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May 24, 2018· Mexico's Fight against Transnational Organized Crime-The author discusses Mexico's security challenges and its progress in combatting criminal groups and associated flows of illegal goods, and he offers recommendations for U.S. policy makers regarding support for our southern neighbor.

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist groups, are politically motivated.

Transnational Crime and the Developing World is an update to Global Financial Integrity's 2011 report Transnational Crime in the Developing World, which was written by Jeremy Haken. The same transnational crimes are covered in this report as in the 2011 report. All transnational crime has

Jan 24, 2018· "There is no incentive to invest in the Mexican refining system," said John Auers, executive vice-president of Turner, Mason & Company, a global refining consultancy, citing "organized crime ...

A Canadian CEO said his mining company has a "good relationship" with drug lords in Sinaloa, while at least six people in recent weeks have been killed in mining-related incidents in Guerrero.

In the mining sector, there is no competitive bidding since concessions are granted upon request to the interested party (NRGI 2017). In general, organized crime, corruption, and human rights violations pose severe challenges to the governance of Mexico's natural resources (NRGI 2017).

The American Mafia, (commonly referred to as "the Mafia" or sometimes "the Mob", though "the Mafia" can also refer to the original Sicilian Mafia, while "the Mob" can refer to other organized crime groups or organized crime in general) or Italian-American Mafia, is a highly organized .

Mar 28, 2016· Peru is the number one producer of counterfeit US dollars in the world. In 2015, just over 16 million forged bills seized in the US were of Peruvian origin, according to the US Secret Service ...

Chinese iron trade fuels port clash with Mexican drug cartel. By: Reuters ... The combination of organized crime and Chinese buying of Mexican iron ore poses a problem for President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has gone out of his way to cultivate ties with China. ... Desarrollo Minero Unificado de Mexico (DMU), a Chinese iron mining company in ...

Among the targets of the anti-corruption campaign since 2012 are Yao Gang, Vice-Chairman at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), China's top security regulator. He was investigated by the Communist Party of China's anti-graft agency in November 2015, after a stock market rout rocked global markets. Public perceptions

Jun 06, 2014· How Chinese Mining Companies Sustain Organized Crime in Mexico Vice is running this story, and compelling reading it is too, about how miners are being extorted in Mexico by the Knight's Templars drug cartel.

Abadinsky, Howard (back to index) Organized crime is a nonideological enterprise involving a number of persons in close social interaction, organized on a hierarchical basis, with at least three levels/ranks, for the purpose of securing profit and power by engaging in illegal and legal activities.

Oct 14, 2010· MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mining firms have shuttered a handful of exploration projects in remote areas of Mexico as the industry grapples with threats .

Oct 14, 2010· MEXICO CITY, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Mining firms have shuttered a handful of exploration projects in remote areas of Mexico as the industry grapples with .

A drug cartel is any criminal organization with the intention of supplying drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises.The term was applied when the largest trafficking organizations reached an agreement to coordinate the production and distribution of cocaine.

Jun 25, 2014· How Chinese Mining Companies Sustain Organized Crime in Mexico Miguel, a Mexican iron ore miner, told us Chinese and Korean companies are paying millions of dollars a month to the Knights Templar ...

Oct 10, 2010· Here's another excerpt from IKN76, out last weekend, that catches up on the latest developments in the Mexico drug violence as pertains to mining companies there. We first noted the rising political risk for miners operating in the North of Mexico in our September 5th edition and since then things seem to have got a little worse.

Jul 02, 2014· How Chinese mining companies sustain organized crime in Mexico. Read more here. "In the mountainous zone of Guerrero there are marijuana and .

Both companies and governments take advantage of this resource wealth. More of the world's largest companies work in the oil patch than any other industry. At the same, entire government regimes are kept intact thanks to oil revenues.

Apr 15, 2011· A captured money launderer belonging to La Familia confessed to exporting 1.1 million tonnes of iron ore last year to China through three established companies in Mexico.

Dragon on the Border: Mexican and Chinese Transnational Criminal Networks and Implications for the United States. Peter Kouretsos. Introduction. As China shifted to a hybrid capitalist system and globalized in the late 20 th century, so did its criminal economy. Indeed, an overlooked but important trend has been the rise in Chinese organized crime in Latin America.

How Chinese Mining Companies Sustain Organized Crime in Mexico Miguel, a Mexican iron ore miner, told us Chinese and Korean companies are paying millions of .

Jul 01, 2019· The deaths of 43 illegal miners at a Glencore facility in Congo last week highlighted a growing challenge for mining companies struggling to secure sites from small-scale prospectors digging for cobalt, copper and other minerals. Many mines span hundreds of .

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