Mexican president blasts US for harboring drug cartels
Claudia Sheinbaum gives riposte to Trump’s accusation of ‘intolerable alliance’ between Mexican government and gangs Mexico’s president has accused the US of harboring drug cartels...
Category : Organised crime
Trinidad and Tobago declares state of emergency after weekend of violence
A spate of murders has taken the Caribbean nation’s total to 623 in 2024, of which nearly half were gang related and almost all linked...
Stray bullets and closed schools: Rio’s kids suffer as police crack down on gangs
Thousands of schoolchildren in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas miss classes and risk violence as Brazil’s police battle drug gangs Textbooks and marker pens are not...
Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade
Exclusive: Guardian investigation shows white powder trail linking hundreds of vulnerable African minors with ruthless gangs Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a...
Clash between criminal gang and villagers leaves 14 dead in central Mexico
Video of fight shows villagers with sickles and rifles chasing down suspected gang members amid gunfire A clash between gunmen from a criminal gang and...
Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds
Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assets Secrecy and lax oversight have...
Dozens of Malaysians rescued in Peru after being trafficked to commit online fraud
Malaysian foreign ministry says 43 of its citizens were freed in Lima after being forced to take part in ‘Macau scam’ More than 40 people...
Guards and police released after being held hostage in Ecuadorian prisons
Fifty-seven law enforcement officers held in six prisons amid sharp rise in gang violence ahead of election Fifty guards and seven police officers have been...
Calls for crackdown on gangs in South Africa after spate of gun attacks
Attack on tavern near Johannesburg in which 15 were killed was one of several similar incidents over the weekend Campaigners in South Africa have called...
Ex-president of Honduras extradited to US on drugs charges
Juan Orlando Hernández accused of involvement with drug cartels and related weapons charges US Drug Enforcement Administration agents have extradited the Honduran former president Juan...
