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Puerto Vallarta, December 7 .- Two subjects armed with assault rifles AK-47, shot over 40 bullets at a business called Eclipzus, situated at the luxury division called Fluvial Vallarta, leaving three people injured.

One of the injured was an employee of the brewery Modelo identified as Samuel Castro Rojas of 35 years of age, who presented bullet wounds in the left leg and one on the other side.

The other injured persons were Victor Jerome Amado Cardenas and Jessica Sataray González, who were taken to different hospitals, which are heavily guarded on the in- and outside by police officers in order to secure the lives of every one of them, since it’s feared to happen again.

Expertise in the Office of Justice of this area collected about 40 bullet shells of different calibers at the scene, including 9 mm and AK –47 weapons, which were scattered over the interior and exterior of the shop selling curtains.

According to police reports, the shooting started around 1:45pm, when the assailants arrived on board a gray Jetta with tinted windows at the store with number 195, on avenue Río Amazonas in Fluvial Vallarta, two armed subjects stepped out of the vehicle and began firing against the woman and another subject that was having a conversation with the employee of the brewery.

Witnesses said that “it is rare that a business selling curtains, where normally only women go shopping and sometimes they might be accompanied by a man, but in this business there are almost only men going in and out, which is “very weird”. They also commented that the owners do own luxury vehicles such as Mercedes Benz and porting Corvette.

Since Jessica Sataray González is related to Fernando González Corona and the senator, Eva Contreras Sandoval, authorities do not dismiss any personal vengeance or drug trafficking relations.

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The harvest of watermelons has begun, and with it also of tomatoes and chiles habaneros, as reported by the Board of Health of Plants in Mezcales.

This season brings three different crop types: Corn, Watermelon and Beans. Also in less quantity there are tomatoes and chilies habaneros. Over 1500 hectares were sown with commercial corn, which will be harvested in April with another thousand of different corn.

January will be harvest for a lot of Beans, especially the Marcela variety and the azufrado and peruano beans.

Nevertheless the biggest harvest has and will be the watermelon, which has been sawn to 1500 hectares by 300 different producers. The estimate harvest this year will be around 5,000 tons of watermelons!

The biggest part (without seed) is then exported to the USA and the striped one is meant to stay in México, “since we Mexicans don’t mind the seeds”.

It will definitively be a great year for farmers, since the seasons have been perfect for the watermelon production. With 2 pesos a kilo, the producers will be more than covered and the buyers will also benefit from the lower watermelon price.

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From 5th Dec to 9th Dec, 2007 

Featuring the very best independent films from North and Latin America, this popular Vallarta Festival is dedicated to fiction shorts, feature films and documentaries. As well as a packed programme of screenings, there are also plenty of other non-film events including a lavish gala dance and dinner, art expo, music concerts and culinary events.

The Vallarta festival this year will focus on environmental films, Latin American films, new images from Canada, American Independent cinema and Hollywood studio films.

A full programme is available from the Vallarta Film Festival website prior to the event:

VallartaFilmFestival.com
Puerto Vallarta Film Festival
Avenida Cocoteros 85 Sur
Segundo Piso, Local L-6
Paradise Plaza
Nuevo Vallarta
Nayarit
Nuevo Vallarta
CP 63735
Mexico
Tel +52 (322) 297 1605

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Vallarta Film Festival

Over thirty movies and the visit of Academy Award winning actress Helen Hunt will spotlight the Vallarta Film Festival fourth edition planned to be held December 5-9 at Cinemark.

A behind the scenes documentary about The Night of the Iguana film that includes John Huston commentaries, as well as a screening of the full-length feature “Then She Found Me” featuring Hunt, are part of the program.

Aside from her, there is a large list of special guests such as actor John Leguizamo, presenting “Life in the Time of Cholera,” and Mexican actors like Andres García, Sylvia Pasquel, Itati Cantoral, and Rodrigo Murray. Latin American movies, independent films and short films made by university students will also be participating. Among the new features this year is free screening of environmental films, the principal brand of this Film Festival since its inception.