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U.S. lagging in sending anti-drug aid to Mexico, GAO says
Mexico City :: Mexico | 1 day ago
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of the money pledged -- just $24 million of $1.3 billion appropriated -- to help Mexico in its bloody three-year-old battle against the drug cartels that have turned parts of country into a war zone and left 15,000 dead, according to a U.S. government...
Tags: US-Mexico, U.S, government report, help mexico, Mexico, Mexico City, Politics, Drug control law, Military of Mexico, Mexican Drug War, Mￃﾩrida Initiative, Crime in Mexico, Felipe Calderￃﾳn, Federal Police, War on Drugs, Politics of Mexico, Social Issues, Business Finance, Plan Colombia
More Turkish troops sought
Ankara :: Turkey | 2 days ago
Credibility The United States has urged Turkey to send more troops to the war in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced his decision to begin a troop surge there...Ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey and was broadcast by CNN Turk on Wednesday. Jeffrey...
Tags: troops, obama, Turkey, barack, Afghanistan, United States, Iran, news, U.S, Barack Obama, Ankara, Politics, War Conflict, War in Afghanistan, Iraq War troop surge, Eastern Europe, International Security Assistance Force, Eurasia, Vecdi Gￃﾶnￃﾼl, NATO, Western Asia, Republics, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, Occupation of Iraq, War on Terrorism, Iraq, War on Drugs, Opium production in Afghanistan, Turkey ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Nuclear program of Iran
America: Where prisons are a leading Industry
Since the mid 80's violent crime has been declining. Then how is that there are now 5 times more prisons? The prison industry provides hundreds of thousands of jobs, from correctional officers to the construction companies building the structures,...
Tags: prisons, crime, fear, control, drug, epidemic, change, help, educate, rehabilitation, youth, alternative, sentencing, Boston, War on Drugs, Penology, Prison, Recidivism, Social Issues, allnews
Failing our young black men | Peter Herbert
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility Failing our young black men The news that most young black men are on the DNA database is further evidence of the failure of a policing and prisons agenda The recent debate about the accuracy of the statistics as to whether half or three quarters of...
Tags: black men, young black, dna database, United Kingdom, London, Law in the United Kingdom, War on Drugs, Anti-Social Behaviour Order, Youth justice in England and Wales, Social Issues, Law enforcement in the United States, Prison
Mexican president says poverty now first priority
Mexico City :: Mexico | 9 days ago
Credibility Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that the top priority in the second half of his term will be reducing poverty, after the war against drug cartels took center stage in the first three years of his administration. Calderon launched a major...
Tags: Felipe Calderón, Mexico City, drug cartels, Mexico, War on Drugs, Calderￃﾳn, Politics, Social Issues, Felipe Calderￃﾳn, Mexican Drug War
Calderón administration rushes elite Red Beret's to violence torn Juarez
By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative reporter. Mexican President Caldron is rushing elite troops to Juarez at the urgent request of the cities mayor and other leaders. The bloody war torn city of Juarez Mexico's death toll has surpassed...
Tags: War on Drugs, Mexican President Calderón, elite Red Berets, violence torn Juarez, U.S. Mexican Border, Mexican Army, El Paso Texas, Drugs, Mexican Drug Cartels, Most dangerous city Juarez, Jose Rosa, Texas, Juarez Mexico, Felipe Calder, Mexico, U.S. Border Fire Report, Educator, El Paso, Mr. Webster, Operation Chihuahua, Red Berets, Crime in Mexico, Caldron, Mexican Drug War, elite red, Beret, rushed elite, War Conflict, allnews, drug cartels, Michael Webster, Laguna Beach, taking troops, Jose Alfonso Martinez Lujan, Red, Mexico Juarez, Jorge Quintana Silveyra, War
BRAZIL: Crack Epidemic - Yet another Tough Nut to Crack in War on Drugs
Brazil :: IN :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility J. ran away from home - a shack in a "favela" or shantytown in Brazil - when he was just eight years old, after he realised that the money he begged for in the streets was spent by his violent father on alcohol and drugs...Frequent beatings by his father...
Tags: Brazilian northeast, Rio de Janeiro, crack addicted, Carlos Salgado, Brazil, Local anesthetics, Stimulants, Crack cocaine, Crack epidemic, War on Drugs, Cocaine, Dopamine reuptake inhibitors, Drug addiction, Social Issues
Mexican data contradict U.S. figures on military's human rights abuses
Mexico City :: Mexico | 11 days ago
Credibility The Mexican military has convicted just one soldier of a serious human rights violation during a bloody, three-year campaign against drug traffickers, according to Interior Ministry figures that are significantly lower than those reported by the U.S....
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Mexico, U.S. Congress, Mexico City, Military of Mexico, Mￃﾩrida Initiative, Felipe Calderￃﾳn, Mexican Armed Forces, War on Drugs, War Conflict, Mexican Drug War, Crime in Mexico, Drug control law, Politics
Experts Discuss Legalization of Some Drugs to Reduce Crime
Bogotá :: Colombia | 12 days ago
Credibility Drug smuggling gangs in Mexico have turned some parts of that country into a war zone. At the same time, arrests for drug offenses in the United States have soared, contributing to a jail population that is the highest in the industrialized world.
Tags: Ethan Nadelmann, Gary Hale, Mark Kleiman, Colombia, Bogotá, Cannabis, Law enforcement in the United States, Legality of cannabis, War on Drugs, Drug control law, Drug policy of the United States, Medicinal plants, Social Issues
Defilement charges against teacher this week
Labasa :: Fiji Islands | 13 days ago
Credibility A Fiji school teacher is likely to be charged this week in connection with the alleged defilement of a 10 year old girl in the northern town of Labasa. Police Commander Northern, Assistant Superintendent Luke Qionibaravi, said his team expected to lay...
Tags: Labasa, old man, Fiji Islands, Fiji Live, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law Crime, Education, NYPD Blue, Human Interest, War on Drugs, Law enforcement in the United States, Drug policy of the United States, Richard Nixon, Macuata, Vanua Levu
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