On March 2, 2012, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, participated in the closing session of the High-Level Hemispheric Meeting against Transnational Organized Crime held in Mexico City, during which he called upon States "not to give in to the magnitude of the work in the fight against the scourge of transnational crime; nor be seduced by the supposedly easy short-term solutions, and above all never surrender to the enemy or reconcile with him.” The meeting began yesterday at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the participation of the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Patricia Espinosa, and the Attorney General, Marisela Morales.
The High Level Hemispheric Meeting against Transnational Organized Crime was also attended by attorneys and prosecutors of the OAS member countries who analyzed specific proposals to streamline government actions against organized crime.
The meeting's agenda included topics such as the importance of effectively combating organized crime through legal and institutional modernization; progress in the region on penalizing criminal activities set in the Palermo Convention; and the strengthening of institutions in the fight against transnational organized crime in the Caribbean, among others.
The governments and internatonal organizations in the Western Hemisphere are strugging to keep pace with gangs and transnational organized crime.
For instance, the Wilson Center has just issued a report in both English and Spanish, the Rebellion of Criminal Networks and the Dynamics of Change http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-rebellion-criminal-networks-organized-crime-latin-america-and-the-dynamics-change.
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