The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.), said Sunday that recent reports about Chinese hacking show the U.S. is losing a global cyber war. “We get [hit] every single day by a whole series … of attacks, everything from criminals trying to get into your bank account or steal your [...]
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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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After 24 years on the run, one of the US marshals service’s most-wanted fugitives has been captured by Mexican police in the resort city of Cancun. Suspect Vincent Legrend Walters is wanted in San Diego, California, on murder charges in the 1988 killing of a woman kidnapped as part of a drug deal. He also [...]
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A former US Border Patrol agent who often served as an agency spokesman on television news started his own smuggling operation to bring Mexicans and Brazilians to the United States illegally in Border Patrol vehicles, federal prosecutors charged on Friday. Raul Villarreal set up the criminal ring in April 2005 and made his older brother and fellow agent Fidel one of his [...]
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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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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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The former police general who served as Colombian ex-President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief from 2002 to 2006 betrayed international counternarcotics operations for almost a decade while on the payroll of drug traffickers and rightwing paramilitaries, according to a newly unsealed U.S. indictment. Ex-Gen. Mauricio Santoyo Velasco is charged with conspiracy to export cocaine to the United States [...]
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The U.S. State Department has warned American travelers to Mexico to beware of possible violent retaliation for this week’s arrest of alleged Zetas drug cartel associates and family members inside the U.S. Although the government warning did not specify which “Transnational Criminal Organization” might engage in “anti-American” violence, on Tuesday federal authorities arrested seven alleged [...]
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A crusading federal prosecutor in Brazil this week opened his second 20 billion real ($10.9 billion) lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and driller Transocean, doubling the charges against both companies while drawing criticism from other Brazilians. The new lawsuit, the second filed by Eduardo Santos de Oliveira against the companies in less than five months, is related to an oil leak discovered [...]
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