The massacre took place early Sunday in the town of Caserio La Bomba in Peten province near the Mexico border, according to National Civil Police spokesman Donald Gonzalez. Among the 29 dead were two children and two women.
It is one of the worst massacres since the end of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war in 1996. Read Article
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A federal marshal says a fugitive Hindu guru convicted of molesting two girls on his Central Texas ashram is now believed to be hiding in Central or South America. Read Article
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Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 65,000 firearms as part of a disarmament program designed to reduce the high levels of violent crime affecting the country. Gen. Julio Cesar Morales says the number is double last year’s total and includes revolvers, automatic pistols, assault rifles, rifles and even homemade firearms. Read Article
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With regard to sex tourism figures are estimates, because as a little crime and often poorly recorded (cases of exploitation in prostitution or sexual abuse passed as corruption of minors and trafficking cases may take as unlawful deprivation of liberty) and Whereas most countries have no national databases, it is believed that these figures actually […]
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At least five people were killed and ten others injured in an assault perpetrated by a group of strangers into a passenger bus on a highway in western Guatemala, sources with the Volunteer Firefighters.The assault occurred at kilometer 39 of the American road, in Santo Domingo Xenacoj jurisdiction in Sacatepéquez department, the sources added. Read […]
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•Adolfo Erazo Rosero, alias “Chingüiro”, head of the collection office, known as “Los tíos” of Los Rastrojos, was captured in Bogotá by the National Police. •He specialized in collection of payments and debts at times committing homicide. •Los tíos were also involved in narcotrafficking activity in México and Panamá. •Also captured by the Dijín in […]
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Bacrim Use Children As Bomb Operatives and Messengers Vice President of Colombia, Angelino Garzón in a memorandum of understanding with UNESCO spoke out against the Bacrim’s use of children between the ages of 10 and 14 for operations per rcnradio.com. These operations include transportation messages and even operations involving explosives. He announced regions such as […]
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Mexico’s INM immigration agency announced Thursday the dismissal of all its personnel across seven states after undocumented Central American migrants accused migration officials of being in cahoots with organized crime. The purge is being carried out in the states of Mexico, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, the main corridors for […]
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Two prisoners and one prison law enforcement officer died as Costa Rican police thwarted a prison escape at the maximum security La Reforma prison on Wednesday (May 11). According to authorities, on Wednesday afternoon, a group of armed prisoners took the prison director and about a dozen guards hostage and tried to escape. Read Article
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Study Reveals Areas of Bogotá as Criminal Hotspots • Eltiempo.com reports that the Coporación Nuevo Arco Iris performed a study that revealed the areas of Cuidad Bolívar, Suba, San Cristóbal and Kennedy as areas of high crime concentration. • One of the crimes most extensively studied was the illegal autopart market which involves as well […]
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Priest Murdered In Bogotá as Part of a Cellphone Robbery • In a video posted by elespectador.com , delinquents robbed and murdered Gustavo Garcia as he was waiting for a bus. • A few days before in the same area, a similar cellphone robbery occurred.
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Confiscation of Over 16,000 Rounds Believed to Be Headed to FARC Ecuadorian site eldiario.com.ec , reported the capture of 4 individuals (2 of them former members of the military) during an operation part of “Operación Relámpago” (Operation Thunder) today at 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The suspects were apprehended at 3km de la via Santo […]
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Insurgent Alias “Pingüino” of FARC Is Captured • The CIT and Joint Comando of the Pacific captured the insurgent planning to harm members of the armed forces and civilians believed to be head of the militia of the Sixth Front of FARC per elpais.com.co . • He stands accused of an ambush on a patrol […]
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Confiscation of 272 kilos of Cocaine in Las Delicias, Buenaventura, Colombia According to elpais.com.co , when 2 men in a motorboat in the Colombian Pacific detected the presence of the authorities, they fled to the swamps leaving behind ten containers of high quality cocaine. This represents a joint operation between the National Police, Fluvial Brigade, […]
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Two Cylinder Bombs Disabled in Puerto Rico, Caquetá, Colombia • Per report by rcnradio.com , explosives specialists of the army successfully deactivated two cylinder bombs containing 40 kilos of ammonium nitrate. • Colonel Wilson Camargo reports that the bombs were part of an offensive of “Teófilo Forero Castro” a mobile column of FARC against the […]
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Granade Explosion in Mendellín Injures 9 Civilians and 3 Police • Semana.com reports that midnight this Wednesday, in La Sierra in the East of the city, a group of criminals threw a grenade intended for a rival criminal. • The criminal against whom it was thrown is unknown. • The police are offering a 20 […]
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The Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that the Mexican government has issued a warning for those travelling to Guatemala with vehicles displaying Mexican license plates to take extreme caution. The government stated that there is increased risk for these travelers in being victimized by organized crime. The Mexican consuls in Tecum Uman, San Marcos, Jorge […]
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Colombian Group of Real Estate Scammers Rob Newlyweds • According to elpais.com.co , a newly married couple, Javier and Clara, fell victim to two scammers who presented themselves as relatives of the owner. • They paid 20 million pesos for a house only to find out about two months later that the two men were […]
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Police Find 3,700 5.56 Caliber Rifle Rounds in a Bus in Bogotá • A report by elespectador.com states that the police received a call reporting the strange movements of a bus and gave the plate numbers. • Upon stopping the bus, they discovered a box 3,700 5.56 caliber rounds. • The driver, now in custody, […]
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ELN Guerrilla Involved in 1999 Hijacking Is Captured • According to rcnradio.com , the ELN guerrilla, alias “Pablito”, was captured near Santa Rosa, Bolívar in a collective effort by the Army, Attorney General, and the Department of Security. • He is considered a man trustd by the head of the ELN, Nicolás Rodríguez Bautista, alias […]
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Buenos Aires rabbi was treated for injuries in a hospital Tuesday after being attacked by an assailant wielding a nunchaku martial arts weapon. Rabbi Moshe Cohen, the director of an Orthodox Jewish school in Buenos Aires, was accosted by a man who yelled, “Dirty Jew” and other insults against him on Monday night. Police have […]
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Argentine authorities have arrested three former policemen in connection with what became known as flights of death during military rule. They are accused of being the crew when French nun Leonie Duquet and rights activist Azucena Villaflor were thrown from a plane in 1977. Read Article
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A new robbery occurred in the Starbucks coffee chain, this time in Pueblo Libre in Lima. A U.S. citizen was victimized when three assailants entered the establishment. Two females distracted staff while a male assailant snatched all the belongings of American tourist, Joseph Bring Bolanski while he was sitting at a table. Taken in the […]
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The operation of gangs migrated in recent months the country’s rural areas, according to the information handled by the Ministry of National Defense. El Ministro David Munguía Payés, reveló que las pandillas han trasladado sus operaciones a departamentos, que hasta el 2009 estaban alejados de todo tipo de violencia como son Morazán, La Unión y […]
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• Rcnradio.com reports that Saludcoop has been using funds for soccer teams, sports tournaments, and other business that does not involve healthcare. • Current councilor of Medellín, Bernardo Alejandro Guerra Hoyos, held a hunger strike because the Seventh Commission of the Senate would not allow a debate to discover the business between Saludcoop and Carlos […]
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As Makled was handed over today to Venezuela by Colombian forces. Elespectador.com reported that he left behind a recording stating that he had proof, including video, of the involvement of Chavez and other Venezuelan officials. He expressed willingness to present this proof before the International Criminal Court. Makled professes that there is a route used […]
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The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, which brings together more than 100 Mexican civil society organizations, will demand compliance with six demands, which if they are rejected or not met by the government will lead the Movement to call for “civil resistance and peaceful actions to achieve compliance with this ‘end’,” which they […]
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If I had only known that when I was young,” or “if they had only told me” are just some of the statements made by many women who seek assistance at the centre for victims of gender violence set up by the local government in a town on the outskirts of the Argentine capital. Read […]
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In a global triangulation that would excite any conspiracy buff, the globalization of terrorism now links Colombian FARC with Hezbollah, Iran with Russia, elected governments with violent insurgencies, uranium with AK-103s, and cocaine with oil. At the center of it all, is Latin America—especially the countries under the influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Read […]
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The Shining Path claimed another life this week. According to Info Región, Juan Carlos Romero Rojas, 21, was seized from his home in the village of Caimito Monday the 2nd, around midnight and was taken to nearby Pucayacu just hours later. There the Sendenistas bound his feet and shot Romero in the head by the […]
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Detectives from the Administrative Department of Security captured Antonio Vicente Ortiz Parra at the International Gustavo Rojas Pinilla Airport in San Andrés. According to a report from caracol.com.co, the man, attempted to evade authorities by using falsified Guatemalan documents. He was wanted for crimes of theft and manufacture and trafficking of firearms and ammunition. The […]
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According to a report by eltiempo.com, a man reported his brother’s robbery at the hands of two men in a taxi hailed by phone at 03:00. Two taxi cabs arrived after he made the initial call asking for a taxi. They threatened him with a revolver and preformed “el paseo millionario” (the millionaire pass) in […]
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According to eltiempo.com, during operations against the narcotrafficking group ‘los Rastrojos’ which is headed by ‘los Comba,’ the anti-narcotics police force captured ‘Niño Malo’ in Cali early the morning of May 4th. Authorities consider him to be one of the most trusted men by the brothers “Calle Serna” also known as “Comba” and petitioned him […]
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A family is fighting to free a former Seattle man jailed thousands of miles away in Nicaragua. Jason Puracal is being held on drug trafficking charges his family claims are not true, and now the U.S. government is stepping in. Read Article
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A Cuban court has sentenced a Chilean businessman who was once a close friend of Fidel Castro to 20 years in prison, state media said Thursday. Max Marambio, whose Rio Zaza company made juices and long-life milk sold across the island, was convicted in absentia of bribery and fraud. Cuba has asked for the extradition […]
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A reporter who openly criticized regional government officials in northwestern Peru has been killed in a hail of gunfire, a Latin American press watchdog group has said. Julio Castillo Narvaez, who headed the newscast at Radio Ollantay in the northern city of Viru, was a fierce critic of regional authorities, the Lima-based Press and Society […]
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They stick in the back of the collective consciousness – unsolved crimes for which there is hardly any path toward resolution. While not dominating the public’s daily thoughts, they remain tucked away somewhere in our minds, to the point where we can recall them to memory with just a word or phrase. Like “Jolene.” Like […]
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Dutch-born guerrilla Tanja Nijmeijer took part as a member of the FARC leftist group in a bombing that led to the death of a young child, according to interviews in a new book excerpted in the Colombian press Monday. The book is based on interviews last August by journalist Jorge Enrique Botero with Nijmeijer, the […]
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Fabricio Mendes remembers a time when just walking around his neighborhood was a matter of life or death. Drug traffickers roamed freely and guns were plentiful. That was before Alemao, a gritty community of narrow winding streets lined with haphazard houses, was “pacified.” In late November 2009, the government announced that police would move into […]
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Colombia’s Attorney General Alejandro Ordonez on Tuesday suspended Colombia capital Bogota’s mayor Samuel Moreno for three months pending further investigations of “irregularities” detected in contracts for a number of public works projects. Read Article
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Brazilian police say at least four soccer fans have been shot during a fight before a match. Police say 80 fans have been detained after the incident Sunday in which six other people were hurt. Read Article
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A “Burri” from Lithuania (European country), who arrived a few days ago as a tourist, was killed reventársele of 60 capsules containing cocaine that had taken it out of the country. Guntis purins is Latuijas (25) who, at 5:30 pm on Friday, suffered convulsions in a hotel and was taken by his compatriot Kalendaova Laura […]
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A Colombian general has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in a military raid during a hostage crisis at the Supreme Court in 1985. Read Article
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Sweden should explain why a Swedish citizen accused of being a FARC rebel agent was allowed to leave the European country even though Colombia had an order out for his arrest, Venezuela’s foreign minister said Friday. Read Article
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Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government’s probe of crimes committed by Argentina’s dictatorship, has died at 99. The writer died of complications of bronchitis, his friend and collaborator Elvira Gonzalez Fraga told Radio Mitre. Read Article
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A trivial argument turned into a homicide when a tourist pulled his gun and killed Sunday at Luis Alfredo Mindiola, 35 years old, on the Malecon Chichiriviche, Monsignor Iturriza municipality where the victim worked as a boatman. On Monday it emerged that Ruzbeh Amadi, 22, died at the clinic La Viña, Valencia, Carabobo state, where […]
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A former member of the Chilean secret police who was involved in killing a former Chilean army chief during that country’s dictatorship was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Argentina, Argentine officials said Friday. Read Article
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One of the first Mexican drug kingpins to oversee mass shipments of cocaine was extradited to the United States on Friday to face drug-trafficking charges, ending an eight-year effort by U.S. authorities to take custody of a man who once controlled one of the world’s most powerful cartels. Read Article
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A bomb exploded Friday in the regional headquarters of Colombia’s attorney general’s office, injuring at least five people, officials said. Read Article
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Grenades and light anti-tank weapons supplied by the United States to the Honduran Armed Forces (FAH) were seized from drug traffickers in Mexico and Colombia, revealed a cable published in Wikileaks. The document stated that the Honduran army lost several types of arms, which now coincide with the serial numbers of those retrieved from the […]
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Alfredo Hurtado, 45, a cameraman employed by the privately-owned TV station Canal 33, was gunned down in bus in the town of Ilopango, near the capital, yesterday evening as he was on his way to work. The motive is not yet known. Read Article
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Three congressmen say one unmanned aircraft based in Corpus Christi is insufficient to patrol the 1,200-mile border between Texas and Mexico. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, made the comments after meeting with state and federal officials at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Read Article
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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sherman interdicted a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel and took four people into custody 480 kilometres off the coast of Costa Rica, April 3. The semi-submersible and its crew were carrying an estimated 6.4 tons of cocaine, according to the Coast Guard. Read Article
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Five Colombian police officers were killed and two wounded when suspected leftist rebels attacked two police posts in different regions, authorities said Wednesday.Read Article
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A former Costa Rican president who briefly served as chief of the Organization of American States was convicted of corruption charges Wednesday and sentenced to five years in prison. Read Article
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On April 8 a German development bank, DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, cancelled a previously approved loan to Grupo Dinant, a large Honduran company that produces snacks, other food products and cooking oil; the loan was reportedly worth $20 million. Shortly afterwards, EDF Trading, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French energy firm Electricité de […]
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Specialized police agents will monitor the borders of Costa Rica with Panama and Nicaragua, beginning yesterday, in an effort to strengthen the safeguarding of territorial sovereignty, said President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla. Chinchilla explained that the new force will secure the border areas between Costa Rica and neighboring countries in an attempt to ensure […]
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AMAICA could grow its annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 5.4 percentage points, if the country reduces its crime levels to that of Costa Rica. The suggestion was made by the World Bank in its 2011 World Development Report. The Report shows that Jamaica spends U$S385 million, or J$33 billion a year, on indirect medical […]
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In the heat of a one-day police revolt over benefit cuts last September, President Rafael Correa’s government took the extraordinary step of ordering all TV channels to broadcast the signal of state-run television. Read Article
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A trial scheduled for this week in the case of an Ecuadorian police official charged with attempting to assassinate the country’s president was abruptly canceled because the judge went on vacation, according to a court document. Read Article
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He is a confidential informant and ex-felon. He lives among drug dealers and corrupt officials along the U.S.-Mexican border. And after a year on the job, he is calling it quits. Read Article
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A man who confessed to killing a Spanish tourist on holiday in Colombia has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for the death of Irene Cortés Lucas, a mother of five who was killed in the Colombian city of Barranquilla on March 2 this year. Read Article
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Argentina is one of the world’s greatest nations when it comes to soccer, but deadly violence is scarring the game there. Read Article
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More violence over a wider area in Mexico has caused the U.S. State Department to expand a warning against travel to the country. The new warning includes the Gulf of California resort area known as Rocky Point, and the area in Mexico around the border crossing near Nogales, just south of Tucson, Ariz. It also […]
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The number of journalists in jail in Peru rose to two when Paul Garay Ramírez, a programme producer for Visión 47 TV and a correspondent for Radio La Exitosa, was sentenced to three years in prison by a court in the east-central region of Ucayali on 19 April for allegedly defaming a prosecutor. Read Article
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Mexican federal police rescued 51 migrant hostages who were being held in northeastern Mexico, the country’s public security ministry said Tuesday.The hostages were found Monday inside a house in the city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. Read Article
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The Policia de Tránsito on Monday provided the Semana Santa’s traffic statistics, saying it issued during the week a total of 3.500 traffic tickets, taking into custody 57 drunk drivers and counting 10 deaths from collisions on the country’s roads. Read Article
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Recent public missteps by José María Tijerino precipitated his departure as Ministro de Seguridad Pública (Minister of Public Security) at a time when the Government is also evidencing failures to address the problem of insecurity. Read Article
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A courier in Cuenca, Ecuador tipped off the Counter Narcotics Police when he became suspicious of the weight of ten guinea pigs he had been given to ship to Brooklyn, New York. An investigation of the ten roasted guinea pigs (called cuy in Ecuador) revealed 365 grams of liquid heroin and 1,140 grams of cocaine. […]
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Mexico was stunned by a shocking new massacre Monday after four women and a teenage girl who worked in an Acapulco beauty parlor were found stripped and slaughtered. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the body David Niño de Guzmán, a journalist who had been missing since 19 April, was found yesterday in La Paz. An explosive charge was apparently used to kill him. Residents in the area where the body was found heard an explosion in the early hours of […]
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Spain Police broke up a group that laundered money to ship to Bogotá, Colombia, through call centers.A total of 21 people were charged, after sending abroad 223,000 euros (nearly 650 million dollars) by installments of the proceeds, mostly from drug trafficking, police sources reported on Saturday. Read Article
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Washington in August began patrolling the entire US-Mexican border with Predator drones, and several US counties reportedly have pilot programs in police and sheriff offices. The US also sends high-altitude drones over Mexico that “have been particularly useful in achieving various objectives of combating crime,” the Mexican National Security Council said in a statement March […]
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Last Friday at 20:30 hours, 7 armed assailants committed a home invasion while a family was at home according to ElUniverso.com at the development of Oasis del Pintor. This development is located on Punta Blanca on the Ruta Spondylus at entrance number 11 on the highway Santa Elena – Manglarito. The assault took about 20 […]
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This is the time of year when Mexican families traditionally drive long distances to celebrate Easter together. But Highway 101 through the border state of Tamaulipas is empty now — a spooky, forlorn, potentially perilous journey, where travelers join in self-defensive convoys and race down the four-lane road at 90 miles per hour, stopping for […]
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At the largest mass grave site ever found in Mexico, where 177 bodies have been pulled from deep pits, authorities have recovered few bullet casings and little evidence that the dead were killed with a gun. Instead, most died of blunt force trauma to the head, and a sledge hammer found at the crime scene […]
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Authorities in Costa Rica that include the Cruz Roja (Red Cross), the Policia de Transito (traffic police) and the Fuerza Pública (police) had hoped for a calm and fatality free holiday week. However, that has not been the case. With still two days to go, the death toll for the Semana Santa (Holy Week) to […]
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“Despite all I had confidence in the police, but after that I know two of them are guilty of the death of my brother, can not tell who is right or who’s bad,” says Rodrigo, Marco Samaniego Lara’s brother, killed in June 2010 allegedly by active agents of the Judicial Police of Pichincha (PJP). Read […]
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The victims of forced sterilization program that the IMF demanded that the president Fujimori seeking justice in the Peruvian courts. She was 30 when I had the operation and since then I almost useless in the field, “says Cléofl Neira, 50, from the door of her adobe house. In Yanguil, a village a few hundred […]
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The Peruvian police force suppressed a popular uprising in the province of Oyón on Sunday. The evacuation of 300 villagers who were blocking a mining venture in Buenaventura left one person dead and thirteen injured. According to reports from the National Radio Coordinator, around 600 police units broke down the blockade that the villagers had […]
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Black communities of the Pacific coast of Cauca in Popayan reported, amid an outcry, the slaughter of seven youths amid a tough onslaught of paramilitary activity in this area, it has reached with operators of gold mines. Amanda Hurtado, a spokeswoman for the community, said armed men appeared at the bottom Timbiquí Township and killed […]
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In a journey that advance this Easter humanitarian agencies in the border area between Colombia and Ecuador, was found in Lake Agrario, the province of Carchi and Esmeraldas, a large number of Colombians fleeing the armed conflict. Read Article
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Crimes reported – April 9, 2011 through April 15, 2011 646 criminal complaints filed with prosecutors offices – police 122 property crimes 6 homicides 6 aggravated robberies 5 express kidnappings 10 rapes – sexual assaults 27 robberies 16 burglaries 42 vehicle thefts 9 business premises robberies Remainder – misc. Source: ESPOL –
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Red Alert in the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Airport in Guayaquil, on Wednesday afternoon allowed the detention of Basque Jhon Jairo López, alias’ Nico ‘, considered by Colombian police as a ringleader of the criminal organization’ Cordillera ‘, Read Article
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) has filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit in federal court in New York seeking to block enforcement and recognition of a judgment entered against the company in Lago Agrio, Ecuador. The amended complaint cites newly discovered evidence that the Lago Agrio plaintiffs’ lawyers and consultants, at a minimum, provided clandestine […]
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Argentina’s president has ordered all federal forces to search for a key witness against a former military officer in the death of a bishop who tried to intervene on behalf of victims of the dictatorship.The 52-year-old man’s wife said he disappeared on Monday, and President Cristina Fernandez ordered the federal search. Read Article
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An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced concern about the increasing rate of violent evictions taking place in Argentina and called for a comprehensive strategy to tackle the country’s housing crisis. In a news release issued at the end of her week-long visit to the country, Raquel Rolnik said she heard countless testimonies […]
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After a 7-year process conducted by legal and diplomatic ways before the German Government, which concluded with success, Mexico recovered 49 archaeological pieces illegally subtracted from national territory. This is the first delivery made to Mexico of Prehispanic objects seized in 2004 in Frankfurt, part of the Patterson Collection. Read Article
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tice Department arrested another person tied to the Cibao Cartel, an international network recently dismantled and whose main members exported more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine over the last 11 months from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Read Article
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Former lieutenant Elias Enmanuel Núñez accused his supervisors of protecting drug dealers and stealing dope. He was fired, threatened with death, and officially logged as one of the 5,000 crooked police officers, soldiers or anti-narcotics agents sacked in the past three years, the United States newspaper Miami Herald reported. Read ArticleR
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A 53-year-old Canadian man sought by Interpol on pedophilia charges has been arrested at the Gregorio Luperon International Airport, in Puerto Plata, 215 kilometers from Santo Domingo. According to a press release, Gerald Genest will be turned over to Canadian authorities. Read Article
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Senior executives from online betting companies like PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Abolute Poker indicted by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York in U.S. for bank fraud, money laundering, illegal gambling and other crimes. Read Article
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After the killing, the guerrillas mounted next to the bodies a minefield to try to kill the patrols to try to recover the bodies. Near the gorge Taques in Toledo (Antioquia), were found shot in the head with the corpses of two soldiers kidnapped last Monday by the front 36 of the Farc in the […]
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According to Colombiareports.com, there have been at least seven robberies of tourists residing at hostels in La Candelaria district in Bogota over the last eight months. These robberies have been violent with the use of weapons and included sexual assault offenses. The website reported that at least one American tourist has been sexually assaulted. Furthermore, […]
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An Arizona sheriff says he has been flooded with calls and emails of support from local and federal agents who back his claims that the U.S. Border Patrol has effectively ordered them to stop apprehending illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. Read Article
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Former paramilitary attacks against civilians in Colombia alarm the Organization of American States, but its secretary general, Jose Miguel Insulza admitted that “violence has decreased.” The violence was recorded mainly in the departments of Antioquia, Chocó and Nariño Córdoba – AP The Organization of American States (OAS) expressed concern over civilian killings and attacks by […]
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You arrive after a long flight to Santiago and one of the first things on your list to do is exchange euros or dollars into Chilean currency. The guidebooks tell you to go to Paseo Ahumada y Moneda where many of the exchange houses are and a million people pass through the area daily. Two […]
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President Evo Morales, an outspoken critic of Washington “imperialism”, has accepted financial aid to monitor efforts to eradicate coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The government accepted the $250,000 offer following setbacks to its counter-narcotics programme which prompted calls for a return of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Read Article
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The agents involved in the fight against drug trafficking, the Rural Patrol Unit Motor (UMOPAR), entered a surprise in the town of Manchuria, in the district of Monzon, and destroyed two giant labs basic rustic pasta cocaine (PBC). The operation began at 3 am, when the troops reached the area by land. According to investigations, […]
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