Transitional Crime And Terrorism

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Transitional Crime

• The primary transitional crimes in Mexico are drug, vehicle, and arms trafficking, and money laundering

  • Presidents of Mexico go into office to make money (off drugs)

  • Thousands of cars are smuggled each day from the United States

    • Police make money by bribing the thieves

  • organizations that smuggle illegal immigrants

• Treaties regarding transitional crime:

  • Drug control treaties with Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

  • Minors Trafficking Treaty with Belize, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

  • Interrogational Kidnapping Treaty with the United States of America.

  • Motor Vehicles Theft Treaty with El Salvador.

  • Sentence Execution Treaty with Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, and Guatemala.

  • Supply of equipment for exclusive national police use with the United States of America

Terrorism

• Al Qaeda

  • Emissaries are looking to tap into well-worn smuggling routes along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.

  • There is pattern of terrorist suspects exploring opportunities to get hold of Mexican passports and documents and infiltrating into the U.S. through Mexico

• Mayan Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)

  • A group of rebels that protest the governments corruption and inequality.

  • Masked and uniformed armed group of several hundred.

  • Focus is primarily the police and government-not civilians.

• Popular Revolutionary Army

  • AK-47 carrying guerrillas

  • Manifesto-to overthrow the anti-popular, anti-democratic, demagogic, and illegitimate government that panders to national and foreign capital interests

  • Target police stations and governments offices

• Democratic Popular Revolutionary Party

  • Represent 14 different guerrilla groups.

  • Insurgents operating to destroy the government