COLOMBIA
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31 AUG 2011
Colombias government announced a crusade against illegal logging, vowing to clamp down on the multi-million dollar timber trafficking industry which, it says, funds organized criminal groups.
BRAZIL
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15 JUN 2011
A peasant activist was murdered in Para state, in Brazil's Amazon, in the latest of a spate of apparent hired killings which some have linked to land conflicts.
BRAZIL
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3 JUN 2011
Following a string of murders in a logging village in Brazil's Amazon, the government is working to increase state presence in lawless regions of the country where conflicts over natural…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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8 FEB 2011
Global Financial Integrity, a branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Policy, released a new report today entitled "Transnational Crime in the Developing…