According to ElComercio.pe Roger Mauricio Ruiz, a native Ashaninka Indian, told police that he shot the two Polish tourists found murdered in the Ucayali River this past May. Ruiz says he wanted to steal their belongings, so he and his nephew, Freddy Ruiz Garcia shot the two tourists, Jawoslaw Franckiewicz and Celima Moroz as they […]
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Last Tuesday, July 12th, two taxi drivers were found in Villavicencio, Colombia under the effects of scopolamine having been robbed per RCN Radio. They were found in the sectors La Petrolera and La Reforma and have been admitted to medical centers. Read Article
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A woman visiting León, Guanajuato from Sinaloa was assaulted by “pirate” guides, who she hired in the bus station to take her on a tour of the city and state capital, Correo Guanajuato reports. The “guides” took her through the capital, then forcefully threw her from their truck in a tunnel and took off with […]
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A 71-year-old man is dead after burglars broke into his brother-in-law’s Buenos Aires home looking for large sums of money that had recently been withdrawn from the bank, according to mdzol.com. The thieves first stole 1,800 pesos from the brother-in-law’s home but said they had information that 7 thousand pesos were withdrawn from his bank […]
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A fight that occurred earlier this morning in the infamous Tacumbú prison in Asunción, Paraguay resulted in the death of an inmate, according to abc.com.py. Police are investigating the situation, but have still not identified who participated in the fight and who actually killed the other inmate. Read Article
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Felipe Calderon, president of Mexico, signed a decree that strengthens laws against human trafficking to halt the abuse of organized criminals reported El Punto Critico. Calderon is confident that the reform will help fight violence and save innocent people from the hell power of organized crime. The president also encouraged citizens to be weary of […]
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The gang wars and drug violence has left a toll of 953 dead in Guerrero, Mexico during the first half of the year reported Proceso.com. The amount of violence has also increased in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo and Taxco, both of which are tourist destination. Acapulco also was affected by this wave of violence with 18 reported executions […]
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Delinquents and thieves have recently targeted tourists from both Chile and Ecuador in their visits to Mexico reported diariouno.com.ar. A Chilean suitcase was stolen, which held his passport and credit cards, while a wallet was stolen from an Ecuadorian. Another incident resulted in an arrest after an assailant kicked a Chilean driver’s rear-view mirror. Read […]
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Dominican authorities reported on Thursday were returned to their families the bodies of the pair of Hialeah brutally murdered in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. Novoa Milagros Caridad and her husband, Augustine Novoa, were shot in the chest and abdomen at the hands of two men who entered his summer home in the tourist area […]
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Urbanization is something that every country faces at one point or another in its development. The US, for example, experienced urbanization during the industrial revolution and on to the early 20th century. Today, many developing countries are also experiencing it. Because it is part of the path to development, urbanization is an indicator worth analyzing […]
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Nery Jeremías Orellana, 26, the manager of Radio Joconguera in the town of Candelaria, in the western department of Lempira, was gunned down yesterday morning, bringing the number of Honduran journalists killed since the start of the year to three. A total of 12 journalists have been killed in the past 18 months in Honduras […]
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Seven years after Guatemala signed a free-trade pact with the US that included an agreement to enforce its labor laws, Guatemalan union leaders complain that they are still assassination targets, and that businessmen still illegally fire workers. Read Article
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Musicians and artists are canceling performances and demanding increased security in Guatemala after a visiting Argentine folk singer was shot to death. Read Article
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Federal police intercepted 104 undocumented Guatemalan immigrants in the central state of Queretaro, Mexico’s Public Safety Secretariat, or SSP, said Friday. The migrants were detected during a routine inspection of a northbound bus and 13 people accompanying the Guatemalans were arrested as suspected migrant traffickers, the SSP said in a statement. Read Article
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Indians have arrived in droves even as the overall number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. has dropped dramatically, in large part because of the sluggish American economy. And with fewer Mexicans and Central Americans crossing the border, smugglers are eager for more “high-value cargo” like Indians, some of whom are willing to pay more […]
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ElComercio.pe reports that the governments of Peru, Brazil and Chile have found 5,000 stolen vehicles belonging to the three countries in Bolivia. An amnesty decree, signed by Bolivian President Evo Morales, concerning about 130,000 undocumented automobiles helped the three governments locate the stolen property. Officials say that joint operations by all four countries also helped […]
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•The patient, who had a terminal illness, robbed the doctor just after receiving medical attention in a hospital at the center of Barranquilla, Colombia. •The patient used a light weapon to rob the doctor of his cellphone and 20,000 pesos. •The patient was caught by authorities, but would have had to return to the hospital […]
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•In Necoclí, Antioquia, the Colombian Navy seized three submarines meant to transport cocaine. •According to Caracol Radio, each submarine had the capacity to transport 2 tons of cocaine and was to be used by Los Urabeños. •They had a fuel capacity of 1000 gallons and could reach any part of Central America very quickly. Read […]
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A tense meeting between a group of 36 employers from Tehuacán and the governor of the state of Puebla, Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, was held earlier this week, La Jornada de Oriente reports. The employers are concerned about the recent increase in kidnappings, as well as complaining that there have been no decisive actions taken […]
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According to ElComercio.com six people were arrested in Carcelen, located in the north of Quito, Thursday July 14th. Police say they confiscated two nine-millimeter pistols of the brands Taurus and Smith & Wesson, 50 ammunitions, two feeders, money totaling $1,200, and eight cell phones during the arrest. Witnesses say that residents in Carcelen called police […]
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The Ministry of Interior stated that in the past two years the rate of thefts against tourists has decreased almost 50% at Jorge Chavez International Airport, reported Peru21.pe. Statistics from the Department of Tourism and Environmental Protection (Dirtupramb) also show that the number of reported cases has also reduced. Their joint efforts with the National […]
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According to ElUniverso.com eight people attempted to rob a savings and credit cooperative called La Minga on Tuesday July 12th in Guayaquil. The chief manager of the agency says that the incident occurred at 10:45 a.m. when a man with a gun entered the establishment and forced him and his 5 employees to the ground. […]
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According to RadioSucre.com.ec government authorities say that an addition of a monetary reward system for the location of criminals on the ‘Most Wanted’ list, is just one of the new strategies for the capture of the violent criminals in Ecuador. The undersecretary of Internal Security of the Interior Ministry, Javier Cordova says that rewards will […]
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•At 1:30 a.m. today, 18 of 20 victims kidnapped on Tuesday were released and found near a beach near Trujillo in Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia. •The victims were kidnapped by 8 armed men Tuesday afternoon, and the group with which they are affiliated remains unknown. •The two other victims are Ferney Satizábal, a candidate for mayor […]
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The Aviation Pilots’ Union (ASPA) of Mexico has brought a second lawsuit against the Posadas business group. According to the lawsuit, which was brought before the Attorney General’s Office, the businessmen retained the withheld income tax from the salaries of Mexicana Airlines pilots, and then blamed employees for the tax “error” at the end of […]
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A 29-year-old designer from Buenos Aires has been missing since last Friday when she flew to Jujuy to sell some of her products, according to infobae.com. In an interview her brother gave with a local radio station, he confirmed that she had made it as far as Salta. She had sent e-mails and text messages […]
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he wave of attacks on official websites on the Internet has also affected the Brazilian government. Between 22-27 June, the websites of the Presidency of Brazil Portal, IRS, Petrobras and the Ministry of Sports and Culture – as well as from the website of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) – were “victims” […]
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ElComercio.pe reports on Monday July 11th, police pursued a group of criminals belonging to a ‘Marcas’ group. Police say they caught the criminals before a bank robbery was committed. ‘Marcas’ groups are gangs of 3 to 4 bank robbers who use a ‘mark,’ an individual dressed in casual clothes creating no suspicion, to identify possible […]
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Hoy.com.ec reports that Colombian Ministry of the Interior and Judicial officials say the child assassin, Luis Alfredo Garavito, who was sentenced by a Colombian court to 40 years in prison for the deaths of 168 children must serve out his sentence and then be prosecuted in Ecuador. Officials add 24 years of prison time was […]
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According to ElUniverso.com two females from the Netherlands were victims of an express kidnapping and rape on Friday July 8th. The Judicial Police of Guayas say that the two victims reported the incident to police with the help of Galo Leon, the director of the hotel where the tourists are staying. The women say that […]
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Two men accused of being involved in the assassination of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral were arrested today in Guatemala, according to lavoz.com.ar. One of the men arrested is believed to have hired the gunman who shot Cabral and the other man was one of two drivers of the vehicles used during the shooting. Officials have […]
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Two police officers and one civilian were killed in the village of San Cristobalito in Chiapas after an incensed indigenous group forced their vehicle off a 200-meter cliff, El Universal reports. Two Ministerial police officers and two civilians arrived in the village to arrest a man presumably involved in an automobile robbery. The suspect ran […]
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LaRepublica.pe report that agents of the National Police of Peru raided a local distribution center that packaged propane gas for household kitchen use. The center was located in Villa El Salvador, report police. They add that three people were arrested, including a truck driver and two people who packaged the gas and sold the product. […]
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According to ElComercio.com the current Ecuadorian government has been asked to extradite 33 fugitives with criminal backgrounds ranging from drug trafficking to murder. An unknown government official has reported to El Comercio that from 1995 to 2011, 21 nations asked the Ecuadorian government for extradition of 86 criminals hiding in Ecuador. Additionally Jay Bergman, the […]
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•Second Lieutenant Raúl Muñoz Linares denies having raped a 13-year-old girl and having murdered three siblings in Tame, Arauca, Colombia. •Semana.com reveals that the case has been postponed 5 times. •In November of 2010, he did confess to having sexual relations with two girls, which according to Muñoz was consensual, and is currently being processed […]
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Photos of missing persons were posted at polling sites around Buenos Aires today in the hope that voters might be able to give information about the whereabouts of the missing people, according to infobae.com. The Solidarity Network organized the campaign and put up about 40 photos of missing people at all polling sites in the […]
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•26 narcotics traffickers in the services of Henry de Jesús López Londoño alias Mi Sangre have been captured. •The captures were part of Operación Tormenta (Operation Storm) which the Colombian Police performed with the DEA. •According to El Tiempo, one of the traffickers, Sanmartín Giraldo, was responsible for transporting cocaine in commercial airplanes from such […]
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The following information was obtained from an article published on 5 June 2011 by the website of Colombian newspaper El Espectador. Additional references concerning the topic of crime’s influence on Colombian youth and its causes were also taken from an RCN Radio articles published on 21 June 2011, and 22 June 2011 as well as […]
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According to Cre.com.ec police and Guayas Prosecutor’s Office raided a sector of the Guayaquil bay on June 3rd, encountering a large amount of false and stolen medicines. Police say they also found large amounts of packaging, brochures, and altered labels for the medicines. The prosecutor Francisco Bodero says that the quantity of drugs were worth […]
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Peru21.pe reports that the Peruvian Department of Tourism and Environmental Protections announced that the total number of assaults and robberies of foreigners amounts to 133 cases, which is a decrease from previous years. This report includes 79 thefts, 43 robberies, and 11 assaults in the districts of Lima and Callao. Police say they have identified […]
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A 22-year-old woman was assaulted and raped while waiting for the bus early yesterday morning just 3 blocks away from a police station in the Marqués de Sobremonte neighborhood of Córdoba, according to lavoz.com.ar. The attacker threatened the woman with a knife before dragging her 50 yards to a nearby garden to assault her. There […]
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•Colombian authorities have captured 2 individuals suspected of having murdered two girls in Kennedy, Bogotá, Colombia. •One of the suspects is a minor, and the two girls were 14 and 7 years old. •They are to face charges of aggravated homicide and illegal possession of arms. •The captain of the metropolitan police believes that the […]
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•Priest Jairo Alzate Cardona has been sentenced for 7 years for sexual abuse of a minor in a school in Pereira, Colombia. •According to adn.es, Cardona is facing two other trials for the same crime. •He is charged with having abusive carnal access of a 14-year-old minor in 2008 when the victim was 10 years […]
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ElComercio.com reports that hundreds of people, including relatives and friends, marched in the streets of Tulcan, Carchi today July 7th, demanding the release of Orlando Ibarra. The marchers planned to follow the route from Tulcan, Ecuador to Ipiales, Colombia. The Ecuadorian businessman was kidnapped in Ipiales, Colombia on August 2, 2010. Officials say that his […]
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•According to Caracol Radio, Police attribute the massacre in Montelibano, Córdoba, in which 4 people died, to Los Urabeños. •General Oscar Naranjo of the Colombian National Police believes that the attack was related to violence between narcotics trafficking groups. •Héctor Páez Valderrama, commander of Córdoba’s police, the attack involved violence between Los Urabeños and Los […]
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DiarioCorreo.pe reports that the photographer and journalist, Eduardo Purizaga was assaulted in Tumbes on July 3rd. Purizaga says that the assailant took the large fanny pack that was around his waist which carried a camcorder, another camera, and a reflector. After the assault, officials say the reporter made a statement at a police station in […]
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According to Ecuadorinmediato.com today July 7th the Manton Canon Council in the Manabi province approved an ordnance that regulates motorcycle transportation to only one rider. Officials say that this is another crucial step in reducing crime rates in Manta. Jaime Estrada, the Mayor of Manta says that the law is effective beginning today. Estrada adds […]
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Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 attempting to cross the border from Mexico to the U.S. face a variety of dangers, Milenio reports. In addition to facing health problems, like malnutrition and anemia, minors are often kidnapped or “lost on the road,” and many are forced into child prostitution. Coyotes and polleros, Mexican […]
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According to Ecuadorinmediato.com about 250 passengers flying from Madrid, Spain to Quito, Ecuador have not received their luggage in a week after landing in Quito. Santa Barbra Airline is a Venezuelan owned company and some passengers say that their luggage disappeared during a flight stop in Caracas. Passengers add that the airline is not respecting […]
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Two teenage boys in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala were saved from being beaten to death by a lynch mob, according to UPI News. The two were set upon by a mob of almost 100 residents in the city of Zacatelco after they were caught stealing the heater and copper pipes from a house. […]
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Hoy.com.ec reports on Wednesday July 6th that Ecuadorian Interior Minister, Jose Serrano announced the Manabi Province will receive $15 million for security improvements. Serrano says that Manta will be the first city with security cameras installed on all urban transportation services. Officials report that the Pacific Eloy Alfaro Refinery, the Municipality of Manta and the […]
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Peru21.pe reports that criminals robbed the church of Santa Ana in Espinar of its precious metal-plated ornaments adorning the altar in the church. The article says that residents in the Cusco province of Peru have been disturbed by recent reports of religious theft that left the city of Lambayaque without the Cross of Motupe. The […]
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ElComercio.com reports that police have taken into custody three of the four suspects in an assault of a businessman who withdrew $40,000 in cash from a bank in Ambato. The assault occurred today, July 6th around 4:30 p.m. close to a mall in the south of Ambato. Tungurahua police chief says that police officials offered […]
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According to ElComercio.com police have identified at least five groups of robbers who are committing crimes on the transport systems of the Trolley, Ecovia and Metrovia in Quito. Police have termed the gangs, ‘decuideros’ since the members take advantage of users’ neglect and the tightly packed spaces on these transportation systems. Officials say that the […]
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According to ElComercio.com this morning, July 6th, a criminal court judge freed the foreigner who tried to leave Ecuador with $132,600 yesterday afternoon. Abel M, 23 years old, was arrested by narcotics agents yesterday, trying to leave the Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito. Abel was arrested while waiting for a 2 p.m. international flight […]
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•As revealed by a video from El Espectador, 10-year-old child Elián Fragoso was kidnapped in the South of Bogotá, Colombia after watching a soccer game with friends. •The mother states that the family kept a close watch on him and that from one moment to another, he was gone. •The family does not have any […]
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A group of 120 from Central America – 41 Guatemalans, 40 Hondurans and 43 Salvadorans – were taking a train from Oaxaca to Veracruz on June 24 when they were kidnapped, Prensa Libre reports. Early investigations indicate that the train was intercepted by at least 12 armed men belonging to the drug cartel Los Zetas. […]
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•Colombia and Ecuador have signed an agreement to put forth mutual efforts to stop the theft and activation of cell phones per RCN Radio. •Particularly, this has to do with cell phones stolen in one country and being activated in the other according to Diego Molano Vega, Minister of Technologies of Information and Communications. •Later […]
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Back from a two-week sojourn in Michigan, where — at an informal lunch with some beloved alumni of mine — much talk turned to the topic of our late friend Marty Lewis, whose untimely death in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, I wrote about here several months ago. Read Article
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•300 kilos of cocaine worth $9 million have been seized thanks to the combined efforts of U.S., Panamanian, and Colombian authorities. •The Coastguard of the Pacific who alerted U.S. and Panamanian authorities detected a speedboat carrying the drugs leaving Colombia. •U.S. authorities intercepted the ship along with its crew of three Colombian citizens. Read Article
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Hoy.com.ec reports that today, July 5th, the Ecuadorian police seized 741kg of cocaine in the Manta fishing port. Officials say that the value of the bust is estimated between $30 million and $45 million. Officers seized the cocaine during a boat inspection of the shipyard. Colonel Wladimir Leon, head of the Narcotics Police say that […]
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ElComercio.com reports that recent cases of violence against women in Ecuador have created increased fear for Ecuadorian women. Officials say they do not have specific statistics about homicides of women in Ecuador, however 84 murders and assassinations were reported in Quito from January to April of 2011. Officials add that most violence against women occur […]
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According to ElComercio.com at least 16 areas in the Historic Center in Quito are being overrun with alkaloid micro trafficking. The Metropolitan Secretary of Security says that the problem is increasing due to the presence of crime and instability in Quito. Furthermore, the Antinarcotics Division of Pichincha has identified 76 selling points of these drugs […]
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•During a conjugal visit, María del Carmen Arjona Rivero attempted to sneak her boyfriend, Juan Ramírez Tijerina, out of the Centro de Readaptación Social in a piece of luggage. •El Espectador reports that authorities at the facility in Chetumal, Quitana Roo, were suspicious of the luggage’s abnormally large bulge. •When asked about it, she replied […]
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•National Police Director, Oscar Naranjo, recognizes the increase of massacres in Colombia and has pointed out their recent concentration in rural areas. •According to Prensa Latina, Naranjo admits that the National Police should have better territorial control to prevent these massacres. •He also noted the increase of kidnappings and that kidnappers now tend to target […]
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A woman and her 3 children were assaulted by thieves early this morning in their home in General Rodríguez, Buenos Aires, according to diariohoy.net. The thieves broke into the grounds through an opening in the fence and escaped through the same opening with large sums of cash, clothing and electronics. Read Article
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According to ElComercio.com new government statistics from SIGOB show robberies and other violent crimes are increasing in Quito. In Quito, robbery of bank customers in the vicinity of financial institutions increased from 81 cases in 2009 to 169 in 2010. Officials report that the first quarter of this year 2,044 robberies occurred in Quito while […]
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•Jesús Escobar, who has been charged with the rape of 14 women, has been captured in Bogotá. •According to the video by El Espectador, he committed his crimes under bridges on calle 26 in Bogotá, Colombia. •He is a repeat offender, captured in 1997 and 2003 for sexual crimes. Read Article
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The cold blooded murder of an Argentinian tourist on Thursday in the beaches of Costa Rica has again raised the question of insecurity and safety for tourism in the Central American country, which receives every year more than 2 million visitors. Read Article
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According to the Ottawa Citizen, Mexican media are reporting the killing earlier this week of a Canadian woman, apparently once from Ottawa, in a central Mexican city popular with foreigners. According to reports from local radio stations and newspapers in San Miguel de Allende, the woman, described as being in her 70s, was found stabbed […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec police apprehended four suspects that were planning the kidnapping and assault of a Pelileo bus, after an intense shootout on the road Duran-Boliche today July 1st. Officials say that the bus targeted was carrying 30 people. Assailants were able to board the bus in the 3rd terminal of Guayaquil, however police apprehended […]
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According to ElComercio.com two people were murdered in Guayaquil in the last few hours. Officials report, this morning, July 1st a man’s body was found abandoned in the trunk of a car in the Guayaquil suburbs. Police say he had been shot in the head and his hands and feet were shackled. They assume that […]
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According to RPP.com.pe the Bolivian Government today, July 1st revealed that one of the five Peruvians accused of trafficking cocaine is a member of the Peruvian Shining Path. On Tuesday, June 28th police captured one Bolivian and five Peruvians suspected of trafficking cocaine, officials report. Three of the detainees posed as agents of the Bolivian […]
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An alley in the center of Mexico City was the successful center of a network of human trafficking and sexual slavery, CNN Mexico reports. An operation conducted on May 21, 2011 saw the arrest of Manuel and Armando Rodríguez Mejía, brothers who have overseen a successful prostitution and human trafficking ring for over 30 years, […]
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•Latin America has become a destination for laundering money from trafficking of narcotics, kidnapping, and other illicit activities more than any place in the world, and afterwords, they go to European countries. •According to hoyveracruz.com.mx, countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil have become hotspots for laundering money using casinos, lotteries and even churches. […]
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•The Colombian police have captured two criminal bands. One, operating in the South of Bogotá, disguised itself with police uniforms and attempted to flee in a bus when pursued by the police. •The other group was arrested after performing a paseo millionario robbery on an individual. •According to El Espectador, the police believe that the […]
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Reporters Without Borders welcomes the withdrawal of charges against photographer Marcela Rodríguez, a contributor to the Mapuexpress website, when she appeared before a court in the southern city of Temuco on 22 June. The public prosecutor decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute her. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Ernst Joseph and Wolf “Duralph” François, hosts of the programme “They said it” on Radio Prévention in the southwestern town of Petit-Goâve, who have been detained ever since their arrest during an appearance at the public prosecutor’s office on 22 June. Read Article
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The Metropolitan Counternarcotics Brigade of Chile’s Investigative Police (PDI) broke up a drug trafficking organization run from inside Colina II—a high-security prison near Santiago —after a Wednesday bust that seized nearly 260 pounds of “pasta base de cocaína,” a cheaper and less-pure form of cocaine similar to crack cocaine. The drugs were discovered in a […]
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Candidate for governor of Buenos Aires, Jorge Telerman, along with his partner, current legislator Diego Kravetz, have presented a report listing the 11 most unsafe corners in Buenos Aires Federal Capital, according to infobae.com. Telerman has promised to increase police presence in these dangerous areas and will place large stickers at each corner with the […]
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According to ElComercio.com Ecuadorian officials of the Criminology Department have a computerized system (UTCA) that archives bullets to identify firearms. A microscopic image of each bullet is placed in the database for identification. However, officials report the database is incomplete. In 2009, Ecuadorian armed forces recorded about 170,000 bullets into the database. Then on June […]
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The Standing Committee of Congress in Mexico has approved constitutional reform that will make human trafficking a felony nationwide, El Informador reports. More than 20 state congresses approved the measure before it was taken before the Standing Committee, which makes decisions while Congress is in recess. The measure is being hailed as an “important step” […]
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The lone survivor of a lynching that left two men dead in 2004 is speaking out about his experience for the first time in an interview with El Universal. On November 24, 2004, three members of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) went to San Juan Ixtayopan to investigate radical groups, but the people in the […]
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ElComercio.com reports that today, Wednesday June 29th, the five suspects in the assault and shootout with policemen protecting a money transfer of $12,000 in the north of Quito yesterday, were in court for a arraignment hearing. The Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior, Jose Serrano was present to ask the court to prevent the release of […]
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Milenio.com reports that Peruvian Police asked the FBI for assistance in locating the hackers that attacked at least eight web pages belonging to the Peruvian government, Friday June 24th. The chief of the Dirincri Division of High Technology, Oscar Gonzales, says that the level of attack is very high and therefore the technology available to […]
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According to LaRepublica.pe a group related to the Anonymous hackers called Pirates of the Internet, have acquired information on the agents of a Peruvian police unit that protects banks. The cyber group released about 2,800 names of officers in the Peruvian Aguilas Negras, a Black Eagle special police unit, Tuesday June 28th says a message […]
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According to LaRepublica.pe Maximo Villoslada Angulo, a retired coronel from the police forces of Peru and the Dominican Republic was arrested on drug and illegal arms charges in Santo Domingo, D.R with another Dominican citizen. Angulo was living on the D.R Air Force Base. Police say after a vehicle search, where military exclusive weapons and […]
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According to lavozdeasturias.es the Anonymous member who coordinated web attacks on Latin American government organizations, was arrested in a sting operation on May 20th. La Voz acquired access to court sealed documents where the suspect is being charged with electronic crimes and illicit association to a cyber terrorist group. The suspect, alias Devnuller, hid the […]
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A report from the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) shows that the state of Veracruz has the highest number of kidnappings of undocumented immigrants, according to Noticias Net. The agency’s first report in 2009 estimated that 2,944 kidnappings of migrants occurred in Veracruz between September 2008 and February 2009. The last report showed a […]
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ElComercio.com reports that a police shootout occurred this morning, Tuesday June 28th, two blocks from the Quito airport, Mariscal Sucre, leaving one dead and another wounded. The police have yet to identify the victim and the wounded was identified as one of the police officers involved. Officers report that three police officers were involved in […]
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According to ElComercio.com the two FARC guerrillas arrested in Quito were transferred to the headquarters of the narcotics police in Quito and are awaiting a deportation hearing Tuesday June 28th. Officials say this morning a Colombian DAS plane arrived to transport the guerrillas to Colombia. One of the suspects, Fabio R. is the second in […]
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•According to Law 1424 passed last December, any demobilized members of AUC or guerilla groups can receive benefits as long as they have not committed crimes against humanity. •El Colombiano reveals that if a demobilized person fills the requirements of the law, the order of capture will be suspended for half of what the sentenced […]
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Diariocorreo.pe reports that a woman killed her stepdaughter, who suffered from mental disorders including schizophrenia, May 15th. Estercita Rivera, the killer, was arrested today and is in the women’s wing of the El Milagro prison, reports the prosecutor for the case. The victim’s mother, Cecilia Leon Soto demands justice for her daughter calling for life […]
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According to a legislative report from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico, at least 23,000 young adults and teenagers have been recruited to join drug trafficking gangs, ANSA reports. The report stated that the problem of violence in Mexico stems from social, political, economic and cultural issues. In addition to the 23,000 young […]
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Police are investigating after a medical worker was found crawling outside of her home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tartagal, Salta last Friday with severe injuries, according to eltribuno.com.ar. The woman was found by two construction workers and brought to the Juan Domingo Perón hospital, where she works. She was admitted to the Intensive […]
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Police arrested a fugitive from justice for conspiracy last week by using a fake Facebook profile, according to losandes.com.ar. The 4-month-long investigation to capture the fugitive headed by the Departmental Research Direction of Pergamino, Buenos Aires, involved creating a fake Facebook profile of a young woman claiming to be a fitness trainer and a student […]
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According to ElComercio.com a man driving on the Granda Centeno around 3 a.m. on Friday June 24th, was intercepted by two people on motorcycles says the preliminary investigation report. Police say the driver was shot and lost control of his vehicle, crashing into local food stands on the streets of Brasil and Granda Centeno in […]
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ElComercio.com reports that during a presentation by law enforcement on Thursday, police informed the media that they recently seized 34.4 kilos of alkaloids in nine separate raids throughout the capital. Police report that 13 arrests were made in connection to the raids where the drugs were going to be sold in illegal trade deals. During […]
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Parents in Veracruz’s capital city of Jalapa have reported at least 15 missing young adults (between the ages of 12 and 22) in the past three months, but have not received any updates on the investigations, El Proceso reports. They organized a protest as part of the “No + sangre (No More Blood)” movement to […]
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