In the first two months of the year the United States repatriated 66 000 704 Mexicans, of which 63 thousand 970 are over 18 years and two thousand 734 were minors. Read Article
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Next week will be handed over patrols, surveillance cameras and more tools to work to address public security, fulfilling the commitment to ensure the safety of people. Read Article
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According to the Diariorepuesta.com.mx, there have been over 20,000 Mexicans jailed for offenses in foreign countries. Since 2010, the number has been 2,000 and approximately 10 percent are women. Most of the crimes they have been charged with are drug related. The organization that keeps tabs on these individuals is called ‘Proteccion a Mexicanos en […]
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A pair of teenagers were taken to Ensenada as part of an investigation into the murder of an American in the delegation of Bahia de Los Angeles this weekend. The deceased was a U.S. citizen by the name of Mark Stephen, age 48. Read Article
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A 17 years known as “Chuki” was identified as responsible for the death of French tourist, Yves Le Bras, occurred in the hotel Lagunamar Gerda, on 28 March. This was announced by Director of the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC), Luis Karabin, indicating that the youth is residing in the area Savannah Guacuco, Arismendi […]
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He pretended he was a good Samaritan and managed the supply of money to create a company in Cali. More than a million and half dollars that the U.S. government had given to the provision of educational and health services in the state of Oregon (USA.) Ended up financing a commercial shrimp in Cali (Valle). […]
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The Justice Ministry and the National Registrar of Titles busted a network in the real estate jurisdiction of Higuey (east), which allegedly swindled several people and companies out of more than RD$1.0 billion, elcaribe.com.do reports. The arrests come after years of complaints by locals and foreigner of scams in the millions in the Higuey jurisdiction, […]
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As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored. Read Article
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Alleged Venezuelan drug trafficker Walid Makled, who is arrested in Colombia pending extradition, said in a TV interview that top Venezuelan military officers and government officials were involved in his businesses. Read Article
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Despite the multimillion-dollar federal investments to strengthen border inspection ports, U.S. weapons are entering into Baja California through land customs. In 2010, his first year of operation in Baja California, the System Monitoring and Control Vehicle (SIAV) only managed to detect a pistol and 31 bullets. So far, 2011 have seized two pistols, 613 bullets, […]
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The first time Adela Navarro saw her longtime mentor cry was when a top editor at their muckraking newspaper was murdered leaving a health clinic with his two young children. “How many more deaths do I need to understand that we can’t do this?” asked Jesus Blancornelas, who narrowly escaped an attempt on his own […]
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Drug traffickers seek to circumvent the control measures with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Thus, the use of submarines, including two that were discovered last year in the country (one in the province of El Oro and Esmeraldas other) capable of carrying up to eight tons of cocaine into Mexico and United States forces government agencies to […]
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The Federal Police has evidence that al Qaeda and other extremist organizations use the four country to spread propaganda and plan attacks, finance operations and attract militants. Read Article
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Al-Qaeda operatives are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading news magazine reported on Saturday, renewing concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for militants. Veja magazine, in its online edition, reported that at least 20 people affiliated with Al-Qaeda as well as the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, the […]
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Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he was going to be […]
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The report from the National Commission on Human Rights reported that from 2006 to 2011, it recorded a total of 5,397 people who have been reported “missing or absent.” The commission said that 3,457 were men and 1,885 women, while there was no data provided on 55 cases. Read Article
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Juan Manuel Santos president on Saturday denounced the infiltration of violent groups in public universities, after public order disturbances caused this week, during protests by students in some schools. Says there is a clear strategy to organize groups of hooded men to attack the police with explosives and then posing as victims of police authorities. […]
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The state intelligence agencies track the investments you have the Russian mafia in the region east of the country and other tourist attractions in order to place them due to subsequent confiscation. Diario Libre is reporting that the presence of bosses is an especially Russians in the east where they have brought high-profile scandals, including […]
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The Director of Immigration, Jose Ricardo Taveras, said that institution in coordination with state security agencies investigating the existence in the Dominican Republic for an alleged Russian mafia. Read Article
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Directed terrorist group financing and delivery of media aimed at increasing drug cartels with which to do business, either as a source of income or weapons. Speaking to a terrorist group, the key to leadership may be even more essential that the orientation of the direction of a drug cartel and its leaders can be […]
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In the middle of the night on Thursday a pirate or fake taxi picked up an Australian tourist in the center of Lima and her husband to go to the airport. The suspect who has a history of rape and robbery, kidnapped and robbed the victim who resisted and was shot in the stomach. She […]
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A container ship that steamed into a Puerto Rican port Friday was old by commercial shipping standards but it had the latest in security measures, upgrades that convert it into a floating fortress designed to be impregnable to piracy. Read Article
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A 541-day imprisonment was ordered sent a 20-year-old was charged as having committed the crime of abortion, a procedure sanctioned under Chilean law. Read Article
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A group of criminals broke into a building of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Recoleta and robbed at least two departments. According to the first elements found by the police, the thieves gained access to the site after copying the locks with soap and make new sets of keys. Read Article
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Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice, Tarek El Aissami, reported in the early hours of Friday that security agencies seized in the state of Nueva Esparta (Northeast) to a U.S. citizen has applied for drug trafficking. The information on the capture of Lionel Scott Harris, who has red notice request by the International Police (Interpol), […]
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Delegates from 12 countries are trying to reach agreement on how to implement the first multinational treaty designed to stop drug trafficking in the Caribbean. They met this week in San José, Costa Rica at a time Mexico’s and Colombia’s wars against illegal drugs are pushing the gangs farther into Central America. Read Article
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The Fiscalia and officials of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) raided on Thursday the offices of autopistas del Sol and the Consejo Nacional de Concesiones (CNC) looking for evidence of alleged payoffs with respect to the construction of the San José – Caldera. A total of 10 prosecutors and anti-corruption and judicial officials worked […]
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Inmates of penal Obrajes Chonchocoro Miraflores, La Paz, San Pedro, Oruro, San Roque, Chuquisaca, and Cantumarca, Potosi, overcrowded yesterday its measures of pressure to declare dry hunger strike because the Government signed an agreement to increase prediarios of 5.50 to 10 bolivianos. Read Article
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The serious injuries sustained in the blast inside the University of Nariño, caused his death the student Andrés Arteaga Ceballos, doctors confirmed the Emergency Unit of Hospital San Pedro de Pasto, where the boy was sent by relief agencies who attended the emergency. Read Article
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The community members asked that these cases of sexual discrimination are investigated. She is the second member of the LGBT community who is murdered in the last 15 days in violent circumstances at the hands of strangers in the town of Santa Fe. Read Article
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Chamber of Commerce said it increased from 37 percent to 49 percent between 2009 and 2010. The figure is contained in the victimization survey and the perception of insecurity, which at that time the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá was the last weekend of November and during the first three weekends of December 2010. Read […]
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Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that Noel López Olguín, a journalist based in the eastern state of Veracruz, has been missing for the past two and a half weeks. López works for the local weeklies Horizonte and Noticias de Acayucan and the daily La Verdad. Read Article
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As teachers continue to strike and protest in several of the country’s cities, a TV crew with opposition station Canal 36-Cholusat Sur said it was attacked by police while covering a protest on 25 March in Tegucigalpa in almost exactly the same way as a crew with the same station and a radio reporter were […]
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Organized crime seems to have been responsible for the murders of two journalists on 25 March in Monterrey, in the northern state of Nuevo León – José Luis Cerda Meléndez, 33, a program host on the national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for La Prensa, a daily based in […]
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Unknown killed at 20.40 am on Wednesday, four people in the Ana Gabriela hotel, located at km 146.5, at the entrance of Salama, Baja Verapaz. Read Article
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A total of 11 349 telephone extortions have been successfully carried out by criminals since January 2008, reported the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Law Enforcement Federal District. Read Article
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The Mexican Society of Bodyguard (SMG) reported that months ago had warned about a new modus operandi on the part of organized crime in the sense that, for the professional activities of police and bodyguards, would now be their families who were at risk. Read Article
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In raids inside and outside the island of Margarita Cicpc investigates the murder of French tourist Yves Le Bras, 53, occurred early Tuesday at Lagunamar hotel facilities on the island of Margarita. Read Article
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The most deadly weapons and powerful come illegally to organized crime in Mexico come from the armies of Central America and are introduced by the southern border. According to one of the cables supplied exclusively to La Jornada by Wikileaks, the information sent by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico between March 2009 and January 2010, […]
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A group of 89 illegal immigrants from Central America were seized in eastern Mexico when traveling in the false bottom of a trailer, reported Wednesday the Ministry of Public Security of the state of Veracruz. The police, who arrested the heavy vehicle speeding, illegal immigrants found hiding in the false bottom of the vehicle with […]
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Controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched a new operation on Wednesday that for the first time will include the use of small planes to detect the smuggling of drugs and undocumented immigrants across the border from Mexico. “Operation Desert Sky,” which will last several weeks, is being focused in the southwestern and southeastern corridors […]
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American teens and young adults are being recruited by Mexican drug runners to smuggle drugs into the United States, according to the Border Patrol. Special Agent David Jimarez says smugglers lure teens into the violent drug words with promises of fortunes to be made. He said teens are offered hundreds of dollars, told they will […]
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The daughters of Chile’s assassinated former army chief, Gen. Carlos Prats, have sued the Chilean government for $15 million dollars, their lawyer said Wednesday. Read Article
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Some Texas lawmakers, tired of cash and guns illegally making their way into Mexico and fueling violence in the northern part of the country, say they think they know how to help. They are proposing that southbound checkpoints be established where Texas law enforcers can stop and check vehicles about to cross the border for […]
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Honduran authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by police to disperse teachers union demonstrations in Honduras and prosecute anyone found responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. Read Article
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An American woman is demanding that the U.S. government do more to find the body of her husband, six months after he was presumably gunned down on a lake along Texas’ border with Mexico. Read Article
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A serious terrorist threat to the town of Tello, denounced the mayor of the town, Lácides Díaz. Diaz revealed that the front 17 of the Farc extorting builders of a school in the town, in the north of Huila. Read Article
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Police forces of Bolivia and Brazil left yesterday resulted in the seizure of more than two tons of coca paste and cocaine hydrochloride, four buildings, six firearms and 36 vehicles and seized 35 people, among Ecuadorians, Colombians, Brazilians and Bolivians. Read Article
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has urged the Government of Colombia to investigate death threats against organizations defending human rights made by the illegal group ” Black Eagles”. Read Article
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The authorities maintain a warning by the upsurge of insecurity in the premises of the Universidad del Valle in which he denounced as the rector of the institution, Ivan Ramos, have infiltrated hooded gunmen threatening to the integrity of teachers and administrative staff. Read Article
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In RCN Radio advocate for victims of drunk drivers, Maria Bottagisio, said that in the legislative agenda of Congress is not a priority to punish people for driving while intoxicated causing tragedies. Read Article
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he Secretariat of Government of ordered restriction on the movement of children in six districts of Bogotá (Bosa, Fontibón Engativá, Martyrs, Antonio Nariño, Ciudad Bolívar), from 11:00 pm until 5:00 am. Read Article
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Fabiola López Serra, host and resident of Nazareth, denounced the attitude of officials of the Federal Preventive Police located at the junction of the ejido El Huarache-Villa Juárez, because by not carrying a license, they asked 500 pesos “bite” *mordida, bribe), which to refuse, an officer ordered a hooded transit element withdraw the license plate, […]
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By performing espionage (like hawks) in the service of organized crime, two elements of the Monterrey Police Forces were arrested for Support of the State Police this morning. Read Article
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Peru’s government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks. Furthermore, Peru’s government is aware that the illegal timber is being ‘laundered’ using ‘document falsification, timber extraction outside the concession boundaries and links to bribes’. Read Article
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French tourist, Lebres Ives, age 53, was murdered in what appeared to be a robbery attempt at a hotel on Margarita Island, Venezuela. El Nuevo Herald did not name the hotel and the case was still being investigated. Official records state the homicide rate in Venezuela is 48 per 100,000 peopel. Margarita Island is one […]
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Social organizations reported on Monday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) police and military abuses committed in the war on drugs for the management of Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon. “Since in 2006, President Felipe Calderon launched the national strategy against organized crime, there have been complaints from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) about the harassment, […]
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Attended by 350 police and also seized 40 motorcycles, 60 cars, mostly stolen, 40 guns of various calibers, marijuana and cocaine, among other things. Buenos Aires Police today conducted a mega-deals in the locality of Garin, Escobar party where arrested 20 people and seized weapons and drugs, among other things. Read Article
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If it were you or I we would be facing a hefty fine and points for not having the annual marchamo (circulation) permit for our vehicle, however, when it comes to a government institution everyone looks the other way. Until now. Alajuela councilman showing his proof of police patrol cars without riteve and marchamo to […]
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Although women continue being the main victims of sexual violence and abuse in Costa Rica, in the last couple of years men have been a target of this situation. This is reflected in the national survey of sexual and reproductive health by the Ministry of Health, which looked at sexual violence in the workplace and […]
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“Organized crime has used various ways to deliver messages to the opposing camps, public executions began to show its power and then chose to put blankets with messages in the cities, now in Nuevo Leon, for the first Once you have used a wall with graffiti. Without knowing specifically to criminal group they belong, on […]
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overnor Ochoa Javier Duarte pleaded with leaders of organizations of taxi drivers in the municipalities of Veracruz and Boca del Rio to avoid contamination by organized crime gangs operating in the suburbs. When meeting with Labour members of Congress in this city, the president of Veracruz said he was struck by the participation of workers […]
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Some readers or viewers may consider domestic violence against women away to their reality because it occurs mainly in poor socio-economic classes, right? Definitely not unique to low socioeconomic levels. There are many professional women of high economic situation that cross but might be a bit more elusive to accept it. In these cases the […]
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The Unit for Combating Organized Crime (Ulco) on Sunday found 100 boxes of dynamite inside a truck whose destination is presumed were the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). As a result of operating three people were arrested. Read Article
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A dead criminal was the outcome of a confrontation between a band that tried stealing an ATM in Isla de Maipo, and staff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Organized Crime (Brico) of the PDI. Read Article
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Police chiefs from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay discussed the border security. Was conducted Wednesday in Santana Do Livramento, an international police force in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. The event organized by the Military Brigade of Rio Grande Do Sul, through the Regional Command West Frontier located in the Brazilian city, had as main objective to […]
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Uruguayan Committee for the Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents has received 10 complaints this year about child prostitution, said Tuesday Luis putchar, president of the institution. Read Article
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During 2010 the country was stolen two million cell phones, according to data arising from a study conducted by consultancy Carrier y Asociados (who is studying business communications.) One in five people last year renewed his cell he did because he was the victim of a robbery. Over 800 phones a day are stolen in […]
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The Gaula Police arrested a patrolman asked 600,000 pesos to the auxiliary bus. Patrolman Miyer Rengifo Niño could pay a penalty of four years in prison for the crime of extortion (demanding money by taking advantage of his position as public servant). Read Article
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A UK citizen from Wales was drugged and robbed after an assailant(s) drugged the victim with scopalmine. According to Caracol Radio, David Thomas Edwards was travelling from Bogota to Cali on a bus when he was rendered defenseless after being drugged. The suspect(s) made away with his belongings. The victim required hospitalization in Ibague and […]
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The Public Ministry (MP) is investigating a clandestine clinic in Santa Barbara, to be trafficking newborns to “export” to Guatemala, where they are used for sale or for drug trafficking. Following a complaint by a mother who reported that three months ago gave birth to a child, and that was not delivered by staff working […]
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Two bands composed of teenagers were caught by officials Polisotillo in March Hablar sobre la adolescencia es algo que los expertos en el tema dilucidan como actualidad, debido al gran número de jóvenes que hoy se suman a cometer actos hamponiles por diferentes eventos acontecidos en sus cortas vidas. Talking about adolescence is something that […]
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Were caught red handed six people allegedly involved in the crime of unlawful use of natural renewable resources. The action of the National Police on the road ahead of the municipality of San Marcos leads to the town of Majagual. At the same time, the armed forces seized more than 250 blocks of timber.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin a three-day visit to Cuba on Monday for what is described as a “private, non-governmental mission” where the main topic may be the fate of a US aid contractor jailed for setting up illegal Internet service. The timing, coming shortly after contractor Alan Gross was sentenced to 15 […]
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Israel’s envoy to Buenos Aires has asked the Argentinean authorities for a response to a report that appeared in the press there Saturday, alleging that Iran suggested that Argentina “forget” about the two bombings there in the early 1990s in return for improved financial relations, Israeli diplomatic officials said Sunday. Read Article
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The parish priest of Llano Grande, Roberto Ruiz, was found dead yesterday afternoon in the room where slept inside the Immaculate Conception church in Quito. Police believe he was poisoned with scopolamine and that theft may have been the motive. Read Article
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Bars were located indugel 288, 78 detonators and 100 meters of safety fuse. Troops of the Fifth Brigade, assigned to the Second Division, and coin the Santander branch of DAS support, reached the location and subsequent destruction of 288 indugel bars, which, apparently, were to be used in the exploitation of illegal mining. Read Article
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The capture was made by the police and the army on Thursday night in the village of La Selva, the municipality of Rovira, located one hour by car from Ibague. This is Rubiela Mary Rubio and her husband Gualteros Argemiro Mendoza Cuellar. Read Article
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In recent days have reported six murders in this town north of the department. On Wednesday, at 6:00 am, Ayala was shot and killed Pablo Cesar Moreno when he arrived home. Read Article
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Mexican authorities said Thursday they had arrested the local leader of the dreaded Zetas drug cartel along with seven other suspects in the Caribbean beach resort of Cancun. Read Article
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One of the most violent days of the Chilean police history in recent years took place yesterday with the murder of two detectives, one of three clashes between police and the murderer. The series of shootings arose from the municipality of San Bernardo. A PDI patrol was attacked by a man with great firepower, players […]
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The body of Peruvian diplomat Sergio Alonso del Castillo Cebreros, disappeared in the Russian capital New Year’s Eve, was found in a canal of the Moscow River, police said. Read Article
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The head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Luis Howell Ballena, deliver 80 shotguns and 18 thousand rounds of self-defense committees (DAC) of the native communities and machiguengas asháninkas in the valley of the rivers Apurimac and Ene, VRAE. In addition, it is estimated that over the next two months will culminate with […]
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A tourist was killed this morning in front of his family on a Canasvieiras beach , north of the island of Santa Catarina, in the municipality of Florianópolis, when he tried to prevent theft of his vehicle. He had just arrived and was looking for a hotel with his wife and two children. Read Article
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Beginning today, if you are a victim of crime and want to file a complaint, you can do so by way of the internet to access the Poder Judicial website, from the comfort of your home, office or anywhere you have access to a computer. The new tool was announced by the Chief Justice of […]
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Some residents of Heredia are alarmed at the number of transvestites operating their services in public in Barrio Fatima, Heredia. They are conducting surveillance of the area and publishing license plate numbers and the names of the registered owner of the vehicle in which someone contacted a transvestite. Website – clientesdetravestis.com Clientes de Travestis en […]
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The five members(one charged with dereliction of duty) of the police are accused of the death of Fidel Mario Hernani and David Callisaya Mamani, who died between 7 and 8 May 2010 during the social conflicts in that municipality yungueño by the installation of a citrus processing plant. Read Article
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Case: before using physical force. Now express kidnappers prefer to psychologically intimidate victims. Police advised foreign and domestic visitors not to enter into conversation with strangers to avoid express kidnappings and robberies in La Paz. Special Force against Crime (FELCC), said the modus operandi of the robbers changed after a German visitor was a victim […]
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A fugitive doctor who was at the heart of a scandal involving the theft of human eggs at a University of California, Irvine, fertility center was freed from jail in Mexico City, where he was being held for extradition to the United States. Read Article
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Over the objections of DuPage County prosecutors, a Naperville North High School counselor and coach charged with sexually abusing a 16-year-old female student was given permission today to attend a family vacation next week in Cancun, Mexico. John Carbonaro, 33, of Warrenville, pleaded not guilty today to eight counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Read […]
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Mexican authorities have detained an in-law of top drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman who allegedly ran a transnational drug operation that reached as far as Ecuador. Suspect Victor Manuel Felix is both an in-law of Guzman and the godfather of one of the drug lord’s children. Read Article
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Given the climate of insecurity, the National Chamber of Commerce (Canaco) requested the support of local armed forces to protect tourists traveling by road to Nuevo León next Easter holiday period. The president of the private body, Juan Ernesto Sandoval Villarreal, said the escalation of violence in the state must be strengthened security measures to […]
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The authorities are moving in the investigations to ascertain the whereabouts of the members of this band that uses this substance to subdue victims and steal their belongings. An organized network that uses scopolamine as a method to subdue their victims so that they could dock, would be responsible for several thefts in recent days […]
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On Monday police arrested Angie Villada Higuita, Miriam Yurani Darlin Iral and Silvana Giraldo Castaño Grajales, 18, 20 and 24 years respectively, they were leaving a residential neighborhood Limonar. The women came with a laptop, an Xbox 360 and a briefcase. According to authorities, they would have provided victims with psychoactive substance, called benzodiazepines, which […]
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The Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI) – Costa Rica’s child welfare agency – says it rescued on Monday a group of 20 American minors who allegedly received psychological and physical abuse by managers of a reformatory in Puntarenas. The academy “Teen Mentor” has been operating since 2010 in the Hotel Carra in Tarcoles de […]
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“Megaoperativos” is the new crime tactic by the ministerio de Seguridad Pública (MSP), which includes broad police sweeps, with checkpoints at strategic locations and times. The plan, as announced by the minister of the MSP, José María Tijerino, is to focus in all provinces with key areas chosen based on crime activity. Read Article
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