Meeting on Transnational Criminal Youth Gangs: Characteristics, Importance and Public Policies

June 16 and 17, 2005
Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

• Calendar of Activities CICAD/TCYG/doc.2/05 rev.3

• Conclusions CICAD/TCYG/doc.3/05 rev.1

• List of Participants CICAD/TCYG/doc.4/05

• Draft Final Report (CICAD/PDJT/doc.5/05)

• Inauguration

  • Ms. Patricia Olamendi Torres
    Assistant Secretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

  • Mr. Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía
    Governor of the State of Chiapas

  • Dr. Javier Laynez Potisek
    Assistant Attorney General and International Affairs of Mexico Attorney General’s Office (PGR)

  • Mr. Steven Monblatt
    Officer In Charge of the Department of Multidimensional Security of the Organization of American States

• Presentations

  • Criminal youth gangs in Mexico and Central America: A transnational phenomenon.
    Attorney General, State of Chiapas, Mexico, Lic. Mariano Herrán Salvatti.

  • The phenomenon of criminal youth gangs in Central America and the importance of the international cooperation.
    OSR INTERPOL Chief San Salvador Central America, Saul Eliézar Hernández.

  • Criminal youth gangs, their relation with organized crime, and national and international law enforcement strategies to confront it.

    • General Coordinator of Special Investigation Unit of PGR Mexico, Lic. Francisco Peñaloza Montes de Oca.

    • Chief of Drug Prevention Department of Nicaragua National Police, Sub Comisionada Rosa Argentina Vilchez.

    • Barras de Fútbol - Conformación y Problemática
      Luis Hernández González, Comisionado de Policía - Fuerza Publica, Ministerio de Seguridad

  • Public policy and legal frameworks to confront the transnational criminal youth gangs phenomenon.

    • Jefe Delegación Centro, Policía Nacional Civil de El Salvador, Sub Comisionado Wilfredo de Jesús Avelenda.

    • “Public policy and legal frameworks to confront the corruption phenomenon that involves human traffic”.
      Oficial Mayor de la Secretaría de la Función Pública de México, Lic. Francisco Molina Ruiz.

    • Sub Director de Estudios Legislativos de la Dirección General de Normatividad de la Procuraduría General de la República de México, Saúl Cifuentes López.

  • Penitentiary and social reinsertion instruments for transnational criminal youth gangs.

    • “Prison Gangs in Canada - A Multidisciplinary Approach”.
      Mr. Luciano Bentenuto.
      National Project Manager, Organized Crime/Criminal Gangs, Preventive Security & Intelligence Correctional Service Canada, Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness Canada

    • Presidente del Consejo de Menores del Estado, Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Estado de Chiapas, Humberto Carlos Herrera Morales.

  • Information exchange: different mechanisms to encourage it.

    • Officer In Charge of “Centro Nacional de Planeación, Análisis e Infamación para el Combate a la Delincuencia de México (CENAPI), Lic. Avigaí Vargas Tirado, and in coordination with “Centro de Investigación y Seguridad nacional de México (CISEN)”.

    • Vice Director, Chief of Organized Crime and Drugs Division of the General Secretariat of INTERPOL, Salvatore La Barbera.