Pamela Yates, director of the new film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, and a documentary filmmaker with Skylight Pictures, believes taking a journalistic film about war crimes prosecution to the Academy Awards could help elevate human rights causes in the West. Read Article
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Police in Chile say a small bomb exploded and broke some windows at a U.S. cultural institute hours ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival. No one was injured in the attack, which happened in Vina del Mar, a seaside city far from the Obamas’ activities in the capital of Santiago. Read Article
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This is a clip from the film ‘Impunity’ which is a new documentary that Hollman Morris produced with filmmaker Juan Lozano. It won a special mention at the International Human Rights Film Festival and Forum on March 11th, 2011, in Geneva. The film condemns the amnesty which paramilitaries received under the Justice and Peace Law […]
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Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of a new message from the “central column” of the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) paramilitary group voicing threats against journalists, civil society figures and NGOs. Dated 14 March and sent from a Gmail account in the name of “fenixaguilasnegras,” the message promises the “extermination” and “purge” of a […]
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Gunmen stormed the early hours of Sunday a security company stock in the Mexican city of Oaxaca (south) and stole an estimated 157 million pesos (13 million), a source of state prosecutors. Six men armed with shotguns “entered the premises of the Company Transfer Securities Mexicana on board a van with the logo of that […]
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Settlers set fire to the gangsters who had stolen a collection of gold shop in the district of Ananea. Inhabitants of the village center in La Rinconada Ananea district in the province of San Antonio Puno Putina, burned alive three criminals who robbed a store last night buyers in gold. There were four thugs who, […]
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There are private security and continued presence of the police, but crime persists. The case of the Central University student Francys Aries Castro, 23, who last March 2 injured with a knife, after suffering a robbery after leaving school, is the most serious happened to a student at the center Bogota, in recent months. Read […]
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ATM cloning continues to be a challenge for Ecuadorian banks. Banco Pichincha has been working with a new biometrics keypad that actually registers and stores the rhythm and force of the authorized users hand when entering the password for the debit or credit card at an ATM. The three largest banks impacted by cloning are: […]
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A Colombian man is jailed in Miami 17 years after he and three brothers were indicted on charges of working for the now-defunct Medellin cocaine cartel. Sigifredo Maya made his first court appearance Friday and was ordered held without bail. Authorities say the 48-year-old Maya was detained a week earlier in Panama while attempting to […]
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The crime report describes the body of the shooting victim in the plain, unadorned language of the police: Thin. Black hair, light brown skin, purple blouse. Bullet wound in chest. Then comes the age: About 4 years old. Children, from toddlers to early teens, are increasingly falling victim to the brutal violence of Mexico’s drug […]
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The objects were to be sent through the agency Serpost in Los Olivos. Creativity associated with crime has no boundaries. Police today seized a parcel containing guinea pig stuffed with false disguise $ 25 000, which were ready to leave for New York. Read Article
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), speaking at a conference on border issues Thursday, said 663 individuals arrested along the southwest border in 2010 were from countries designated as “special interest” or from countries known to have ties with terrorism. Read Article
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Yesterday morning at 02:45 am four men were discovered by authorities to be unconscious on the corners of Calle Cristobal Colon and the 15th. Apparently they had been given a dose of scopolamine. The victims had no identification or any items of value in their possession. There was a card left by one of the […]
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Police estimate they took removed 226,000 marijuana plants from 23 locations in the Talamanca mountains in an operation that used a helicopter to locate the fields. To date for 2011 the Ministry of Security has successfully eradicated a total of 443,056 marijuana plants in Costa Rica. Read Article
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Without compassion, two assailants on a motorcycle intercepted a jocular(lottery seller) near the building of the Social Protection Board (JPS) in San Jose, and a bullet hit him in the leg to take the briefcase he was carrying the money and the lottery selling to take support his family. Read Article
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Campaigners for a law change making it harder for war criminals to use Britain as a safe haven were yesterday celebrating the first arrest made under the new legislation. The arrest was of a 46-year-old man living in Tiverton, Devon, who is suspected of involvement in death squads which operated in Peru as a state-backed […]
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A 31-year-old Colombian man has been arrested here for running an international gang that committed two robberies within five days of its arrival in the capital, police said Wednesday. After his arrest Tuesday evening, gang leader Edier Jaidiber of Bogota told police that he had studied the Indian Penal Code and believed that he won’t […]
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A Paraguayan-registered plane carrying 180 kilos of cocaine and 291 kilos of marijuana was seized in a raid by agents of the Brazilian Federal Police at the airport in the town of Lucelia, located west of the state of Sao Paulo. The aircraft departed from the city of Pedro Juan Caballero. Read Article
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Three U.S. senators are asking the Treasury Department to finish long-awaited rules on prepaid gift and credit cards that cross the U.S. border with Mexico bypassing anti-money laundering requirements that anyone transporting more than $10,000 declare his or her holdings. Read Article
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he Mexican government said Wednesday it has allowed U.S. drones to fly over its territory to gather intelligence on drug traffickers, but insisted the operations were under its control. The country’s National Security Council said in a statement that the unmanned aircraft have flown over Mexico on specific occasions, mainly along the border with the […]
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The Government will on Thursday the first group of Colombian prisoners in Ecuador, who will be repatriated from the neighboring country and delivered to the International Bridge Rumichaca. Texto copiado de www.rcnradio.com – Conozca el original en http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.rcnradio.com/noticias/16-03-11/confirman-repatriaci-n-de-primer-grupo-de-colombianos-presos-en-ecuador&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhhQrE2Kanb7D8sH2KEv5pRs0oLNVQ#ixzz1Gmmoq3ub Read Article
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During 2010 the Policía de Control Fiscal del Ministerio de Hacienda (Fiscal Control Police of the Ministry of Finance) seized more than 7.000 litres of whisky and almost 3.000 litre of rum, the products most entering the country illegally. Luis Alonso Bonilla, director de la Policía de Control Fiscal, says that confiscation of bootleg liquor […]
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Federal Police in Brazil captured drug trafficker who is also accused of numerou homicides. The suspect was near Rio Javarri which is located on the border of Brazil and Peru, and was transporting 30 kilos of cocaine. The operation also discovered an Israeli grenade along with weapons and cell phones. Read Article
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The military courts, police ruled the operational management of the confrontation between the indigenous and the National Police of Peru, which occurred on June 5, 2009 and left the balance of 34 Peruvians dead at Devil’s Curve in Bagua, Amazonas. According to the statement, Gen. Elias Muguruza Luis Delgado was convicted of “failure of performance […]
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A New Mexico mayor, the police chief and a town official were busted in a scheme to supply Mexican drug cartels with guns, federal agents said. Eddie Espinoza, the mayor of Columbus, Angelo Vega, the police chief, and Blas Gutierrez, a village councilman, were arrested last week. Read Article
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In a pamphlet said several leaders as military targets. “For about five years did not come as we receive pamphlets last week,” said Gerardo Santibañez, a director of the Union of Workers and Employees of Autonomous and Decentralized Public Service of Colombia (Simtraemsdes), chapter Risaralda, who was designated as “military targets”, through a pamphlet that […]
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The victims were a woman and eleven men were killed, apparently, for eight days.The bodies of twelve alleged members of armed drug gangs were found in a deserted rural area poblaciónde Caucasia, local authorities said Monday. Read Article
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On Friday evening a 19 year old female took a taxi to Manco Capac, San Sebastian. The driver changed his route and she was taken to a vacant lot where two other suspects were involved. They robbed and abused the victim. One of the suspects forgot their phone which police used to track down the […]
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A Northern Arizona University professor is reported to be safe and back with her family in Mexico after being briefly kidnapped. School officials said Saturday that Veronica Perez Rodriguez was the victim of a kidnapping late Friday while visiting family members in Ciudad Juarez. Read Article
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Argentine judge Marcelo Aguinsky dismissed charges against the U.S. after an American military aircraft was seized in the South American country for allegedly smuggling undeclared items, including weapons and surveillance equipment, local media reported Friday. Read Article
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Panamanian authorities are continuing to work on a double taxation treaty with France that would bring the country into compliance with standards set by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to avoid being included on a list of tax havens. Read Article
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The Defense Department says gunmen opened fire on troops as they approached the camp outside San Fernando, a town in the border state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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Whoever was responsible for planting the bomb that killed seven people and left 21 wounded at a press conference 26 years ago at La Penca likely got away with it. Read Article
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Peru’s presidential election race has been rattled by allegations that cash from the drugs trade has made its way into campaigns and that traffickers are extending their political influence. Read Article
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Banners hung in a western Mexican state announced a previously unknown gang calling itself the “Knights Templar” on Thursday, less than a month after the local La Familia drug cartel said it intended to disband. The signs said the “Knights” will replace the cartel, which is considered Mexico’s leading trafficker of methamphetamines, and fend off […]
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that any company that pays extortion money to outlawed rebel groups will be kicked out of the country. The president’s comments come after reports of a possible or planned payment by Canadian oil firm Talisman Energy Inc. (TLM, TLM.T) to secure the release of oil workers who were […]
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FBI agents are traveling to Peru to study a laptop belonging to Joran Van der Sloot — who was arrested twice in connection with the Natalee Holloway case, but was not charged — according to a Lima court document. Read Article
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About 220 Colombian indigenes had to leave their homes in the western department of Choco due to pressure and attacks by an organized crime ring, humanitarian organizations reported Wednesday. The 220 people from 43 families of the Embera community near the municipality of Bajo Baudo were forced to leave by “Los Rastrojos,” an armed gang […]
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U.S. diplomats in Costa Rica have offered help in the construction of the “Centro de Intervenciones Telefónicas” (Telephone Intervention Centre), that the Poder Judicial (Judicial Branch) will be building in their effort to fight drug trafficking and increase public security. Read Article
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Two Colombians were arrested with fake passports on Wednesday morning at the airport Villeda Morales San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras. The capture was made by the Border Police, after airport authorities said inconsistencies in the documents of the two foreigners. Read Article
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Migration authorities became suspicious of eight Asians who had arrived at the airport in San Pedro Sula. They were denied entry because they could not provide an exact location where they would be staying. Their return tickets also were suspicious. Seven of the individuals were from mainland China and one was from Taiwan. Read Article
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MEXICO CITY, March 9 .- In Baja California Sur, the private airport in Punta Arena de la Ventana, La Paz is administered by an American convicted of drug trafficking in the United States. On 26 February, the governor of the state, Narciso Agundez Montano, attended the reopening of the airfield. The concession to operate and […]
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Members of the PRI and demanded Pt separately, revoke the grant, investigate and initiate appropriate proceedings against those who have committed a crime by the grant of a private airport in La Paz, Baja California Sur, given the American Angelo Joseph Bravo, convicted of drug trafficking in the United States. Read Article
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Authorities have reported that there have been three complaints regarding cash machines distributing worthless foreign currencies. The report did not indicate if the bills were counterfeit or were damaged making them worthless. There have been three recent complaints filed of the worthless currency. Bancomer at Comercial Mexicana HSBC at Zona Dorada Banamex at Zona Dorada […]
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On Tuesday morning masked men approached the nightclub Antares located between Avenida Insurgentes and Rafael Buelna in Mazatlan. Using AK-47’s they began spraying the crowd that was leaving the club. There were at least killed and twenty individuals injured. The nightclub was hosting a private party. Read Article
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Today, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) announced its opposition to remarks made by President Obama regarding the role and safety of ICE Special Agents assigned to Mexico. After his meeting with Mexico President Calderon on Thursday, President Obama stated, “There are laws in place in Mexico that say our agents should not be […]
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U.S. law enforcement officials announced Wednesday that 10 Mexican nationals associated with a notorious criminal gang have been charged in last year’s murder of a U.S. consulate employee and two other people in Juarez, Mexico. Read Article
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An acclaimed documentary that shines an unflattering light on Mexico’s secretive legal system was back in the country’s theaters Wednesday after an appeals court overturned a judge’s order blocking screenings. Read Article
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The Venezuelan Ministry of Defense has published a set of rules to control the acquisition, possession, use, registration, ammunition, equipment and accessories for the bodies and law enforcement bodies. According to the Official Gazette, embodied in the report, the new rule specifies that only police officers used “special weapons” are the CICPC, the intelligence agencies […]
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Six politicians once held hostage by Colombian rebels are seeking $20 million for financial and emotional losses from the government they blame for allowing them to be snatched, officials said Tuesday. Read Article
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While visiting this amazing city you must be vigilant in protecting your valuables. Recently two Peruvian thieves were apprehended after assaulting two young tourists from Argentina. The two thugs were stealth in their operation as they mingled among the vendors located at San Francisco Square in Cusco. Police launched an intense chase through the streets […]
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Tourists were recently robbed of numerous items while staying at the Hosteria Mantaraya, located in Puerto Lopez in Manabi. The alleged ring leader was ‘Felix the Cat” (Gato Felix) who is associated with the gang ‘Fideo’ (noodles). According to police the elements of the gang was disbanded last year by authorities. However, a number of […]
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Early Tuesday morning a U.S. tourist and his wife accused police of robbing her of 3,000 pesos. The tourist’s wife was surprised by five officers assigned to a special unit for security during carnival while she was relieving herself in a vacant lot on Avenida Del Mar. The five officers were detained after the tourist […]
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Colombian troops have freed all but one of the 23 local oil contractors working for Canadian operator Talisman Energy, who were snatched a day earlier by suspected FARC rebels, authorities said on Tuesday. Read Article
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Ecatepec, Mexico – It’s been two years since Obdulia de Paz’s former boyfriend broke into her home and killed her mother and daughter with the help of his son, nephew, and a friend. “The police carried my daughter out wrapped in a blanket filled with blood,” Ms. de Paz says. “I wanted to see her […]
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A young man(20’s) going to the aid of a woman being attacked by gang members, was stabbed in the heart by one of the gangsters. They fled after the assault. This was the first registered death this year for Carnival in Veracruz. The tourist was from Poza Rica Read Article
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Joran van der Sloot plans to plead guilty to killing a young Peruvian woman he met gambling but will argue temporary insanity in a bid to shorten his sentence, his defence lawyer said Monday. Read Article
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Gunmen swarmed a convoy transporting two prisoners in northern Mexico, shredding three police vehicles with bullets and killing seven officers and one inmate, prosecutors said Monday. Six officers and the second inmate were wounded. Read Article
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Suspected FARC guerrillas have kidnapped 23 local oil contractors carrying out exploration work in a remote jungle area of Colombia for Canada’s Talisman Energy Inc, authorities said on Monday.Read Article
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Five underaged children were rescued while they were being transported to work in the gold mines of Madre de Dios. Police stopped the truck the children were riding in at Quispicanchi, Cuzco. During questioning the children revealed they were kidnapped by a female at the Plaza De Armas de Urcos(Cusco) who was transporting them to […]
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Initial investigations indicate that the assault did a gang of minors. A young Englishman died shot in the west of Medellin when he tried to resist a robbery on Saturday night. The victim, according to preliminary versions are that he has not been positively identified but was in his early twenties. The incident occurred when […]
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The 75 percent of six thousand women who reported being assaulted by her partner now lives independently and away from his assailant, said Martí Batres Guadarrama, Secretary of Social Development, to deliver 150 new cards yesterday acceptance program against domestic violence. Read Article
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A nightmare is lived in the late-night in this capital, as a result of clashes between rival gangs of criminals who used the street to settle their differences with a bloody balance. Long minutes of tension, real panic among the citizenry were experienced after intense firefight in which surfaced from the fearsome assault rifles and […]
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Two policemen State of Mexico (one judicial and one municipal) and the “godmother” of the first, were arrested Saturday night after an intense firefight in the vicinity of Zinacantepec municipality in the State of Mexico, while attempting the ransom of a “express kidnapping” that had been made in the municipality of Xonacatlán, falsely claiming that […]
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A statement by the Cuban government Saturday night said that during the trial Gross accepted some responsibility but added that he had been “used” and blamed the company that sent him to the island. The fate of Alan Gross, a 61-year-old Maryland native detained for more than a year since being caught bringing communications equipment […]
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More than 50 years of conflict between Cuba and the United States, and in particular Washington’s consistent support for dissidents in this Caribbean island nation, will leave their mark on the trial of U.S. citizen Alan Gross that began this Friday. Gross was arrested Dec. 3, 2009 when he was attempting to return to the […]
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Captured inside the country, staying in various hotels in the capital and then the training started in the same Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez: The mules were shown step by step the route to be followed, until the situation they faced in each of the checkpoints. Thus, an international mafia was directed from the Lurigancho used […]
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Pirates in Callao again attack a cargo ship. This time, 20 of these criminals, armed with guns, surprised the crew of a Japanese vessel after gunpoint and handcuffed the crew, took possession of various machinery, along with money and fuel of the ship. This new assault, which is the third pirate attack in the last […]
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Unfortunately the entrepreneurs of the city center as in some other places in cities, violence has been eroding economic resource inflows of tourists and there is still hope that there is joint action by state and federal authorities , Alvaro Zaldivar said Abreu. Interviewed, Zaldivar Abreu selling handicrafts and silver was always true that the […]
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Earlier this week a Spanish woman was visiting Baranquilla and was murdered by two subjects. Look carefully how the assailants set up the attack. There was no one else in the Restaurant. The group the victim was with did not even seem to note anyone else coming in and sitting down even though the two […]
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This morning, Public Safety items robbery foiled a passerby on the coastal road south of the island, where they arrested two of the four alleged assailants, Pedro Raymundo Marcial Herrera and Pedro Antonio Vela Tzuc, who were referred to the Public Ministry of Common Jurisdiction Corcuera Benito Hernández, deputy director of Public Security reported that […]
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Assassins shot and killed last night in Itakyry, department of Alto Paraná, the political commentator and Medardo colorado Romero. According to preliminary data, strangers came to the house of the victim and shot him in front of their children and then made a quick escape. Read Article
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The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a non-governmental organization that has been working for over 30 years to locate the families of children kidnapped and “disappeared” during the military dictatorship in Argentina, is this year’s recipient of the United Nations cultural agency’s peace prize. The Jury of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, meeting in […]
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The “State of Children in Peru” is part of the effort to place on the public agenda prioritization of children and adolescents in public policy. Read Article
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Eight soldiers were arrested while transporting a ton of cocaine in Tijuana, said Thursday the military command. The commander of the Second Military Region, General Alfonso Duarte, told reporters that the military were working with a group of civilians to traffic drugs. Read Article
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Terror MAZATLÁN._ among scavengers of generated municipal basurón the discovery of a hand and forearm, which was located by one of the workers among the piles of rubbish on the site. Read Article
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Majority Of Costa Rica’s Prison Population Between 12 and 35 Years Of Age. The Ministro de Justicia (Justice Minister) Hernando París, revealed that 60% of Costa Rica’s prison population is between the ages of 12 and 35, meaning that a majority of economically active and young Costa Ricans fill the prisons. Read Article
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nfodefensa.com) By P. Palacios, Lima – members active and retired Air Force and the Peruvian army were involved in a network of illegal arms from different quarters for Peruvians and narco-terrorist organization called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Ejercito del Pueblo (FARC_EP). The research was conducted by the Third Provincial Criminal Prosecutor Lima Supra merit […]
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More than 2 000 streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city have been closed to public access by its residents to protect themselves against organized crime, sources said Sunday the municipal government. Fearful after more than 7 thousand murders in the last three years, some neighborhood groups decided to make their streets and install […]
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The skeleton of a man was found in access to Pacific Highway Mazatlán, Culiacán, at the height of the ejido El Venadillo.The macabre discovery was made at 10:30 pm today, when employees were carrying out cleaning brush. Read Article
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Italian Max Simonet, 49, was shot dead during an armed robbery committed by a taxi driver in the field of K Street, Paradise, while in the company of a lady. The crime took place at dawn on Monday. Read Article
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In the world of Harry Potter, owls are a bridge between the magical and muggle (that’s normal folk to me and you) world. In the world of soccer in Colombia, an owl has become the link between the Deportivo Pereira defender Luis Morales and a fine and suspension, which was announced on Wednesday. Read Article
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American Court of Human Rights yesterday heard the arguments of Venezuelan former mayor Leopoldo Lopez , the first of two hearings in which will discuss the political disqualification of more than 800 public officials in Venezuela, decided by the Comptroller General of this country (Tribe -tional Accounts) between 2005 and 2008. What Lopez claims in […]
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Clashes between police and drug-gangs in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have left five criminals dead and one officer wounded while six were arrested. On Tuesday morning, in an attempt to establish a free zone of gangs and drug-traffickers, the Rio de Janeiro Special Police Force (BOPE) stormed the Jacarezinho slum to stop […]
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Three suspected militants captured, apparently, gave support to the front of the FARC Magdalena. Detectives of the Administrative Security Department, assigned to the Branch Santander Bolivar, supported by troops from the Army and Navy captured three suspected militants of the FARC. Read Article
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Three of them posing as an evangelical pastor, ‘witch’ and rich young man. All are accused of child sexual abuse 14 years and were captured in recent days by police in Medellin. Although the authorities did not disclose the names of these men, they said they were known by the aliases of ‘the Evangelical’, ‘Sorcerer’ […]
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Irene Cortes was chatting with her family when she received a gunshot wound during an attempted robbery.The woman, 32 year old mother of five children, was shot in the chest on Wednesday night, inflicted by one of three assailants who attacked in a public place in which he was with her husband, Farid Yinás born […]
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez called for jailing tax evaders, cracking down on money laundering and limiting foreign ownership of land on Tuesday as part of a broad legislative agenda for this election year. She said foreign holdings of land should be limited but gave no specifics, and said the new law should not drive away […]
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Tuesday urged the Congress to approve a law against money laundering as requested by the International Financial Action Group (IFAG). In this fourth government report, Fernandez warned Argentina could be punished by the IFAG if it fails to approve this law, even if “the executive power made all efforts, (and […]
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The Laura Chinchilla government’s possible answer to the growing security problem is, borrow more money. The government announced that it will be seeking a loan from the Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) to be used for citizen security and prevention. Read Article
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Fighting between informal gold miners and national police on the river of Puerto Moldanado left two dead and more than 20 police injured. Seventeen miners were injured. Read Article
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A German international arrest warrant was arrested Monday night in compliance with the charge that weighed against him. The procedure was performed close to 19:15 in Tarumá and Ecuador to the capital. Read Article
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Problems in recruiting departments on the Atlantic coast increased dramatically during the first half of January. As reported by the Law Association of Argentina Tourism (AADETUR) during the first half of January, receiving 28 complaints of fraud in rent on the coast, an alarming if one considers that in all of 2007 only had six. […]
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THE United Nations has recognised Colombia’s progress in combating drug trafficking by removing it from a list of countries requiring special observation, an official said on Tuesday. Colombia is removed in 2011 from the special observation list,’ Camilo Uribe, a member of the International Narcotics Control Board, told reporters in Bogota. Read Article
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A two-month operation by U.S. authorities has led to the arrests of 678 gang members from 113 different gangs, including 13 linked to Mexican drug cartels, a top law enforcement official said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teamed up with 170 law enforcement agencies around the country for […]
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Argentina’s tax agency has again raided the offices of leading multinational grain exporting companies, seeking evidence to back up charges that the companies cheated the government out of about 150 million pesos ($38 million) in taxes. Read Article
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About ten criminals broke into the bus company that was Solitario to Juliaca. Neither the children in Puno escaped being stripped naked by thieves to check in their clothing, hiding money or something valuable from their parents. This occurred in the armed assault perpetrated by outlaws ten passengers of the bus company from the District […]
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