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Security & Strategic Review - October 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
GUATEMALA: Report points to police-led ‘cartel’
Summing up its achievements during the past year, the United Nations(UN)-backed International Commission Against Impunity (Cicig) stated that the level of judicial and administrative corruption is ‘alarming’ — seven years after Cicig started on its mission to identify and help disband illegal security groups and clandestine organisations embedded in State instituions, and two weeks after an exposé of high-level involvement of the national police (PNC) in the drugs trade had been published.
- Killings & mass abductions in Guerrero reveal web of organised crime influence
- MEXICO: From crime to political takeovers
- MEXICO: Tlatlaya inquiry climbs up military chain of command
- 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