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 [...]
Besides being an advisor of the Organization of American States (OAS), and directly involved in the peace process in Colombia, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has been very active in other matters related to Latin American politics. Recently in Mexico, Judge Garzón was invited to an international Conference on Money Laundering. During the event, the famous [...]
2011 Sep 04 | Posted in
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In the beginning, social networks were just a new way of socializing among friends and business people. In the last few years, some people have begun using these networks for other purposes than family and friends. Using facebook some people started a political movement that ended in the Egyptian revolution against Mubarak. Others organize urban riots like some [...]
2011 Sep 02 | Posted in
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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
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Many of the traffickers gangs for sexual exploitation in America, Asia and Europe are led by citizens of Tlaxcala in Mexico. That is why the mexican authorities launched investigations to detect the native “pimps” of the smallest state in the Mexican Republic, according to the announcement of the President of the Special Commission for Combating [...]
Mexico: The alleged Zetas drug cartel leader suspected of killing a U.S. customs agent has been captured. His name is Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar, alias “el Manito”. He is believed to be the third in command of the criminal organization founded by former elite soldiers. Over the course of a decade, it went from being [...]
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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 [...]
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So far in 2011, Mexico reported 837 cases of kidnapping, a crime that in the past three years shows a rise of 60 percent, said the mexican Interior Minister, Jose Francisco Blake. During the opening ceremony of the plenary session of the National Conference of Law Enforcement, which meets in the state of Chiapas, the [...]
Since in 2006 Mexico´s President Felipe Calderón started the war on drugs against drug-trafficking cartel, there were more than 30 000 deaths linked to illegal drug trafficking in the country. The record year in terms of proliferation of massacres, promoted by so-called “drug barons”, was 2008. Now, a summary of the largest massacres of the [...]
2011 May 23 | Posted in
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The presidents of Central American countries -except Costa Rica- today expressed concern over the recent killing of 27 peasants on a farm in northern Guatemala, a fact attributed to the Mexican cartel Los Zetas. In a joint statement, signed today in Managua by Presidents Alvaro Colom (Guatemala), Mauricio Funes (El Salvador), Porfirio Lobo (Honduras) and [...]
2011 May 23 | Posted in
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