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 [...]
2010 Sep 03 | Posted in
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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 [...]
The Cartel Alliance between “Sinaloa” and ”La Familia” is strongly anchored in five states of the mexican Pacific Coast. The recent death of druglord Nacho Coronel consolidated the leadership of “Chapo” Guzman within the Sinaloa Cartel and its alliance with “La Familia”. The mexican authorities believe that these groups control now the inputs of materials for [...]
2010 Aug 15 | Posted in
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In a recent visit to the region, the Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton stated that “the U.S. is committed to citizen safety in Central America…We are doing everything we can in the fight against corruption and impunity, in providing the equipment and the support that law enforcement and the military require, and helping to [...]
2010 Aug 07 | Posted in
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Mauricio Funes, president of El Salvador, declared war on the gang “los Maras”. This week the Maras showed its most savage face, while they put in fire a city bus killing 16 passengers (burnt).
Given the endemic violence plaguing the central american country, the government has decided to deploy 1,500 troops to monitor the most dangerous [...]
2010 Jun 27 | Posted in
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The murder rate in Juárez rivals the most dangerous cities in the world and is more typical of regions where government has collapsed, an expert on homicides said.
The violence continued during the weekend, including a shootout involvin the Mexican army that resulted in the arrest of three [...]
2010 Jun 09 | Posted in
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A Haitian man kidnapped while working with a U.S.-based development foundation was found dead on Saturday, the group said.
The driver for the Pan-American Development Foundation was kidnapped Monday along with a British contractor. The contractor was released after four days and is now assisting authorities with the investigation.
“We are in shock by [...]
Kidnapping can take place in public areas where someone may quietly force you, by gunpoint, into a vehicle. They can also take place at a hotel or residence, again by using a weapon to force your cooperation in leaving the premises and entering a vehicle. The initial phase of kidnapping is a critical one because [...]
MEXICO CITY, May 11 – A business executive was kidnapped by armed men, while having dinner at a roadside at the southern Mexican city of Villahermosa.
The gunmen seized Nestor Martinez, who manages a production unit for energy monopoly Pemex in the oil-rich state of Tabasco, and sent his driver on to deliver the news [...]
Jose Antonio Ortega: In Mexico grows kidnapping. During the National Conference on Victims of Crime and Human Rights, Ortega noted that Mexico now surpasses Colombia and Haiti.
In the mexican city of Leon, the President of the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, José Antonio Ortega, issued a study that shows that Mexico has [...]
2010 Mar 20 | Posted in
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