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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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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Authorities in Mexico are unsure why federal police opened fire on a U.S. Embassy vehicle on a rural mountain road south of the capital, leaving two U.S. government workers wounded. Officials from both nations said the federal officers were chasing criminals Friday morning when a hail of bullets was fired at the embassy sport utility [...]
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Spanish police and the FBI have reportedly blocked a major Mexican drug cartel from launching a European operation. Sinaloa cartel member Jesus Gutierrez Guzman was part of the operation. Guzman is alleged to be the cousin of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman, known as “El Chapo,” the leader of the Sinaloa cartel. The ministry said the cartel wanted to [...]
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Three highly sophisticated drug smuggling tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation – including one with a railcar system – have been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in less than a week, the latest signs that cartels are building passages to escape heightened detection above ground. Two of the tunnels were incomplete, including one that the Mexican [...]
The leading security adviser for Mexico’s incoming president announced Friday that he is recommending the creation of elite units of police and troops who will target not just major drug traffickers but also lower-level cartel hitmen as a way of swiftly reducing violence. The proposal from newly retired Colombian police director Gen. Oscar Naranjo offers a glimpse of [...]
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She’s gone by a number of different nicknames: “La Bonita” the pretty one; “La Chula,” the beautiful one; and “La Reina del Crimen,” the queen of crime. And now, she’s gone back to Mexico. U.S. authorities arrested Anel Violeta Noriega Rios in El Monte, Calif., outside of Los Angeles, on June 27, the Associated Press reports. [...]
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Retired Colombian police Gen Mauricio Santoyo, who is accused of drugs offenses in the United States, has turned himself in and already been extradited. Although his counterpart Colombian police general Oscar Naranjo has been selected by the new Mexican president to direct that country’s drug war, Gen Santoyo is accused of working for the other side, [...]
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Inheriting a drug war that has cost more than 47,000 lives since 2006, newly elected Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is gambling that the Colombian general who helped take down kingpin Pablo Escobar can save Mexico as well. After winning the vote on July 1, Pena Nieto said Mexicans want immediate results after frustration over the six-year death toll [...]
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Mexican authorities confirmed that a man arrested earlier this week and initially reported to be the son of fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman is in fact another individual. “After conducting the necessary tests to determine their identities, we found that (the two suspects presented to the media Thursday) are Felix Beltran Leon [...]
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