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Internet spreads Mexico drug gang fears - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Internet spreads Mexico drug gang fears - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos: "Internet is playing a growing role in Mexico's drug war, spreading both information and fear, at a time when many journalists have been scared into silence.
Drug gangs have long used warnings scrawled on sheets pinned up on bridges, or even gruesome beheadings to sow fear, but the Internet, and mobile phones, have taken their messages to a wider audience."

 
 

Somali gangs building crime empires in the UK

Somali gangs building crime empires in the UK: "Drugs, guns and knives plague two Somali communities, in London and Liverpool.
On the tough backstreets of Toxteth, Liverpool, kids were walking home from school as Somali dealers as young as 14 sold crack cocaine outside a grotty corner shop.
Some of the gangsters were born in Liverpool. Others had fled their war-ravaged nation at an early age.
The paper quoted a 24-year-old ex-gang member, who had served four years in jail for attempted murder, as saying: “When you grow up surrounded by rape and murder and violence and war, anything’s going to be a better life. (ANI)"

 
 
 
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