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 [...]
2010 Aug 15 | Posted in
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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 [...]
2010 Aug 07 | Posted in
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Brasília – The brazilian police said that due to drug enforcement at the border north and west-central of Brazil, there is a change in the geography of cocaine trafficking on the continent. While Argentina and Uruguay become candidates for next targets of organized crime as hubs for sending cocaine to Europe and Africa, Santa Catarina [...]
- Arrested 13 people linked to ‘Familia Michoacana ”
- Drugs stored in Puntarenas Group to send to Guatemala and Mexico
- Organization is linked to attacks on torture
Elleven Costa Ricans and seven Mexicans were detained here on suspicion of being members of the feared cartel Familia Michoacan, located in the state of [...]
The US Government is willing to make resident security advisors available to Caribbean countries but will Guyana be interested?
Stabroek News was unable to get a comment from Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on the proposal. In a speech at the Washington event last month where US Attorney General Eric Holder made the offer, Rohee had [...]
Is the army protecting and helping the Sinaloan cartel in Juarez? “I would characterize the Mexican military as a kind of protection racket,” says Howard Campbell, an anthropologist at the University of Texas El Paso who’s studied the drug cartels. “That is, the Mexican military is not a cartel per se, sui generis, and it’s [...]
2010 May 29 | Posted in
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Juarez, a city of 1.3 million hugging the border with El Paso, Tex., may now be the most dangerous place in the world — riskier even than Baghdad or Kandahar. This isn’t the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, or Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, pockets of danger in a larger whole. In [...]
2010 May 21 | Posted in
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The White House finally announced its long-awaited drug control strategy yesterday, after postponing the announcement several times.
The strategy calls, among other things, for allocating more federal resources to drug prevention and treatment, and alternatives to incarceration. READ MORE HERE
Panama City .- The United States will promote an international conference for fundraising in order to strengthen the fight against organized crime, drug trafficking and gangs in Central America, announced Friday in Panama Undersecretary of State for Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela .
“We are seeing how to make an international conference [...]
2010 May 09 | Posted in
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The Washington D.C.-based Organization of American States have agreed to adopt a new hemispheric strategy that will call on member states to conduct more periodic and independent evaluations of counter-narcotics efforts.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza called on member countries a year ago to reevaluate and reshape the Anti-Drug strategy in [...]
