Federal police in Mexico today said they had captured an alleged drug gang kingpin who faces drug-trafficking charges in the US and has been blamed for a vicious turf war in central Mexico.
The announcement came just hours after the government revealed that almost 10% of the federal police force had been fired this [...]
ROME .- “Everything OK, Paolo.” Oddly enough, this innocent text message sent via a cell phone to one of the most popular Italian t.v. shows, was really a coded message used by the mafia to communicate with the imprisoned bosses that are held incommunicado, under prison conditions of isolation.
Simple and effective, this new technique was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Brazilian Federal Senate this week approved the Bill in order to grant police power to the Army, Navy and Air Force in the border regions, specially with Ciudad del Este and the Three Border Region. The project was approved without any legislative change also in the Chamber of Deputies.
After being signed by the President [...]
Reporting from Mexico City and San Diego — In a significant blow against the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexican troops on Thursday killed one of the group’s top figures during an arrest raid in western Mexico.
The raid came as troops in Tijuana rounded up dozens of police officers in a separate operation targeting organized crime.
Ignacio [...]
Brazil can no longer be considered the main corridor on the route of international drug trafficking on the continent, according to the brazilian Federal Police (PF).
According to the director general of the PF, Luiz Fernando Corrêa, although the country still be where drugs come onto the world market, the main “corridor” is above the equator, [...]
The brazilian Congressional candidate and former governor Julio Campos argued in favour that the army occupies the border brazilian city of Cáceres with Bolivia, in a strategy to combat drugs and arms trafficked from the neighboring country.
“We can not fight drug trafficking and smuggling of weapons only with the presence of military police and a small group of [...]
SANTO DOMINGO – Police chiefs of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean agreed in Santo Domingo to increase the number of officers seconded to the Interpol and to improve the mechanisms for exchanging information/intelligence to combat organized crime.
“This will achieve a more secure region of prosperity and development”, said on Friday [...]
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 [...]
