Category archives for: Judicial System

Brazil: lower spending on public safety.

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 [...]

“War on drugs” is over in Mexico.

Mexico City.- By command of President Peña, and starting immediately, Mexico’s Federal Police and military personnel will read a series of legal rights to suspects — including rights to know the charges against them, obtain free legal counsel and remain silent — from printed cards they carry with them. The announcement Friday by Undersecretary Eduardo [...]

Inside story: money laundering ring using HSBC Bank led to near $2 billion settlement.

In January 2010 several Colombian men were indicted in the U.S. on money-laundering charges. Initially, it looked like a bust of another nexus of drug traffickers and moneylaunderers. But to U.S. authorities the case was anything but ordinary. Prosecutors alleged, one of the alleged criminals helped run a money-laundering ring using UK-based international banking group [...]

All four legs of Homeland´s Blue Campaign against human trafficking: public awareness, victim assistance, law enforcement and increased prosecution.

The United States Department of Homeland Security DHS launched the Blue Campaign in 2010 to more effectively combat human trafficking through four strategies: 1) enhanced public awareness, 2) improve victim assistance, 3)  strengthen law enforcement investigations 3)  increasing prosecution. With an estimated 20.9 million victims (source ILO), every year, men, women, and children are enslaved [...]

US Border Patrol corruption trial opens in California

The Americas Post - Raul Villarreal smuggled illegals into the States using border patrol vehicles

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 [...]

Colombian security chief indicted in US

The Americas Post - This Colombian top cop may have been working for the bad guys all along

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 [...]

Mexican government to compensate crime victims

The Americas Post - Faces of crime victims hover like ghosts over the Ecatepec slums in Mexico City

  Mexico’s congress approved a law Monday to recognize and protect the rights of crime victims, a longstanding demand in a country where more than 47,500 people have died in 5½ years of drug-related violence, and thousands more have disappeared. The law covers the dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing whether they are ordinary civilians or are [...]

Brazilian prosecutor doubles down on Chevron

The Americas Post - Chevron's Brazil Corporate Affairs Director Rafael Jaen Williamson has a headache

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 [...]

US State Dept claims progress on Latin American security

The Americas Post - William R. Brownfield is trying to do more with less these days.  Photo Credit:  State Dept

And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]

Drug lord sentenced to 16 years in Miami court

The Americas Post - Sixteen years pumping iron should be enough for Beto Marin to work off that double chin

Jaime Alberto Marín Zamora, a Colombian cocaine kingpin, has been sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to US drug trafficking charges.  A judge in Miami imposed the sentence today on the 47-year-old, a former leader of Colombia’s North Valley cartel. He had faced up to 24 years, but prosecutors [...]

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