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...arrest of the 23-year-old Zuniga - who was also the reigning beauty queen in her native state of Sinaloa - provided some variety in the news for a nation weary of piles of corpses and vicious firefights in its relentless drug war. Newspapers plastered their front pages with images of Zuniga in bikinis and high heels. All seemed to be competing for the wittiest headlines. "Miss Narco," blared the tabloid El Metro. "Miss Sinaloa and the Seven Narcos," said the normally high-brow El Universal. She was compared to the heroine of Queen of the South, a fictional work about...
...Harris County prosecutor's office (which was roiled by the departure of its elected District Attorney over a sex-and-e-mail scandal) brought only two capital cases this year. One ended in a tough plea bargain and a 60-year sentence; the other, involving the vicious murder of a police officer, shocked the city's legal community when the defendant was convicted but spared the death penalty and given a life sentence...
Public security in Mexico has all but collapsed under the blood-soaked weight of a drug cartel war and an equally vicious convulsion of criminal abduction. Kidnapping is such a booming business south of the border that an astonishing 5% of the country's 106 million people report having been a victim or having known one, according to a new survey by the Mexican polling firm Gabinete de Comunicacion Estrategica. In the same poll, 45% of Mexicans who have a phone line said they've been victims of telephone extortion, in which persons call a residence, claim they've abducted...
...Lebanese were killed. The Israelis expected little to come of it, understanding too late just how frustrated the Lebanese Shi'a were - frustrated by their own government, by the Palestinians, by the Americans, by the French, as well as by the invading Israelis. Nabatiyah quickly metastasized into a vicious 17-year guerrilla war. It would turn out to be Hizballah's Boston Tea Party, and led to Israel's first defeat in the field of battle when Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000. For us, though, Nabatiyah should be a crucial lesson in how a small act of defiance...
...spike in drug-violence in Guatemala coincides with the crackdown on organized crime in Mexico, which that country's president, Felipe Calderon, declared two years ago upon taking office. Since then gnarly murders and vicious turf wars have broken out in both Mexico and Guatemala, as traffickers seek to reposition their operations. Mexican cartels are also looking to control routes along the highly porous Guatemala-Mexico border and elsewhere in Central America. "Now there's an all-out struggle to see who gets to dominate this link in the drug trafficking chain," says Bagley. The contenders include Mexico...