Tag: Organized crime
Ecuador Recaptures Gang Leader “Fito” After Prison Escape Last Year
The Ecuadorean president said José Adolfo Macías, known as “Fito” and leader of the infamous Los Choneros criminal organization, will be extradited to...
Can Nigeria Help Save the Pangolins Amid a Global Wildlife Crime...
Demand for pangolins in Asia, where populations of these scaly mammals have dwindled, has driven traffickers to Africa, the only other continent where...
Trump Calls Canada a Big Player in the Fentanyl Trade. Is...
Standing behind heaping piles of drugs stacked in clear plastic bags and storage boxes, Toronto’s police chief last week announced the force’s largest-ever...
Brazil’s Mafia-Run Animal Lottery Was Invincible. Online Games Changed That.
Taiza Carine da Costa got her first taste of gambling when she was just 9.Growing up in the rundown fringes of Rio de...
In France, Drug Traffic Spreads to Small Towns
For centuries in Morlaix, a city of cobblestones and creperies on the Breton coast of France, the best-known dealers were the ones who...
Nearly 650 people killed in recent spate of violence in B’desh:...
Those killed include protesters, bystanders, journalists and several security forces personnel: UN report |
Nearly 650 people have been killed in the recent unrest...
