CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — Exactly who tracked El Mencho, the world’s most wanted and feared drug lord, to a heavily armed safe house in a remote [...]
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OPINION — In the fall of 2021, an FBI informant received a chilling offer: $300,000 to assassinate former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. [...]
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OPINION — In the fall of 2021, an FBI informant received a chilling offer: $300,000 to assassinate former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. [...]
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DEEP DIVE — When the U.S. intelligence community (IC) declared last week that the greatest danger to American national security is old-fashioned [...]
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DEEP DIVE — When the U.S. intelligence community (IC) declared last week that the greatest danger to American national security is old-fashioned [...]
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Bottom Line:The dark web has long been a place where stolen personal data is bought and sold in staggering numbers, criminals run lucrative drug and [...]
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Bottom Line:The dark web has long been a place where stolen personal data is bought and sold in staggering numbers, criminals run lucrative drug and [...]
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly warned against the “real” and increasingly sophisticated threat from the nexus between criminal [...]
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Kidnappings in Mexico continue to increase, particularly in the states of Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Morelos, Puebla, Zacatecas, and Tabasco. [...]
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Mexico’s homicide rate is surging. Government and independent sources are reporting an up to 18 percent increase for 2016, compared to last year.This [...]
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The increase in violence over the last year has spread evenly across Mexico (as shown in Figure 1 below) which compares state-level intentional [...]
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Earlier this month, a police truck burned on the side of the road in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, with meter high flames melting the interior and the four [...]
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South Africa has come a long way since 1994, when the country was on a knife’s edge, and it seemed civil war was imminent. With strong leadership by [...]
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CSS Tactical (Pty) Ltd, a security company in Johannesburg, South Africa, takes a community policing approach to crime prevention. CEO Ricky Croock [...]
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Illovo Sugar Limited, Africa’s biggest sugar producer, exports raw and refined sugar globally. After crime and conflict in South Africa over land [...]
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Ambassador John Campbell served as a Foreign Service Officer in South Africa during the transition from apartheid to majority rule. He told The [...]
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Violent crime is rising in Brazil and, if past trends hold true, that could be bad for the business community during a time when the Brazilian [...]
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