The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, land and sea and from there into Mexico en route to the U.S. Cool highlands are an ideal climate for poppy cultivation. Weapons, given lenient gun laws and a long history of arms smuggling, are plentiful.Read Article
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Public spending on security in the region in 2010 accounted for 2.66 percent of gross domestic product, about 4,000 million dollars, not that the policies implemented by governments against crime have been successful. The Central American countries assume a loss of 6,500 million dollars as a result of violence, almost 8 percent of GDP, more […]
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Removals of communities, books that will change the daily lives of thousands of residents, unnecessary expenditures, investments without public consultation, building and renovating stadiums exorbitant, social cleansing. There are many complaints already formulated by grassroots organizations at the approach of the World Cup to be held in 12 cities in Brazil in 2014. In addition […]
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A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed a petition Thursday seeking to annul the residency visa granted to a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted in his homeland of four murders carried out in the late 1970s. Prosecutor Helio Heringer said the visa granted in June to Cesare Battisti should be annulled because it violates Brazil’s Foreigner’s […]
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President Hugo Chavez proposed the discussion today in the National Assembly a bill providing for the shooting down of aircraft suspected of drug trafficking when they ignore the order to land. The Venezuelan leader said in a televised speech that the law would aim to discourage those flights in Venezuelan territory. Addressing deputies in a […]
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Recently, a massive, peaceful march sought to draw attention to the Venezuelan incursions into the region Northeast Front elements “Domingo Lain Sáenz ‘ELN, one of the main guerrilla organizations in Colombia. The protesters, members of neighborhood associations, peasant and labor organizations and local NGOs reported that irregular force applied “policy of extermination against the communities […]
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Mariela VP Nancy, 31 years old, was traveling on an interpovincial bus in Tulcán transporting two cardboard boxes containing 99 sticks of dynamite in the luggage hold. The woman was deprived of his liberty by threatening public safety. The arrest. According to the police report, at 03:00 yesterday during a routine they performed the gendarmes […]
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Victims included Sam’s Club. The State Police broke up a gang of truck robbers, making eleven subjects assurance, six vehicles and a trailer with merchandise. The arrest of the criminals, mostly blood, occurred in North Street and Independence Avenue 3, in the municipality of Veracruz Tepeyahualco-bordering-where on board were armed vehicles guarding the trailer. After […]
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Emerging Threats and Security in the Western Hemisphere Press Release: US State Department Next Steps for U.S. Policy Testimony William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC October 13, 2011 ________________________________________ As delivered Madam Chairman, Ranking Member, ladies and gentlemen of […]
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A pipeline located underground Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) caused an oil spill in the town of I xtaczoquitlán, said the parastatal. According to the official report, unlawful taking was located in the 12-inch polidcuto Minatitlan, Mexico, between the station and Tuxpanguillo Zapoapita, spilling into the affected area at least 2000 liters of gasoline. Read Article
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Colombia’s judicial police arrested 16 suspected members of a prostitution of women who acted in several departments, and a Venezuelan border town, officials said Tuesday the operation. A woman prostitute from 2009 to his daughter, now 14, is in the group arrested in the raid, which was conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation Police […]
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546 kilos of cocaine were hidden in false bottoms of two commercial vessels on the Atrato River, in the area of Tagachi in Chocó, The National Army reports. Apparently, the captures planned to take the drugs to Turbo, which would then be transported by sea to Central America and then to North America where it […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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With paint and a potato bomb, students who move to the Plaza de Bolivar attacked the policemen. The squadron attacked remains located off the premises of the Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos (Ecopetrol), in downtown Bogota. About 500,000 students in public universities in the country now entering an indefinite national strike to demand the government to […]
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The criminal gang would initially threaten their victim by demanding 200 million pesos (US $ 100,000) in exchange for their safety, El Espectador reports. The band was disbanded due to a lawsuit in Boyacá by one of the victims. Detainees will be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Read Article
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The complaint against Philip “Baron” was presented by Valter Drain Day Dos Reis, Brazil, owner of the ranch located in the area of Capitan Bado, which were found the two tracks underground. According to the complaint filed with the Public Ministry for the Brazilian citizen, on 17 September, at 10:00, received a phone call, a […]
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Ambassador in Mexico, Belize, Rosendo Antonio Urbina Baptist, acknowledged that crime and organized crime have largely overcome the security forces on the border commissioners of both countries, which has motivated crimes such as trafficking of people, drugs and weapons are kept. Read Article
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Crimes and Division Summaries of Argentina made a raid for trafficking and labor exploitation in a textile factory that operated in two homes in the neighborhood of Floresta, where they found 21 people working in subhuman conditions. The shop owners were arrested and Bolivian nationality are investigated by the justice department. Read Article
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During the 2010-2011 school year, in kindergarten “AndrésOscoy” of Iztapalapa, at least 35 children between 4 and 5 years deed, were victims of sexual abuse and rape, by staff and the institution autoridadesde who forced them into silence. Read Article
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In Mexico, “45 percent” of trafficking victims are indigenous girls, Rosi released Orozco, president of the Special Commission for Combating Trafficking in Persons, and Xavier Abreu Sierra, CEO of National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI), who expressed the urgent need for a comprehensive law to combat crime that robs children of more […]
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Having done research work where they were seized 460 kilos of cocaine in the boat Juergen Schulte on Saturday night, Major General of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Miguel Vivas Alcides Landino, head of the National Drug and Gen. Edilberto Molina, deputy director of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) reported that the Bolivar state ranks […]
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The sleepy port towns, mangrove swamps and jungle airstrips of poorly defended, tiny Belize are becoming prime gateways for drug trafficking as Mexico’s billionaire mafias carve out new smuggling routes through Central America.Using light aircraft and ultra-fast boats, traffickers are moving more and more South American cocaine through Belize into Mexico, U.S. narcotics agents and […]
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A clash between federal, municipal police against alleged gunmen was recorded on Monday night in Mexico International Highway 15 exit north, at the height of the ejido of El Venadillo, leaving three dead two policemen and one gunman, as well three officers wounded.The shooting, which lasted several minutes, causing panic among drivers traveling on that […]
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Honduras led the world in homicides per capita in 2010, according to an international study. The Central American country was not the only Latin American country listed among the most dangerous places in the world, according to the first United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Study on Homicide. In fact, four of the […]
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The Colombian Army found and seized Monday from a stash of 546 kilos of cocaine and arrested 8 crew of two vessels that plied the river Atrato in Chocó (northwest), sources with the institution. The cocaine was hidden in false bottoms of the boats that plied the waters of the area of the small town […]
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The Association of North Lima announced that it signed in the coming days an agreement will serve to provide greater security to the residents of this sector of the capital. This is an agreement with the National Police with the aim of a helicopter that institution to patrol the area and thus help prevent and […]
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Rifles, carbines, shotguns and machine guns of different calibers were hidden in the trunk and under the seats of a maroon colored Peugeot 405 parked in President Quintana to 30 bis, in the south of Rosario. A procedure performed by the Association of Special Units of the Regional Unit II pemitió the secuetro than it […]
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The owner of a Chinese supermarket in the city was killed by three bullets when attacked in their trade by a hooded man. The incident occurred on Sunday night and, in principle, the researchers believe that this was a new case involving the so-called “Chinese mafia”. The victim was identified by police as He Xin […]
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The murders are increasingly chilling. They seek to intimidate and cause a greater impact. The concern is that citizenship is becoming insensitive to the cruelty of the narcos. The brutal murders in public that began 5 years ago have worsened as cartels try to match what the other in their quest to intimidate rivals, authorities […]
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In an unprecedented action, a six German parliamentarians announced their decision to recommend conditional cooperation with El Salvador until that country to implement an effective program to combat violence and impunity that plague the people of this Central American nation. During the Civil War (1980-1992), governments Washington and some European countries support conditions continued to […]
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FARC SUSPECTED IN BOMBING Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed the deaths of seven soldiers who were traveling in a vehicle to administrative work. In Palo, rural area of Caloto (Cauca), killed seven soldiers were traveling in a vehicle in administrative work, as was stated by Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón.”Here in the department of […]
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The revelation that the Argentine Facundo Molars Schoenfeld has become one of the ideologists of the FARC is the tip of the ball of the presence of more foreigners in the ranks of the largest guerrilla group in Colombia. Colombian Police confirmed that molars, 35 and known by the alias “Camilo Argentina ‘, amounted dirigenciales […]
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A surprise operation conducted by the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR) of the Police, on a farm located in the canton of Pichincha, Manabi, did the arrest of seven alleged members of the band Los Choneros. Read Article
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Officials from the Regional Intelligence Unit Drug Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) were able to detect 478 kilos of suspected high-purity cocaine on board Juergen Schulte anchored in the port of Ferrominera Orinoco in Ciudad Guayana, Bolivar State. The 478 kilos corresponded to 354 packages hidden in a compartment of the ship’s engine room with Spanish […]
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23 dogs died from poisoning in the shell. The Regional Directorate of Health stated that there are 700 reports of persons bitten, but animal rights activists doubt the figure.On September 27 the alert spread through social networks: animal shelters and homeless dogs Proamar warned that the Department of Health New Sparta had ordered a slaughter […]
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Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in the Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences – Recorded interview with author Dr. Sara Schatz (Recording Time- 01:13:53) Recorded October 07, 2011. Publisher: Springer, 2011, Volume 10 in Studies of Organized Crime. PURCHASE BOOK:Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in […]
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In carrying out offensive operations in Antioquia, Meta, and Caldas, Army troops were uncovered three caches clandestine weapons, explosives and materials for the manufacture of alkaloids belonging to the Farc criminal gangs and drug trafficking.Initially, in the village gardens, city of San Francisco, Antioquia, units Mechanized Cavalry Group No. 4 ‘Juan del Corral’, located a […]
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1360 phishing scams in 2011 This data revealed by the Attorney General of Ecuador. One of the last cases of this kind is detrimental to Council officials for Citizen Participation. According to the prosecution, this type of crime recorded a rate rise. In 2009 there were 168 claims in 2010 the figure rose to 2099 […]
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El Universo reported that since August there has been an increase in the number of ATM’s at Banco Del Austro branches being hit by bank card cloning schemes. Extreme caution should be taken when using ATM’s when withdrawing money from ATM’s that your cards and or pin numbers are not being copied or scanned.
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After the arrest of four Colombian and Venezuelan apparently be part of a gang of card cloners, investigative units of the affected banks analyze their security videos to find criminals. Yesterday morning, the Colombian Edwin Holguin, Javier Hernandez, Fernel Mauricio Tello and Ortiz, and Luis Rodriguez were presented by the Judicial Police (PJ) and detained […]
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As an evening of terror and fear rated a score of passengers who witnessed yesterday’s murder of a young, unidentified, who rode the bus company Metrotrans, PUD-109 board, covering the south of the city stadium route Olympic-El Rocio. Witnesses recalled that when the unit stopped in 1677 a red light Avenue and Joaquin Maldonado Gutierrez, […]
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The Mexican Army seized over 358 kilograms of cocaine valued at $ 11 million in the illicit market. The seizure took place in a colonial home in this city Otay Vista. The commander of the Second Military Zone, Briseno Gilberto Landeros, explained that it is the largest seizure that has been done on this border […]
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Since 2008, branches of the National Development Bank (BNF) were assaulted 14 times with a loss of over $ 1.4 million. So far this year, the BNF underwent six assaults in five provinces: Sucumbíos, Esmeraldas, Orellana, Guayas, Tungurahua. The damage in these thefts amounted to USD 467 000. Read Article
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he Justice attorney, Felipe Munoz Vazquez, announced that it is investigating all elements of the municipal Public Security Secretary of Aguascalientes. This, after giving the 14 elements known by the Mexican army arrested are allegedly involved in the criminal organization “Office” and the assassination of several former colleagues and civilians. Read Article
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The community of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Tlaxcala, members of the Sexual Diversity Tlaxcala, held a peaceful demonstration in Congress to reproach local lawmakers have not played since October 2, 2009 two bills concerning Prevention and Eradication of Discrimination and Societies of Coexistence. Read Article
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In Peru, there are more than 15,000 persons from the period of internal armed conflict (1980-2000) that are still missing. Their relatives refuse to give up hope of finding their whereabouts. The numbers are impressive, but the disappeared and their relatives are more than numbers; more than mere statistics. Read Article
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In the first fifteen days of September six foreigners have been detained for trying to transport cocaine from Buenos Aires to Qatar via mules. Those arrested are from Europe, South Africa, and Nigeria. according to lanacion.com.ar. Sources affirmed, they allegedly ingested cocaine capsules (liquid cocaine dissolved with solvents similar to nail polish remover) wrapped in […]
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Marticela Moreno Pérez, mother of 7, was shot three times a few meters away from family members, El Universal reports. The gunmen left in a red motorcycle. One person resulted wounded in the shooting as well, Alberto Avila Julio, 24. Both were taken to a hospital in Cartagena, where the woman was pronounced dead. The […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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8 out of 10 women have been victims of violence at some time in Ecuador 21% of children and adolescents in Ecuador have been sexually abused ECUADOR | They call themselves ‘neomasculinos’ Youths fight sexism in Ecuador with pink helmets. Under the symbol of a Helmet Rosa, a group of j oung who call themselves […]
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In Chile, an average of 17 people are raped daily and 34 other victims of sexual abuse, according to a study released today by the Public Prosecutor (OTP), indicating that the 52 victims of these crimes leave daily, 38 are minors. During 2010, says the report, the income of reported sexual offenses skirted the 18 […]
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The authorities seized 118 parrots Honduras when they were brought illegally to El Salvador, from Nicaragua, an official source in Tegucigalpa. The birds were seized by members of the Border Police and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (SERNA), at the office of the Amatillo, border with El Salvador, two individuals from Nicaragua aboard […]
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Arrests and appropriation of municipal police in Monterrey are exposing the infiltration of organized crime in that corporation. Yesterday, military support to state Public Safety officers arrested four halconeo work to be done, ie surveillance for criminal groups. In the past four months, 55 officers have been held in royal state criminal for his alleged […]
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In a closed Rumiñahui in Ambato 16, nine Manta, Portoviejo eight in 10 Guayaquil, Quito and eight.”If there is no delivery of the sales, it means that or is not charging the Value Added Tax, VAT, or not being delivered this to the IRS. On the other hand, if no invoice, do not enter any […]
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The Andean Parliament Hilaria Supa, Lima revealed that 75 000 women were immersed in prostitution in the past decade and in the interior of the country increased sexual exploitation of minors. She indicated that this figure is much higher at around the country and in locations where mining is established not only is there the […]
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Some 30 premises where prostitution is practiced clandestinely sold adulterated alcoholic beverages were closed so far this year by the Municipality of Comas, in joint operations with the National Police. Among the establishments are closed “Sins”, “El Refugio”, “The Palmeritas” operating in the Tupac Amaru Avenue under the guise of bars and nightclubs, said the […]
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A 56-year-old undocumented immigrant died of heart attack in an Elizabeth hospital while waiting to be sent home to Ecuador, federal officials said today. Victor Antonio Ramirez-Reyes was arrested Sept. 6 and was awaiting deportation at the Elizabeth Detention Center, when he went into cardiac arrest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. Read Article
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Police of Catalonia in Spain arrested five people who allegedly were involved in transporting cocaine from Uruguay seized 3.3 kilos and those of the drug. The first two arrests were made in El Prat airport in Barcelona, when two of the now arrested had just arrived on a flight from Uruguay. Read Article
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According to a study conducted by Citizens Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, nearly twenty-five percent of the most dangerous cities in the world are in Mexico. 1. Ciudad Juarez 298 murders per 100,000 2. Chihuahua 131 murders per 100,000 3. Mazatlán 89 murders per 100,000 4. Culiacán 88 murders per 100,000 5. Tepic […]
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At least 20 containers loaded with rice, apparently from the brotherly country of El Salvador, daily entering illegally in Honduras, so the authorities of the Ministry Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) and the Executive Directorate of Revenue ( DEI), demonstrated “on alert” in order to curb smuggling of the grain. It is estimated that in Honduras, […]
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Chacodiapordia.com reported members of the Bolivian Mennonites informed Argentine authorities they were deceived by three scammers when they purchased lands which belonged to the state in Chaco Province, Argentina. After paying 250 thousand dollars for 28 thousand hectares, the victims were unable to locate the thieves from Ciudad Termal. The suspects were detained after police […]
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FARC’s Black Pearl could not make its first trip in the Colombian Pacific, El Colombiano reports. The narco-submarine was built out of fiberglass and steel and was able to navigate itself 4 to 5 feet under water and could carry up to four tons of cocaine. According to the anti-narcotics police, this is the second […]
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Assistant superintendent Aníbal Domingo Castro Arjona and patrol officer Cristian Camilo Zambrano, active members of the Police force in Cesar, were captured in Casacara and La Gloria respectively, by agents of the same Institution, El Pais Vallenato reports. The Public Prosecutor (Fiscalia) asked the Second Penal Court of Valledupar for the orders of capture against […]
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Civil servants of Invima manipulated the organization’s databases to grant illegal sanitary registries, El Tiempo reports. According to an internal investigation, there were seven cases of duplicity from registries. Some of the products the organization deals with can be utilized for criminal purposes, though no product was commercialized; however, the problem is that the registry […]
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At least 98 out of the 166 complaints for fraud in this year’s first semester come from online banking deductions in credit cards, chequings and savings accounts, La Nacion reports. According to statistics from the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ), this offense is followed by counterfeit cards, with 54 complaints, alteration or “twin” checks and the […]
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A new way of social control is taking place in Venezuela. Cyber-terrorists are attacking civilians by using methods of extortion and death threats to people who are openly against the current government, Tal Cual Digital reports. These hackers steal e-mail accounts, twitter accounts, and personal identities. It has been already two months and the government […]
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PNC of Guatemala reported that a woman has been apprehended with a minor from El Salvador with a stolen visa. PNC Guatemala
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Buenaventura is accustomed to violent death and, ultimately, increases the number of bodies, because there are vendettas between the FARC and a band called ‘the Company’, composed of former guerrillas and former paramilitaries, who decided to steal a packet of dollars (product of other packages coca), which claims ‘Mincho’, leader of the front 30. Read […]
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It keeps the climate of insecurity among Guatemalans because of the violence. The most recent report on the human rights situation in Guatemala, and incidents of violence during eight months of 2011, prepared by the Mutual Support Group (GAM), reveals that up to August 2231 were killed in violence in the country . Of these, […]
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A senior Brazilian police officer has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a judge who investigated police corruption. Lt Col Claudio Luiz de Oliveira was detained Tues Sept 27 here and arrest orders have been issues for at least six other policemen in the city(Rio). Prosecutors say Col Oliveira ordered the killing […]
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Venezuela has taken over the presidency of the Latin Financial Group of Experts to Control Money Laundering through drug trafficking in the continent at the opening of the group’s 33rd meeting here. Venezuela’s Director of the Anti-Money Laundering Unit of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA), Annalibe Ruiz has been seconded to look after the group’s […]
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos will send more troops to the country’s two southern provinces Narino and Cauca following a recent surge in drug-related violence. Santos said the number of armed forces in Narino, which is home to about 50 percent of Colombia’s illicit coca production, will be increased to 3,353 from 2,780 during the […]
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Maria Nilza Simões, 51. a jealous Brazilian woman who could not tolerate her man’s (rural worker Virlan Anastacio) double life with a second lover, appealed to her life’s savings to have the competitor for the same love, Erenildes Aguiar Araújo, better known as Lupita disappeared. Read Article
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Brazilian authorities are trying to extinguish a 60-year-old family feud they say has led to at least 95 murders. Police say they sent 130 lawmen into six rural communities in northeastern Brazil to make arrests meant to end the bloodshed involving the Oliveira, Veras and Suassuna families. Read Article
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According to contrapunto.com.sv, since 2006, hundreds of corpses have been discovered in dozens of clandestine graveyards in San Salvador and its outskirts. Ninety five percent of the corpses are for individuals under seventeen years of age and eighty five percent of them are female. These numbers are frightening, even for one of the most violent […]
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Chilean analyst, Giovani Cuadra, commented recently in presentations to officials in El Salvador regarding several social issues according to laprensagrafica.com. She explained that inhumane treatment of people as a result of migration and other factors including trafficking is yet to be considered a significant issue in El Salvador and other countries in Latin America. The […]
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In Argentina, 15 kilograms of illegal substances are found being distributed via coach buses. Six people were detained on Monday, September 26, for distributing drugs in long distance buses (coach) and selling them in the Argentine province of Corrientes and throughout Buenos Aires. According to terra.com.ar, these individuals are presumed to be members of an […]
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Eluniversal.com.mx reported that activists warned that over the last three years there has been an increase in the number of Indigenous girls trafficked for the sex industry. They indicated that many of these girls are vulnerable because they are not noticed, monolingual and have been taught to be docile. Read Article
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The defendant would have used for these acts alleged aid agency the woman in the city of La Paz. After research conducted since 2009, Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC) stopped the day before the Valencia Janeth Oropeza lawyer who would be responsible for a company where print media offered by families or groups of […]
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Luz Lopez Morales was sentenced for the crimes of trafficking, conspiracy to commit aggravated and simple money laundering charges after accepting the prosecution charged him, as co-author. The Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Pereira was sentenced to nine years and 15 days in prison and a fine of 763 minimum monthly wages in […]
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After seven days of operating within the criminal review Achilles Serdán in Chihuahua, authorities rotated thousand modules to 800 inmates this morning, according to the Attorney General. In a bulletin, the agency also noted that basements were two courtyards of two modules of the prison, where last week he found a tunnel. Among numerous weapons […]
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Every 24 hours, express kidnappings comment to 677 in the 52 metropolitan areas in the country, making it essential to ensure that crime victims counseling and protection, as appropriate. Read Article
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From Friday afternoon to Sunday morning at the mortuary caves of Monte Bello have been admitted to the bodies of 29 people, most shot to death in various acts of violence in the capital city, as it was known unofficially. Read Article
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Seven people were killed in a tragic way on Saturday and Sunday in Barranquilla, Atlántico department. Five of the victims were killed by bullets, one dagger and another died in a traffic accident. Read Article
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Between 2009 and 2011 there were 146 violent and nonviolent deaths in the 35 federal prisons in our country. The annual report Attorney’s Office Prison appears that the criminal Ezeiza is the unit with more deaths. The Procurator’s Office, Francisco Mugnolo, reported 91 deaths in federal prisons in Argentina. The figure comes from the 2010 […]
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The murder of a woman in an apparent retaliation for his reports on a Web site crime caused anxiety among social network users and employees of the newspaper where he worked, who now wonder whether anyone can be safe in the risky Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo. Read Article
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Four heavily armed robbers exchanged gunfire with police on Monday during a chase in the region of Campinas, São Paulo. The group was caught in a Honda Civic from cars that were on a call of possible theft industry. Read Article
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In the last four years and nine months nearly 537 women have disappeared between 8 and 30 years of age in the State of Mexico, according to nongovernmental organizations and relatives of them members of organized crime deprive them of their liberty for sexual exploitation or for use in selling drugs. “‘The Zetas’ are taking […]
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80 percent of sexually exploited women in Argentina are from Paraguay, according to a report released during the conference against Trafficking in Persons, held at the Embassy of Paraguay in Buenos Aires. The statistic was provided by Josephine Keim, coordinator for preventing and combating trafficking, the Foreign Ministry of Paraguay, based on a study presented […]
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The placement of a comprehensive monitoring system with satellite tracking devices will be compulsory in all public land transport units, reported Monday the Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Nestor Luis Reverol. After the third session of the Security Bureau with the various state security and national public transport sectors, the Deputy Minister announced that by […]
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Driving vehicles without carrying a driver’s license is the most traffic violation committed in Cartagena. According to the Administrative Department of Traffic and Transportation Cartagena (DATT) , so far, 2011 have been imposed for this violation 5803 subpoenas to the National Traffic Code, incurred in both motorcyclists and other types of vehicles. The report of […]
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22 suspected criminals were killed in clashes with armed forces in a joint operation of Army and Air Force 15 days in four northern states in which 14 hostages were released, according to the National Defense Secretariat. From 10 to 24 September the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) launched the second phase of “Operation Scorpion”, […]
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Tegucigalpa, National Commissioner of Human Rights, Ramón Custodio, denounced on Monday that members of the National Police could be behind the atrocities being inflicted on taxi drivers in different parts of the capital. Custodio said that extortion is a fixed amount which must be paid within a period of 48 to 72 hours and is […]
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El Universo reported that there are 1,828 Ecuadorians in foreign prisons. The majority of Ecuadorian prisoners(1,448)are in Spain. There are a recorded 150 Ecuadorians in U.S. prisons. Read Article
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The sale of drugs, vehicle theft, robbery and assault people in shops are the crimes that affect the citadel Sauces, located in the north of Guayaquil. This sector is divided into nine stages of which, according to its residents and the police, the most contentious are the 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. Read Article
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Mexico ranks second in Latin American, after Brazil, as the country with the largest number of children sexually exploited and second in the world, after Thailand, in regards to most victims sent to the United States, El Occidental reports. According to a report by the Centre Against Trafficking, the worsening of poverty, unemployment, health, education, […]
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Colombian anti-narcotics police located and neutralized a modern submersible in the small town of Condoto, Choco, in Western Colombia, reports El Esperctador. The submersible, valued at 2 million US dollars, had a capacity to transport between 4 and 5 tons of cocaine. Anti-narcotics director, Carlos Enrique Rodriguez Gonzalez noted that the operation was achieved with […]
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A soldier and four civilians are dead and six others injured Sunday evening in a shooting rampage in San Antero, Córdoba, Colombia, reports El Pais News. The four men were on two motorcycles and used small semi-automatic weapons to shoot indiscriminately to clients at a bar. The governor attributed this shooting to disputes between bandas criminales […]
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