Noticias.univision.com reports that Jesús Ochoa, presumed member of the Sinaloa Cartel, attempted to hide the money in a carry on luggage when he was captured in Eldorado Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. The money is believed to be a partial payment from Mexican cartels for a cocaine shipment. Ochoa is to be processed for alleged money […]
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•Jineth Bedoya, herself a rape victim eleven years ago, is leading an effort against the use of rape in the armed conflict according to a video from rtve.es. •In her campaign, she is hoping to bring hope to other victims and to call them to report these crimes to the authorities. •Intermón Oxfam has reported […]
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The security measures are heightened in the Alejandro Velasco Astete airport in Cusco after the discovery yesterday of a grenade and a stick of dynamite in one of the bathrooms at the airport, Gastón Rodríguez said Colonel Limo, police chief of the Cusco region. Read Article The article indicated there were flights cancelled and people […]
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The fourteen voting members of the Senate met yesterday and passed a law banning human trafficking in Argentina, according to diarioelargentino.com. The “Trafficking Act” was pushed through by the CTA and Red Alerta who also proposed the creation of a program for the Prevention, Assistance and Protection of Human Trafficking. The new law requires the […]
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•On Tuesday, the Santos Administration presented a three-year plan called the Integral Policy of Security and Defense for Prosperity to end organized crime and narcotrafficking as revealed by eldiarioexterior.com. •This plan is seen as an update to the Plan Colombia of the Uribe Administration. •Details about the funds for the plan have not yet been […]
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Police found the tank during a raid on a remote ranch in Jalisco, western Mexico. The armour plated vehicle, dubbed “Monster Zeta” has a revolving gun turret and welded metal sheeting designed to withstand explosions. Read Article
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Five policeman in Rosario, including the chief and deputy chief, are unavailable after the escape of a Chinese prisoner arrested for extorting money from his fellow countrymen. The man, probably linked to the “Chinese Mafia” in Argentina, was demanding money from Chinese merchants to allow them to stay in business. Officers are accused of helping […]
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SECOND HOME INVASION IN A WEEK Five gunmen assaulted the workers of a marriage that was celebrated last Sunday morning in the area of Punta Blanca on the route called Spondylus, police said. According to the police, the crime was perpetrated at 03:45 in a house located at the entrance to number 11. Read Article
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Forget bulk cash. Heavy and hard to hide, it’s simply not the most convenient cross-border conveyance for a 21st-century money launderer. A safer and increasingly attractive alternative for today’s criminal is electronic cash loaded on stored-value or prepaid cards. AP-Read Article
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The Government announced yesterday that it will allocate 500 police, which will form a task force to ensure the safety of the five cities with higher crime rates in the country: Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Manta and Esmeraldas. In total, 160 members of the elite National Police, together with the staff of the Urban Service Unit […]
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Noodles, milk, meats, preserves, fungicides and other products were confiscated by the City of Imbabura because its use-by date had expired. The situation was repeated in various outlet centers. Read Article
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•As the police conducted a visit to auto part vendor “Lujos y Repuestos Abril,” they discovered an elevator that lead to hidden levels of the building revealing the stolen cars and their parts according to eltiempo.com. •The cars discovered had their identifying information removed •On the first floor was documentation that the perpetrators used to […]
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•Admiral Edgar Cely contradicts the report made by Father Constantino García on Monday that the people are being used as human shields to block the Atrato river per elespectador.com. •He declared that the commando Conjunto Caribe and Division 7 would move to Quibdó to ensure the safety of the Atrato river and the surrounding people. […]
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Daimler AG was ordered on Wednesday to face a U.S. lawsuit alleging it participated in the kidnapping, torture and death of Mercedes-Benz workers in Argentina’s “Dirty War” three decades ago. Read Article
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As the anniversary of FARC’s creation draws near, a series of captures has been taking place as part of an “armed strike” as announced by pamphlets distributed by the groups per radiosantafe.com. Today, 143 people who travelled through the Atrado River in the Chocó department of Colombia were detained by FARC. The group is keeping […]
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The Argentine branch of a worldwide pedophile network was demobilized last week after a series of 17 searches in the Federal Capital, Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, Corrientes, Cordoba and Santa Fe that uncovered huge numbers of pornographic material featuring children. According to lacapital.com.ar, the case began in mid 2010 after the Justice of Germany uncovered […]
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•At 8:30 p.m., the 8 assailants snuck into the house located in La Ponderosa neighborhood after Contanza Muñoz opened her garage to park her truck as revealed by eltiempo.com. •After waiting for the rest of the family to get home, they tied up and held the family hostage for 2 hours as they robbed them […]
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Paraguayan Virgin Sold for 400 Euros The story of the young girl sold to a Spanish man and those of other sex slaves from Paraguay are retold in a report, “Sex Slaves in Spain: Trafficking of Paraguayan women and girls” published in Madrid by Apramp (Asociación para la Prevención, Reinserción y Atención a la Mujer […]
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On Monday, a court sentenced 31 years in prison to the American William Trickett Smith II, accused of murdering his Peruvian wife and after having put the body in a suitcase, throw it into the sea 2007. The Criminal Division for prison inmates convicted Trickett, after he pleaded guilty on Thursday to qualify for the […]
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•Semana.com that the Colombian navy seized the cocaine hidden within containers of whole cane sugar for animal consumption. •The antidrug dogs of the Antinarcotics department of the National Police detected the drug within the 33,450 units, about 500 grams each, of the sugar headed from Cartagena to Veracruz, Mexico. •The CTI is still measuring the […]
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A report in the Honduran press says that the Crime Investigation Unit of Honduras is investigating the twin engine plane used in the biggest drug bust in Belize. Read Article
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A recently retired army general was gunned down in Tlanepantla, a city in the central state of Mexico, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, the Defense Secretariat said Sunday. Read Article
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The main suspect in the drug-cartel massacre of 27 farmworkers and relatives in Guatemala’s Peten province was arraigned Friday on charges including conspiracy to murder and kidnapping. Suspect Hugo Gomez Vasquez has been identified as a local leader of the Mexico-based Zetas drug cartel and a former member of the elite Guatemalan military unit known […]
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Power, corruption, violence and a bizarre tattoo. A Corbett family says it’s all woven into their son’s murder case, which is at last going to trial thousands of miles from home. John Chamberlin and his wife, Ellen, are preparing to fly to Ecuador next week to watch the trial of the man suspected of killing […]
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The Marginal Pinheiros is the route where most crimes occur in Sao Paulo. It reveals that the survey done by the military police and obtained exclusively by G1 . The study shows the 40 runners in the capital city reported that more thefts of various kinds in the first three months of this year. (See […]
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The police seized on Tuesday afternoon, 80 sharp weapons, six cell, two hammers and 40 grams of marijuana sting in several prison cells in El Roble, in Puntarenas. In a surprise operation, the Police Force and Prison Service made a requisition on the modules A1 and A2 of the prison in the afternoon. Read Article
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They begin arriving in early evening. These are children, adults and squalid women, some pregnant women, who form a battalion of crack addicts who walk toward the sidewalk stunned the parking lot of a supermarket in the center of Duque de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense. Under Secretaries of Social Promotion and community councils, the scene […]
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Brazil’s environment agency Ibama has cracked down on deforestation – but in some regions it is on the rise again Illegal loggers, and ranchers who clear the forest for cattle unlawfully, are being targeted by Ibama, Brazil’s environmental protection agency. Read Article
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A wanted sex offender from Marion County was arrested in Guatemala and is being deported to the United States. According to a press release from U.S. marshals in Clarksburg, Phillip Christian Landmeier, 57, of Fairmont, was arrested by Guatemalan National Police in Rio Dulce, Guatemala, on Tuesday on immigration violations after deputy U.S. marshals tracked […]
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Three Dutch tourists were arrested in Copacabana last Tuesday because they were naked on the beach. A good tip for the Europeans planning to go to Brazil is not to get carried away with the feeling of “freedom”. Brazilian law is very strict when dealing with nudity and unless you’re wearing something (no matter how […]
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A TAM plane made an emergency landing at Luis Eduardo Magalhaes airport after a passenger threatened to blow up the aircraft late on Friday (20). The man said he was with a bomb and the commander of the flight 3603 signaled a clear threat to the control tower in Salvador. The 129 passengers were evacuated […]
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Police say public transport, social networking sites being used to target victims. Sex offenders have been using public transport, social networking sites, and job advertisements to target victims, the police have reported. According to Deputy Superintendent Gloria Davis-Simpson, head of the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), reports have shown […]
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A state of emergency has been declared, travel advisories have been issued and regional beach volleyball championships have been postponed since the massacre in La Libertad, Petén over the weekend. We have been following the story because of the close proximity of Petén to western Belize and possible risks to locals travelling across the border […]
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Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), May 20 (IANS/EFE) Some 400 police officers in this Mexican city have been dismissed since last October on suspicion they had ties to organised crime, Mayor Hector Murguia Lardizabal said. Read Article
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The U.S. Justice Departments is reportedly working on a case against HSBC bankers they say have laundered money from Mexican drug gangs. Still at the beginning of the investigation, the Justice Department is building its case against the bank. The investigation began in August of 2010, when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency […]
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Northern Mexico’s drug war continues to claim victims, with more than 360 bodies discovered in mass graves just last week. In a separate incident, 13 people were killed in a shootout between Mexican marines and members of the Las Zetas drug cartel. Read Article
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Hiking through rough Arizona desert terrain a few miles north of the Mexican border recently with a group of armed DEA agents, we were approached by a lone U.S. Border Patrol agent. He warned we should be careful up ahead, because two people believed to be spotters for a Mexican drug cartel had just been […]
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Law enforcement officials announced Thursday the arrest of 21 people who they said used a remote area of the Tohono O’Odham Indian reservation in Arizona. Read Article
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Mexican federal police captured a leading member of the Gulf drug cartel Friday at what appeared to have been his birthday party, authorities said. Gilberto Barragan Balderas “is considered one of the main leaders of the Gulf Cartel” and is the subject of a $5 million reward by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said Ramon […]
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Mexican authorities on Thursday announced that a Bolivian pastor was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for the hijacking of an airplane in 2009. Josmar Flores Pereira was found guilty of taking control of a passenger airplane through threats and illegally kidnap people. He was sentenced to 7 years and seven months in prison. […]
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Smuggling corridor for Indians attempting to enter the US illegally, according to a Fox News Latino report published earlier this week. In the past three years, the number of Indians legally entering Guatemala through immigration checkpoints has surged dramatically. In 2008, only 304 Indians entered the country legally. By 2010, that number surged to 4,966—out […]
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X-ray machines at checkpoints in southern Mexico are capturing the ghostly outlines of a clandestine business worth billions a year, people packed tighter than cattle and transported like consumer goods in tractor trailers to the United States. Read Article
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•According to caracol.com.co , last year, there were 490 deaths due to cellphone robberies which made up 45% of the cases of theft. •The government is requiring that within 2 months all vendors receive authorization from the phone companies to sell their phones. •The government is requiring for the companies to hand over a list […]
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A video by eltiempo.com reveals that Fabian Necta Molina Rodriguez, administrator of a café in the East of Medellín, died due to a sicario attack Thursday afternoon. The attack also left others injured. Two sicarios armed with guns shot at those inside the establishment. So far in 2011, 1700 people have died due to these […]
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•The second such attack on this kind of helicopter in the area, it resulted in the death of a police officer, 2 injured civilians and the theft of an unspecified millionaire sum according to elpais.com.co. •Authorities did not reveal the exact amount, but the shipment is known to be a consignment of money of businessmen. […]
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Manuel Baldizón, leader of a minority opposition party, reported Thursday that their parents have received death threats from the Mexican cartel Los Zetas because they asked to punish those responsible for the killing of 27 people at a farm in northern department of Petén. Read Article
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•Radiocaracol.com.co reports that in Copacabana, Antioquia an unidentified man entered into the home of Carmen Edilia Palacio Londoño shooting to death her and her daughter who tried to intervene. •Another woman, Luz Mileth Castro Herrera, was stabbed to death after a heated argument by her brother, now in police custody. •According to the authorities, so […]
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The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) issued an international alert to arrest the brothers and former owner of Filanbanco, Roberto and William Isaias. The alert, posted on the website of Interpol on 28 March and 26 April this year, explained that the tab is open to Isaiah for forgery and fraud. The lawyer for the […]
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•The Dutch National Attorney General reports that the woman was captured in Amsterdam on Tuesday having been involved in the transfer of cash from the Netherlands to Colombia for years per elespectador.com. •The exact amount of the laundered money is unknown. •As part of an investigation with the Colombian justice system, 1.3 million euros in […]
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18 months after he fled Venezuela to avoid criminal prosecution for what authorities claim were $27 million dollars in illegal currency transactions, a U.S. court granted political asylum to fugitive Venezuelan banker Eligio Cedeño. Read Article
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Pedestrian and vehicular bridges in the different municipalities of the region were the places where they were located the various blankets. In Torreon, around 6:20 am, the Mexican Army took to the streets to remove the covers, along with elements of the Municipal Police, for what was said were removed over ten blankets. Read Article
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The module of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Tingo Maria received modern forensic equipment, which will greatly help to expedite the investigations of crime in the area and also provide a more accurate about the cases filed, according to Huber Villarruel Quispe the city medical examiner. Read Article
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The police officers of the Drug Enforcement National Police of Peru (DIRANDRO-PNP) took the Peruvian Victor Hugo Castro Moreno, 46, and a Colombian citizen Jhon Alexander Giraldo Cardona, 25, to find seven kilos of cocaine his room at the Hostal Sebastian Inn, in the district of Lince, Lima. Read Article With other Cases
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Three men accused of robbing and killing a farmer in the district were captured by Zamugari VRAE commoners, who were nearly lynched. The rapid intervention of the staff of the Anti-Drug Directorate (DIRANDRO) of Palmapampa National Police of Peru (PNP) was able to save them. Read Article
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Jacques Cloutier, a developer who built thousands of homes in Southwest Florida before defaulting on millions in loans when the housing market crumbled, was found shot to death in Costa Rica Saturday, authorities there said. Read Article
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•In the cárcel de Combita, there are over 300 members of the Bacrim currently. •In an interview with RCN radio, Jorge Herrera, leader of Paipa, is concerned for growing lack of security. •José Rozo Millán, the governor of Boyacá, stated that people have been buying lands nearest to the prison despite the fear the prison […]
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According to a video posted by elespectador.com, during the night shift, the criminals robbed medical personnel and drivers on duty. The four armed assailants robbed the paramedics and drivers, and cleared out a cash register before fleeing towards the Boyacá Real neighborhood. Read Article
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The countries of Latin America are working slowly to overcome barriers in the fight against the often brutal violence suffered by children and adolescents in their homes, schools, workplaces or juvenile detention centres. Five years after the release of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children in 2006, a new study presented Thursday […]
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Otto Guevara, leader of the Partido Movimiento Libertario (ML) and 2010 presidential candidate acknowledged last week receiving political donations from Olman Rimola, but denied knowing if the funds came from illegal gambling sources. On Wednesday the Ministerio Publico raided the ML offices and is actively investigating Guevara and others. Read Article
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•On the grounds that the chain of custody was not followed, the files and emails lack legal sustainability according to the Supreme Court. •The discovery of these emails led to the investigations of the connection between FARC and leftist political leaders, journalists, and intellectuals. •The court has filed the processes being carried out for “Farc-política” […]
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The formal business of the country has lost 75 billion dollars a year due to the piracy and smuggling, estimated the president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-SERVYTUR) , Jorge Dávila Flores. Said at a news conference that the figure is “stratospheric” if a comparison is made with captured […]
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In six of 10 cases of rape and sexual abuse recorded in the Federal District, the victim is a minor, while the abuser is a relative or acquaintance who acts even from within the home, gave to know the Sex Crimes Prosecutor of the Attorney General of the capital, Juan Camilo Bautista. Read Article
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The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in Petén are now surrounded by soldiers after the discovery of the bodies of those murdered Sunday May 15, presumably by Los Zetas, […]
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Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, frustrated by Ecuador’s refusal to return the man accused in the killings of a mother and son in Brockton, is urging federal officials to pressure the South American nation to hand him over for prosecution. Read Article
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Daimler AG was ordered on Wednesday to face a U.S. lawsuit alleging it participated in the kidnapping, torture and death of Mercedes-Benz workers in Argentina’s “Dirty War” three decades ago. Read Article
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•Threats to the security of students of the District school of San Rafael South of Bogotá in Kennedy, Colombia have prompted rector Doris Caro to cancel classes for a week for 11th graders. •The violent actions of the gang that operates next to the school include the stabbing of two students as well as threats […]
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•Elcolombiano.com reveals that the captures were made in simultaneous operations part of Operación Emperador in areas such as Bogotá, Medellín, Caucasia and Cáceres, in Antioquia. •Members of the top tier of the group such as alias “Servi,” the financial head and alias “Vicente,” the presumed head of assassins, were captured among the 12. •The National […]
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•On Monday at 10:00 p.m., the two officers, Nelson Enrique Larrea Fernández and Edwin Cuero Rojas, were seriously injured when they were ambushed and attacked with 40 millimeter grenades and rifle shots from a hill as revealed by elpais.com.co. •They were headed towards Todos Los Santos in San Pedro, Valle del Cauca to check on […]
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•Rcnradio.com reveals that the Colombian government plans to ask the Inter-American Communication Commission of the OAS to share black databases and information on stolen cellphones in the countries of the hemisphere. •Diego Molano Vega, Minister of Information Technology and Communication, assured that an order only allowing cellphones to be sold in visibly authorized stores. •Also, […]
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After a lengthy special session in Congress, the House approved on Tuesday the state of siege in Petén established by the executive yesterday, effective for 30 days. The ratification was achieved by a vote of 124 deputies. This measure will limit freedom of movement of persons, freedom of action, lawful detention, the right of assembly […]
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Unidentified individuals shot and killed three women in three hours in two separate events, which also left a bus driver injured, relief agencies reported. The first occurred at 4.30 am on Seventh Avenue and Second Street in Zone 2 of Villa Canales Boca del Monte, where a woman died during a direct attack. Read Article
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Mancora calm district, twice thwarted the theft of personal belongings several tourists an American, speaking to one of the subjects was taken to the Precinct to the proceedings of the case. 1.The watchmen noticed that in the area of beaches, off Playa El Amor, three men tried to steal the belongings of the couple of […]
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The Chilean government has suspended the use of tear gar by police to disperse protests. The decision comes after police used tear gas on a demonstration in the capital that drew some 30,000 people opposing proposed dams in Patagonia. A tear gas canister fired by police in the city of Concepcion wounded one person in […]
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•Per rcnradio.com, Dwight Vásquez boarded a taxi with Leidy Johana Gutiérrez and Daile Brreden [sic], another U.S. citizen in the San Fernando neighborhood in Cali. •While on route to a hotel in Chipichape, 3 assailants robbed the passengers of their belongings and performed the paseo millionario. •American, Vásquez attempted to stop them and was shot […]
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•Santos states that the Colombian state needs at least 35, 000 police officers in order to assure safety in the country. •There are currently 18,780 officers in service after an act adding 600 more to Bogotá. Read Article
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It was 05:30 hours when Jennifer Costello, 24, had been sleeping peacefully. Suddenly, she felt that the passenger who was at his side take out the wallet. But while the concrete the abduction, she manages to wake up and realize. Sos he stood and walked down the hall to immediately report the situation to the […]
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A couple and a custodian who held seven women abducted for sexual exploitation in a room close to Mar del Plata, were processed with custody by federal courts of Mar del Plata, DYN reported. Judge Rodolfo Pradas considered that the accused abused “vulnerability” of the victims and exploited “economically the prostitution that they performed.” All […]
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Dozens of school children of St. Martin De Porres Primary School had to scramble for cover just minutes after the end of their school day Monday afternoon when a lone gunman opened fire on three men standing at the corner of Vernon & Partridge Streets on Belize City’s south side. Read Article
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Critical is the health of the four Mapuche political prisoners held in prison in Angola, which are now serving 63 days on hunger strike. Héctor Llaitul , 43 years old, has dropped 20 kilos since he began fasting on 15 March, and has weakness, cramps in his limbs, insomnia and intense headache. Huillical Jonathan , […]
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Reporters Without Borders hails provincial journalist Jesús Lemus Barajas’s release on 11 May and hopes that the authorities will one day explain how he came to be held for three years in the absence of any evidence against him, and compensate him for everything he has suffered. Lemus and his family now plan to go […]
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•According to eltiempo.com , four candidates for mayor’s offices and four council candidates have been murdered. •Groups such as FARC have been behind these murders as well as threats and several failed attempts to dissuade people from running for or continuing public office. •The police received 2,892 requests for protection and assigned 227 individual security […]
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The administration of Jaime Roldós bus terminal in Guayaquil, reported to police that visitors to the terminal have destroyed sections of the bathrooms and stole items including toilet paper. Bathrooms have also been damaged by significant graffiti. The terminal has two bathrooms on both the ground and first floor. As many as 30,000 people a […]
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Ruleteros(small vans, minibuses) back for lack of buses in neighborhoods. In the 1980’s, limited bus service originated minibuses appeared ruletero popularly called, which eventually began to use larger vehicles. Ruletero now are back and supplement to units that no longer run at some time, by violence. Read Article
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Judge Kattia Jiménez Fernández, Pavas Criminal Court, granted the two Mexican arrest linked to the plane, loaded with 177 kilos of cocaine, which crashed on October 10 last year in the Torres River Canyon, San Joseph. Read Article
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Three Molotov cocktails thrown at dawn on Thursday May 12 led to a principle of fire in the offices of the local police court and the Registrar in the district of Penalolen, in the foothills of Santiago. One of the guards managed to extinguish the fire with the help of police that were circulating in […]
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Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state recorded in March the lowest murder rate in 20 years, according to a report released on Monday by the Public Security Institute (ISP). Despite the fall, the figures are still high. Read Article
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About 29.5 percent of all convicted, Pinochet-era human rights violators are currently in jail, according to recent analysis by the Human Rights Observatory office of the Unversidad Diego Portales announced last week. The study determined that a total of 777 former security agents had been tried and found guilty since Chile’s return to democracy in […]
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Director Lorena Fríes says reformed anti-terrorism law does not meet international standards. The head of Chile’s Human Rights Institute, Lorena Fríes, asserted this week that there are “sufficient grounds” to cancel the jail sentences given to four indigenous Mapuche activists earlier this year. The four men, members of the radical indigenous resistance group, Coordinadora Arauco […]
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PUBLISHED FROM WARDEN’S MESSAGE WARDEN’S MESSAGE – PETEN GUATEMALA May 16, 2011 Dear American Citizen: The following is a Warden Message concerning Security in Peten. Please share the following information with any other U.S. citizens you know, as soon as possible. It should be disseminated as widely as possible within the U.S. citizen community. Please […]
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President Alvaro Colom declared tonight the state of siege in the department of Petén, after the slaughter of 27 agricultural workers who worked on the farm Los Cocos, La Libertad, Petén. He said he ordered the continued presence of the combined forces of police and army ” indefinitely “in Peten jungle region where Mexican drug […]
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Six people, including one Asian and five Bolivian nationals were arrested at this time suspected of being part of a network card cloners debits and credits. With these apprehensions are eight captured by the same crime. The authorities showed a series of magnetic cards found in the hands of the accused.The alleged offenders were arrested […]
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According to researchers at the PNC, some 200 heavily armed members of a cell of Los Zetas, identified as “Z 200”, arrived in Los Cocos Saturday night and attacked the victims, mostly peasants that farm workers. Read Article
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•Professor Jhonny [sic] Alfredo Sierra Vergara was murdered in municipality La Apartada, in Córdoba. •While he was celebrating teacher’s day, he received a call and was shot three times when he stopped out to answer the call. •So far this year, 3 professors have been killed in La Apartada and since December 2008 there have […]
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•Rcnradio.com reports that in the Olivares sector in Envigado, the police captured Jesús David Hernández, “Chaparro”, who is of the “Oficina de Envigado” and accused of many murders in Medellín. •He was captured trying to pass himself off with a fake I.D. as a merchant. •Only after detailed work were the authorities able to identify […]
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•Deputy Carlos Humberto Osorio Monrroy reported that the department was again in a state of apprehension per elespectador.com. •Such events as kidnappings, bombings, and the setting of a curfew in five municipalities have incited fear in the department. •In the area of los Llanos Orientales, there seems to be an alliance between the bacrim organizations […]
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•A video posted by elespectador.com reveals that a woman going to the station to report her son missing found and alerted the authorities of a grenade outside. •The inhabitants of the neighborhood, Aborizadora Alta, report seeing a man leaving the device outside of the Center of Immediate Action. Read Article
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The Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to work in Mexico when shooting broke out and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five. Dozens of them were on their way for another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico’s industrial heartland when the violence erupted. Read […]
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