Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections than before
Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a broader role in Sunday’s elections for the president, nine state governors, about 19,000 mayors and other local offices. The country’s powerful drug cartels have long waged targeted assassinations against mayors and other local candidates they see as a threat to their rule. Mexican gangs thrive […]
‘The gangs are in charge’: Haiti’s outgunned police fight a desperate rear defence | Haiti
Nine hours and countless bullets have passed since gunmen began shelling Port-au-Prince’s Stanley Police Station, and a police officer in his 20s is beginning to wonder if he will make it out alive. “The reason you haven’t heard from me is because I’m dead,” he wrote in a farewell on his family’s WhatsApp group. The […]
German politician convicted of hate crime after sounding alarm about Afghan rape gangs
A right-wing German politician has been found guilty of a hate crime for sharing statistics about a disproportionate number of gang rapes by immigrants, particularly Afghans, and questioning whether multiculturalism means embracing rape culture. He was fined several thousand dollars. Marie-Thérèse Kaiser is a member of the right-wing Alternative for Germany. The 27-year-old women’s safety […]
Haiti transitional government takes power as gangs hold capital ‘hostage’
Haiti’s Transitional Council took power in a ceremony on Thursday, formalizing the resignation of former Prime Minister Ariel Henry as the Caribbean nation seeks to establish security after years of gang violence and chaos and misery. did. Henri’s finance minister, Michel-Patrick Boisvert, will serve as caretaker prime minister until the transition council appoints a new […]
Weeks-long manhunt in Brazil shows dramatic expansion of two main gangs into Amazon | Brazil
After nearly two months on the run, the Amazon outlaws nicknamed Hammerhead and Armadillo may have felt they were nearing the home straight, albeit a long and muddy one. Just beyond the Tocantins River lay the Trans-Amazon Highway, a desolate and poorly patrolled jungle road that traverses more than 1,200 miles from east to west […]
Haitian Gangs Loot National Library, Historic Documents at Risk
Gangs rampaging across Haiti ransacked the National Library in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday. Library director D’Angelo Niard said the library houses some valuable documents and that Haiti’s history is at risk due to gang attacks. “Our documentary collection is at risk. We have valuable documents that are more than 200 years old, important to […]
Haitian gangs loot national library
In a new escalation of violence in Haiti this week, armed groups have reportedly looted the country’s national library in the capital Port-au-Prince. The library’s director, D’Angelo Niard, told AFP that Haiti’s “documentary collection is at risk.” “We have valuable documents that are over 200 years old and are important to our heritage, but they […]
At least 241 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons during the ‘war on gangs,’ rights group says
SAN SALVADOR (AP) – At least 241 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons since President Nayib Boucle launched a “war on gangs” two years ago, according to a humanitarian legal relief organization. Ingrid Escobar, head of the rights group, said she had received 500 reports of deaths in state custody and confirmed about half […]
Chilean gangs in US on Visa Waiver Program targeting high-end Michigan homes — again, sheriff says
Wealthy residents of spacious homes in southeastern Michigan once again need to be on guard against a “very well-trained” and “highly organized” group of robbers from Chile, local sheriff says. said. Sheriff Michael Bouchard says there has been a recent spate of break-ins in Michigan’s Oakland County, northwest of Detroit, that are eerily similar to […]
Two men in Haiti suspected of buying weapons for gangs lynched by mob | Haiti
Two men in Haiti were hacked to death by a mob who thought they were buying weapons for a gang, police said Saturday. Police said the men were found with about $20,000 (about £16,000) and about $43,000 in Haitian cash in their car, along with two handguns and a box of ammunition. It was confirmed […]