Cuba says it dismantled human trafficking ring recruiting for Russia's war in Ukraine Havana says it is dismantling a network that seeks to recruit Cubans as mercenaries to fight in Russia's war against Ukraine. WEKU · Sep 5, 2023
Cuba uncovers ‘human trafficking ring’ recruiting for Russia’s war in Ukraine Havana says it is dismantling network seeking to recruit Cubans as mercenaries as Moscow attempts to boost its forces The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2023
Garda boss to discuss possible Kinahan cartel extraditions during trip to Dubai The Irish crime group has been described as a ‘murderous organisation’ involved in the international trafficking of firearms and drugs. The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023
Cuba uncovers network trafficking Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine Cuba says it has no part in war in Ukraine and would ‘act vigorously’ against those trafficking Cubans as fighters. Al Jazeera · Sep 5, 2023
Drug cartels: How cocaine and bananas fuel violence in once-peaceful Ecuador Ecuador's location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2023
Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine Ecuador's location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2023
QAnon 2.0: The "Sound of Freedom" moment Right-wing influencers pushed a paranoid, anti-immigrant hit movie — while pretending they'd never heard of QAnon Salon · Sep 2, 2023
Court orders attachment of property linked to Khalistan Liberation Force’s “narco-terror” module accused The NIA had registered the case on January 22, 2020, based on the original first information report (FIR) dated May 31, 2019. The Hindu · Aug 31, 2023
Peru's lost daughters: Families of missing women fight for justice In Peru, 60 percent of people who disappear are women. Over 11,000 women were reported missing in the country last year, the majority of them teenagers. Some disappearances are voluntary. But most are linked to human trafficking networks, prostitution and domestic violence. Despite this poor record, Peru was the first… France 24 · Aug 30, 2023
Sound of Freedom review – anti-child-trafficking thriller that plays to the QAnon crowd Jim Caviezel stars as the real-life campaigner Tim Ballard in a dull film that has become a US box office sensation The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2023
Mother reunited with son 42 years after she was told he had died in child birth Jimmy Lippert Thyden was ‘adopted’ as part of a Chilean child trafficking ring but has been reunited with his mother Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2023
Spain can help India deal with illegal trafficking of cultural items: Spanish Culture Minister Iceta Spain’s Culture Minister, Miquel Iceta spoke to The Hindu, describing India as a “cultural superpower” and expressed concern about illegal trafficking of cultural artefacts and destruction of heritage of in Ukraine The Hindu · Aug 27, 2023
10 charged after federal drug trafficking investigations target operations allegedly affiliated with Gangster Disciples Kevin Ware, a 49-year-old Chicago resident, is alleged to have been at the helm of the trafficking organization. A criminal complaint states the group was working with the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago street gang. Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 26, 2023
R. Kelly to use royalties to pay victims R. Kelly is currently serving 30 years in prison for his 2021 racketeering and sex trafficking conviction Salon · Aug 25, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2023 Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels A very grumpy toddler; poems for the planet; ancient demons unleashed; and a moving YA trafficking tale
The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023 ‘The film the woke Nazis don’t want you to see!’ How the culture wars made Sound of Freedom a blockbuster How did a mid-budget thriller about child trafficking become a box office smash? With a lot of help from conspiracy theorists, the US’s religious right and Donald Trump
The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023 ‘Heartless’ government fails to fill two key human rights watchdog roles Campaigners say rape and trafficking victims have been betrayed by the Tories’ failure to appoint commissioners to defend them
The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2023 Four arrested in France after deaths of six men in Channel crossing At least two of detained Iraqis and Sudanese suspected to have links to human trafficking networks
Radio France Internationale · Aug 17, 2023 France sends elite police unit to Marseille in bid to quell drug violence French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Thursday announced that a unit from the elite CRS 8 police force that specialises in fighting urban violence is to be deployed to Marseille. The southern port has been plagued by gang violence over control of the city's drug trade.
The Guardian - US · Aug 17, 2023 The narco-highway creating chaos in a Honduran rainforest If cutting continues along its current pace, most of the Moskitia forest – and the way of life it sustains – could be lost by 2050, much sooner for many parts
Evening Standard · Aug 17, 2023 Mo Farah to speak at M Restaurants charity supper in support of Not for Sale The M group has raised £350,000 to help the fight against modern slavery, as Mo Farah to speak on his own experiences with trafficking
The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2023 14 more members of Minneapolis gangs are charged in federal violent crime initiative Officials have announced that 14 members of Minneapolis-based gangs have been charged with crimes including possession of machine guns, fentanyl trafficking and firearms violations
The Conversation · Aug 16, 2023 Ecuador: how this 'island of peace' in Latin America has become a hotbed of violence run by criminal gangs and drug cartels After the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito on August 9, former president Rafael Correa posted a message on his social media feed: “Ecuador has become a failed state.” It was a stark message as the country prepares to go to the polls on Sunday August 20.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2023 Thousands of refugees could face homelessness after Home Office policy change Migrants and survivors of trafficking will have minimum of seven days to find alternative accommodation if they receive eviction notice
The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2023 ‘You have to sacrifice your life’: the drug runners of Colombia’s rainforests With few job prospects, young men in the jungle borderlands with Brazil risk everything in a marijuana trade that ultimately bankrolls dissident armed groups