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The Soccer Mafia

Parveen's Fight against Karachi's Land Mafia

it was revealed the Main Event Mafia (M.E.M.

One of the journalists who was shot by Sicilian Mafia in 1988.

And in some cases, too, one of the monstrous manifestations of civil society can be an actual mafia.

In Colombia we call these new actors 'bacrim', criminal bands servicing drug trafficking, the armies of mafia cartels.

Once narcotraffickers create mafia networks, these networks expand into kidnapping and extortion.

The emergence of Latin America s powerful drug mafias cannot be traced to the radical evil of certain individuals.

Journalist Fahad Desmukh tweeted his audio interview with Parveen Rehman in which she talks about threats from the land mafia in Karachi

And in São Paulo, student protesters have the added complaint of an alleged fraud scheme dubbed the Lunch Money Mafia involving public servants and politicians.

The interlocking of terrorist groups with elements of the drugs mafia and organized crime creates a serious threat to the development of the processes of democratic reform in these States.

Citizens of Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea or Syria fall into the hands of mafias dealing in human trafficking, who use old fishing boats to carry them to the European coast.

IPED works to increase citizen participation in the Bulgarian government, limiting the influence of the mafia in politics, securing a fair electoral process, and combating corruption and abuse of power.

In 2001, the Central Bureau of Investigation seized all prints of the movie Chori Chori Chupke Chupke after the movie was found to be funded by members of the Mumbai underworld.

Shevardnadze, too, was initially viewed as a symbol of post Soviet Georgian democracy. As a government minister in 1993, however, I was already hearing CIA officials express concern that a Mafia state was being created instead.

It is likely that the Guardian Council, which can veto legislation and bar candidates from standing in elections, will use its power to shift the balance in favor of Ahmadinejad s conservative critics. The anti Ahmadinejad camp s leaders, the brothers Ali and Sadeq Larijani, who head the parliament and judiciary, respectively, will help Khamenei to push the president from the center of power.

Recent grave events in certain parts of the world, indeed on our own continent, clearly show that the international community needs a new approach, through well coordinated action, to overcoming this serious problem, which, as we know, sometimes links drug trafficking mafias with terrorism.

A trained architect, Parveen also worked tirelessly to document land in the ever growing slum and in Karachi, to protect it from the city's notorious land mafia, who she had been receiving death threats from for years.

The movement found new life in São Paulo in May this year after state prosecutors revealed a fraud scheme dubbed the Lunch Money Mafia , in which public servants and politicians gave overpriced meal contracts to suppliers in exchange for bribes.

The emergence of Latin America s powerful drug mafias cannot be traced to the radical evil of certain individuals. These people emerged under conditions created in deeply inequitable societies by a misapplied, inconsistent, and bureaucratic war.