russell Brewer
East Texas
Byrd
Texas
Brewer
John William King
King
Shawn Berry
Del Rio Firm Expands to Tennessee Brownsville Plant To Create 60 Jobs
Marathon Heater Inc of Del Rio has acquired a Brownsville Tennessee manufacturing site and will invest about 1 million to equip a 40 000 square foot facility producing swaged and non swaged cartridge heaters and mica heaters using Glenn Electric Heater Corp designs. The expansion aims to add 60 jobs in three years with Gov Haslam welcoming the move and officials noting the growth.
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del Rio
Tennessee
Marathon Heater
Mike Wroth
Bill Haslam
Brownsville
Marathon
Walmart Gifts Ten Lonnie Green Teachers $100 Cards
Ten Lonnie Green Elementary teachers each received a $100 Teacher Reward Card from Walmart during a school ceremony led by Store Manager Elena Garcia and Principal Jane Villarreal. The event, held at 11:40 a.m., recognized teachers with random drawings to aid classroom supplies under Walmart's Teacher Rewards program. Wednesday was an early release day for San Felipe Del Rio CISD with half day planning and professional development for staff.
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Lonnie Green Elementary
Walmart
Elena Garcia
Jane Villarreal
San Felipe del Rio Cisd
Dumping of 35 bodies seen as challenge to Zetas
Veracruzan violence widens as the New Generation cartel aligned with Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord dumps 35 bound and tortured bodies, including 12 women and two minors, on a busy avenue near prosecutors preparing for a convention. The display signals a bold bid to seize Veracruz from the Zetas amid a multi month campaign in a strategic port.
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Zetas
Veracruz
Mexico
Zetas Cartel
Gulf
New Generation
Associ
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