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A Record 29,000 Mexicans Were Murdered Last Year - Can Soldiers Stop The Bloodshed?, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

A Record 29,000 Mexicans Were Murdered Last Year - Can Soldiers Stop The Bloodshed?, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Exactly 234,966 people have died in Mexico's 11-year drug war. Now the government wants to deploy soldiers to criminal hot spots, a move many fear will just increase violence and weaken the police.


Mexico Seeks To Become 'Country Of Refuge' As Us Cracks Down On Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Mexico Seeks To Become 'Country Of Refuge' As Us Cracks Down On Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Trump's anti-immigrant policies are leading more Central Americans to stay put in Mexico. Mexico's presidential candidates have a lot to say about that, and none of it involves mass deportations.


Dozens Of Migrants Disappear In Mexico As Central American Caravan Pushes Northward, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Dozens Of Migrants Disappear In Mexico As Central American Caravan Pushes Northward, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Two trucks carrying migrants have gone missing in Veracruz, Mexico. A witness says that '65 children and seven women were sold' to a band of armed men. Other caravan members have reached the border.


Amnesty For Drug Traffickers? That's One Mexican Presidential Candidate's Pitch To Voters, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Amnesty For Drug Traffickers? That's One Mexican Presidential Candidate's Pitch To Voters, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Mexico's presidential front-runner wants to end violence in Mexico by pardoning drug traffickers and corrupt officials. Some 235,000 people have died in the country's 11-year cartel war.


Mexico Elects A Leftist President Who Welcomes Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2018

Mexico Elects A Leftist President Who Welcomes Migrants, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and career outsider, won Mexico's July 1 presidential election in a landslide. The US-Mexico relationship is about to change.


Perspectives On The Organisation And Control Of The Illicit Traffic In Antiquities In South East Asia, Christine Adler, Duncan Chappell, Kenneth Polk Jan 2009

Perspectives On The Organisation And Control Of The Illicit Traffic In Antiquities In South East Asia, Christine Adler, Duncan Chappell, Kenneth Polk

Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)

We intend addressing three issues in till paper. First we will describe in detail not available elsewhere the patterns that are found in the illicit traffic in antiquities that flow out of Southeast Asia in particular from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar Thailand and Vietnam. Second, we shall examine the focus of organized crime that have emerged in order to support that traffic. Third, we will propose initiatives that are both focused on the demand end of the market chain (rather than on the supply end), and on tho e approaches than give emphasis to persuasion' rather than punishment and prohibition.