20/05/2013 |
Análisis: Siria, la bomba de relojería. Geopolítica de los gasoductos entre medio de la guerra civil
De Nuestra Redacción | Offnews.info
La guerra que se ha cobrado cerca de 100.000 muertos y expulsado a millones de sus hogares no hace más que empeorar. Noticias de atrocidades en ambos bandos, la ascensión de una facción de Al Qaeda entre los enemigos de Asad, acusaciones de que se han usado armas químicas y ataques aéreos de Israel contribuyen a un escenario desolador. ...
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20/05/2013 |
China Rules (... the waves)
Commander Nicholas-Andrew Iliopoulos | Piracy Daily
The release earlier this month of an official Chinese government report showing that the threats that country faces come mostly from the sea serves to underscore the importance of safeguarding national security through effective maritime security—including state-of-the-art counter-piracy efforts.
As Xinhua noted, in "China's Ocean Development Report (2013)" distributed by the China Institute for Marine Affairs under the State Oceanic Administration, the Asian giant's determination to "strengthen its capability to handle international maritime affairs over the next 20 years" remains—according to the report—based on maritime security policies that have not changed fundamentally. ...
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19/05/2013 |
Mexico - Guerra de pobres en Tierra Caliente
Luis Prados | El País (Es)
EL PAÍS viaja al Estado mexicano de Michoacán, donde varios pueblos sobreviven sitiados desde hace semanas por el sanguinario cartel de los Caballeros Templarios. ...
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19/05/2013 |
La guerra en Siria, cada vez más sectaria y violenta
José Miguel Calatayud | El País (Es)
HRW documenta torturas del Gobierno. Islamistas radicales ejecutan sumariamente a hombres del régimen. ...
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19/05/2013 |
Why Has The Italian Mafia Returned to Colombia?
James Bargent | Insightcrime.org
A spate of recent arrests suggests the Italian mafia may be making a comeback in Colombia, where the fractured criminal landscape makes it easier for them to exert control over the drug trade. ...
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19/05/2013 |
El Salvador Catholic Church: Pawn or Player in Gang Truce?
Steven Dudley | Insightcrime.org
Before Bishop Fabio Colindres told Salvadoran government mediators in early 2012 that he would participate in a secret negotiation to stop the fighting between El Salvador's two largest gangs, three top level Catholic Church officials had already told the government representatives that they wanted nothing to do with the talks. Colindres' decision to participate in the controversial gang truce could have far reaching consequences for the Church, one of El Salvador's most respected institutions. ...
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19/05/2013 |
Costa Rica Fishing Boats Moved Cocaine to Mexico
Mario Carillo and Elyssa Pachico | Insightcrime.org
Costa Rican authorities arrested four members of a drug ring charged with smuggling cocaine via boat from South America to Mexico, a case described as unusual because it involved Costa Rican rather than foreign traffickers. ...
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16/05/2013 |
France - Carlos the Jackal launches appeal against life sentence after 20 years in jail
Reuters Staff | Telegraph
arlos the Jackal, the Marxist militant once ranked among the world's most wanted criminals, has launched an appeal against a life sentence for bomb attacks that killed 11 people three decades ago. ...
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16/05/2013 |
Africa - Nigeria's Boko Haram attacks bring military reprisals to locals
Monica Mark | The Guardian
Insurgency in the north-east has led the president to impose a state of emergency that oppresses residents stuck in the middle. ...
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16/05/2013 |
Drug War - In Mexico, restrictions on U.S. agents signal drug war shift
Nick Miroff | Washington Post
The recent changes ordered by new President Enrique Peña Nieto to Mexico’s anti-narcotics partnership with the United States have produced markedly different reactions here and in Washington, underscoring what appear to be diverging perceptions of the drug war’s goals and the costs of fighting it. ...
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