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...UHS’s amnesty policy was downright illogical. Mr. Knudson repeatedly invokes the 43 percent rise in UHS admissions since 2005 as overwhelmingly definitive proof of his argument. Yet in the Feb. 17 Crimson article upon which Mr. Knudson based his work, both Ryan Travia of Alcohol and Drug Services and Paul J. Barreira of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling stated that given the statistics, the causes of the increase in hospitalizations are unclear. Does Mr. Knudson have special knowledge that would lead him to a conclusion contradicting two experts whose jobs are to be knowledgeable about this very...
...Twitter is a serious problem not only to Mexican law-enforcement agencies but to any law or intelligence agencies all over the world, because criminals, drug cartels and terrorist cells are getting more sophisticated in their methods of communication," says Ghaleb Krame, a security expert at Mexico's Alliant International University. Krame says criminal organizations are using Twitter and other social networks to communicate with one another through key words that mean something different to people outside their circles. For example, drug cartels will post videos of corridos, or ballads, about the narco world on YouTube with lyrics that contain...
...Mexican drug cartels apparently use Twitter and Facebook not only to communicate with one another, but also to spread fear through local communities. Recently in the bloody border town of Reynosa, people associated with one cartel used tweets to terrorize Reynosa by posting messages that created panic among residents and halted normal activities as the threats circulated online. One such message read, "The largest scheduled shootout in the history of Reynosa will be tomorrow or Sunday, send this message to people you trust that tomorrow a convoy of 60 trucks full of cartel hitmen from the Michoacan Family together with...
...social-media companies themselves are not targets of the bill, just their Mexican users; Twitter and Facebook have warned their users to obey Mexican law.) The bill's sponsor, Norberto Nazario, says he wants to create an online police force that would keep abreast of the ways drug cartels and kidnapping rings are using the Internet for crime. He adds that sharing information about the actions of police should be illegal, especially during the country's fierce drug...
...allowed citizens to become amateur journalists, thus fulfilling a huge need in Mexico, where many broadcast and print media outlets have refrained from publishing certain news stories because of the threat of retribution from the cartels. Four journalists have been killed this year because of reporting on drug-related issues...