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About 300 federal police in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, arrested on Sunday their own leaders, accused of extortion and protection to organized crime groups. Agents raided the hotel where they were staying four Mexican federal police commanders. The heads were removed by force and violence. The federal police accused his commanders to stop policing the city [...]

Israel seems to be under a lull. There are no more missile attacks, and the Islamists next door are fighting among themselves. There might also be a new peace effort in the offing and superficially, Israel never had been more peaceful than it is now. Unfortunately, this peace is just that, superficial. The country has been seeing an unprecedented amount [...]

The country of Mexico began its court trial before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) for alleged impunity, lack of investigation, and insufficient action on the murders of women committed in Ciudad Juárez over the last decade. The trial took place in Santiago de Chile at the end of April. The prosecution focuses on the cases of three [...]

In the first three months of 2009, drug-related killings in Mexico were recorded at total 2,644 cases or 26% less than the previous three months, said Alejandro Rubido, government spokesman on security matters. The statistics prove that the violence of organized crime in Mexico has dipped. The Security Cabinet attributes the significant reduction in [...]

Amid a drug war and trade dispute, US President Barack Obama will visit Mexico on April 16. Obama is currently studying a possible military deployment on the US-Mexico border to help solve the problems of escalating drug-related violence, particularly in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where Mexican President Felipe Calderon has already sent 11,000 troops composed [...]

The number of government soldiers and police that Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent on a troop surge to combat narco-terrorism in Ciudad Juarez is 11,000. The Mexico-US border town, gleaning from the war-like environment it is in now, is a no man’s land where drug cartel syndicate gangsters cleverly evade one another and the Mexican military [...]

An unstoppable wave of violence spreads from Ciudad Juárez to the rest of Mexico. Drug trafficking gangs are strong and flourishing in the city where the war is now between drug gangs and the state. These gangs have decided to declare war on the state, seek control of the police, and face each other for power in key locations such as Ciudad Juárez. [...]