BBC News: "Cartels are influencing elections by threatening politicians and even running their own candidates, OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security Adam Blackwell said.
He was speaking at an OAS conference on transnational crime in Mexico City. The two-day meeting brings together prosecutors from across Latin America.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon told delegates that countries in the Americas needed to work together to defeat gangs."In the face of transnational organised crime, we must create an international front where societies and governments are not faced with resolving this challenge alone," he said." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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