Transnational organized crime

Prisoners flash the MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador.

The ‘alien threat’ street gang MS-13 was actually made in the USA

Conflict

Alex Sanchez, a former MS-13 member, says “people don’t see that we’re human and that we could change.”

Salvadoran killed while waiting on U.S. immigration papers

Small drone used to catch polluting mafioso in the act

Environment
The World

Small Drones Track Mafia Eco-Criminals in Italy

Conflict & Justice

Forty Years Ago: The Godfather Premieres

The World

Organized crime finds opportunity in a recession

The Italian shopkeepers’ association says that Mafia clans are increasingly preying on businesses that can’t get loans from banks. It says around 180,000 firms have already been forced to get the cash they need from organized crime groups.