Guabala, Chiriquí. -According to By operating “Rookie” narcotics agents of the National Police found a young woman with a briefcase, which was carrying eight packages of a drug known as “Crispi”. The suspect was traveling on a bus route Panama-David.The group of officers arrested the woman in the booth Guabala in the province of Chiriqui, around 5:00 am Monday. Read Article
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What is the nature of this market? The history of cocaine trafficking from South America to the United States has been well documented. The flow peaked in the 1980s. During most of this time, Colombian traffickers dominated the market, and they often preferred to use the Caribbean as a transit area. Due to vigorous law […]
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SOURCE: laprensa.hn Authorities indicate that 11 Honduran cartels are part of narcotics smuggling network. Five drug cartels from Colombia are using Honduras as a drop off point to transport illegal drugs on to Mexico with ultimate destination of the United States. Research by Honduran office of drug trafficking (DLCN) and the Honduran military working in […]
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A U.S. judge on Monday sentenced to 11 months in prison to a Venezuelan who pleaded guilty to a charge related to a cocaine trafficking case in which seven people are charged. Judge Robin Ronsembaum announced his decision at a hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, in southern Florida. He pleaded guilty to making […]
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The drugs were hidden inside a vehicle. Staff assigned to Detachment 33 of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), belonging to the fixed checkpoint The Toll House, located in the municipality of Zulia state Baralt, seized 40 kilos of marijuana. The drug was represented in 40 panels of a kilo each, hidden from a double bottom […]
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AFP reported that about 400 people protested on Sunday in Tula, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo (center), arguing that there have been 11 disappearances of femicide and six women over the last two months in that region, as authorities recognize only seven homicides against women because gender. “Our city is experiencing a wave of […]
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On January 28, 2013, G1 reported that the judge in the Decio Sá murder case will hear from most of the defendants involved in the incident over the next four days, as well as many of the witnesses. In all, 56 testimonies will be heard. Decio Sá was killed in April at a restaurant in […]
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Monterrey. – It was announced last minute, which has placed a number of calls “narcofosas”, confirming the discovery of five bodies, however, there is still no official information regarding that could be some of the bodies these elements of the band. Elements of Civil Force of Nuevo Leon, started operating in the town of Mina, […]
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Mexican police are searching for 12 musicians and eight roadies who went missing after a gig on Thursday night. Kombo Kolombia, who are all Mexican but play Colombian music, played a private show in Hidalgo in the country’s north, but haven’t been heard from or answered mobile phones since. Read Article
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On January 26, 2013, NE10 reported that a farmer is accused in the small town of Palmares of sexually abusing a nine-year old girl as she went to play with friends. Palmares is located about 125 kilometers southwest of Recife, the capital of the state. The young girl managed to escape, and found police within […]
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On January 25, 2013, G1 reported that the number of drunk drivers fell in Brazil’s Federal District after the passage of the Lei Seca (Dry Law) in December of 2012. Police conducted an operation between December 21, 2012 and January 20, 2013, in which they stopped 3,000 motorists in Brasília. Just 140 of those drivers […]
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This morning members of the tax police seized more than 5 tons of clothing brands in the gallery adulterated Antonio Bazo, located in block 5 of the shred Gamarra, in Victoria. They note that the garments were destined marketing in the commercial area of Johannesburg. Read Article
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On January 26, 2013, G1 reported that for the first time in twelve years, the homicide rate in São Paulo increased in 2012. Statistics produced by the local government show that the homicide rate jumped 40% last year, coming after a significant fall in the indexes since the year 2000. São Paulo reported 1,497 murders […]
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CARACAS. – At least 54 people were killed and over 90 were injured in a clash in Uribana Venezuelan jail in the country’s west, after a requisition made yesterday by the authorities, according to the head of the hospital said Central City Barquisimeto, Ruy Medina. Read Article
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aljazeera.com reported that Mexico’s top court has freed a French woman convicted of kidnapping, ruling that her trial was tainted and ending a seven-year prison ordeal that strained diplomatic ties. Florence Cassez, 38, was serving a 60-year sentence that opened up a rift between France and Mexico after she was arrested in 2005 at a […]
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On January 23, 2013, Pioneiro reported that a man was arrested bringing guns and ammunition into Brazil from Uruguay and was charged in connection to a string of recent violence and robberies in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state. Nilton José Cassol, 54, was apprehended in the town of Cristal with an AK-47 in […]
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On January 23, 2013, R7 reported that the rate of violent crimes in the state of Minas Gerais rose 7.8% in 2012 to 71,737 incidents, from 66,061 in 2011. The state’s Social Defense Ministry calculated the result using the number of murders, attempted murders, rapes, attempted rapes, robbery, kidnappings and extortion under sequestration. Ministry Secretary […]
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On January 22, 2013, Conexão Tocantins reported that federal prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Tocantins are seeking the convictions of a group of individuals suspected to be involved in a human trafficking ring sending young women to Spain. The ring operated in the city of Gurupi. The investigation focuses on four groups involved in […]
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On January 23, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that numbers published yesterday by local civil police in the Brazilian state of Pará revealed that sixty people were arrested per day in 2012. In total, the civil police made nearly 22,000 arrests. This number represents a 15.5% rise in arrests relative to 2011. Close to 30% […]
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The bad news is that the main cause of femicide that Amnesty International has identified is government inaction and the resulting impunity—human rights abusers can literally get away with murder in Guatemala, especially when their victims are women. Amnesty found that less than 4 percent of homicide cases result in the conviction of those responsible. […]
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Xinuanet.com reported that Brazil’s President Monday highlighted the success of her plan in thwarting organized crime along the border. Dilma Rousseff said in her weekly radio show, “Breakfast with the President,” that authorities have seized more than 3,650 tons of drugs and 2,200 firearms in a year and a half since the Strategic Border Plan […]
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Customs and Border Protection showcased 14,000 pounds of marijuana seized at the Mariposa Port of Entry at a news conference on Tuesday. The drugs are estimated at $7 million. The marijuana was discovered by Border Protection officers during a high risk shipment inspection on January 15. Read Article
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Publimar.mx reported that Andreas Zimmermann Hagen, age 19, purchased drugs with a companion and had both gone to the beach in Mazunte Pochutla district. They made purchases of drugs and the victim inhaled the illegal substance. His friend later woke up and found Zimmermann Hagen deceased. Authorities were contacted and the body moved to the […]
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According to actualidad.rt.com, The Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia seeks to stop sexual violence in the country, for which it has submitted a bill that punishes with chemical castration to all abusers. “Every day there are reports of violations. The draft law against violence against women arises castration chemistry. The law has to be tough […]
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Colombia seized 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine that allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would be sent to the cartel Los Zetas in Veracruz Bogotá. – The National Police of Colombia seized late on a load of 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would […]
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Hoy.com.ec reported that three foreign and one Peruvian were arrested during the week for trying to smuggle drugs Lima International Airport bound for Spain, Efe reported sources of the Police Anti-Drug Directorate (Dirandro). Three foreign and one Peruvian were arrested during the week for trying to smuggle drugs Lima International Airport bound for Spain, Efe […]
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animalpolitico.com reported that between 2008 and 2010, Mexico has detected 320 cases of trafficking for slavery, specifically for sexual exploitation and forced labor subjugation and two cases in which the victims they were excised organs, according to the Report Global Trafficking in Persons Report 2012, published last December by the United Nations Office for Drugs […]
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On January 20, 2013, Eco de Notícias reported that a four-year old child was captured, sexually assaulted and killed in Xapuri, a small town about 180 kilometers from Rio Branco, the capital of Acre. The suspect, Jaisson Moreira Moura, was apprehended minutes after the body was found in his home. Moura reportedly was friends with […]
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On January 20, 2013, O Globo reported that police arrested a gang of middle-class university students responsible for the diversion of over $2 million over the past two years. The gang defrauded bank accounts, moving funds to accounts of friends and family. The money was then withdrawn immediately, to avoid suspicion. The group was charged […]
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On January 21, 2013, 24 Horas News reported a rise in missing persons in Cuiabá, the capital of Mato Grosso, in 2012. Local police counted 785 reports of individuals of all ages disappearing, 33% more than in 2011 (590). Investigator Lauriane Cristina de Oliveira attributes the numbers to more teenagers running away from home, as […]
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On January 18, 2013, the State Police of Paraná concluded Operation Paraná Summer (Operação Verão Paraná), declaring it a success. Between December 20, 2012 and January 17, 2013, police interacted with more than 10,000 people, arresting about 400. It also seized 6 kilograms of marijuana, 81 grams of cocaine and 490 rocks of crack cocaine. […]
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On January 20, 2013, A Tarde reported that the homicide rate for the Salvador Metropolitan Area increased 12.5% in 2012. Monthly reports from the local Public Security Office and news data from November and December counted 2,391 deaths, 300 more than in 2011. Public Security will not comment on the numbers until official statistics for […]
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prensa-latina.cu reported that the Venezuelan authorities Tucanos acquire 12 aircraft in order to strengthen their ability to face the traffic of illicit substances in the country, reported the National Anti-Drug Office. According to the agency, the Minister of Interior and Justice, Nestor Reverol, said the devices will join the Bolivarian Military Aviation to detect illegal […]
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In the bedroom floor with facial injuries was found the lifeless body of an elderly man. From initial police investigations, it is presumed that the 79 year old man was killed by a close friend who suffer from mental disorders and who lived in the same house, which will be determined after investigation. Read Article
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According to lapagina.com.sv a 15 year old victim of trafficking was forced to “sell” her virginity at a price of $ 10 at one of the brothels in San Salvador in mid-2011, as reported by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). Smyrna Salazar, head of the special unit of smuggling and trafficking of FGR, relates the […]
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pachamamaradio.org reported that imprisoned in the penitentiary of women Lampa Jarvis Suasnabar Jackeline Flores 24 years old, who tricked brought ladies from Huancayo to make them work as chaperones in Ananea. Jarvis Suasnabar Jackeline Flores was captured yesterday at the bus terminal and then transferred to Juliaca criminal Lampa, because the Court of Inquiry ordered […]
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noticias.terra.com.mx reported that Nanco Tentle Gregoria was responsible for monitoring women who were forced into prostitution in the streets of Colonia Candelaria, but was captured and sentenced to 15 years in prison after one of the victims managed to make contact with an acquaintance who helped expose the their attackers. The acquaintance of the victim […]
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She was with her baby and was forced into prostitution. She was taken to Chubut with the promise of a job. Proceedings of the Federal Justice of Bariloche. A woman and her baby were rescued from a trafficking network in the city of Esquel Chubut. It was subjected to prostitution and had Tucumán search request. […]
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A total of 158 municipal police officers were arrested Friday in Durango State, northern Mexico, for his alleged links to organized crime, according to the prosecutor Sonia Yadira de la Garza . The operation affected the municipal Public Security addresses of the locations of Lerdo (150,000 inhabitants) and Gómez Palacio (350,000) and was attended by […]
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BBC.co.uk reported that a court in Nicaragua has jailed for 30 years each 18 people who tried to enter the country with $9.2m (£5.8m), posing as Mexican TV journalists. A judge in Managua found them guilty of money-laundering and organising a drug link between Mexico and Costa Rica. Read Article
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zonaplus.netA man dragging an unconscious woman to a meeting room. The sitting in an armchair. Other people come and rearranged. A minute later, the first man nods and lights out. He leans over her and the image is blurred. Then lie down on the floor above and will apparently abused her sexually. Allegedly occurred after […]
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On January 16, 2013, São Paulo Police reported that a large drug refinery was discovered in the North Zone of the city of São Paulo. Police discovered the refinery after arresting a suspect on the street who presented false documentation. While held, the man admitted that he was a manager of a drug trafficking ring, […]
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On January 9, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police (Polícia Federal) concluded a massive anti-drug campaign in the state of Paraná, Operation Ajubá. Over six months of investigation, Federal Police seized four tons of marijuana, 136 kilograms of cocaine and 336 bottles of inhalants. They also arrested ten people: eight men, two women. The gang maintained […]
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‘Express kidnapping’ is on the rise in South and Central America according to cirmagazine.com. This form of crime generally involves people being abducted, robbed and then forced to withdraw money from a cash point or hand over their PIN details, according to risk consultancy red24. Express kidnappings increased by more than 60% in 2012 in […]
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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said Friday that the military forces are “in focus” ELN kidnappers this morning took captive a Canadian, two Peruvians and two Colombians working for a mining company in northern country. “We’re on top of the hijackers in southern Bolivar. Forces already mobilized and we targeted,” the president wrote […]
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greenpeace.org reported that trucks filled with timber from illegal logging operations in the Amazon have been stopped in their tracks by an indigenous village protesting the continued exploitation of their lands. With little or no support from the local or federal authorities, the Pukobjê-Gavião people in Maranhão state, Brazil, are refusing to stand aside as […]
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On January 17, 2013, G1 reported that an 18 year-old man was arrested in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, on charges that he killed a man in a local LAN house. The footage came from video surveillance within the LAN house. The killer, whose name was not given, was wanted for four other murders before […]
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On January 17, 2013, Região Noroeste reported that new technology has been developed that can help detect the cutting down of even one tree in Brazil. Researchers at Orbisat have produced radar technology that will be inserted into satellites and airplanes used to track changes in the rainforest. The technology’s test run will be overseeing […]
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On January 17, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that police arrested a man, Sandro Rodrigues, involved in an illegal deforestation scheme in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Pará. Police found the man in Bacarena, a small town close to Belém, the state capital, and he led them to the site, where they also […]
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On January 8, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police (Polícia Federal) reported that it arrested the leader of a gang involved in a series of robberies throughout the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The gang leader was arrested in Natal, the capital, but the name was not released. Police used information […]
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thedialogue.org – Author, Julie Lopez In September 2012, Belize made international headlines, as it rarely does. The country’s name surfaced when Rafiq Mohammed Labboun Allaboun, allegedly a Lebanese terrorist associated with Hezbollah, was arrested in Mexico. He held a Belizean passport, driver’s license, and birth certificate in the name of a person who died in […]
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laht.com reported that the Anonymous group of activist hackers took responsibility for attacks on the Web sites of Mexico’s defense and navy departments. Hackers gained access to all of the information in the defense department’s computers, Anonymous said on Twitter… Read Article
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ElPais.com – Briceño studying violence since 1994, five years before Chavez came to power. “The homicide rate was then 20 per 100,000 inhabitants. And you were worried. In 1998 there were 4,500 violent deaths. In 2000 almost came twice. In 2003, when Chávez served four years in power, the killings amounted to 11,300, the rate […]
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Elpais.com reported that Carolina Bustamante Bustamante, 39, shows his card FM2, immigration document that allows a foreigner residing in Mexico for five years. “These papers do not give them to anyone. I have them because I am a worker, not a criminal. Many lies have been told, “he says. Since her husband and his brother, […]
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Elpais.com reported that Mexico City, considered one of the safest places in the country in recent years, has suffered this weekend a wave of unprecedented violence. Since last Friday to Monday, 23 people were killed in separate incidents in various delegations of the Federal District. That figure, coupled with the deaths of 16 other people […]
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A new violent death Cuencanos worries. Marisela P., 22, was found dead along the banks of the river Yanuncay on Avenue May 1, neighborhood cantons, south of the capital Sawaya. Her body had more than seven stab wounds and signs of violence. Attorney Romel Molina and Judicial Police and Criminal Investigation conducted the removal of […]
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On January 17, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that four policemen were arrested Monday for suspected involvement in the murder of an adolescent. The adolescent was determined to be 16 years old, and the crime occurred in the eastern zone of São Paulo on Sunday morning, around 12:30am. The teenager was involved in […]
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Carlos Javier Mendoza Elizalde, 41, was killed yesterday with a shot to the heart level by trying to prevent theft in a city bus. It was learned that the incident occurred around 06:00 in the streets 21 and Sedalana, southwest of Guayaquil, minutes after boarding a micro Mendoza line 121, disc plate 2042 and GBG-551. […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that 10 years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of € 40,000 were convicted in Milan, Italy, Ecuadorians and Jorge Loor Cristian Redrobán, as published yesterday on its web edition the newspaper El Comercio, who had access to conviction by the finding liquid cocaine inside a diplomatic pouch Ecuador in January 2012. Read […]
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According to independent.co.uk, police in Honduras are looking for a man and a woman suspected of gunning down a British tourist in the street as they tried to steal his camera. Omer Kaya, 33, died after he was shot in the neck on Tuesday morning while he was on holiday in San Pedro Sula, the […]
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Telegraph.co.uk reported that two British women are being held by police in Brazil after allegedly trying to smuggle almost 8lbs of cocaine through customs. The women, both believed to be 23-years-old, were arrested at Guarulhos airport in Sao Paulo en route to London. They were stopped at the boarding gate after sniffer dogs indicated they […]
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On January 16, 2013, NE Noticias reported that a woman was arrested in Aracaju, the capital of the Brazilian state of Sergipe, for dealing drugs near a local hospital. The suspected buyers are city councilman Adriano Feitoza and his brother, Damião. The dealer, Luana Ferreira dos Santos, also ran for city council in the nearby […]
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On January 16, 2013, Zero Hora reported that a trio of thieves armed with knives robbed a tollbooth along BR-386 near the town of Fazenda Vilanova, located roughly 100 kilometers from Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul. The assault occurred around 8pm last night, near kilometer marker 310. The men made […]
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On January 16, 2013, NE10 reported that a 15 year-old girl was arrested Tuesday night with a stash of marijuana weighing roughly 16 ½ pounds in São José de Mipubú, a town about 30 kilometers from Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. She was traveling on the highway near São […]
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On January 16, 2013, NE10 reported that TV Jornal conducted an interview with Isac Bento Campelo, 30, accused with his wife, Ana Carla Domingos Gomes, 28, of sexually abusing four adolescent churchgoers between the ages of 12 and 17. In the interview Campelo dismissed the accusations of some of the families, but did admit to […]
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At least 2,900 bags of rice were seized Venalcasa brand / Norys Marquez, regional coordinator of the Institute for the Defense of People’s Access to Goods and Services (Indepabis) Zulia state clarified that the inspection was performed product of a complaint. Read Article
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On January 16, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that a city councilman in the city of Curuá was arrested for assault and making death threats towards a 17-year old boy. Diego Pereira de Araújo, 25, was accused of attacking and threatening the boy at a local market where the boy worked. Araújo hit the boy […]
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On January 15, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the National Truth Commission, established last year by President Dilma Rousseff to investigate episodes of human rights violations between 1946 and 1988, received documents from the government of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul regarding a recently slain military colonel, Júlio Miguel […]
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Insecurity and people who gather to sip are the issues facing the lookout Guápulo and adjacent green space, Jonah Street and Rafael Leon Guerrero. Space, explains Carmen Helena Córdova, president of the place, has several shortcomings, including a lack of control. But these complications are not recent. In the field, home to around 4,000 people, […]
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Despite the intense search for young Cordoba, which involved troops and police dogs, yesterday met ten days without known trace of Marco Roldan. As time progresses, doubts grow about a French citizen who went with him to Mount Taras and that was the last I saw him. Mario Olivera, 30, a friend and fellow touring […]
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According to elcommercio.com, British tourist, Kaya Omer, 33, was killed after being shot in the neck by several assailants. Several other press reports indicated he was attempting to flee the attacking men who were trying to steal his camera. Kaya Omer was in a neighborhood taking pictures when the attack happened. Read Article
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The FARC have increased the purchase of weapons in Ecuador since the start of the peace process with the government of Colombia, at the discretion of Brigadier General Fernando Proaño Daza, who commands the Ecuadorian military deployed on the border. In recent days the Operational Command Number 1 “North” has discovered a weapons and craft […]
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Eluniversio.com reported that authoritiesOne of them said that at about 00:00 yesterday, criminals had entered the union after breaking the lock of the door adjacent to the premises. He argued that, apparently, the alarm sounded, but soon cut cables to power off. Ludwig Colonel Colonel, commander of subarea 18 of the National Police in Tungurahua, […]
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Liquid cocaine believed to have originated in Peru or Colombia – Fruit cans used had labels of well known brands in Ecuador. eluniverso.com reported ten million dollars would be worth the 190.625 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride Counternarcotics Police of Guayas discovered last Friday in a container, in the seaport of Guayaquil, south of the city. […]
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According to the newspaper excelsior.com.mx, money laundering and weapons training are the main points in the relationship between Mexican drug cartels and alleged international terrorist groups operating in the country as Hezbollah. Although not confirmed links between drug trafficking and terrorist groups by Mexican authorities, according to experts and a review by the Strategic Studies […]
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On January 14, 2013, NE10 reported that federal prosecutors have charged a group of individuals with drug trafficking in Vitória da Conquista, a city about 500 kilometers southwest of Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The activity was discovered through correspondences between branches of the Federal Police in the area. A package was left […]
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On January 14, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that three teenagers were arrested after killing a policeman, Francisco Luis Granjeiro, on Saturday. The murder occurred in Jangurussu, a neighborhood in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará. The policeman was on break Saturday morning when the teenagers accosted him, seeking to steal his motorcycle. Before he could […]
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The Mexican Army revealed a list of 101 military offenses committed nearly 10,000 over the past six years on the streets, ranging from theft, murder, housebreaking, protection for the escape of suspects, planting and transporting drugs, abuse and violence against persons, treachery and even clandestine burials and exhumations, which mostly acts and were punished by […]
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On January 12, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that an 80 year-old man was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a 9 year-old girl in the Brazilian city of Naviraí, about 350 km from Campo Grande, the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul. The girl was sleeping on a mattress on the floor next to […]
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nogalesinternational.com reported: Note to drug smugglers: If you get lost while hauling a pot load, it’s probably best to ask directions from someone other than the Border Patrol. A 21-year-old U.S. man learned that lesson the hard way on Thursday night after he approached agents from the Sonoita Station while hauling a stack of lumber […]
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Economist.com report on prisons in Latin America… Far from being secure places of rehabilitation, too many of the region’s jails are violent incubators of crime. But there are some signs of change..ON AUGUST 28th six members of the local Human Rights Council, an official watchdog, turned up at Romeu Gonçalves de Abrantes prison in João […]
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On January 11, 2013, TNOnline reported that authorities are seeking the family of a 17 year-old girl who says she escaped from a São Paulo prostitution ring, lured to the city after being offered work as a maid. The girl left her family in Jandaia do Sul, a small city in the north of the […]
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On January 11, 2013, Lainfomacion.com reported that the number of homosexuals murdered in Brazil tripled from 122 deaths in 2007 to 336 in 2012. These numbers come from a study done by Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB), using data from various levels of police. The report also notes that the rate increased 26% from 2011. […]
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BEGINS TO OPERATE IN BELIZE Looking to find new routes to smuggle drugs from South America Mexico City, ports, airstrips mangroves and nestled in the jungle of Belize small, are becoming the main entrance doors of the Mexican drug cartels in an attempt to find new routes for drug trafficking from South America. With the […]
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Argentina Police foiled an international criminal organization that smuggled and distributed child pornography and ordered the arrest of 62 people after conducting 61 raids in different parts of the country, said Friday the Security Ministry said in a statement. “We identified the IP addresses of the computers containing pornographic material and sending and located the […]
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Three of them, according to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) are Asian criminal organizations that supply the Sinaloa cartel of precursor chemicals for the manufacture of synthetic drugs. According to a report by the agency, the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) found, in meetings with representatives of Latin American countries, there are […]
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The Ministry of Public Security of Coahuila, reported the arrest of the chief of police in Matamoros, Edgar Cabrera, carrying two guns for the exclusive use of the Army and an envelope with white powder with the characteristics of cocaine. He was arrested and remanded to the PGR this morning while returning from Saltillo, after […]
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The Interior Ministry officials reported Tuesday that the amount of precursors seized last year totaled over what was seized in the operations of 2010 and 2011. According to statistics from the ministry, at the end of December 2012, it accounted for 25,000 containers of different features with prohibited substances while in the last two years […]
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rpp.com.pe reported that Police discovered refrigerators, televisions and fans during a surprise inspection in a prison in the northern state of Coahuila, officials said. The Attorney General of the State of Coahuila said in a statement that the appliances were found yesterday in a review of more than three hours in cells and common areas […]
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Panama authorities in 2012 seized 35 tons of drugs traffickers transported from South America to the United States, said Thursday the Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino. “The year 2012 ended in a preliminary 34.6 tonnes (seized) between January and December,” he said at a news conference Mulino. In 2011, 39 tons were seized, according to […]
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lanacion.cl reported that within 24 hours, police personnel OS-7 major El Loa intercepted two loads of marijuana and cocaine base were valued at 950 million pesos. Two people were arrested in the proceedings. In the first specialized staff, together with staff from the 1st station in Calama, JJAT arrested, aged 21, in Enaex checkpoint at […]
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Milenio.com reported that Graco Ramirez, governor of Morelos, called a slander designated by an officer under Walmart on bribes made in Mexico. Consultation document here involving the Graco Ramirez and director of INAH. “The theme designated by an officer under walmart is sheer calumny. I have never met and agreed payments. I was not a […]
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Authorities believe weapons headed to Colombia Eluniverso.com reported in Guayaquil: Elvin Yerovi Murillo Zambrano, who would be a member of an organization linked to the illegal international traffic in firearms, was caught off the town 11 606 cooperative apple March 4, Juan Montalvo sector in northern Guayaquil. When the military, including the Intervention and Rescue […]
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According to NRCU Ukrainian Radio, “A 25-year-old Ukrainian has been killed in Mexico; he was found dead in the state of Yucatan in the south east of Mexico. Local police said he was probably killed because of the large sums of money.””The body of 25-year-old Oleksandr Batychko with marks of violence was found in his […]
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Three American travelers were kidnapped, brutally beaten and robbed over a two-day period while on a mountain climbing trip in Peru. Jennifer Wolfrom, her brother Joseph Wolfrom and his wife Meghan Doherty, all from Jackson, Wyoming, told authorities that they were kidnapped, beaten and robbed by villagers in Palca, near Cuzco, on December 29-30. Read […]
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On January 6, 2013, Diário Catarinense reported that a journalist from Curitiba, Paraná, fled the country after suffering threats from unknown sources. The threats were received after Mauri König published an article in Curitiba’s Gazeta do Povo criticizing the use of public vehicles by local police commissioners. Earlier this year he created a series of […]
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Trome.pe reported that on the morning of January 9, 2013 a group of criminals dressed as police and led by a female attacked an inter province bus of the company – Erick El Rojo”. The assault took place at kilmeter 101 on the PanAmerican North highway in Huacho Peru. Among the sixty passengers were a […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that police caught a subject suspected of was that on Monday approached the pharmacy located in Sana Sana streets and Rumichaca October 9, downtown Guayaquil, disguised as a security guard to guard the facility $ 8,889. The capture of this individual, identified as Hermogenes Eusebio Quinones Mora, alias ‘El Chevo’, he at 01:45 […]
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Victims ask authorities to investigate employees of Trans Esmeraldas / Robbery took place at bus terminal Eluniverso.com reported two Italian citizens reported the theft of cameras and computer inside of a transport bus on their way to the province of Esmeraldas. The affected Paola identified as Nicole Irene Margaret Greysen Bolognes and denounced the prosecution […]
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Was found dead on Friday a Canadian citizen who participated Unesco programs in Chile and who remained missing in the city since January 1 for New Year celebrations. The information was confirmed by Mayor Raul Celis, who said the boy’s body Bhupinder Mandair (24) was found in the road sector in Cerro Concepción Templeman (cerro […]
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