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16/05/2013
14/05/2013
Spotlight on Brazil for Confed Cup – Vanguard
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – The first of three major international sporting events in Brazil begins next month, with football's Confederations Cup pitting three former world champions, including the hosts, against the current title holders, Spain, and outsiders Mexico, Nigeria, Japan and tiny Tahiti. But the traditional curtain-raiser to the ..
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13/05/2013
Is Drug Trafficking Worse Than Murder? – - Pacific Standard
The study analyzes drug crime laws in seven places—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil , Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico—and highlights two trends. First: Researchers document a sizable increase in the number of drug-related …
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Is Drug Trafficking Worse Than Murder? – - Pacific Standard
12/05/2013
Organized Crime-Related Homicides in Mexico Down 18%
Based on preliminary figures from a security report released Friday, 5296 homicides attributed to organized crime gangs occurred between December 2012 and April 2013 in Mexico, compared with 6432 between July-November 2012, when …
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09/05/2013
Latin American Herald Tribune – Organized Crime Harms Culture …
MEXICO CITY – Organized crime “is anti-culture” and sects associated with criminal activities, such as Mexico's Holy Death sect, are “blasphemous,” Italian Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi said during a visit to Mexico. “Organized crime is not …
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08/05/2013
Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevêdo wins WTO leadership battle …
Brazil 's Roberto Azevêdo has emerged as the new director-general of the World Trade Organisation after seeing off Herminio Blanco of Mexico, the favoured candidate of the US and EU, according to officials familiar with the …
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Brazilian diplomat Roberto Azevêdo wins WTO leadership battle …
07/05/2013
Cybersecurity in Latin American and the Caribbean: An unmet agenda
In a region where citizen security is often measured in terms of the level of physical violence, there is also another underreported crime network that is disrupting commerce, stealing resources and is often under-reported because the institutions attacked would rather not reveal …
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Cybersecurity in Latin American and the Caribbean: An unmet agenda
06/05/2013
Obama Tells Mexicans Half A Story On Guns Used In Crime, Says …
Obama Tells Mexicans Half A Story On Guns Used In Crime , Says CCRKBA. … Event (949), arrest (367), attack (198), massacre (68), protest (37), regulation (49), seize (314), shooting (200), violence (306), Lobo (2), Location (1219), Afghanistan (26), Argentina (1), Australia (14), Bolivia (5), Brazil (11), Canada (10), Caribbean (1), China (5) …
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03/05/2013
Weekly Roundup: Obama's Mexico Stop, Brazil's Arms Exports, and …
Southern Cone & Brazil … According to a U.S. State Department contract, the purpose of the system is to “help deter, prevent, and mitigate acts of major federal crimes in Mexico that include narcotics trafficking and terrorism.” ..
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01/05/2013
Which Mexico for Obama? | The Great Debate – Reuters
They blame Mexico's epidemic of violent crime on an insatiable appetite for drugs and loose control over gun and ammunition sales in the United States. In addition, the U.S. financial crisis left the Mexican economy reeling in 2009.
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