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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
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[Link] The Cocaine Queen of Honduras Was Just Extradited to the US
Read: 28/7/2022 www.vice.com
Honduras just put one of its most notorious suspected drug bosses on a plane to the United States. Herlinda Bobadilla, alias “La Chinda,” is the 62-year-old alleged matriarch of the Montes drug cartel.
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[Link] ‘It’s total terror’: Colombian cartel retaliates over kingpin’s arrest
Read: 9/5/2022 www.theguardian.com
Jorge, a community activist from Colombia’s conflict-ridden Chocó province, was already traveling to the city of Medellín when he heard news that made him turn back towards home.
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[Link] ‘Thought About Going Back to Peru?’ – Council Asks Family in UK Since 2004
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
According to an audio recording from the 22nd of November obtained by VICE World News, a housing officer from the Labour-run Southwark council asks the woman, “Have you thought about going back to Peru?” during a consultation for priority social housing.
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[Link] Same-Sex Marriage Just Got Legalized in Chile in Landslide Vote
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
The vote comes four years after the bill was first introduced in Chile’s congress. It makes the South American country the 31st nation in the world to legalize same-sex marriage and the seventh in Latin America, underscoring the region’s embrace of same-sex couples in recent years.
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[Link] Youtube Ripper Strikes Back at the RIAA in DMCA ‘Circumvention’ Lawsuit
Read: 6/12/2021 torrentfreak.com
YouTube-ripping service Yout.com sued the RIAA last year in an attempt to have its platform declared legal in the US. The music industry group asked the court to dismiss the case, arguing that Yout clearly circumvents technological protection measures.
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[Link] The First Female President of Honduras Just Vowed to End Narco Corruption
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
After one of the most dramatic elections in Honduran history, Xiomara Castro has declared herself the winner, making her the first female president in the country's history. Then she made her first promise: to end the narco-corruption that plagued the reign of her predecessor.
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[Link] The Pacific is in danger of becoming a semi-narco region
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Four years ago I stood in front of a top level security conference and warned that we have just a few years to get on top of the problem of drugs being trafficked through the Pacific region or it could turn into a semi-narco region, controlled by criminal syndicates.
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[Link] Maradona Was Buried Without His Heart So Soccer Fans Wouldn't Steal It
Read: 24/11/2021 www.vice.com
Diego Maradona, the long-time heart and soul of Argentine soccer, is apparently buried without one of those things. After his November 2020 death, the soccer star was reportedly buried without his heart, according to a new book about his health written by an Argentine doctor and journalist.
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[Link] A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic. The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years.
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[Link] Carole Baskin refuses interviews in investigation into ex-husband’s disappearance
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Cpl Moises Garcia of the Hillsborough county sheriff’s office in Tampa held a news conference to provide an update on the investigation into Don Lewis’s disappearance.
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[Link] Colombia: Coca farmers release 180 soldiers from hostage
Read: 4/11/2021 www.dw.com
Almost 200 Colombian soldiers were released on Thursday after being held hostage by coca farmers with sticks and machetes, a government official said.
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[Link] Jair Bolsonaro’s security alleged to have used violence against Brazilian journalists at G20 - reports
Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s security detail allegedly used violence against Brazilian reporters covering his trip to Rome for the G20 meeting, local media reported.
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[Link] Ancient Gold Burial Mask Found to Be Painted With Human Blood
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the 1990s, archaeologists uncovered an ancient and mysterious burial ritual in Peru: in the center of the chamber was a man, seated with his upside-down skeleton painted red along with the gold mask that adorned his detached skull.
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[Link] Rightwing Chilean newspaper accused of ‘apology for Nazism’ over Göring article
Read: 26/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Chile’s main conservative daily newspaper has been accused of publishing “an apology for Nazism” after running an illustrated article commemorating the life of the German war criminal Hermann Göring.
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[Link] Colombia's Most-Wanted Drug Lord Since Pablo Escobar Is Now Under Arrest
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Colombia’s most-wanted drug lord has eluded capture, despite a $5 million bounty on his head by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and an $800,000 reward by the Colombian government. His good fortune seemed to end on Saturday.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Brazil's Bolsonaro May Face ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Charge Over COVID
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
A panel of Brazilian lawmakers recommended Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” due to his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Brazil has been one of the world’s most hard hit countries with over 600,000 dead since the pandemic began.
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[Link] State of Emergency Declared Over Crime Spike and Cocaine Boom in Ecuador
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lasso’s declaration comes amid spiraling violence in the country, and just 18 days after a confrontation in an Ecuadorian prison between rival criminal groups left 116 inmates dead, including six who were decapitated.
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[Link] 24 Women Soccer Players Accuse Venezuela's Ex-Youth Coach of Sexual Abuse
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Venezuelan prosecutors are seeking the arrest of a former national women's soccer coach on sexual abuse charges after a group of 24 players accused him of a litany of violations in an open letter.
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[Link] Colombia Is Finally Sterilizing Pablo Escobar’s Hippos
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Colombia’s Regional Autonomous Corporation of the Negro and Nare Rivers (Cornare), an environmental agency, announced the sterilizations of 24 of the more than 80 hippos residing in the rivers near Escobar’s former Hacienda Napoles compound last week.
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[Link] Latin American democracy is in poor but surprisingly stable health
Read: 14/10/2021 www.economist.com
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[Link] President of Brazil says it ‘makes no sense’ for him to be vaccinated
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 600,000 of his citizens have lost their lives to a Covid-19 outbreak he once pooh-poohed as a “little flu”, but Brazil’s science-denying president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced he will decline to be vaccinated, saying “it makes no sense” for him to do so.
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[Link] Warring Gangs Beheaded at Least 6 People in Ecuador's Bloodiest Prison Riot Ever
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
The latest conflict began with explosions and gunshots at the Litoral prison in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Tuesday.
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[Link] Brazil’s Health Minister Flipped Off New York Protesters—Then Tested Positive for COVID
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Marcelo Queiroga is the fourth health minister to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and, some said, the most serious. But his behavior on a trip to New York this week was anything but serious.
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[Link] Fears for democracy in El Salvador after president claims to be ‘coolest dictator’
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The top US diplomat in El Salvador has warned of “a decline in democracy” in the country, whose president, Nayib Bukele, recently changed his Twitter profile to read “the coolest dictator in the world”.
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[Link] Mexico Embraces Afghan Refugees As Its Soldiers Beat Asylum Seekers Traveling by Caravan
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — In southern Mexico, a Central American migrant crumpled to the ground as a senior official with the national immigration agency stomped on the man’s face wearing a military-style boot.
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[Link] The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
MEDELLIN, Colombia–Authorities in southern Colombia pulled over a cargo truck looking for drugs in early August. But instead of finding a pile of cocaine bricks, the truck was loaded with a sandy, blue-ish black rock called coltan.
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[Link] While Delta spreads, Republicans deflect and resort to Trump demagoguery
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
As America reaches the milestone of 70% of adults with at least one dose of a vaccine, the highly contagious Delta variant is surging. Public health officials are trying to keep the focus on the urgent need for more vaccinations.
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[Link] US-Trained Cops in Mexico Killed Migrants, Set Them on Fire, Say Prosecutors
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
New evidence obtained by VICE World News paints a chilling picture of the killing of 19 migrants by pnear the U.S border in January. MEXICO CITY — Two trucks carrying migrants sped through dusty roads a few miles south of the U.S. border as four armored police cars gave chase.
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[Link] Tiny Guerrilla Group Behind Wave of Kidnappings and Killings in Paraguay
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Four heavily armed men stormed onto a farm deep in the parched forests of northwestern Paraguay and grabbed the owner’s son, 24-year-old Jorge Ríos Barreto. Then they melted into the darkness, leaving a note: his family had to cough up $200,000 or they would never see their son again.
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[Link] YouTube Deletes Videos From President Hiccups
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
YouTube and Brazilian surgeons agree on one thing: belatedly pumping out President Jair Bolsonaro’s pent-up excretions.
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[Link] Colombia Police Respond to Protests With Bullets, and Death Toll Mounts
Read: 6/5/2021 www.nytimes.com
The eruption of anger in Colombia, where at least 24 have died as the government cracks down on the protests, could spread to other countries in the region that share the same combustible conditions. BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A teenager shot to death after kicking a police officer.
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