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 [...]
2012 Jun 14 | Posted in
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For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. State Department has responded to increasing violent crime in Mexico by expanding the list of places that Americans should avoid for their own safety. An updated travel advisory released this week warned U.S. citizens to avoid non-essential travel to 14 states in northern and [...]
2012 Feb 10 | Posted in
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The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa has promised an extensive probe into what happened to a Canadian woman hospitalized after she was badly beaten at a posh Mexico resort. Sheila Nabb, 37, was vacationing with her husband Andrew, at the all-inclusive Hotel Riu Emerald Bay resort last week when she was found inside [...]
2012 Jan 26 | Posted in
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Air operations in a wide region of southwestern Colombia were delayed on Saturday following an attack by FARC guerrillas against a radar antenna system key to commercial aviation, said that nation’s Civil Aviation authority. One policeman was killed in the attack by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) launched on Friday night above [...]
2012 Jan 23 | Posted in
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Times are changing for many islands across the Caribbean, where escalating arms races between criminal gangs are turning previously peaceful neighborhoods into free-fire zones. The two-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, with a population of 50,000 people, has tallied 31 homicides already in 2011, marking their deadliest year on record. Gangs with names like [...]
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Honduran authorities believe that Friday’s massacre of six people at San Pedro Sula’s international airport was the result of a turf war between organized criminal gangs. “This was a battle between two delinquent factions”, said Security Secretary Pompeyo Bonilla. He denied that it had anything to do with the recent deaths of nine prisoners in [...]
Recently, and due to the drug war in Mexico two new developments are happening in the U.S. border region of Rio Grande Valley and the north of Mexico. The first new development at the border is that more and more elite Mexicans look to foreign investment in the rio Grande Valley as a way to [...]
2011 Jan 09 | Posted in
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Contract killers murdered Canadian businessman Daniel Dion and stuffed his body into the trunk of his rental car in southern Mexico before setting it ablaze, his family believes, informed a journalistic report made by Peter Edwards for TheStar.com “Considering what we know and have seen, the people that killed Daniel were professional and went greatly [...]
Full-body scanners will land at New York-area airports as soon as next month. The high-powered machines – which produce virtually naked images of airline passengers going through security – are the latest pricey tools brought in to detect explosives or non-metal weapon under layers of clothing. The advanced-imaging technology scanners transmit low-level X-ray beams to [...]
A civilian armored car is a security vehicle which made by replacing the windows of a standard vehicle (typically a limousine or SUV) with bulletproof glass and inserting layers of armor plate into the body panels. Unlike a military armored car, which has armor plate mounted on the outside of the vehicle, a civilian armoured [...]
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