28/08/2009 |
México - Trata sexual y laboral: Hay 47 bandas de trata impunes
Noemí Gutiérrez | El Universal
Aunque se tienen detectadas en México 47 bandas dedicadas a la trata sexual y laboral de personas, hasta el momento no se ha logrado detener a responsable alguno ni se ha indemnizado a las víctimas que se atreven a entablar juicios penales, advierte el informe del Instrumento para el Estudio de las Condiciones de la Trata de Personas 2009. ...
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28/08/2009 |
Bolivia - Los delincuentes se infiltran en sus objetivos delictivos
La Razón (Bo) Staff | La Razón (Bo)
Los delincuentes realizan labores de Inteligencia, infiltración e incluso compran información para conocer detalles de sus objetivos delictivos. Este modus operandi se emplea, por lo general, para los atracos denominados delitos “graves”, informaron fuentes de la Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Crimen (FELCC). ...
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27/08/2009 |
SKorea satellite lost after launch: officials
A.F.P. | Breitbart
A satellite launched by South Korea's first space rocket is thought to have burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere after missing its designated orbit, officials said Wednesday.Seoul vowed to press on with its drive to become a space technology leader despite Tuesday's setback, caused by the defective operation of a fairing covering the satellite. ...
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27/08/2009 |
Kennedy and Argentina
De Nuestra Redacción | Offnews.info
Martin Edwin Andersen remembers as one of his proudest professional moments when Sen. Edward Kennedy endorsed, with a blurb on the back cover, his first book, Dossier Secreto: Argentina's Desaparecidos and the Myth of the "Dirty War." ...
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27/08/2009 |
What is Behind the Bolivia-Islam Connection?
Devin Beaulieu | Upside Down World
It is a strange and unexpected sight in the middle of Bolivia, a country better known for alpaca sweaters and Marxist revolutionaries, but everyday from the curved towers of a mosque in the city of Santa Cruz goes out the call for Muslim prayer. One would not be embarrassed to have never imagined that the Bolivian Islamic Center ever existed in this country heavily dominated by Roman Catholicism and with a majority indigenous population. It is one of a handful of Islamic centers serving a tiny population of Bolivian Muslims estimated to be comprised of 1,000 people. But despite its size the population has become the new subject of security interest of the United States. ...
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27/08/2009 |
Mexico's new drug use law worries US police
Julie Watson | GoogleNews
Mexico now has one of the world's most liberal laws for drug users after eliminating jail time for small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and methamphetamine."All right!" said a grinning Ivan Rojas, a rail-thin 20-year-old addict who endured police harassment during the decade he has spent sleeping in Mexico City's gritty streets and subway stations. ...
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27/08/2009 |
Election 2009: Preliminary Results Trickle In as Attack in Southern Afghanistan Kills Dozens
Global Insight Staff | Global Insight
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) has published preliminary results of the country's presidential and provincial council elections, indicating a head-to-head race between incumbent Hamid Karzai and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, but these tallies should be treated with caution. ...
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27/08/2009 |
Indonesia: Noordin Top’s Support Base
International Crisis Group Staff | International Crisis Group
The 17 July 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings have produced calls for a strengthened security apparatus and harsher laws, but the more urgent priority is to understand the terrorists’ local support base and target government programs accordingly. ...
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27/08/2009 |
Miles de ex policías mexicanos se unen a carteles de la droga
A.F.P. | Miami Herald
Ante las bajas que deja a los carteles la guerra por los mercados de la droga y los golpes del gobierno, muchos de los 9,000 ex policías dados de baja podrían estar en las filas del crimen organizado, mientras en el norte de México cooptan a albañiles y mecánicos como sicarios. ...
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27/08/2009 |
Terrorismo - Se busca líder para una libertad perdurable
Libertad Digital Staff | Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos
Podría ser, como afirma el editorialista del Wall Street Journal, que el lema de la democracia en Oriente Medio sea "Un hombre, un voto...una vez". El caso es que, oficialmente, desde marzo Estados Unidos ya no está en guerra contra el terrorismo. Las operaciones militares americanas son hoy "contingencias exteriores". Según el asesor antiterrorista de Obama, debe reemplazarse la guerra contra el terror por una campaña que "combine todas las facetas del poder nacional para derrotar al enemigo". En Afganistán hay que "deshacer, desmantelar y derrotar la red terrorista de Al Qaeda". ...
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