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US federal authorities open inquiry into $400m fraud Bank fired two bond traders last year over rogue trading Federal authorities have reportedly opened a criminal investigation into a $400m fraud involving Citigroup 's Mexican unit. The bank disclosed earlier this year it had discovered fraudulent loans at Banco Nacional de México, its Mexican subsidiary known as Banamex. According to the...
Colombian author of bestselling works such as 100 Years of Solitude, hospitalised for infection and dehydration Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez was hospitalized on Thursday in Mexico City, two officials at the health ministry told Reuters on condition on anonymity. García Márquez, whose career spans journalism to the fantastical novels that inspired...
As we celebrate the art, the international organisation defending writers' freedom offers a selection of voices that have been silenced by repression • Poetry Parnassus: read a poem from every Olympic nation Aron Atabek – Kazakhstan The poet, journalist and activist Aron Atabek has been in prison since 2007 and has spent much of his incarceration in solitary confinement. In December 2012, following...
Government feels unable to disarm militias without handing back control to the drug gang they helped defeat in Michoacán When people in Mexico's western state of Michoacán started fighting back against the unbridled violence, systematic economic exploitation, and shattered self respect that came with living under the de facto dictatorship of one of Mexico's most vicious and bizarre criminal gangs,...
Officials say man held for alleged drug trafficking is suspected of involvement in a network that killed children to sell their organs Mexican authorities have captured an alleged drug trafficker from the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) cartel who officials say is being investigated on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering children in order to harvest their organs for sale. The security secretary...
Police detain alleged cartel member on suspicion of kidnapping people, including children, and harvesting their organs Police in Mexico's western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel on suspicion of organ trafficking. Carlos Castellanos Becerra, Michoacan's public safety secretary, alleged that Manuel Plancarte Gaspar was part of a cartel ring that would target...
Witnesses claim founder of anti-drug cartel movement was part of group that killed two men whose bodies were set ablaze The leader of a civilian "self-defence" group in Mexico has been arrested for allegedly participating in the killings of two men, according to authorities. Prosecutors say Hipólito Mora was detained on Tuesday after witnesses told investigators he and other members of his group took...
It seems 'The Craziest One', whose death had been announced before in 2010, really is dead – pleasing anti-cartel vigilantes Even by drug lord standards, Nazario Moreno's reputation was as bizarre as it was brutal – including several years allegedly running his business from beyond the grave after he was officially pronounced dead in a shootout with federal forces. Now that the capo, nicknamed "The...
Authorities believe man killed in gun battle with police is Nazario Moreno, leader of the Knights Templar who government said was dead ...
Film-makers Guillermo Galdos and Angus MacQueen’s search for the world’s biggest drug dealer was trumped by his arrest a fortnight ago, but their film is no less compelling for it Henry Barnes ...
s Steve McQueen • How the night unfolded • Full list of winners Alfonso Cuarón has won the best director Oscar for Gravity at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a field that included 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street. In doing so, Cuarón becomes the first Mexican-born director to win the award. With a back catalogue including...
Data for from the National Drug Intelligence Center shows the Sinaloa cartel's enormous reach across the whole of the United States Guardian US interactive team ...
Sinaloa cartel leader’s capture leaves Mexicans fearing more bloodshed, while few in US believe the flow of drugs will slow Jo Tuckman Jon Swaine ...
s authors call on governments and international tribunals to give greater protection to education, and say the UN, regional peacekeepers and all sides in conflicts should refrain from using schools or universities for military purposes. In 24 countries, researchers found that armed forces – both state and non-state – used school buildings as bases, weapons caches, prisons and even torture chambers,...
t give any job opportunities," said Daniel Garcia, an unemployed 20-year-old. "The situation is, honestly, really difficult and he helps out the young people, giving them jobs." "We support 'Chapo' Guzman because he is the one who gives us jobs and helps out in the mountains," said Pedro Ramirez, who was part of a group of 300 who had travelled from Badiraguato, a town in the Sierra Madre where Guzman...
Likely plea from Alfredo Vasquez Hernandez comes days after Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested following manhunt ...
up t'road' and as far away as Mexico When Doncaster Rovers reserves normally play a match, they can expect a hundred supporters – on a good day. But on Wednesday evening the Keepmoat stadium was filled with a 4,000-strong army of new Donnie fans, most of them under 16 and screaming themselves silly for the reserves' new star signing. No matter that One Direction heart-throb Louis Tomlinson started...
Mexican government says drug lord faces multiple prosecutions at home before any sort of trial across border ...
Initiative (IM-Defensoras) in the Mexican capital. "And, of course, we are committed to continue." IM-Defensoras is a three-year-old effort to provide women rights defenders in the region with protection mechanisms that are gender-sensitive and adapted to different contexts, and that go beyond traditional options usually focused on organising some kind of police guard or facilitating exile. The initiative...