Proceso.com.mx reported in Puebla of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), Francisco Garcia Fraile, the doctor confirmed that this institution, Landini Ruben Maldonado, was referred to the San Miguel prison, accused of alleged organ trafficking. The official said that the agency will continue to research if there are more people involved in the complaint lodged […]
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The president of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, noted that during 2011l kidnappings have decreased by 20%. So far this year there have been 17 reported kidnappings less than last year when the figure reached 82. The figures reported criminal actions that correspond to actual percentage decreased during the year as many cases that have been […]
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A group of soldiers who were patrolling the area known as Caño Limón, in the municipality of Tame, were hit by a blast caused by a bomb, allegedly planted by FARC guerrillas. According to official information, while conducting operations territorial control area, an IED exploded and triggered the passage of armored vehicle, causing injuries to […]
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Shock Battalion Military Police detonated an explosive left in attempted robbery at an ATM in the town of Amelia Rodrigues, about 80 km from Salvador, which occurred on Thursday (6). The whole area, located opposite the town hall, was isolated. A stick of dynamite was detonated in the middle of the street. The suspects were […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that officers investigated for alleged child pornography. The suspect was arrested by uniformed the Homicide Unit of the Judicial Police and the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR), at 18:00 on Tuesday, in a building north of Quito. The Police said the investigation was conducted after the mother of a 13 year old to […]
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In the enclave of Punta Blanca marine Jaramijó canton in northwestern Manta, Manabi a Chevrolet was abandoned in 1970. It happened at 21:30 on Thursday. In the automotive wooden bucket were two bags inside which there were 100 brick-shaped packages. A joint operation between the police and members of the Navy allowed to discover the […]
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Human trafficking, nationally, almost always accompanied by sexual exploitation. So says the study entitled ‘The state of human trafficking in Ecuador’. This was done by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). On page 45 of the document states that “the smuggling of easy sex” relates to slavery. “In Ecuador, the places of […]
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According to Eluniverso.com, passengers of a bus line 110 beat a guy who minutes earlier, along with another individual, had threatened and beaten with a gun to remove their belongings.The man, identified as Alejandro Humberto Ascencio Head, and his companion jumped on the bus when traveling on the streets Santa Monica and July 25, at […]
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According to tuseguridad.ec, there are three areas of Cuenca, Ecuador where murder offenses, illegal drug sales, and robberies are prevalent, and demonstrate the insecurity of the city. The areas identified are Cayambe, La Merced, and the bus terminal. Cayambe – Between February and June there have been six murders. These offenses involved drug sales and […]
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EMOL.COM reported that a Peruvian cyber hacking group named “LulzSecPeru” which has hacked sites in other countries hacke Peru’s Ministry of Justice website. Their assault was announced over social media networks. LulzSecPeru placed their emblem on the main page of the Minister’s website that contained an insulting phrase against President. According to EMOL.COM the group […]
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So far this year, in the canton of Cuenca has recorded 22 violent deaths caused public shock and not yet clarified by the entities in charge of investigations. The governor of Azuay, Police and statistics ECU-911 handles the claim that the main ingredient to make them all violence is the liquor, so suggest urgently intervene […]
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Infodefensa.com reported Peru’s Interior Minister, Wilfredo Pedraza said during a presentation to the Congressional Defense Committee that the tender for the purchase of equipment for riot National Police of Peru (PNP) is in the process of implementation and the first teams will be received in the month of February 2013. The ministry has placed special […]
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Corn Eusebia’s murder in Azote’y, with a bomb gelamón base, you blew my mind, implies a shift in the methods of the armed group practices related to terrorism. The horror caused by the assassination marks a substantial variation in violent action methods hitherto employed by the armed group, from the most popular methods of implementing […]
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According to the account of the victim’s father, who declined to reveal his identity for fear of reprisal, the young man was at his godfather preparing some arepas and went to his home to look more cornmeal. Two subjects known by the nicknames of “Charlie” and “Anderson”, berated the boy to ask him to return […]
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Tuseguridad.ec reported that assault / robbery premises is an offense that increases in Guayaquil, only fourteen days attached to the Office of Guayas Judicial Police received 56 complaints of this type, which means that daily recorded four steals in the City. From January 1 to August 12 of this year 486 illegal occurred while until […]
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Telegrafo.com.ec reported that Dina Lema Villalba, age 57, and on the list of most wanted from the province of Tungurahua, was captured on Spetember 4, 2012, in Quito, Ecuador. Dina Lema Villalba, according to authorities is believed to have participated in the murder of her niece Gloria Daniele Lopez Lema, and Ecuadorian national residing in […]
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Elcomecio.com reported that At 10:00 today, six people on motorcycles took part in a failed assault on one of the customers who came to a bank operating in Ambato. Police Commander Tungurahua (e), Mario Robalino, reported that an employee of a local cooperative attended the entity with the idea of withdrawing money, but ultimately did […]
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Video report from Sol Television states there have been recent complaints by tourists of selling fake gold in jewelry in Chordoleg Ecuador. The report does not name the establishments accused of such actions. Complaints were made at city hall.
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Lahora.com.ec reported that with white flags, this September 14 Indigenous and Campesino Movement of Cotopaxi (MICC) held a march for security. Mario Alomoto, MICC president, said in Cotopaxi have been stolen over 2,000 sheep and each is valued at $ 120. Read Article
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Five counts of aggravated robbery, abuse of authority in July, three drug trafficking, falsification 4, 5 illegal searches, 7 embezzlement and one offense of conspiracy are part of the charges for which is judged from yesterday to 14 policemen. All are linked to a series of blows that apparently occurred in 2010 in Goicoechea and […]
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According to nacion.cl the Police Special Investigations Brigade (BIPE) of the PDI arrested two men accused of assaulting women, which is on a motorcycle in the communes of Maipú and Cerrillos. According to records, the individuals were known as “the bikers (Los Motoqueros)” and roamed the streets looking for victims of these areas alone, who […]
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Four inmates and a visitor died, due to health problems, in national Bellavista prison in the last ten days, the most critical of its history. So, in 2012 eleven prisoners have died of over 7,800 housing the criminal, who has a 221 percent overcrowding. The ESE Metrosalud, he signed a contract with the EPS Caprecom […]
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Antidrug authorities of Costa Rica, with the support of the Coast Guard of the United States on Monday seized 725 kilos of cocaine coming in a boat whose four crew escaped to a mountainous area. A ministry statement said Public Safety officers found the drugs in the boat, which, after being chased, ran aground on […]
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The Peruvian government draws a new strategy to control the gangs who run the illegal mining in the country and would have for the job with financial support from the IDB and the governments of Norway and the U.S., said Monday Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar . “There is interest from the IDB, the government of […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that the governor of Azuay, Humberto Cordero, was surprised by the actions of certain groups of young people with alcohol and excess consumption of some drugs in the wake of the murder of Juan Antonio Serrano, brother of the Minister of Interior. Speaking to ECUADORADIO, intensely concerned Cordero said this and also the […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that the assaults in the form of non-stop express kidnapping. This Monday Prosecutor attached to the Guayas Judicial Police in the north of Guayaquil, there were three complaints from victims of assaults in taxis. R. Leyva reported that this morning, at about 09:00, when addressing a cab Chevrolet Aveo gray friend, the driver […]
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According to Eluniverso.com, Ana Chango cashed a check for five thousand dollars in Banco del Austro, located in the center of this city (Ambato), never imagined that she would risk walking less than a block to go and deposit the money in the agency of the Bank of Guayaquil. Police said two women unknown Chango […]
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ElUnviverso.com reported that on August 21, 2012, a tourist from El Salvador arrived at the airport José Joaquín de Olmedo. Two suspects in a yellow cab committed a secuestro express fifteen minutes after Ileana Martinez Lainez arrived at the airport. Police reported that the cab had been used in other assaults on individuals. When police […]
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Radiosantafe.com reported that Colombian Armed Forces troops seized explosive material abundant tenth belonging to FARC front, in the municipality of Arauquita. Its location occurred when troops Mobile Brigade No. 34, developed a maneuver on the sidewalk infiltration Aguas Claras. Inside the secret hiding place, covered with black plastic and placed by terrorists of the FARC, […]
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Unknown detonated a grenade pineapple house type Lieutenant Governor populated center under Pósope Alto, in the district of Pátapo ( Chiclayo ). The incident happened this morning, but no injuries serious damage to the house of Luz Castillo Marisela Jimenez. She sought assurances for his life and that the police investigate the case because, he […]
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Trome.pe reported that a driver posing as a taxi robbed two French tourists of their luggage, cameras, credit cards, and passports along with other personal items. Ludovic Ratajczak and Julie Resse had just arrived in Chiclayo, were going to go to dinner in the city center. The driver waited until both tourists were out of […]
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The Venezuelan government said it “found no evidence” of the massacre of 80 indigenous Yanomami in a jungle area bordering Brazil that was denounced by NGOs and opposition MP. After “these visits we have made in the indigenous communities, we can tell the country that there was no evidence of any deaths or no evidence […]
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Prostituted women in the city are no exception to the general law: from the countries bordering the provinces of NOA, suburbs. Girls are often very young and very poor, recruited with the promise of a good job. But end up prisoners of a network, first, subject to a “soft” brutal, a cocktail consisting of rape, […]
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Fernando Flores Oceguera warned that criminal gangs trafficking practiced in the eastern part of the city so far this year there is a record of at least a dozen cases . As part of the commemoration of the Day of the Disappeared (held with a Mass in the new Cathedral of Tijuana), Fernando Oceguera, said […]
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According to desinformemonos.org, a recent conference in Mexico reported increased trafficking with the arrival of soldiers and federal police to Ciudad Juarez, forced and child prostitution in the tourism sector, in places like Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Maya, the transfer of women victims of trafficking in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on condition […]
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According to La-razon.com La Paz and El Alto are the cities with the highest number of crimes of trafficking in human beings, while Santa Cruz is the region which presents greater labor and sexual exploitation, as well as being the bridge that used to lift Bolivians networks abroad. The previous week, the Attorney General held […]
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The dismembered bodies of a mother and her two young daughters were found today by relief agencies in southeastern Guatemala, official sources reported. The Volunteer Firefighters spokesman Sergio Vasquez, explained to reporters that the village Cienaga Grande de San Jose Pinula morning spotted a head and a hand, and alerted the National Civil Police (PNC) […]
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Que.es reported that millions of children in Guatemala suffer a situation of “vulnerability and danger”, denounced the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography… The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat Maalla M’jid stated – […]
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The bodies of four women and a man were found in garbage bags in the port city of La Ceiba, Honduras in the Caribbean. Armando Jose Lainez, officer class three of the National Preventive Police, said the bodies were found in black bags and dumped in a ravine near the road in Cangrejal River Basin, […]
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According to Extra.ec, Fabio Enrique Veliz Villamar, 49, was arrested in the parish Guare, Baba Canton, after being accused of drug dispensing in the cemetery of the town. According to reports, the subject constantly frequented the cemetery, but not to visit the dead, but to engage in drug supply to poor record guys who used […]
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Trome.pe reported Huamanñahui Julia Muñoz (54) used filudo kitchen knife and attacked him in his sleep. A new “Lorena Bobbit.” Huamanñahui Julia Muñoz (54), dam insanely jealous, he cut off her lover’s penis after a heated argument at a hostel in the district of Brena. As reported by “Sunday, a day,” the woman accused Ramon […]
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The Friday night as relatives watched the corpse of Martha Gregoria Ortega, on Santa Lucia, eight of the participants were intoxicated by drinking alcohol allegedly adulterated. In a relapse, this Sunday, four of the victims had returned to the hospital because of back ailments: diarrhea, body aches, among others. Honorio Bajaña Araujo by telephone, said […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that the indictment hearing against the six suspects arrested in this case was scheduled for 10:00, then postponed to 16:00, because evidence still being collected. However, this afternoon the Interior Ministry said on Twitter that there is still no definite time. According to reports from the police, apparently strangers entered a private party […]
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Agents Panel of the State Ministerial Police and the Mexican Army arrested Adalberto Montoya Iriarte, suspected member of an organized crime cell operating in northern Sinaloa. The alleged offender of 42 years and residing in the community Naranjo municipality of Sinaloa de Leyva, was associated with 22 homicides state and ministerial police, said the Attorney […]
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Rcnradio.com reported that a woman, suspected of practicing witchcraft was murdered by a blow to the head by a heavy tool. Her home was then doused with gasoline and set on fire. The name of the victim is Vernocia Martinez Hernandez. The mayor of Santa Barbara (Antioquia) stated that the death of the victim accused […]
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According counternarcotics police investigation, the gang sent drugs to the United States and the Netherlands. Counternarcotics director, General Luis Alberto Perez said that in total 37 people were arrested during the operation in Jamundi (Valley) and Riohacha (Guajira). The investigation began in 2010 on behalf of an organization’s information in Colombia who had business with […]
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The early hours of Sunday, between 01:45 and 02:00, an incident would have been recorded in the historic center of Cuenca, leaving a toll of one killed by the name of Juan Antonio Serrano Salgado, 34, brother of Minister Interior José Serrano. According to reports from the police, apparently strangers entered a private party that […]
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Caracol Radio reported that the authorities offered a reward of 10 million pesos for information leading to the capture of the perpetrators and masterminds of the attack that occurred in the neighborhood Primero de Mayo Barrancabermeja. The Emergency Regulation Centre of Santander confirmed that the attack with a grenade exploded in a commercial establishment of […]
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Elcomercio.pe reported a crew member of a commercial airline was arrested at Lima’s Jorge Chavez airport after they had checked attached to his waist and ankles and Computers Intel Core iPod Touch generation, which are valued at 23 thousand 698 dollars. The nervousness showed concern and intervened when leaving the International, and he was invited […]
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radio.uchile.cl reported th Fourth Criminal Court imposed the original sentence Santiago in Chile for the offense of trafficking under the new rules that apply to this crime, following the adoption of Law 20,507 on Smuggling of Migrants and Trafficking. The trial, in which the National Human Rights Institute (NHRI) was plaintiff took place in the […]
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Didn’t use traditional method of transporting – used liquid cocaine wrapped in latex— Semana.com reported – Two Colombians are condemned to death in China. In that same distant place, five others already sentenced to prison for life, and 25 more with sentences ranging from 12 to 20 years in prison. In Hong Kong, there are […]
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The report notes that the U.S. agency in Bolivia cocaine production in 2011 was 325 tons over Colombia, which generated 195 tons. The Bolivian government rejected the report because, as indicated, no information after the departure of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), when the government of Evo Morales in 2008 expelled the U.S. ambassador conspiracy […]
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Like Mary Victoria Duque Dussán 22 years of age was identified a woman who was allegedly discovered in flagrante delicto, when an abortion was practiced in a neighborhood drugstore recognized August Seven Florence. According to unofficial information, the series of events that ended with the arrest of three people and with the entrance of Duke […]
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Ellider.com.co reported that an explosives factory guerrillas of the FARC 15th front settled in rural area of La Montañita, Caquetá, was destroyed by troops of the Twelfth Army Brigade during last Thursday night. The finding of the factory in which men of Joseph Ventura Gomez, alias ‘Wilmer’ made explosives, was made by troops of 35th […]
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The Ecuadorian authorities have detained a ship with 30 sharks aboard Marine Reserve in the Galapagos Islands and arrested 14 people. The Governing Council of Galapagos said the vessel “Angelito Forever IV” used gear “not allowed”. He had set sail on August 25 Manta port in the continental coasts of Ecuador, about 1,000 kilometers of […]
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On July 23, 2012, Felipe Borman Quenama, an American-Ecuadorian was handcuffed and kidnapped at gunpoint at the Cofan Survival Foundation in Nueva Loja, Ecuador. According to the National Police of Ecuador website it was reported that Mr. Borman’s family received communications from individuals with Colombian accents, demanding $3 million dollars for the release of the […]
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Torreon, Coahuila. – The information that the coal mines in the region are operated by organized crime groups from inspections by the Ministry of Economy, a situation that has been reported to the authorities, which has allowed the Navy to make some arrests. This was made known in this city Governor Ruben Moreira Valdez, who […]
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Eluniverso.com reported an Ecuadorian-American remained sequestered for 40 days. Today the Minister of Interior announced the delivery to their families. Borman Quenama Felipe, 24 years old, was abducted in a forested area in the province of Sucumbios. For he demanded $ 3 million. The National Police of Ecuador, through the Anti-Kidnapping and Extortion Unit, secured […]
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Eluniverso.com reported the guides 361 replacement and corrections officers in the country, who failed the evaluations took place yesterday backed by troops of the Armed Forces and National Police tightened security of the 42 social rehabilitation centers and Provisional Detention exist nationwide.The 361 former officials took up a purchasing process of resignations after it was […]
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In the past 15 days, police arrested six people Manabi allegedly linked microtrafficking or retail drug sales. And since June Narcotics seized nearly 1.4 tons of alkaloid in the province. The latest raids led to four fish packers Manta and its periphery. For the head (e) of the Police Manta, Rafael Perez, Manabi has become […]
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The Peruvian Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations, Ana Jara, expressed his disapproval of the action of a mother of 17 who took his young daughter to a local clandestine Lima to put a “piercing” in the eyebrow. The official said that an event like this can bring to women “up to six years in […]
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RCN radio reported that there is an increase in the amount of explosives being imported by guerrilla groups from Venezuela. Much of this activity is in the area of Arauca and are for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities. To date in 2012 7 thousand kilos of explosives have been seized by Colombian authorities. […]
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Buenos Aires, Argentina. – Oil companies, mining and agribusiness in Latin America were the most exposed to fraud in the past year, victims of managerial disloyalty, theft of physical assets and false suppliers, said Wednesday consultancy Kroll risks. Fraud against companies in the region is the second largest in the world after Asia, according to […]
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Larepublica.pe reported the REALITY, With the completion of the amnesty, there were 2,500 orders for renewal of the 185,193 weapons that have already expired license. 268 pistols, revolvers, shotguns and rifles were delivered from May to DICSCAMEC. Experts say there are another 200 thousand to outlaw. We realized that in recent years there is increasing […]
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The Federal Public Ministry assigned to the Delegation in the State of Mexico Attorney General of the Republic briefed the preliminary investigation that integrated PGR/MEX/TEJ-I/2909A/2012 against an individual and a woman, for his alleged responsibility committing criminal offenses carrying a firearm without a license and possession of cartridges exclusive use of the Army, Navy and […]
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elnuevodia.com.co reported in La Tigrera, Ibagué rural, 52 explosive devices were found to be located in a minefield to attack the security forces. The items were located, with the support of an informant came to the place, located 20 minutes from the capital Tolima. In the place explosives seized items, located in PVC, with substance […]
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El Oro – Between January and August, 44,730 have been seized ammunition of different calibers, 3272.12 kilograms of explosives, 185 gallons of sulfuric acid (supposedly used in illegal mining), 494 guns of various types and sizes, were also arrested 20 people who have been invited orders of the Judicial Police of the province of Oro, […]
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SurvivalInternational.org reported gold miners in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Survival International. Witnesses of the aftermath described finding ‘burnt bodies and bones’ when they visited the community of Irotatheri in the country’s Momoi region, close to the border with Brazil. Initial reports suggest up to […]
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Since the promulgation of the regulation to the Traffic Law (June 11) 10 356 drivers have been penalized for exceeding the speed limit within the moderate range (fine and point reduction). Police have arrested 280 people. Those who break the law are more men. There are 9448 men fined for exceeding limits within the moderate […]
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Lahora.com.ec reported that the cable theft caused the collapse of energy towers in El Oro The result: most of the province in the dark. Transelectric Staff working since yesterday in placing a tower emerging the El Carmen, in the parish the base in El Oro, to normalize the electricity of the 14 counties in the […]
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The Guatemalan tax Selvin Mendez Rios was seriously wounded in an attack in the department of Quetzaltenango (west) and is in “critical condition” at a hospital, officials said. A spokesman for the National Civil Police ( PNC ) told reporters that Mendez Rios, 42, head of the Office of the Department of Retalhuleu (southwest), was […]
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The great “quantum leap” in the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime in Central America must be the money laundering investigation rather than the use of force against members of criminal gangs, said today Costa Rican authorities. Security Vice Minister Costa Rica , Celso Gamboa said in a press conference with foreign correspondents that […]
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A drug dealer wanted in the United States for the sale and distribution of methamphetamine was arrested in the port of San Felipe, in the southern town of Mexicali, where it remained hidden for five years. The International Liaison Coordinator State Preventive Police (PEP), Alfredo Arenas Moreno, said that with information provided by U.S. officials, […]
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In the last operational research, carried out simultaneously during Tuesday night in Arica and Region V, the strength of the PDI arrested in the northern city Labarca Alfonso Alvarez (55), Customs officer who was in charge to handle the scanner guarding the entry load in Arica, and Claudio Contreras Molina (39), a member of the […]
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laestrelladeloriente.com reported on August 15 the community, in Yapacani staff Special Force against Drug Trafficking and found a clandestine airstrip near a stricken aircraft. According to the report of the Red One, suspect that the ship would have tried to take flight when he suffered a mishap and fell to the ground which caused it […]
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At least 24 points from illegal logging were detected for three days Yapacaní Township, in the territorial jurisdiction and is adjacent to rivers and Ibabó Ichilo. This new tear to the main reserve forest of Santa Cruz, was detected in the area inhabited by settlers that form the core of peasants called Ibabó and Victoria, […]
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Elsiglodedurango.com.mx reported given the increased security, particularly in the border of Mexico and the United States, drug traffickers have devised various methods to cross their drug shipments. From using tunnels, catapults, submarines and aircraft, to hide narcotics in clothing, septic tanks, in shoes, in plaster statues in food jars and even in wheelchairs, have been […]
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The deployment of the Marines are part of Operation Hammer, an initiative involving several nations, which began on January 15 to stop the transit of illegal drugs by the Central American coast. A contingent of 200 Marines U.S. this week started patrolling the west coast of Guatemala in an unprecedented operation to fight drug traffickers […]
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Police discovered novel modality for drug trafficking Medellín. The police procedure was advanced in the northern bus terminal, where soldiers found two suitcases, 86 packages of marijuana with a total weight of 50 kilograms carried by an individual 21 years. According to investigative work it was established that this person had the task of traveling […]
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The National Police seized 13 backhoes exercising illegal mining activities in rural municipalities of Monte Cristo and San Martin de Loba. In order to counter the illegal mining activities in Southern Bolivar due to irreparable environmental damage that occurs to the ecosystem, the National Police and develops preventive actions framed in operational strategies related to […]
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The State Mining Corporation of Bolivia (Comibol) confirmed Wednesday that two tons of rock found in a residential neighborhood in the heart of La Paz were not uranium, as the government initially said, and that probably is tantalum. “In the first instance it was thought mineral containing uranium, but this was quickly ruled out, at […]
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The ommunities Arrozales, Naranjitos y Media Luna are the three new routes used to smuggle stolen cars and drug trafficking, entering or leaving Bolivia and Argentina, according to complaints from community members own the place. THE NATIONAL those communities where he visited different versions of the local people, many preferred to keep their anonymity for […]
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‘Seventeen people, all Hispanic, were arrested today accused of involvement in a drug trafficking ring in the country to introduce large quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine from Mexico. As reported by the prosecution, the federal authorities rushed a dozen raids in different parts of Southern California in an operation against a network that illegally […]
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Police in Ecuador seized 191.7 kg of cocaine from Colombia in an operation in the border bridge Rumichaca, the institution said yesterday. The shipment was transported on a truck Tuesday Ecuadorian registration had previously been in the Colombian city of Pasto, according to the official report. Read Article VIDEO OF BRIDGE FROM ECUADOR TO COLOMBIA […]
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Five producers of coca leaf died and 13 others were injured today when confronted by a group of police in the Peruvian region of Huanuco, said the representative of the Ombudsman’s Office, Pier Paolo Ricardo March. Two of the dead were identified as Rider Roque Moreno and Juan Espinoza Loarte, but still working to determine […]
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One person was killed Tuesday night in northwestern Venezuela in the crash of a small plane carrying a quantity of drugs yet to be determined, said the Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Nestor Reverol. “He was a person apparently manning a single-engine aircraft, which is dead,” he said in a telephone connection Reverol the official […]
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If you are considering a move to Latin America, I highly recommend this book in terms of approaching the topic of safety and security. I think you will find it insightful and provide you valuable ideas and information about your personal security no matter where you travel or settle. Nicholas Crowder – author – Culture […]
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Eenteratecuador.com reported the National Police of Ecuador, through the Anti-Kidnapping and Extortion Unit (Join) informs the public that an operation in the last few hours, he was released on American Ecuadorian citizen Aconda Mario Germán Ramírez, who was kidnapped in the province of Esmeraldas. On Tuesday, August 21, at approximately 20:00 in the sector Atacames, […]
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The sale of contraband cigarettes reached a record high, because in the last 18 months sale on the market increased from 1 to 16.6 percent, from the entry into force of up 7 pesos in tax, Raul warned Picard, President Trade Commission Concamin Interior. At a press conference, said that in a study conducted by […]
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The Highway Patrol conducted a procedure late Tuesday, by which seized 850 cartons of cigarettes at home Paraguayan customs offense. As reported by the Department of Press and Public Relations of the distribution, 21.15 last night when personnel of the Rivera Detachment, stationed on Route 28 Km 20 border department, gave the stop sign for […]
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The International Police (Interpol) and seeks former Tamaulipas Governor Tomas Yarrington to the arrest warrant that a judge granted against him for crimes against health, ie its alleged links to drug trafficking operations. Marisela Morales Ibáñez, head of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and indicated that the agency in charge decided to bring criminal action […]
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General Prosecutor’s Office, Eduardo Montealegre, asked the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court reflect on his decision to bring criminal charges against the columnists Cecilia Orozco and Maria Jimena Duzan Tascón on charges of libel and slander. The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court announced on 23 August that Maria Jimena Duzan writers and Cecilia […]
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According to police, the latest report on killings revealed that in the past six months and a half, there have been 152 violent deaths less compared with the same period last year, reflecting a decrease of 17% in deaths by murder. Read Article
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Orlandosentinel.com reported a postal worker in the state of New Jersey received and distributed cocaine packets with false addresses during its route and established drug trafficking organization in Puerto Rico would send the drug regularly, U.S. authorities said Tuesday. Christina Nunez admitted intercepting shipments from Puerto Rico and delivering cocaine to accomplices in the city […]
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Elheraldodesaltillo.mx reported …. With a key geographical position between the centers of cocaine production in South America and the largest consumer markets in the United States, Nicaragua suffers the brunt of international drug cartels that use air corridors, land and maritime smuggling drugs to Central America . Research Institute for Strategic Studies and Public Policy […]
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Lahora.com.ec reported the Navy decided to deploy to Esmeraldas Ecuador part of his squadron of corvettes and missile boats at the unstoppable wave of thefts of motor boats and fishermen from pirates. Yesterday afternoon, they arrived at one of the docks of Puerto Emeralds International Commercial corvettes ‘Galapagos’, ‘Emerald’, ‘Gold’ and Missile Frigate ‘Quito’. The […]
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The explosive device was found at kilometer 10 of the road from the east tolimense after a citizen alerted of the presence of the same sector authorities. The man dedicated to agro argument that two men traveling on a motorbike had thrown a suspicious package on the side of the road. Apparently motorists would have […]
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Araucavision.com reported; 1. The 18th Brigade neutralized explosive devices believed to belong to the ELN in Fortul. 2. In Arauquita 8 kilos of pentolite was discovered and destroyed. Contraband believed to belong to FARC 3. 20 kilos of ANFO discovered in Tame, and was destroyed. – Believed to belong to ELN Read Article neutralizes
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Twenty gang members were sentenced to purge sentences ranging from eight to 20 years in prison, checking his participation in the crime of extortion against a migueleño entrepreneur who would have demanded thousands of dollars for more than two years. The trial of this group of people was held at the Specialized Court Judgment of […]
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