On January 8, 2013, Brasil 24/7 reported that a hacker (Twitter name @nbdu1nder) obtained personal information of three Workers’ Party (PT) politicians convicted in last decade’s Mensalão scandal and shared the information on Twitter. Dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and other information related to PT members José Dirceu, José Genoíno and Delúbio Soares became […]
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On January 8, 2013, Folha de São Paulo reported that São Paulo policemen are no longer permitted to rescue victims of violent crimes, as part of a resolution from the local Ministry of Public Security. The goal of such action is to prevent the police from altering the scene of the crime and to allow […]
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On January 2, 2013, Diario do Pará reported that local river police seized a collection of weapons and equipment along the Acará River, in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Pará. They also arrested two men suspected of participating in the transportation of contraband using the items seized. The men will have to first […]
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New São Paulo Mayor Names Cabinet Members Connected to Scandals On January 3, 2013, R7 reported that Fernando Haddad, São Paulo’s newly elected mayor, named two men to his staff connected to corruption at the state and federal levels. Oswaldo Napoleão Chaves, new chief of staff for Vice-Mayor Nadia Campeão, and Miguel del Busso, assistant […]
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The numbers of rape in Santa Cruz increased by 27%, ie, there were 141 new cases. According to figures provided by Maria Rosa Valencia, director of the Defense of Children and Adolescents of the Mayor, the Special Victims Unit (SVU) in 2011 there have been 1014 cases, of which 525 correspond to sexual violence, especially […]
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Galapagos Islands – Ecuador German tourist Dirk Bender has been convicted of animal trafficking in a Quito court where he was accused of altering the ecosystem. The defendant could receive from two to four years in prison. Dirk Bender attempted to smuggle four iguanas from the Galapagos in July of 2013. Read Article
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BRAZIL: Online Poll Conducted to Determine Most Corrupt Politician of 2012 On January 4, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the July 31 Movement (Movimento 31 de Julho) launched a poll on Facebook to survey public perceptions on the most corrupt politicians in Brazil. Named the Golden Handcuffs Trophy (Troféu Algemas de Ouro), […]
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A new Brazilian penal law prohibiting preventative detention for those under investigation by Polícia Federal has led to a 40% drop in detentions since the law’s inception, according to a January 7 report from Folha de São Paulo. The new law advocates alternative forms of detention, such as the use of monitoring techniques and travel […]
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On December 31, 2012, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a policeman was shot and killed in Araçatuba. Antônio Roberto Rodrigues Costa, 39, was sitting in his police vehicle when he was shot three times. He pursued the gunmen, but lost control of his vehicle and hit a pedestrian. The pedestrian suffered minor injuries […]
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Between 7:20 pm Thursday and 7:00 am on Friday were reported in three isolated incidents that left Tucacas population balances regrettable. According to police reports, at that time recorded the murder of a tourist, the death of a robber in the town of Tucacas, Falcon state, and a woman was injured by bullets during an […]
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An attack on the pipeline Caño Limón-Covenas in Colombia, an environmental emergency caused Friday by an oil spill in Margua River, which supplies drinking water to the aqueducts of Arauca and Arauquita main eastern region. Read Article
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Elespectador.com reported that El Heraldo’s online edtion revealed that prostitutes stole numerous items from the Honduras embassy in Bogota Colombia. The event happened on December 20, 2012, when an employee of the Ambassador to Colombia from Honduras, organized a party with alcohol and sex at the facility. The information was obtained from El Heraldo’s online […]
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“As part of our commitment to the people of Guatemala have been carried out for three days the operation called” OpDemocraciaGT “that is a result of seeing how our government manipulates at will the Guatemalan heritage,” said a pirate group video posted on the portal YouTube . Similarly, Anonymous threatened to “invade” the Guatemalan cyberspace […]
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The deceased was taken to the morgue of Forensic Medicine, where he found that his body had 40 caps with the same substance in their intestines. Consequently, a narcotics team went to the amphitheater and, after a preliminary field test, it was found that it was cocaine hydrochloride, said Lt. Col. Wladimir Leon, commander of […]
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After installation of Mixed Operations Base on the border with Michoacán and Jalisco, police Township Marcos Castellanos were returned to the corporation to which they had given up for fear of organized crime activities. Authorities of the state government, confirmed that about 11 uniformed municipal, 25 who formed the corporation, patrolling the streets of the […]
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The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas (PGJECH) announced yesterday the arrest of the former mayors of Chicomuselo, Ixhuatán, Cacahoatán, Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Reform and Francisco Leon, accused of embezzlement and conspiracy, who surrendered his statement in prison, although government sources state that there will be more arrests. Read Article
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Pedro Delgado, President of Ecuador’s Central Bank and cousin of President Rafael Correa, resigned on December 19 after admitting that he had faked his economics degree. He used the falsified degree 22 years earlier to gain access into the prestigious Central American Institute of Business Administration, where he received his MBA. Read Article
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The month of December was the most violent of the year in Caracas, judging by the number of corpses received Bello Monte morgue. In total, 542 people died in the metropolitan area. The death toll was 512 in November, while in October was 532. The December figure was 15 percent lower than in 2011, when […]
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IPSNEWS.NET reported there are 429 prisons in Mexico, according to the latest report by the ministry of federal public security. Of that total, 15 are run by the national government, 10 by the authorities in Mexico City’s Federal District, 91 by municipal governments, and the rest by the states. Studies indicate that the prison population […]
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Violence has increased in recent months in the country The 2012 closed, according to the National Civil Police (PNC), with five thousand 174 violent murders, and left November and December as the months with the most deaths, with 476 and 514, respectively. In 2011, statistics show that there were five thousand 681, which represents a […]
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A Mesa missionary held captive for 30 hours in Guatemala told her father that she is not ready to come home yet. Three kidnappers grabbed Sara Trevino, 22, on December 18th in the town of Escuintla and demanded money from her family and the church for her release. Read Article
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Eluniverso.com reported that Enrique Ramirez and Jorge Ordonez Encalada Velez, police on active duty, were denounced for allegedly extorted a dealer last Friday. Guananga Lucia, who made the complaint, said the two soldiers came to his house in civilian clothes and told he would be taken into custody by camaretas sell his home, located in […]
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The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Haiti about the current security situation. This replaces the Travel Warning dated June 18, 2012, updating information regarding the level of crime, the presence of cholera, lack of adequate infrastructure – particularly in medical facilities – seasonal […]
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One of the complaints ofter heard about Ecuador, is the high rate of corruption among government employees and law enforcement. The following examples demonstrate that the pernicious act of corrupt activity reaches many levels of society in Ecuador, even when it comes to visiting a patient in a hospital. This information was provided by roving […]
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Caymannewsservice.com reported a visitor to Cayman was robbed in broad daylight on Thursday at a beach in East End. Police said the report of the mugging came in at 4pm yesterday after the male victim who was hit in the face reported the incident from a local restaurant after passing drivers picked up the Japanese […]
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According to the Eluniverso.com, the Spanish authorities have broken up a drug trafficking organization which introduced cocaine from Ecuador in bananas and palm containers through the port of Valencia. According to the Tax Agency reported yesterday, the operation has led to the arrest by Spanish police of ten people in Seville (southern) and Murcia (southeast). […]
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Although there are no official numbers of violent deaths, an NGO argues that the rate is 73 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants. Venezuela recorded more than 21,000 murders in 2012 due to “a general increase” in crime in the country, which is among the most violent in Latin America, said Thursday the organization Venezuelan Observatory […]
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The death toll from violence since Christmas Eve until Christmas in El Salvador increased to 19, while 144 other people were injured, said the Civil Protection agency. Under the “Bethlehem Plan 2012”, which began last Saturday, have been counted 144 injured, 59 burned with fireworks and 16 deaths, of which six were reported yesterday in […]
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At least eight people were killed and 15 wounded in various acts of violence and traffic accidents registered during the holidays and Christmas Eve in Guatemala, according to preliminary figures revealed today by the authorities and relief agencies. Read Article
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diariodeavisos.com reported that at least fifty people were killed and seventy wounded in various acts of violence in Honduras during Christmas Eve celebrations, police said Saturday. The spokesman of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Tegucigalpa, Gustavo Aguilar, Efe said tersely that corresponds toll to 24 December only. He added that thirty dead were […]
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Two men were arrested in the province of Santa Fe, accused of carrying on the car they were traveling more than 43 kilograms of marijuana, police sources said Sunday. The incident occurred during the last hours, when staff of the Directorate General of Prevention and Control of Addictions santafesina police conducted a raid on National […]
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According to the New York Times, Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited, an examination by The New York Times found. Wal-Mart longed to build in Elda Pineda’s alfalfa field. It was an ideal location, just off this town’s bustling main entrance and […]
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At least eight people were killed and eight others injured today in three clashes between police and gunmen suspected of organized crime in the border between the states of Jalisco and Michoacan (western Mexico). Sources of public safety and the prosecution of Michoacan told Efe that four policemen were killed Briseñas Township this morning to […]
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The alien was approached by three gunmen on the outside of a hotel. Apparently was followed from the airport. Bad impression of Peru takes a Chilean citizen who first came to our territory. He was assaulted early this morning in a hotel outside of the block 5 of the Santa Catalina Avenue in La Victoria. […]
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The incident occurred at the height of the bridge of the Army, when three criminals attempted to rob passengers on routes of Evitamiento. A shooting inside a public transport vehicle left two dead and eight wounded, at the height of the Bridge of the Army, in full Via Evitamiento. The incident occurred when three armed […]
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Colombia has been arrested so far this year to 30 Ecuadorian vessels fishing in its waters. they asked the fishermen to respect the maritime borders of the two countries. The National Directorate of Aquatic (DIRNEA) expressed concern about the “continued” detention of vessels, according to data provided to him by the Navy of Colombia. The […]
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Spanish police announced the arrest of a woman carrying nearly 1.4 kg of cocaine concealed in two false breast implants, on arrival at Barcelona airport on a flight from Bogota, Bogota. The woman, a Panamanian citizen and 20 years or so, “had two breast prostheses implanted cocaine,” police said in a statement. Alerted by “this […]
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Quitumbe is one of the 10 sectors with the largest retail drug sales, police said. According to information from the National Narcotics Quitumbe-district in which Chillogallo-10 is one of the sectors most affected by the sale of drugs ‘retail’ in the city. Something that corroborates Chillogallo leader. He said that on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that the national police on Friday presented the results of the operation called “Swirls II”, which managed the arrest of José Jiménez Marcos Olmedo, who according to the military would be the main leader of a drug trafficking organization, formed by Ecuadorians, Colombians and Peruvians. The network operated in the southern border and […]
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House Representative member Angela Robledo, denounced on Tuesday in political control debate, members of the armed forces were involved in cases of sexual violence in the context of armed conflict. “We have evidence that some members of the security forces, abuse of children and adolescents in conflict zones. Sexual exploitation by these officials and adolescents […]
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There is a growing trend in crime rates and arrests of youth in the world (United Nations 2003) makes this issue one of great importance to national and international policy. Colombia is no exception unfortunately. In fact, it is believed that new criminal gangs are increasingly involved young children to carry out many of their […]
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Angulo Miller’s murder on Saturday night in Tumaco shot alarms victims organizations in the Pacific Coast and across the country, many of whom feel that their presence paradoxically invited spaces from the Government for their participation is generating an upsurge in threats from groups interested in having their claims are unsuccessful. Angulo, who was shot […]
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ECUADOR REAL ESTATE Eluniverso.com reported that Canadian tourists Cote Marie Eve and Bosse Picard Mellisa reported that they were assaulted and robbed in Baños Tungurahua province after having arrived in Ecuador two weeks ago. The unknown assailant who was armed surprised the victims who were walking down a central street of Baños. The victims reported […]
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El Universo.com reported that Venezuela, Haiti, Paraguay, Honduras and Nicaragua are the most corrupt countries in Latin America, while Chile and Uruguay are the most transparent countries in the region, according to an international study released Wednesday. In two out of three Latin American countries public sector corruption high on the list appears Perceptions Index […]
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Source: A MAJORITY REPORT BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, INVESTIGATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL T. McCAUL, CHAIRMAN ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION NOVEMBER 2012 A LINE IN THE SAND: COUNTERING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND TERROR AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER THE THREATS: WHY ADDRESSING BORDER SECURITY REMAINS SO URGENT […]
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With the goal of improving the exchange mechanisms in the country, Venezuelan authorities are focusing on frauds and irregularities in hard-currency transactions according to Prensa Latina. The Commission for Hard-Currency Administration (CADIVI), which is in charge of implementing the national policy on that field, has suspended 800 companies from that scheme after detecting violations of […]
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The National Police of Ecuador reported the capture and arrest of members of the criminal organization known as Los Topos, which operated in the center and two valleys north perimeter of this capital. The band, practicing assaults and armed robberies to homes, must answer for conspiracy, illegal possession of weapons, among other crimes. Read Article
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Pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by the Third Court of Criminal, last Wednesday, in the streets and Paseo Juan de Velasco Huagra Uma, Judicial Police agents captured Sandra Milena FH, for allegedly being a member of a criminal organization dedicated to assault and burglary. The alleged offender registers an arrest on October 26, 2007, […]
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After 19 days in a Cuban jail, Antonio Rodiles, the Cuba-based independent producer of the Emmy-nominated TV Martí program Estado de SATS, is a free man. Charges of “resisting authority” were dropped after the prominent opposition leader paid a nominal fine on Nov. 26. “(My arrest)has made me feel stronger about the mission for Cuba’s […]
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A Colombian journalist, Guillermo Quiroz Delgado, died in a hospital after suffering head injuries while in police custody. Police claim that he sustained the injuries after falling from a police vehicle. But his family and colleagues believe he was beaten and thrown from the truck. Read Article
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Gunmen murdered one of the last surviving leaders of a peasant movement in Paraguay whose land dispute with a politician prompted the end of Fernando Lugo’s presidency in June. Vidal Vega, 48, was hit four times by bullets from a 12-gauge shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver fired by two unidentified men who sped away on […]
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The US government has renewed its call on Cuba to release an American contractor jailed for crimes against the state, fearing the effect of a fourth year in prison on his deteriorating health. Coinciding with the third anniversary of his detention by authorities in the Caribbean island, the State Department released a statement Monday urging […]
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The pioneering software developer’s blog has been updated claiming ‘unconfirmed’ reports that he has been apprehended. John McAfee, 67, has been on the run since November 11th – when his American neighbour Gregory Faull was found dead….John McAfee has not been captured, despite a cryptic post on his own blog saying that he is in […]
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The São Paulo Civil Police on Tuesday arrested a gang specialized in stealing luxury watches. But their range, and wiretapping agents have led to regard its members as prime suspects of the assault suffered by José Ruiz-Gallardón Utrera, son of Spanish Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón . was killed in the incident the friend who was […]
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The bus passengers were thrown to the floor upon hearing the shots. One could see seconds before when two men went to the cooperative unit Alonso de Illescas, in the San Rafael Valley area, south of the city of Esmeraldas. It was 07:00 on December 3. The bus en route Las Palmas – Valle Hermoso. […]
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Captured alleged rapist – eltiempo.com.ec At 18:20 last Tuesday operational units of the Judicial Police, PJ, LL Vinicio captured Edgar, alias “Neruda”, for allegedly being the author of a citizen estadoudinense violation. German Cevallos, head of the PJ of Azuay, said on Saturday November 10, the foreign woman and her boyfriend had gone to Canton […]
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In four years, a number of thirty thousand denunciations concerning human rights violations were issued to the Attorney General’s Office; nevertheless, only 7% of it was heard by a judge and just 4% eventually got a sentence.Everyday, eleven citizens who live in the Metropolitan area of the capital city will not be lucky enough to […]
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61 people missing in Barinas state are recorded in the reports issued by the Peace and Life Committee. Its director has been denouncing and holding responsible a specific pillar of the political and trade union sectors…Oscar Pineda’s office is not a comfortable place. Pineda is an old man, an elderly who perhaps should not be […]
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In combined operations between the Army, Police and Customs Carchi weapons were seized, cement, gas cylinders and clothing. In the area of The Leap, on the border with Colombia, early Thursday, were confiscated rubber boots, shoes and clothing, according to official data. The merchandise, the military said, was ready to be transported on mules for […]
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In Ecuador moved to the front of a seafood dealer. He used three names: Hector de Jesus Ramirez, Octavio Leon and Henry Betancourt. His near what was known as ‘El Charro’. At the hearing of support and opinion of the case formulation on drug-Rise which has been linked, the prosecution makes it the “foreign financier” […]
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Authorities in Costa Rica announced today that six foreign women rescued victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in the tourism province of Guanacaste, on the Pacific country. The Department of Immigration said in a statement that women are rescued Friday Nicaraguan and Dominican, without specifying details for their protection, who were forced to work at […]
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President Rafael Correa asked the police to release Paul Ernesto Moreno, known on Twitter as @ paulcoyote, who in a digital publication said it had entered the name of the president in the Security and Data System, subsequently obtained their personal information. “I do not know what is the legal framework in these cases, but […]
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This morning was arrested in Riobamba the blogger Paul Moreno, better known by his nickname on Twitter @ paulcoyote, by order of the National Public Data Registry (DINARDAP) with the charge of fraudulent access to computer systems and databases. On November 26, Paul Moreno had described in his blog a publication to demonstrate that the […]
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After the theft of 9000 690 soles a businessman inside a bank branch by persons wearing a similar way to the workers; Piurans expressed concern and demanded more security inside banks. The victim of the robbery, identified as Renzo Gamboa Arrividal, narrated as a woman dressed in a uniform similar to the workers, approached him […]
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The Interior Minister Wilfredo Pedraza Sierra, announced in the city of Chiclayo that soon will adopt a new system and Disciplinary Research in the National Police, to reduce time and allow more drastic penalties for bad actors who cross the crime line. “Very soon we will adopt a new system of investigation and punishment for […]
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A police chief was killed and a paramedic was injured during an armed attack committed by a command meters from a public hospital spokesman reported the Attorney General’s Office (FGE), Carlos Gonzalez. The official explained that the incident occurred just blocks from the University Central Hospital when the police identified as Guadalupe Aceves Alfredo Tabares, […]
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Today is effective the new law 10,067, which cases “simple” related to drug trafficking in our province (“kiosks” drug and retail) shall be investigated by the provincial Justice. The Federal Court, for its part, will continue to investigate those cases considered complex: drug trafficking to medium and large scale. NOTE: Hanging tennis shoes from telephone […]
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Mexico’s Attorney General has compiled a list showing that more than 25,000 adults and children have gone missing in Mexico in the past six years, according to unpublished government documents. The data sets, submitted by state prosecutors and vetted by the federal government but never released to the public, chronicle the disappearance of tens of […]
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Mexican prosecutors say they will ask Nicaragua to extradite 16 of the 18 Mexicans who allegedly posed as journalists to smuggle $US9.2 million in cash into Nicaragua. The Attorney General’s Office says Mexico wants to try the 16 on money laundering charges. They face trial on similar counts in Nicaragua. Read Article
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AP reported Police on the southern Caribbean island of Curacao say thieves boarded a boat and stole about 70 gold bars worth an estimated $11.5 million. Curacao police spokesman Reggie Huggins says the band of thieves assaulted the captain in the early-morning heist. The boat is from Guyana. Read Article
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Almost three years after her husband was arrested and jailed in Cuba, Judy Gross still talks to Americans who haven’t heard his story. Now she is speaking more openly than in the past, hoping to make her husband’s case as well-known as those of other Americans who won freedom after being jailed overseas. Read Article
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They were determined to Loja everything and had a large arsenal of heavy weapons, but did not imagine that the police on their heels and they were going to commit crime in the city of Cariamanga to 113km from the provincial capital of Loja would be frustrated by the military. There are eight men and […]
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The director of the Social Security Institute (IESS), Ramiro Gonzalez, reported on irregularities in unsecured loans and reserve funds, where they were arrested yesterday afternoon and 14 staff IESS Affiliate Bank (BIESS). Gonzalez said the 40 credits BIESS are irregular for about $ 400,000. He also noted that the 14 are officials and BIESS IESS […]
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Agents from the Drug Control Police seized more than a ton of cocaine in three different raids by land and sea. The first confiscation took place Tuesday evening in the waters of the South Pacific, 400 kilometers from Punta Burica, where agents seized a boat carrying near a ton of cocaine. Security Minister Mario Zamora […]
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Police yesterday intercepted more than 350 kilogrammes of cocaine at John Fernandes Limited shipping container facility on Mandela Avenue. Kaieteur News understands that the drug was found stashed in a consignment of Breeze Soap Powder. The drug was reportedly intended to be shipped to Niger, Africa, and was due to leave Guyana next Tuesday (December […]
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A Nigerian man has been charged for entering Guyana illegally. The accused, Banard Chukuniba, pleaded guilty to the allegation when his case was presented to Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine Beharry last Monday. As stated in the charge, Chukuniba entered Guyana by sea via the Corentyne River without presenting himself to an immigration officer. Read Article
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The number of black homicide victims in Brazil grew by 29.8 percent between 2002 and 2010, to nearly 35,000, while murders of whites declined 25.5 percent to just over 14,000, the Presidential Bureau to Promote Racial Equality said Thursday. Read Article
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The trial involving several law enforcement officers accused in the largest drug seizure in recent history continued today before Justice Denis Hanomansingh in the Dangriga courts with arguments from the defense. Police officers Renel Grant, Lawrence Humes, Jacinto Roches, Mark Middleton and Customs boatman Harold Usher, as well as Victor Logan have been indicted for […]
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Pilots for Argentina’s infamous “death flights” have begun trial, and brought up on charges for crimes against humanity for their active participation in de facto president Jorge Rafael Videla’s “dirty war” that consumed the Latin American county for years. From 1976-1983 during Videla’s reign as Argentina’s dictator, in addition to the armies kidnappings and murders, […]
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An appeals court in Argentina declared unconstitutional a rule that punishes marijuana cultivation for personal use, and dismissed a couple who had several plants and seeds in a nursery itself, said Wednesday the Judicial Information Center (ICJ). Failure of the Second Division of the Federal Court of La Plata (60 km south of Buenos Aires) […]
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Ecuador’s National Police proceeded to arrest the citizen Edgar Lucero Vinicio Lituma (A) “Neruda”, in the canton Gualaceo capture ballot who was accused of being the alleged perpetrator of a violation, in November 2012, a U.S. citizen citizen. The crime would have occurred under circumstances that the American citizen along with her boyfriend after attending […]
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Peruvian prosecutors have reopened the case of forced sterilizations performed during the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), archived for two years. The Inter-American Commission asked the Peruvian State in October 2011 resume tax investigation following the complaint of 2,074 women who did not give informed consent or to whom food aid and social conditioned to […]
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The Costa Rica antidrug authorities captured the Honduran Sewnsen Pinnace Arthur Collins, who is wanted by the International Police (Interpol) and the United States on suspicion of drug trafficking, said Wednesday an official spokesman. Pinnace ran a network of drug traffickers in Central America that used the waterway to transport drugs to the United States. […]
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For a staggering that every 16 hours a woman dies violently, the UN Women organization yesterday began an awareness campaign called “16 days of activism against gender violence against women” in Honduras. “Every 16 hours a woman is dying and the perpetrators remain unpunished,” explained the coordinator of UN Women, Rossibel Gomez at the launch […]
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nortedigital.mx reported that: Mexico Navy warns guerrillas Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) and the Revolutionary Army of the Insurgent People (EPRI) have been rearmed with automatic rifles and rocket launchers also have in their arsenals. EPR (Popular Revolutionary Army) known locations of operations: Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Mexico […]
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According to aztecanoticias.com.mx, SAT (Mexican Tax Authority) seize 1.8 million illegal cigarettes Illegal merchandise was transported from Belize Customs detected Quintana Roo, said the Tax Administration Service. The Tax Administration Service (SAT) in Quintana Roo destroyed more than a million illegal cigarettes 800,000, from the free zone of Belize.In a statement, the agency reported that […]
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A senior government attorney and five other officials were arrested on charges they demanded $50,000 from a U.S. man who has spent 18 months in a Bolivian jail, the Andean nation’s interior minister said Tuesday.Carlos Romero told a press conference the six people in custody were part of a wider corruption ring.Jacob Ostreicher, a 53-year-old […]
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New type of fraud reported in Interbolsa / Curacao major destination for evading taxes According to FM is crossed emails and letters in recent days called ‘Premium Fund affected investors’. The FM said he is holding the first names of the investors of the controversial ‘Premium Fund’ running through Interbolsa and moved millions of money. […]
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An armed commando of at least 20 subjects stole in the early hours of Tuesday, April ATMs inside the Trails Shopping Plaza, located in Ixtapaluca Edomex. Thieves subjected to the surveillance personnel who were tied up and locked in a bathroom while the suspects with torches and tools, armored containers looted banking institutions. Read Article
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Author – Sonja Wolf ABSTRACT Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), founded in 1980s Los Angeles by Salvadoran immigrant youth, is today one of the largest street gangs in North and Central America. In recent years the group has acquired a reputation for extreme brutality and has ostensibly mutated into a fast-expanding, transnational organized crime network with possible […]
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Eltiempo.com.ec reported that a total of 55 financial institutions in the country have complied with the provision of the National Telecommunications Council to install antennas inhibiting cell phone signal in all entities of the National Financial System. According to information from the National Telecommunications Secretariat, Senatel, 737 computers were installed inhibitors are 22 banks, 26 […]
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Three routes identified by intelligence used by narco traffickers to enter and leave Bolivia from Brazil: San Ignacio de Velasco, San Matías, Pto. Suárez. Fruit of the ringleaders of the cartel detection First Command of the Capital (PCC) of Sao Paulo, Brazil, drug force identified three border routes used by traffickers to enter and leave […]
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The chiefs of police in Sao Paulo were replaced on Monday as Brazil’s largest city emerged from a bloody weekend and authorities struggled to contain a wave of violence that has doubled the murder rate in recent months. Sao Paulo state security chief Fernando Grella, who took over the job four days ago, replaced the […]
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ABSTRACT This articles discusses the challenges and tensions encountered between indigenous and national systems of justice in Ecuador. The article highlights some of the major issues surrounding indigenous systems, namely, how crime should be dealt with, as well as how indigenous justice has been negatively portrayed in the media. The article suggests that indigenous communities […]
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Kenneth McVicker was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 2, 2011, for transporting child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(1)-(2). A warrant was issued for his arrest. On March 17, 2011, Mr. McVicker was arrested in Belize by the Belize authorities, allegedly for local immigration violations. Present at the arrest was […]
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The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) is responsible for further investigation of the confrontation early Saturday in Mocorito, Sinaloa, where he died the Miss Sinaloa 2012, Maria Susana Flores Gamez, said state Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez. “It is work that corresponds to the PGR, because it is a criminal cell,” Higuera Gomez said in […]
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According to figures released by the National Prosecuting Authority, this type of crime associated with child exploitation meant that between 2007 and 2011 were initiated 479 criminal investigations under this figure. According to statistics held by the Sex Crimes Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority in 2007 were investigated 94 cases of promotion and facilitation […]
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Los Rastrojos is one of Colombia’s most feared criminal gangs and their top leader was recently arrested as he held a “Mafioso summit” at his farm, authorities said. The man’s name is José Leonardo Hortúa Blandón, but he’s better known as Mascotas or Pets. Police also arrested the gang’s number-two man Picante or Hot, as […]
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