According to former Uruguayan President Luis A. Lacalle de Herrera, a necessary overhaul of that nation’s security policy would entail proper enforcement and adaptation of its laws, prosecution for minor violations, streamlining the judicial process, improving prisons and establishing standards of accountability for juveniles. In an exclusive interview with the three online publications (*) of [...]
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Peru’s government said Wednesday it is investigating an alleged Chilean spy arrested in the vicinity of a military airbase in the north, in a case that could cast a shadow over relations between Lima and Santiago. Defense Minister Alberto Otárola, said when Luis Maximiliano Seraín was arrested he had in his possession a CD, a [...]
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Police in northern Mexico have captured a suspected member of the Zetas drug cartel, who confessed to killing at least 75 people, authorities announced Monday. Enrique Elizondo Flores admitted to investigators that 36 of his victims were bus passengers traveling through the town of Cerralvo, near the Texas border, according to Nuevo Leon state security [...]
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The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa has promised an extensive probe into what happened to a Canadian woman hospitalized after she was badly beaten at a posh Mexico resort. Sheila Nabb, 37, was vacationing with her husband Andrew, at the all-inclusive Hotel Riu Emerald Bay resort last week when she was found inside [...]
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The United States Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police may not install a GPS device on a suspect’s car to track his movements without a warrant, in a test case that upheld basic privacy rights in spite of new surveillance technology. The high court ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which had [...]
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The U.S. Border Patrol is preparing to implement tougher punishments on undocumented immigrants entering the United States from Mexico, to change the revolving door policy that has been in place for years. Instead of simply being sent back across the border to try again, immigrants captured on the U.S. side will now face harsher consequences for [...]
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It’s not just in the airport anymore. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is working in collaboration with the United States Department of Defense to control illegal firearms by deploying technology to detect concealed weapons carried by people walking down the street. Using infrared rays, the system scans a “form of radiation emitted from [...]
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Police in Mexico have arrested an alleged member of the Zetas drug cartel for masterminding a casino fire that killed 52 people in the northern city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday. Jorge Domene, security agency spokesman for Nuevo Leon state, said Baltazar Saucedo Estrada is the lead hitman who was sought on a US$1,000,000 reward [...]
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Former drug capo Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty this week to federal racketeering and money-laundering conspiracy charges, putting an end to a long case against Mexico’s formerly most powerful organized crime group. Arellano Felix, 58, the former leader of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, converted Tijuana into a major trafficking route to the U.S. during a [...]
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Murders, rapes and other violent crimes declined significantly in the United States during the first six months of 2011, extending a downward trend that has lasted 4 1/2 years, the FBI announced on Monday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said preliminary January-to-June statistics showed violent crime declining 6.4 percent from the previous year, led by [...]
