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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Human Trafficking is a global industry that transcends borders, regions, and cultures. Within the Western Hemisphere trafficking is an important issue that arguably helps to shape relations between Latin American and the United States. In June 2010, the State Department Report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) included, for the first time, in its ten year [...]
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 [...]
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About 60 police and security officers began on Monday (5th) a training course in order to act in the triple border (Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, Ciudad del Este). The course, coordinated by the Police and held at various places in Foz do Iguacu until Friday (9) is given by five teachers of the Coordinator Office of [...]
2010 Jul 11 | Posted in
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Criminal organizations in Europe and Asia have set up a network of trafficking women for prostitution from Brazil and Paraguay into developed countries, says the United Nations (UN) report last Thursday. It is suspected that the Russians have a decisive role in this prostitution network.
Between 2005 and 2007, a thousand Brazilian women were victims of [...]
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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Recently, the governments of the United States and Mexico agreed on new goals to broaden and deepen our cooperation to effect lasting change. We are accelerating our efforts to support stronger democratic institutions in Mexico, especially the police and justice sector, expanding our border focus beyond interdiction of contraband to include facilitation of legitimate trade [...]
2010 May 30 | Posted in
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In rough terms, human smuggling is taking a person across an international border for money. Human trafficking is controlling and exploiting people for someone else’s profit when they get to their destination,” said OPP Const. Mark Dew, of Sarnia-Lambton Crime Stoppers in Canada.
That is the international definition. He said there is also domestic trafficking, referring [...]
