ROME — Verdicts are expected Monday in the trial of hundreds of people accused of membership in Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups. The trial started almost three years ago in the southern Calabria region, where the mob organization was originally based. The ’ndrangheta quietly … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Bruno Plácido, a well-known leader of a civilian “self-defense” group, was shot to death Tuesday in southern Mexico, eliminating one of the last true chiefs of the country’s armed vigiliante movements that sprang up a decade ago. Vigilante squads in other parts of southern and western Mexico still call themselves “self-defense” groups, … Read more
Rio de Janeiro’s state government has deployed hundreds of police officers to three of the city’s sprawling and low-income neighborhoods RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s state government deployed hundreds of police officers early Monday to three of the city’s sprawling, low-income neighborhoods, saying it aimed to clamp down on organized crime groups. Security … Read more
MEXICO CITY — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top officials from the Biden administration will visit Mexico on Wednesday to discuss shared security issues, foremost among them trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, but also arms trafficking and increasing migration. The latest round of the High-Level Security Dialogue brings together Blinken, U.S. … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Two Mexican migrants were shot to death on the Mexican side of the U.S. border in the early hours of Friday morning, Mexico’s National Migration Institute said. Another three suffered gunshot wounds, but were assisted by one of institute’s emergency rescue teams, along with other nine people who were not injured. Rescue … Read more
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned nine affiliates of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, as well as the current leader of Colombia’s powerful Clan del Golfo criminal enterprise ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 11:09 AM MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against nine affiliates of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel, as well as the … Read more
Police in Albania have reported the detention of 233 individuals as a part of a nationwide operation to to cease drug dealing at colleges ByThe Related Press September 14, 2023, 12:41 PM TIRANA, Albania — Police in Albania reported the detention of 233 individuals Thursday as a part of a nationwide operation to to cease … Read more
MEXICO CITY — A ugly video circulated Wednesday on social media might have recorded the final moments of 5 kidnapped younger males, and has transported Mexico again to the darkest days of drug cartel brutality within the 2000s. Prosecutors within the western state of Jalisco say they’re investigating the video, and kinfolk of the lacking … Read more
Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman whereas at a political rally within the nation’s capital of Quito, President Guillermo Lasso stated Police guard the hospital the place a number of of the injured have been taken after an assault in opposition to presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito, … Read more
BELEM, Brazil — For the primary time in 14 years, Amazon rainforest nation leaders are assembly to guard the ecosystem and tackle the organized crime threatening it. Assembling Tuesday and Wednesday within the Brazilian metropolis of Belem are members of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Group. The 45-year-old alliance that has met solely thrice earlier than. … Read more