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Guatemala. Mexican Torturer Vigilante D34d D)( #Secret_Pris0nZ. Guadalajara 20 Dead. Ventura: Media Lied Over Citizenship Controversy. Former Governor chastises establishment press over indictment of his patriotism Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura today slammed the media for lying in their suggestion that his effort to seek Mexican citizenship meant he was giving up his U.S. citizenship, calling the smear an attempt to portray him as unpatriotic.

Ventura: Media Lied Over Citizenship Controversy

Ventura set the record straight during an appearance on the Alex Jones Show, saying he had been misquoted on “wanting to give up my U.S. citizenship, I never once stated that,” adding that he was merely seeking dual citizenship because he and his wife lived half the year in Mexico anyway. In the aftermath of his press conference on Friday, some reports announced that Ventura was “abandoning his citizenship” and running away to Mexico in response to a judge tossing out his case against TSA groping in airports. A d v e r t i s e m e n t Watch the interview with Jesse Ventura below. Print this page. Sen. Historic! Deaths in Mexico prison fight - Americas. A bloody, hours-long fight in a prison in the Mexican border city of Matamoros has left 20 inmates dead and 12 injured, state officials have said.

Deaths in Mexico prison fight - Americas

The fight reportedly started as a dispute between two inmates and other prisoners joined in, creating a melee that lasted until authorities retook control of the prison facility in the town, which sits across the border from Brownsville, Texas. A statement from state public security department in Tamaulipas, where Matamoros is located, said officials were notifying the families of those killed and injured. It said there would be an investigation. The violence lasted from about 8h00 to 10h30am local time before soldiers and marines took control, according to a state official who was not authorised to comment. The violence comes as Mexican prison conditions have been under increased scrutiny because of violence and escapes. On Thursday, a fight between gang members at a prison outside Monterrey left seven inmates dead. No end in sight for oil in the Gulf of Mexico - Features. Fifteen months after BP's crippled Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, oil and oil sheen covering several square kilometers of water are surfacing not far from BP's well.

No end in sight for oil in the Gulf of Mexico - Features

Al Jazeera flew to the area on Sunday, September 11, and spotted a swath of silvery oil sheen, approximately 7 km long and 10 to 50 meters wide, at a location roughly 19 km northeast of the now-capped Macondo 252 well. According to oil trackers with the organisation On Wings of Care, who have been monitoring the new oil since early August, rainbow-tinted slicks and thicker globs of oil have been consistently visible in the area. "BP and NOAA [National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration] have had all these ships out there doing grid searches looking at things, so hopefully now they'll take a look at this," Bonny Schumaker, president and pilot of On Wings of Care, told Al Jazeera while flying over the oil. Natural seeps Anthropogenic seeps.