elquetzalteco.com.gt reported that The Guatemalan Tourism Institute (Inguat) intends to implement the government program in Xela, but taxi drivers are unhappy. Number of taxis 700 taxis Approximate number circulating in the City Altense. Yesterday, at a meeting between officials of the Tourist Assistance Program and the Consulate of Mexico in Quetzaltenango, it was announced that […]
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Cotacachi Ecuador- Over the last two months(January – February 2013), Montubio has reported that several expatriates from the United States have been victims of break ins in their homes and or apartments. 1. Primavera II 2. Parque Shambhla 3. San Miguel – gated community Sources indicate such items as computers and televisions have been stolen.
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Victimization rose 11 points, but improved the perception of security, according to the Chamber of Commerce. The balance-for the second half of 2012 – is about the perception of safety and victimization in the capital. Victimization scored 31 percent, ie, up 11 points over the second half of 2011, when I was at 20 percent. […]
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On February 25, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that they arrested a woman yesterday morning with 30 kilograms of crack inside of a styrofoam box. She was traveling on a bus headed from São Paulo to Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte. During a random search of the passengers’ belongings, police […]
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On February 24, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, Paraná, 13 deaths were recorded over the weekend, including the death of a twelve year-old girl. The murders were spread throughout the area, but half of the deaths occurred in Curitiba (3) and Pinhais (3). Noteworthy was the death of […]
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On February 25, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that a 14 year-old girl has disappeared from the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, Ceará, after being lured by a man on Facebook. Larissa Gadelha de Sousa disappeared on Tuesday morning, after she left for school. Since Tuesday morning, the family has heard nothing of her whereabouts. The […]
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On February 24, 2013, Zero Hora reported that police arrested a 46 year-old man on drug trafficking charges in the city of Passo Fundo, in the north of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He was caught during the early hours of Sunday morning with about five and a half kilograms of cocaine. The […]
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Victim: Jan KM Sarens Belgian national, residing in Mexico City, tourist visiting Acapulco, eluniversal.com reported that the Attorney General of the state began investigating the murder of Belgian tourist, Jan KM Sarens 59-year-old, killed in the parking lot of a shopping center, located on the boulevard of nations and in the area of Acapulco Diamante. […]
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On February 22, 2013, Rondonoticias reported that a local policeman was among 19 arrested in a local sting in the town of Ariquemes, a town about 200 km south of Porto Velho, the state capital of Rondônia. The arrest was part of a larger operation, Operação Afrodite, in which police monitored the actions of ten […]
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On February 22, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that state police in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul arrested two men who were illegally transporting contraband cigarettes. The arrest was made in Camapuã, about 130 kilometers north of the capital city of Campo Grande. The men were arrested in a large truck and […]
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On February 22, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that there were 100 murders reported in the metropolitan region of Belém, state capital of Pará, between January 2 and February 15 of this year. The rate is equal to about two murders per day. The murders do not favor a certain kind, and there seems to […]
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On February 22, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that three policemen were injured Thursday night in a series of shootouts that took place between two favelas in Rio de Janeiro. A local peacekeeping unit was on patrol in Parque Proletário, Zona Norte, when officers attempted to stop a duo on a motorcycle. The […]
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vanguardia.com reported that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in its annual report on the situation in Colombia, said criminal gangs, known as Bacrim, have become one of the largest sources of human rights violations. “The post-demobilization groups, are considered by all sectors of the biggest threats to public order, and responsible for the greatest […]
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According Survivors alert was created to save the lives of children who have been taken by different strangers who have custody or care with the intent to harm, but the law has been “distorted” as it is being used to custody issues when the parent takes the child which does not merit activate the Alba-Kenneth, […]
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Two murders by gunfire recorded in less that 24 hours Cuenca Ecuador. Elcomercio.com reported that at about 09:00 on Friday February 22, the body of a woman was found with three shots in the Santa Ana-San Bartolomé, sector La Dolorosa, in the canton of Cuenca. The agents collected forensic evidence of the place and made […]
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Guatemalan officials reported this afternoon a clash between drug traffickers in the municipality of San Francisco, Petén, leaving several dead, officials say they are working to determine whether Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is among the victims.According to information provided by official sources, are recorded when two victims, but still not been identified, in the scene […]
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According to elnuevoherald.com, Guatemala authorities are investigating Thursday whether Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, may have died in a gun battle in the Department of Petén in northern border with Mexico, said Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez. “At the moment we have is the confirmation of an armed confrontation. […]
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On February 20, 2013, NE10 reported that a joint effort between civil and state police in the state of Bahia resulted in the seizure of over one ton of marijuana, which would have been dealt in Salvador, the capital. Five people were arrested during the three-day operation. Part of the drugs were found in a […]
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sub machine gun used in assault Zapopan, Jalisco. – oem.com.mx reported one step away with three young offenders were left, and that police were able to stop zapopanos after assaulting an employee at a petrol station in the colony Colli paradises. It was the way when a patrol was stopped by a citizen who immediately […]
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oem.com.mx reported that 94% of the homicides committed in Jalisco recently have to do with drug trafficking, recognizes the attorney general, Thomas Coronado Olmos, who says so is an offense of high impact and whose greatest concern priority should be fight of his successor. Coronado Olmos said that there are other offenses, mainly those of […]
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noticias.terra.cl reported that the Homicide Unit (BH) of the PDI of Conception is investigating a possible abortion, performed by a woman of 23 years old, through the use of a medication called Misotrol. The accused would have introduced vaginally pills while in his home in the town of Lan C Hualpén. After presenting a hemorrhage, […]
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Intelligence agents agree that in the country’s prisons, drugs, alcohol, weapons and cell phones are bought and sold by dealers networks run by mafias. These groups even vie for control of prisons, which leads to “strong govern disputes in the halls.” The researchers do not rule out that the facts of violence in the country […]
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On February 19, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police conducting a massive operation in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina arrested 147 people since last weekend with possible links to the attacks. On Tuesday they arrested Maykon Aurelio Saturnino, 29, in Florianópolis, the capital, believed to be the ringleader of many of […]
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On February 18, 2013, G1 reported that a pair of nightclub owners from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, are being transferred to Belém, the state capital of Pará, to face human trafficking charges. The duo owned nightclubs in Altamira, about 900 kilometers from Belém, and was arrested last Wednesday. They face charges of […]
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Glenn Sanderse and expatriate from Canada was found dead on February 20, 2013, at his real estate office in Vilcabamba Ecuador. He was age 53. It is believed that he had been dead for several days and initial signs were that he had been beaten and his throat slashed. Police are now conducting an investigation. […]
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Seven year old girl was going to be sold for $2400.00 ntn24.com reported that a pet dog saved her owner, a 7 year old girl, being kidnapped to be sold in the Mexican state Nuevo Leon (northeast), local authorities said. The mascot, named “Gufi” criminals attacked by barking and led the parents of the victim […]
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Bananaleaks.co reported that Pedro Delgado (Correa’s Cousin) Delgado who until December 2012 was the president of the Central Bank of Ecuador who resigned to press reports could not refute. He was denounced for fraud but his cousin the President (Correa) helped him escape and is now a fugitive in Miami requesting political asylum. Ecuador’s Prosecutor […]
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The scammer of counterfeit dollars captured on Tuesday at noon, by staff of the Departmental Research Division Uruguay, not official Argentine Army. As transcended, this young man surnamed Alegre, said an officer of the Force, that argument before merchants trying to sell fake silver, wearing a genuine uniform this Force. The timely reaction of people […]
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Authorities said yesterday that they have no hypotheses for the murder of U.S. citizen, Michael James Brown, 53, on Saturday at about 8:30 pm. Herber Herrera, head of the tax office of Sonsonate, only confirmed that the incident occurred in the village of San Isidro, the town of Izalco, when the alien originally from Michigan, […]
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Cuba sentenced 273 people with sentences ranging from six to ten years in prison for drug-related offenses in 2012, the year in which they seized the island in 3045 kilos of narcotics, according to official figures released today. Havana. Altogether, over last year in the country were penalized 628 people for offenses or drug offenses, […]
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Santa Fe police arrested a man as he tried to fly a Cessna carrying 250 kilograms of marijuana. Was on a rural road between the towns of Serodino and Clarke Station, 70 kilometers northwest of Rosario. The deputy provincial police commissioner greater Cristian Sola said that “it will analyze the black box and the GPS […]
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After the Robbery Squad of the Investigative Police raided a house in Talca, found more than 100 forms of license. These 150 forms and other documents were found in a residence of Father Alberto Hurtado population in the north of the city. The BIRO confirmed that they belonged to the Traffic Division of the Municipality […]
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The Public Security Secretariat of Jalisco (SSPJ) announced that members of the department, located a property used as a laboratory for the manufacture of synthetic drugs, on the slopes of a hill located in Mazamitla. Were from the Commissioner General of the State Public Security (CGSPE), who received an anonymous tip that there was a […]
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Increased arrests of teenagers involved in micro-networks of drug trafficking Eleven micro-drug traffickers, including nine teenagers, were captured during the last 96 hours by police officers of Tachira in different locations in the region, who were surprised when they sold banned substances in the form of retail. Jim Ortuño, Politáchira Executive Secretary, reported that this […]
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The organization Interpol announced Tuesday the arrest of 194 people in 12 Latin American operation against illegal logging, which was seized the equivalent of 2,000 truck loads, whose price had hovered around $ 8 million. This is the first large-scale international operation against such crimes, Interpol said in a statement in which he said that […]
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Italian police dismantled a network that trafficked Italian-Mexican cocaine, importing it from Mexico to Italy as part of an operation called “Cancun” and in which agents of the country worked from 2011, official sources confirmed to Reform. As part of the police operation, three people, all of Italian nationality and one of them a Roman […]
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On February 19, 2013, Zero Hora reported that police in Porto Alegre arrested some 26 people connected to a string of gas station attacks throughout the city. Through the arrests, 140 policemen were utilized, 14 guns and 2 vehicles were seized. Two other recently stolen cars were later found. The police action also recorded the […]
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On February 18, 2013, A Gazeta reported that police arrested members of two gangs specializing in carjacking this past weekend in Vitória, the capital of the state of Espírito Santo. In all, six men were arrested, and four cars and one gun were seized. A spokesman for the local robberies unit, André Cunha, said that […]
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On February 18, 2013, D24AM reported that federal prosecutors are traveling to the Brazilian state of Pará to investigate a ring of sexual abuse cases that occurred at the Belo Monte plant, situated between Altamira and Vitória do Xingu. To this day, the report cites 32 women and adolescents who were freed in the past […]
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On February 18, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that the Brazilian city of Cuiabá reported seven murders over this past weekend. Five of the murders were gang-related and execution style, raising the number of gang-related murders this year to 29. The murderers of those five are believed to be hired guns. One man was murdered […]
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eltiempo.com.ve reported that a Brazilian national tourist was shot dead on Saturday night on a stretch of highway Cantaura-El Tigre.The tourist was identified as Ernandez Da Silva Gomes (51 years), who died instantly, at 9:30 pm, after receiving a gunshot…………he had stopped on the highway to urinate. His family was in the vehilce. Read Article
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U.S. citizen Michael James, age 52, has been murdered by a an unknown group of gunmen. He was in a rental care with a female driving through a coffee plantation. The information did not indicated whether he was a tourist or expatriate. laprensagrafica.com reported that the U.S. government issued a travel warning to El Salvador, […]
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lahora.com.gt reported that researchers from the Department of Crimes against Life, the National Civil Police (PNC), captured six members of the Mara Salvatrucha, accused of committing dozens of crimes, some linked to extortion. The investigation began yesterday, in zone 1 of Chimaltenango, where they were arrested at a resort, the brothers Edilberto and Alvaro Adonai, […]
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Two police officers charged with extortion in Bogotá……It is the superintendent José Antonio Ochoa and Patrolman Luis Alexander White, who had received five million dollars from a woman to her husband not arrested for illegal possession of weapons. The circumstances being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office, were recorded in December 2011, in the town […]
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The police captured alias “Sarley” or “Countryman”, subject to 37 years of age who is the second leader of the criminal gang “Rebirth” that offends in the department of Chocó, mainly in the town of Istmina. The capture came when soldiers in a checkpoint located in the village of El Sabanal Monteria, Cordoba, they asked […]
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CUSTOMIZED MEDIA MONITORING PROGRAM Carlos Federico Del Frade and published research that says that in the city of Rosario has 400 kiosks drug $ 2,000 million annually collect and also exposes employers of the night and a provincial official. Journalists Carlos Federico Mauro Del Frade and gave details about the route of the drug in […]
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According to hoy.com.do….PUNTA CANA. A suitcase with six packets of cocaine was occupied at the local airport after his owner abandoned her on a plane to take off to Canada, narcotic weighed seven kilograms and a half, reported Monday the National Control Drugs (DNCD). “The drug suitcase was left in a corporate jet Sun Wing […]
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elcolombiano.com reported that an emergency plan activated Ecopetrol officials to prevent the oil spill, caused by an attack, allegedly by FARC guerrillas the Cano Limon-Covenas on Saturday night. Among the contingencies is the installation of barriers that prevent the fuel from contaminating the Catatumbo river and cause an environmental emergency such as that produced in […]
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The National Police announced seizure of an arsenal of weapons against seven of the FARC and the logistical structure of the criminal gang known as “Pijarvey” a dissident ERPAC, known as “Libertadores del Vichada” in jungle area of Meta. In seizing two caches hidden underground, include machine guns, rifles, and rocket launchers, with which this […]
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The ELN announced Monday in a statement that “Canada remains” in his possession, after the Friday release his five fellow prisoners, all mine workers Geo Explorer. The armed group did not specify the reasons why the engineer did not provide Jernoc Wobert, VP Exploration of the Company, but justified the kidnapping in their struggle against […]
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On February 18, 2013, R7 reported that a man in Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Gustavo Pereira da Silva, was arrested yesterday after he attempted to rape a homeless woman. Police also reported that he was under the influence of crack at the time. He also made threats as he was […]
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On February 18, 2013, Diário Catarinense reported that police will begin to escort buses throughout the Florianópolis region starting today, after a deadly wave attacks that have swept the area in the past month. Bus terminals will also close earlier: certain terminals within the city will close at 11pm, while terminals such as the one […]
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vision.org (Reuters) A series of original studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) quantify the costs of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean using a combination of crime, health and economic statistics to come to fresh conclusions. In Brazil, one study found people pay an extra $13 billion to gain a […]
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On February 18, 2013, G1 reported that local police are investigating environmental crimes in northeastern Pará, possibly linked to the Renato Chaves Science Center in Ourém. Police are specifically investigating the illegal extraction of sand and gravel. One local farmer said he noticed a white coloration in the water in a nearby creek, and that […]
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On February 14, 2013, the Federal Highway Police of Brazil seized a stash of 800 kilograms of marijuana, along with a Romanian-made rifle, near Ourinhos, São Paulo state. The bust was made after police boarded a Mercedes-Benz truck on the Trans-Brazilian Highway (BR-153). The truck had plates registered to Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, a […]
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On February 18, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a gang of 30 thieves stole an entire truckload of electronics from a stash in Campinas. The thieves loaded the goods into six separate cars and nine separate trucks and drove off. They entered the secure compound using a car owned by the security […]
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Attacks/Kidnappings my increase when Rainy season ends. Rainy season in highlands (sierra) begins September and peaks sometime between January and March, May to–August period is marked by very dry conditions with cold nights and mornings. larepublica.pe reported that intelligence sources consulted by The Republic mainly from the Joint Command of the Armed Forces confirmed that […]
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Nariño. In developing the Comprehensive Intervention Strategy against Terrorism, run-oriented advance mechanisms that would reduce terrorist intentions, the police located a cache of explosives that would be used for terrorist attacks against security forces and civilians. The procedure took place in the village board Motilón Gomez Township, where officials of the Judicial Police Criminal Investigation […]
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Colombia Police reported: Valle del Cauca. The final destination would alkaloid departments Antioquia and the coffee, its market value would exceed 4.617 million pesos. In police operations conducted in the struggle against the micro traffic, in the last hours were seized more than 7 tons and a half of marijuana and captured three people, plus […]
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lanacion.com.ar reported via a special correspondent, there is an e-mail that, in recent weeks, went viral among opponents of President Rafael Correa. It is entitled “300 reasons not to vote for the Mashi [as it is called in Quechua]” in the elections tomorrow, and the first thing is blamed are the various cases of corruption […]
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Assault occurred after the two German tourists visit the arcaelogical complex at Huaca del Sol y La Luna in Moche. Five masked assailants were armed with guns. laindustria.pe reported that two German tourists age 19 lived a scary experience when returning from the Huaca del Sol y La Luna in Moche. Five gunmen assaulted the […]
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The U.S. federal government has dismantled 26 drug-smuggling tunnels in this town on the border with Mexico over the past three years, the most recent of which was discovered this week. Federal authorities on Wednesday found a cross-border tunnel that had just been completed on the Arizona side, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in […]
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ICRC.org reported that five civilians held by the National Liberation Army (ELN) since 18 January have been released into the care of a team from the ICRC. The handover took place in a rural area of Bolívar department in northern Colombia. The released civilians, who work for a mining company, are: William Batista, Manuel Zabaleta […]
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According to lapoliciaca.com, a man about 35 years old was killed on the streets of Hamburg, in the Zona Rosa, where another man was shot at least four times. The incident occurred shortly before noon, when the victim, who has not been identified, walked into the street of Genoa. Witnesses said a man wearing dark […]
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On February 14, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that recent statistics published by the state of São Paulo’s Polícia Militar show a 13% drop in deaths caused by drunk driving during the Carnaval season. The amount of those injured also fell by 57%. The report gives credit to enhanced monitoring: the amount of […]
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A partnership between the governor of Azuay, Police, Fire Brigade, Red Cross, Armed Forces, Ministry of Health, Department of Risk Management, Ministry of Tourism and Ministry ECU-911 Transportation allowed a contingency plan to run five days of Carnival holidays in the province of Azuay (southern Andes). With this operation, was deployed a contingent of 1,593 […]
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Staff Department of Arms Control of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces seized 53 firearms of various calibers in operations that were conducted in three provinces during the carnival festivities. Military actions were launched on major thoroughfares and second order of Cotopaxi, Pichincha and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, where in addition to 56 […]
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peopledaily.com. reported over the long holiday weekend and Carnival in Bolivia last Friday to next Tuesday, there were 55 homicides, suicides, accidents, and natural alcohol intoxication, police said. Over the long holiday weekend and Carnival in Bolivia last Friday to next Tuesday, there were 55 homicides, suicides, accidents, and natural alcohol intoxication, police said. The […]
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Crimes against tourists Argentina According to mdzol.com, Mendoza, Argentina is known to be relatively safe for foreign tourists. However, their weakest area may be the main bus station known as, La Terminal de Ómnibus. This large bus terminal is a sea of humanity with lots of people and numerous foreign tourists coming from Chile and […]
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According to lanacion.cl, at least four gas stations robberies committed a criminal posing as Argentine tourist and was arrested by police from the SIP of the 1st station in Viña del Mar. As reported by the portal sitiodelsuceso.cl, Carlo Eduardo is CC (39), who had the particular “modus operandi” Argentine tourist impersonate order to confuse […]
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Elpais.com reported that the Government of Bolivia has announced that Congress will approve as soon as possible a law punishable by 30 years in prison on femicide and discuss a proposed chemical castration for rapists. The initiative was accelerated after the murder, on Tuesday, Huaycho Hanali journalist at the hands of her husband, police Lt. […]
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“600,000 pesos. In order to provide accurate data on the owner of the page Tamaulipas value “. The message of the pamphlets in recent days have appeared in several border cities of Tamaulipas state, northeast of the country, is clear: a reward of nearly 36,000 euros in exchange for the administrator who can identify a […]
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Ricardo Camacho, a security expert said in an interview with Radio Centro, the question we must ask is: “Who is in control in prisons: the State or the people who are deprived of their liberty?. Thing happened in the Leakage of the Rock is an alert to know that in Ecuador who controls the state […]
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unionjalisco.mx reported ….In a new chapter embarrassing for traffic cops. Comes this video that highlights what many know, but rarely documented in video, as on this occasion. Everything happens on a road in Aguascalientes, when a traffic officer, which is not enough to distinguish whether municipal or state, but bears the insignia “protect and serve”, […]
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Elcomercio.com reported an investigation determined that the nine suspects posing as policemen and vigilantes Road Traffic Commission. So mobile checkpoints mounted in strategic places of peripheral channels of Guayaquil to assault truckloads of merchandise. They were arrested on 2 February in a raid in Bastion Popular (north of Guayaquil). The officers presented the alleged evidence: […]
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On February 12, 2013, G1 reported that police in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul concluded Operação Viagem Segura, a four-day operation meant to control crime during the annual Carnaval season. During the time period police arrested some 495 motorists due to driving under the influence. Police also monitored nearly 84,000 vehicles […]
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Reporter.bz reported that Lebanese Belizean businessman, Majdi Agha, 50, was executed in front of his wife and young child, in front of their home in Buttonwood Bay around 8:50 a.m., on Tuesday. He and his family had just returned home, when a masked gunman ambushed him from inside his yard. Police found Agha’s lifeless body […]
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On February 10, 2013, D24AM reported that police discovered 27 kilograms of marijuana on BR-319, valued at R$40,000. Police also arrested three individuals and charged them with drug trafficking. The drug was being transported by means of motorcycle between Porto Velho, Rondônia, and Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas. The action inflicted significant damage on […]
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Report that escapees are members of the gang Los Choneros , major search areas: Daule, Perimetral, León Febres Cordero (Aurora) y Samborondón hoy.com.ec reported that the Ministry of the Interior announced on the escape produced on Monday 11 February, around 19h30, a group of 19 prisoners detained in the high security prison “The Rock”, escaped […]
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reporter.bz has reported that the Belizean public will learn the ins and outs of getting a new passport through an education campaign that the Department of Immigration and Nationality will be conducting throughout the country. This campaign will familiarize Belizeans with the changes in the new application form, and the ways in which the application […]
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channel5belize.com reported that two well-known Belizean businessmen from the north are in lockdown in Mexico City after what is considered the biggest drug raid in Chetumal on Thursday evening involving one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels. Both men were caught in an alleged drug transaction at the house of a reputed Mexican drug lord […]
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San Pedro Sula Honduras – Woman found strangled in hotel. Tiempo.hn reported that on Sunday evening, February 10, 2013, a female and male went to the Marvin Hotel and asked for a room. The hotel clerk asked for identification, which the man and woman said they did not have any. They rented a room for […]
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Youth gangs are the main perpetrators of the crime in Central America, where the majority of the population has little confidence in the security forces, according to a survey released today in Guatemala by CID-Gallup. The survey, conducted last January a total of 7,200 Central Americans, ie 1,200 in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa […]
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El Unviverso.com reported that this past Saturday, February 9, 2013, there were three reported assaults and robberies at Cerro Santa Ana, in the center of Guayaquil. The first assault was when Roberto Rivera denounced Semiglia and was walking with his friend Christian Tapia to his vehicle when two armed men intercepted them to steal. Two […]
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42% of the members of the FARC is for children recruited, while in 44% of ELN insurgents are minors. People used to talk that 14,000 children were associated with armed groups outside the law. The latest report of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare in conjunction with political scientist Natalia Springer, revealed that the figure […]
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She is a native of Salta and imprisonment denounced his mother in Buenos Aires, to the Office of Luis Comparatore, sources confirmed to The Voice of the investigation. It is unclear how accurate the data came from the release of the house of Villa El Libertador where the girl was hiding, apparently inside a room […]
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The war on drugs in Mexico has largely stayed away from its capital city. But now some police chiefs are warning the violence could spread. On Sunday, 18 suspected members of La Familia cartel were arrested in connection to recent killings in Mexico City’s suburbs.
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elcolombiano.com reported the bodies of five people were found Monday in the village of La Bamba, the township Puerto Claver, in the municipality of El Bagre, located in the subregion of Bajo Cauca Antioquia, according to judicial sources. The victims, all African descent, were taken in a truck to the city morgue to the respective […]
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oem.com.mx reported in Córdoba, Veracruz. – Elements of the State Investigation Agency (AEI) with support from members of the Municipal Police Cosolapa, Oaxaca, managed the location and thus the rescue of a housewife that municipality, who was a victim of a virtual kidnapping after receiving calls from individuals claiming to belong to a criminal group […]
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. In a joint operation, which lasted more than 15 hours, were seized in Tumbes 3,000 gallons of fuel smuggled from Ecuador, valued at 30,000 soles, reported the National Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat ). The action, the result of a follow-up to the officers of the Customs Directorate of Tumbes, was conducted in coordination […]
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Narcs Paraguay, with support from the Brazilian police, destroyed 309 hectares of marijuana in Amambay department, on the border with Brazil, reported the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad). These illegal crops were eliminated in the three days of a joint operation between the Paraguayan and Brazilian authorities carried out in forested regions Capitan Bado, Amambay, 600 […]
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tn.com.ar (Sept 2012) Just over the border north and northeastern Argentina for dozens of scars visible brown cut so straight and perfect the jungle landscape that abounds in the area. Each having a width of between 80 and 100 meters and a length of 500 to 1500 meters, are potential clandestine airstrips that are ready […]
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On February 11, 2013, A Crítica reported that an 83 year-old man from Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, was arrested by local police yesterday. He was suspected of sexually assaulting a 14 year-old indigenous girl. The tip came after a local restaurant owner accused the man of assault after he claimed the young girl […]
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On February 11, 2013, Jornal do Brasil reported that a farmer in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul was fined R$34,000 after police discovered that he had illegally cleared land. The deforestation was found this Sunday after local Environmental Police did a check along the Paraguay River, which separates Brazil from Paraguay. Police […]
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On January 27, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that in the city of Cuiabá, capital of the state of Mato Grosso, local police provided shelter for 450 victims of child abuse in 2012. Most of the crimes that required shelter were sexual in nature. The unit also conducted some 619 investigations of child abuse, compared […]
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On February 11, 2013, G1 reported that police in the state of Rio Grande do Sul performed over 4,000 breathalyzer tests on motorists traveling to and from Carnaval over the weekend. In the end, they took some 400 drivers off of the roads. Of those 400, 136 were processed and fined, as part of the […]
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On February 7, 2013, G1 reported that police in the Brazilian state of Goiás discovered a stash of nearly 100 kilograms of marijuana. The drugs were found in Cachoeira Alta, some 350 kilometers from Goiânia, the state capital. The marijuana was wrapped into 104 packets using wrapping paper, made to look like birthday presents. The […]
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Residents of the community of Santa Teresita de Don Diego in San Miguel de Allende, said they were dismayed by the news that Joyous Heart was killed inside his house. To the people the news they fell by surprise, the woman had no relatives in Mexico. “He was very kind lady but never talked to […]
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Noroeste.com.mx reported that the Regional Deputy Justice in Mazatlan received a complaint from a tourist of being assaulted by a taxi driver on Saturday February 9, 2013. The alleged assault took place during Carnaval celebrations. Read Article THE NEWS ARTICLE DID NOT PROVIDE DETAILS OF THE ALLEGED ASSAULT OR THE ORIGIN OF THE TOURIST.
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