Topic: Peten
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El Chapo killed? Details sketchy in Guatemala shootout (+video)
El Chapo killed? Guatemalan officials say reports of drug lord, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman being killed in shootout are premature. There is no confirmation of a body or an identification from police.
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Latin America Monitor Could Central American gangs usurp the role of Mexican cartels?
Mexican groups currently use Central American gangs to launder money, infiltrate local police, and traffic drugs. With the crackdown on Mexican cartels, the role of Central American gangs could increase.
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Latin America Monitor Organized crime in the Americas: bad for the environment, too?
A new report exposes the environmental consequences of criminal activity, such as gangs clearing land in a Guatemalan reserve to launder money through cattle ranches.
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Latin America Monitor New force pushing refugees: Flight from organized crime in Latin America
Violence perpetrated by criminal groups led to 5.6 million Latin Americans living in displacement in 2011, mainly in Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, according to a displacement monitoring center.
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Despite rise of Mexican cartels, Colombian traffickers still strong in Central America
Although much has been made of Mexican cartels' spread into Central America, they have not supplanted Colombia-based drug traffickers, who are still highly active in the region.
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Drug violence in Mexico drives 'narco-refugees' into US
The number of 'narco-refugees,' Mexicans trying to escape drug violence by seeking asylum in the US, increased almost 50-fold from 2006 to 2008.
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Retired military general leads in Guatemala presidential election
Otto Perez Molina is the front-runner in the Guatemala presidential election after Sunday's first round, though he did not garner enough votes to avoid a November runoff.
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Do more troops mean less crime in Latin America?
Honduras is the latest Latin American country to deploy soldiers to fight organized crime. But evidence suggests that this does little in the long term, and may even make things worse.
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6,060 year sentence imposed for 1982 Guatemala massacre
6,060 year sentence: The sentences for Manuel Pop Sun, Reyes Collin Gualip and Daniel Martinez include thirty years for each death, plus thirty years for crimes against humanity. The three men are former members the Guatemalan military's elite Kaibil unit.
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Mexico nabs Zetas gang's No. 3 leader, but will it stop the cartel?
The arrest of Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar follows a series of recent drug-war gains by Mexico's government.
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Is Guatemala becoming a narco-state?
With the recent massacre of 27 laborers in the department of Peten, groups are urging Guatemala to purge its institutions of organized crime. Throughout the region, drug money wields significant influence among politicians, police, and communities at large.
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Guatemala massacre points to influence of Mexican drug gang
Guatemala has declared a state of emergency after the murder of 27 people in the northern part of the country. The Zetas of Mexico are accused of the worst massacre since the end of the country's civil war.
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