The President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, announced that he would halt his proposal for the sale of lands in the Colon Free Zone, arguably the most important Free Trade Zone on the continent according to InsideCostaRica.com. The announcement comes after protests in that city that led to the death of several victims, including and 9-year-old […]
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The crew of an Argentine navy ship, which was impounded as part of a debt dispute more than three weeks ago in Ghana, have boarded a plane for Argentina, according to bbc.co.uk. Almost 300 sailors will leave on an Air France plane chartered by the Argentine government. Read Article
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The Argentina Federation of Airman (FAPA), comprised of four unions in the industry, this week warned that the pay dispute could be reactivated with Aerolineas Argentinas and Austral once you complete the compulsory conciliation issued by the Ministry of Labour. Read Article
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diario.latercera.com reported that representatives of a foundation challenged before the authorities of the Region V operating a collection point for these crustaceans. In Juan Fernandez fear for exports. The season starts in October. More than 60 people depart from the island Robinson Crusoe, on a ship towards Alejandro Selkirk Island, to begin the extraction of […]
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The Argentine government ordered on Saturday the evacuation of the naval training frigate ARA Libertad impounded in Ghana by international creditors, following the warning made on Friday that complaints would be taken to the UN over the controversy. Read Article
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Mercopress.com reported that demonstrations of thousands of students that turned out to the streets of Santiago and other Chilean cities to demand better education, ended in violent clashes with riot police which had to appeal to tear gas, water cannons and paint guns to later identify protestors, tens of which were later detained. According to […]
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A Nicaraguan flag ship was intercepted in waters of Colombia and refuses to leave the area claiming to follow “instructions” from the government of his country, revealed that the Navy gave him 24 hours to leave the area. The vessel was detected on Wednesday afternoon “to 13 nautical miles east of longitude 82 in Colombian […]
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Greenpeace activists placed Argentina on Tuesday on the steps of Congress a “bomb” symbolic demanding the adoption of e-waste law. Dressed in suit and tie, dozens of Greenpeace activists sat on the steps of Congress “armed” with sticks and detonators to be prepared to detonate simulated a massive “pump” symbolic. Read Article
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ultimahora.com reported that police chief, Antonio Gamarra, Concepcion police chief, is leading the operation in Horqueta to investigate new attack allegedly carried out by members of the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP). The radio workers who were unharmed horqueteña are Juan Carlos Godoy and Teresa Villa Alta Silva Fleitas, who were on the radio, in a […]
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The occupation of the mining area would have been against mining representatives from five provinces of the region, who are interested in exploiting the mine site, and would be organized into cooperatives. The conflict over the exploitation of the mine has been reactivated Mallku Khota in northern Potosí. Now the community members from five area […]
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A massive attendance had the march organized by the National Assembly of Secondary Students (ACES), the National Coordinator of Secondary Students (Cones) and the National Confederation of University Students (Confech), which started at 11:30 am from the front University of Santiago (USACH) This time, as a complement to the demands for a free, quality education, […]
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A call to the public to join the march organized by high school students and supported by the university for Thursday October 27, made on Tuesday leaders of the student movement. Gabriel Boric, president and spokesman DATE Confech stressed the importance of the call, as occurs “in the context that between now and Friday to […]
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The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, prepares cells “revolutionary militants,” partly from the so-called “collective” (street gangs), to control a possible adverse vote in the presidential elections of October 7. With any survey that begins impossible not to believe a victory for the opposition Henrique Capriles and obvious problems of Chavez election to fill certain […]
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The UN office in Bolivia said in a statement his condolences on the death of Hector Shock miner, who was killed by the explosion caused damage to his liver and his lung, after several hours of being in a coma. “Also, UN deplores and appalled by the use of dynamite in a demonstration.’s Life and […]
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Senator Kirchner said the call made through social networks was organized by experts digitaron mobilization. “There were hundreds and thousands of false identities,” complained .. Senator Kirchner said the call made through social networks was organized by experts digitaron mobilization. “There were hundreds and thousands of false identities,” complained. Read Article
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SANTIAGO. Community and popular organizations started a strike yesterday in the sectors of La Yagüita de Pastor and Reparto Peralta in the southern part of the city of Santiago in protest to the increase in the blackouts and the lack of drinking water. Read Article
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Elcomercio.pe reported that a necropsy of law practiced today on the body of the girl who died last Saturday during a clash between army personnel and the police with terrorists remaining in Junin, showed that the fatal bullet entered the back of the child. Canal N reported this afternoon in Huancayo was a brief conference […]
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The unions demand wage hikes and threaten to cut off access to the province. Sapag K ally, accusing them of trying to destabilize it. Neuquén crisis adds to the conflict in Santa Cruz and Chubut, among other districts. Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Chubut, Santa Cruz. The list of provinces with fiscal problems, to claim funds and […]
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On the day of the 39th anniversary of the coup of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean justice yesterday finally closed the investigation into the death of ousted socialist President Salvador Allende committed suicide and confirmed that among the military uprising. Read Article
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La progresiva infiltración de agentes extranjeros en sur de chile es un signo inequívoco de que este territorio que alberga riquezas inimaginables será extirpado del suelo común para crear allí un nuevo estado. El destino que les espera a los chilenos es sumamente ocuro pues estas potencias no tienen ninguna misericordia con las poblaciones originarias […]
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N.Y. Times reported…..Juan José Illingworth has English bona fides that are hard to beat. He is the sixth-generation namesake of an Englishman who became one of Ecuador’s national heroes, fighting for independence from Spain, helping to lead the young nation, founding its naval academy and drafting the law that freed the country’s slaves. Read Article
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Montevideo Uruguay – Principal of school pulls revolver on teachers, gun unloaded – panic ensued – principal removed… Subrayado.com.uy reported that anxiety and panic generated in the staff room of the Lyceum director Prado 16 (Gil 1065, almost Agraciada) to trigger a police regulation firearm against some teachers who were in the place. Classes were […]
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Laprensa.com.ni reported the gang truce in El Salvador, which fell from 14 to 5.5 the average daily killings, six months meets on Sunday amid mistrust between the population and the breath of the OAS mediators and is seeking a permanent covenant. Under the mediation of Fabio Colindres military chaplain and former rebel commander Raul Mijango, […]
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Armed and hooded neighbors Pochuta forgotten village, southwest of Guatemala, control entrance to their town, ready to give their life to prevent the place from which ousted the mayor a year ago, accusing him of corruption. “Welcome to San Miguel Pochuta. Neighbors organized, please download the glass and identify” reads a sign at the entrance […]
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Infodefensa.com reported Peru’s Interior Minister, Wilfredo Pedraza said during a presentation to the Congressional Defense Committee that the tender for the purchase of equipment for riot National Police of Peru (PNP) is in the process of implementation and the first teams will be received in the month of February 2013. The ministry has placed special […]
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Elcolombiano.com reported….With over 37 years in the FARC, alias “Danilo Garcia”, commander of the front 33 of the guerrillas had become, according to military sources in right hand Rodrigo Londoño, alias “Timoshenko”, top leader of the organization. And that on Tuesday, after joint operations between the police and the Air Force, was discharged alias “Danilo […]
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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro has remarked that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will be appointing in the next few days an envoy to join the commission leading the Colombian peace process. “The guidelines, activities, and the scope of Venezuela’s support in the talks,” will be set out by the Colombian Government, said Maduro during an […]
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Hundreds of students and teachers marched through the main Colombian cities, in what they called a demonstration of respect for public education, students and teachers, called by the Colombian Federation of Educators (FECODE). The day was disrupted by violent protests staged by some of the participants in the marches, especially in Bogota and Medellin, where […]
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The daughter of Bolivian opposition Sen. Roger Pinto, who yesterday met 100 days asylum in the Brazilian embassy in La Paz, said that President Evo Morales is “a prisoner of his own fears and contradictions” in denying the pass that required his father to move the neighboring country. In a letter released yesterday, Denise Pinto, […]
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Senator and member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Colombian Congress, Alexandra Moreno Piraquive, warned that Nicaragua’s intentions to mobilize troops to the Caribbean area in dispute, would be an assault. A statement from the press office of Congresswoman signal “Nicaragua’s intentions to move troops to that area of the Atlantic Colombian territory would […]
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According to official sources, the front 36 of the FARC activated explosives in two electricity pylons in Anori, Antioquia, leaving the service to hundreds of people. A suspected guerrillas Front 36 of the FARC officials blamed for blowing up two power pylons in the town of Anori, northeast of Antioquia and the attack on a […]
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Government demonstrators clashed with a walk attendees opposition candidate in Carabobo. “It is a sign of fear and weakness,” said the former governor of Miranda. The incidents occurred in Tocuyito, state of Carabobo, Henrique Capriles performed when one of his regular traversed by the Venezuelan people. According to a journalist Site News 24 , the […]
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FARC discussions with government win support in Colombia
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If you are considering a move to Latin America, I highly recommend this book in terms of approaching the topic of safety and security. I think you will find it insightful and provide you valuable ideas and information about your personal security no matter where you travel or settle. Nicholas Crowder – author – Culture […]
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General Prosecutor’s Office, Eduardo Montealegre, asked the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court reflect on his decision to bring criminal charges against the columnists Cecilia Orozco and Maria Jimena Duzan Tascón on charges of libel and slander. The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court announced on 23 August that Maria Jimena Duzan writers and Cecilia […]
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This week’s preliminary ruling overturned an earlier ruling from a lower court that ordered construction of the dam, which crosses the Xingu River, to be stopped until local indigenous peoples could testify before Congress. Supreme Court President Carlos Ayres Britto’s decision could still be revised, however, when the case is further examined by the court. […]
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150,000 people gathered Tuesday in the Alameda, the main avenue of the city, according to figures released by the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH) . “The government said we were a minority: today we saw a clear signal and call massiveness. The government said we were divided, today gave a clear signal of unity. […]
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Mapuche Representatives began a hunger strike at the headquarters of the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF, for its acronym in Spanish) in Santiago, to denounce the criminalization of the Mapuche and noted the lack of support from the Unicef to the claims of the original community. The Indians remain a month at the headquarters […]
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The public service carriers have been rejecting the formula that sets the fuel prices and the high prices it announced for Monday 27 August, Prime peaceful parade against fuel hikes. The protest began at 7 am, starting with two sites, one in the north and one Regional Avenue in South Freeway, marches they would reach […]
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The Colombian security forces arrested 14 suspected collaborators of the guerrillas of the FARC, including a logistics chief weapons smuggled across the border with Venezuela, the National Police reported Friday. Catches were recorded in two operations, one in a troubled area of Cauca (southwest) and the other in the Arauca (eastern) border with Venezuela. In […]
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A deadly explosion at Venezuela’s largest oil refinery over the weekend has unleashed a barrage of criticism at the government’s management of the state-run oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela. Even as President Hugo Chávez has turned the oil company into the financial engine of his socialist revolution, critics say it has neglected essential activities like […]
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Minuto30.com reported President Santos stated ….’We have developed exploratory talks with the FARC’: Santos “From the first day I met my government’s constitutional obligation to seek peace. In this direction, there have been exploratory talks with the FARC to seek an end to conflict. I want to state clearly that the Colombians approaches that have […]
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Automatic guns of various calibres, AK-45, AR-15, FAL, AFAG machine guns, rifles steyr, and dragunov, is the arsenal that is in the Yare I. According to intelligence work he did a group of officials from the Ministry of Correctional Services, that amounts to 500 weapons arsenal in total. To which must be added an unknown […]
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A long line of young Paraguayans dawned today at an office of the Ministry of Defense, in this capital, to express their opposition to a possible call to military service. Attendance at what is called Conscientious Objection address is part of a massive response from last week unleashed across the country to a military order, […]
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Army troops neutralized in the last hours of 13 explosive devices and destroyed a FARC camp of the terrorist organization, in operations in the departments of Caquetá and Putumayo. In the path Township Guadualito The Paujil, Caquetá, Infantry Battalion No.35 Guepí Heroes of the Twelfth Brigade found 12 explosive devices medium-power, rosary type activation system […]
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Prendsalibre.com has reported that Guatemala is a country not at war or a weapons manufacturer, but the civilian population is holding more than 460,000 units in a legal and ammunition imported (legally) between 2009 and 2011 would be enough to give each person two bullets including children. Added to this are pistols, revolvers, rifles and […]
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Exports of grains and oils from Argentina remained paralyzed on Wednesday in their ports, due to a three-day strike that began health inspectors in the country, a key supplier of food in the world, said managers of business associations. Agro-export firms in Argentina, the second international supplier of corn and soy-third require issuing certificates inspectors […]
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Minister Secretary General of Government, Andrés Chadwick, spoke on Wednesday to march that morning called for student leaders and said that the government is open to dialogue, but does not accept pressure or force measures as taking educational establishments. The spokesman said about that “space is completely open dialog, both here in La Moneda and […]
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The Department of Foreign Affairs has added San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas to the list of Mexican states where it says Canadians should exercise “extreme caution.” The two neighbouring states in central Mexico are among those affected by “high levels of organized crime and urban violence,” the department says in an update to its travel […]
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Florence. Troops of the Twelfth Brigade, assigned to the Sixth Division of the Army, left out of action two terrorists of the FARC and found two caches with explosives material abundant in developing offensive operations in the last hours in the department Caquetá. In the village of the municipality of Monterrey Puerto Rico, Infantry Battalion […]
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This essay seeks to analyse the development of relations between Colombia and Ecuador from the perspective of space, borders and armed conflicts. For this purpose, this paper resorts to historical elements, including references to the formation of the first armed organizations and its impact on the development of the Colombian State and its relationship with […]
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lainformacion.com reported ….”This is a war, never been so bad,” said Marcela Turati, author of Mexican journalist “Crossfire” and who has covered drug crimes for years. “This is worse than Colombia , is unlike any other war: there are no fronts, no trenches, you never know who is involved with drug traffickers and who is […]
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In Assange Asylum, A Stand Against Neo-colonialist Policies By Roger Burbach and Marc Becker Rafael Correa, the president of one of South America’s smallest countries with almost 15 million inhabitants is taking a dramatic stand against Great Britain, Sweden and the United States by granting political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Last Wednesday the […]
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elojo.pe reported concerning a major transportation strike in Lima….The truth is that the strike was felt in several parts of the capital and even the train did not supply power to move people, who struggled to travel. Similar picture was in the service of the Metropolitan. Many people complained about the arrest and was handing […]
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Following over a hundred arrests made on Thursday and clashes with police, students in Santiago occupied on Friday the central building of the University of Chile, the country’s most important higher education facility, as the demands to the government over education reform ensue. Read Article
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The Organization of American States (OAS) has scheduled an emergency meeting of its foreign ministers next week to discuss the differences between Ecuador and Britain over the asylum that Quito granted to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Read Article
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The government of Ecuador is prepared to allow Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to remain in its embassy in London indefinitely under a type of humanitarian protection, a government official said in Quito on Wednesday night. Mr. Assange has been holed up in the embassy for two months seeking asylum. Read Article
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Vice President of the General Union of Tamberos (UGT), Guillermo questioned today Draletti negotiations carried out tambera production sectors with the National Government and the Center for Dairy Industries (CIL) for the price of milk and fired: “In If this situation continues, ends in another conflict, another protest.” “The agreement reached is a joke, it […]
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High school students are now the protagonists of protests in Chile. In recent days, the students have taken several demonstrations to schools and announce the coming weeks to push education reform. Protests in Chile for a structural reform of education in Chile revived, this time at the hands of high school students. The Coordinating Assembly […]
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The Regional Tourist Protection of Puno (La Red Regional de Protección al Turista de Puno), just issued a ruling on the hostile atmosphere that is supporting the region as a result of stoppages that have deranged to Puno as an unsafe destination and attractive. Being of interest is transcribed below the tenor of the document: […]
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Edgar Morales Perez, mayor-elect of Matehuala , municipality of San Luis Potosi State (North), has been murdered on Sunday morning with Juan Francisco Hernandez Colunga, who was the coordinator of his election campaign last July 1 . With the assassination of the mayor and his assistant, members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), closes a […]
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After receiving intelligence that an important drug shipment would pass through the Navarrito Pampa sector of Talavera in the Andahuaylas, Apurímac province of Peru, officials located a station wagon carrying backpackers. According to Nuevo Ojo, the suspects began to fire at the police, who returned fire. The crossfire lasted 30 minutes. Three suspects were killed, […]
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Cronicaviva.com.pe Peru reported that group of Peruvian farmers of the border town of Quebrada Seca, Zarumilla, in the Tumbes region, reported that armed soldiers entered Ecuadorian territory to try to evict them. “Coincidentally, yesterday I dropped a patrol Ecuadorian armed toditos, saying he no longer works there because that (land) was Ecuadorian,” one resident of […]
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The students occupied during the morning and Monday morning the National Internship Barros Arana (INBA) and the Lyceum of Implementation, both located in the borough (district) of downtown Santiago, where six of the sixteen focus centers from the taken last week remain in the country. The INBA, that morning and was peacefully evicted by police, […]
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About 200 employees of the Municipality trabajares and the canton Eloy Alfaro, in northern province of Esmeraldas, took council facilities, at 06:30 today. Demanding payment of contributions to Social Security, the administration of Mayor Richard Mina, there would be canceled from 2005 to 2012. The debt amounts to USD 1.6 million. The strike is indefinite. […]
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On the occasion of International Day of Indigenous Peoples, Amnesty International (AI) has urged on Thursday the new Government of Paraguay, to undertake measures for native peoples. “This happens, for full and immediate compliance with the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of ancestral land claims by indigenous communities in […]
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Police in Santiago used water cannons and tear gas as thousands of students took to the streets, raging against the government’s policy on education. Vandals set buses ablaze and attacked government property amid violence that left 49 Carabineros injured and 75 people arrested. Authorities say leaders of Wednesday’s protests cannot be exempt from responsibility for […]
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Argentine organized labour CGT, announced that based on their own analysis of the products that make up the basic food basket, on average they are 52% more expensive than those analyzed by the official statistics office, Indec“However the definitive figures will be released later” said the CGT spokesperson who responds to Hugo Moyano, recently elected […]
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The Secretary of the Army of Brazil, Celso Amorim, said Tuesday the displacement of 9 thousand troops to the borders with Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay as part of an operation called Ágata5. Ágata5 operation is to “curb border crime such as drug trafficking and smuggling,” the Brazilian holder. While a professor at the Universidade Estadual […]
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Doctors in the Peruvian Social Security (Essalud) today began an indefinite strike will disregard a thousand surgeries and 70,000 outpatient visits on a daily basis, as quantified by the local press union’s general secretary of the institution, Santiago Renteria Vinces. This union called a national strike in Peruvian public health to claim a permanent increase […]
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Special Forces Police in Chile have prevented Wednesday’s march of thousands of students and have faced lanzagua cars and tear gas. According to witnesses, the Chilean military police tried to disperse the students who had gathered to reject the profits to education. According to those present at the demonstration, the student resistance was suppressed by […]
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Brazil: Rio de Janeiro police joined the strike The Federal Police of Rio de Janeiro today joined the indefinite strike began yesterday in the rest of the country to demand a wage increase and the removal of its CEO, Leandro Daiello. President of the Union of the Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro, agent Telmo […]
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Paraguayan police on Monday evicted hundreds of peasants who had occupied since last Saturday night a farm in Guaira Falls, located in the east. More than 300 police officers used tear gas to vacate the property titled in the name of a Brazilian citizen, after the ultimatum expired prior to the eviction, sources with the […]
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A group of contract workers and leaders of the Pascua Lama mining project, being conducted by Canada’s Barrick Gold in Chile and Argentina, were taken today a Catholic Church in the northern town of Vallenar in protest labor demands of health and safety. Vice President of the Association of Workers and Contractors of the project, […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that a court ruled that Ecuador announced that U.S. oil company Chevron pay, within 24 hours (until tomorrow), about USD 19 000 million, set in a conviction for environmental damage. Juan Pablo Saenz, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that this period will be fulfilled on Monday as Saturday and Sunday are not […]
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About a million and half dollars in compensation to indigenous people Sarayaku, plus payment of court costs. This is the sentence imposed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to Ecuador for damage caused by oil activities to the ancestral lands of the Indians of the Amazon. According to the ruling, the money must […]
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Several people were injured Sunday, including a native leader, in clashes between opposition and pro-government Indians for control of a union office in Santa Cruz (eastern Bolivia), in protests against the construction of a road in a reserve ecology. The clashes began when a group that supports native opposition leader Adolfo Chavez decided to take […]
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After extensive intelligence work, the police in Nicaragua have determined that its area of the Caribbean is used by narco-traffickers, particularly those belonging to Colombian cartels. Sucesos Critica reports that last month Nicaraguan officials disbanded a drug trafficking organization operating between Panama and Honduras. Authorities also combated gunfire in the Caribbean with other criminal groups. […]
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A family that modeled themselves after the Italian mafia was broken up after police arrested 12 members. According to La Segunda, the family owned various houses in Santiago and along the coasts in Chile that are valued at $600 million. They were arrested for crimes of drug trafficking. Authorities have stated the family paid their […]
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According to authorities many Mexican residents have left their households in response to violence, extortions and criminal activities. There were reported are at least 25,000 abandoned residences in the state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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Mexican lime producers outside the state of Michoacán have allegedly been using the prestigious ‘Limón Michoacano’ seal, newspaper La Voz de Michoacán reported. It is alleged up to 60% of lime harvests from the neighbouring state of Colima’s Tierra Caliente area are masquerading under the Michoacán state’s brand. Read Article
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A Nicaraguan woman in possession of drugs died after being shot three times in the head in Lomas del Río, Pavas, Costa Rica. She was identified as Nora Estrella Zúñiga Piña (43), La Nacion reports. The shooter was identified only as a man on a motorcycle, who was riding with another male. The victim had […]
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According to experts the economic crisis, the unemployment and violence have increased the stress in families causing violence for children at their homes. Many children have been exposed to violence because of the violence and even death of their caregivers. In Mexico there are more than 40 thousand orphan mistreated children due to violence in […]
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“The Constitution says that the Bolivian state can not grant a safe conduct and can not accept political asylum to a person having ordinary processes of justice for reasons having to do with common crimes, and now Senator Pinto processed” , Davila said the media in La Paz. He reiterated that “deplores” the alleged “pressure” […]
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The District Attorney of La Paz reported that, pursuant to instructions issued by the Attorney General, opened a case to investigate a possible coup attempt led by police officers who participated in the riot that lasted from 21 to 27 June. “We and the prosecutor investigating, according to the instructions, the prosecutor assigned is Dr. […]
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At least four persons were confirmed dead and several others were injured as Police opened fire in Linden on the first day of a planned five-day protest against electricity rate hikes. In the wake of the deaths soldiers and police have been sent to the town in efforts to bring calm, Police headquarters said last […]
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Aguascalientes, Ags. – The mayor of Cosio, Pablo Cortes de la Cruz, said that in this and the other municipalities that border with Zacatecas, has dramatically improved safety for protection of its inhabitants, with a single control strategy and coordination between corporations of the three levels of government. He said the construction of the office […]
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Ecuador’s judicial system is being used by the authorities to clamp down on indigenous and campesino leaders in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to prevent them from protesting against projects that will affect their environment and lands, said Amnesty International in a new report today. The report ‘So that no one can demand […]
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The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Colombia, Jordi Raich, admitted that the internal armed conflict is far from over and that the proof is in the battles being waged in Cauca. Raich said in an interview with the newspaper El Tiempo that the internal war “is far from over […]
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Elements of the Mexican Army shot and killed four criminals in Ciudad Victoria, including a central member the Los Zetas cartel Carlos Alberto Fernández Hernández, alias “Doble K.” According to Terra Noticias, Army officials had been attacked, leading them to open fire against the offenders. Fernández Hernández is known to have assisted in organizing vehicles […]
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The Navy in Nicaragua discovered 17 sacks of cocaine on a speedboat in the Sandy Bay Sirpi area. According to Zona Franca, four narco-traffickers were occupying the boat and fled when they saw Navy officials approaching. Once the boat was intercepted, the unidentified individuals fired shots, though none were struck. Authorities found and seized fuel, […]
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Omar Irám Guzmán Ortiz, “El Nueve,” was arrested by Federal Police in Tlaltizapán, Morelos, Mexico for involvement in a drug cartel known as La Familia. Guzmán Ortiz was responsible for ordering kidnappings and murders against members of opposing gangs, La Prensa Grafica reports. He is believed to have participated in the murder of seven people on […]
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Assassins entered an abandoned house previously used for drug sales and killed three people, including two women, Narco Violencia reports. Residents in the north of Monterrey, where the murders occurred, identified the victims as “El Pete” (30), “El Miguelito” (15), and “El Cristo” (16). The triple assassination took place on Contrabajo Street in the San […]
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Ayacucho. In the second meeting of the Municipal Environmental Commission (CAM), attended by a total of onces provinces and four districts, it was decided that the main problem affecting the Ayacucho village is borne pollution from mining. The pollution primarily by the river, this essentially by waste from the production of drugs, as well as […]
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This weekend it was revealed that agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration killed a suspect during an operation in Honduras. The agency says it is the first time his agents kill someone in Central America since they began participating in counternarcotics missions in the region. And there are several analysts who claim that, for […]
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The ballots that were used on July Sunday to elect new municipal authorities, were burned at night by enraged neighbors who protested that they removed the PAN victory in the municipal election. Prep the IEEM first determined in preliminary results won by the PAN, but the count supposedly won the PRI-PVEM coalition-Honeycomb, Isidro Juarez Rivas, […]
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Ten people are dead after a shootout between rival drug trafficking organizations in the state of Mexico. Five others involved in the conflict were injured. According to El Universo, one of the gangs involved was the Familia Michoacana. The rival gang was not reported. Several of the offenders in the shootout fled to the neighboring […]
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After three federal police officers were shot by two other officers in the Mexico City airport on June 25, 2012, officials have been investigating an international drug trafficking network operating within the airport. According to Milenio, drug shipments from Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala were permitted through the airport. Corrupt federal agents would encourage customs agents […]
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