Tag: criminal gangs

• Wednesday, July 14th 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Chilean Mapuches, carrying weapons and Balaklavas bury comrade killed in shootout with police

  

  Chilean officials strongly condemned the display of guns during the funeral of a man who was killed in a shootout with Carabineros following an arson attack, which took place last Friday in an estate in La Araucanía Region.

• Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil promulgates heavy handed anti crime bill

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed into law an anti-crime bill that toughens measures to stem a rampant deadly crime wave, although he vetoed some parts of the bill, the government said on Wednesday.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Troops sent to contain violence in northeast Brazil: criminal gangs challenging Bolsonaro?

  

  Brazil's government ordered troops to the northeast of the country on Friday to contain violence by criminal groups in the first test of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's hard-line law-and-order platform.