Mexican police recovered 18 decapitated and dismembered bodies near Guadalajara Wednesday, in what appeared to be the latest atrocity by the country’s most brutal drug cartel. Believed to be the work of the Zetas cartel, it was one of the biggest mass beheadings in the recent history of Mexico, where decapitations have become a daily occurrence. The [...]
As recently reported in the New York Times, Honduras is the newest front in America’s drug war. Recent anti-narcotics operations in Mexico have forced over 90 percent of US-bound cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela through Central America. Over 30% of it passes through Honduras, which as a result now has one of the highest homicide rates on the planet. The [...]
Mexico’s congress approved a law Monday to recognize and protect the rights of crime victims, a longstanding demand in a country where more than 47,500 people have died in 5½ years of drug-related violence, and thousands more have disappeared. The law covers the dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing whether they are ordinary civilians or are [...]
Police in Mexico are investigating the death of a journalist in the eastern state of Veracruz. Regina Martinez was found in her home in Xalapa on Saturday, apparently beaten and strangled to death. She was a correspondent for the weekly news magazine Proceso. Industry groups say Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the [...]
Mexico will proceed to investigate allegations that the Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc bribed officials to expand its business there. The Mexican federal comptroller’s office said it had begun checking the federal paperwork and permits that Wal-Mart de Mexico, known as Walmex, obtained to open and operate its stores in Mexico. The comptroller’s office added that [...]
Mexican customs agents have seized 268,000 rounds of assault rifle ammunition that an American transported in a semi-trailer across the border into Ciudad Juarez. Spokesman Angel Torres of the Attorney General’s Office in Ciudad Juarez, , said that the 37 year-old driver, a native of Dallas, was arrested on suspicion of trying to bring in the munitions from the city of [...]
Approximately one million Mexicans have returned from the US between 2005 and 2010, according to a new study of Mexican census data…. three times more than the previous five-year period. As a result, one respected US sociologist has declared migration levels at ”net zero” for the first time since the 1960s. The shift has serious implications for both countries – from a shrunken labor pool in [...]
Guatemalan authorities have begun to see disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and another of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America — a deal that could set back U.S.-backed efforts to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in Central America. Jailhouse recordings and a turncoat kidnapper describe a pact between leaders of the Maras [...]
The government of Guatemala has formed a new military unit with financial and technical support from the United States to fight drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean and the San Marcos region bordering Mexico, an official source announced yesterday. Guatemalan Defense Minister Ulysses Anzueto told reporters that Military Task Force Tecun Uman aims to prevent the entry of [...]
And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]
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