The coming wave of U.S. defense budget cuts will apparently be followed by less spending on Homeland Security. Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. Government is spending near $75 Billion per year on U.S. Homeland Security. Whether the Spending Spree has been worthwhile is the subject of increasing debate, especially among U.S. liberals…READ [...]
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In his inaugural speech to the nation, the new President of Peru, the leftist nationalist Ollanta Humala described his goals during his administration. Besides issues like foreign policy, health, education, economic development and such, President Humala described his policy on security and public safety. In that sense, President Humala announced the following policies and guidelines [...]
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Uruguay seeks to create a genetic database with the DNA of all prison population. The proceeds will not be invasive, just mouth/buccal samples, or from neck, armpit or other body part. In that sense the Constitution and Law Committee of the Senate of Uruguay advances in the treatment of the draft bill to create DNA [...]
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Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Mexico’s efforts to combat drug trafficking saying “it is the only way” to end the threat of organised crime, saying ” the U.S remains committed to collaborating with Mexico in the fight against criminal organisations, and it is very hard, but what Mexican President Felipe Calderon has [...]
ROME .- “Everything OK, Paolo.” Oddly enough, this innocent text message sent via a cell phone to one of the most popular Italian t.v. shows, was really a coded message used by the mafia to communicate with the imprisoned bosses that are held incommunicado, under prison conditions of isolation. Simple and effective, this new technique [...]
A judge in Peru granted freedom to a drug dealer and then went to drink beer with him in a bar in the northeastern city of Chachapoyas, where he was caught “in fraganti” by judicial authorities, according to a video released Wednesday in Lima. Judge Edgar Víctor Quispe Gomez, criminal judge of Chachapoyas, about 790 kilometers north [...]
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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 [...]
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This system of “self” has been one of the factors of violence that exists in prisons, with bloody riots and fights, as the last Monday in Mazatlan, which left 29 dead. The complaint was made on Wednesday the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR), in which the phenomenon occurs mainly in the state and county [...]
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. [...]
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