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Sydney Morning Herald
6 days ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Jake and Callum Robinson: Mexican authorities say Perth brothers killed near beach known for drug-running
Loading Gerardo, also known as 'El Kekas', Angel Jesús and Ari Gisselle were all arrested soon after the alleged killings, while a fourth man – Irineo Francisco – was arrested some time later. Gerardo, Jesús and Francisco were charged with aggravated homicide, aggravated robbery, violent robbery, grand theft auto and forced disappearance. Gisselle was charged with the same offences, excluding forced disappearance. Gerardo and Francisco both appeared via video link from the 'El Hongo' prison, while Gisselle and Jesús appeared in person in court on Thursday. Gisselle and Jesús were manacled together at the ankles. The ABC reported that court documents revealed Gerardo and Francisco's alleged links to the Sinaloa cartel were behind their transfer to a prison branded as being among the world's toughest. Jesus Gerardo, known as El Kekas. Credit: The men have different attorneys, but two failed to appear in court, leading to the rescheduling of the pre-trial hearing to later this month. Gerardo's attorney requested to join all the charges together on the same indictment to streamline further court processes. The outcome of the request will be determined at the pre-trial hearing on July 25. It is understood there have been difficulties in determining and agreeing on the facts of the case, and that Gisselle, Jesús and Francisco could have their charges changed to exclude aggravated homicide. All four will remain in prison until the next hearing. The Robinson family made no statement about the proceedings other than thanking followers on Instagram for their support. A Mexican not-for-profit aimed at combating corruption said it was important to see justice where '99 per cent of murders never see the light'. It said nearly two-thirds of Mexican people had lost trust in the local justice system, and 77 per cent of Mexicans believed crime was often only prioritised when it was subject to media or political pressure. Human rights organisations have said previously that many victims of crime in Mexico are predominantly Mexicans, with cartels avoiding targeting tourists due to the potential of attracting attention. A demonstrator's bodyboard reads in Spanish 'No more violence' during protests at the death of the Robinson brothers and their American friend in Ensenada, Mexico, last year. Credit: AP The fourth body in the well where the bodies of the men were found was believed to be that of a farmer who recently lost control of the ranch to the Sinaloa cartel. Authorities have previously said the men's deaths were not connected to cartel violence, and were instead petty theft gone wrong. The Tijuana Cartel, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, and Sinaloa Cartel are warring at present for control of the region. Start the day with a summary of the day's most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter. This story has been updated to more accurately reflect the sources of some information pertaining to the case.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hiding in the fields - farm workers fearing deportation stay in California's shadows
The women crouch down motionless, kneeling between endless rows of fruit bushes, almost hidden from view. "Are you from ICE?" one of the women, a farm worker in a hat and purple bandana, asks us fearfully. After assuring her that we're not with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been raiding nearby farms and arresting workers over the past week, she straightens her back, rising slightly out of the dirt. "Have you seen any ICE vans? Are there patrol cars out there?" she asks, still unsure if we can be trusted and she can emerge. The woman, an undocumented migrant from Mexico, has been picking berries in Oxnard, California since arriving in the US two years ago. It's a town which boasts of being the "strawberry capital of the world". As her work shift ended on Wednesday, she and her co-workers hid in the fields, waiting to be picked up by a friend and unsure whether it was safe to venture out into the parking lot. On the previous day, nine farms in the Oxnard area were visited by ICE agents, say local activists, but without search warrants they were denied entry and instead picked up people on the nearby streets, arresting 35. Jesús polished luxury vehicles at an LA car wash for years. Then ICE showed up Who has been arrested by ICE under Trump? The workplace raids are part of President Donald Trump's goal of arresting 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day. On the campaign trail he had vowed to deport noncitizens accused of violent crimes, a promise that received widespread support, even among some Hispanics. But in Los Angeles there was a public backlash and street protests that sometimes turned violent, prompting him to controversially send in the military to the second largest city in the US. "They treat us like criminals, but we only came here to work and have a better life," says the woman, who left her children behind in Mexico two years ago and hopes to return to them next year. "We don't want to leave the house anymore. We don't want to go to the store. We're afraid they'll catch us." Large-scale raids on workplaces in California's agricultural heartland haven't been seen for the last 15 years, says Lucas Zucker, a community organiser in California's Central Coast region. But that seems to have changed this past week. "They are just sweeping through immigrant communities like Oxnard indiscriminately, looking for anyone they can find to meet their politically-driven quotas," he says. More than 40% of US farmworkers are undocumented immigrants, according to a 2022 report by the US Department of Agriculture. In California, more than 75% are undocumented, according to the University of California, Merced. Raids at farms and businesses that rely on the agricultural industry throughout California, and across the entire country, have ramped up this month. The arrests have raised fears of shortages to America's food supply, if the migrants are arrested or forced into hiding, afraid to come to work. This impact has not been lost on the White House. Despite winning the election decisively after promising mass deportations, Trump on Thursday acknowledged the tough time his crackdown is inflicting on the farming sector. "Our farmers are being hurt badly. You know, they have very good workers. They've worked for them for 20 years. They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great." Who has been arrested by ICE under Trump? In April, he said that some migrants may be authorised to continue working in the US, on the condition that they have a formal recommendation from their employer and that they first leave the US. The result of one raid on Tuesday in Oxnard, a municipality 60 miles (100km) from downtown Los Angeles, can be seen in a video posted to Instagram by a local flower merchant. The short clip shows a man running in a vast field of crops, through a haze of thick morning fog, as agents give chase on foot and in trucks. He is then seen falling to the ground, among the rows of plants, as agents move to arrest him. When the BBC visited Oxnard on Wednesday, a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) truck was seen parked outside an organic produce trucking company. A security guard insisted their visit was not related to immigration, saying: "This is not ICE. We would never let ICE in here." Many tractors and trucks sat idle surrounded by acres of farmland, as an unknown number of workers chose to stay home. Promise and peril in Newsom's fight with Trump Jesus polished luxury cars in LA - then ICE showed up The impact is having ripple effects on other businesses. Watching from her family's Mexican restaurant, Raquel Pérez saw masked CBP agents attempt to enter Boskovich Farms, a vegetable and herb packing facility across the street. Now her business, Casa Grande Cafe, has only one customer during the normally busy lunch hour, because farm workers have stayed home. She estimates that at least half of her normal clientele are undocumented. "No one came in today," says her mother, Paula Pérez. "We're all on edge." Raquel says she's more concerned now for the future of the restaurant - serving chilaquiles, flan, and other Mexican delicacies - than she was during Covid, when her customers continued their work as usual, keeping the nation supplied with fresh foods. "They don't realise the domino effect this is going to have," she says about the raids. Other companies around her that rely on agriculture have already been affected. The adjacent business buying and selling wooden pallets is closed, and a local car mechanic too. "If the strawberries or vegetables aren't picked, that means there's gonna be nothing coming into the packing houses. Which means there's not gonna be no trucks to take the stuff." A migrant selling strawberries from his truck on the side of the road says the raids have already had a devastating effect - on both his business and his hopes of becoming a legal resident of the US. "Fewer people are going out for trips, and they buy less from me," says Óscar, who comes from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala and, while undocumented himself, has children who were born in the US. "I'm scared, but I can't stop going out to work. I have to provide for my family," he says. Óscar says he has been working to finalise his immigration status, but with ICE agents now waiting outside courthouses for migrants seeking to process paperwork, he's unsure of what to do next. "There aren't many ways left to be here legally." 'Un-American' or 'necessary'? Voters divided on Trump's LA protest crackdown How Trump's immigration raids sparked protests and unrest Newsom v Trump holds promise and peril for California governor
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hiding in the fields - farm workers fearing deportation stay in California's shadows
The women crouch down motionless, kneeling between endless rows of fruit bushes, almost hidden from view. "Are you from ICE?" one of the women, a farm worker in a hat and purple bandana, asks us fearfully. After assuring her that we're not with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has been raiding nearby farms and arresting workers over the past week, she straightens her back, rising slightly out of the dirt. "Have you seen any ICE vans? Are there patrol cars out there?" she asks, still unsure if we can be trusted and she can emerge. The woman, an undocumented migrant from Mexico, has been picking berries in Oxnard, California since arriving in the US two years ago. It's a town which boasts of being the "strawberry capital of the world". As her work shift ended on Wednesday, she and her co-workers hid in the fields, waiting to be picked up by a friend and unsure whether it was safe to venture out into the parking lot. On the previous day, nine farms in the Oxnard area were visited by ICE agents, say local activists, but without search warrants they were denied entry and instead picked up people on the nearby streets, arresting 35. Jesús polished luxury vehicles at an LA car wash for years. Then ICE showed up Who has been arrested by ICE under Trump? The workplace raids are part of President Donald Trump's goal of arresting 3,000 undocumented immigrants per day. On the campaign trail he had vowed to deport noncitizens accused of violent crimes, a promise that received widespread support, even among some Hispanics. But in Los Angeles there was a public backlash and street protests that sometimes turned violent, prompting him to controversially send in the military to the second largest city in the US. "They treat us like criminals, but we only came here to work and have a better life," says the woman, who left her children behind in Mexico two years ago and hopes to return to them next year. "We don't want to leave the house anymore. We don't want to go to the store. We're afraid they'll catch us." Large-scale raids on workplaces in California's agricultural heartland haven't been seen for the last 15 years, says Lucas Zucker, a community organiser in California's Central Coast region. But that seems to have changed this past week. "They are just sweeping through immigrant communities like Oxnard indiscriminately, looking for anyone they can find to meet their politically-driven quotas," he says. More than 40% of US farmworkers are undocumented immigrants, according to a 2022 report by the US Department of Agriculture. In California, more than 75% are undocumented, according to the University of California, Merced. Raids at farms and businesses that rely on the agricultural industry throughout California, and across the entire country, have ramped up this month. The arrests have raised fears of shortages to America's food supply, if the migrants are arrested or forced into hiding, afraid to come to work. This impact has not been lost on the White House. Despite winning the election decisively after promising mass deportations, Trump on Thursday acknowledged the tough time his crackdown is inflicting on the farming sector. "Our farmers are being hurt badly. You know, they have very good workers. They've worked for them for 20 years. They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great." Who has been arrested by ICE under Trump? In April, he said that some migrants may be authorised to continue working in the US, on the condition that they have a formal recommendation from their employer and that they first leave the US. The result of one raid on Tuesday in Oxnard, a municipality 60 miles (100km) from downtown Los Angeles, can be seen in a video posted to Instagram by a local flower merchant. The short clip shows a man running in a vast field of crops, through a haze of thick morning fog, as agents give chase on foot and in trucks. He is then seen falling to the ground, among the rows of plants, as agents move to arrest him. When the BBC visited Oxnard on Wednesday, a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) truck was seen parked outside an organic produce trucking company. A security guard insisted their visit was not related to immigration, saying: "This is not ICE. We would never let ICE in here." Many tractors and trucks sat idle surrounded by acres of farmland, as an unknown number of workers chose to stay home. Promise and peril in Newsom's fight with Trump Jesus polished luxury cars in LA - then ICE showed up The impact is having ripple effects on other businesses. Watching from her family's Mexican restaurant, Raquel Pérez saw masked CBP agents attempt to enter Boskovich Farms, a vegetable and herb packing facility across the street. Now her business, Casa Grande Cafe, has only one customer during the normally busy lunch hour, because farm workers have stayed home. She estimates that at least half of her normal clientele are undocumented. "No one came in today," says her mother, Paula Pérez. "We're all on edge." Raquel says she's more concerned now for the future of the restaurant - serving chilaquiles, flan, and other Mexican delicacies - than she was during Covid, when her customers continued their work as usual, keeping the nation supplied with fresh foods. "They don't realise the domino effect this is going to have," she says about the raids. Other companies around her that rely on agriculture have already been affected. The adjacent business buying and selling wooden pallets is closed, and a local car mechanic too. "If the strawberries or vegetables aren't picked, that means there's gonna be nothing coming into the packing houses. Which means there's not gonna be no trucks to take the stuff." A migrant selling strawberries from his truck on the side of the road says the raids have already had a devastating effect - on both his business and his hopes of becoming a legal resident of the US. "Fewer people are going out for trips, and they buy less from me," says Óscar, who comes from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala and, while undocumented himself, has children who were born in the US. "I'm scared, but I can't stop going out to work. I have to provide for my family," he says. Óscar says he has been working to finalise his immigration status, but with ICE agents now waiting outside courthouses for migrants seeking to process paperwork, he's unsure of what to do next. "There aren't many ways left to be here legally." 'Un-American' or 'necessary'? Voters divided on Trump's LA protest crackdown How Trump's immigration raids sparked protests and unrest Newsom v Trump holds promise and peril for California governor
South China Morning Post
25-05-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Peru's 17th-century miracle hopes for Vatican recognition under Pope Leo
In the small town of Eten, Peru, people gather every year to celebrate a 17th-century miracle involving images of the child Jesus. This event has not been recognised by the Vatican. But the recent election of Pope Leo , who served as a missionary in Peru for years, has rekindled hopes of official recognition. It was in an ancient Peruvian village founded by the Spanish in the 16th century that the so-called Eucharistic Miracle of Eten was said to have taken place. In 1649, a picture of a young Jesus with three small hearts was said to have appeared to many people during a Catholic ceremony where bread and wine are blessed to represent Christ's body and blood. A second image reportedly appeared weeks later during another festival. The events inspired a passionate local devotion that continues today. Locals believe official recognition of the miracle could attract more devotees.
The Guardian
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Cronos review – Guillermo del Toro's signature wit and gore on show in 1992 debut
Guillermo del Toro's feature debut from 1992 is a work regarded by many as an early masterpiece, featuring the director's key repertory players Federico Luppi and Ron Perlman. Yet for all its wit and strangeness, this film underscores my feeling I am not fully part of the Del Toro true believer fanbase. I find myself restive at the elaborate, intricate but sometimes slightly inert visual contrivances, though I have always enjoyed his films, perhaps especially his remake of Nightmare Alley. Cronos is a macabre body-horror comedy, perhaps more intriguing than frightening, with a hint of steampunkiness; it looks almost like a feature-length pilot for some cult TV show that never got made. There is a faintly perfunctory prologue sequence about an 'alchemist' in the 16th century who invented the Cronos, a device with the complex mechanism of a watch, but which has a kind of immortal insect-creature within it whose body evidently extrudes magical liquid that can be implanted into the body of the owner via tiny metal stingers which emerge from the Cronos's sides. The Cronos is lost for centuries until it is discovered by chance in the present day by the interestingly named Jesús Gris (Luppi), a kindly old grandfather and antiques dealer, not unlike the bookshop owner Mr Coreander in Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story. He finds himself pricked by the Cronos; this starts to make him younger (although, disconcertingly, not all that much younger) and burdens him with a vampire-like thirst for blood. He attempts to gratify this in a men's washroom in one gruesome sequence, although his bloodthirst is not an important problem in the narrative. Jesús's possession of the Cronos enrages a sinister dying plutocrat called Dieter de la Guardia (Claudio Brook), who has been on trail of the Cronos for years and who employs his thuggish nephew Angel (Perlman) as his all-purpose goon and tough guy. (Amusingly, the lunkhead Angel keeps getting his nose broken in fights.) There are many bizarre set-pieces, particularly when Jesús's apparently dead and mangled body has to be smartened up by creepy mortician Tito (Daniel Giménez Cacho) prior to the funeral; Tito is indignant to discover that the body is to be cremated and all his artistry is to go up in flames. And so Cronos gallops on, in its peculiar way, to a conclusion that is weird without being especially shocking. But it certainly has a distinctive authorial signature, the work of a very individual film-maker. Cronos is on digital platforms and UHD/Blu-ray from 24 February.
