Monthly Archives: October 2011
According to a new report released by the United Nations, profits from criminal activities...
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UN Report Identifies Winners and Losers of Transnational Crime
Estimates of the number of gunmen employed by Mexico's cartels are highly inflated, argues blogger...
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Counting Mexico’s Hitmen
Guatemalan investigators have linked the July murder of Argentine singer and songwriter Facundo...
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Argentine Singer’s Murder Linked to Guatemalan Assassination Ring
Hundreds of weapons and a large stockpile of ammunition have disappeared from a police warehouse in...
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Weapons, Ammo Stolen From Honduras Police Warehouse
Perus police say they have detained more than 200 "drug mules" at Lima's international airports...
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Most Drug Mules Caught in Peru are Foreigners
The U.S. government has released its 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, which undermines...
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Report Paints Picture of Supply Chain Between Mexican and US Gangs
Officials in the relatively peaceful central Mexican state of Queretaro said the region has grown...
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Central Mexico Reports Rise of Narco-Refugees
Brazil's community police program will deploy a new unit to the Rio de Janeiro shantytown closest...
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Rio to Send Police into Favela Next to Olympic Stadium
Mexicos Navy has detained six alleged members of the Zetas drug gang, including Carlos Pitalua,...
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Mexico’s Navy Detains Alleged Veracruz Zetas Boss
The U.S. government says that Peru has, for the first time in nearly two decades, taken Colombia's...
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How Peru Beat Colombia to Be World’s Biggest Cocaine Producer
Federal troops in north Mexico recently discovered a luxury ranch where 200 gunmen from the Zetas...
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Mexico Busts Zetas’ Luxury ‘Narco-Ranch’
A new study by the RAND Corporation carefully avoids describing the Mexican drug conflict as an...
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