Members of the international hacker group Anonymous said on Friday they had attacked Mexican government websites in protest of a bill seeking official controls over release of information on the internet. Beginning in the morning, disabled websites included the Ministry of Interior (www.segob.gob.mx), Senate (www.senado.gob.mx), and Chamber of Deputies (www.diputados.gob.mx). Hours later, the sites were [...]
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of attempting to barter President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for campaign cash or personal favors, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Blagojevich led the fifth-most populous American state from January 2003 to January 2009, one month after his arrest for what Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick [...]
2011 Dec 08 | Posted in
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Caught up in a corruption scandal, the leader of Mexico’s leading opposition party resigned on Friday, just seven months before national elections in which his candidate is favored by a wide margin. Humberto Moreira, who became president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) president in March of this year, was under pressure to resign for contracting [...]
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom announced Tuesday approval of a U.S. extradition order for former president Alfonso Portillo, who faces money laundering charges for the alleged embezzlement of $1.5 million in foreign donations. Colom said Guatemalan courts have already approved Portillo’s extradition and that he will respect those rulings. “The president should not get mixed up [...]
2011 Nov 17 | Posted in
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The factory of German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch was raided on Thursday by some 300 German agents, on suspicion of bribery related to the sale of weapons to Mexico in 2005. Authorities in Stuttgart confirmed that the search, which included the homes of some employees, was for evidence of bribes paid to Mexican officials [...]
2011 Nov 11 | Posted in
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Thousands of Brazilians waving flags, signs and brooms have marched in numerous cities of that nation this week in a wave of protests against corruption. The marches were coordinated by the Brazilian Movement Against Corruption, a new group formed via social media in response to various recent cases of politicians implicated in abuse of public [...]
Suspended Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno is the latest high-profile Colombian official to be to be imprisoned for alleged corruption. On trial for accepting bribes from contractors on public works contracts, Moreno, 51, was deemed to be a flight risk and locked up in Bogota’s high-security La Picota prison. The grandson of Colombian army general and strongman [...]
2011 Sep 24 | Posted in
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Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was acquitted along with 17 associates this week, on charges of violating arms embargoes on Ecuador and Croatia back in the 1990s. Menem, who is 81, was spared a possible eight years in prison by the two members of his three-judge panel who found him not guilty. The ex-president, who [...]
2011 Sep 18 | Posted in
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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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The U.S. television network Univision claims to have access to Bolivian intelligence reports. In Univision´s report, released Thursday, the network linked the former commander of the Bolivian Police General Oscar Nina with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera , known as “Chapo” (Shorty). The Police Commander Nina allegedly provided protection when Chapo [...]
2011 Sep 03 | Posted in
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