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Security & Strategic Review August 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
MEXICO: Sinaloa cartel hit hard as narco tactics shift gear
The government has been celebrating a succession of coups against the
Sinaloa cartel, which may owe much to recent developments in the inter-cartel
war. The cartel's contest for regional supremacy, meanwhile, continues to
intensify, as the warring parties adopt higher-impact methods based on the
time-honoured practice of 'plata o plomo' (accept a bribe or face intimidation,
kidnapping or even assassination).
- Calderón obliquely invites Mexicans to debate the legalisation of drugs
- COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Santos moves to restore links with neighbours
- VENEZUELA: Embarrassing focus on hidden rise of violent crime
- BOLIVIA: Brazil points to rise in cocaine output under Morales
- POINTERS
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- CHILE: Bombers arrested, Mapuche-Farc link 'proven'
- BRAZIL: Murder declines in Rio, PCC attacks in São Paulo
- MEXICO: Sinaloa cartel hit hard as narco tactics shift gear
- POINTERS
- GUATEMALA: Figures show murder & kidnapping in decline