Does a Mexican Drug Kingpin Have a Case Against the DEA? by Andrew Kennis and Jason McGahan, Time Out Chicago The abandoned car of Margarito Flores Sr., a resident of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, was discovered in western Mexico’s Sinaloa… Read moreBEHIND THE CHICAGO CONNECTION
Continue ReadingBEHIND THE CHICAGO CONNECTIONCampesinos in Cajamarca are organizing round-the-clock vigilance at the proposed site of the Conga gold mine, skeptical of official assurances that the project is suspended.
Creditors of the troubled Doe Run Peru company voted to sell the controversial metal smelting complex at La Oroya—dubbed “Peru’s Chernobyl”—to Citibank.
The US Justice Department has frozen the assets of mineral companies owned by Peru’s Sánchez-Paredes family, finding that they are fronts for cocaine trafficking.
