News of drug violence

Belling terror

16-03-2024 06:41 The solution to drug crime bloodshed in Rosario is far from being as brutally simple as the problem, as some would seem to think.

CRIME & INSECURITY

Rosario is always near

16-03-2024 06:25 As with so many other matters, Argentina’s leaders have not lived up to the challenge of efficiently combatting drug-trafficking. Yet it would be a mistake to confine the responsibility for Rosario’s bloody violence to politics.

by Javier Calvo

CRIME & SECURITY

Federal troops arrive in Rosario as drug violence, paralyses city

14-03-2024 21:53 After a week marked by a wave of violence, murder and drug-trafficking, 450 reinforcements arrive in troubled city, adding to the 2,000 members of the Coast Guard, Border Guard, Federal Police and Airport Security Force who are providing support.

CRIME & SECURITY

Bullrich unveils new protocol for federal forces, relaxes rules on use of weapons

14-03-2024 11:00 Security Minister outlines new protocol for federal security forces, which will allow officers to shoot in order to prevent a criminal from escaping; "We don't want more Chocobar cases," declares Bullrich in reference to notorious 2017 incident.

CRIME & INSECURITY

Drug gangs in Rosario threaten journalist, news network

11-03-2024 18:03 Journalist Nelson Castro and his TN news channel team receive intimidating messages after reporting from the south of Rosario.

CRIME & SECURITY

Santa Fe governor orders Bukele-style tactics for narcos in Rosario

11-03-2024 12:53 Santa Fe Province Governor Maximiliano Pullaro is angering narco bosses with his Bukele-style approach to tackling drug violence in dangerous Rosario.

CRIME & SECURITY

Government sends federal forces to Rosario to tackle drug violence

11-03-2024 12:23 President Javier Milei says he will respond to Governor Maximiliano Pullaro's request and send federal security forces to Rosario to help tackle drug violence.

CRIME & SECURITY

Rosario surpasses grim threshold of 150 homicides

06-07-2023 09:35 Four people killed in just three hours in crime-ridden Rosario; Argentina's second city, with a population of 1.3 million, has already suffered 151 homicides this year.

NIGHTMARE EXPERIENCE

Woman interred alive in Brazil tomb

30-03-2023 14:16 Thirty-six-year-old woman found sealed alive inside a mausoleum wall at a cemetery in Brazil, after surviving around 10 hours inside the narrow tomb.

CRIME & SECURITY

Government reinforces security forces in Rosario amid drug violence

07-03-2023 15:07 President Fernández boosts the number of federal security forces available to authorities in Rosario and says he will send a division of the Army to support efforts to overhaul and urbanise working-class neighbourhoods.

CRIME & SECURITY

Rosario: a death a day in a city on edge from drug-trafficking

07-03-2023 09:37 Three out of every four homicides registered in the city of Rosario are premeditated, observes survey.

Anger in Rosario

Homes of alleged drug-traffickers in Rosario vandalised after child's killing

07-03-2023 07:50 Residents of the working-class neighbourhood of Los Pumitas ransacked and vandalised homes of suspected drug-traffickers on Monday; Vigilante response to death of an 11-year-old child, who was killed in a violence shootout over weekend.

CRIME & SECURITY

Messi’s family threatened by narcos in his hometown of Rosario

02-03-2023 19:28 Several shots were fired early Thursday at a supermarket in Rosario owned by the family of Messi’s wife, Antonela Roccuzzo.

DRUG TRAFFICKING

Ecuador: a new nerve centre for global drug trade

24-11-2022 13:18 Geography and corruption among the main reasons that one of Latin America's smaller countries has evolved into a hotspot for transnational crime.

ECUADOR

At least 15 dead in Ecuadoran prison riots

04-10-2022 15:36 Tactical units sent to re-establish control following fatal clash between inmates and authorities.

ECUADOR

Ecuadorean hate crimes prosecutor murdered

19-09-2022 15:44 Public prosecutor Edgar Escobar gunned down in front of office, the latest in spate of targeted killings.

News of drug violence

Belling terror

Rosario is always near

Federal troops arrive in Rosario as drug violence, paralyses city

Bullrich unveils new protocol for federal forces, relaxes rules on use of weapons

Drug gangs in Rosario threaten journalist, news network

Santa Fe governor orders Bukele-style tactics for narcos in Rosario

Government sends federal forces to Rosario to tackle drug violence

Rosario surpasses grim threshold of 150 homicides

Woman interred alive in Brazil tomb

Government reinforces security forces in Rosario amid drug violence

Rosario: a death a day in a city on edge from drug-trafficking

Homes of alleged drug-traffickers in Rosario vandalised after child's killing

Messi’s family threatened by narcos in his hometown of Rosario

Ecuador: a new nerve centre for global drug trade

At least 15 dead in Ecuadoran prison riots

Ecuadorean hate crimes prosecutor murdered

Congress debates Milei veto of pensions increase

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