MEXICO CITY - The jailed brother of former President Carlos Salinas won another legal victory on Wednesday in his attempt to defend himself from a series of criminal charges that include murder and corruption.
A Mexican judge granted Mr Raul Salinas provisional bail on charges of money laundering, although he will remain in prison on charges that he plotted to murder a leading politician in 1994 and illegally amassed a huge fortune. Meanwhile yesterday a crusading anti-drugs trade journalist was gunned down in a remote town on the Mexico-US border after receiving death threats from a lieutenant of the dead drug lord, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, witnesses said. The execution-style shooting of Benjamin Flores Gonzalez (29) took place outside the offices of La Prensa, the newspaper he directed in the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, on the border with Arizona in Mexico's Sonora state. - (Reuter)