Criminal Organizations
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 06:49
Over the last year, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has inaugurated an empty soccer stadium, bused friendly partisans in to cheer him during the annual independence celebrations, and canceled an appearance at his alma mater after students complained about onerous security.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 06:39
El Salvador is set to eclipse Honduras as the country with the highest homicide rate in the world. There have already been over 5,700 murders this year in a country with a population of just over six million.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 06:08
The Salvadoran army has dismissed an increasing number of troops for suspected gang affiliation, indicating growing attempts by gangs to infiltrate the armed forces, or alternatively, a greater effort on the part of the military to identify potential infiltrators.
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 05:48
In this terrible reality spun out of the core war between the two main gangs — the Barrio 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13— no single group has been more tragically impacted than the young. The nation's youth is dying, and the young are doing the killing.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 06:07
The problem, it appeared, lay in who controlled the transit of illegal drugs through the city which had long been in the hands of the Sinaloa cartel but had become a matter of competition following the capture of the group's leader — Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — in February 2014. It got even worse after he escaped in July this year.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:13
Guerrero is infamous for gang wars and the disappearance of 43 students. Not only have efforts to bring law and order failed, they may have made matters worse.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:04
El Salvador is set to eclipse Honduras as the country with the highest homicide rate in the world. There have already been over 5,700 murders this year in a country with a population of just over six million.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:01
El Salvador is bleeding out, hemorrhaging human beings at an unparalleled rate for a country not at war. With around 101 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants so far this year, the tiny nation has now eclipsed neighboring Honduras as the most murderous peacetime country in the world.
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 07:11
El Salvador is set to eclipse Honduras as the country with the highest homicide rate in the world.
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 06:03
The man believed to be second in command of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG) was arrested early yesterday morning in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco. - See more at: http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/cartels-no-2-man-picked-up-in-jalisco/#sthash.tOGSKT85.dpuf