Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
2011 Dec 09 | Posted in
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FARC guerrillas are “the only ones responsible” for the death of four hostages found shot this weekend after a firefight with government troops trying to free them, according to Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. “This is an atrocious crime which merits the condemnation of all Colombians as well as the international community”, he said during [...]
2011 Nov 28 | Posted in
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent thousands of National Guard soldiers into the streets of Caracas and surrounding states on Thursday, to reinforce police overwhelmed by widespread violent crime. “We’ve been fighting and reducing overall crime rates, but we’ve fallen short when it comes to the number of homicides,” Chavez said to troops at a downtown [...]
2011 Nov 20 | Posted in
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According to a statement released this week by the office of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, six of the 14 most violent countries on this planet are located in Latin America. Launched by the United Nations in 2008 and now signed by 110 countries, the Geneva Declaration has the stated goal of [...]
2011 Oct 29 | Posted in
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Peruvian National Police forces rescued almost three hundred women and girls from forced sexual exploitation this weekend in the jungle town of Puerto Maldonado and nearby locations, according to that nation’s Interior Ministry. Vice Minister for Internal Order Luis Otarola, who supervised the rescue, said that the liberated women included ten minors, one of whom [...]
Mexico’s network of drug cartels is nebulous and complex, with organizations merging, splintering and shifting alliances in their quest to control drug-trafficking routes. Below is a rough overview of some of the major groups involved in the country’s drug trade, although there are numerous other affiliate groups and smaller players. READ MORE HERE
2011 Aug 30 | Posted in
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Mexico and Guatemala agreed to intensify cooperation on border security and strengthen cooperation in combating organized crime and illegal drug trafficking. It is publicly known that the drug cartel “Los Zetas” have the control of certain areas of the common border. During a visit of the guatemalan president,Alvaro Colom, the President of Mexico Felipe Calderon [...]
2011 Jul 29 | Posted in
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According to Vanguardia.com.mx, many of the victims of mass graves have died as gladiators. The goal of Zetas is to force their victims to fight as gladiators and the survivors became their new murderers to be send in suicide missions. The website reports that the information was revealed by an assassin interviewed and later identified [...]
2011 Jun 14 | Posted in
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Bad news for criminals: “Zero tolerance” expert Rudolph Giuliani is now advicer of Keiko Fujimori in Peru. Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori has hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as an adviser in public safety, and the former mayor of New York travelled to Lima to see first hand the situation of crime [...]
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The Internet has become one of the main tools of European organized crime and human trafficking, drugs and money laundering in addition to being a vehicle of cybercrime. According to a new report by the European Police Office, Europol, in the last two years have seen a marked increase of criminal groups who use the [...]
2011 May 07 | Posted in
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