Mexican President Felipe Calderon has warned that drug gangs are seeking to replace the state and impose their own law in parts of the country.
The traffickers were intimidating and extorting communities, he said.
But Mr Calderon, speaking at the end of a three-day anti-crime conference, said the fight against gangs must continue despite rising violence.
More than [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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In what appears to be a change of strategy of a major mexican drug gang, Mexico’s Zeta drug gang has entered El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras and has made contact with local gangs (Maras included) in what appears to be an exploration of opportunities. The contacts of the Zeta´s in El Salvador [...]
According to a report published on April 9th by Mrs. Donna Miles of the American Forces Press Service, the Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will focus next week on Latin America, signing a defense agreement with Brazil, then visiting Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to the region and [...]
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Describing it as “urban terrorism,” California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown joined with Riverside County officials Thursday in asking the public to help find those who tried at least three times to kill officers assigned to a Hemet-based gang task force.
“It is incredible and even unprecedented for police officers here to be [...]
In his Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives (March 10, 2010) , at the Rayburn House Office Building (US Congress) in Washington D.C., the Assistant Secretary of the Department of State /Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Mr. Arturo Valenzuela, outlined the ” United States. [...]
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Last weekend, a french-spanish filmmaker whose documentary about the violent street gang of the Maras in El Salvador provoked controversy earlier this year has been found shot in the head.
The body of Christian Poveda, 52, was discovered in a car in Tonacatepeque, a poor rural area 10 miles outside the capital San Salvador. Police say [...]
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