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04/03/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - National Security: CIA whistleblower loses in court, sparking warning of ¨chill¨ for those seeing abuse
Washington - A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a complaint by a Cuban-American employee of the CIA, and his attorney said the decision may put a chill on other whistleblower charges from within the intelligence community.
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04/03/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - National Security: CIA whistleblower loses in court, sparking warning of ¨chill¨ for those seeing abuse
Washington - A federal judge Wednesday dismissed a complaint by a Cuban-American employee of the CIA, and his attorney said the decision may put a chill on other whistleblower charges from within the intelligence community.
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29/11/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - National Security: U.S. charges 3 Chinese with hacking but stops short of blaming Beijing directly
WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh charged three Chinese nationals with hacking and theft of trade secrets Monday for allegedly stealing data from corporate networks in the United States, a move that may become an irritant in U.S.-China relations in other areas.
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20/04/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Security - U.S. intelligence agencies fear rogue insiders as much as spies these days
WASHINGTON : Forget about spies. It’s rogue insiders that cause heartburn at U.S. intelligence agencies these days.Few spy cases have broken in the past decade and a half. In contrast, a proliferation of U.S. intelligence and military insiders have gone rogue and spilled secrets to journalists or WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group.
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22/07/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Security - Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list
An Albanian hacker wormed his way into the computer server of a U.S. online retailer. For two months he sorted through the server, extracting emails and personal data. The business only became aware of the intrusion when he demanded money to restore its files.
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02/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Kidnappings soar in Mexico, with police often among the perpetrators
Even amid an unprecedented rash of kidnappings in Mexico, the snatching of John Jairo Guzman stood out.
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10/10/2013 | Frente Externo
Mexico - Chinese in Mexico: A little-known history
The Chinese state television report above is an interesting introduction to the history of Chinese in Mexico, one that has a little-known bleak period.
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26/03/2013 | Medio Ambiente
As U.S. tightens rules on lead emissions, battery recycling has moved to Mexico
When an American replaces the battery in a car, likely as not the old battery will be shipped to Mexico rather than trucked to a modern U.S. recycling plant.
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22/07/2012 | Economia y Finanzas
Mexico - Mexico's aerospace industry takes flight
QUERETARO, Mexico – In one part of this central Mexico city, technicians overhaul commercial aircraft engines and landing gear. Across town, engineers assemble fuselages for one of the most modern business aircraft on Earth, the Learjet 85.
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10/05/2012 | Frente Externo
Mexico looks at rival Brazil and rues its fate
In a spate of self-reflection engendered by election season, Mexico’s politicians are repeatedly taking public measure of their nation against Brazil, a perennial rival in Latin America, and finding themselves coming up short.
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25/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Mexico's lone legal gun shop located on army base
Mexico has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world. If any of the nation's 112 million citizens want to buy firearms, there's only one store where they can do it legally. It's on a sprawling military base and run by the army.
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17/03/2012 | Transparencia
Corruption: US company fined for paying bribes in Mexico, Panama
An Oklahoma company that provides aircraft maintenance services agreed Wednesday to pay an $11.8 million criminal penalty for bribing officials in Mexico and Panama to obtain business.
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17/03/2012 | Transparencia
Corruption: US company fined for paying bribes in Mexico, Panama
An Oklahoma company that provides aircraft maintenance services agreed Wednesday to pay an $11.8 million criminal penalty for bribing officials in Mexico and Panama to obtain business.
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06/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug war - In Mexico, Biden shoots down talk of drug legalization
Vice President Joseph Biden said Monday that "there is no possibility" that Washington would heed a growing call by some Latin American presidents to move toward drug legalization.
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06/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug war - In Mexico, Biden shoots down talk of drug legalization
Vice President Joseph Biden said Monday that "there is no possibility" that Washington would heed a growing call by some Latin American presidents to move toward drug legalization.
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22/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Think things are crooked in Mexico City? You're right
Walk into any of hundreds of homes or buildings in this huge capital, and you feel immediately that something is amiss. The buildings tilt.
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21/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexican leader hints again at U.S. drug legalization
For the second time in less than a month, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has inched toward suggesting that the United States decriminalize narcotics if that's what it takes to reduce the "astronomical profits" of the crime gangs roiling his nation.
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11/09/2011 | En Parrilla
Mexico politicians declare war on what they see as abuse of Twitter
As Mexicans flock to social media to stay informed about the country's growing violence and mayhem, uneasy provincial politicians have turned their sights on Twitter, seeking prison terms for users of the micro-blogging service who are deemed to be troublemakers.
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26/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US, Mexican officials accused of going easy on Sinaloa Cartel
As the U.S. and Mexican governments increasingly target the brutal criminal gang known as Los Zetas, questions are being asked about why law enforcement officials don't seem to be paying equal attention to an older and larger cartel that's the largest provider of illegal drugs smuggled into the United States.
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26/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US, Mexican officials accused of going easy on Sinaloa Cartel
As the U.S. and Mexican governments increasingly target the brutal criminal gang known as Los Zetas, questions are being asked about why law enforcement officials don't seem to be paying equal attention to an older and larger cartel that's the largest provider of illegal drugs smuggled into the United States.
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15/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Violent Mexican drug gang taking control of migrant smuggling
One of Mexico's most powerful criminal gangs has muscled into the migrant-smuggling racket, changing what had been a relatively benign if risky industry of independent operators into a centralized business that often has deadly consequences for those who try to operate outside it.
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12/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico journalist killings raise questions about gang ties
After decades of poking around crime scenes, digging into conspiracies and hanging out with cops and politicians, columnist Miguel Ángel López Velasco had earned his stripes as journalistic alpha dog of the crime and corruption beat in this steamy Gulf of Mexico port.
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03/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico says its arrests weaken top crime gangs
Mexican authorities on Tuesday paraded the latest reputed crime boss to be arrested before television cameras as the government asserted that its strategy of targeting top gangsters was finally paying off.
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01/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Troubled gun sting renews suspicions of U.S. role in Mexico's violence
While a gunrunning sting known as Fast and Furious is drawing criticism in Congress for losing track of weapons that were smuggled into Mexico, Mexicans say the controversy only confirms their conviction that the U.S. gun industry profits off of bloodshed south of the border.
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30/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Drugs: As poppy fields flourish in Mexico, heroin use surges in U.S.
Mexico's heroin industry has had a bullish few years, and for traffickers the outlook is as uplifting as the scarlet, orange and yellow poppy flowers from which the narcotic is processed.
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30/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Drugs: As poppy fields flourish in Mexico, heroin use surges in U.S.
Mexico's heroin industry has had a bullish few years, and for traffickers the outlook is as uplifting as the scarlet, orange and yellow poppy flowers from which the narcotic is processed.
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21/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gunmen execute Mexican journalist, his wife and son
Assailants early Monday burst into the home of the deputy editor of a newspaper in the major port of Veracruz, gunning down the 55-year-old journalist, his wife and his son.
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21/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gunmen execute Mexican journalist, his wife and son
Assailants early Monday burst into the home of the deputy editor of a newspaper in the major port of Veracruz, gunning down the 55-year-old journalist, his wife and his son.
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03/06/2011 | High Tech
Mexicans turn to social media for news about drug crimes
The messages brim with urgency as they pop across computer screens and into cell phones, made all the more stark by their brevity.
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03/06/2011 | High Tech
Mexicans turn to social media for news about drug crimes
The messages brim with urgency as they pop across computer screens and into cell phones, made all the more stark by their brevity.
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01/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's southern border awash in crime and violence
If the border that separates the United States and Mexico is fairly easy to penetrate, then Mexico's other border - the southern one, abutting Guatemala - is virtually a sieve.
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01/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's southern border awash in crime and violence
If the border that separates the United States and Mexico is fairly easy to penetrate, then Mexico's other border - the southern one, abutting Guatemala - is virtually a sieve.
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18/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala declares siege in region of drug massacre
As residents in a third of Guatemala's territory hunkered down Tuesday under a state of siege, President Alvaro Colom offered chilling new details of a weekend slaughter of 27 laborers on a ranch, declaring it an act of "total savagery."
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18/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala declares siege in region of drug massacre
As residents in a third of Guatemala's territory hunkered down Tuesday under a state of siege, President Alvaro Colom offered chilling new details of a weekend slaughter of 27 laborers on a ranch, declaring it an act of "total savagery."
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15/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Questions swirl around Mexico's top cop
President Felipe Calderon has risen to the defense of his top law enforcement officer, portraying him as indispensable to Mexico's war on drug trafficking despite a surge of accusations against him, ranging from claims that he's staged raids for the news media to questions about how he could afford a mansion in one of the capital's most exclusive areas.
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15/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Questions swirl around Mexico's top cop
President Felipe Calderon has risen to the defense of his top law enforcement officer, portraying him as indispensable to Mexico's war on drug trafficking despite a surge of accusations against him, ranging from claims that he's staged raids for the news media to questions about how he could afford a mansion in one of the capital's most exclusive areas.
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22/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Central America: Drug gangs muscle into new territory
Even by the brazen standards of cocaine cowboys, what happened a few months ago at an air force base here set new levels for audacity: Drug traffickers snuck onto the heavily guarded base and retrieved a confiscated plane.
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22/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Central America: Drug gangs muscle into new territory
Even by the brazen standards of cocaine cowboys, what happened a few months ago at an air force base here set new levels for audacity: Drug traffickers snuck onto the heavily guarded base and retrieved a confiscated plane.
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09/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Cocaine lab found in Honduras signals big shift in drug business
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Counter-narcotics agents in Honduras discovered a major cocaine-processing complex last month tucked in mountainous triple-canopy jungle near the border with Guatemala, a worrisome sign that Colombian drug lords are shifting their operations to the weaker countries of Central America.
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30/03/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In El Salvador, gang ties are more than skin deep
When Santos Guzman sought help from a state program for onetime gang members, there was no mistaking his gang affiliation.
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05/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Is Mexico at war? Conflict prompts linguistic debate
Over a 48-hour period this week, gangsters tossed grenades, torched buses, set up roadblocks and strafed police units in Mexico's second and third largest cities.
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24/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Latest Andean export: Beauty queens for Mexican narcos?
Mexican drug lords may be importing more than cocaine from the Andean region. It looks as if they're also bringing in beauty queens and models as girlfriends.
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20/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Morgue in Acapulco, city of grisly killings, has seen it all
For all the determination of Mexico's hit men to behead and hack apart their enemies, the chief of this city's morgue is just as determined to sew the bodies back together for dignified burial.
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19/12/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - For dangerous work, Mexican police officers get low pay and little respect
When gangsters kill a police officer - or even three of them - it rarely makes news in this violent border city.
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16/12/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
With murders of 475 Mexican cops this year, rule of law dies, too
When gangsters kill a police officer — or even three of them — it rarely makes news in this violent border city.
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15/12/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
WikiLeaks: Peru insurgency gains strength as defenses drop
With Peru's armed forces facing leadership problems, a feared insurgent group is regaining power, diplomatic cables say.
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06/12/2010 | Medio Ambiente
Mexico's efforts to improve air quality pay off
Slowly and steadily, this sprawling city is cleaning up its air.
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20/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican cartels amass better arsenals, mostly bought in U.S.
As recently as a year or two ago, commandos fighting for the Mexican drug cartels often would rather flee than confront security forces.
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17/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Guatemalan park, narcos and squatters reign
In the once-inspiring stretches of rain forest and wetlands of the Laguna del Tigre National Park, unarmed park rangers fear to tread. It isn't the jaguars and crocodiles but the drug traffickers and slash-and-burn squatters that rangers fear.
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28/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican drug gangs gain foothold in Guatemalan jungle
The Peten jungle, once known for its jaguars and Mayan ruins, has fallen prey to a notorious Mexican drug gang that operates from remote jungle ranches and has begun openly challenging Guatemalan security forces for control of the roads.
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20/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico- Overrun by narcos, once-posh Acapulco is in agony
Rival criminal gangs have hijacked this glitzy-but-faded Pacific resort, where the Hollywood Rat Pack once sipped martinis, Elvis filmed a musical comedy, Elizabeth Taylor wed (again) and starlets danced the night away.
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12/08/2010 | Sociedad
Mexico's tourist routes' clash with US safety recommendations
White beaches, colonial cities, Mayan pyramids, world-class cuisine - these are some of the obvious draws that bring 22 million foreigners to Mexico each year.
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10/08/2010 | Frente Externo
Despite constitution, Nicaragua's Ortega plans to stay in power
The constitution bars Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega from seeking re-election next year, but that's not stopping the one-time leftist revolutionary.
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16/04/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Mexico's murder capital, residents, businesses suffer
At the traffic lights in this city, only the killers look at other cars. Everyone else looks straight ahead, afraid of ticking off potential assailants. By nightfall, vehicles disappear from the roads.
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