Through alleged fraudulent and counterfeit titles by registrars, notaries, agricultural and municipal officials, some 40,000 hectares of peasants displaced from the region of Montes de Maria went on to become property of private companies and wealthy individuals. The complaints of the scam which facilitated a massive sales phenomenon of abandoned land after displacing thousands of […]
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Three additional murders in agribusiness in Honduras Three employees of a large agribusiness company were killed Thursday afternoon in the valley of Aguán, in northeastern Honduras, which already account for 50 deaths in the context of conflict over land in that area of the country, officials said. A brief news report revealed that police “Denis […]
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Counternarcotics Police yesterday presented a consignment of more than 844 kilos of cocaine seized between Thursday and yesterday at the seaport of Guayaquil Simon Bolivar. According to research, the drug was bound for Canada and Europe. The first of these actions are called ‘Gandhisha’, by the name of the exporting company involved. The drug was […]
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The blood that left the face of a man who was the victim of an assault was on the outskirts of a financial institution, located at Columbus Avenue and Calle Diego de Almagro. Three heavily armed criminals on a motorcycle attacked in the form of ‘sacapintas’ a couple who wanted to deposit $ 3,000 in […]
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Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban agents convicted of espionage in the United States, returned Friday to leave U.S. soil after a fortnight to visit the island, Cuban state television said. Gonzalez, who has served 13 years in prison and since late 2011 is on probation but required to remain in the U.S., had […]
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Mexico: 8 Taxi drivers have been executed in the past 4 days On April 13th a cab driver was shot and killed in the zone of Puerto Acapulco at 12:55am. The Cab Driver was identified as Antonio Noriega Arzate found inside a Volkswagen car with gunshots in his face and thorax. He seems to be […]
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Some pictures that you can see military Ecuador with a decapitated dog, spread in social networks, have caused rejection in the country and by the Army itself, which announced Thursday that punish those responsible. In the images you see soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms smiling while posing with the animal’s body and head. “Those involved in […]
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Through these operations, have arrested at least 33 “carjackers” (stripping the car at gunpoint), at the time of committing the offense, either on board or car reported as stolen, said Julian Leyzaola Perez. Read Article
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After the arrival of several madatarios participants at the Sixth Summit of the Americas, the tranquility was disturbed by the detonation of two explosive devices in the southeast of the city. Gen. Rodolfo Palomino confirmed that there were two explosions that occurred in the city, occurred in front of the Villa Estrella neighborhood and the […]
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Mexico: Drug dealers robbing human organs In Mexico there has been an increase theft of cargo units. There were at least 12 cases where cargo drivers became victims of organ theft in the last two months. According to Rafael Ortiz Pacheco, the national president of the Mexican Alliance Shippers, victims are stripped of their units, […]
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Mexico: Grenade Explosions Near City Hall in Nuevo Leon In the morning of Wednesday, April 11th a grenade explosion took place 200 meters from the City Hall located in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon. There were no reports of injured citizens but there was damage done to an elementary school near the explosion. At the moment there […]
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During 2011, the Armed Forces assigned to 118 000 569 soldiers and sailors to guard the country. Of these, 57 000 871 through the streets and various parts of the country to participate in high impact operations against drug traffickers, reveals the Fifth Report of Implementation of National Development Plan (NDP). Only the Ministry of […]
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CUSCO-In full operation to rescue the kidnapped 39 workers from Camisea, the heroic captain PNP, Nancy Flores Paucar, died of two gunshot wounds to the chest as the police helicopter she was traveling in was attacked by walkers to two hours Kiteni village, Echarate district, province of La Convención. Read Article
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KITENI – Cusco. – The helicopter shot down in the area of Lagunas, High sector Postakiato Echarate in the district of the province’s Convention, which killed the captain of the PNP Paucar Nancy Flores is not the National Police, but the DEA. The treacherous terrorist attack occurred Thursday afternoon, when the aircraft supporting search operations […]
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ECUADOR Author – Nicholas Crowder ——————————————– One of the key elements that should go into the decision making process in considering a move to Ecuador or any country is having an understanding of the national criminal justice system. This should provide the individual a snapshot of what citizens or residents can expect […]
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Carlos Dada, the editor of the San Salvador-based online newspaper El Faro, told Reporters Without Borders he planned to leave El Salvador today as a temporary safety measure after failing to obtain internal security ministry protection from the serious threats he has been receiving. Dada declined to tell Reporters Without Borders where he was going […]
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While performing a search flight Aeromarítima on Monday April 9, the Naval Aircraft AN-236 detected two boats carrying drums of fuel, about 15 miles north of Green River, Esmeraldas. The Coast Guard boat “River Conambo” which was on a routine patrol near this area, conducted the inspection of the two boats. According to naval staff […]
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Mexico: Drug lords recruit the elderly According to the Attorney General’s office during the last six-year period the number of elderly involved in organized crime has increased markedly. From December 2006 to November 2011 there has been more than 4 000 senior citizens arrested for their involvement with drug traffickers. Since they inspire love and […]
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Mexico: Police officers admit committing sexual abuse against minors in Nuevo Leon A total of seven officers are being held accountable for alleged sexual violations against two minors in Nuevo Leon. The officers confessed their participation in the rape when during a police operation in the north part of Monterrey. The sexual encounter took place […]
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The Shining Path column on Monday kidnapped 40 workers from the gas industry has requested the Peruvian authorities on payment of a $ 11.2 million (8.5 million) and the delivery of explosive materials and equipment communication, in exchange for the release of the hostages, according to a note sent by the armed group, which was […]
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The hacker group Anonymous attacked at least 12 Internet portals of government of Colombia to protest the law that seeks to regulate copyright and web browsing. V Aryans Internet portals of government and the Congress of Colombia were attacked today in actions claimed by the international organization of Anonymous hackers. Among the sites attacked include […]
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While the Senate discussed in plenary whether to approve the ‘law of FTAs, the Anonymous hacktivist group launched an attack on a large scale protest with the almost certain passage of the bill. Read Article
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The mayor of Cusco province of La Convención, Fedya Castro Melgarejo, RPP Noticias reiterated that no worker kidnapped by terrorists of the Shining Path was released, so police continued the search efforts. Read Article
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The Executive decided to declare a state of emergency for sixty calendar days from April 11 Echarate district, province of La Convención, department of Cusco. The move came after the kidnapping of 40 workers of the company Skansa by terrorists on Monday in the area of Cusco. According to the decree, the terrorists have shown […]
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According to the victim, she was abducted the night of April 3 when he took a taxi to go to the Santa Barbara Chillogallo and two people jumped on the vehicle so the driver deviated from the route and led to a house in the street and passage Carapungo 126 OE-9C, the Biloxi area in […]
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Eight taxi drivers were killed and two others were injured, including a minor, in an attack on Tuesday by a group of armed men against two taxi stations in the city of Guadalupe, located in the state of Nuevo Leon, in northeastern Mexico. The first attack occurred around 14.30 hours (21.30 hours in Spain ) […]
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Five suspected gunmen, including an alleged regional leader of the group “The Knights Templar”, died in a shootout with a military patrol in the state of Michoacan, southern Mexico, officials said. The Secretary of
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United States and Central America did not sufficiently inform each other hundreds of criminals who are deported to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador each year, contributing to increased violence in the region on Monday raised U.S. experts. “We can do much more about sharing information when reporting on their records,” said Michael Shifter, a professor […]
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Would be the second discovery of the remains of some of the 25 disappeared by the paramilitaries. In a landscape of the Lower Rio Negro, in the Middle Magdalena Santander, a committee of the prosecution service in a grave the remains of four people who correspond to victims of the paramilitaries in the slaughter occurred […]
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Highly dangerous as described yesterday, David Morales Velez, who is deported from the United States Matamoros thousands of people including many ex-convicts considered, as this incident in order to raise the crime rate and this affects the whole society because it does not have control, hence the authorities should abocarse to take steps to prevent […]
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Dismembered body found with a Narco-Message in Sinaloa On April 9th a man was kidnaped in La Trinidad, Sinaloa and hours later his dead body was found in the international road in Guasave. The victim’s body was dismembered, his fingers where placed inside his mouth. The message left by the aggressors said “ this is […]
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Mexicali. – An ultralight aircraft, drugs, weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, were seized by elements of the State Preventive Police (PEP), in coordination with the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), the criminal organization “Los Garibay “. The Secretary of State Public Security reported that the actions took place in Chiapas ejido III area […]
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The residence of the Ambassador of Mexico to Venezuela, Carlos Pujalte, was attacked by thieves who took advantage of the absence of the diplomat to steal items and jewelery worth $ 40,000, said a diplomatic source told Efe.Pujalte had received an express kidnapping with his wife, Paloma Ojeda, in January, a case that is processed […]
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Mauricio Peña, national director of the National Traffic Agency (NTA), decided to close for a month Transit Agency of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas due to several complaints about the alleged involvement of officials working in that department with a dedicated network the fraudulent registration of stolen vehicles abroad. Peña also decided to terminate the […]
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A Colombian policeman was killed and four others wounded in a bomb attack committed by FARC guerrillas in southwestern population of El Bordo, regional authorities said Monday.The soldiers formed a patrol was ambushed last night in a peripheral area of the town of the department of Cauca, told reporters in Popayan, the regional capital, a […]
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The trial has begun in Venezuela for a prominent drug trafficking suspect facing charges of money laundering, drug smuggling and murder. Walid Makled was captured in Colombia in 2010 and extradited to Venezuela last year. He has previously claimed he paid Venezuelan military officers and government officials for favors. Read Article
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Shining Path is the author of kidnapping Peter Yaranga terorrismo specialist and drug trafficking issues, stated that the terrorist group carried out a series of requirements in order to free the victims. After the kidnapping of 30 employees of a contractor of the Camisea consortium in the town of Kepashiato, Cusco province of La Convención […]
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Juan Carlos Figarella government deputy died Wednesday of respiratory failure after two days of convalescence after being shot by unknown, state radio confirmed. Figarella died Wednesday at a hospital in the town southeast of Ciudad Bolivar in Bolivar state, where he joined earlier this week after being shot by two unidentified men on a motorcycle […]
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Foreign tourist visits to the favela Rocinha, the best known of Rio de Janeiro, were suspended due to the outbreak of violence in recent weeks when neighbors reported the alleged actions of death squads and police say the drug traffickers. The Jeep Tour Rocinha, located near the elegant neighborhood of Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro in […]
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William Cholele was stopped by several armed men late on Sunday as it moved up the La Urbina in a vehicle owned. The M inistry Public investigating the kidnapping of Diplomatic Attaché, Embassy of Costa Rica to Venezuela, William Cholele, who had been kidnapped on the night of Sunday in Sucre Municipality of Miranda State. […]
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE PROVIDES GOOD INFORMATION ON CRIME PROCESSES. The trailer theft was down 6 percent in the metropolitan area of Monterrey. However, organized crime gangs and kidnappings increased pressure to infiltrate areas of operation of enterprises with access to the cargo, according to carriers. An example of this harassment is that of a truck sent […]
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A total of 40 cases of equal numbers of women reported missing in the Central Area Office, from 1993 to March 2012, remain in force and under investigation. Of that number of inquiries, 32 were women residing in the city of Chihuahua, and that to date have not been located by family and friends. The […]
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On April 8, 2012 Juan Carlos Chaparro and Francisco Isabel Flores were detained for being likely responsible for victimizing tourists. A family traveling through Kino Bay Chihuahua was struck by both armed men who tried stopping them, nevertheless the driver backed up the vehicle traveling back to the nearest municipality and reported the event to […]
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Mexico: Four bodies were found inside a water well in San Luis Potosi According to a Ministerial Police report there was one body reported inside a water well 12-15 meters deep. On Saturday April 7th elements of the police discovered not one but four bodies inside the well. The bodies are still unidentified by officials. […]
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An alleged antisocial, accused of stealing a motorcycle, was lynched and his lifeless body burned by a mob of villagers Ivirgarzama Township, Carrasco province of Cochabamba, reported Radio Pio XII Erbol Network. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday in the area of Rio Blanco, interdepartmental road Cochabamba-Santa Cruz, where a male person and […]
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U.S. citizen Jacob Oestreicher (53) is preventively detained for 10 months in prison Palmasola of the city of Santa Cruz for the crime of money laundering. However, according to a publication released by Univision AP, after more than two dozen court hearings, prosecutors have not presented evidence to support their suspicions that the U.S. 53 […]
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Hernan Hernandez, president of the Agricultural Society of Santander, said that security in the country, the department is in good health. An event to highlight the part of management is that there are currently no hostages and extortion have been reduced by working in partnership with the community. Farmers and ranchers have facilities for travel […]
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In Baja California enterprise agreements were settled between two rival drug cartels; the remains of Arellano Felix Tijuana cartel and the Sinaloa cartel. According to the director of the Binacional Human Rights Center (Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos) Victor Clark Alfaro the pacts include lowering violence and continuing with the drug business. Read Article
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Sergeant: Born in Colombia but Argentine nationality. Drugs, Cocaine confiscated Friday contained in shipment of antique furniture destined for Europe. 83 Colombians have been involved in the investigation, 42 businesses providing logistics for the Colombian Narcos. Security Minister Nilda Garre revealed that among the arrested drug traffickers, is a sergeant serving in Buenos Aires the […]
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A policeman in Mexico City last night saved his life by the board that he carried in his breast was a bullet lodged who shot a burglar, reported the Ministry of Public Security of the Federal District (SSPDF). Shortly after 11 pm Friday (same time in Peru) Daniel Ruiz actor John Coy, 39 and covering […]
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MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon (SUN) A woman and a man between 40 and 45 years who were apparently girlfriend, were killed inside the prison of Topo Chico. According to early reports from the Police, the man was killed to death after participating in a fight shortly after the 01:30 on Saturday, so custodial staff requested the […]
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LACK OF POWER/WATER CAUSING DISTRUBANCES The aftermath of the storm that swept Buenos Aires last Wednesday that killed 14 people, and wounding 18 others – has left heavy damage to infrastructure and a malaise that has caused law enforcement problems. As reported by the Argentine daily Clarin, the neighborhood of Pompeii, disgusted by the lack […]
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The FARC are “not weak” as stated by the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Andean country’s military leadership said “Ivan Marquez,” member of the ‘secretariat’ or top hierarchy of the guerrillas, in a video released Saturday. The Colombian rebel group is “not weak” because “is ready to fight,” said “Marquez, alias Luciano […]
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Six Colombian soldiers Bogota and at least three FARC guerrillas were killed in fighting in the department of Chocó (northwest), the commander of the Seventh Army Division, General Hernan Giraldo. The attack took place on the highway between Pretoria, the capital of Chocó, and Medellin, the capital of Antioquia department, when the military surprised the […]
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An individual was arrested by the police of Zacapa in an operation of identification of vehicles and people installed in the road leading to the village of Santa Lucia, the departmental capital. The detainee is Miguel Angel Ramos Salguero, 62, and was apprehended when he was driving the motorcycle M-653CBC, Asia Hero brand, model 2008. […]
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Guatemalan authorities say they have begun to see new and disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America, a deal with the potential to further undermine the U.S.-backed effort to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in […]
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Mexico: Shot and Wounded Cop outside the Central Hospital of Chihuahua On April 6, 2012 a group of armed suspects shot a municipal cop while he was with his family outside the central hospital of Chihuahua. The officer survived the attack but was wounded when the bullet, of the AK47 guns that the attackers used, […]
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There are about 30 000 victims of sexual exploitation in Mexico, 80 percent of them average 10-14 years old. Human trafficking is considered the second and third most profitable business for organized crime, affecting 3.5 million people 90 percent of them adolescent girls. Read Article
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Only a small proportion of women in the region whose rights are undermined achieve full access to justice, says a collective of women’s organisations from eight countries of Latin America. “It’s not just a question of litigation costs or of bringing an issue to court, but of gaining access to good judicial service, in which […]
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14 000 men, detection equipment to meet any attack with nuclear or chemical elements, 6 robots and a squad of anti-explosives dogs are part of the large deployment of security that will surround the Summit of the Americas, held in Cartagena from Monday and next Sunday April 15th. Moreover, the devices include cyber controls, 3 […]
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The outgoing head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces (Armed Forces), Ernesto Gonzalez, warned of the security situation facing the country. Among the main threats, Gonzalez cited the organized crime, human trafficking, insecurity, drug trafficking and the presence of rebel groups. He said we can not ignore the effects of armed conflict in […]
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Within hours of the morning today was discharged from University Hospital of adults, the tourist who was beaten and sexually abused in Vieques, on March 24, Coco sector. The young student was operated on April because it had an epidural hematoma, ie an open wound on the right side of the head. Due to their […]
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After participating in a fellowship, four elements of the Municipal Police in Monterrey, whose names were not provided, were kidnapped and killed by unidentified persons, police sources said. Read Article
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After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, stories of the disaster dominated international news media. Journalists rushed to report on the wreckage. Photographers scrambled for shots of the rubble. Aid agencies struggled to overcome obstacles to sending humanitarian aid. As an international women’s human rights organization that works in partnership with local women, we at MADRE […]
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“Simpsons” had 15 arrest warrants against him. “Simpsons” was the second leader of the criminal gang “The Urabeños” in western Antioquia. Enrique Raul Pino, aka “Simpsons” 33-year-old was captured on a farm in the village of San Nicolas Sopetrán Township in western Antioquia, thanks to community information. Read Article
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On Wednesday, the leaders of the largest coalition of American labor unions sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to maintain pressure on the Colombian government to end the rampant violence against union workers in the South American nation. Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the signing of a Labor Action Plan between […]
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Costa Rica and Guatemala today joined the list of twelve nations, including Panama and Uruguay already, who have not passed the first filter of the Global Forum on Financial Transparency, under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD .) Costa Rica and Guatemala suspended the consideration to which they subjected their peers for not […]
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An increase of 2.9 percentage points suffered households nationwide have been the victim of a crime, reaching 31.1%, according to data from the National Survey of Urban VIII of Public Safety (ENUSC) , which was released this morning by the National Statistics Institute (INE). After knowing the numbers, the Secretary of Crime Prevention, Christopher Lira, […]
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Three men and one woman managed to steal through digital and electronic transactions 600 million pesos of bank accounts of a health promoter Bucaramanga. The members of this criminal gang were able to “hack” the financial system through electronic processes IPS and managed to send this money to the bank accounts of 17 people, officials […]
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A brutal slaying occurred Tuesday night in a rural parish of Quito. A corpse with a metal pipe running through his mouth and had injuries on his body found inhabitants of the area. In the midst of a thick fog and a remote was made the finding of the body of Jacinto Eduardo Garcia Ponce, […]
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Bad weather conditions prevented Honduras Tucano aircraft to track down the twin-engine Beechcraft plane that went on 18 March hangars Horizontal Aviation company in Bogota, which was reported as suspicious by the Colombian Air Force ( FAC). The director of the Aerocivil, Santiago Castro, said that since it is an issue of drug it is […]
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Nervous and breathy voice 32 of Duran Judge Ricardo Pimentel La Mota said his innocence. The temporary judge Splicing Cesar Vargas Alvarado, opted for silence. Both were arrested yesterday by members of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Police Intelligence after the president of the Provincial Court of Justice, Francisco Garcés Morales issued the arrest warrants […]
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Mexico: Violence Affecting Mexico’s Economy The drug cartel violence has affected the Mexican economy greatly causing small business owners to leave the country. 160, 000 companies closed their businesses in 2011. The suspension of business operations in Mexico has been estimated to be a loss of about 800 million dollars. Read Article
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Over six years in Puebla nearly tripled the number of intentional homicide of women without that, say experts and scholars, government policies are introduced to stop the problem. In a comparison between the first years of PRI government of Mario Marin and the first PAN Rafael Moreno Valle was an increase in crime by 172 […]
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Tired of insecurity, people in the streets Juan Pio Montufar and Manuela Cañizares, near El Mercurio, ask the Police often deploy controls. One of the residents, whose identity has been kept for safety, charged that wily thugs entered the courtyard of a house, although in the enclosure is an electric fence and seized a computer […]
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“Cuenca has become no man’s land …” explained Councilman Wilson Munoz, president of the Security Commission, before the eight murders in the first four months of 2012. He said the manner in which the anti-social act is an indication that they are organized gangs, whose leaders, in some cases, lead from inside the rehabilitation center. […]
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Starting tomorrow, the cellular operators will begin to restrict services to prepaid lines that are not registered. This, once it expires on April 5 the first deadline set by the National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) to allow subscribers to record their data. Others who failed to register their cell phone can not make calls, use the […]
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There was always violence but not to the extent that is now,” he stated to the NATION Ada Beatriz Rico, president of La Casa del Encuentro, after confirming that there was an increase after the death of Taddei. According to statistics cited by the institution in Argentina, more than 200 women are murdered each year. […]
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OGOTA. – The Colombian Army sergeant Luis Alberto Arcia, released on Monday after 14 years and one month kidnapped by the FARC, said Tuesday that the guerrillas kept it, along with other hostages, “chained for eight long years.”Arcia and three noncommissioned and three noncommissioned officers released yesterday revealed at a press conference degrading and inhuman […]
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Brazil’s Tourism Ministry asked over 2,000 websites to remove sexual content that promotes Brazil as a prime destination for sex tourism. Associated Press reports that in 2011, the ministry identified 2,169 websites with photos of women in sensual poses and invitations for sexual encounters with minors, the ministry said in a Tuesday statement. Many of […]
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Violent March 2012 in Mexico The Month of March ended up with 950 drug-related crimes recorded accounting for a total of 2, 544 murders ever since the beginning of the year in Mexico. Chihuahua topped up the list reports with 237 murderers in the month of March, then Sinaloa with 112 cases, Sonora 110 cases, […]
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Sinaloa had 141 assassinations in the month of March. This year there was a total of 141 homicides reported in the month of March, 27 less than last year. The violence levels were in a decrease in numbers at the beginning of the year, but have increased greatly this past two months. Read Article
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Durango is one of the main states where Policemen have been murdered. Ever since the President Felipe Calderon began his administration, there has been an estimation of 2 986 murdered policemen in Mexico. 184 of these reported police assassinations took place in Durango, followed by 76 in Coahuila. Read Article
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Brasilia – Boys and girls living on the streets of the Federal District police officers accused of physical and sexual assault. Complaints mobilized the Commission on Human Rights and Minorities of the House of Representatives and are similar to those investigated by prosecutors for a little over three years. The latest of these is a […]
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The hypothesis of death by burning Ulysses Canadian Richard Porta, which occurred last Thursday, would be discarded after the autopsy, the alien determined that the cause of death was two stab wounds. Canadian Richard Ulises Porta Attorney William Aguilar, who yesterday made the recognition of the scene, said the results of the autopsy has not […]
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Increase auto theft in Fresno In just two years the alien lovers thousand vehicles stolen in the city, said Juan Manuel Loera Lopez, assistant attorney in Fresno State. The official said that the Attorney General of the State in Fresno until Friday had been a backlog of 400 cases of car theft, related to cases […]
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The deputy of the Movement Toward Social (MAS), Galo Bonifaz, this morning presented a bill aimed at investigating the fortunes of judges, prosecutors and police, as part of the policy against corruption that is implemented in the country. Read Article
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Macario Acosta, director of Durango’s public safety, was murdered on March 30th inside his house. A group of armed individuals entered his house, shot him in the head and escaped.Read Article
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Mexico: A kidnap takes place at a the Funeral of the Enigma Norteno Drummer On March 31st at the Funeral of Jose Baldenergro Valdez, the Drumer for Enigma Norteno, a group of armed men took a person hostage in Culiacan Sinaloa at 4pm. The victim was last seen talking to another man while the armed […]
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Mexico: Mexican Music Band Drumer found Dead in Sinaloa On Saturday March 31, 2012 Jose Baldenegro Valdez, drummer of the Enigma Norteno music band, was found dead in San Manuel Aguaruto , Sinaloa. His body was found with signs of torture, bullet wounds, wrapped in a blanket and bound with masking tape. Read Article
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A plane reported stolen from hangar at airport El Dorado Bogota Colombia King 300 aircraft, which was one of the hangars from El Dorado Airport in Bogota, disappeared without so far have clues to his whereabouts. This was confirmed by the Director of Civil Aeronautics, Santiago Castro, who said that the owners of the aircraft […]
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An intensive operation is performed in Valparaiso, in order to capture a prisoner who was rescued by another 2 offenders, while being treated at the hospital Dr. Eduardo Pereira. As Juan Andres Rivera Viera (28), was identified antisocial, sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking, which was taken out of the hospital in […]
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Over 140 kilos of cocaine were seized and two people were arrested during a raid on the coast of Rio Bermejo in Salta department of Oran, on a boat from Bolivia. Sources of National Gendarmerie, by the procedure, reported today that the operation took place yesterday and was in charge of troops from 20 Squadron […]
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According to the agency Noticias Argentinas, in the last five years, murdered a person per month in acts of this type. In Argentina there is a community of 100 000 Chinese inhabitants and around 10 000 supermarkets, whose owners were often blackmailed into paying an amount ranging 50 thousand pesos a year as “canon”, under […]
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A man was arrested by state police officers, just in time to pre-purchase of two minors for conducting sexual acts. According to information obtained from the same authority, the detainee is San Gabriel Roman Hernandez, 57. An anonymous tip in the sense that Roman Hernandez, took advantage of the cashier job at a travel agency […]
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The worshipers of Santa Muerte discovered this week in Nacozari Garcia were carrying out human sacrifice cults since 2009, according to the eight detainees revealed in his statements to the State Attorney. Silvia Meraz Moreno, 44, and originally from Hermosillo, was identified by his own family were also members of the sect, as mastermind of […]
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New Zealand authorities say they are aware of the arrest in Chile of the Norwegian adventurer who made an illegal trip from New Zealand to Antarctica earlier this year but will not say whether New Zealand requested the arrest. Jarle Andhoy and four other crew members, including New Zealander Busby Noble, were arrested by armed […]
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Police noticed yesterday the arrest of six youths, including two children, whom he accuses of being part of a local cell of the group Anonymous, which describes as “international network of cyber-terrorism.” According to a note by the Police, Milton Corniell David Jimenez, Jean Carlos Rafael Acosta, Cristian de la Rosa Jose de los Santos […]
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The Chilean government today reiterated the request to Argentina to facilitate the extradition of ex-guerrilla Sergio Apablaza Galvarino, accused of involvement in the assassination of Senator Jaime Guzmán right in 1991. “We hope that both countries can respect and carry out what is proper and legal institutions that do not interfere with political factors,” he […]
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