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A father's plea: End the war on drugs. Javier Sicilia leads a 50-cross procession at Loyola Marymount University, each cross representing 1,000 cartel murder victims.
Mexican poet Javier Sicilia's son and six friends were killed by drug cartel hit menSicilia gave up writing and started a movement for peace and an end to war on drugsSicilia: 60,000 slain since war on drugs began in 2006, with no end to drugsSicilia leading a peace caravan in the U.S. to end the drug war ravaging both nations Editor's note: Javier Sicilia is one of Mexico's most highly regarded poets and the leader of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity. His son, Juan Francisco, was murdered last year near his hometown of Cuernavaca. The Movement's Caravan for Peace crossed the border at San Diego on August 12 and will arrive in Washington on September 10. Follow on Twitter @caravanaUSA (CNN) -- Why was my son murdered? The answer, you may tell me, is obvious. 'War on drugs' has failed, say Latin American leaders. A historic meeting of Latin America's leaders, to be attended by Barack Obama, will hear serving heads of state admit that the war on drugs has been a failure and that alternatives to prohibition must now be found.
The Summit of the Americas, to be held in Cartagena, Colombia is being seen by foreign policy experts as a watershed moment in the redrafting of global drugs policy in favour of a more nuanced and liberalised approach. Otto Pérez Molina, the president of Guatemala, who as former head of his country's military intelligence service experienced the power of drug cartels at close hand, is pushing his fellow Latin American leaders to use the summit to endorse a new regional security plan that would see an end to prohibition.
HSBC Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal. While HSBC’s Canary Wharf masters are back-peddling furiously over charges that they gave a leg up to terrorist financiers and drug traffickers as a recent U.S.
Senate report charged, new evidence emerged that its business as usual for the multinational banking giant founded by Hong Kong-based British opium merchants. Earlier this month, The Independent reported that French police had “intercepted one of the dozens of ‘go-fast’ cars which transport cannabis at high speed from Spain to Paris. The seizure–banal in itself–unravelled an extraordinary network of drug-trafficking, money-laundering, fraud and tax evasion which sprawled over the invisible barrier which separates Paris from the city’s poor, multiracial suburbs.”
The bank embroiled in this latest scandal?
Understand the conflict. EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda eyes bio attack from Mexico. U.S. counterterrorism officials have authenticated a video by an al Qaeda recruiter threatening to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border, the latest sign of the terrorist group’s determination to stage another mass-casualty attack on the U.S. homeland.
The video aired earlier this year as a recruitment tool makes clear that al Qaeda is looking to exploit weaknesses in U.S. border security and also is willing to ally itself with white militia groups or other anti-government entities interested in carrying out an attack inside the United States, according to counterterrorism officials interviewed by The Washington Times.
Latest battlefield in Mexico's drug war: Social media. A brutal message from Mexican cartels As violence grows, online posts dealing with it surge at an explosive rateSigns near two victims of a brutal border slaying threaten social media usersAnalysts say the case shows the prominent role technology plays denouncing violenceSocial media users posting about violence say the killings do not dampen their resolve (CNN) -- Twitter users report gun battles and fiery road blockades.
A website lists victims' names and details of how they died. A blog posts gory photos of gruesome killings and videos of drug lords' confessions. As violence grows across Mexico, online posts dealing with it have also surged at an explosive rate. This week attackers left ominous threats mentioning two websites on signs beside mutilated bodies in northern Mexico. More than two days later, it was unclear who the two brutally slain victims left dangling from a bridge were, or whether they had any connection to social media.
Drugs, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. It’s 2 a.m. when El Komander, the bestselling balladeer of cartel life and death, takes the stage at Club El Rodeo in Mexicali, Mexico, a maquiladora boomtown just across the border from sleepy Calexico, Calif.
Buzz-cut, goateed and dressed in an all-black costume of oversize tinted shades, crisp parachute pants and polished knee and elbow guards, he opens his set with his tuba- and accordion-driven hit, “The Devil’s Advocate”: Born in Sinaloa Where killing is learned I bear the blood of combat And orders to execute. How the U.S. Fights the Zeta Cartel, From Spies to Sanctions.
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