GOMEZ FARIAS, Tamaulipas — Human rights activists searching for cartel victims found an extermination field used by Los Zetas to bury and incinerate at least 500 near a UNESCO-protected ecological biosphere.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Mientras que el la vecina ciudad de Reynosa los enfrentamientos continúan a la orden del día, esta ciudad recientemente ha podido evitar mucha de la violencia. Sin embargo, durante un enfrentamiento reciente aparentemente murió uno de los líderes del crimen organizado presuntamente responsable de haber cocinado a cientos de personas en las afueras de la ciudad.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — While authorities and cartel gunmen have been fighting for days Reynosa, this border city has managed to avoid most of the recent violence. However during a recent gun battle, one of the most feared cartel leaders allegedly responsible for having incinerated hundreds of victims was killed.
A new report from Amnesty International charges the Syrian government with systematically executing political dissidents at the Saydnaya military prison.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León — Mexican authorities continue working to identify bodies that were discovered inside a mass grave used by the Los Zetas Cartel.
Authorities in this border state continue working to identify human remains discovered in a shallow grave near the Texas border. The discovery was made by three ranchers near the rural community of Tio Pio. According to information provided by Coahuila state authorities, the community’s leader Herminio Gonzalez along with two other ranchers had been walking around the rural area rounding up a herd of cattle when they came across a bushy area where they saw a red blanket that had been used to wrap the body.
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and the leadership of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have confirmed that the two will not sign a peace deal on March 23 that would have allowed FARC leaders to return to Colombia as previously planned.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) negotiators have dismissed a March deadline for peace talks with the Colombian government as “naive,” as the terrorist organization demands more concessions from a government looking to end terrorist violence through dialogue.
The Colombian government’s attempt to legitimize the FARC terrorist organization has resulted in the emboldening of the world’s wealthiest non-jihadist terror group, details the Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady.
In a report released Thursday, the African Union has accused soldiers in South Sudan’s civil war of a harrowing list of atrocities against civilians, including rape, mutilation, burning alive, and forced cannibalism.
Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, head of Rwanda’s intelligence agency, has been arrested in the UK on behalf of Spain for an array of crimes allegedly committed following the end of the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 dead. Rwanda is calling the arrest an “atrocity” and “unacceptable” attempt by Europe to “degrade Africa.”
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the “wanton carnage” of the jihadist terror group Boko Haram, noting that, should many of the human rights violations reportedly committed by the group be confirmed, they could be found guilty of crimes against humanity.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told Euronews the CIA and Israel’s national intelligence agency, the Mossad, took part in the creation of the Islamic State and Boko Haram. He also suggested forces not focus on military action against the radical Islamic terrorist groups, since violence could cause more extremism.
