Word: seguridad
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Call him Gabriel. For eight years he was a consultant for the Direccion Federal de Seguridad, Mexico's internal-security police. Today he is one of the most articulate and useful informants on the drug-related corruption that has allegedly tainted Mexico's law-enforcement establishment. Gabriel overflows with stories of gunrunning, bribery, violence and death, much of it perpetrated by his old agency. Information provided by him has put U.S. investigators on the trail of major trafficking organizations abetted by corrupt Mexican officials. He recently met with TIME Correspondent Elaine Shannon to recount some of his adventures...
...more than 700 people have died through political violence, and unofficial estimates put kidnapings at over 250. Largely as a result, Buenos Aires now has 200 or so licensed protection agencies, although most of the business is done by a dozen top firms. One of the largest is Organization Seguridad Integral, S.A., run by Luis P. Occhiuzzi Agrelo, a retired commissary inspector of the federal police. O.S.I, can draw on a supply of 1,000 men, mostly former soldiers and police or moonlighting off-duty cops, for special missions. About 100 of them have been given special anti-kidnaping training...
...urged to live in a central residential area patrolled by embassy cars. Like most ranking Argentine politicians, U.S. Ambassador Robert C. Hill travels in an armored car, surrounded by a flotilla of heavily armed vehicles. The armor for many of the vulnerable VIPs is provided by Protection Argentina y Seguridad, a company that started out building armored trucks for banks. "We can make a car like James Bond's, with all his devices in it," claims Miguel Angel Caballero, the company's director. "The only thing we haven't managed yet is to make one that will...
...Franco chose more-perhaps much more-of the rigid policies that have governed the country since its Civil War. The new President will be Carlos Arias Navarro, 65, who was Spain's top cop as head of the Dirección General de Seguridad, the national security police, from 1957 to 1965. After that he became mayor of Madrid and last June he was made Interior Minister, in charge of state security, in Carrero Blanco's Cabinet. A harsh advocate of law-and-order, he has a wide following among the ultra-right wing, which criticized even...
...example to possible troublemakers, the government gave savage 12-to 20-year sentences to ten leftists convicted of organizing underground labor unions. To show that the state was secure and that the plot against Carrero Blanco had been uncovered, the Seguridad announced within 48 hours the results of its investigation. It pinpointed six members of the Basque separatist organization, the E.T.A., who it said were involved in the assassination...