An online video was released this week threatening Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel with public exposure of their friends in the police and media, unless the group frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as “Anonymous.” The YouTube message signed by Anonymous “Veracruz, Mexico and the world,” said it is “tired of the [...]
Mexican authorities report that at least 21 people were killed Friday in three firefights between soldiers and gunmen and a fight between rival drug gangs. A minimum of 15 deaths resulted from three shootouts in the western state of Michoacan, according state prosecutor spokesman Jonathan Arredondo. Arredondo said 10 gunmen were killed in a clash [...]
According to a statement released this week by the office of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, six of the 14 most violent countries on this planet are located in Latin America. Launched by the United Nations in 2008 and now signed by 110 countries, the Geneva Declaration has the stated goal of [...]
With 70 journalists murdered there since 2000, Mexico is the fifth most dangerous country in the world for that profession, according to a joint assessment published Monday by the United Nations and the Organization of American States. The report said that in 13 journalists have been killed already during 2011 in Mexico. While motives are [...]
Amnesty International released a highly critical report on Tuesday, saying the national police force kills and tortures with impunity in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican national police were responsible for 15 percent of violent deaths recorded annually in the Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2010, according to the report. The London-based human rights group said [...]
Chilean airline LAN has avoided a lawsuit from local competitor PAL and reached an agreement that will allow LAN to proceed in their planned marriage with Brazilian airline TAM. The merger would create one of the largest airline groups in the world. LAN, one of the leading carriers of Latin America, announced Tuesday that [...]
This week opponents of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez suffered from a one-two punch: a court decision handicapping the presidential aspirations of a major candidate, followed by a $2 million fine that threatens the closure of an anti-government TV channel. Both rulings by the Supreme Court and National Telecommunications Commission have outraged opposition leaders and human [...]
Another ten Colombian soldiers have been killed in a rebel ambush, this time in the eastern province of Arauca. It was the second such attack in two days. On Friday, a similar ambush left 10 soldiers dead in the southern province of Narino, close to Colombia’s border with Ecuador. The army blamed both attacks on [...]
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 [...]
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peruvian “disappearance” victims in the conflict that raged there from 1980 to 2000 are double the number previously calculated by that nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2003. Rafael Barrantes, Red Cross director for that agency’s Disappeared Persons Program, said that records from the Peruvian [...]
Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.
EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats
Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.
Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.
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