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...site Venture Hacks lists Hoan Ton-That as the sole member of HappyAppy Inc, a relationship that was confirmed by Hoan’s lawyer, Andre Gharakhanian of Silicon Legal Strategy...
...Pacific and the Caribbean - has quietly emerged as Central America's must-discover hidden gem. And no wonder. With its mix of the eco (dense tropical rain forests), urban (a Miami-like skyline) and aquatic (crystalline diving sites), Panama is an all-in-one destination where the dollar is legal tender - and still manages to go a long...
...contrast to all the bloodletting and legal gymnastics that surrounded extradition in the 1980s and '90s, sending Colombian criminal suspects north has of late become an almost everyday ritual. In December, drug lord Diego Montoya - a.k.a. Don Diego, or the Boss of Bosses in Colombia's underworld - was extradited to the U.S., where he had been on the FBI's most-wanted list along with Osama bin Laden. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has dispatched nearly 800 thugs to the U.S. - about two per week - since he was first elected in 2002. That is 10 times more than his predecessor, Andres...
...European Court of Human Rights," says Lev Ponomaryov, a leading human-rights activist, "that it is this ideal system that will resolve everyone's case, and compared to our system, it is perfect, which I think is partially true - but many do misuse it and file cases without exhausting legal means at home." According to Ponomaryov, there are some basic reasons Russians do not like their own courts: "We have this inherited Soviet mentality, where judges can't conceive that in a case where the government is involved, the government could lose." Corruption is another major reason for disillusionment. "Khodorkovsky...
...critics have begun to question the trend. They call extradition an expensive, overused legal procedure and one that - like most drug-war tools - has failed to stem the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S. "Every day we extradite more people, but the problem continues," says Maria Victoria Llorente, director of the Bogotá think tank Ideas for Peace. (While the U.S. says Colombia's cocaine production has decreased from 680 tons in 2002 to 535 tons in 2007, the United Nations says it has increased from 580 tons to 630 in the same period...