Agents of the Ministerial Police arrested Liz Brenda Valdez Marroquín, 21, also known as “ámbar” or “Samara,” El Mexicano reports. Valdez Marroquín was wanted on counts of aggravated kidnapping, violent vehicle robbery and organized delinquency. She and her boyfriend, Neri Alfonso Estrada Valdez, were the leaders of a kidnapping gang, primarily targeting store owners. Estrada […]
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According to ElTelegrafo.com.ec police found a “long-range” weapon inside a house in the South of Quito on Thursday June 23rd. An agent says that the gun was a 182-caliber, an army issued rifle. Authorities say that the gun has a price of $80,000 on the black market. The gun is not identified as an Ecuadorian […]
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The Zapatista committee of good government (JBG) of Morelia denounced aggressive actions and attempts to dispossess Zapatista supporters of their lands made by members of the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers in Ocosingo (Orcao), La Jornada reports. The conflict began June 10 when Orcao members pressured and threatened a Zapatista supporter to change allegiances. Over […]
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Journalists in Mexico trying to preserve the freedom of the press in the face of organized crime and widespread corruption are increasingly becoming victims of threats and violence, ANSA reports. The Attorney General’s office shows that between 2006 and 2009, 74 cases of violence (or threats of violence) were reported against journalists, with torture becoming […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Attorney of the Judicial police in Guayaquil denounced the increasing express kidnapping and violent robberies that are occurring in the Guayas province. As of yesterday 24 express kidnappings have been reported to authorities this month. However, President Rafael Correa reported last week that crimes had dropped by 15% from 2010 in […]
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Ecuadorinmediato.com reports that Peruvian authorities discovered 85 acres of land, valued at 25 million soles, dedicated to the production of marijuana. Authorities discovered the land in the annex of Pueblo Libre in the Pataz province. Drug traffickers moved about 800 kilos of marijuana monthly, police say. The marijuana was concealed in public transportation and individual […]
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A total of 17 violent deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the state’s Attorney General has said. According to UPI, among the dead are three brothers in the town of Guamúchil and a man who was found in an illegal grave in Ahome. Most were victims […]
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An idea constructed in February of 2009 by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was to build 350 houses and a hospital for landslide victims in Tartagal, Salta which would be funded and carried out by the “Shared Dreams” foundation, according to perfil.com. After the Mothers were charged with alleged corruption and money laundering […]
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Two Brazilian migrants living in Paraguay were killed this morning near the town of Ponta Porá, Brazil, according to ultimahora.com. According to police, the brothers were riding a motorcycle 50 meters away from the border cities of Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay and Ponta Porá, Brazil when they were shot and killed by three people. One […]
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Leading sociologists say the recent lynching attempts in southern Mexico City are due to failures by the government, La Policiaca reports. They point to a lack of confidence in the police force as the reason citizens are attempting to take the law into their own hands. Corruption and repression have pervaded the police force in […]
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After a series of hunger strikes and vigils, Fátima Hernández had managed to become an exception, as one of the few rape victims in Nicaragua to obtain justice. But now her fight has started all over again and the hope that her case offered to others might become a mirage. On Monday, she began a […]
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Allegations of mistreatment of detained 14 soldiers in Bolivia in the Chilean territory, which made the government’s defense minister altioplánico, Cecilia Chacón, were denied today by the regional ombudsman of Tarapaca, Arturo Zegarra. Read Article
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Club and bar owners in the Mexican state of Querétaro are trying to find alternatives to the use of the Breathalyzer in order to avoid heavy fines to customers and visitors to the state, El Economista reports. The president of the Association of Bars and Clubs stated that establishments are willing to strengthen programs designed […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the United Nations Human Rights Council received a report by Philip Alston, a U.N. special reporter on extrajudicial executions, concerning cases of unlawful killings by policemen in Ecuador. The Ecuadorian internal investigation unit records 104 deaths by police that were occurred between 2005 and 2010. However, another police unit reports that there […]
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According to ElComercio.com unknown assailants, in a western suburb of Guayaquil, gunned down a young man on Saturday. He and a young woman, whom he used as a human shield, are two of nine murders recorded by the Guayaquil prosecutor’s office, which occurred over the weekend. Officials of the Guayaquil police force are investigating all […]
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Two bodyguards, part of the security team for the governor of Nuevo León, Rodrigo Medina, were murdered in the town of Guadalupe, Radio Formula reports. The governor is known for his stance against organized crime and threats against him were found on the bodies of the guards. The governor issued a statement via Twitter that […]
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The 9-year-old daughter of retired Navy officer, Victor “Lindoro” Olivera, was shot last night and is in critical condition today after undergoing surgery, according to lavoz.com.ar. The girl was in her family’s home in Partido de Pilar, Buenos Aires at around 10 p.m. when the shootings occurred. Olivera was charged last year for torturing and […]
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120 thousand pesos were stolen during an armed robbery that took place around 8:40 this morning at a Correo Argentina post office at the Las Heras Mendoza branch, according to lavoz.com.ar. Three men entered the branch located at Sarmiento and Rivadavia and threatened the security guard before committing the theft. They escaped in a white […]
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ElDiario.com.ec reports that a mother brought her teenage daughter to the hospital Rafael Rodriguez Zambrano after she found her unconscious near a store in Eloy Alfaro Parish where the girl was buying sweets, last weekend. The teenager says that she was walking to the store when a group of individuals in a car approached her […]
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According to Andina.com.pe more than 3,700 Peruvian businesses were inspected nationwide by a joint operation between two government agencies. The operation was to verify that the business did not violate Peruvian laws of human trafficking. Adolfo Alarcon, a director at the Ministry of Labor says that more that two million adolescents between 6 and 17 […]
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Agencia EFE writes that in Peru 1,579 child sexual assault cases were reported in the first five months of 2011. According to the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences 226 arrests were made due to the cases reported. The institute reports that 1,032 cases of indecent acts, which do not include rape, were reported […]
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According to Teleamazonas.com Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced Saturday June 18th that Ecuador is conducting negotiation with Peru on an agreement about the issue of cell phone theft. The agreement is going to combat the theft of cell phones and the activation of phones in neighboring countries. Ecuador and Colombia already have an agreement on […]
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ElTiempo.com.ec reports that custom officials in the Guayaquil airport arrested a United States citizen from Alabama, Andrew G., arriving on Delta Airlines. The American was trying to enter Ecuador with 22 gold bars, valued at USD 1,072,000 that was not declared at the customs checkpoint. Police investigating the case say that the probable destination was […]
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According to ElUniverso.com President Rafael Correa’s website and information portal were hacked this past Sunday. The government reported the incident Monday June 20th. El Universo reports that a group called “Latin Hack Team” took responsibility for the attack. A message saying, “Against the hypocrisy and corruption of government, for freedom of expression,” was left on […]
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•In the river Mataje in Tamaco, Nariño, Colombia, the Colombian Navy and the CTI destroyed a facility that constructed submarines and processed cocaine paste for the Daniel Aldana column of FARC. •Monthly the site would produce 1.5 tones of coca paste. •So far in 2011, the Naval Force of the Pacific has seized 40 laboratories […]
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According to ElComercio.com Luis C., 21, from Colombia died early Sunday morning, June 19th, in northern Quito near Eloy Alfaro. Judicial police say that he was struck by several gunshots while waiting at a fast-food stand along with his father. Witnesses say that two gunmen pulled up in a car, got out, fired and fled. […]
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A Paraguayan man was killed early this morning outside a local dance club in Melchor Romero, La Plata, Buenos Aires, according to elcomercial.com.ar. The 30-year-old man had many head injuries caused by a blunt object, but no bullet or stab wounds. The club is located in a largely Paraguayan community. Family and witnesses will testify […]
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Defense Minister, Nilda Garré, confirmed this morning that 1,500 kilos of cocaine were seized by Argentine police in 48 hours over the weekend, according to infobae.com. A maneuver called ‘Operation Transparency” arrested 2 Argentine police officers in Salta yesterday, near the Bolivian border, and seized 966 kilos of cocaine they were transporting from Bolivia and […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the police of the hydrocarbon energy unit raided a hacienda in San Carlos in the province of Guayas on the morning of Friday June 17th. The unit found fuel stored for smuggling activities in the vicinity of the hacienda, reported the police. The fuel was bound for Huaquillas, a city located on […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Homero Fernandez, the judge of the 12th Civil Court of Pichincha says that he is receiving death threats from a “group of corrupt lawyers” that want an immediate ruling in a case. The judge received a threat saying he had 72 hours to deliver a verdict on this trial and that if […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, two and a half years ago ten companies merged into a single management of the National Electricity Corporation (CNEL). However, the companies are failing to reduce power distribution losses to a single digit. Furthermore, the union objective was to eliminate any power loss, said the Ministry of electricity and National Electricity Council. […]
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The Human Rights Commission (CDHDF) with the National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES) of Mexico City are holding a series of discussions questioning current penitentiary regulations which allow newborns and children under six years of age to remain with their mothers in prison. There is no State budget for these children, however, and they therefore often live […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that three heavily armed men robbed Natos La Parrilla, in the center of Guayaquil, on Wednesday June 15th at 8:45 p.m. Police report the assailants took about USD 5,000 from customers and restaurant workers. The robbed items included cell phones, and lab tops. Victims included foreigners who were dining at the restaurant. On […]
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According to ELUniverso.com the Ecuador’s Minister of the Interior, Jose Serrano announced that along with the elite police groups implemented by the national police, a plan called “safe circuits” will be exercised in an effort to reduce levels of crime. The elite police groups have been in place for about 21 days, however in Guayaquil, […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, five people reported to the judicial police that they were victims of abductions in Guayaquil between 8:00 p.m. last Monday and 6:20 a.m. on Wednesday June 15th. Four of the victims reported being abducted when returning to their homes in taxicabs. In one incident, a green car intercepted the taxicab with the […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, on June 14th three businesses in the Guayas providence were robbed. Reportedly, two of the businesses were cased at dawn the same day. The first assault was against a jewelry business, Montero, at 2:40 pm. The owner and an employee were tending to a customer that began to assault them after another […]
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On Wednesday June 8th the National Commission of the Fight Against Illicit Trafficking of Ecuador’s Heritage, held a meeting to discuss the illegal trafficking of Ecuador’s cultural property. Interpol reports that the drug trafficking, arms, sex trade, and trade of cultural property are the three largest illegal money-moving networks in the world. Ecuador has lost […]
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According to Inforegion.pe the residents of the districts in the valley of Apurimac and Ene (VRAE) have decided to create “self-defense committees” (CAD) to combat increased assaults and robberies on their population. These same community defense organizations were created to combat the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). The units will be coordinated with the district officials. […]
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According to Inforegion.pe, police carried out an operation against narco-traffickers on or about June 13 in the Monzon Valley. Police using four helicopters, destroyed two drug laboratories producing hydrochloric cocaine of high potency and PBC (cocaine paste). Police confiscated 130 kilos of drugs, and one and a half tons of chemicals. Also confiscated were weapons, […]
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According to ElComercio.com at 7:00 in the morning on Friday June 17th police arrested a foreigner, Dameus B. who was trying to enter Ecuador at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre airport with 32 people. Dameus was dressed in religious clothes, as was the rest of the group. Police report that Dameus was already under investigation in Ecuador […]
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•Recently in Colombia, a law was passed which included a new restriction that minors who committed crimes would be released on reaching 21 years of age. •Criminals would contract minors to commit crimes such as murders because they would be release after turning 21. Thus, one of the effects of the previous penalties was that […]
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As reported by Proceso, U.N. consultant Edgardo Buscaglia stated on Thursday that 65% of electoral campaigns receive money from illegitimate sources including drug cartels. Buscaglia believes that Mexico needs a new strategy to combat narco-trafficking that is harsh but not repressive, but such a strategy will not develop until drug violence reaches the political elite […]
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The Cloud system will allow purchasers of alcohol in the Bolívar department to follow the exact history of a bottle of liquor starting from its production and bottling. According to RCN Radio, bottles will have a tricolored sticker with a code that customers can check at www.syctrace.com.co, which will show the bottle’s history. This will […]
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The explosion at 11:22 p.m. last night in a small square in northern Bogotá affected 12 houses and as well as a bust of Laureano Gómez, but resulted in no injuries.The report by inernacional.eluniversal.com states that authorities have found several explosives in the past few days which were meant to destroy the bust of the […]
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On Thursday June 16, 22-year-old Édgar Huerta Montiel, known as “El Wache”, was captured by Mexico’s Federal Police in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. El Wache is said to be responsible for organizing the massacre of at least 10 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, as well as abducting six buses and torturing their passengers. El Wache has worked […]
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Twelve policemen and a cooperative miner are missing as a result of a dynamite explosion during a violent confrontation between uniformed and cooperative employees of a mine during early hours of Tuesday in the mining center of Sayaquira, Inquisivi province of La Paz. Read Article
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Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission (CDHDF) and civil society organizations are urging the Legislative Assembly to vote in a special session to establish legal provisions criminalizing femicide in Mexico City, as reported by El Mexicano. María de la Luz Estrada, from the National Citizens’ Observatory for Femicide (OCNF), called for reforms under the General Law […]
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Ecuadorenvivo.com reports that Interior Minister, Jose Serrano with the National Police commander, Patricio Franco and commander of the Navy, Daniel Donoso visited the area, San Lorenzo, Thursday, where many robberies have been occurring. Last Saturday 10-armed men assaulted the villagers of this island. The men robbed the community on speedboats. About 20 families live on […]
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According to Ecuavisa.com Byron Cornejo Coba was arrested for carrying a pistol without a permit in the Guayas province. In May of 2010 he was accused of extorting money, USD 10,000, from a Cost Rican captain for the release of his vessel. Allegedly there was video evidence. When arrested USD 1,000 was found on his […]
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A 37-year-old man was arrested in the neighborhood Bajo Yapeyú, Córdoba on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, according to lavoz.ar.com. The Division of the Protection of Persons called for the man’s arrest after suspecting he had taken advantage of the 15-year-old girl’s sexual immaturity. Read Article
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A large mob in one of Mexico City’s neighborhood’s attempted to lynch four accused criminals as they were being taken away by police, Estado de Mexico reports. A number of people were left with minor injuries, but no one was killed.
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Yesterday, Wednesday June 15th, the families of Nelson Ch., who disappeared Friday, were performing a search of the forest in El Troje along Av. Simon Bolivar in the south of Quito, reports ElComercio.com During the search they found a naked corpse, beheaded and without limbs or head. Police were called. Beside the corpse, police say […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec some police believe that the increase of government and police resources is not causing a decrease in crime. Wilson Alulema, Guayaquil chief of the National Police, says that cime stopping will be hard if society itself is ’broken.’ Policeman Diego Armendariz’s funeral was on Wednesday June 14th after criminals killed him Monday. […]
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According to ElComercio, Louis J. was standing in his front yard, in La Pradera, talking to a friend Tuesday June 14th at 5 p.m. when two men on motorcycles stopped in front of his house. The men asked for the whereabouts of Louis J.’s son, and Louis J. refused to give them information, the men […]
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According to Larazon.com.pe the municipality of Lima will remove some of the congestion, vendors and prostitutes, in the streets of Lima by July. Questions are mounting as more vendor and prostitutes have taken over the streets of Lima says Alberto Valenzuela, head of the municipality. Gabriel Prado, the safety manager of the municipality says that […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec the National Police will start safety circuits to combat crime. All units will cover about 4 kilometers of specific patrol. Forty-seven areas will be patrolled in Guayaquil at the beginning. The units are elite police groups that deal with specific crimes, ‘express kidnapping,’ extortion, killing, and drug trafficking among others. The Ecuadorian […]
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According to Terra.com.ar the defendants who include former president Carlos Menem, his former private secretary Emir Yoma and former Defense Minister Oscar Camillon with many others, acknowledge the existence of the sales to Croatia and Ecuador stated prosecutor Mariano Borinsky. On Tuesday June 13th the prosecution began the arguments for their case. The defendants blame […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the killing of a policeman, Darwin Anrango in the morning of March 19th in Pintag, east of Quito has been connected to the murder of two young Colombians this past Saturday in northern Quito. Anrango was found in a dump in a courtyard of a vehicle business. Police discovered that it was […]
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•A music professor of a university in Cartagena, William Gaviria Puello, is currently a fugitive of the law and has been condemned to 13 years of prison for the sexual abuse of one of his students. •The legal process began after a family member of the 14-year-old victim reported the crime in 2008 per rcnradio.com. […]
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•As reported by noticias.terra.com.co, the issue of overcrowded Colombian prisons has been studied by organizations such as the Office of Human Rights of the UN and the Defensoría del Público. •Different organizations have produced different statistics. For example, the Colombian government states that overpopulation in prisons is 30% while Senator Espíndola and officials of Inpec […]
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As part of a protest, 20 unknown hooded young people began throwing papas-bomb (potato bombs) in the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia causing the institution to close. El Tiempo reports that the assailants forced students to leave their classes and took carreras 25 and 30 which serve as the entrance and exit of the […]
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Thousands of victims from towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas affected by 2005’s Hurricane Stan marched on the main streets of Tapachula to demand severe punishment for the state’s ex-governor, Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía, El Informador reports. The demonstrators accused Salazar Mendiguchía of diverting funds intended for reconstructing the state after the hurricane. Though the […]
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A Rapipago cyber, call center and tax service location in the Nueva Córdoba neighborhood in Buenos Aires was robbed early this morning, according to lavoz.com.ar. The owner called the police when he discovered the door to the business was open when he arrived at 9 this morning. 150 thousand pesos were missing from a safe […]
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According to ElComercio.com taxi drivers are protesting the increased murders of their compatriots in the past year. Taxi drivers took to the streets Monday June 13th to protest the continuing deaths of their peers in the Esmeraldas province that boarders Colombia. The president of the Provincial Taxi Drivers Union, Segundo Gallegos, says that even though […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a women was wounded in the face during a street brawl on Tuesday, June 14th at 3:30 on the streets of 10m y Sucre in Guayaquil. The victim says that the fight broke out with a drug dealer know as El Ronco about the packages of drugs. The people involved were poor […]
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According to ElComercio.com on Monday June 143h an explosive device was thrown into a house on the block, La Pradera. Four men on motorcycles committed the act of ‘terrorism’ at 3:30 in the morning. Witness report that the area resembles a war zone. The neighborhood has police protection but residents are still scared. The Intervention […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Carlos Mauricio Marin Chacon, 24 died while trying to enter the United States as illegally this past 29th of April. He is from the La Union sector, in the province of Azuay. For 40 days the family of Carlos did not know his whereabouts. On the 9th of June a person informed […]
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Members of the Municipal Police in Oaxaca arrested Francisco Sánchez Vallejo, 48, for impersonating a police officer to public transportation bus drivers, Diario Oaxaca reports. A call to the C-4 system alerted police to a man dressed in an officer’s uniform attempting to extort bus drivers. At the time of his arrest, Sánchez was carrying […]
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•According to El Colombiano’s Medellín section, one type of counterfeit scam involved woman who handed a taxi driver a 20,000 peso bill to pay her 14,000 peso fare. •The driver claimed that to the victim that the bill was false and returned it. • As the woman had no other 20,000 bills, the driver asked […]
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Hoy Veracruz reports: • Domestic violence is the number one cause of injury among Mexican women, over injuries sustained in robberies, accidents and rapes • Six of every ten women in Mexico have been subjected to some type of violence; in some cases, the assaults are fatal • In 2005, an estimated 2,159 women died […]
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The Superintendency of Investigations of the Argentine Federal Police raided the headquarters of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Foundation this afternoon located in the Congreso neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The raid was ordered by judge Norberto Oyarbide after the former leader of the organization, Sergio Schoklender, was charged with allegedly embezzling public funds […]
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•El Espectador reports that in pharmacies and drug stores in Bogotá, Colombia, young people can obtain these “pepas,” drugs that can act as hallucinogens, without having a legitimate prescription. •Councilor Patricia Mosquera reports that one can obtain false medical documents to buy these drugs, and that over 100,000 Colombians have taken “pepas” and that half […]
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A new witness has emerged in the case against Argentinian-Dutch ‘death flights’ pilot Julio Poch. A Transavia staff member has given fresh evidence which implicates his role in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ in which opponents to the military regime were thrown from planes into the sea. Read Article
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A former management board member of Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE) has been charged with breach of trust for alleged bribery payments made to win a project in Argentina, the Munich State Prosecutors office said on Tuesday. Read Article
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According to a projection made by Luis Fernandez, director of the National Police, in a week can be fired only two municipalities Caracas some 189 thousand bales. The account got taken as a sign to Sucre and Libertador, where there are approximately 3,700 neighborhoods. “Using an average balance of shots of each neighborhood, including Friday, […]
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According to ElUniverso.com an unidentified man was the victim of a hit-and-run at 2:30 on Sunday June 12th between the streets Chambers and ‘la 38.’ Witnesses say that a car outside a nightlife sector hit him and the driver fled. The victim had serious head injuries. The witnesses complained that the fire department, called to […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, an operation in Madrid, Spain, Espejo, under-covered a network that laundered USD 25 million between 2007 and 2011. It began September 2010. The network used the façade of remittances. August 2010, Madrid police arrested an Ecuadorian migrant, Jenny Alexandra Fasce Schumacker with 40 others for crimes of money laundering, terrorism, and drug […]
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According to ElUniverso.com on Monday, June 13 at about 11:30 a shooting and an attempted assault occurred at the drive through for Banco de Machala. The bank is located on 25 de junio and 10 de agosto. Reportedly there was one fatality, a policeman, four alleged assailants were wounded and a passerby was struck in […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a man reported to judicial police that at 8 p.m. on Sunday June 12th that he was kidnapped by several people who approached his Ford F-150 near La Prosperina on Perimeter road. The victim says his attackers took advantage of a red light and intercepted him in a Chevrolet Spark. Two men […]
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According to ElUniverso.com nine Latin King gang members were arrested in Barcelona in connection with a serious attack on a young man who wanted to leave the gang. The arrested included two Ecuadorians, two Peruvians, two Spanish, a Dominican, a Moroccan and a Bolivian, between 15 and 32 years of age. Six of them are […]
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According to ElUniverso.com there was an explosion this morning, June 13th between the cantons of Manta and Montecristi in the province of Manabi. The explosion occurred at 3 a.m. waking people in La Pradera. Three houses were affected and one family was inside at the time of the explosion. The kind of device used is […]
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•According to policia.gov.co, the Colombian Police first discovered 20 smuggled gallons of foreign gasoline worth about 120,000 pesos in a vehicle on the ruta Valledupar Codazzi. •Another 100 gallons were discovered hidden in 3 cars on the road connecting Valledupar, La Paz, and Becerril. Read Article
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In a detailed diagram, ElComercio.com details the attractions on athletes that ‘invite’ an assault or robbery in Quito, Ecuador. If exercising at night, do so under the lights. Pay attention to your surroundings when listening to music or doing exercises. Careful, an assailant could be pretending to workout in order to scout out a victim. […]
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In an image diagram, ElComercio.com reports that robberies and assaults are occurring through three methods in Ecuador First, the pedestrian is robbed or assaulted by people in a car or on motorcycles. There are usually 3 to 5 assailants and the robbery lasts minutes. Most often, the victim is in an empty place. Two people […]
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Killings of workers or union leaders are not new to the country and, indeed, there are reports of them for at least seven years, but the violence yesterday took a different profile in the south. Renny Rojas, Ferrominera worker was killed yesterday morning after being shot in the neck, while on a work assembly to […]
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When the Chiquita Banana Company turned over to the U.S. Justice department thousands of documents, they revealed the company’s involvement with paramilitary groups such as AUC, guerrillas, and the military in Colombia. The article by the National Security Archive links to these Chiquita Papers, which describe the company’s strategies to hide the payments to these […]
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El Universal Reports: • The state government has pledged 10,000 members of state, intermunicipal and municipal police to aid in the launch of Operation Conago 1 • Operation Conago 1 (standing for “Comisión National de Gobernadores” – National Committee of Governers) seeks to attack the 11 most common crimes in Mexico, including kidnapping, robbery and […]
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According to ElComercio.pe anti-drug police seized 125 kilos of hydrochloric cocaine in a container in terminal storage LISCA. One arrest was made. The drug was divided into brick-like packages, wrapped in duct tape and carbon paper with a SOL logo. The operation was carried out with the involvement of personal in the public prosecutor’s office. […]
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Following a story of an assassination of two people in northern Quito, Expreso.ec reports that the couple was Colombian. The couple was stopped at a light on Avenida Republica. While the couple was talking, the two men on motorcycles descended upon the vehicle and shot around 23 rounds into the couple. The assassins fled on […]
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According to ElComercio.com two people approached a blue Volkswagen Golf car on motorcycle firing 23 rounds into the vehicle. At 8:30 a.m. Saturday June 11th two people were murdered at the light on the streets of Eloy Alfaro and La Republica in Quito. Witnesses report that the assassins were waiting for the vehicle. At this […]
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According to Periodicodigital.com.mx an attack on the Global Express Hotel, located on the Mexico Puebla highway, allegedly was the work of the Zetas. The hotel is located near FINSA Park. However, a police investigation has produced important clues to what happened. The two employees that were held hostage for 50,000 pesos are part of the […]
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In response to growing problems of sexual violence and human trafficking, El Economista reports that the Congress of the state of Querétaro approved reforms to the Penal Code to enforce a sentence of seven to 38 years in prison for persons convicted of human trafficking or sexual misconduct. Children and women in the poorest conditions […]
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According to Expreso.ec a group of policewoman will patrol the streets of Quito on motorcycles for the first time. This pilot program is part of the traffic police patrol. If successful, it could be implemented nationally. The objective is that women will have more confidence in the police and support the women of the force […]
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According to Expreso.ec six robbers of bank customers were arrested on Friday June 10th. Also, a taxi driver was detained in connection with a criminal gang that stole USD 2,000 from a customer at a bank. The customer chased the assailants, as did a policeman on a motorcycle as the gang got away in a […]
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A hotel security guard has been arrested in Costa Rica in the shooting of a 16-year-old McLouth High School student, Costa Rica authorities said Friday. Authorities said the security guard is a 36-year-old Nicaraguan man who did not have permission to carry weapons in Costa Rica. Read Article
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In April, the Washington, DC-based National Security Archive posted a 5500-page document tranche detailing the extent of Cincinnati-based food giant Chiquita’s dealings with Colombian death squad United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC). The documents shed further light on the relationship between multinationals and Colombia’s murderous right-wing paramilitaries. Read Article
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Italy has recalled its ambassador to Brazil after the South American country’s leading court barred the extradition of an Italian fugitive who was convicted of four murders in the 1970s. Read Article
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Mothers of Plaza de Mayo’s former legal adviser accused over misuse of funds as presidential ally fears election backlash. For more than 30 years the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo have been a symbol of courage against adversity and the enduring battle against injustice. Read Article
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Two Florida men face a federal indictment in Ohio that accuses them of sneaking counterfeit U.S. $100 bills from South America into the United States, hiding them in the headrests of rental cars and using about $5,000 a day in fake money on shopping trips around the country, authorities said Thursday. Read Article
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