aawsat.com reported Mexican intelligence, in cooperation with Canadian intelligence services, has recently revealed activities for the Lebanese Hezbollah under Iranian support being detected in Latin America, at Venezuela, Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, in addition to the zone between the Paraguay, Argentine, and Brazil border triad.
George Shea, expert in Middle Eastern affairs and lecturer at the Buenos Aires University, explained that Hezbollah, under Iranian sponsorship, now plans on further expansion following the Russian interference in Syria, in addition to the military Iranian presence that has reduced the need of Hezbollah ground troops in Syria. Read Article
Authorities in Mexico had already arrested a Lebanese Hezbollah affiliate, on borders with the US, who was caught with fake identification papers and drugs. However, official authorities have yet not disclosed his name for further investigation on Hezbollah’s activities there.
aawsat.com reported – The search after suspects, affiliated to financial activities for the benefit of Hezbollah around the world, is ongoing; thus effecting US resolutions, which were issued lately by the Congress. The resolutions aim at targeting members and leading companies that facilitate Hezbollah’s activities globally. Most recently, and following the Congress resolution, a suspect […]
bbc.com reported Colombia’s prosecutor general, Alejandro Ordonez, says he will open a “disciplinary investigation” against the country’s chief of police, Gen Rodolfo Palomino. Mr Ordonez said Gen Palomino would be investigated over the alleged creation of a male prostitution ring. The general is also under investigation for alleged illicit enrichment and conducting illegal wiretaps. Gen […]
hoyenimbabura reported the afternoon of Monday, February 15 was held the hearing of flagrante delicto for indictments against seven soldiers who were captured by drug trafficking. The verdict was pre-trial detention for 30 days for the respective preliminary investigation. During that time we will proceed to survey depth investigation of the case. It was Sunday […]
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – foxnews.com reported police in the Dominican Republic say they have killed one of two men suspected in the slaying of an elderly German tourist during a robbery. The tourist was walking with his wife along the seawall Thursday evening in Puerto Plata when the couple was accosted by two assailants. […]
Suspect found in hotel with minor child…. used Facebook to locate girl. elcomercio.pe reported the Special Unit for Trafficking Police Chimbote in Ancash , detained a subject that would integrate a criminal organization dedicated to attracting children via the social network Facebook for the purpose of prostitution in the city of Trujillo. After intelligence work, […]
Six heavily armed men were arrested in the central park of Cotacachi, for the crime of theft at home. Police servers Tierra del Sol District performed the routine patrol in various sectors of the city, noticed the suspicious presence of a representative vehicle truck in which mobilized the now arrested. At 03h40 on Friday, the […]
Father of kidnapped girl: My daughter should return to the US, have custody Dustin William Kent, father of the child, justifies removal of small Adrianna from Peru and ensures that her daughter is American and was born in California. Dustin US citizen William Kent, father of the child who was kidnapped in San Borja , […]
ecuavisa.com reported – According to the Ministry of the Interior in 2015, 704 cases were reported cybercrimes and 10 people arrested, five more than in 2014. The provincial prosecutor of Guayas, Paul Ponce explained that the penalty for computer crimes can range from 1-30 years depending on the aggravating circumstances. One of the most used […]
Lower rates of homicide and accidents during Carnival holiday Ecuadvisa.com reported….Homicide rates and traffic accidents down during the Carnival holiday in the country, the Ministry of Interior, which mobilized 47,000 police during the four days of celebration. Deputy Interior Minister, Diego Fuentes, said that nationally 18 cases of violent deaths occurred in this holiday, while […]
According to Jornal do Brasil, Carnival festivities escalated to violence and crime in downtown Rio de Janeiro this Saturday, leaving one person injured. The Cordão da Bola Preta, one of Brazil’s most historic, highly anticipated street parties, was plagued with assaults, thefts, and fights. The Cordão da Bola Preta is a Carioca (pertaining to Rio […]
bbc.com/Natalio Cosoy reported….At 35, Natalia Ponce de Leon is an expressive woman, with the vivid eyes of a person who once thought that she would lose her sight. Her mother’s home, where Natalia lives, is usually in half-light, because sunlight is not good for burns. She suffered them twice – serious ones. When she was […]
Developing Story: Mystery in Ecuador: What happened to Leslie Allison in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador? Young woman from Texas who loved Ecuador dies while participating in Aayahuasca ceremony near Gualaquiza (Morona Santiago) Ecuador. 35 year-old Leslie Allison was a ray of light and a free spirit by any measure if you speak to anyone […]
Escalating homicide rates in Mexico are affecting the country’s average life expectancy. nytimes.com/RACHEL NUWER reported…According to research published in the journal Health Affairs, the life expectancy for Mexican men aged 15 to 50 fell by 0.6 percent from 2005 to 2010. “In most countries, homicides do commonly occur, particularly among young people,” said Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, […]
lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/Jillian Sequeira / Mexico City is a bustling metropolis that attracts millions of visitors from across the world every year. The city is home to Frida Kahlo’s restored house, the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, the prestigious Souymaya Museum, and dozens of other historic cultural sites. It is no wonder that it has has been ranked […]
27 Nov 2015 mg.co.za/ “A string of women have been killed in Mexico’s top holiday destination, but the authorities are trying their best to downplay the murders.” Quintana Roo is Mexico’s sunshine state, a booming tourists’ playground that draws record numbers of holidaymakers to its golden beaches, coral reefs and Mayan ruins. But, in recent […]
abcnews.go.com reported aA machete-wielding man attacked a U.S. tourist couple as they walked along an isolated beach on Grenada, killing the woman, police on the Caribbean island said Tuesday. Jessica Lewis Colker, 39, of Atlanta, was found dead after her husband ran to get help following the attack, which occurred around noon Sunday on a […]
newsday.co.tt reported an Ecuadorian national was denied bail yesterday by a Port-of-Spain magistrate before whom he appeared on two counts of ATM card fraud. Hugo Victor Rosado Marsical appeared before Magistrate Christine Charles in the First Court at 11 am to answer the charges. With a Spanish interpreter present, the Magistrate read the charges. A […]
hrw.org/José Miguel Vivanco …. in recent years, prosecutors and judges in Ecuador have used charges of “terrorism” and “sabotage” in the criminal code against anti-government protesters, applying broad and overly vague definitions of both crimes that did not meet the internationally recognized principle of legality, which requires that crimes must be precisely defined in law. […]
Violence has risen steadily in El Salvador since a 2012 truce between the country’s two main gangs began to fall apart in 2014. Last year was the most violent on record, with a 70 percent increase in murders from the previous year and a surge in attacks by street gangs, said a civil servant. The […]
Most Dangerous Areas of Mexico The U.S. Embassy urges tourists to avoid travel in the States of Sinaloa, Oaxaca, Jalisco and Nayarit. Elpais.com/Elena Reina reported the United States has issued an alert to warn its citizens about the risks of visiting some destinations in Mexico. Directly mark some States as “banned” for government staff and […]
theguardian.com reported the Body of Dominic Bernard, 18, who has been missing since October, found in shallow grave in farming village. Five people have been charged in connection with the murder of an aspiring British film-maker in Guyana. Dominic Bernard, 18, from Epsom in Surrey, went missing shortly after arriving in the South American country […]
CHICAGO (WLS) — Chuck Goudie and others reported: One of our ABC7 Chicago colleagues was found murdered Friday while traveling in Belize, according to police in the Central American nation and the U.S. State Department. Anne Swaney was executive producer of online operations at abc7chicago.com. She was 39. Autopsy results determined that she was strangled. […]
theguardian.com reported deeply concerned that the world’s most notorious drug kingpin Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán could escape for a third time, Mexico has beefed up security at his prison, moving him between cells, reinforcing the floor of his cell and placing a 24-hour guard on his door. Guzmán, captured on Friday six months after a […]
telesurtv.net reported President Rafael Correa announced a drop in serious crimes, attributed to the investments in policing and the justice system. Ecuador achieved in 2015 the lowest homicide rate in 15 years, Interior Minister Jose Serrano announced Saturday. Ecuador recorded 6.41 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2015, a drop from 8.15 per 100,000 in 2014, […]
What started out as a routine parking violation outside of Lima’s Jorge Chávez International Airport has now quickly turned into a local controversy. On Sunday, three days after the arrest of Scott Myers/panampost.com reported Silvana Buscaglia Zapler, the Superior Court of Justice in Callao, Peru, sentenced the woman to six years and eight months in […]
Ecuadorian beauty queen died during liposuction procedure she won in contest nydailynews.com reported Catherine Cando, 19, initially refused the slimming medical procedure reasoning that she could work off the weight herself but she was pressured, her brother has claimed. Two doctors at the private clinic have since been arrested for negligence. Prosecutors suspect the teen […]
Active Warrant for former pastor Jacob Malone inquisitr.comWhen charges were brought against Jacob Malone, the former pastor hired a lawyer and took a flight to Ecuador. His reasons for leaving the United States are still unclear, but many suspect the trip was related to the sexual assault allegations. The Philly Voice reported that police believe […]
elcomercio.com/Sara Ortiz reported A PhD was the most expensive, costing up to USD 10 000. and engineering degrees prices initiated from USD 1000. An alleged gang of hackers or cybercriminals have charged these prices to record a fake title in the computer system of the Secretariat National Higher Education (Senescyt). Lawyers, doctors, engineers, business managers, […]
(CNN)Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been captured, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced Friday via Twitter. “Mission Accomplished,” the President wrote. “We have him.” Read Article
dailymail.co.uk reported the businessman who recorded the images, speaking on condition of anonymity and with his voice disguised electronically, told the TV station: ‘I always tell anyone I see in the street with a necklace or a mobile phone to put them away. ‘It’s a real shame for the tourists. I see a lot of […]
(Prensa Latina) reported about 30 armed men attacked the village of Quetzaltcoatlán, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, where they killed seven people, it was learned today. According to testimonies of the people, the attackers entered yesterday early in the morning, closed the entrances to the community and broke into the houses of at least […]
bbc.com reported (2014)Tens of thousands of people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico over the past seven years. Most of the violence is attributed to fighting between rival drug gangs for control of territory and drug shipment routes. Who are these groups and who are they fighting against? Who are the main players? […]
Venezuela Sold Immigration Documents to Hezbollah Terrorists. Frances Martel reports, faustasblog.com A Venezuelan diplomat in hiding is accusing the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro of selling visas, passports, and even falsified birth certificates out of its embassy in Baghdad to an estimated thousands of Middle Eastern citizens, including at least one confirmed Hezbollah terrorist. […]
metroecuador.com.ec reported Municipal GAD Cuenca, alongside with other canton authorities, assessed the results of the Contingency Plan held in December 2015, by New Year’s Eve holiday. In total, in this last holiday, were 12 traffic accidents with 11 injured with one victim dead. Likewise, he announced that the December 30, 2015 to January 3 2016, […]
cronica.com.ec reported. After several days of basic operations of intelligence, the staff of the anti-Criminal Brigade (BAC) of the judicial police identified and captured the members of an alleged criminal organization dedicated to the assault of foreign persons residing in the parishes vilcabamba and San Pedro. According to the complaints lodged by those affected, three […]
ONE U.S. EXPAT RECEIVED HEAD TRAUMA AS RESULT OF ASSAULT Robbery-Assault committed on December 16, 2015 cronica.com.ec reported a foreign nationals assault occurred on Wednesday night in the parish of San Pedro de Vilcabamba, who were injured. Authorities request the presence of police in that jurisdiction. The robbery occurred at 21h30, at the Amala neighborhood. […]
This criminal organization was led by alias ‘German’, who also was engaged to collect extortion and arms trafficking in the localities of Kennedy, Tunjuelito, South San Cristobal, Puente Aranda and Bosa. The Head of the Narcotics Group Dijin greater Villarte Marcel Ricardo said that this action was seized drugs which were marketed by children and […]
rcnradio.com reported the National Police revealed that the Group attached units against nuclear, biological, chemical and radioactive threats Dijin identified a company in the town of Engativá in which it was stored radioactive material without authorization as Iridium 192 and depleted uranium. The soldiers moved to a house in that area of the city and […]
rcnradio.com reported the Attorney General’s Office reported the capture of the last 5 members of the criminal organization known as ‘The Canaries’ “Los Canarios” who used to ride the millionaire(kidnap Express) committing capital. Bogota This was said Patricia Conejo Mery, director of the Specialized Police Organized Crime who said that these new arrests are now […]
theguardian.com reported a Canadian man who authorities say killed his British friend in self-defence after the two drank a hallucinogenic brew at a spiritual retreat in the Amazon has been released, a police chief said. Joshua Stevens, 29, was freed on Friday because all evidence showed he stabbed his friend Unais Gomes, 26, in self-defence […]
theguardian.com reported that 18-year-old Ethan Couch and his mother had been missing since 10 December, when Couch broke his probation for killing four people while driving drunk “Crossing over to Mexico is not a difficult thing to do,” Anderson said, pointing out that US authorities do not check who is leaving the US and instead […]
npr.org / Several centers for migrant children have opened in Texas. Authorities expect more children and families escaping violence from Central America to make their way north to the U.S. this coming year. There are reports of a roundup that might be coming. Immigration agents could, as soon as next month, be rounding up mothers […]
eldiario.ec reported a sergeant was killed and six others were injured by alleged criminals on Sunday night released a Granada against a group of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, militarized police) in central Caracas, he reported the prosecution. “According to preliminary information, at about 22.30 local time (03.00 GMT Monday) several people descended from a […]
Canadian dies while serving prison sentence in Mexico thestar.com reported Bruce Vigfusson was jailed for beating a thief who invaded his home, says son, who is asking the Canadian government for help repatriating his father’s body. The family of a Manitoba man who died in Mexico while serving a prison sentence in the country is […]
vallartadaily.com reported the Attorney General’s Office (FGE) confirmed that a unit of the Puerto Vallarta police department was ambushed killing one policeman and injuring another in an area that leads from the community El Colorado to El Veladero. FGE reported that the police officers were on regular patrol when they were attacked by an armed […]
elcomercio.com reported Ecuador Police arrested a foreign national who intended to enter the country with 60 passports of Senegalese citizens, reported Wednesday, December 20, 2015 Interior Minister Jose Serrano. In his Twitter account, Serrano wrote that “today foreign national who tried to enter with more than 60 passports stopped Senegalese citizens”. Read Article
eltiempo.com.ec Assailants often use motorcycles in the carrying out murder for hire schemes. After receiving a phone call Kevin Tenorio, 19, I rushed out of their homes on Tuesday, December 8th. The mother asked him where he was going, but did not answer, just minutes later had the news that he had been murdered. Police […]
eluniverso.com reported a precise figure for the number of counterfeit notes detected in the commercial sector is not available, however, the Central Bank of Ecuador reports that between January and October this year 20,658 species falsified in Guayaquil, which were reported by the financial system were recorded . In 2014, in the city they totaled […]
telegraph.co.uk reported murder continues to blight countries in Central and South America, while almost half a million people lose their lives each year due to intentional homicide, figures reveal. Central and South American countries had the highest homicide rates in the world, according to figures published by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Honduras […]
telegraph.co.uk reported Spain arrests man for performing forced abortions on Colombian rebels Spanish police arrest a man accused of performing more than 500 forced abortions on female Farc fighters in Colombia. The man, known as “The Nurse” and described by Spanish police in a statement as an ex-fighter himself, was detained in Madrid. The police […]
eleconomista.com.mx repoted the Senate approved the creation of the right to a hearing for foreigners who are subject to deportation for participating in political affairs who are prohibited, exercise by itself or by proxy some of the rights of Mexican citizens or violate the principles of the Republic. With 78 votes in favor, four against […]
Three out of 10 fail confidence, honesty assessments elpais.com reported the Mexican Army is in deep crisis. The Tlatlaya case and the disappearance of the normal school of Ayotzinapa have questioned the efficiency of military security tasks. We now know that in their internal evaluations have not been as successful. In the last decade three […]
U.S. citizen detained as major player in sex trafficking and exploitation of minors ring elcomercio.pe reported Joshua David Brown AKA La Bestia'(The Beast) The Third Court of National Research School extended the preliminary detention of US citizen Joshua David Brown and three other defendants to integrate criminal gang involved the trafficking and sexual exploitation of […]
amcostaricaarchives.com reported judicial investigators searched a lawyer’s office in Ciudad Quesada Thursday, and this appears to be related with an effort to find a missing U.S. expat. The Judicial Investigating Organization issued a brief statement Thursday afternoon. It said that agents entered and searched a lawyer’s office in an investigation of false paperwork. The paperwork […]
ministeriointerior.gob.ec reported sources reported that the investigations were conducted by the Unit Against the Crime of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants of the Directorate of Judicial Police (DNPJ) in coordination with the Attorney General. The operation took place after four months of investigation, the morning of Friday, December 11, simultaneously in Carchi, Guayas, […]
ministeriointerior.gob.ec reported sources reported that the investigations were conducted by the Unit Against the Crime of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants of the Directorate of Judicial Police (DNPJ) in coordination with the Attorney General. The operation took place after four months of investigation, the morning of Friday, December 11, simultaneously in Carchi, Guayas, […]
copblock.org reported a criminal complaint filed in federal court shows Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers stopped agent Juan Pimentel, 47, on Nov. 18 near Marana, just north of Tucson. The complaint says Pimentel was driving a rental car and identified himself as a Border Patrol agent when he was pulled over. He consented to […]
FIDH.org reported… and its member organisations in Ecuador, CEDHU and INREDH present and publish today a report (in spanish) analysing the phenomenon of criminalisation of social protest in Ecuador and urge the State to recognise the importance of freedom of speech and the legitimacy of peaceful denunciation, opposition and monitoring of extraction projects or land […]
TURTLE EGGS WERE OBTAINED IN Nayarit, Mexico, Tried to enter U.S. via San Diego reuters.com reported a Southern California couple has been indicted in San Diego federal court on charges of smuggling sea turtle eggs into the United States from Mexico, officials said on Wednesday, a first for prosecutors in the border region. Jose Jimenez, […]
pinknews.co.uk reported trans women in Latin America have a life expectancy of just 35 years a new study has found. Research into the Violence Registry reveals that 80% of trans women murdered in Latin America are in their mid-thirties or younger. However, the Organisation of American States (OAS) say that even though crime against the […]
presstv.ir reported police in Colombia have detained a family of four that were together carrying in their stomachs over three kilograms of cocaine and heroin worth up to USD 100,000. In a statement released on Monday, police said the suspects had been arrested the previous day at the Cucuta airport, near the border with Venezuela, […]
2014 – Liveleak.com Reported 8 – 10 assaults a day on city buses in Manta Ecuador – video warning – graphic SAFETY AND SECURITY IN ECUADOR – READ THIS BOOK
WARNING: GRAPHIC – NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES GRAPHIC video of supermarket worker shot in head on 4-12-15/Liveleak.com
Captured suspect after robbery and assault of two Tourists in Cerro Santa Ana, Guayaquil Ecuador. Eluniverso.com reported on August 29th, 2015, two tourists from Spain were assaulted and robbed while walking in the popular tourist are of Cerro Santa Ana, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The video shows the two assailants walking behind the victims and then […]
elpaisonline.com reported a study by the Foundation ANAR (Help for Children and Adolescents at Risk) in Santa Cruz identified three routes of trafficking in women and sex trade, reported Radio Santa Cruz. “You have a small initial study identified three specific routes in Santa Cruz: the border with Argentina, the Brazilian border and the route […]
Security Agencies Mexico and EU dismantles women trafficking network operating from Tlaxcala; arrested eight people. The Attorney General’s Office broke up an international network of sexual exploitation, composed of 9 people operating in different states and New York City in the United States. The agency reported that the Attorney General of the Republic, Arely Gómez […]
news.yahoo.com.Reuters reported…Authorities in Argentina arrested six Syrians who flew into the South American country on false Greek passports, a spokesman for the federal police told Reuters on Saturday, adding that the bogus travel documents were probably obtained in Turkey. The six, including one minor, were taken into custody at a downtown Buenos Aires hotel on […]
foxnews.com/ap (Sept 2015) reported an American tourist has been shot to death in Colombia during an apparent robbery attempt after leaving his hotel in a wealthy enclave of Medellin. Police say a 65-year-old New Yorker identified as John Mariani was assaulted Friday night when the taxi he was traveling was intercepted by gunmen in a […]
TENSE SITUTION AFTER APPROVAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMMENDMENTS teleamazonas.com reported….The National Assembly, which became the stage of the adoption of constitutional amendments the government.That process was not without strong protests, clashes, injuries and arrests, carried out by those opposed to the amendments and the National Police. Read Article THINKING OF MOVING TO ECUADOR – READ THIS […]
dailymail.co.uk reported a violent brawl among inmates at a maximum security Guatemalan prison has left 17 dead – including three who were decapitated. Hundreds of army troops and police officers surrounded the Granja Penal Canada prison, which holds 3,100 inmates, after violence broke out on Sunday. The violence was triggered during a prison yard football […]
bbc.com reported friends of two Australian tourists missing for more than a week in Mexico will travel to Sinaloa following a report that the men’s van has been found, one of the friends said Sunday. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) issued a statement confirming that the pair’s car had been found, but […]
bbc.com reported after spending almost a year in one of Mexico’s most feared maximum security prisons, Jorge Cueto-Felgueroso knows a thing or two about dealing with adversity. In 2012 he was charged with fraud, and thrust into the midst of 13,000 inmates at Puente Grande Prison, in central Mexico. Mr Cueto-Felgueroso, a lifelong entrepreneur, was […]
In three years, 104,731 cell theft was reported in the country eluniverso.com reported – Josselina M., 17, went jogging on Monday and took his cell phone Nokia 111, valued at about $ 30, confident that, by its characteristic and its price would not attract the attention of criminals. She was wrong. Two men on a […]
Vraem Region of Peru – the underworld of Mochileros – backpacking drug traffickers bbc.com/Linda Pressly reported a remote valley east of the Peruvian highlands is the perfect place for growing coca. Peru now produces more cocaine than any other country, and this is where more than half of it originates. But there is no easy […]
amsterdamnews.com/ Karen Juanita Carrillo reported: Ecuador and Peru – first imprisonments for racial discrimination Ecuador: An anti-racial discrimination decision was handed down Nov. 19, 2015. This case involved Michael Arce, who entered Ecuador’s Escuela Superior Militar—the nations’ premiere military college, known as ESMIL—in 2011 in hopes of becoming Ecuador’s first Black army officer. Arce was […]
bbc.com reported Colombia’s Senate has passed a law which will impose harsher sentences on people who have committed acid attacks. Anyone convicted of harming another with a chemical agent will now serve between 12 and 50 years in prison. In Colombia, an estimated 100 people per year are attacked with acid, but so far only […]
theguardian.com reported …. in a blog: I reported last week on a Brazilian blogger, Ítalo Eduardo Barros, who had been shot dead on 13 November. Eight days later, another of the country’s bloggers, Roberto Lano, was also shot dead. This report on his death, and on the impunity allowed to killers of journalists in Brazil, […]
telesurtv.net reported Ecuadorean authorities announced Tuesday plans to destroy hundreds of weapons seized during anti-smuggling operations over the past year. Over 200 illegal firearms and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition will be destroyed by the military by the end of the month, state media has reported. Over 1,000 weapon accessories will also be destroyed, […]
ecuavisa.com/EFE A Bolivian woman has been arrested after allegedly selling her one month old daughter through Facebook for the equivalent of $251.00. The baby was sold to an eighteen year old woman, who also was detained. They have been accused of trafficking in person. The mother who has four other children that she was not […]
huffingtonpost.com reported in Ecuador, roughly one in six women have experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence. To put it another way, 3 million Ecuadorians have counted themselves a victim of gender-based violence in their lifetime. According to the same Pan American Health Organization research, 38 percent of women in Ecuador have been physically abused, 26 […]
elcomercio.com reported the authorities of Colombia dismantled in Caqueta (south) and Nariño (southwest) a network dedicated to trafficking operating in the Colombian Pacific and Ecuador, reported today, November 23, 2015, police said. The organization moved by deception to Florence, capital of Caqueta department, to underage girls who promised to join the “Summer Girl” competition taking […]
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Mercado San Roque timesofindia.com reported …. QUITO: Six blocks from Plaza San Francisco, tarpaulins and spread-out sheets take over a maze of alleys in Ecuador’s capital city every Saturday. Men, dressed in worn-out jackets, hover around mounds of shirts, ornaments, backpacks, stuffed animals and a host of other knick-knacks put out for sale at the […]
eldiario.ec/ reported… At Sakhadi Seham, terrorist alleged that ravaged Paris, he spent six months in Ecuador before attack on Paris. One of the people being investigated for having participated in the string of bombings that hit Paris on November 13 left Bogota in July bound for the French capital and bribed immigration officials to leave […]
humbernews.ca reported reaction continued Thursday to news that Mexican authorities have arrested a man in connection to the recent murder of a Canadian couple. The arrest was made Wednesday. The bodies of Edward Kular, 84 and Nina Discombe, 72, were discovered on Sunday by their gardener in their lakeside home in the town of Ajijic […]
police have been tipped off that he could be in southern Argentina, according to an Argentine newspaper in Patagonia, El Cordillerano. The paper reported that local people said Chapo had been seen in a sweet shop – a remarkable claim, given his notoriety. The authorities are said to be looking for two cars and a […]
telegraph.co.uk/Harriet Alexander reported Colombia overtakes Peru to be the world’s largest producer of cocaine President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia has appealed to America for help in eradicating coca crops after Colombia returned to the top of the world-producing table . Colombia has overtaken Peru to be the world’s largest producer of cocaine, according to […]
hrw.oRg REPORTED: Ecuadorian security forces used excessive force to disperse anti-government protests in August 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities appear to have made no serious effort to investigate officials who committed abuses. Instead, the government congratulated security forces for their performance, dismissed the protests as violent, and brought criminal charges against nonviolent […]
news.com.au/Erin Van Der Meer reported on common scams used on tourists visiting Cuba. 1. THE MILK POWDER SCAM The scammer will approach a tourist and ask them to buy a bag of milk powder for them from a nearby store. After the tourist has paid for it and left, the local and the store owner […]
QUITO, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) — An official with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Thursday declared that Ecuador is free of illegal cultivation, with no evidence that coca, poppy or marijuana plants being sowed in the country last year. READ ARTICLE
Common Crime in Mexico Remained Steady in 2014, Survey Shows WSJ.com/Anthony Harrup reported Kidnappings fell sharply but number of homicide victims reported by the government began rising in April/ Kidnappings, including so-called “express” kidnappings where victims are held for hours instead of days or weeks, fell to 102,883 from close to 132,000 in 2013, Inegi […]
kgw.com/Global Post/Will Carless reported the Catholic Church has allowed priests accused of sexually abusing children in the United States and Europe to relocate to poor parishes in South America, a yearlong GlobalPost investigation has found. Reporters confronted five accused priests in as many countries: Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Peru. One priest who relocated to […]
mcclatchydc.com/Tim Johnson reported… As the chief executive of what may be the first academy to train drone operators in Latin America, José Luis González is acutely aware that unmanned aerial vehicles can be used for both good and evil. Most of the students who study at his Drone Academy are photographers seeking to capture sweeping […]
jgrguardiannews.com reported a hunter who killed a jaguar in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest was sentenced to six months in prison, officials announced Friday, in a case echoing the deadly shooting Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe. Ecuador’s Environment Ministry said Friday that the hunter posted a picture on Facebook of the slaughtered big cat. The man, identified […]
By Fabiola Torres López / OJO PÚBLICO ecuadorreview.com/ While the Ecuadorian government militarizes illegal gold-mining camps to evict the small-scale miners from territories granted in concession, Guayaquil Airport is a sieve for shipments of gold of suspicious origin. After traveling to Ecuador and getting access to previously unknown records of gold exports, OjoPúblico discovered that […]
panampost.com/Belén Marty reported Ecuadorian free-speech NGO Fundamedios reports that Ecuadorian journalists and activists have likely been attacked with the same spyware used to target the late Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman and Argentinean journalist Jorge Lanata. On August 25, the NGO released a statement based on data collected for an article published on August 21 in […]
BURGLARS ENTER THROUGH ROOF OF APARTMENT Last week an expat family residing in Cuenca, Ecuador for three years were enjoying the day at home. Living a few blocks from Parque Calderon across from Vina, they decided to take a walk down to the river as many expats do everyday. They were gone from between one […]
elcomercio.com reported from August 10, 2014, when it entered into force the new Criminal Code (COIP) until June, the Prosecutor reported 72 deaths of women due to gender. That is, each month there were seven crimes in the country. These types of murders are known as femicide. The first incorporated COIP that figure in Ecuadorian […]