News Links tagged "Gangs"
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Friday, July 2, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Caen pandilleros por masacre y homicidio de un cabo policial |
| Author/Source: | Óscar Iraheta Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | Un grupo de 23 pandilleros de la Mara Salvatrucha fue detenido ayer bajo cargos de haber participado en el homicidio de un cabo de la Policia y una masacre cometida en el canton Las Moras, el 29 de abril, donde murieron cuatro personas y otras cinco resul |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Drug gang violence casts shadow over Mexico elections |
| Author/Source: | Julian Miglierini BBC |
| Brief: | For months, candidates in many of the 14 states holding elections have complained of intimidation by alleged criminal gangs that has forced them to adopt special security measures and limit their campaigning in high-risk areas. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Los mexicanos van a las urnas entre violencia y tension politica |
| Author/Source: | E. Eduardo Castillo El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Casi la mitad de los estados de Mexico votaran el domingo para elegir gobernadores, legislaturas y alcaldias, en un ambiente enturbiado por tensiones politicas y la violencia del crimen organizado. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Mexico offers armored cars, guards for candidates |
| Author/Source: | The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Mexico is offering to provide candidates with bulletproof vehicles and bodyguards following the assassination of a politician running for governor in the northern state of Tamaulipas. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Mexico drug gangs in deadly border gunfight |
| Author/Source: | Jo Tuckman Guardian Weekly |
| Brief: | A week of bloodshed in the run-up to important Mexican regional elections culminated overnight in a savage gunfight between rival drug gangs in which at least 21 people were killed a few miles from the US border. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Mueren 21 personas en choque entre narcos en Mexico |
| Author/Source: | BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Un tiroteo entre bandas rivales de narcotraficantes en el norteno estado de Sonora dejo este jueves un saldo de 21 muertos. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Ciudad Juarez cierra "Junio Rojo" con 303 homicidios |
| Author/Source: | Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | Un grupo armado asesino el pasa miercoles en Ciudad Juarez a la subprocuradora de Asuntos Internos del estado de Chihuahua, Sandra Ivonne Salas, un crimen con el que se cierra con 303 muertes el mes mas violento del ano en la considerada ciudad mas peligr |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Narcos y traficantes de migrantes en Mexico se enfrentan |
| Author/Source: | Prensa.com |
| Brief: | Al menos 21 muertos dejo un enfrentamiento ocurrido el jueves entre presuntos narcos y traficantes de indocumentados en el estado norteno de Sonora, a escasos 20 kilometros de la frontera con Estados Unidos (EU), informaron autoridades estatales. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexican street gang leader arrested in fatal shooting of U.S. official |
| Author/Source: | The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The consular worker slain in March was targeted because she was providing visas to rivals, Jesus Ernesto Chavez tells authorities. He also says he took part in a January attack on a teen party in Ciudad Juarez. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico nabs gang leader in US consulate killings |
| Author/Source: | Morgan Lee The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | A top drug gang enforcer says he ordered the killing of a U.S. consulate worker because she helped provide visas to a rival gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 21 Die in Gun Battle Near U.S. Border With Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Anahad O'Connor The New York Times |
| Brief: | Nearly two dozen people were killed in a Mexican border area on Thursday during a fierce gun battle between suspected members of rival drug gangs, Mexican authorities said. |
Thursday, July 1, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Proyecto de ley antimaras plantea ambigüedades |
| Author/Source: | Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | Aunque Funes planteo una legislacion que criminalizaria las pandillas, Justicia y Seguridad propone una ley administrativa y no habla de penalizarlas. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | El Salvador endurece su estrategia contra las maras |
| Author/Source: | Eric Lemus BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Mil quinientos soldados han comenzado a custodiar los centros penitenciarios y otros miles patrullan las calles de San Salvador. Son las mas recientes muestras de que el gobierno de Mauricio Funes ha decidido combatir con mano dura a las pandillas con med |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Piden dureza contra maras |
| Author/Source: | Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | E l Salvador clama por detener la ola de criminalidad que tuvo su cresta mas alta el domingo 20 de junio, con la quema de un microbus de la Ruta 47 con todos sus pasajeros dentro, a manos de supuestos pandilleros. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Tres a carcel por masacre en Mejicanos |
| Author/Source: | Óscar Iraheta Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | Tres pandilleros de la Mara 18 fueron enviados a la carcel ayer mientras la Fiscalia los investiga por su participacion en la matanza de 16 personas que fueron calcinadas en el interior de un microbus en Mejicanos, dijeron fuentes judiciales. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Arrestan a jefe de La Familia, ligado a asesinatos de politicos |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La Policia federal mexicana detuvo a Miguel Ortiz Miranda, "Tyson", un ex policia y ahora presunto jefe del cartel de La Familia Michoacana, al que se relaciona, entre otros delitos, con varios ataques a funcionarios publicos mexicanos. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Narco El Tyson revela los secretos de La Familia |
| Author/Source: | Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | Un ex policia estatal revelo que los miembros del cartel de La Familia reciben cursos de supervivencia por parte de ex militares, luego de ser detenido por participar en ataques contra funcionarios por orden de narcos. |
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | El sistema en prueba de fuego ante la 47 y pandillas |
| Author/Source: | Carlos Martinez, Rodrigo Baires, Daniel Valencia El Faro |
| Brief: | Una de las armas utilizadas en el ataque contra el microbus de la 47 pertenece a la Policia y una de las decomisadas a uno de los acusados pertenece a una agencia de seguridad. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Gangs, Justice System, Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Guatemala government rejects gangs' prison demands |
| Author/Source: | BBC |
| Brief: | The Guatemalan government says the latest in a series of gruesome murders will not make it give in to demands by gangs to loosen prison rules. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Narcos irrumpen a balazos en comicios |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El asesinato del candidato favorito para ganar el domingo la gobernacion de Tamaulipas, en el noreste de Mexico, constituye un mensaje del crimen organizado que antes buscaba influir con metodos discretos y ahora irrumpe a balazos en los comicios estatale |
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | "Probar quien es pandillero es un asunto que correspondera a fiscales o a jueces" |
| Author/Source: | Carlos Martinez El Faro |
| Brief: | Campos prefiere no entrar en detalles sobre la operatividad de la ley antipandillas y dice no entender las comparaciones con las pasadas leyes antimaras promulgadas durante el gobierno arenero de Francisco Flores. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Gobierno dice jueves presentara ley antipandillas |
| Author/Source: | Carlos Martinez El Faro |
| Brief: | El presidente Funes convoco este lunes a los lideres de todos los partidos politicos, para conseguir consensos alrededor de la nueva ley antipandillas que prometio promover luego del atentado del domingo 20. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Gobierno dice jueves presentara ley antipandillas |
| Author/Source: | Carlos Martinez El Faro |
| Brief: | El presidente Funes convoco este lunes a los lideres de todos los partidos politicos, para conseguir consensos alrededor de la nueva ley antipandillas que prometio promover luego del atentado del domingo 20. El FMLN se desdice de su posicion hace seis ano |
Monday, June 28, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Funes recicla formula de Arena para combatir pandillas |
| Author/Source: | Sergio Arauz El Faro |
| Brief: | Ser pandillero sera delito. Eso anuncio el presidente Mauricio Funes la noche de este miercoles. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Arena y PDC coinciden en pedir que acciones de pandillas se consideren crimen organizado |
| Author/Source: | Patricia Carias El Faro |
| Brief: | Los atentados del domingo contra dos microbuses atribuidos por autoridades a pandilleros, son candidatos a que en el futuro sean considerados como "crimen organizado", segun mocionan los partidos Arena y PDC. |
Thursday, June 24, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Salvador president sends troops to patrol prisons |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | President Mauricio Funes says jailed gang leaders often run criminal operations and order violence from within prisons and the troops will reinforce controls both inside and outside the nation's penitentiaries. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Public Security |
| Title: | PNC detiene a ocho pandilleros por masacre de la ruta 47 |
| Author/Source: | Rodrigo Baires Quezada El Faro |
| Brief: | La Policia Nacional Civil (PNC) capturo este lunes a ocho personas bajo sospecha de haber participado directa o indirectamente en la masacre contra pasajeros de dos microbuses de la ruta 47, en Mejicanos, ataques en los que fallecieron 14 personas y siete |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | 19,000 Murders in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | EFE Latin American Herald Tribune |
| Brief: | Most of the murders in Mexico have been committed by the La Familia, Los Zetas, Juarez, Gulf and Tijuana cartels, as well as the numerous street gangs operating in cities across the country. |
Monday, June 21, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Autoridades confirman 17 muertos en dos ataques a autobuses en El Salvador |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Desde hace unos anos el sector del transporte es victima de asesinatos de trabajadores o quema de unidades supuestamente por el no pago de extorsiones a grupos de delincuentes, principalmente pandilleros. |
Friday, June 4, 2010
| Location: | Caribbean Regional, Jamaica |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Holder Calls for Greater Security Against Drug Traffickers |
| Author/Source: | Merle David Kellerhals Jr. U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the current situation in Jamaica illustrates how important it is for the United States and its Caribbean partners to boost regional security in fighting drug traffickers and criminal gangs. |
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
| Location: | Jamaica |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security |
| Title: | PM: Jamaica Plans Island-Wide Assault on Gangs |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | Jamaica will launch a sustained assault on gangs that control poor communities across the island and fuel one of the world's highest murder rates, the prime minister said Tuesday. |
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Deja cuatro heridos granadazo en El Salvador |
| Author/Source: | Notimex El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Grupos de pandillas mantienen la tactica de lanzar granadas artesanales o de uso militar para amedrentar a la poblacion que se niega a pagar las extorsiones de que son victimas. |
Friday, April 23, 2010
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Public Security |
| Title: | Video: Robamos por hambre, dicen Zetas en video |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Un nuevo video sobre la guerra entre Zetas y el cartel del Golfo aparecio en la red, en el que cuatro hombres con playeras negras en las que traen una gran "Z", responden a un interrogatorio que a punta de Ak-47 les hacen otros hombres, al parec |
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
| Location: | Central America Regional |
| Category: | Gangs, Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Maras y narcos fortalecen trafico: informe |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Universal (Venezuela) |
| Brief: | La Junta Internacional de Fiscalizacion de Estupefacientes de senalo que el crimen organizado se ha expandido hacia otros delitos y crimenes, como robos, secuestros y homicidios en Centromaerica. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Public Security, Victims |
| Title: | ¿Quien mato a Christian Poveda? |
| Author/Source: | Gatopardo |
| Brief: | La pasion del documentalista Christian Poveda por el fenomeno de las pandillas en El Salvador le costo la vida. Aunque se mostraba lleno de confianza, su muerte parecia inevitable. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Kidnapping |
| Title: | La otra version sobre Florence Cassez I |
| Author/Source: | Gatopardo |
| Brief: | Una revision a fondo del proceso de Florence Cassez arroja suficientes dudas sobre su participacion en los secuestros por los que ha sido juzgada y sentenciada. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | La otra version Sobre Florence Cassez II |
| Author/Source: | Gatopardo |
| Brief: | Un repaso por la historia politica de su caso muestra que ella es rehen de muchas fuerzas, entre otras, una policia con necesidad de legitimarse y dos presidentes con intereses en conflicto. |
Friday, February 19, 2010
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Gangs, Public Security |
| Title: | 6 decapitated bodies found in western Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Arizona Central |
| Brief: | Prosecutors say that several of the bodies have a "Z" carved on their backs in an apparent reference to the Zetas drug gang. |
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Gangs, Public Security |
| Title: | Granada a un bus nica en Guatemala |
| Author/Source: | Mauricio Miranda El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Los responsables del atentado son miembros de las maras de ese pais, denuncio ante EL NUEVO DIARIO, Marlon Gonzalez, vicepresidente de la empresa de transporte. |
Monday, December 21, 2009
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Gangs, Public Security |
| Title: | Bus drivers fall victim to brutal Guatemalan gangs |
| Author/Source: | Juan Caros Llorca Associated Press The Houston Chronicle |
| Brief: | Gunmen have killed more than 170 bus drivers this year to scare them and transportation companies into paying extortion fees that fuel the country's multimillion-dollar organized crime network. |
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Denuncian presencia de pandillas en 35 escuelas de San Salvador |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Las pandillas tienen presencia en al menos 35 centros escolares de San Salvador, donde han reclutado estudiantes para que les ayuden a cometer delitos |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Gangs, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | “El Salvador es hoy dia el pais con la mayor taza de homicidios de America Latina” |
| Author/Source: | Luis Eduardo Celis Corporacion Nuevo Arco Iris |
| Brief: | Despues de la firma de los acuerdos de paz en 1992, que puso fin a una guerra civil de mas de una decada en El Salvador, el Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional gana las elecciones como partido y gobierna ahora el pais centroamericano enfren |