This is 'virtual kidnapping,' the name being given to Mexico's latest crime craze, one that has capitalized on the raw nerves of a country that has been terrorized by the real thing for years."PaulMcNamaraEBSCO_bspNetwork World
The Sun's headline that year referred to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of 11 Israeli athletes and a West German police officer by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympics. The conflict in the Middle East was no longer contained to the Middle East, and terrorism was now a global e...
They use these to go undetected in their silent, deadly kidnappings. Often, the first a driver knows is when a passing car tosses out a spray of bent nails to puncture his tires. Vehicles pull up front and rear to cut him off. The driver is bundled into another car. All that is lef...
I never had Mexico City on my travel wish list. Not only is Mexico City in Mexico, a country of kidnappings and murders according to most media reports, but it’s one of the largest cities in the world. I assumed it would be chaotic and dirty and, yes, dangerous. I half expected t...
The gangs, along with many Haitian politicians and business people, earn money from an illicit brew of “taxes” gleaned through extortion, kidnappings and drugs and weapons smuggling, Fatton said. “There are all kinds of criminal networks in the area,” h...
The political marriage between the federal liberals and NDP is over, and that means Canadians could be headed to the polls sooner than expected. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announced he was leaving the agreement with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals that’s keeping the government in power after ...
It’s Episode 410 and we just want to be hot potatoes in a prime nap zone. Today Em brings us the wild hauntings of an elementary school turned steakhouse saloon, the Adobe Deli, formerly the Lewis Flats School in New Mexico. Then Christine brings us the case of Mike Barajas, where th...
As he put it in an interview withThe Independentof the UK: So there is a very tight connection between fear of getting infected and disgust. And what better tool for eliminating disgusting material than toilet paper? I think this is how it became a conditioned symbol of safety." ...
In the meantime, there are people like Rudy Menchaca, an Eagle Pass bar owner who also works for a company that imports Corona beer from Mexico and blamed the problems at the border for hurting business. Menchaca is the kind of Hispanic voter Biden is counting on to back...
What state has the highest kidnapping? Phoenix, Arizonahas become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. What is the most famous unsolved murders in history?