Efforts to regulate arms trafficking largely ineffective
03/25/13 – On March 18, 2013, the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego and the Igarapé Institute from Brazil released the report “The Way of the Gun: Estimating […]
Category Archives: Arms
Zetas cell linked to Russia dismantled in Central America
03/19/13 – On March 11, Victor Petrovic Ivanov, director of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (FSKN) informed Russian President Vladimir Putin that a drug trafficking network […]
Senate Approves Bipartisan Bill on Straw Purchases and Gun Trafficking
03/11/13 – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill on Thursday, March 7, that would curb gun trafficking and straw purchases—the practice of buying guns for someone who in […]
Federal government identifies new drug trafficking organizations
02/25/13 - Mexico’s National Security Cabinet (Gabinete de Seguridad Nacional) revealed the emergence of new drug trafficking organizations (DTO) that have formed after splintering from pre-existing cartels, groups that have taken […]
Violence against journalists resurfaces in Coahuila: five employees of ‘El Siglo de Torreón’ abducted
02/11/2013 – Around midnight on Thursday February 7, five employees of the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón, located in the state of Coahuila, were kidnapped for a period of about ten […]
