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The Northern Triangle of Central America as a PMSC Powerhouse

The Northern Triangle of Central America as a PMSC Powerhouse

Situated between drug producers in the Andean Ridge nations and their consumer clientele in North America, the geographic landscape and vast terrain of the Northern Triangle of Central America, a region composed of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, is a primary passageway for narcotics and weapons. The region’s dense jungles and rural, sparsely populated areas provide ocean or land-borne traffickers with sufficient cover and discretion, especially due to its alignment to roadways and trails leading north through Mexico (USMC 2012:2-3).
The truth about what happened at Qalandiyah Checkpoint must be disclosed immediately

The truth about what happened at Qalandiyah Checkpoint must be disclosed immediately

On the 2nd May this year 2016, two Palestinian siblings were shot by security guards at the north Jerusalem checkpoint of Qalandiyah according to the Justice Ministry department that investigates police officers. "The killing of Maram Abu Ismail, a 23-year-old mother of two small children, and her brother Ibrahim Taha, 16, raises questions and serious suspicions", Israel's newspaper Haaretz stated.