Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation’s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.
The abductors, who were not apprehended in Tuesday night’s rescue, were seeking between $8,000 and $10,000 from [...]
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HAWTHORNE, Calif., Aug. 31 — Research into detecting nuclear and other materials with potential for use in weapons of mass destruction received more pledges of government support after a Californian security electronics firm received contracts worth up to $12 million for developing new detection devices and techniques, says a report of [...]
Federal police in Mexico today said they had captured an alleged drug gang kingpin who faces drug-trafficking charges in the US and has been blamed for a vicious turf war in central Mexico.
The announcement came just hours after the government revealed that almost 10% of the federal police force had been fired this [...]
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MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon proposed sweeping new measures Thursday to crack down on the cash smuggling and money laundering that allow Mexican cartels to use billions in U.S. drug profits to enrich their criminal organizations.
Legislation introduced by the Calderon administration would make it illegal to buy real estate in cash.
The new laws [...]
A Mexican drug cartel massacred 72 Central and South American migrants within 100 miles of the U.S. border that they were trying to reach, according to an Ecuadorian survivor who escaped and stumbled wounded to a highway checkpoint where he alerted marines, official said Wednesday.
The marines fought the cartel gunmen [...]
This week, California became the first state to be provided with resources to deploy National Guard troops to its southern border with Mexico. The move is a part of a promise from the Obama administration to secure the border. Gov. Schwarzenegger said he was proud to be the first state to [...]
The six businessmen accused of involvement with drug trafficking in the north of Rio de Janeiro, were presented on Thursday by the Civil Police in the auditorium of the 5th SD (Central Police). The criminals were caught in Brasilia, Campo Grande (MS) and São Paulo during Operation Without Borders. According to investigations, the group financed the [...]
SAN DIEGO — The federal government is expanding a multi-agency policing program at the U.S.-Mexico border to improve security at the nation’s sea ports.
John Morton, the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the announcement Tuesday at the annual meeting of the program, called the Border Enforcement Security Task Force.
Morton says the program has [...]
The Uruguayan Justice ordered the prosecution of four officers of the Navy, including the former Supreme Navy Admiral Commander Juan Fernandez Maggio, accused of doing fraud.
The former commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral (r) Juan Fernandez Maggio, was prosecuted with prison as coauthor of “an ongoing crime of fraud” for [...]
ROME .- “Everything OK, Paolo.” Oddly enough, this innocent text message sent via a cell phone to one of the most popular Italian t.v. shows, was really a coded message used by the mafia to communicate with the imprisoned bosses that are held incommunicado, under prison conditions of isolation.
Simple and effective, this new technique was [...]
