Extortion
Dec 7 2010, Oscar

Photo by: El Diario

Extortionists set fire to a preschool in this lawless Mexican border city after the facility’s owners refused to pay protection money, authorities said Monday.

The arsonists scrawled the phrase “Son of a bitch, pay us”...

Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
(6)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Félix survived his ordeal at the hands of the Zeta cartel, one of Mexico’s most ruthless drugs gangs. But he knows of many fellow migrants who suffered the same...
made popular Sep 6 2010
(2)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Hermelindo Maquin set out from his home in the Guatemalan countryside in early August, leaving behind his small farm and pregnant wife as he began the long, perilous...
made popular Sep 3 2010
(0)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Six Cuban migrants held hostage by people smugglers were found at a resort on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
made popular Sep 3 2010
(0)
Oscar, Oaxaca
The horrifying massacre of 72 Central and South American immigrants by the hands of Zetas shocked the world. Preliminary investigations, based on testimony by the sole...
made popular Aug 30 2010
(12)
Oscar, Oaxaca
72 immigrants set out in search of the elusive American dream. Sadly, the Mexican nightmare brought their dream to an end only miles from their destination. The...
made popular Aug 26 2010
(2)
John K, Sydney
If Aussie political storms possessed some space in a foreign press, it is something extravagant usually, capable to divert a world readers’ interest at least for a...
made popular Jun 24 2010
(0)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Ten of the 5,000 federal police officers deployed in Mexico’s deadliest city with the aim of suppressing drug-related violence were arrested on charges of extorting...
made popular Apr 19 2010
(0)
SPSingh, Ghaziabad
If it is true then we are in for major reforms on tpye of governanace we are giving to the people in...
made popular Apr 13 2010
(0)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Can anyone say the War on Drugs is working? Is it reasonable to think drug trafficking can be terminated while demand runs endlessly? Is it even possible supply and...
made popular Feb 10 2010
(0)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Federal authorities and civil organizations in 2009 identified a new modus operandi of organized crime:kidnapping victims or their family members are taken before...
made popular Feb 9 2010
(0)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as “El Teo” or “The Letters”, was chief of the Tijuana cartel hit men, the criminal organization headed by the...
made popular Jan 13 2010
(0)
Edmond, Kampala
A BBC investigation into human sacrifice in Uganda has heard first-hand accounts which suggest ritual killings of children may be more common than authorities have...
made popular Jan 11 2010
(10)
Oscar, Oaxaca
As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...
made popular Nov 9 2009
(8)
Marco Villa, Connecticut
Late-night comedian David Letterman (who is still nursing a petty grudge against Jay Leno for losing the bid to succeed Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show) has found...
made popular Oct 5 2009
(0)
Oscar, Oaxaca
Imagine answering the telephone to hear an unknown voice with the bloodcurdling screams of your only daughter in the background. The callers voice is calm and cold...
made popular Apr 4 2009
(2)
Marco Villa, Connecticut
The violence between Mexico’s government and its army and the well-financed and well-armed drug cartels is shocking. Since 2007, 45,000 troops have battled drug...
made popular Mar 7 2009
(3)
Finzy D, Pasig
This Friday morning, two pylons of National Transmission Corporation in Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur, two of the most prominent provinces in Mindanao was bombed...
made popular May 30 2008
Stories
Most Recent Most Popular Most Commented
Currently this sections has no news, Please try Again Later or help us in building this section
You can Submit Newslinks HERE
Images
Louisville:

Karen Sypher, left, charged with trying to extort Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino and of lying to the FBI, stands next to her son (who declined to give his name) and listens as her attorney Thomas Clay speaks to the media outside the Gene...