End of preview - This article contains approximately 516 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Security & Strategic Review - March 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PANAMA: More arrests, no trials, more gangs
Officials of the organised crime division of Panama’s public prosecution service have been airing their frustration at the judiciary’s slow handling of cases involving gang members, who are considered responsible for most of the country’s homicides. Even as some gangs are disbanded, new ones appear, and courts have yet to process those who have been arrested.
- US sanctions against Venezuela trigger regionwide rejection
- MEXICO: More kingpins fall but effects remain unclear
- COLOMBIA: Two more big steps towards ‘de-escalation’
- PERU: Going back and forth on shootdown
- POINTERS
- ARGENTINA-BRITAIN: London’s response to Falklands/Malvinas ‘threat’
- BRAZIL: Tracking the firearms used by criminals
- POINTERS
- MEXICO: Fall in kidnapping figures is contested (again)
- POINTERS
- PANAMA: More arrests, no trials, more gangs
- POINTERS