Asegura HSBC que ha fortalecido lucha contra 'lavado' La institución financiera dijo que la lucha contra el lavado de dinero debe ser un esfuerzo internacional que incluya gobiernos y bancos; añadió que "en el pasado" fallaron en algunas ocasiones HSBC México aseguró que ha dado pasos importantes en los últimos años para fortalecer el control interno y el manejo de riesgos en operaciones financieras que podrían involucrar recursos de procedencia ilícita. El posicionamiento del banco se da luego de que se diera a conocer una investigación del Senado de Estados Unidos donde se señala a esta institución por facilitar el lavado de dinero proveniente del narcotráfico; sólo de 2007 a 2008 habrían transferido unos 7 mil millones de dólares del narcotráfico. Por ello, HSBC en un comunicado expresó su “total disposición” para seguir colaborando en esas materias y aseguró que tiene un compromiso con México y sus autoridades. (Con información de Notimex)
FAQs About Neustar and Our Assistance to Law Enforcement. There has been interest on Capitol Hill and in the press lately about law enforcement requests for information from telephone companies. Scott Blake Harris wrote a blog post to help clarify what we do and do not do. Here is a FAQ with additional information. Over the past five years, how many requests from law enforcement has Neustar processed? During the five-year period encompassing 2007 through 2011, Neustar processed roughly 57,000 subpoena/court order requests from law enforcement on the behalf of our clients, of which about 12,500 were received in 2011. During this same period Neustar processed roughly 400 lawful intercept requests. Does Neustar deny any of the requests it receives? How does Neustar handle these requests? How does Neustar handle cell phone tracking requests from law enforcement?
Isn’t it dangerous for one company to know everyone’s phone number? About Erin Bush. El ABC de la nueva denuncia de la izquierda contra Peña. El Movimiento Progresista denunció la transferencia de recursos millonarios a Monex para adquirir tarjetas de prepago, las cuales habrían sido utilizadas para comprar votos u operar para el PRI Jaime Cárdenas, asesor jurídico del Movimiento Progresista, expuso el miércoles una nueva denuncia que presentarán ante el Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF) por un presunto uso de recursos ilícitos en la campaña presidencial de Enrique Peña Nieto, con el fin de sumar elementos para lograr la invalidez de la elección del 1 de julio. Te presentamos los detalles de la nueva denuncia, que se basa en una supuesta triangulación millonaria que implicaría a algunas “empresas” en la compra y carga de tarjetas electrónicas que habrían sido utilizadas para dos fines: pagar a operadores electorales y comprar votos.
A) La operación de Inizzio y Efra B) Los depósitos Se trata de Comercializadora Atama S.A. de C.V., Grupo Koleos S. A. de C. C) Las coincidencias. Leaving Washington's backyard. Rain clouds ringed the lush hillsides and poor neighbourhoods cradling Caracas, Venezuela as dozens of Latin American and Caribbean heads of state trickled out of the airport and into motorcades and hotel rooms. They were gathering for the foundational summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a new regional bloc aimed at self-determination outside the scope of Washington's power. Notably absent were the presidents of the US and Canada - they were not invited to participate.
"It's the death sentence for the Monroe Doctrine," Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said of the creation of the CELAC, referring to a US policy developed in 1823 that has served as a pretext for Washington's interventions in the region. The CELAC meeting comes at a time when Washington's presence in the region is waning. The global economic crisis was on many of the leaders' minds during the CELAC conference. The US, for its part, did not send a word of congratulations. Time for a new geopolitical climate bloc. For some time now, the world has been subjected to the tragic, Kabuki-like display of political leaders announcing that reaching a significant climate deal is impossible and will have to wait until the next summit.
The recently concluded climate conference held in Durban, South Africa, also known as COP-17, averted a full scale disaster, but failed to deliver on a meaningful deal. Significantly, the battle lines are now becoming clearer, with the 27-member European Union or EU, the 39-member AOSIS or Alliance of Small Island Nations and the Least Developed Countries or LDCs [a 48-country bloc comprised of such drought-prone states as Ethiopia and Mali, coastal nations such as Bangladesh and Tanzania and other countries concerned about disappearing glaciers including Bhutan and Nepal] pushing for a positive agreement.
On the other hand, the US and big emerging emitters have sought to shirk their responsibilities. At times, it seemed as if Durban would become an utter fiasco. Arms makers and the limits of responsibility. Melbourne, Australia - This is the second in a three-part essay that explores an often neglected aspects of corporate responsibility: the paradox of a "responsible" arms maker. The author argues that the impact on society - inherent in the deployment and threat of weapon use - makes a standard of corporate responsibility difficult to apply. Instead, the author argues, those interested in corporate behaviour must view such firms through a "corporate social irresponsibility" lens, a strategy that identifies and allows a response to be made to normative developments, through proactive engagement and divestment strategies.
In this chapter, the author examines the current limits of arms makers' responsibilities before engaging with the problem of institutional investment in cluster munitions producers in Part Three. if you missed it, read Part One for an introduction to the concept of corporate social irresponsibility. Australian statutes enshrine this chain of logic.
Peña Nieto: “Los alumnos superaron al partido señalado como maestro” en fraude electoral. (CNNEspañol.com) – El virtual ganador de las elecciones de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, rechazó las acusaciones de fraude en la elección presidencial de ese país. En entrevista con Andrés Oppenheimer, Peña Nieto se refirió a los objetivos de su gobierno y a las versiones de opositores frente a las irregularidades en la votación. “No hubo compra de votos. Simplemente hay un señalamiento de descalificación de un partido que no ha podido reconocer el resultado de las elecciones y que se ha valido de señalamientos infundados que no tienen prueba alguna”, dijo. Oppenheimer recordó la historia de prácticas de compra de votos y fraudes electorales en México, en la que el PRI –partido al cual pertenece Peña Nieto- ha tenido varios escándalos.
“Con respecto a este tipo de prácticas, los alumnos y otros partidos superaron al partido señalado como maestro de este tema”, dijo Peña Nieto, que considera que ese tipo de acciones se han ido desterrando. The paradox of a 'responsible' arms maker. Melbourne, Australia - This is the first in a three-part essay that explores an often neglected aspect of corporate responsibility: the paradox of being a "responsible" arms maker.
The author argues that the "negative externalities" - or the impact on society - inherent in the deployment and threat of the use of weapons makes the standard of corporate responsibility difficult to apply. Instead, the author argue, those interested in corporate behaviour should view such firms through a "corporate social irresponsibility" lens, a strategy that identifies and allows a response to be made to normative developments, through proactive engagement and divestment strategies. In this chapter, the author introduces the concept of corporate social irresponsibility. The next chapter will examine the current limits of the responsibility of arms makers, before the problem of institutional investment in cluster munitions producers is addressed in Part Three.
Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934. "Tareando" by Lamborghini Avg. US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico - Features. It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel - and left rotting in a pile outside a ranch in Tamaulipas state near the US border in late August. The Zetas have a fearsome reputation, but the real surprise comes not in their ruthless use of violence, but in the origins of where they learned the tricks of their bloody trade. Some of the cartel's initial members were elite Mexican troops, trained in the early 1990s by America’s 7th Special Forces Group or "snake eaters" at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a former US special operations commander has told Al Jazeera.
“They were given map reading courses, communications, standard special forces training, light to heavy weapons, machine guns and automatic weapons,” says Craig Deare, the former special forces commander who is now a professor at the US National Defence University. Military forces from around the world train at Ft. Mexico: Impunity and profits - Fault Lines. No reprieve for French woman jailed in Mexico - Americas. Mexico hit by 7.6-magnitude earthquake - Americas. A major earthquake has struck Mexico, damaging buildings, scaring residents and prompting evacuations from buildings, although there were no reports of serious damage.
Office buildings shook and office employees fled into the street when the 7.6-magnitude quake rattled Mexico City on Tuesday. Al Jazeera's Franc Contreras, reporting from Mexico City, said mobile phone lines went down and traffic snarled in the capital moments after the quake, which lasted for more than a minute. "It was the longest earthquake I have ever felt in my life. Much of the part of Mexico where the quake struck, near Acapulco, has been cut off from the outside world, due to broken phone lines. " Television images showed part of a bridge collapsed onto a vehicle on Tuesday. "I swear I never felt one so strong, I thought the building was going to collapse," said Sebastian Herrera, 42, a businessman from a neighbourhood hit hard in Mexico's devastating 1985 earthquake, which killed thousands. Pope will meet a more modern Mexico - Americas.
Mexico prepares to welcome Pope - Americas. Pope Benedict XVI is on his way to Mexico, where criticism over the Vatican's handling of a clergy sex abuse scandal is likely to cloud his first visit to the country. The pontiff left Rome airport on Friday morning and is due to be greeted by Mexican President Felipe Calderon when he lands at Guanajuato airport later in the day. The head of the Roman Catholic Church, who turns 85 next month, will also visit the cities of Leon and Silao before heading on to Cuba during the six-day trip. Benedict's trip comes at a time when national church leaders are fighting to overcome their share of the global child sex-abuse scandal, which destroyed the reputation of the most influential Mexican figure in the church. Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ order, faced accusations that he had molested eight minors before he died in 2008.
Church documents released in a book this week reveal the Vatican had been told of Maciel's drug abuse and pederasty decades ago. Drug war. Obama calls Florida teen killing 'tragedy' - Americas. US President Barack Obama has called for a full investigation into the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a neighbourhood watch guard. In a press conference on Friday, the American president said "if I had a son he would look like Trayvon". Obama went on to call the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin a "tragedy". Obama, the first black president of the United States, also said the nation needed to do some "soul searching" to figure out what led to the death hoodie-clad teenager's death. "When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids" Obama said. Obama said that he welcomed investigations into Martin's death by both the US Justice Department and the governor of Florida.
Obama's announcement came hours after the police chief of the Florida town where Martin was killed said he would temporarily step down from his job, saying his role in the investigation had become too much of a distraction. “We want permanent justice!” 'Self-appointed watchman' Three in running for World Bank job - Americas. A US-nominated Korean-born president of an Ivy League university, Nigeria's finance minister and a Colombian economist have been confirmed as the three candidates contesting to become the next leader of the World Bank. US President Barack Obama, whose country traditionally selects the president of the global lender, said on Friday that it was nominating Jim Yong Kim for the role.
But Kim, president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, faces challenges from Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Colombia's Jose Antonio Ocampo as emerging economies seek to exert more influence over an institution that plays a crucial and often criticised role in global development. "He's worked from Asia to Africa to the Americas - from capitals to small villages," Obama said on Friday, referring to Kim, a US national who moved to the country as a child. African choice Emerging nations also want to see the bank focus more on helping their economies develop and less on traditional poverty-fighting aid. Thousands rally in US against Florida killing - Americas. Thousands have rallied across in cities across the United States to protest the shooting death last month of a 17-year-old Florida teenager, in a case that has made headlines around the world. Trayvon Martin was killed nearly a month ago in a suburb of Orlando, Florida, by George Zimmerman, 28, who was volunteering as a neighbourhood watch security enforcer.
Moments before the shooting, Zimmerman had called police to report a suspicious person in the neighbourhood. After a confrontation, he shot and killed Martin who was walking back from a convenience store to a house in the Sanford neighbourhood where the teen father's fiancee lived. Dressed in "hoodie" sweatshirts like the one Martin was wearing when he was shot, and chanting "no justice, no peace", protesters in cities including Washington DC, Chicago, Tampa and Nashville demanded the arrest of Zimmerman, as part of a case that many feel demonstrates racism embedded in US law and society. Widespread condemnation "We'll find him.
US Afghan shooting trial to be 'long process' - Americas. A top US Army general has said that the case against US soldier Robert Bales, charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder over the pre-dawn massacre of Afghan villagers, is set to be a "long process". General Lloyd Austin, the deputy chief of staff of the US army, was speaking from Joint Base Lewis-McChord shortly after Bales was officially charged on Friday. Austin said that the charging of the staff sergeant was merely the first step in the process of trying the soldier.
In an interview on Friday, John Henry Browne, the attorney representing Bales, also spoke of a trial that could take years to iron out. The Seattle-based attorney said of the impending case itself, "my first reaction to all of this is: prove it ... This isgoing to be a very difficult case for the government to prove in my opinion. Eight Marines were charged in that case, but plea deals and promises of immunity in exchange for testimony meant no prison sentences were ever issued. Premeditated murder Afghan reaction. 'No charges' over Pakistan border strike - Central & South Asia. Guatemala proposes legalisation of drugs - Americas. Pope calls for protection of Mexican children - Americas. Senegal's Wade concedes election defeat - Africa.