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Security & Strategic Review - October 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Killings & mass abductions in Guerrero reveal web of organised crime influence
The abduction and suspected massacre of 43 students on 26 September in Iguala, Guerrero, in which the local authorities and municipal police were implicated, in collusion with the criminal gang Guerreros Unidos, has triggered a wave of protests — some violent — across much of Mexico. Outrage at the event has been aggravated by the perceived slow response of the federal government and the revelation of the extent of the influence that criminal organisations have over much of the state.
- Killings & mass abductions in Guerrero reveal web of organised crime influence
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- MEXICO: Two more narco kingpins fall to federal forces
- POINTERS
- CHILE: Antiterrorist law to be applied before reforms
- BRAZIL: Official data show 99% increase in killings by PM
- PARAGUAY: Crackdown as EPP’s hostage exchange deadline passes
- POINTERS
- ECUADOR: Correa lists Colombia as a source of cyber-attacks
- PERU: Playing down the surge in contract killings
- POINTERS
- GUATEMALA: Report points to police-led ‘cartel’
- EL SALVADOR: Homicides still rising; police & military targeted