Brazil sends troops as border town residents attack Venezuelans aljazeera.com reported extra troops to be deployed after Brazilians drive migrants back home over robbery and stabbing blamed on Venezuelans. Brazil says it will send additional troops to its northern frontier after residents of one of its border towns attacked Venezuelan immigrants, forcing hundreds of them […]
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aljazeera.com – Ecuador has declared a state of emergency in three northern states after a large influx of migrants from crisis-ridden Venezuela entered the country via Colombia. (Carchi, Pinchincha and El Oro province)s The move is intended to help establish the infrastructure to support the new arrivals, who do not have humanitarian refugee status in […]
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According to official figures, there are a total of 7,000 Ecuadorian troops in the border area with Colombia. Ecuador’s defense minister, Patricio Zambrano, asked the Colombian government to safeguard the border to prevent residual groups of the demobilized guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from trying to enter Ecuadorian territory. “The conflict […]
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SENTENCING SET FOR LATE FEBRUARY, 2018, TRIED TO SMUGGLE BENGAL CUB THROUGH BORDER AT SAN DIEGO IN DECEMBER OF 2017 SAN DIEGO (COURTHOUSE NEWS) — An 18-year-old Southern California man faces up to five years in federal prison after admitting on Tuesday that he smuggled a 6-week-old tiger cub into the United States from Mexico. […]
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TELEAMAZONAS.COM (MACHINE TRANSLATED) The exodus of Venezuelans does not end on the Ecuadorian-Colombian border, with at least 2,000 migrants a day in recent weeks. Interprovincial transport increases the number of extra frequencies, to transfer migrants to different destinations in the country. Source: Teleamazonas.com SAFETY, SECURITY, HEALTH IN ECUADOR – READ THIS BOOK
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BUZZFEED.COM / Federal officials are planning to collect social media information on all immigrants, including permanent residents and naturalized citizens, a move that has alarmed lawyers and privacy groups worried about how the information will be used.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the new rule in the Federal Register last week, saying it wants […]
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INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK dialogo-americas.com – Operation Ostium, conducted by the Brazilian Air Force (FAB, per its Portuguese acronym) since March, has reduced suspect air traffic on Brazil’s borders with Bolivia and Paraguay by 80 percent. The operation has reinforced surveillance of the region’s air space with the temporary installation […]
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Washington Post – CURUGUATY, Paraguay — Paraguay is a global marijuana powerhouse: The small South American country produces 9 percent of the world’s supply. But until recently, it wasn’t common there to see drug raids or hear helicopters thumping overhead in search of plantations. That’s all changing. Last June, Paraguay’s most prominent crime lord was killed by […]
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Strikers block border crossings from Peru to Bolivia Lima, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) (machine translated) Striking teachers blocked road traffic in the southern Andean region of Puno, blocking access to vehicles at the border crossing points to Bolivia, radio stations reported. territory. The report notes that strikers block rocks and logs from various points along […]
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number of foreigners seeking to enter Ecuador, from Colombia, increased in Rumichaca El Comercio / The Migration Office of Ecuador, located on the International Bridge of Rumichaca, on the border with Colombia, increased from 6 to 13 windows of attention to the public. This seeks to expedite the procedures of the growing number of foreign […]
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panampost.com/elena toledo – The Ecuadorian government informed Peru of its decision to halt the construction of a border wall that had strained diplomatic relations between the two countries. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa made the announcement on the decision to stop the controversial construction project during her visit to Peru. “Ecuador‘s Foreign Ministry confirms […]
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voanews.com Peru has recalled its ambassador to Ecuador after Quito refused to stop building a wall along a canal separating the two, Peru’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Monday as both countries expressed concern over flood risks. Peru said construction of the concrete wall, part of an urban revival project, violates a peace treaty signed […]
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Víctor Gómez/ELUNIVERSO.COM Ecuador on alert for foot and mouth deisease after cases reported in COlombiavwaa8boj.jpg Ecuador will intensify the control of the sanitary guide of cattle mobilization, added the county director zone 1 of Agrocalidad. Sucumbíos – Ecuador has put itself on alert and takes preventive measures to avoid a possible contagion of foot-and-mouth disease […]
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insightcrime.org/Tristan Clavel Authorities in Colombia dismantled a cocaine processing laboratory in the department of Putumayo along the border with Ecuador, a further indication that dissident elements of the demobilizing FARC guerrilla group are maintaining operations in this traditional trafficking hub. INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK The head of Colombia’s anti-narcotic police, General […]
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theguardian.com / It is just over a mile long and only a few feet tall, but a wall which Ecuador is building along its frontier with Peru has prompted a fierce diplomatic row between the two South American countries. Peru’s top diplomat for the Americas, Hugo de Zela, has demanded an urgent bilateral meeting over […]
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miamiherald.com/By Alfonso Chardy Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested a Miami couple after discovering a narcotics smuggling network that transported heroin from Ecuador on commercial flights to Miami, according to federal court records. In the case uncovered by the DEA, the investigation began in 2016 when investigators learned about a narcotic supplier from Ecuador. Read Full […]
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dialogo-americas.com / Explosives Found on Colombia-Ecuador Border The illegal importation of explosives and ammunition between Colombia and Ecuador is one of the main topics of the binational defense agenda. In a March 21st operation against drug trafficking, the Colombian Army’s Pegaso Task Force found an illegal cache of 600 homemade 81 mm cartridges in the […]
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INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK theantimedia.org MILITARY EXERCISES NEAR VENEZUELA The involvement of the U.S. military in an upcoming multilateral military drill in South America has raised concerns over potential ulterior motives on the part of the U.S. The drill, dubbed “Operation: America United,” will involve the installation of a temporary military […]
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INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK Around 400 indigenous Warao people from the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela have arrived in the Brazilian city of Manaus in the Amazon. BBC.COM / The authorities have declared a social emergency to seek government funds to help with the influx. The Warao say they travelled around 2,000 […]
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bbc.com reported officials said people are fleeing because illegal armed groups are trying to take over the mining and cocaine trade which had provided the Farc with an income. Norte de Santander has emerged as the country’s main hub for coca cultivation. Last week peasant farmer organisations in the region around Catatumbo blocked the demobilisation […]
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INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK panampost.com / Several US companies are planning expansion into Mexico despite warnings from President Donald Trump to impose taxes according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper said that Rexnord, a company dedicated to the manufacture of industrial bearings, […]
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theguardian.com reported the head of Mexico’s largest cinema chain has said the impending renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) means the US popcorn industry is at risk. Alejandro Ramirez’s company, Cinepolis de Mexico – which is the fourth largest cinema chain in the world – buys around $10m of kernels from Kansas, […]
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cbp.gov/ Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents stopped two human smuggling attempts this week while conducting immigration checkpoint operations on State Route 83 near Sonoita. A U.S. citizen driving a 2001 Saturn Ion sped through the immigration checkpoint Tuesday, prompting agents to pursue the car a short distance before the driver pulled over. During a search […]
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cbp.gov / U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Lukeville arrested a 31-year-old Phoenix woman Tuesday for an alleged attempt to smuggle close to $180,000 worth of marijuana into the United States. INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK A CBP narcotics detection canine alerted officers to the presence of bundles […]
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Mexico’s biggest cash cow is under threat from President Donald Trump. The country’s largest source of cash comes from Mexicans living in the United States. That is now under the microscope after Trump issued an executive order Wednesday to start building a wall on the border. During his campaign, Trump said multiple times that Mexico […]
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FT.com/Jude Webber Mexico braced for confrontation with Trump team Enrique Peña Nieto vows to stand up to Nafta pressure from new US president Battle lines have been drawn as Mexico and the US kick off what promise to be tough negotiations on the future of the two-decades old North American Free Trade Agreement, which both […]
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rcnradio.com REPORTED in an articulated work of the Dijin Judicial Police and the basic criminal investigation unit of the Special Police District Tumaco, they managed to seize 486 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride, 03 shotguns, 01 bulletproof vest and the capture of one person. ….. At the scene, the 47-year-old Ricardo Ramirez captured the flagrante delicto, […]
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sandiegouniontribune.com/Kristina Davis reported to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Jose Luis Cota, the unauthorized immigrant women he fingerprinted and processed before their return to Mexico weren’t just detainees — they were potential customers, investigators say. It’s how Cota met one woman, who ended up tipping off authorities to his offers to help smuggle detainees […]
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SMUGGLERS USE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEBSITES TO SELL TO EXPATS Liam Higgins/cuencahighlife.com / When customs agents began slapping “government-approved” labels on imported liquor at the beginning of the year, they thought they had dealt the country’s booming bootlegging industry a fatal blow. They were wrong. Before the labels, liquor store owners were able to buy from smugglers […]
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reuters.com reported Central American countries warned on Thursday that large numbers of migrants have fled their poor, violent homes since Donald Trump’s surprise election win, hoping to reach the United States before he takes office next year. Trump won the Nov. 8 vote by taking a hard line on immigration, threatening to deport millions of […]
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latimes.com reported a Los Angeles couple who went missing during a visit to the desert wandered for five days, drinking their own urine to survive, before they were discovered by the U.S. Border Patrol, according to a friend of the couple. On Friday, the LAPD confirmed that Mariya Mitkova, 27, and Aaron Morganstein, 33, were […]
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NOGALES, Ariz.(UPI.com reported) — U.S. Customs agents in Arizona arrested a man found to be concealing nearly 3 pounds of meth in packages of tortillas. Customs and Border Protection said officers at the Port of Nogales searched a 62-year-old man using the pedestrian crossing when a narcotics-sniffing canine indicated the presence of drugs Friday. Read […]
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The number of Africans fleeing to the region en route to the United States has been increasing. telesurtv.net reported an increasing number of African refugees fleeing violence are travelling through various parts of Latin America to eventually reach U.S. with the hopes of building a new life. However, they are facing roadbloacks, complications and corruption […]
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ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK freebeacon.com/ Bill Gertz reported Sunni extremists are infiltrating the United States with the help of alien smugglers in South America and are crossing U.S. borders with ease, according to a U.S. South Command intelligence report. The Command’s J-2 intelligence directorate reported recently in internal channels that “special interest […]
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breitbart.com reported hundreds of African asylum seekers have flooded Mexican border cities with the U.S. in an effort to get to California and Texas to obtain U.S. asylum — many of the unvetted migrants are from the terror hotbed of Somalia. Rather than having to hide along the way, the African migrants have been getting […]
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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED SPANISH VOCABULARY – READ THIS BOOK dossierpolitico.com reported México.- Federal Police agents discovered a tunnel in Sonora just over 31 meters in length crossing the border into Arizona, United States, the National Security (CNS) reported. The agency stressed that the action was achieved as part of the strategy of cooperation in crime prevention, in […]
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NYTIMES.COM reported Mexican immigration authorities say 424 migrants from African countries arrived at the southern state of Chiapas over two days last week. The National Immigration Institute said Tuesday that it has issued them 20-day transit visas that will allow the migrants to reach the U.S.-Mexico border, where they plan to request asylum. Officials call […]
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larepublica.pe REPORTED Justice and truth for the disappearance of Peruvian businessman Jorge Vasquez Durand in Ecuador, sued his wife Maria Esther Gomero judges of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on the first day of hearings this supranational body made in Mexico. The Peruvian citizen was arrested in Huaquillas on January 30, 1995, in the […]
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Central American child refugees continue to pour into the US csmonitor.com reported in the first six months of 2016, UNICEF said almost 26,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the US-Mexican border. Thousands of unaccompanied children continue to migrate from dangerous parts of Central America to the US southern border, according to a United Nations report […]
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undallas.edu reported the documents she discovered, technical mission reports from the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA), shed light on the United States’ involvement in the rebuilding of El Oro, Ecuador, after a 1941 border war with Peru destroyed the province’s infrastructure…. Rankin, associate professor in the School of Arts and Humanities, […]
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phys.org reported Mexico launched the Comprehensive Plan for the Southern Border (CPSB) in 2014 in an attempt to manage increased migration flows from Central America. But two years after the plan’s implementation, it has yet to accomplish its goals of securing Mexico’s southern border, according to an issue brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for […]
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Freerepublic.com reported An ISIS operative arrested and criminally charged in Ohio this month has confirmed that the terrorist group has cells in Mexico, according to federal authorities. Judicial Watch has reported this for years, documenting it in a series of articles as part of an ongoing investigation on the connection between drug cartels, corruption and […]
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thegatewaypundit.com/ Jim Hoft reported: Earlier this year a top ranking Homeland Security official acknowledged that Mexican drug cartels were helping ISIS sneak across the southern border to scope out targets for terrorist attacks. ISIS operative Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir has reportedly been training militants near the US border near Ciudad Juarez for the past year. […]
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Fernando Medina August 9, 2016 / Elcomercio.com He was kidnapped in the Ecuadorian jungle for 20 days. His captors were presented as members of the so – called “guerrilla ecuatoriana”, a group that for a month frightens border communities of Sucumbios. Victor M. is 66 years old and since it was released has not returned […]
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ecuavisa.com reported the Interior Ministry indicates that about 17 thousand Venezuelans were left to reside in Ecuador over the past three years. Outsiders looking for better days away from the political and economic crisis facing the ‘Ranger’ country. The company indicates that entered Ecuador in 2014 and left 19,800 Venezuelans 116.88. In 2015 they reached […]
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reuters.com reported human traffickers are finding increasingly creative ways of shuttling Central American migrants through Mexico to the U.S. border and that includes hiring Uber-registered drivers. On June 10, five vehicles carrying 34 Central American migrants were apprehended while traveling together between the northern Mexican states of Zacatecas and Coahuila, said Segismundo Doguin, a Coahuila […]
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prensa.com reported Costa Rican courts sentenced three Panamanians who disguised themselves as Americans to steal cocaine in the border area drug agents, he said on Monday, May 9, the Office of Costa Rica. According to a statement from the Public Ministry, Panamanians wore jackets, caps and balaclava with false badges Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for […]
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CBSNewYork/AP) Reported — Mexican authorities say migrant traffickers have adopted a new trick to smuggle Central American clients to the U.S. border: renting high-end tour buses. Mexico’s Immigration Institute says it has found 102 migrants on two buses being used to whisk them across the length of the country. Read Article
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judicialwatch.org reported, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and releasing them without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents, Border Patrol sources tell Judicial Watch. The government classifies them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and this week around 35 were transferred 116 miles north […]
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longroom.com/infowars.com reported customs and Border Protection agents arrested an illegal immigrant from Pakistan along the Texas border with Mexico, the agency recently revealed.On May 8, CBP picked up Javaid Muhammad who allegedly admitted to illegally crossing into the US, according to court records filed in McAllen, Texas. Muhammad had told the FBI he had never […]
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(CNN Spanish)cnnespaonol.cnn.com reported – Speaking to the media, the president of Panama Juan Carlos Varela said that as part of Operation Shield in the framework of the fight against drug trafficking would close the border with Colombia. Varela said that increased drug production in neighboring countries was a threat against Panama and added that although […]
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TUCSON (CN) courthousenews.com reported – A former Border Patrol agent claims the FBI entrapped and indicted him on bogus charges of money laundering and bribery to try to rescue their undercover operation at a Southern Arizona port of entry, ruining his life and career. Seeking $5.5 million in damages, Lauro Tobias and his wife sued […]
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Mexico tortures migrants – and citizens – in effort to slow Central American surge Theguardian.com reported a growing number of indigenous Mexicans are being detained by agents looking for Central American migrants, amid a crackdown driven partly by aid from US The trend comes amid a crackdown on migrants driven in part by political pressure […]
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A video posted on YouTube shows the moment when the rustic boat with 21 Cuban migrants reached shore. A group of Cuban boat people filmed their arrival at the coast of Florida last Friday, April 1, and published Monday recording on YouTube. Published by user Raydel Moreno, the video shows the moment when the rustic […]
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The guardian.com reported there are 1,954 miles of border separating the US and Mexico but only one tiny stretch, measuring no more than 15 meters wide, where families are sanctioned to touch fingertips through a steel-mesh fence. This spot, where the Pacific ocean joins the sandy shoreline, and where San Diego becomes Tijuana, is where […]
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EFE/nacion.com reported two more groups of Cubans arrived on Friday to Mexico from Costa Rica, bringing the number of migrants who have used this route since January, to reach the United States now exceeds 2,700 people. In Costa Rica, they would be about 2,200 of the nearly 8,000 that accumulated at the end of last […]
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npr.org It has gotten harder for undocumented migrants to sneak into the U.S. from Latin America. That has led to a rise in the price charged by human smugglers.
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Theguardian.com reported efforts to combat illegal gunrunning from the United States to Mexico have stumbled in recent years, hampered by a lack of cooperation between US and Mexican officials, according to a report from a US federal watchdog agency obtained by Reuters. Blood, mud and lube: how El Chapo’s luck came up short in small […]
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US to expand refugee admissions for Central Americans fleeing violence Theguardian.com reported John Kerry announces new effort to offer migrants ‘safe and legal alternative to dangerous journey’ in which they face threat of human smugglers. The US is to expand its refugee programme to help thousands of people fleeing violence in Central America avoid a […]
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krgv.com reported one of Brownsville’s southmost property owners said he is fed up with all the drugs crossing on his land. Rusty Monsees said he is seeing an increase in activity from the river. He’s also getting more phone calls about the activity. Monsees has become the liaison between authorities and his neighbors. “The amount […]
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theguardian.com reported that 18-year-old Ethan Couch and his mother had been missing since 10 December, when Couch broke his probation for killing four people while driving drunk “Crossing over to Mexico is not a difficult thing to do,” Anderson said, pointing out that US authorities do not check who is leaving the US and instead […]
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bbc.com reported Central American nations have reached an agreement to allow several thousand Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica for over a month to continue their journey towards the United States. The migrants will be airlifted to El Salvador and put on buses, which will take them to the US. American legislation gives Cuban migrants […]
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npr.org / Several centers for migrant children have opened in Texas. Authorities expect more children and families escaping violence from Central America to make their way north to the U.S. this coming year. There are reports of a roundup that might be coming. Immigration agents could, as soon as next month, be rounding up mothers […]
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theguardian.com reported Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday extended the deployment of National Guard troops at the Mexico border due to a spike in the number of unaccompanied minors entering the country. The order comes in the wake of US Border Patrol figures that show more than 10,000 unaccompanied children crossed into the US […]
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copblock.org reported a criminal complaint filed in federal court shows Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers stopped agent Juan Pimentel, 47, on Nov. 18 near Marana, just north of Tucson. The complaint says Pimentel was driving a rental car and identified himself as a Border Patrol agent when he was pulled over. He consented to […]
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sbsun.com reported nearly half of the people living in the U.S. illegally are believed to have entered the country legally and stayed on expired visas. To combat the problem, the federal government on Thursday is launching one of its most ambitious efforts to track them. U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin capturing facial and […]
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Security Agencies Mexico and EU dismantles women trafficking network operating from Tlaxcala; arrested eight people. The Attorney General’s Office broke up an international network of sexual exploitation, composed of 9 people operating in different states and New York City in the United States. The agency reported that the Attorney General of the Republic, Arely Gómez […]
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news.yahoo.com.Reuters reported…Authorities in Argentina arrested six Syrians who flew into the South American country on false Greek passports, a spokesman for the federal police told Reuters on Saturday, adding that the bogus travel documents were probably obtained in Turkey. The six, including one minor, were taken into custody at a downtown Buenos Aires hotel on […]
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theguardian.com reported nearly 5,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were caught illegally crossing the US border with Mexico in October, almost double the number from October 2014, according to US Customs and Border Protection data. Also, in the figures released Tuesday, the number of family members crossing together nearly tripled from October 2014 – from 2,162 to […]
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telesurtv.net reported Ecuadorean authorities announced Tuesday plans to destroy hundreds of weapons seized during anti-smuggling operations over the past year. Over 200 illegal firearms and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition will be destroyed by the military by the end of the month, state media has reported. Over 1,000 weapon accessories will also be destroyed, […]
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latimes.com reported Ecuador announced Thursday that it will begin requiring Cubans to get entry visas beginning Tuesday, seeking to discourage the flow of migrants. Deputy Foreign Minister Xavier Lasso said Ecuador wants to curb the flow of migrants who have been using Ecuador as a transit country to reach other nations without permission. He said […]
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SASABE, AZ -kvoa.com reported…. a group of veterans and concerned citizens, who’ve been patrolling the border for five years, are now turning their focus on what they believe are new threats to America. “There’s Palestinians, Afghans, Syrians trying to get in. We are trying to stop everything and anything from coming across,” said Tim Foley, […]
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QUITO, Ecuador— For many Cubans, the road to “freedom” starts high in the Andes mountains, 1,600 miles south of their island. Ecuador is one of just two countries on the American mainland that doesn’t ask Cubans for a visa upon arrival. And there are regular flights connecting Quito to Havana, which makes it about the […]
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The Ecuadorian government announced it will enforce tougher controls against contraband activity at the border with Colombia. The proposed action announced by Ecuador President Rafael Correa included stricter taxes on imports which arrive over land and higher gas prices for vehicles with foreign license plates. These controls are an attempt to reduce the effects of […]
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bbc.com reported Colombia has said that two Venezuelan military jets entered its airspace without warning or authorisation. The planes encroached into Colombian airspace twice on Saturday morning, according to the defence ministry. They reportedly flew over a border military base in the Alta Guajira region before returning to Venezuela. Colombian officials have demanded an explanation […]
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catholicregister.org reported Carlos Leon and Carmen Barrera thought the worst was over when they escaped the death threats in Colombia. Caught between a gang of extortionists and the owner of the property where he was working as a construction foreman, they left on a plane with their twin daughters, each carrying little more than a […]
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Andes).- María Landázuri, vice minister of Human Mobility in Ecuador, informed Friday that authorities from such country and Mexico will settle a visa wavering agreement for Ecuadorians that travel to the North American country for tourism, 90 days, a decision she considers “fair and necessary.” “We expect to settle this process in the following days, […]
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elcomercio.com reported hundreds of kilometers away in the Peruvian cities of Callao, Tumbes, Lima or Cuzco, the path of the counterfeit dollars that come to Ecuador starts. Smugglers, ‘tourists’ or carriers are behind this powerful illegal activity. Since 2000, following the dollarization, foreign mafias consider the country as a key point for this business. Banknotes […]
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ghanaweb.com reported five Ghanaian citizens, presumably illegal migrants traveling to the United States of America, were found dead on the Panamanian-Colombian border over the weekend. A farmer found their bodies washed up on the Turquesa River near Bajo Chiquito. The deceased were allegedly part of a larger group of 35 people fleeing from three separate […]
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telesurtv.net reported Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced radical plans to support asylum-seekers and stateless people. Ecuador’s socialist government is proposing a new law to make all migrants legal in the country. “The right to migrate is guaranteed in the rules. No human being will be considered illegal,” said President Rafael Correa during his weekly address. […]
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migrationpolicy.org/Brad D. Jokisch reported Ecuador’s geographical variety is nearly matched by its diverse migration patterns. Although it is a small Andean country of approximately 15.7 million people, Ecuador accounts for the largest Latin American nationality in Spain, the second largest in Italy, and one of the largest immigrant groups in metro New York. Ecuador also […]
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inquisitr.com reported the Islamic State (ISIS) reportedly is operating in northern Mexico, just minutes from the U.S. border and a few miles from El Paso, Texas. If this latest report from Judicial Watch is accurate, ISIS is working alongside drug cartels and human traffickers to penetrate the U.S. homeland from a dangerous, gang-controlled staging area […]
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EFE/elcomercio.com reported The regional government of Amazonas warned the central government of Peru on the hostility that is recorded in northern Peru among the Pueblo Indians Aguaruna and illegal miners entering Ecuador Peruvian territory, said Wednesday February 25 regional institution a statement. The vice president of Amazon, Carlos Navas, met in Lima with officials of […]
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Reuters reported…. Ecuador imposed tariffs on imports from Colombia and Peru in a bid to shield its economy from cheap goods entering as a result of depreciating currencies in those two nations, while its biggest export is being hit by the slumping price of oil. The Andean nation, the smallest member of OPEC, will temporarily […]
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elespectador.com reporte that was what generated the capture in Colombia’s Rodolfo Orellana Rengifo, the man most wanted in that country for being the leader of a criminal enterprise involving 52 people, including notaries, judges, lawyers and police officers, and that it appropriated more than $100 million cheating dozens of people, falsified documents to appropriate land […]
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elcomercio.pe reported…Mention Aragoto in the province of Ayabaca (Piura) is like saying a forbidden name. Researchers eye perch upon which mentions it, through it’s entire body. People are put on guard. It is not common that unknown persons mentioned, loose bones, the name of a town that seems forbidden. One confused it with undercover COP […]
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andes.info.ec reported…As a “totally inadequate” response scored Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino the explanation secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson gave, on that country’s military involvement in the bombing on the Colombian border in March 2008. During the bombing, 26 people were killed, including the number two of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia […]
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elespectador.com reported This year(2014) we have a terrible and regrettable sum that exceeds the 600 children who travelled unaccompanied”looking for their families, Vice-Minister of human mobility, María Landázuri told AFP. The number triples the cases reported in 2013.Son many, but no one speaks openly of “migrant children” because their families or friends know who travel […]
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nytimes.com reported…But shades of the yearslong drug war that gripped this gritty part of Chihuahua State known as the Valley of Juárez remained intact. Abandoned buildings where broken windows reflected graffiti were common, and unmaintained streets and empty shops sat near the town square. The emptying of Guadalupe comes at a time when officials in […]
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telesurtv.net reported U.S. federal agents allowed components for manufacturing grenades to illegally enter Mexico. The Department of Justice (DOJ) report indicated that the artillery parts were destined for drug cartels. U.S. federal agents allowed components for manufacturing grenades to illegally enter Mexico. The Department of Justice (DOJ) report released this week indicated that the artillery […]
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andina.com.pe reported Peruvian President Ollanta Humala today said Peru and Ecuador are willing to continue working on peace and aim to strengthen the friendship between their two peoples that share a common historical background and the same development needs. After arriving at the airport in the Ecuadorian town of Arenillas and being received by his […]
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lainfo.es reported Ecuador and Colombia in orange alert for volcanic eruption Ecuador and Colombia triggered the alert likely eruption of Chiles (Knot of the Grass in the Colombian Andean Western Cordillera) and Cerro Black volcanoes (southern Ecuador and northern Colombia), after strong earthquakes recorded yesterday in the area. The Department of Risk Management Ecuador enacted […]
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elcomercio.com reported Mexico, gateway to Latin America from the United States, trying to lift a sanitary barrier against Ebola on its northern border, poring deported migrants and repelling to cruise passenger Texas, where there is alarm for several infections. With still fresh in 2009 being the epicenter of the H1N1 flu epidemic trauma, Mexico triggered […]
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dinero.com reported…Special rates through travel agencies will be Colombians traveling to the Ecuador. The announcement of the industry of that country, Sandra Naranjo, Minister came during a meeting with the President of Anato, Paula Cortes Street, who comes ahead of international contacts in order to promote cross-border tourism. “It’s great news thanks to the joint […]
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time.com reported the Pentagon’s top commander in South America has warned that if Ebola surfaces in Central America or the Caribbean, there will be a stampede of people heading north across the Rio Grande to the U.S. to escape the disease. “If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be […]
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theguardian.com reported the high desert of Arizona is where border politics become a harsh, sometimes sinister experience – one that threatens to unseat two of the most vulnerable House Democrats standing for re-election in November’s midterm elections. Republicans have identified two neighbouring districts in southern Arizona as their best prospect for picking up seats in […]
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ticotimes.net reported during the summer of 2014, massive flows of Central American migrants – many unaccompanied children – flooded the southwestern border of the United States. While tens of thousands of migrants have been fleeing violence and poverty in search of new opportunities in the U.S., other migrants from Africa and Asia have been traveling […]
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nrc.no reported the Constitutional Court of Ecuador recently raised the hopes of hundreds of people who have been forced to flee the violence in Colombia. A landmark decision by the Constitutional Court in Ecuador has struck down the most restrictive provisions of a decree limiting access to asylum. Ecuador has a long tradition as a […]
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jornada.unam.mx reported The national coordination of Civil protection of the Ministry of the Interior issued Thursday a declaration of emergency for the municipalities of Hermosillo, Carbo, Benjamín Hill, Pitiquito, Caborca, Puerto Peñasco, General Plutarco Elías Calles, Santa Ana, Magdalena, Altar, Oquitoa, Saric, Atil, Tubutama, Trincheras, Imuris, Nogales, Santa Cruz, Cananea, Naco and Agua Prieta by […]
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