Gender Relations: Cartel vs Competition

Economic thinking has not been applied enough in social matters; and it should. In economics, the point is always to arrange the situation so that it leads to public benefit. Thus, the environment in which producers operate is meant to be incentivized to the point of...

$2 Million Narco Sub Found in Colombian Jungle.

$2 Million Narco Sub Found in Colombian Jungle, Ready to Transport 8 Tons of Cocaine.  Colombian soldiers have for the first time seized a fully submersible drug-smuggling submarine capable of reaching the...

Drug Cartels invade Caribbean Island in search of missing Cocaine

HONDURAS MARCH 22, 2010 The village of Diamond Rock, on the tourist island of Roatan has been under near siege from last week when many aparently, foreign Narco paramilitaries, entered the town heavily armed with...

6 Severed Heads Left By Mexican Drug Cartels

The severed heads 5 police officers and 1 prosecutor were found outside a church in Durango Mexico.  The suspected criminals are drug cartels who are well know for gifting severed heads to send message to rivals. Mexican police say that the beheading appeared to be a...

Killed: Mexican Drug Cartel Kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva

Arturo Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug cartel chief dubbed the "boss of bosses" has been shot down by Mexican officials.  200 Mexican sailors raided his upscale apartment complex and killed Arturo Leyva and 3...

Heavy Fire heard on Honduran island as Military aircraft circle

UTILA September 9, 2009 At 12:50am local time this reporter was woken by heavy gunfire coming from the direction of the secluded airport area on the small island of Utila located within The Bay Islands of...

Femicide in Mexico

THE BORDER REPORT Only a fool would assume women don’t play a role in the splintering tensions of Mexico’s cartel woes but this year’s proving to be a particularly nasty one for femicide in northern Mexico. They’ve been strangled, dissolved in acid, one was thrown in...

Guerra de Carteles en Mexico

www.segundoasegundo.com * La pelea: Cartel de Juárez vs el Cartel de Sinaloa parece no terminar. Los Chihuahuenses aprenden a coexistir enmedio de una guerra de mafias sin fin.Chihuahua, Chih. (Caleb Ordóñez...

Interpol chief in Mexico held for drug cartel ties

Mexico has deep rooted high-level corruption within security forces battling powerful drug cartels. Mexican government has started a “Operation Clean House,” which aims to weed out corruption that came to light after the January arrest of Alfredo Beltran Leyva...

A Gas OPEC in the making?: The Russian initiative, the Iranian approval (upda...

Russia has called upon Iran and Qatar for a meeting on November 18 in Moscow. They would discuss the creation of a OPEC like organization on natural gas. This big gas troika would have been already...

Drug Cartel Spies in American Embassy in Mexico

Informants were collecting as much as 450,000 a month for passing relevant information from U.S Drug Enforcement Administration "Two senior officials of Mexico's drug enforcement agency have been charged with...

Grandfather of kidnapped boy arrested, Amber Alert Canceled Shortly After

The GrandFather of 6 year old Cole Puffinburger was arrested in California on Friday night.  The Amber Alert was canceled Saturday morning.  Police will not give out any further information.  A 2...

FT: Oil demand to weaken as countries tip into recession

" By Javier Blas in London. Published: October 10 2008 09:00 | Last updated: October 10 2008 09:00 Global oil demand will grow far less than forecast this year and in 2009 as the financial crisis...

Drug cartel bloodbath on Mexican border claims 50 lives

Mexican drug cartel have internsified killing in the recent months and the increasing number of  civilians are becoming targets. The killing is part of the gang crime to control Tijuana, a key transit point for drugs trafficked to the United States.Tijuana is...

Cracking the "Mexican Gulf " cartel: more than 43 arrested in Atlanta

War against drugs needs coordination in both sides of the border, Mexican cartels have operation bases in the U.S. These arrests have hit those organizations quite hard." U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey...

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