http://charonqc.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-home-office-has-finally-administered-the-coup-de-grace-on-common-sense-and-civil-liberties

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Sir Michael Foot, a former Bank of England official and Bahamas bank inspector, will demand that island paradises must take greater responsibility for their economic futures. He is likely to emphasise that offshore jurisdictions will have no one to blame but themselves if they get into financial difficulties. Foot is also expected to say they have no excuse not to abide by anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance benchmarks.

It is understood the government has particular concerns over the ability of Anguilla and Montserrat to ride out the economic storm. The Caribbean islands have been affected by the decline in financial services and US tourism.

In the event of further economic deterioration, certain Caribbean islands could become failed states and be dragged into the illegal drugs trade, Whitehall insiders have said recently.

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http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2009/11/have-los-pepes-touched-down-in/

Will vigilantes in Mexico succeed where the police and army have failed? Will it take a Mexican "Los Pepes" movement to effectively battle Mexico's drug cartels? Two recent stories from Mexico hint that Mexico's "Los Pepes" may have arrived.

The "Los Pepes" I refer to was the shadowy vigilante group that in the early 1990s methodically reduced Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar from a Latin American emperor to a cornered animal. As described in Mark Bowden's brilliant Killing Pablo, Los Pepes, obviously enjoying access to the full intelligence file on Escobar’s vast organization, systematically murdered or chased into exile the concentric rings of Escobar's supporting infrastructure. ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's war on drugs took a grim twist this week, as a prominent mayor said he had created an undercover group of operatives to "clean up" criminal elements -- even if it had to act outside the law. Underscoring why the mayor may have felt compelled to take such steps, the new police chief in a neighboring town, a retired brigadier general, was shot and killed Wednesday, four days after taking up his post.
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His comments came a day after four men who allegedly ran a kidnapping ring in San Pedro were found dead in Mexico City on Saturday. The men, led by Héctor "The Black" Saldaña, were believed responsible for multiple kidnappings in San Pedro and neighboring Monterrey, according to police in Monterrey and San Pedro. The four are believed to be tied to a drug cartel, police said.

The men's bodies showed signs of torture, Mexico City police said, and next to them lay a note: "That's for being a kidnapper. Signed: The boss of bosses. Job 38:15." The Bible passage from the Book of Job reads "The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken."

Mr. Fernández took his oath of office on Saturday, delivering a speech in which he told a crowd of supporters that he had good news: Mr. Saldaña and his accomplices, who had terrorized the town, were dead. The crowd gave him a standing ovation, according to media reports.

Mexico City police discovered the bodies of the four men several hours after the mayor said they were dead, and the men weren't identified by police as the alleged kidnappers until two days later.
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