WASHINGTON — They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of a Russian [...]
A year ago, soldiers of Honduras took the president at gunpoint from his home at dawn, in a scene that already felt forgotten in Latin America. Supporters of the coup against ousted President Manuel Zelaya resisted international pressure to restore it and held elections, but the government born of the elections walk weak and fails [...]
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The simple answer is no, at least not with traditional bugs and intercepts, says Richard Aldrich, author of a study of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) monitoring agency. The torrent of data is as much a curse as a blessing for the eavesdroppers and code busters of GCHQ, which works with U.S. ally the National [...]
SANTO DOMINGO – Police chiefs of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean agreed in Santo Domingo to increase the number of officers seconded to the Interpol and to improve the mechanisms for exchanging information/intelligence to combat organized crime. “This will achieve a more secure region of prosperity and development”, said on Friday the Dominican Police [...]
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Toronto (Canada) .- In the first intervention by a Latin American country before the G8, the Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe, linked terrorism and drug trafficking and asked the international community to assist colombia in the fight against the FARC, according to EFE report . Uribe, who was invited by Canada to participate in a special [...]
A top Colombian drug lord whom the United States has long considered one of the most dangerous smugglers pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to trafficking tons of heroin and cocaine into the U.S. Francisco Gonzalez-Uribe had been awaiting trial in New York on charges of running a criminal enterprise dating back at least [...]
The major cartels Beltrán Leyva: Splinter group of Sinaloa Cartel; power struggle erupted after December slaying of Arturo Beltrán Leyva, known as “boss of bosses”Gulf: Weakened by government crackdown, but still powerful; reputed leader Osiel Cárdenas in U.S. custody since 2007 Juárez: Locked in violent struggle with Sinaloa Cartel for control of trafficking corridor through [...]
As the leader of one of Mexico’s most ruthless criminal gangs, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez is the mastermind of hair-raising brutality in his native Michoacán state. He also would like the world to know he has a pious, loving and huggy-kissy side, and so he’s penned a booklet titled “Thoughts”, says Tim Johnson in an article [...]
Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the president’s most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security said Thursday in an interview with The Washington Times. “There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons who are in different parts of the [...]
A Supreme Court decision siding with two imprisoned former corporate executives is another reminder to a U.S. public angered by financial scandals that prosecuting white-collar criminal cases can be a lot tougher than it looks, according to Reuters. Federal prosecutors, who have suffered setbacks in the past year in probes stemming from the financial crisis, [...]
