Vice News
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 07:18
Just weeks after a Department of Justice investigation revealed that DEA agents participated in "sex parties" in Colombia funded by drug cartels, the U.S. Army has announced it will soon begin its own inquiry into allegations of rampant sexual abuse among members of the U.S. military and contractors in the South American nation, according to a government spokesperson.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 22:08
Cartel gunmen ambushed a state police convoy on a remote stretch of highway in Jalisco on Monday, killing fifteen officers in the most recent bloody incident to rock the western region of Mexico.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 07:17
According to testimony the Mexican government hasn't yet officially released, cartel hitmen now under arrest may have the answer: They believed that a rival gang was mixed in with the students and was attempting to enter their territory.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 06:32
Residents of a community near the Mexican city where police attacked buses full of students said in a new report that they were obligated to help the Guerreros Unidos cartel carry out the mass disappearance of 43 teachers college students.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 07:12
In July of this year, France launched Operation Barkhane, an ambitious counterterrorism initiative spread across five countries in Africa's Sahel and Sahara regions. The mission seeks to build upon the success of the French military intervention that drove al Qaeda-linked jihadi militants from northern Mali in 2013, and comes at a time when the US is expanding its own counterterrorism operations on the continent, setting the stage for what some analysts consider a burgeoning Franco-American alliance in Africa.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 06:56
Fueled by the US-backed, transnational drug war, alleged cases of torture by Mexico's security forces and military increased at least six-fold in the last decade, Amnesty International said in a special report released September 4.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - 07:14
On June 7, a Hong Kong-based cargo ship called the Feng Huang Song docked in the port of Mombasa, Kenya. On board were $38 million worth of arms produced by China's state-owned weapons manufacturer, NORINCO — thousands of assault rifles, grenade launchers, anti-tank RPG rounds, and many millions of bullets. On June 10, Mombasa dockworkers began unloading the cargo and preparing it for overland travel to its final destination: South Sudan.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 08:22
U.S. Border Patrol mans a tiny section of the fence, where families separated by the triple-layered steel can interact with one another, from 10AM and 2PM on weekends, through dense mesh holes not quite large enough to poke a finger through.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 07:38
Over the weekend, two women were elected to replace their ousted husbands as mayors of two Venezuelan cities deeply entrenched in the country’s opposition protest movements
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 08:45
But gang violence is merely a symptom of a bigger problem. Trinidad has become an important stop for drugs headed to West Africa and the United States.