News Links tagged "Public Security"
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
| Location: | Central America Regional |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | INCAE and Woodrow Wilson Private Sector Initiative to Address Crime and Insecurity in Central America |
| Author/Source: | Maria Otero U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Today, I want to talk about three key areas of the U.S. strategy to combat crime and insecurity in Central America. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Public Security |
| Title: | Haiti condemns incident on grounds of parliament by armed individuals in military uniforms |
| Author/Source: | Jacqueline Charles The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | A day after armed ex-soldiers forced their way onto the grounds of Haiti's parliament, the country's president and prime minister condemn the incident. Meanwhile, President Michel Martelly, recovering in Miami, says he's stable. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Europes Role, Public Security |
| Title: | Apoya Rajoy guerra anticrimen; pide a empresarios mexicanos invertir en Espana |
| Author/Source: | Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El presidente espanol Mariano Rajoy hizo un reconocimiento a la lucha contra el crimen organizado emprendida por el presidente Felipe Calderon. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Charismatic front-runner in Mexican presidential race vows shift on drugs, trade |
| Author/Source: | Guy Taylor Washington Times |
| Brief: | "I will work on building infrastructure that can make the whole region of North America more competitive." |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Drug lord aims to rid city of Zetas |
| Author/Source: | Neglected War |
| Brief: | Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman purportedly has come gunning for the vicious Zetas gang on the South Texas border, leaving 14 of their butchered bodies and a message vowing to rid Nuevo Laredo of its criminal scourge. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Detienen a cabecilla de Los Zetas en Veracruz |
| Author/Source: | Notimex La Jornada (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Jose Carmen Fragoso Martinez tenia influencia en los municipios de Acayucan, Olutla, Soconusco, Jaltipan, Chinameca, Cosoleacaque, Minatitlan, Coatzacoalcos, Nanchital, Agua Dulce, Las Choapas y Soteapan. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Jornada violenta en Acapulco; diez personas muertas |
| Author/Source: | Rolando Aguilar Excelsior (Mexico) |
| Brief: | En el transcurso del dia y en diferentes puntos de la ciudad, se encontraron los diez cuerpos, solo tres fueron identificados. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Personal del FBI capacita a policias de Baja California |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Excelsior (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Tiene como objetivo reforzar diversas tecnicas relacionadas con el arresto de delincuentes, asi como el uso de armas. |
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico authorities say bodies of 14 men dumped in Nuevo Laredo |
| Author/Source: | Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The fighting, involving the Gulf cartel and its former allies, known as the Zetas, is believed to have swept in the powerful Sinaloa cartel. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Reacciones tras encuentro con Sendero: "Terroristas querian dejarse ver" |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | El encuentro de un equipo de El Comercio con un grupo de hombres armados que se identificaron como parte de los que secuestraron a 36 personas en el VRAE la semana pasada, trajo repercusiones en todos los ambitos. |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | International Community, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | At Summit, Americas Unanimously Back New Regional Crime Body |
| Author/Source: | Elyssa Pachico InSight |
| Brief: | The most concrete outcomes of the Sixth Summit of the Americas were the creation of a new regional anti-crime body, and the commissioning of a study on drug policy from the Organization of American States (OAS). |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Brazilian Police Put Down Prison Uprising |
| Author/Source: | EFE Latin American Herald Tribune |
| Brief: | An uprising at a prison in the northeastern Brazilian state of Sergipe ended late Monday with a police assault that led to the surrender of more than 400 rebellious inmates. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Rebelião em penitenciaria de SE chega ao fim apos 26 horas |
| Author/Source: | Fredson Navarro, Flavio Antunes O Globo (Brazil) |
| Brief: | Rebelião foi iniciada na tarde do domingo (15) 128 refens foram liberados e ninguem foi ferido. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | El Salvador has its first murder-free day in three years |
| Author/Source: | Reuters MSNBC |
| Brief: | No one was murdered in El Salvador on Saturday, officials said, in what was the first homicide-free day in nearly three years for the Central American country plagued by violent drug gangs. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | PNC: no se puede infringir la ley con subsidio a pandillas |
| Author/Source: | Diana Escalante |
| Brief: | El Director de la corporacion dice que no es un hecho que se les vaya a entregar dinero a los pandilleros. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Public Security |
| Title: | Profugos seis policias mexiquenses bajo averiguacion |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Excelsior (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El alcalde de Xonacatlan, Ramon Saavedra, senalo que se desconoce el paradero de un mando y cinco uniformados municipales. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups, Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Criminales recurren a cultos, marcan territorio y pintan creencias |
| Author/Source: | Aurora Vega Excelsior (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Marina reporta que se utilizan simbolos del culto a la Santa Muerte y ritos satanicos en puentes y calles de los estados. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Justice System, Public Security |
| Title: | PGR abre acta de circunstancia por la muerte de empresario torturado |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Excelsior (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Si despues de realizar un analisis se desprenden delitos del orden federal, profundizaria en indagatorias e incluso atraer la investigacion. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Justice System, Public Security |
| Title: | Hallan muerto a hombre que llevo a la carcel a 10 federales |
| Author/Source: | La Opcion De Chihuahua (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Don Eligio Ibarra Amador, el hombre cuya denuncia llevo a la carcel a 10 agentes federales acusados de secuestro y extorsion en septiembre del 2011, fue asesinado la noche del pasado. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Se disputan Templarios, La Familia y Nueva Generacion Michoacan |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Garcia Tinoco Excelsior (Mexico) |
| Brief: | La Secretaria de Seguridad Publica en Michoacan, atribuye los ultimos hechos violentos en la entidad a una nueva disputa por el territorio, en la cual estan inmersos los carteles de los Caballeros Templarios, La Familia Michoacana y Jalisco Nueva Generaci |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Natural Disasters, Public Security |
| Title: | Elevan alerta por actividad del Popocatepetl |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Cenapred sube el nivel del semaforo de Fase 2 a Fase 3, ya que el volcan puede expulsar ceniza y otros materiales incandescentes. Piden a las poblaciones aledanas estar atentas a los reportes oficiales. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Press Freedom, Public Security |
| Title: | Niegan seguros de vida a periodistas en Ciudad Juarez |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | "Nosotros no ofrecemos un seguro de vida para los pilotos, policias y periodistas", dijo un agente de seguros consultados por El Informador. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Una bomba explota en una universidad de Hidalgo y lesiona a un docente |
| Author/Source: | Misael Zavala CNN |
| Brief: | Un sobre bomba estallo este miercoles en la Universidad Politecnica de Pachuca (UPP) en Hidalgo y un docente resulto herido levemente. |
Monday, April 16, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region, Colombia |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Crimen organizado, seguridad urbana y politicas publicas |
| Author/Source: | Ariel Avila Martinez Arco Iris (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Las actuales estructuras criminales en nada se parecen a las de hace una decada, los grupos insurgentes tradicionales en la region, le han dado paso a complejas redes criminales que parecen ser inmunes a las operaciones que se desarrollan contra ellas. |
| Location: | Entire Region, Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Aprueban creacion del sistema interamericano contra el crimen organizado |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Los paises participantes en la VI Cumbre de las Americas aprobaron la propuesta del presidente de Mexico, Felipe Calderon. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | La Policia es rebasada a lo largo de la 'ruta del diablo' |
| Author/Source: | El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | "Hay linchamientos y el narcotrafico es mas osado cada vez", admite Jorge Zeballos, director de la Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Crimen (Felcc) del tropico cochabambino. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Border Security, Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Special Report: Brazil's "gringo" problem: its borders |
| Author/Source: | Brian Winter Reuters |
| Brief: | Brazil's economic rise is forcing it to deal with a problem it long regarded as the sole concern of rich countries like the United States: the need to secure its borders and slow down a flood of drugs, illegal immigrants and other contraband. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US, Colombia announce regional security plan |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | Colombia and the United States will conduct a series of "frequent" meetings to coordinate their security operations under the plan, with a focus on drug trafficking, combating crime, strengthening institutions and fostering "resilient" |
| Location: | Colombia, Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Relations With Neighbors |
| Title: | Capacitara Colombia a 12 mil policias mexicanos en lucha antidroga |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | La Policia Nacional de Colombia capacitara a 12 mil agentes mexicanos en la lucha antidroga, cinco mil de los cuales ya recibieron instruccion. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Salvador Govt Says Truce Will not End Gang Violence |
| Author/Source: | Elyssa Pachico InSight |
| Brief: | Police counted 209 homicides between March 10 and April 11, according to La Prensa Grafica. This is still a sharp drop compared to the 377 police reported in March 2011. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | El Salvador marks murder-free day |
| Author/Source: | Reuters The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | Central American country marks first day in almost three years that no one has been murdered. |
| Location: | Guatemala, Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Zetas cartel - Mara Salvatruchas alliance in Mexico unites brutal gangs |
| Author/Source: | Diana Washington Valdez El Paso Times |
| Brief: | "The Zetas are definitely extending south, but the $64,000 question is why south instead of north where the money is?" |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights, Public Security |
| Title: | Killings by Mexico troops wound citizens' trust |
| Author/Source: | Dudley Althaus Houston Chronicle |
| Brief: | While Mexico's military remains among the country's most trusted institutions, citizens and politicians are questioning its effectiveness in ending gang wars and its growing liability. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Why Organized Crime Targets Taxi Drivers in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Corcoran InSight |
| Brief: | It would not be out of character for the Zetas to move into the pirate taxi racket as well, which could provoke violent incidents like the Guadalupe attacks. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Cracking the Mexican Cartels |
| Author/Source: | Robert C. Bonner The New York Times |
| Brief: | Although Calderon has fully achieved only one plank of his proposed reforms so far - the creation of a new federal police force - he has waged an increasingly effective campaign against the cartels by employing what is known as the kingpin strategy. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Cae en Veracruz presunto jefe de sicarios de los "Mata Zetas" |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Marco Antonio Reyes Leal, alias "el Canelo" fue detenido por la Marina en el marco de la operacion "Veracruz Seguro". |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Aumento en 2011 tasa de homicidios |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Mientras que en 2010 se registraron 31.7 homicidios culposos y dolosos por cada 100 mil habitantes, en 2011 se contaron 33. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | April 15th Mayhem in Monterrey: 15 die |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | Five individuals were shot to death and at least three more were wounded in a shooting at a dance in northern Monterrey. |
| Location: | Paraguay |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Cae en Concepcion un sospechoso del asesinato de suboficial militar |
| Author/Source: | Freddy Rojas Martinez ABC (Paraguay) |
| Brief: | Un joven sospechoso de haber participado en el asesinato de un militar destinado en el combate contra el EPP, fue imputado ayer en Concepcion. |
Sunday, April 15, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Joint Press Release on the United States - Colombia Action Plan on Regional Security Cooperation |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Spokesperson U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | The plan formalizes the security coordination and cooperation component of the inaugural U.S.-Colombia High-Level Strategic Security Dialogue (HLSSD) which took place on February 23 in Washington, D.C. |