In Venezuela, Two Young Adults Imprisoned for Participation in Drug Trade On May 22, 2012, two young adults were transported to prison in Tocuyito, Venezuela to serve sentences for possession and distribution of drugs. According to the Entorno Inteligente, Felipe Alfredo Colina Inglese (21) was arrested the previous Saturday with 139 bundles of what was […]
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Colombian Cartel Fragmentation Creates Opportunity for Mexican Drug Traffickers After a recent Mexican plane crash in Ecuador associated with drug trafficking, experts predict a larger sphere of Mexican influence in Latin America concerning the illicit drug trade, reports Radio Nederland Wereldomroep Latinoamerica on May 23, 2012. Although this assumption cannot be definitively proven, the fragmentation […]
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Soccer Jerseys Serve as Method of Drug Concealment in Peru The Diario Correo in Peru reports police discovered and intercepted the shipment of cocaine-impregnated soccer jerseys from Lima to a possible foreign destination. 12 Jerseys were found with approximately 368 grams, or $60 thousand (currency is Nuevo Sol) worth of cocaine stitched into the logo. […]
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Lush Manabí Province Attracts Drug Trafficking in Ecuador Northern residents of the Ecuadorian Manabí province report they are afraid of an increase in narcotrafficking in their area, Ecuavisa reports. Manabí, a mountainous expanse covered by thick vegetation, provides an ideal cover for drug refining laboratories. The province’s proximity to the coast also facilitates transportation by […]
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Increased Crackdown on Mexican Border Forces Colombian Drug Routes Through Caribbean Due to increased security presence and attention to drug trafficking operations along the Mexican border with the United States, traffickers have had to find alternative routes to serve the illicit U.S. market, reports Listin Diario. These new routes transport drugs from Colombia, through Caribbean […]
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According to El Colombiano on May 22, 2012, a man with the alias ‘Tetero’ (26) has been captured in the Bello municipality of the Bajo Cauca region in Colombia. Tetero is reported to be the third-highest leader of the Los Rastrojos criminal group and is responsible for at least 15 homicides. Tetero had moved to […]
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Arizona Prime Location for Mexican Drug Trafficking with 23% of Border Drugs El Universal released a report May 22, 2012 claiming Arizona has become a prime location for drug trafficking between the United States and Mexico, particularly the cities of Phoenix and Tucson. 53% of all drug money seized in 2011 along the border between […]
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Mexico: A man is accused of sexually abusing his friend in Juarez On May 21st Gregorio Tarango was accused of committing sexual molestation against friend in the City of Juarez. The victim reported that while he was under the influence of alcohol he was taken to a house, where he was sexually abused by his […]
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Mexico: US murderer is detained in the Mexican border A US fugitive is seized with the help of Mexican border patrol and custom agents in the border of Tamaulipas and Texas. The fugitive was identified as 37 year old Carlos Mares, he was hiding in Mexico after committing murder in Sullivan city, Texas. Read Article
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Exporters in Peru and importers in the United States and around the world are currently timber from the Peruvian Amazon. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes through sheer negligence, each of the actors and agencies involved in this system are working as gears in a well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights […]
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Mexico: 15 year-old receives a fourteen year Jail sentence On May 21st, the Chihuahua teen court judge convicted fourteen year old Nestor Bernardino Diaz to fourteen and a half years of jail for the murder of police officer Sergio Leonel Munoz. NestorBernardino was detained on September 6th 2011, after shooting an active officer in Chihuahua. […]
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Security features of the state late Saturday found the body of a woman in this city. Hours apart and at another point in the city, two women were injured by bullets. With the death rises to thirty-four the number of women who have been killed this year. State Ministerial Police reported that on the streets […]
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The recommended Condusef users to ignore phone calls or emails which ask for personal information to activate their cards before a blocking course, as they may be subject to fraud. The National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services (Condusef) reported that new user account public concerns that have received such […]
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Against theft, robbery and assault that occurred last week, several of the injured claimed in social networks and radio news programs inefficiencies morning service installed surveillance cameras at traffic lights of the city to identify thieves. According to Fernando Figueroa, director of the SIS-ECU-911, the camera system of the municipality meets the specific task of […]
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Last year, a record 120 Americans were killed in Mexico, compared with just 35 in 2007. Most happened in areas bordering the U.S. But for the first time, a significant number of murders occurred in previously peaceful areas like Jalisco state, where 14 Americans were killed, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of U.S. State […]
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FBI: Neo-Nazis Planned to Attack Mexican Consulate Two members of a new white supremacist group in Minnesota discussed killing former associates in the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) and using homemade napalm in a truck bomb attack on the Mexican consulate in St. Paul, newly released court documents say. Read Article
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Mexico: Mexican authorities destroy 65 thousand liters of adulterated drinks Health officials in Zapopan Jalisco destroyed about 65 thousand litters of adulterated beverages in the last six months. According to health authorities the impure beverages contained methanol, a substance that is not apt for human consumption. This dangerous substance can lower the respiratory and cardiac […]
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Mexico: American Citizen kidnaped in Jalisco On May 18th, members of 2 drug cartels, Millennium and Los Zetas, kidnapped an American citizen in Chapala. When the foreigner walked his dogs, members of the drug cartels picked him up and released him hours later upon the condition to take a woman to a hospital. Read Article
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A month after the jungle hostage crisis in Peru—when 36 pipeline construction workers were briefly abducted by Shining Path rebels—facts are starting to emerge about the murky affair, and the revelations have prompted the resignation of two cabinet ministers. Defense Minister Alberto Otarola and Interior Minister Daniel Lozada stepped down May 10, when President Ollanta […]
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Luis Campos, sentenced to 11 years in prison for the murder of an elderly woman, fled from a police station in the city of Puerto Madryn, in the southern province of Chubut, when it came to the village to water the plants without any custody. As reported on its website the day Day of Chubut, […]
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Mexican journalist found dead The reporter Marco Antonio Avila, who had been kidnapped, was found with signs of torture and a message from drug trafficking. The body of a journalist covering police matters was found today on a highway in Mexico’s Sonora state accompanied by a message attributed to drug trafficking after being kidnapped yesterday, […]
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A spokesman for the prison of San Pedro Sula said that “the situation is controlled on the outside” of the cells, but inside “does not know” if there are more wounded prisoners. The source told reporters that “the situation is controlled on the outside” of the cells, but on the inside “unknown” if there are […]
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CARACAS. Venezuelan authorities are still unable to control a riot that began two weeks ago in a prison in downtown Caracas, leaving far a dead man, a resident of the area by a stray bullet, and now has continued with several shootings in the place, and incidents in the vicinity. The Minister for the Prison […]
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Last year, 1168 people passed legal exams for alleged attacks on the honor. According to police, after Lima, the White City tops the list of sexual insults. The White City (Arequipa) is considered by the Police as the second city in the country after Lima, where most number of violations. So far this year, about […]
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Four people died and as many wounded in a raid were drug traffickers, they were humble and honest citizens, said yesterday the deputy Thank God Grawell Maylo Wood, and the mayor of Ahuas, Lucio Baquedano. The incident occurred last Friday morning when a helicopter with U.S. and Honduran police opened fire on a boat on […]
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As a result of the violence generated mainly by organized crime and drug trafficking, one in 50 young Central Americans under age 20 will die before they killed 32, according to the UN. The homicide rate in the region, the largest in the world, is 400 times higher than the average in countries with low […]
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The operation was conducted by the Colombian Air Force (FAC) and the Police. In the action, which was also supported by the National Maritime Interdiction Unit, it was a clandestine airstrip, known as ‘discord’ in Pizarro, Department of Chocó. The report indicates that in that area offends the criminal gang ‘Los Rastrojos’ Officials explained that […]
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Guatemala is preparing to fight narco militarily. And they will do with the Kaibiles elite troops of the Army, already prepared for this Aldor Ismael Mendez, commander of the Army of Guatemala, said that in the jungle training with an objective to kaibiles “strengthen him, preparing for the end of the course is able to […]
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A 13 year old is shot dead in the City of Juarez On May 16th a 13 year-old teenager was shot dead at about 9pm inside a restaurant with the name of “Charros” located in the city of Juarez. Read Article
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Mexico: Teenager is accused of sexually abusing an 11 year old kid On May 15th a 14 year-old teenager was accused of sexually molesting an 11 year-old boy in the Villas del Rey neighborhood located in Chihuahua. Authorities apprehended the accused when the victim’s mother witnessed the event. Read Article
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Mexico: Ten Security Officials received kidnapping charges in Mexico City On May 15th,2012, ten members of the Department of Public Safety were accused of kidnapping 3 individuals in Mexico City. According to authorities the suspects demanded a ransom of approximately 200 thousand pesos for each victim. Read Article
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Gustavo Iturralde, the Financial Analysis Unit, said he was submitting evidence of Colombian traffickers in Mexico cartels An elegant woman holding a puppy and found dead in the wreckage of the plane falling at 21:00 on Sunday at Pedernales (Manabi) are part of a larger puzzle that so far attempts to arm the police investigating […]
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After seven months in captivity, has just released the rural entrepreneur Laurentino Rojas. Rojas, about to turn 76 years old, was taken by the FARC in a rural area of Garzon in the center of Huila. Abducted in October last year, his family cried at the outset for their freedom by crossing a delicate condition. […]
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The incident occurred at one in the afternoon of Monday, Puerto Nuevo site, one kilometer from the town of Puerto Valdivia, when the guerrillas set off a mine field by a passing patrol Rifles Battalion. The wounded soldiers were taken to hospital San Juan de Dios, the municipality of Valdivia, where they had to refer […]
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On Monday afternoon, a local guide de Irala, Bragado party, alerted police after seeing something strange in a country road linking the town and Chacabuco, reported the online news Bragado Informa. The police officers were mobilized to the scene and managed to find four skulls and other bones that have been used for a practice […]
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The world of crime in Colombia relies more than ever to scopolamine, a poison that turns people into ‘zombies’ docile. In South America has been dubbed the ‘borrachero’ or ‘breath of the devil’. The scariest aspect of the consequences of this drug, odorless and tasteless, is their suggestibility, as it makes people consciously let the […]
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El Salvador, only recently home to the world’s second-highest homicide rate, has watched murders plummet by 60 percent since early March. The unprecedented decline, however, is not the result of conventional policies aimed at eliminating criminal activity, but rather a very different development: a negotiated truce between the country’s two leading gangs, the Mara Salvatrucha […]
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A total of 566 barrels and drums with 1.645 different chemicals, which are used as precursors for synthetic drugs have been seized from January 1 to May 14 this year, as recorded by the General Directorate of Information Analysis Counternarcotics (Sdgaia) of the Police. Read Article
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Authorities confirmed that due to the explosion at 11 am in the banking sector in the Colombian capital, 5 people were killed, including 2 former Minister Fernando Londono bodyguards and 21 wounded. So far the investigations being carried out against this fact, according to General Luis Eduardo Martinez, commander of the Metropolitan Police of Bogota, […]
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Insecurity and criminal gangs involved with theft of this organization and the finances and supplies for marginal peoples is suffering up to 29 million peso losses on an annual basis. Read Article
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Explosive attack Itaú Bank branch in Concepcion We are at war, no claim nor ask, just attack. How much more could complain without taking our own hands, with only items that are undelivered obligations and rights from our own bowels force to develop us freely and take life in our hands? Unx is defined by […]
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In recent days, held a judicial exhumation of a body that was thought might be missing one of the Popular Revolutionary Army. After a painful journey, in which participated members of the EAT, relatives of the victims, federal officials and Oaxaca, it was concluded that a track was unfounded. It was important for us involving […]
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Public Statement of the Central Secretariat of the FARC-EP The case of French journalist Romeo Langlois ideal way to reveal the undeniable role of mass media in the social order imposed by big business. Before that inform and promote free thinking citizens, the mainstream media distorts reality to become truly unique version of its sponsors. […]
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Presence of suspected members of the brothers column Quispe Palomino was recorded at 20:30 hours. The expert on drug trafficking and terrorism, Jaime Antezana, RPP reported by news that a group of armed entered the district Tahuanía, Atalaya province, Ucayali region at 20:30 hours, approximately.Apparently, it is 20 to 25 men belonging to the columns […]
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Michael C., owner of premises on Calama, lamented that “compared to other occasions for the same day would have more customers. Insecurity has affected business at least 50%. ” According Victimization Survey Metropolitan Public Safety Observatory (CSOM), La Mariscal ranks ninth among the ten most dangerous neighborhoods considered Quito. To this is added which is […]
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The Intermunicipal Cooperation Paraguayan Organization (opacity) is working on his project to standardize driver’s licenses valid for the whole country. The different districts gradually implement this model and the goal is that next year the use of the document will be compulsory. Ricardo Núñez Gimenez, president of the opacity, said the idea is to end […]
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Dominican police agents, assigned to the Interpol NCB Santo Domingo, seized a Russian who was required with an international arrest warrant for alleged involvement in a scam millionaire Gelendzhiksky city, Krasnodar Region, Russia. Interpol reported that the capture of fugitive Russian Alexander Logvinov, materialized last Friday by hard intelligence work in the Dominican capital. He […]
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Independence DIVINCRI agents gave the 17-years in the Safari Inn, near Mega Plaza Norte shopping center, which was operated by a large police contingent. “Gringasho” had arrived a few days ago to Lima and was living in different districts with their partner to avoid being found by the police . At 9 and 30 Saturday […]
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The Mexican Navy seized at the port of Lazaro Cardenas, a shipment from China with 136 tonnes of precursor chemicals used to manufacture synthetic drugs, and bound for Honduras, officials said. The Secretary of Navy of Mexico (Semar) said in a statement that the substances were found in 1,748 barrels within seven containers of the […]
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In Ecuador, insecurity is still a pending issue that the government has with citizens, according to a study by the Human Rights Program of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB). The Human Rights Report of the UASB also noted that the number of homicides / murders fell in 2011 compared to 2010 from 2,627 to […]
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Three Peruvian citizens were arrested with fake $ 31,200 sold for a quote lower than the official commercial area Once, in the Federal Capital. This is a woman and two men, who were seized in two raids in the neighborhood of Flores in the locality of Gerli, Avellaneda, by order of Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide. […]
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) offered the journalist Romeo Langlois deliver a commission, composed of former Senator Piedad Cordoba, the International Red Cross and a delegate of the French government reported today local and international media and humanitarian organizations. The Cuban press and radio station “RCN Radio” indicated that the armed group issued […]
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Shooting Attack kills a Mother and her Son in the City of Juarez On Saturday May 12th a group of armed men opened fire towards a house in the neighborhood of Aztecas located in the city of Juarez. The violent events lead to the death of a 25 year-old man, son of a state police […]
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Mexican authorities discover grenades Tlalpan On Friday May 11th, Public Security officials found two grenades at a ridge intersection in the Magisteriales Coapa, neighborhood located in Tlalpan. The abandoned explosives were found at approximately 1 pm after a concerned resident reported the events to the authorities. Read Article
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Crimes ranging from drug abuse to authorities; A report from the Department of Defense indicates that among the items that were found guilty there corporals, soldiers, cadets, sergeants, lieutenants, lieutenants, captains, majors and colonels. By abuse of authority, murder, extortion, rape, desertion or crimes against health, 3 000 612 soldiers have been sentenced by court […]
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The number of bodies found on Sunday morning at kilometer 47 of the Monterrey-Reynosa free road amounted to 49 of them 43 were men and six women. Sources at the Attorney General of Nuevo Leon (PGJNL) indicated that in the scene, in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez, continue the work of bodies and evidence collection. […]
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An intense shootout between police patrols and an unknown tattooed black manned vehicle that ignored the order of a patrol convoy stopped for a routine. he shootout resulted in the death of the suspect driver, two policemen injured and a strong mobilization of patrols from the Benito Juarez to Iztapalapa. In this regard, the police […]
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On Friday, the bodies of four women and five men were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas. All of the bodies reportedly displayed signs of torture, and a ‘narco-banner’ was hung nearby, a now common sight throughout drug war-weary Mexico. Read Article
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A crossword setter Venezuelan veteran was charged with publishing a hidden message calling the murder of the brother of President Hugo Chavez, on the last lap surreal campaign for the October presidential elections in the South American country. A state television presenter said this week in your program that discovered encrypted messages to kill Adan […]
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The soldiers of the Fourth Army Division detained the day before midnight three suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Coca, Francisco de Orellana. According to the military, is caught between the alleged chief financial officer of Block 48 of the guerrillas ‘Fredemiro’. In a bulletin issued by the Joint Command […]
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In the main square of Santiago, police broke up a network of pimps who recruited children in the streets, to participate in festivals distorted. According to initial reports, indicates that juveniles after midnight begin to see scenes sector prostitution and brought to San Antonio Street as the area in which transactions were made. The arrested […]
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The Mobility Department reported that 36,842 vehicles and 2125 homes will be ‘kidnapped’ by the police and the Sijin as a result of nonpayment of subpoenas by their owners. “It is retained and then is topped. If this happens, the citizen must pay the costs of the auction process that has place,” said Ana Luisa […]
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THIS CITY (Silvia Sosa, our regional language). The victim was hit millionaire Fredy Alberto Rojas (27), an employee of the distributor of beverages “Imepar” Mercosur Park, located on the avenue of the capital Monsignor Rodriguez department, police sources said. Around 08:00, Rojas left the premises of the firm, on board a gray Nissan truck, registration […]
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The attorneys general of Colombia and Ecuador agreed today to increase judicial cooperation between the two entities in order to increase the fight against transnational crime. he agreements were entered into two agreements signed in Bogota after a visit by the Ecuadorian tax, Galo Chiriboga, his Colombian counterpart, Eduardo Montealegre. A first agreement aims to […]
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A suspected leader of the Zetas hit men in the state was arrested by the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico (Semar), who is credited with masterminding the kidnapping and material and killed at least four elements of this dependence. Jose Luis Vergara Ibarra, director of Social Communication Semar, reported that it is Jesus Hernandez […]
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SANTO DOMINGO. – A Canadian tourist was arrested in Puerto Plata where he’ll be charged with possession of crack and marijuana, the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) announced Wednesday. It also announced the arrest of three men on drugs possession at Santiago’s Cibao International Airport, two of whom went to accompany the third prior to […]
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Suspect identified as Yandry Javier Arteaga Garcia, 22, died in a clash with bullets with a security company that guarded the whereabouts ARSEG the Metrovía located on Av. Carlos Julio Arosemena, opposite the school on May 28, north of Guayaquil. It was 6:25 yesterday, when two men with guns, one Arteaga, entered the station of […]
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The Judicial Council of Ecuador has ratified the dismissal of Judge Nicholas Zambrano, who ordered the oil company Chevron for environmental damages and upheld a remand order against the current president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, according to a resolution to that had access to EFE. Full of that court dismissed the appeal by Zambrano […]
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Carolina Ardila Stephanny Garzon, Colombia 22, disappeared last April 28 in Quito, denounced his family, who arrived in the capital to start your search with Ecuadorian authorities. The day of her disappearance, she told colleagues that he would visit the Museum of Contemporary Art, but at home, on Main Street, fourth ward Paluco staircase, found […]
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Overcrowding, corruption and lack of control mechanisms and basic services in Latin American prisons foster a “systematic violation” of human rights of prisoners, denounced the Commission. The first report on Persons Deprived of Liberty in 2011, released today by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), notes that overcrowding in prisons is the most serious […]
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In the northern city of Piura, was seized a half ton of cocaine hydrochloride, valued at $ 84 million, hidden in a load of bananas for export, in a container that was bound for the city of Belgium. Five people were arrested. The blow to the drug was given in a statement made by staff […]
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Colombia anti-drug authorities and the United States completely dismantled a network of cocaine trafficking with the arrest of a U.S. exmilitar and a Colombian citizen. Narcotics Directorate (Diran) of the National Police of Colombia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Directorate (DEA) arrested in coordinated and called Alliance 31 to the two alleged ringleaders of the […]
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Some 80 Bolivians, including several minors, were rescued yesterday in 12 operations carried out in houses and clandestine textile workshops Argentina’s capital city and its belt, police said. The raids, ordered by Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide, were made by the Federal Police, who arrested 23 Bolivians accused of working in slavery to his countrymen. Read […]
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A hit man, aged about 30, came yesterday in a restaurant the third ring and Busch Avenue in the city of Santa Cruz and riddled dead Cossio Williams Evans (42), a lawyer who usually attended large drug cases. It is the second case of this nature is recorded in Santa Cruz in less than 24 […]
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After the theft of a newborn in the General Hospital of Poza Rica, the Ministry of Health issued an alert to the rest of the hospitals in the state and redoubled vigilance with elements of the Auxiliary Police Institute and Wealth Protection (IPAX) in the building where they stole the baby. In an interview the […]
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Military officer Jose Luis Alvarez Lopez admitted raping and killing his 10-year-old niece on behalf of revenge against his brother in law. The victim’s body was found on May 1st, inside a pit located north of the Rural Sonoyta road in Sonora. Read Article
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Mexican authorities discover at least 10 dead bodies in Jalisco On May 9th, the Jalisco Attorney General reported the discovery of approximately 10 defunct bodies inside two abandoned vehicles in Ixtlahuacan Jalisco. Police detected the deserted bodies at about 7:48am many of which were dismembered. Read Article
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The Honduran journalist Alfredo Rivera Villatoro, who works at HRN, one of the nation’s largest radio stations, was abducted at dawn Wednesday when he addressed his work, infomaron peers and the police. “We want to formalize this information in this house radio: this morning on his way to his house to fulfill their duties (…), […]
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A group of young people between 16 and 18 assaulted the tourist Magalie Annie Rose (24) of French nationality, who had visited the lookout on the hill Cruz Pata in the neighborhood to see the city Yananaco. The offense occurred when the tourists went down the steps of the hill and a group of young […]
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Canadian travelers advised to exercise high degree of caution in Ecuador due to high levels of crime and public demonstrations OFFICIAL WARNING: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada advises against all travel to the areas immediately bordering Colombia (namely both provinces of Carchi and Sucumbíos, with the exception of the city of Tulcán), and the […]
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A force of 600 soldiers and 200 state troopers will strengthen security in four municipalities mountain: Badiraguato, Choix, Sinaloa and San Ignacio Culiacan, Sin. In four municipalities mountain will move a force of 600 members of the Army and 200 state police to face criminal groups that sow terror and are triggering an exodus of […]
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The Unit prosecutor of People and Warranty Neira Margarita Moran on Tuesday continued to tour several nursing homes in Guayaquil, involved in the alleged case of lack of attention to Roberto Antonio Quimis Huacón , 24 years old, who suffered Daule an accident and later died in an ambulance from the police, after asking for […]
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The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its new national strategy, the first in eight years, during which their agents more than doubled and arrests of people entering illegally from Mexico fell to their lowest level in four decades. The new plan, outlined in a 32-page document whose preparation took more than two years has […]
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The Secretary of the Federal District Public Security (SSP-DF), confirmed by the Secretariat of Federal District Public Security (SSP-DF), confirmed that elements of Sector La Noria and Arenal, rescued unharmed to 24 undocumented from Central America, the delegation Iztacalco, likewise was arrested a person allegedly linked to the custody and removal of aliens to the […]
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The bloody shootouts between gunmen and followed the Mexican Army in the Sierra de Choix for a second day in which the death toll rose to 15, including 13 gunmen, one soldier and an officer of the Municipal Police.
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Six Young Men were found dead after a shootout in Mexico City On May 5th Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of six dead youths after a violent shootout at the neighborhood of Iztapalapa in Mexico City. The shooting took place early on Saturday between groups of alcohol-intoxicated teenagers. Read article
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Authorities rescue a 14-year-old forced into prostitution On May 1st, Mexican authorities rescued a 14 year old teenager forced into prostitution at a bar in Zumpango Toluca. The teenager was hired as a waitress at “La Gloria” bar, where she received a commission of 30 pesos for every drink her clients consumed. Her boss received […]
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Mexico: 23 bodies found in Nuevo Laredo Mexico On May 4th, police discovered a total of 23 cadavers in the city of Nuevo Laredo Mexico. There were 14 heads found inside three coolers in front of the city’s municipality. The corresponding decapitated bodies were found inside an abandoned vehicle. Nine other bodies were found hanging […]
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in Latin America, thefts from customer accounts totaling approximately $ 761 million, according to a study by the Internet Address Registry for Latin America and Caribbean. To this is added the cost of theft of personal data by 93,000 million, affecting about 2,500 banks in the region. While technology brings sophisticated banking sector advocacy tools, […]
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TRAVELING THE WORLD? VISIT TOURISTKILLED.COM Mexico’s congress passed a law Monday to recognize and protect the rights of crime victims, a longstanding demand in a country where more than 47,500 people have died in 5½ years of drug-related violence, and thousands more have disappeared. The law covers the dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing whether they […]
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Wilson Tapiero military captured in the border province of Sucumbios. The detainee was delivered Monday to the judicial authorities of Sucumbios, told Efe agency source of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Tapiero is suspect financial front 48 of the FARC . The suspect, 33, was arrested in Santa Elena farm, located 11 kilometers […]
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Steal $ 81,560 subject to a citizen in the Unicentro A tear gas bomb, thrown by suspected criminals, caused chaos in the Unicentro, just after 10:30 on Monday. Covering his face with his hands to escape the tear gas bombs, dozens of people fleeing terrified of Unicentro, located at the intersection between Chimborazo and Clemente […]
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Violence and Sexual Abuse on the Rise for Girls in Mexico Children’s homicides have climbed 30% in one year in Mexico, according to reports from NSS Oaxaca. Kidnapping and sexual exploitation of young girls is also one the rise as a result of narcotrafficking and gang activity concentrated in the northern states. Read Article
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Holguin Omar Macias, 45, Ruben Palma Macias, 23, and Angel Palma, 27, were killed by gunmen different between Friday and Saturday in this city and Montecristi. The reasons why the Mad Omar was attacked at 20:45 on Friday is unknown, but received five bullet wounds. The crime occurred in the district on March 6, Montecristi, […]
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Four criminals, three men and a woman entered the restaurant “La Habana Vieja”, installed in July avenues Matovelle and Ricardo Muñoz, on Friday at 22h00 and after threatening with firearms, the 20 clients appropriated belongings, then fled in a car Hyundai I10, no license plates. Two gendarmes, aboard a patrol, who roamed the area, were […]
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Four Romanians arrested May 04, 2012 on Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar International Airport (Maiquetia International) with 10 kilos of cocaine. It does not specify the city so I assume it is the capital. Drugs were hidden in shower gel containers. The suspects were scheduled to fly to Rome and then to Bucharest. Read Article
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After hearing confirmation of alleged kidnapping, ICRC withdrew from the past rather than fighting. TIME correspondent in Huila and Caquetá makes presence since Tuesday in the village of La Union Peneya, place where the fighting took place between the army and the FARC last Saturday that left four officers dead and disappeared after Roméo Langlois […]
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The French government appointed him to be kidnapped on Sunday and urged the rebel group to release him immediately and keep his word to end the kidnapping, a crime that has been used for decades as a pressure mechanism and funding source. Colombia FARC also asked to immediately release the journalist and said he would […]
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He gave an interview yesterday, back to a local TV station while the police are looking hard. He claims that he abused the girl but maintained a “consensual relationship” ose Jauregui, 31, will be delivered to justice Salta today to present their version of events that took place with a Swiss tourist, a volunteer at […]
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