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Tag Archives: organized crime
Mexican mayors face a deadly game of political football
And mayor ‘Cuauh’ is going out of his way to not do his job
Nem, Rio’s hardened criminal and anti-hero
The life of Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, better known as ‘Nem’
Tunnels packed with drugs discovered in Venezuela prison sweep
A country where jails are criminal enterprises
Diapers from Japan’s mafia
The yakuza stepped in quickly to provide tsunami relief, and are reaping the benefits
The ideal crime?
Mortgage fraud is easy, common and lucrative. And in Canada, more often than not, it is left unchecked.
Mexico’s drug cartels: Is Canada next?
They’re already ‘the greatest organized crime threat to the U.S.’
Mexico’s civil war
Powerful drug cartels are challenging the government’s control of parts of the nation
Israel’s mob war set off by car bomb
Alperon died on Monday after a bomb detonated under his car
gangs of sao paolo
Making the rounds is this cool little piece from Foreign Policy magazine, listing the world’s most dangerous gangs. Forget about the Triads or the Cosa Nostra, they’re wusses. The badasses of the world now are the Kikuyu (who recently went berserk in Kenya) and the prison gangs of Sao Paolo.