Last week, Mr. Obama returned to capitals in Latin America with a vastly different message. Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles against drug traffickers and organized crime capos that have left few clear victors. The countries, Mexico in particular, [...]
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March 3rd.- The governments of Bolivia and Brazil on Saturday signed joint actions to combat drug trafficking and organized crime, protection of migrants and regional integration. The initiatives were defined in meeting by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Patriota (Brazil), and David Choquehuanca (Bolivia) in the bolivian city of Cochabamba. Choquehuanca said that in [...]
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Recent surveys reflect public safety has not been the priority of the current Brazilian government. The surveys are talkinf about little investment public safety, high rates of crime and homicide, low percentage of homicides cleared by the justice system, increased sense of insecurity of the population, according to an article published by 180graus.com The article [...]
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Computer users are being advised by security experts to disable Oracle Corp.’s widely used Java software after a security flaw was discovered that they say hackers are exploiting to attack computers. “Java is a mess. It’s not secure,” said Jaime Blasco, Labs Manager with AlienVault Labs. “You have to disable it.” Java, which is on [...]
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In January 2010 several Colombian men were indicted in the U.S. on money-laundering charges. Initially, it looked like a bust of another nexus of drug traffickers and moneylaunderers. But to U.S. authorities the case was anything but ordinary. Prosecutors alleged, one of the alleged criminals helped run a money-laundering ring using UK-based international banking group [...]
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Mexican authorities have announced the capture of one of the country’s most wanted drug bosses, the head of the Gulf Cartel, marking another victory in President Felipe Calderon’s crackdown on organized crime. The Mexican Navy paraded Jorge Costilla, alias “El Coss,” before the media on Thursday along with several lower-ranking associates and a large cache of guns, [...]
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Regardless of the veracity of the current rumors that Mexico’s feared Zetas organization has split into pieces, the organization’s breakup is a foregone conclusion given the group’s local revenue streams. Recently a US law enforcement source told APthat Zetas second-in-command Miguel Angel Treviño, alias Z-40, has successfully taken over control of the entire group, displacing [...]
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Guyana and Suriname are the first two Caribbean countries to join the highly successful Container Control Programme (CCP) which works with countries to improve port security and prevent the illegal use of sea containers in drug trafficking and transnational organized criminal activities, such as trafficking in chemicals used in the manufacture of drugs (precursors), smuggling [...]
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The head of security for a Mexican prison in Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, has been gunned down, according to police. Alejandro Osuna Rios was murdered on Friday in front of his house, authorities announced. The 36-year-old had been in charge of security at the prison for four months. Osuna Rios was attacked by several gunmen [...]
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The United States Department of Homeland Security DHS launched the Blue Campaign in 2010 to more effectively combat human trafficking through four strategies: 1) enhanced public awareness, 2) improve victim assistance, 3) strengthen law enforcement investigations 3) increasing prosecution. With an estimated 20.9 million victims (source ILO), every year, men, women, and children are enslaved [...]
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