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 [...]
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Guatemalan Police killed two alleged members of Mexico’s Los Zetas drug cartel and arrested a third suspect, near the site where nearly 30 people were massacred and beheaded over the weekend, a police spokesman said in the northern guatemalan province of Peten, near the mexican border. The Zetas left the victims heads scattered across the [...]
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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 [...]
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A serbian crime gang was seized by Brazilian federal police, showing an increasing problem for South America — foreign mafia groups (like the serbian) are increasingly using Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as corridors to export the continent’s cocaine to Europe and elsewhere. Sixteen alleged members of the Serbian mafia acting in South America were arrested [...]
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Mexico will have a Border Police with tasks such as to prevent illegal entry of weapons, explosives and other substances into the national territory of Mexico by the border areas, mainly the United States. Yesterday, the House of Representatives in Mexico also endorsed that the Border Police are in charge of prosecuting crimes of human [...]
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A 20 years old hit man, alleged member of cartel Los Zetas, confessed to murdering 200 people in his “brief but chilling criminal career” , said national security spokesman in Mexico, Alejandro Poire. The young hit man made the confession after being arrested in recent days in connection with the discovery of a mass grave [...]
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Panama opened a Central American Center of Regional Security Information, for the exchange and coordination of security information between the countries of the region. The Center is a network of computers, sharing information and technology on security issues, such as drugs trafficking, organized crime, human smuggling, gangs, etc. The new facility operates from the Navy [...]
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The U.S. president prepares to visit the region with the highest global rate of homicides, according to the UN, and one of the “preferred route” for drug cartels that ship drugs into the U.S. Central American governments say they are making efforts to fight crime that plagues the region, despite this, the facts show that [...]
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The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a full cabinet department of the U.S. federaal government (a sort of a Ministery of Interior) , created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks . The primary responsibilities of the DHS are : a) protecting the territory of the U.S. from terrorist attacks and b) [...]
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