Monthly Archives: May 2011
Two mayoral candidates were abducted and murdered in northern Colombia in an attack attributed to...
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‘FARC’ Murders Mayor Candidates in North Colombia
An assessment by the Texas Department of Public Safety of the security threat posed by gangs in the...
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Texas Department of Public Safety: Texas Gang Threat Assessment 2010
A report by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, and the Open Society Foundations, on...
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Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas: Coverage of Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Latin America and the...
The presidents of Mexico and Argentina agreed to increase their cooperation in the fight against...
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Argentina, Mexico Sign Extradition Treaty
Colombia's government rejected the idea of carrying out a prisoner swap with the FARC, after the...
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Colombia Rejects FARC Prisoner Swap
Mexicos Justice Department has opened an investigation into a Sunday night grenade attack on the...
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Mexico Investigates Grenade Attack on Newspaper
The UN high commissioner for human rights warned that the situation of migrants passing through...
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UN: ‘Grave Concern’ About Attacks on Migrants in Mexico
Tijuana is facing a new trend in kidnapping. Unlike the wave of indiscriminate abductions for...
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Kidnapping in Tijuana: The New Normal
With Mexican security forces' arrest of 36 alleged members of the Familia Michoacana drug...
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Mass Arrest in Mexico Exposes Familia’s Internal Divide
Refugees fleeing towns to escape the fighting, corpses strewn on the road after a battle between...
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Battles, Tanks, Missiles, but no Insurgency in Mexico
Mexico's authorities have dismantled a large methamphetamine production facility in the southern...
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Army Busts Huge Meth Lab in South Mexico
Panama's efforts to stop maritime trafficking in its waters has forced traffickers to use land...
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