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CARTEL OF THE SUNS
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4 APR 2011
As it becomes more and more likely that Colombia will extradite drug kingpin Walid Makled to Venezuela instead of the…
ECUADOR
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4 APR 2011
The report, published January 2010, is by Douglas Farah and Glenn R. Simpson, senior fellows at the International Assessment and…
JUDICIAL REFORM
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4 APR 2011
Mexico's Attorney General Arturo Chavez stepped down this week after just a year and a half in office. Most media…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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2 APR 2011
The latest headlines about gun running from the United States south to Mexico may involve the resignation of Mexicos attorney…
MEXICO
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2 APR 2011
An investigation by British newspaper The Observer details how the Mexican-based Sinaloa Cartel laundered billions of dollars through…
PANAMA
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1 APR 2011
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Panama suspected that country's politicians of taking part in arms and drug trafficking, according…
POLICE REFORM
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1 APR 2011
Venezuela has taken another step in the overhaul of its dysfunctional and often corrupt police force, announcing that the notorious…
EL SALVADOR
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1 APR 2011
In a briefing at the Pentagon, Commander General Douglas Fraser of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom)…
EL LOCO BARRERA
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1 APR 2011
Mexican cartels have moved into North and West Africa, a former DEA official said, taking advantage of the upheaval in…
GUATEMALA
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31 MAR 2011
A trafficker believed to be a key contact for the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested in Guatemala on Wednesday. The Drug…
ECUADOR
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31 MAR 2011
Ecuadors capture of nine alleged Sinaloa Cartel operatives, and the brutal murder of a policeman investigating the Mexican criminal group,…
HUMAN SMUGGLING
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30 MAR 2011
In an indicator of the difficulties often faced by Central American migrants, three Mexican customs officers were suspended after a…
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