The National Police who dealt crushing blow to the structures of the Southern Bloc of the FARC, captured in downtown Neiva, Cesar Polanco Cerquera, aka “Polo” or “Polanía.” The report said according to research by an interdisciplinary team of the institution, led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (DIJIN), this individual acted as […]
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Cocaine seized in maritime interdiction operation After a chase by sea and air units of the Navy and the Air Force, with support from the army and police seized 88 kilos of cocaine were transported in a wooden boat in the area of Arboletes – Antioquia, Coveñas 80 nautical miles. The boat named “Muga” was […]
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The Brazilian Army today sent 11 riflemen and 100 armored vehicles to the favelas of Complexo do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro, where an intense gun battle between troops of this force and drug traffickers last night left a teenager dead and injured adult.Ana Lucia da Silva, 15, died after being shot in the head during […]
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The Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents identified six children as victims of a pedophile of 22 who was arrested yesterday in an educational unit of the district’s Tusequis. The man was trying to be lured to two girls for child pornography. Read Article
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At least 24 gangs trafficking in people, including 47 that operate in the country are headed by tlaxcaltecas because the state is where most families are conceived or criminal groups. Rosa Maria Salazar, director of the National Network of Shelters in the country, reported that it has the data on how many bands are operated […]
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The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas has rescued 108 victims in the form of sexual and labor exploitation from the implementation of the Law to Combat, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons in 2009. In addition, 38 have initiated criminal proceedings are in preliminary stage and there have been five convictions in the […]
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At least 12 tons of trash are left daily in the various existing illegal dumping in the state, representing 40 percent of the 30 tons of waste generated daily in Tamaulipas, which creates a serious problem pollution and health risks. Unfortunately the lack of resources has prevented solve this problem that is experienced daily in […]
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Locate and drug trade arsenal located in Zacapa. An arsenal variety of drugs and ammunition seized by the authorities on Monday during a raid that took place in a car wash located on the 3rd. Street in Zone 1 of Zacapa, in the Neighbourhood Centre. Authorities believe the arsenal belonged to the ZetasRead Article Spanish
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laopinion.com, reported he driver of an ambulance, health department official was discovered on Thursday afternoon while transporting 45 kilos of coca base on the road-Cucuta El Zulia. The driver, who wore a vest Medical Mission, tried to evade the roadblock set up by men of the Metropolitan Police, in Cucuta. However, after a chase was […]
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Argentina’s government of Bolivia asked to expedite the return of more than 1,700 stolen vehicles in that country and that were detected from a list of cars entered as Bolivian waiting smuggling legalization. Bolivian Customs reported that more than 7,000 stolen vehicles were detected in neighboring countries from the list of 128,000 in the process […]
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he sign directed by Tomas Rojas Cañete, alias “Toma’i” is perhaps the most powerful operating on the border with Brazil.The operational structure of the organization is run by his brother Marcos Rojas Cañete, who allegedly manages the group’s money and the right arm of the drug czar. Read Article
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Staff police seized a motorcycle taxi That low of intelligence information that, It Was Used for basic folder cocaine distribution in the form of “delivery” in Tingo Maria to Different parts on all the areas in Alameda and Plaza de Peru weapons. Read Article
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To the ‘strengthening’ of the military strategy in the area VRAE (Ene River valleys of Apurimac and) some drug dealers have migrated to this region to start a new drug route and that, in two separate intelligence reports, the Police Drug Cajamarca has already dubbed as the ‘small’ VRAE. According to narcotics agents require the […]
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The bodies of a man and woman recently found in northeastern Bolivia may be the remains of two French tourists who disappeared in the region last year, a senior Bolivian official said Saturday. Forensic experts were studying the remains in order “to determine, through DNA analysis, whether or not they correspond to the two missing […]
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Report a nexus of narco network at airports Facilitators. Univision Miami, says police operating in airports allow the drug to exit aircraft from Bolivia to America.The U.S. network Univision and opposition MPs claim that in some airports nationwide carrier networks exist that facilitate the activity of drug trafficking in Bolivia.From a report by the U.S. […]
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Colombia announced the destruction of 10 clandestine airstrips Colombian police on Saturday presented to the press 23 of the detainees, some of them pilots of aircraft. At least ten were clandestine airstrips used by Colombian drug organization Daniel “Loco” Barrera for sending drugs to the U.S. will be destroyed in Colombia and Venezuela, Colombian police […]
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Police records show that in Paraguay kidnapping is a crime that mostly affects women. With Dalia Scappini plagiarism, and are 25 women who were kidnapped in the last 10 years. Police investigators noted that this is because the bands of kidnappers prey on the weakness of their victims to catch them, and then submit them […]
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In 2010 the 285 homicides recorded Huila, 3540 cases of interpersonal violence, domestic violence reports 2123 and 415 cases of sexual violence, figures reveal a worrying picture in the Department. This was revealed by the Institute of Legal Medicine in the report ‘Forensis 2010’, under which last year there were 17,459 homicides in the country, […]
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Recorded between 48 and 57 murders per 100,000 people, depending on who makes the measurement. August wrote himself with red blood in the streets of Caracas, where 563 people died (more than 85 percent killed) in the most violent month of this year and could end up running around the country with more than 19 […]
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They get to cut down forests without permission or with false papers legalized. In nearby national park The Katie the illegal logging is an everyday thing. Sawmill groups, representatives of ‘mafias’ international or need income laborers valuable trees felled, cut and sell timber removed, before being sent to markets in China and other countries in […]
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At least 556 people are missing in the country so far this year, according to official figures cited by the National Police Peruvian Net against Child Pornography (RCPI-Peru). Senmache Dimitri, president of the entity, said that between January and August 2011 have been reported 810 complaints of disappearances in the country’s police stations and more […]
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According to a study by a private consultant in 2010, supermarket chains lost more than 780 million dollars to causes of the decline nationwide in sales, which was 1.65 percent. The study provides a telling statistic: the figure resginaron supermarkets could have paid salaries to more than 19,000 employees for a year. Read Article
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The rumors that Mr. Rivera was on his way out had been swirling for months, and each time leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) made a bold attack on government forces or neo-paramilitary groups massacred an entire family those rumors grew louder. Amid mounting concern that Colombia was backsliding in security, […]
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Peruvian authorities have charged Joran van der Sloot with murder in the death of a Peruvian woman. Van der Sloot was arrested in June of last year, but was not formally charged until Thursday. Prosecutors are asking for a 30-year prison sentence and a restitution payment of $73,000 to the family of Stephany Flores. They […]
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Brazil won’t acknowledge terrorists, raises global concerns as host of World Cup and Olympics. Even as the world has cracked down hard on terror, some countries have refrained from adopting anti-terror laws. Their stance has racked up consternation at a time when terrorism is a global concern, especially with Brazil now set to host the […]
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A total of 311 sexual assault cases have been reported in the country from January to August 18, according to records handled by the Institute for the Advancement of Women (ISDEMU). The figure is based on a consolidated care conducted by the National Civil Police, prosecutors and hospitals. Sexual assault is the second of violence […]
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A U.S. citizen who was kidnapped last week from his home in Haiti’s capital was freed Tuesday after police surrounded his captors’ hideout, a Haitian police official said. Read Article
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Denounce alleged threats of extortion and kidnapping, the State Department of Education asked schools not to stop activities. Before the work stoppage than 400 basic education teachers and 80 schools belonging to the sector 4 comprising six school zones, for alleged extortion and kidnapping threats, school officials and agreed to strengthen public safety operations, checkpoints […]
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ElTiempo.com reported that a foreigner, Richard Anthony Mambre, 68, was rescued Tuesday afternoon after eleven days in custody. DAS and CTI carried out the rescue the man who was staying in Santa Marta for three months after coming from Curacao. The victim was able to phone emergency without being detected by his captors. The call […]
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Candela Rodríguez’s body was discovered inside a plastic bag near a highway west of the Argentine capital after a member of the public reported the gruesome find to police, the Buenos Aires Herald reported. The little girl was last seen alive nine days ago heading towards a church a few blocks from her home in […]
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Scappini Dalia Campos, a young woman of 31 years, finds missing since Tuesday morning at approximately 7:30 pm in Asuncion on the way to your workplace. His car was intercepted by another that went down the alleged kidnappers. The vehicle was abandoned Dalia hours later at Havana neighborhood Espinoza. There was a telephone call from […]
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El Salvadoran Army requested $ 43 million budget increase over 2012, to combat crime. This was confirmed by Defense Minister Gen. David Munguia Paves, who revealed that the Armed Forces requested for fiscal year 2012 a special budget of over $ 40 million to meet the needs arising from their support for the PNC (PNC) […]
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has vowed to take action and clarify circumstances that resulted in the killing of a young boy during anti-government protests. “The government is doing everything necessary to shed light on the circumstances and the responsibility for that death,” Pinera said at a public event on Sunday, AFP reported. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the murder of Humberto Millán Salazar, a journalist based in Culiacán, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, who edited the online newspaper A-Discussion and presented a programme on Radio Formula. His body was found yesterday, a day after his abduction in Culiacán. He had been shot in the head. Read […]
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The body of a 20-year-old pregnant woman who has been missing since Sunday was found last night in General Las Heras, Buenos Aires, reports telam.com.ar. The remains of Solange Vera were found by four men who were hunting in the area. According to forensic experts on site, the body appeared to have eight stab wounds […]
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The United States Embassy warned the public about a new form of fraud (fraud in visa), who deceives people through email, where fraudsters send money request to a fake address using a false name in exchange for a Diversity Visa (DV) or Immigrant Visa. Any email that promises to provide the Diversity Visa also known […]
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The Peruvian Association of Consumers and Users ( Aspec ) reported this morning at the Technological Institute Indecopi Arzobispo Loayza Private and College Headway Center for misleading people with false promises of jobs abroad. Chrysologus Caceres, head of Aspec, said that after conducting relevant investigations, it was found that the company offered U.S. $ 7 […]
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The narco-understood as a series of attacks by armed groups linked to drug trafficking against civilians, defenseless, with the dual purpose of damaging physically, mentally and materially innocent, and at the same time cause the greatest possible negative impact on a massive scale- , had his breakthrough in our country with the grenade in the […]
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United States allows Mexican police launched operations against the drug cartels from its territory as part of the expansion of bilateral cooperation, revealed on Friday an article in the New York Times. “Mexicans have traveled quietly commands the United States, meet in designated areas and launch missions in helicopters across the border directed against suspected […]
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An Ecuadorean journalist accused of libeling President Rafael Correa has fled the country. Emilio Palacio issued a letter from Miami on Sunday saying he feared for his safety because of new pressures from what he called “the dictatorship.” Read Article
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National Gendarmerie 26 foreign women rescued three nightclubs and its dependencies. The raids were simultaneously this weekend in La Plata and Florencio Varela.By order of the Functional Unit of Instruction No. 1 Berazategui, the staff of “Operation Sentinel” South Zone carried out raids on five properties in the locality of La Plata and Florencio Varela. […]
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Extortion (la vacuna) is not a new scourge in Medellin and Valle de Aburrá. The “vaccine” is used for years as a way of financing illegal armed groups and common criminals. Transporters and traders are among the most affected unions. And in the midst of this illegal pressure, the average citizen suffers the humiliation of […]
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Cozumel, Mexico. Two tourists from North America who tried to introduce marijuana on a cruise last week were referred to the Attorney General of the Federation (FPF) for crimes against health. Elements of the 23 Battalion of the Marines apprehended and handed over to the appropriate authority. Read Article
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Twelve street theater groups in Bogota this week turned on the alarm and called for measures to protect the authorities, after a wave of threatening pamphlets signed by the Aguilas Negras criminal gang in part composed of former paramilitaries. On Tuesday, the headquarters of the artistic groups in the south of the city received the […]
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An American woman, a resident of the colony Norberto Ortega, was arrested with four types of drugs, a gun and cartridges, plus it was done accompanied by two minors, who also was charged with corrupting minors. Minnie Garcia, 39, who was apprehended Friday by agents of the State Public Security Police (PESP) outside his home […]
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Today social networking sites not only allow the police force to break up organized crime groups engaged in trafficking, prostitution, pornography and corruption of minors, as in the case of three children in a household of Supermanzana 96, early last month, but also became a useful tool in research for more information about criminals or […]
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River captured pirates who raided Gaston Acurio Police Criminal Investigation Division (DIVINCRI) captured the two alleged ringleaders of the gang “Pirates of the Amazon River,” known in the underworld underworld as ‘Salamanca’ and ‘Battery’, involved in the assault on the chef Gaston Acurio national, his wife and a group of tourists when roamed the Amazon […]
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La Paz’s Plaza de San Pedro looks like any other city plaza in South America. A large church looms over the tree-lined courtyard, there are a few shops and restaurants, and shoe-shine boys hang around for customers as the traffic bustles by. Yet this is one of the most bizarre tourist attractions in the world. […]
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Wheelchair, bicycle frame, gas tanks in vehicles, stomach, private parts, CPU, air compressors, dissolved in rum, disposable diapers, rubber sandals, furniture, jars, souvenirs, pillars, roof and container bays , hem pants and lined books are among the dozens of tactics used by traffickers to bring drugs into the country and enter. Read Article
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Study records indicate nearly 16,000 abducted between 2005 and 2009, corresponding to 70% of the world in Latin America.Seven out of ten kidnappings worldwide occur in countries in Latin America. That was the main finding that the Free Country Foundation presented at the VII Conference of Defense Subregional in Chile. Read Article
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An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey has killed more than 50 people. Several gunmen burst into the building in broad daylight, dousing it with fuel and setting it alight. Amid the panic, many people were trapped and overcome by smoke. Officials suspect organised crime was behind the attack, […]
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For the fifth time this year, Mexican police have found the body of a local mayor. On Saturday, it was discovered that Jose Eduviges Nava Altamirano, the mayor of a small town in the Guerrero state called Zucuaplan, was kidnapped and murdered, presumably by a drug cartel. Read Article
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According to hoy.com.ec, FARC is distributing brochures in the neighborhood Kennedy southwest of Bogota, on how to construct in twelve steps bombs. The phamplets show how to prepare, install, and activate the explosive devices. Residents in this populous area are concerned that many of the pamphlets will end up in the hands of minors. Read […]
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Band of robbers attacked six people in the Paracas Reserve Four tourists and two drivers suffered minor injuries, so he set out more monitoring visits and closing at 6:00 pm A group of hooded criminals with guns attacked and assaulted six people who were on a visit to the Paracas National Reserve in Ica , […]
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Walking the streets, living with criminals and live in colonies in which he learned to watch his back on their own made the 12 year old will start thinking about how to get money. At 13 Osmar and was responsible for carrying support his family, he began stealing small grocery stores in food and alcoholic […]
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Security expert, Dmitry Bestuzhev, discusses the measures that should be established in the country to prevent cyber attacks. On August 10 the website of the Office of the President, the Vice Presidency, the Ministry of Telecommunications, the Municipality have already been hacked. Not only hacker activists walking in the Ecuadorian sites, but the criminals who […]
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The escalating cyber war by Anonymous, seconded by cyber activists and hackers of all kinds have been disabled for hours, even days, the websites of the governments of Peru, Colombia, Chile and Ecuador, including Argentina recently. The foray into Colombia, where he hacked into the websites of the Senate and the Ministries of Defence and […]
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Venezuelans have become much more wary, distrustful of the police, and are more likely to take justice into their own hands as a result of the rise of criminality being experienced by the country, said Wednesday the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence in annual report. The NGO noted that the number of homicides in Venezuela continues […]
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A French couple seeking heir son and his partner, who disappeared almost a year ago in a small town in northern Bolivia, reported slow progress in the investigations. “We still hope to find Jeremiah and Fannie and know the truth. We can not return to France without knowing anything, we’re desperate, now I have little […]
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French sailing assault and injure one of its crew in Venezuela Five armed men hijacked a French yacht moored in the tourist island of Margarita, in northeastern Venezuela and injured one of his two crewmen, said on Wednesday told AFP the commander of a water rescue organization. “We got the call for help by a […]
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Arranche or snatching from a victim is the most common crime in 2011, police said. At the Center for Juvenile Offenders to 10 leaks were reported, not all were recaptured. The strategies implemented to counteract the rate of crimes known as arranches, these being the highest percentage so far this year by adolescents in the […]
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From the previous Friday night fishermen are missing Ulises and Salvador Ronald Lupu Balladares, who came from Puerto Pizarro to fishing operations in their boat “Lorenzo”. With these two boats went to the same task over and say one of the crew of these, at about 18.00 on Saturday were intercepted by criminals presumably Ecuadorians. […]
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National Newspaper Association in its annual Press Freedom lamented the sharp rise in cases of violence against media representatives in Brazil, because between August 2008 and July 2010, there has been only one murder. Read Article
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While many of Mexico’s tourist areas have remained separate from the bouts of drug violence buffeting the country, the popular resort city of Acapulco has emerged as one of the new hot spots of organized crime. Read Article
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Three men were killed and three others wounded when gunmen opened fire on them in a street in Veracruz, a city on Mexico’s Gulf coast, city officials said. The shooting occurred on Monday in the Hidalgo section of Veracruz, located 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of Mexico City, a Veracruz city spokesman said. Several men […]
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The Ministry of Interior through the National Police checkpoint build a migration in the San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas province, bordering Colombia. The Secretary of Democratic Guarantees Interior Ministry, Diego Falconi, delegates from the Ministry of Defense and the National Police conducted an inspection of the area where the police unit will be built which will control […]
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Peace in the so-called island of pearls came to an end long ago. In the first half of 2011, 1225 crimes were reported, including counted the murder of four foreign tourists in several robberies. The figures offered them the Body of Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC) of Nueva Esparta. Crime affects not only foreigners […]
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On the increase of criminal acts, Angel Aguirre Rivero Governor announced the strengthening of public safety on highways and roads that connect the state with Puebla, Morelos, Michoacan and Mexico City. He reported that next week will meet with the governor of Morelos, Marco Antonio Adame Castillo, and the mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, […]
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Two teenagers were shot Tuesday afternoon in the historic neighborhoods of Acapulco in the heart of the port. The attack was carried out at the edge of 17:50 hours on the streets of the Nation’s Well, there in the corner of the streets of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon and Ignacio Allende, was shot the first […]
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Following the recent deaths of leaders of peasant movements, last weekend in Tocoa, security agencies deployed a special team looking for weapons Lower Aguán.The housemates Salgado, Reina Mejia, managed to leave the courtyard of his house, where was his head in the first line of barbed wire. The commander of Joint Staff of the Armed […]
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The public was hit by two bullets minutes after the attacker tried to commit suicide.The emotional problems would have caused Jose Ortiz Quiroz, about 30 years, the company guard Security Express, which monitors the mayor, fire against his former common-Elizabeth Laura Zambrano, 28, who worked in the store Pycca, located in the Gran Colombia and […]
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While Panama’s judicial system is believed to be corrupted, with decisions in some cases open to bribery or governmental pressure, organized crime also plays a role by threatening judges and prosecutors. Gangs fighting for territorial control in San Miguelito are suspected of having gunned down two young lawyers, Efrain Rodriguez and Christopher Roman Birmingham, in […]
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A firefight occurred this morning around 10:30 in downtown Buenos Aires as a man shot at three robbers on a motorcycle on Corrientes Ave. near Reconquista, according to infobae.com. The criminals stole a briefcase of money and checks from two men at the entrance of a bank when the victims, one of whom was an […]
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The murder of the PT mayor of Zacualpan, Nava Hedwig and the alleged threats against mayors of the south are a reaction of organized crime, which seeks to intimidate the communes said Governor Enrique Peña Nieto, after qualifying this as an isolated objectionable. Read Article
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The airline’s copilot, Rubén García García, was arrested trying to enter the international airport of Barajas, Spain, 42 kilograms of cocaine, reported the Mexican embassy in Madrid. In a statement, the embassy said it was notified by the Ministry of Interior and the Directorate General of Police and the Guardia Civil (via fax, on 18 […]
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The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, reached out to political allies to stem a growing rebellion within her coalition after the resignation of a fourth minister threatened to further tense already strained relations. Agriculture Minister Wagner Rossi resigned last week following corruption allegations against his aides and at the same time increasing tensions within the […]
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Susana Banman dreads the dark. Since one terrible night in early 2009, she and her husband check the closets and lock newly installed window latches each night before going to sleep in their picturesque Mennonite community of Manitoba Colony, in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia. “Even still, I can’t sleep through the night,” says the […]
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The Chinese owner of a supermarket in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina was shot dead in his shop yesterday afternoon by two suspected members of the Chinese Mafia, reported lanacion.com.ar. According to police, the shop owner had been approached by Mafia members last week demanding he pay $50 thousand to ensure his safety. After […]
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Narcotics officers from the Metropolitan Brigade could establish a tort band dedicated to drug trafficking, trying to internalize a lot more than 100 kilos of it the country with the aim of distributing and selling it. 133 kilos of marijuana hidden in tires of vehicle. Read Article
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U.S. professor responds to skepticism about a report that a 24-year-old female was kidnapped in Puerto Viejo. Before sunrise Sunday, the Puerto Viejo de Talamanca community received a report that a U.S. tourist had been kidnapped near the beach town on the southern Caribbean coast. Local residents, the National Police and the Judicial Investigation Police […]
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Hundreds of Colombians, with black masks and gowns, marched today in some thirty cities to protest against corruption, a problem considered one of the most serious and affects all of society.The protesters cited through the social network “Twitter” by the author of novels for television Gustavo Bolivar, among others of the organizers, claimed the corrupt […]
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On Friday August 5, at about 8 pm, managers of a hotel in Cartagena Center reported him to police the death of an American tourist, registered as Blake Wesley Jones, 34, in the bathroom one of its rooms. Three days later, on Monday August 8, was a Norwegian who died by jumping from the third […]
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Deputy Minister of Tourism of Brazil, Frederico Silva da Costa, and 34 officers were arrested on a charge of embezzlement of public funds related to the travel industry. Presumably the derivation of $ 3 million in an agreement rating of tourism professionals. Read Article
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A party of the Mexican first division between local and Morelia Santos was suspended Saturday after allegedly heard gun blasts outside the stadium in SST in the northern city of Torreon. He played the first half of the match when players from both teams left the court running for shelter inside the stadium, as was […]
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On July 20 the Twitter account of former President Alvaro Uribe was surprised by an unusual activity, a strange video that questioned the independence of Colombia. At first the group’s logo cyber Anonymous, known by the image of a character dressed in tie, instead of a head wearing a question mark. Read Article
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When researchers cybercrime Dijin surprised to handed the young man who ‘hacked’ the Twitter account of Daniel Samper Ospina, one looked into his eyes and said: “If you saw that we were not so dumb? “. That phrase had a certain tone of revenge, because that same hacker who now accepted submissive wives put him […]
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News of the suspension in eradication work surprised the United States, which has tried for years to limit coca production in Peru as part of a broader war on drugs. The United Nations says Peru is now the world’s leading coca grower and could surpass Colombia as the top cocaine producer.Read Article
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ElUniverso.com reports Alcides Ramirez, 57, was found with knife wounds to his heart in the sector of Minarica 2 to the south of Ambato. Officials from the Tungurahua prosecutor’s office say they are launching an investigation to determine the circumstances leading to the death of Ramirez. Police say Ramirez’s daughter who was living with her […]
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According to ElUniverso.com an unidentified body was found along the road la Costa at the 45-kilometer mark, today, Monday August 15th in the morning. Police say the body was shot many times and showed signs of torture with multiple bruises on the face and throughout the body. The body was transferred to the criminology lab […]
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According to ElComercio.com the arrest of Dan D., a foreigner ten days ago, is an important break in bringing down an international crime organization involved in drug and weapons trafficking. Ecuadorian police say this man along with two accomplices who were also arrested, are important players in a crime network that carries out many illegal […]
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The Tabasco High Court of Justice is preparing a bill which would increase the penalty for adolescents convicted of homicide, rape, kidnapping, violent robbery and human trafficking (among others) from eight to 15 years, Vanguardia reports. Under the bill, the sentence would be served in a state prison once the minor obtains majority. Until that […]
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•The United States Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia has issued a travel warning for U.S. citizens. •Elespectador.com reports that in specific zones such as the Zona Rosa and the Zona T as well as the Parque de la 93, citizens run the risk of violent crimes. •Members of the U.S. embassy have been drugged with scopolamine […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Anti-Kidnapping and Extortion Unit of the Ecuadorian police on August 4th, freed a Jewish Rabbi Yishak Tom Rotem Yosef after three days held by kidnappers. Police say his wife reported the rabbi’s kidnapping on the 1st of August when she received messages and a video in which the kidnappers demanded a […]
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RPP.com.pe reports that police at the Argentina’s Eseiza Airport outside Buenos Aires, have arrested a Peruvian tourist trying to enter the country with 20 kilos of cocaine hidden inside screws. Police say customs agents discovered the drugs on a Peruvian who had a ticket for Johannesburg. The Peruvian was stopped once x-ray machines discovered packages […]
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•Recently, the special education school Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in Ibagué, Colombia was robbed for the 9th time this year. •According to the video by elespectador.com, the thieves took tools, food, and other essentials necessary to run the school. •The culprits presumably entered through the roofs at night as there is no security at night. Read […]
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•On Saturday, Muhammad Nazaruddin was captured in Cartagena Airport in Colombia after he presented a passport with the name and picture of another person and it was determined that he was on Interpol’s red notice. •Elnuevoherald.com reports that he is one of the most wanted people in Indonesia and is involved in corrupt administration involving […]
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The video from elespectador.com shows a robbery in a hotel in Bogotá, Colombia as armed individuals threaten and rob the receptionist. The culprits are also seen bringing a female worker from the back at which point one of the culprits destroy the security camera. Another security camera shows the robbery of one of the guests […]
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Daniel Torres was found guilty today in Córdoba and sentenced to 14 years in prison for murdering his stepdaughter’s girlfriend, reports infobae.com. He was charged and convicted of aggravated manslaughter with the use of a weapon after shooting Natalie Gaitán with a shotgun on March 6, 2010, for being in a lesbian relationship with his […]
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The trial for those accused of killing two French tourists near Quebrada de San Lorenzo in Salta last week began this past Saturday, according to infobae.com. Three of the six detainees gave testimony on Saturday; María Fernanda Cañizares (24), her brother Federico Cañizares (23) and her boyfriend, Gustavo Lassi (24). The trial will continue tomorrow […]
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