Venezuela’s Attorney General on Friday accused the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL, of “creating impunity” as it relates to Venezuelan bankers removed from lists of international fugitives that Venezuela demanded be brought to justice. Read Article
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The incident occurred near the province of Nazca , Ica, when four heavily armed criminals assaulted the 65 passengers who traveled quietly heading for Lima. The offenders have approached the vehicle in the area of Chala, Arequipa and posed as passengers, but at the height of Nazca drew their guns and robbed the passengers. Read […]
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With eight assault rifles, a pistol grenade launchers, more than 2 000 rounds of ammunition, half a kilo of marijuana seeds, tactical gear and 3 luxury vehicles, was captured a woman who is part of the State Preventive Police (PEP), which was in military uniform and was accompanied by 9 subjects, who were able to […]
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Through communication protocol that gives the Attorney General based in Torreon Coahuila, reported on at least three shootings that took place near two o’clock in different clubs in Torreon. Milenio.com reports that the opinion of the authorities reveals that ten people were killed and 15 others were injured in the events. According to witnesses, approximately […]
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A Vernon family has returned home safe after their Mexican vacation was interrupted by a double assassination at their resort. Larry Wulff says his family was staying at Las Flores hotel in Mazatlan’s Golden Zone, an area they were told was a tourist safe-zone. Read Article
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The report from the Center of Study and Analysis on Citizen Security in Bogota said on Monday that in the last two years the clandestine arms market in the city has moved more than 5 million U.S. dollars. According to the document, the 9-millimeter pistols and revolvers 38 caliber are the most common weapons sold […]
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A former guerrillas used as a “model” of the FARC printed propaganda was arrested in the last hours by the Colombian authorities in the city of Pereira (west), reported the Department of Administrative Security (DAS .) This is Jhasmit Andrea Moncada Vélez, alias “Feliener” or “Cat” and former member of Aurelio Rodriguez against the Revolutionary […]
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Convicted Mapuche leaders in southern Chile are victims of a Draconian anti-terrorism law and a rigged trial, their families have denounced in a statement released Monday in Santiago. The message says that the verdict of the court of Cañete, in the Chilean Bío Bío, is a political persecution aimed at favoring the usurpation of Mapuche […]
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Two former Argentine dictators appeared in court Monday for the first time to face charges over the kidnapping of some 500 babies decades ago, seized from their mothers in secret maternity units minutes after birth. Read Article
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Seven foreign citizens were arrested accused of belonging to a gang was involved in extorting money from Chinese traders who opened supermarkets in the city and suburbs. Police sources informed that six of those arrested are Chinese nationals and the remainder is Dominican, one of which would be the alleged leader of the criminal organization. […]
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The Human Rights Secretariat of the Brazilian presidency began a campaign on Friday to fight the sexual abuse of children and teenagers and to raise public awareness. The campaign, launched at Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, aims to protect Brazilian children and teens during the carnival time, when sexual abuse is common and […]
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Costa Rica declared violence against children a national epidemic because of the worrying increase in cases over the last decade. The Hospital Nacional de Niños (Children’s Hospital) said that in the last 10 years aggressions against minors increased six times. According to the medical director of the hospital, Roberto Hernandez, the medical centre cared for […]
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Colombia’s Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline, transporting around 80,000 barrels per day (bpd), has been attacked but exports have not been affected, a source at state-run Ecopetrol said told Reuters. Read Article
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Mexican Army elements belonging to the 13 Military Zone four suspected gunmen shot dead at noon today during a clash in the ejido Las Blancas, municipality of Tepic, near Dam Aguamilpa. Through a statement, the military stressed that after repel an armed attack, soldiers shot dead four suspected criminals and seized a vehicle, 12 guns, […]
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Seven Areas to Be on Alert in La Paz and Bolivia for thieves Plaza San Francisco Sectors that border calle Sagárnaga Bus terminal Copacabana in front of the general cemetery Terminal de trufis (vans) Terminal de buses – La Paz Cruce de la avenidas Juan Pablo 11 y La Paz along with El Alto-terminal de […]
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La alta Guajira, particularmente los municipios de Uribia y Manaure, es el principal epicentro del movimiento de las bacrim en este departamento. La Guajira, particularly the municipalities of Uribia and Manaure, is the global epicenter of the movement of BACRIM in this department. The authorities recognize that in this region are “franchises” ‘Urabeños’, ‘the Stubble’, […]
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In 2010 there were more attacks on members of the community than FARC and the ELN combined. At 90, Jose Viloria thought he was above all the violence that struck Cordoba and failed to remove it from the farm in a village of Montelibano. I did not expect the new criminal groups. On January 6, […]
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Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala, H. E. Alfredo Martinez, told Amandala on Monday that there is already evidence that Guatemala’s narcotics problems are trickling to this side of the border. Martinez informed our newspaper that the Government of Guatemala is about to dispatch Special Forces soldiers to conduct regular foot patrols in the southern areas of […]
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Anyone living in or visiting beach homes in the Santa Elena region need to be extra vigilant when it comes to home security. Last saturday in Ballenita, Santa Elena, a beach residence was stormed by armed assailants. They stormed the front door and came over the walls of the residence where most of the guests […]
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Two Belgian tourists in their sixties reported to authorities that they were assaulted and robbed at gunpoint. They were traveling in route to Mahahual on the Mayan Coast when a black pickup followed them just outside of El Cafetal. The couple were travelling in a motor home and were robbed of credit cards, laptops, ect. […]
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A tour operator is accused of murdering an Argentine tourist in front of his girlfriend at the beach resort of Buzios, Brazil. The tourist was trying to claim tickets for entrance to one of the events for Carnival. Read Article
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On Thursday evening at 11:50 pm, local police in the center of Mazatlan took into custody a man who possessed a backpack with 26 U.S. made grenades. The incident happened in the city center at: calle Teniente José Azueta, entre las calles Hidalgo y Morelos. The defendant reported to officials that he was scavaging and […]
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Mazatlan, Sinaloa alert the community to take preventive measures in relation to virtual kidnapping, also known as fraud or extortion via phone calls, declared by the Special Anti-Kidnapping Unit. He added that this problem started in 2001 Mexico, with massive boost for the use of cell phones and crime evolved into what today is known […]
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This past Tuesday, a Canadian tourist’s hotel room was burglarized in Colonia La Madera in Zihuatanejo. According to the Ministry of Tourist Assistance as reported by suracapulco.com.mx, the victim was robbed of $1000 USD and 170 in Canadian dollars. The burglar entered through the window of the hotel room. The news report did not state […]
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Amnesty International has called on the Guatemalan authorities to investigate the killing of three indigenous rights activists found shot dead in the east of the country, and to protect the rest of their community. Read Article
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Customs inspectors have found nearly a half ton (421 kilos) of shark fins cut illegally from protected hammerhead sharks. The fins were located on a ship from Ecuador.Read Article
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The mayor of a town in northeast Mexico survived an apparent assassination bid Friday after his bodyguards repelled the attackers in a gunfight that left three gunmen dead and two others detained. Read Article
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First they killed activist Josefina Reyes. Then her brother. Then they burned her mother’s house. Two and a half weeks ago, gunmen dressed in black kidnapped Reyes’ sister, sister-in-law and another brother. Read Article
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Brazil, which will host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games trails only El Salvador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala and the Virgin Islands for the number of homicides proportional to its population, said the report carried out by the Sangari Institute. Read Article
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Violence has hit the shores of Mazatlan again. Earlier this week per police and press reports, two young men were gunned down in front of the Las Flores Hotel which is located in the middle of the Zona Dorada which was full of tourists and foreigners at the time. Apparently, the two men were trying […]
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One of Mexico’s most wanted men has been killed in a gun battle with police, officials say. Luis Humberto Peralta Hernandez, 44, was a top figure in the Juarez cartel, which controls many of the drug smuggling routes from Mexico into the US, prosecutors said. Read Article
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Colombian criminal bands linked to former paramilitary groups drove a 40 percent rise in massacres in 2010, slaughtering human rights activists, public officials and civilians, the United Nations said on Thursday. Read Article
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International organization Reporters without Borders (RSF) published a report entitled “Organized Crime, Muscling in on the Media,” according to which a total of 141 journalists and media workers were killed by criminal groups during the decade of the 2000s. Read Article
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Gord Wiles, Chery Wiles and Debbie Bachman had been helping out at an orphanage in Nicaragua when they decided to visit a volcano east of the capital Managua. Read Article
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Right in the classroom and in the presence of all his classmates and teachers, two children met in a fight with knives and two were wounded. This case occurred, said Col. William Alberto Boyacá, commander in charge of the Metropolitan Police, school official Carreño Camacho located in the heart of Bucaramanga. Read Article
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He arrived on board a scooter type bike, with helmet, leather jacket and a backpack, to the parking lots located in Matias Cousino, Teatinos, Cathedral, among others, in downtown Santiago. Juan Medina Vega (21) appeared to be one of a dozen riders who park their car there to go to the office. So far, nothing […]
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The Ministry of Defense of Colombia will present a project to ensure the legal defense of the military who are under investigation for actions related to the service. The minister of that portfolio, Rodrigo Rivera, stated that the draft text is ready to be put into consideration by the Congress. Read Article
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Last week a Swiss tourist staying at the Hotel Kiya in Huancayo left his room to eat according to Diario Correo. When he returned he discovered that his room had been broken into. The thief stole the victim’s laptop, money, cell phone, and credit cards. Police suspect a guest staying a few doors down from […]
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Mexican marines found 72 sticks of commercial synthetic explosives at a heavily armed camp in the southern state of Guerrero, the navy said Tuesday. Such rural camps have frequently been used as training grounds and operating bases by Mexico’s drug cartels. Read Article
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Teacher apprehended transporting $120,000 worth of cocaine concealed in Peruvian chocolate bars.
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Two people were arrested when they moved to six children to the city of Ica. According to police investigations, girls would be sexually exploited in the various brothels in the city. Police were able to stop by the timely reporting of persons whose identities are kept confidential. Read Article
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By the security operation Madrugonazo the Underworld, the Body of Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC) in Trujillo state captured during the last week, 22 people guilty of involvement in various crimes. The report is offered on Monday the State Authority of the police chief, Ali Torres, who said eight of the detainees are disqualified […]
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Argentina’s defense minister, Arturo Puricelli, announced the move to the status of “available” to all personnel responsible for the care of the weapons in an army battalion in the province of Santa Fe ( East Central), after detecting the failure of numerous weapons, as reported from within the ministerial portfolio. Read Article
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President Alvaro Colom said in an interview published Friday in the Mexican daily El Universal that his country, Honduras and El Salvador seek to create “special combined forces” to fight Mexican drug traffickers operating in Central America. Read Article
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The National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador said on Monday that weapons belonging to one of its specialized units were driven by gang members who committed a slaughter in a city adjoining the capital, which killed 17 people in June last year. On 20 June a group of gangsters hijacked a bus with 20 […]
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The Peruvian government has offered to put Israeli citizen Dan Cohen on trial in Peru, after refusing to extradite him to Israel on the grounds that there is no extradition treaty between the two countries. Cohen is alleged to have taken bribes of 4.1 million dollars while serving on the board of directors of the […]
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The Patriotic Society Party assemblyman from Azuay, Fernando Aguirre, criticizes the lack of support from banks in countries with the proposal to declare a state of emergency in Cuenca, in response to increased criminal activity. Here is one of the comments made by a reader of the article in eltiempo.com.ec “Mr. Aguirre is the first […]
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday ordered the Army to send four battalions of soldiers to the country’s northern borderlands, the site of increasing violence fueled by the drug trade. Read Article
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By air, sea and land police are intent on attacking the out of control crime situation in Limón. Residents of Los Cocos, in Cieneguita de Limón Sunday reported a shooting that wound up with the detention of 4 people and the seizure of four firearms. The confrontation was confirmed by the commanding officer of the […]
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While relatively rare, the threat of kidnapping for ransom should always be of concern to expatriates residing in Ecuador. Remember that no matter how much money you may or not have, you will always be considered by criminals to be wealthy and possessing assets. While a kidnapping can happen anywhere in Ecuador, those living in […]
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An operation conducted by authorities of the National Police of Peru allowed the seizure of sheets in Bolivian currency counterfeit bills in a garage, where they also discovered that counterfeiters were in possession of over four million U.S. dollars in $100 denominations, According to a report by Radio Programas del Peru (RPP), the counterfeit bills […]
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A 15-year-old died after he was hit by a bull during a holiday of corralejas the village of Las Piedras, in the jurisdiction of San Estanislao, Bolívar. Read Article
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Men elite body of the Colombian police rescued in the Colombian department of Putumayo, bordering Ecuador, an indigenous child 3 years old, kidnapped by common criminals, authorities said Monday. Read Article
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In a joint operation of the Armed Forces and National Police was located (Saturday) and appeared 13 dredges used in the illegal extraction of gold in Madre de Dios. So far, seven of these vessels were destroyed by personnel of the Navy of Peru, while in the next few hours will proceed in the same […]
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Trujillo dangerous criminal gangs using minors as hitmen Most of them grew up in a criminal environment, their ages ranging between 13 and 16 years, and come from broken families. In the city of Trujillo the most dangerous gangs recruit children as thugs to commit crimes. The Panorama program recorded the chilling tales of three […]
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Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería (SAIME)From 2009 till date, ID Administrative Service, Immigration and Nationality (Saime) and state security agencies dismantled 14 criminal gangs were involved in forgery and became the order of the Public Prosecutor to 270 citizens who extorted users, reported Sunday the general director of that institution, Dante Rivas. Read […]
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A total of 23,125 foreigners, mostly Peruvian and Bolivian citizens were arrested in the past three years on charges of committing various crimes, according to a police intelligence document. The crimes of greater social connotation police committed by foreign defendants are theft and drug trafficking. Read Article
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An official of the Prison Section of Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) died last night when two men shot him in the head and chest to steal a briefcase. The victim, identified as Fernando Calvo Monge, 29, was killed on Friday at 9:25 pm in front of the urbanization Las Luisas in Cordoba neighborhood Zapote, San […]
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The United States has built a huge fence to keep Mexican immigrants out. It has cost billions, split communities – but does it work? Charlie Bruce was a Texas police chief of the old school. In more than four decades on the force he gave homegrown criminals good reason to steer clear of Del Rio, […]
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Warring drug cartels fighting for turf in Mexico seem to be winning a battle for the hearts and minds of many young people enticed by the power, money and flashy images that glamorize the narco lifestyle. Songs that glorify drug lords, movies about their exploits and social networks offer a seductive view of a violent […]
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A shoot-em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence. Chihuahua state legislators said Sunday they have asked federal authorities to ban a the game, “Call of Juarez: The Cartel,” which is based on drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez. Read Article
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The vice-president of a Guatemalan football club has been shot dead, after receiving death threats over the team’s poor performance, reports the BBC. Police said Carlos Noe Gomez of Deportivo Xinabajul was killed by two men who were waiting for him as he left a team meeting. Read Article
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A spate of attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco has left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, police said Sunday, just hours before the Mexican Open tennis tournament is scheduled to start. Acapulco has been the scene of bloody drug cartel turf wars, and taxi drivers have often been targeted for […]
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Mexico’s deadliest city lived up to its tragic reputation with at least 40 people murdered in drug-related violence in less than 72 hours, authorities said on Sunday. “These figures are quite high. It is one of the most violent weekends in Ciudad Juarez in years,” said a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office. Read […]
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Four men with their hands and feet tied and heads covered in duct tape were thrown 200 metres to their deaths from a bridge Friday, authorities said as Mexico’s increasingly bloody drug battles reached a new level of cruelty and intimidation. Read Article
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Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said this week that military forces know the exact hiding place and movements of the FARC guerrilla maximum leader, Alfonso Cano, and brushed aside any chance that he might escape. Read Article
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Police arrested nine people and seized 300 firearms, including assault rifles, in a raid targeting an arms ring that allegedly sold weapons to Mexican drug traffickers, authorities said on Thursday. The sweep came after a federal grand jury unsealed indictments against 17 defendants allegedly involved in shipping to Mexico firearms bought by third-party “straw purchasers” […]
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Sharp fall in arrivals of “springbreakers” The Secretary of Tourism Promotion of Guerrero acknowledged that springbreakers foreign tourists fell by the perception held outside Mexico on the serious problems of insecurity. The owner of the SEFOTUR, Ernesto Rodríguez Escalona, said he had no precise information on the crash rate on the reservations of springbreakers that […]
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On the tiny, legendary Pacific speck of land known as Easter Island, located 2,000 miles from the Chilean coastline, the ongoing non-violent protests being staged by the Hito family at the Hotel Hanga Roa came to a climax on Sunday February 6, 2011. Fifty armed members of the Chilean national police force (los Carabineros) mounted […]
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The head of a company that provides security for American citizens traveling in Mexico says the powerful drug cartels are branching out into the $40-billion-a-year sex trafficking industry. Read Article
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Since 1993, hundreds of women have been murdered in the desert city of Ciudad Juárez. There is no clear motive for the killings and the Mexican police seem reluctant to investigate. What is going on? Read Article
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BIAGIO PILIERI, a former journalist and mayor, was until recently little known in Venezuela. But last September he was elected to the National Assembly. He has been unable to take his seat because, despite parliamentary immunity, he is under house arrest, awaiting trial for the third time on corruption charges of which he has already […]
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Two Germans and two Swiss tourists capturing the best images from the Plaza Grande. Con sus cámaras fotográficas retrataban el monumento de la Libertad y el Palacio de Carondelet. With their cameras portraying the monument of freedom and the Palacio de Carondelet. Moreover, the cameras had not at hand but that hung around his neck.These […]
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A man and his 8-year-old son were shot and their car set on fire late Wednesday in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a municipal police spokesman said. Read Article
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A number of Venezuelans dead and wounded Saturday in an attack on a disco in the Mexican city of Guadalajara were graduate students and reconstructive plastic surgery, reported the embassy in Mexico. In the shooting and grenade attack perpetrated against the “Club Butter” killed six people, four of which were Venezuelan, a man and two […]
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Experts from the United States, Mexico and Canada are working to draw up a new law regulating the trade in discarded electronics, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, or CEC, representative Marco Heredia told Efe. Environmental officials from the three countries and CEC representatives are meeting this week in Guadalajara, the capital of Mexico’s Jalisco state, to […]
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Brazilian authorities say they have arrested nearly 20 police officers suspected of taking part in a death squad that allegedly murdered and tortured innocent women and children. Read Article
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Its mayor Victor Raul Hidalgo aims to fight against the narcotics trade and prostitution in the spa piurano.The mayor of the resort of Mancora , Víctor Raúl Hidalgo arrived in Lima to ask the Interior Ministry to send more police force to combat gangs and drug dealers Prostitution affecting this area of northern Peru. Read […]
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The Juan Santamaría International airport in San José, Costa Rica’s largest and busiest airport, handles up to three thousands uses with some 40 flights coming and going daily. And part of that daily commonplace activity is drug trafficking, mainly leaving Costa Rica headed for the United States, Canada and Europe. Read Article
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The Security Ministry has declared the province of Limón a priority in their efforts to combat drug trafficking, organized crime and delinquency. “Starting now Limón is a priority, and as such an integral effort will begin with gathering intelligence and analyzing everything that happens, so that through a widely coordinated effort begin [sic] to attack […]
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From 2000-2009 criminal activities and corruption in Costa Rica brought in $4,359 million on average per year, according to a recent study. Read Article
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A report sent by Interpol to the department’s Economic Crimes Police confirmed the identity of the Chilean Emilio González Alfredo Carrillo and Cerda Cristian Orlando Barraza, arrested in the city of San Pedro for attempted credit card fraud “cloned.” The report also notes that Gonzalez Carrillo has an outstanding arrest warrant in his home country […]
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According to accounts bearing the Amalgamated Free and Post Cars in the Capital District about 200 burglaries occur on minibuses in a day. Of these assaults, 150 were perpetrated by gangs operating in the municipality of Libertador and up to 40 can be committed in the municipality of Sucre. El resto se registra en los […]
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Gunmen opened fire on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said. The two agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were attacked Tuesday afternoon while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey. Read Article
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Travelers are reminded to be vigilant when visiting Trujillo. La Republica.pe reported that seventeen tourists have been victimized due to theft or robbery since January through February 13, 2011. 1. The delinquents will often gain the trust of the victim by speaking their language. A third party is brought in to relieve the victim of […]
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“North Bay residents stranded in Argentina. Need your help.” The e-mail cry came from Pam Walker and Pierre Simard during a South American New Year’s vacation last month when they found themselves without passports as their cruise sailed away without them. Read Article
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The Costa Rican Legislative Assembly passed a reform to the Criminalization of Violence against Women Law, which describes as crimes the mistreatment and offenses. By an overwhelming majority, 41 of the 45 legislators voted in favor of the reform and agreed to add articles 22 and 25 of the 8589 Law, which had been voided […]
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shootout that killed seven people in suburban Mexico City over the weekend resulted from an internal dispute between gangs tied to La Familia, a major cartel known for controlling organized crime in western Mexico far from the city, an official said Tuesday. The groups were fighting over territory in Nezahualcoyotl for local drug sales, said […]
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Tensions between France and Mexico over the case of a Frenchwoman serving a 60-year prison sentence in Mexico City boiled over this week, complicating relations just as a symbolic yearlong celebration of friendship has gotten under way. Read Article
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Border patrol officers apprehended a fugitive in the Darién Monday evening who is wanted in connection with two murders. Javier Martín, of Spain, is being sought for questioning in the disappearances of American Don North and in the death of Jean Pierre Bouahard of France. North has been missing since January and Bouhard was found […]
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In 2010, heads of Peru’s main intelligence organizations met to compile a so-called “white list” of the country’s alleged leaders of narcotrafficking, which was kept secret until now. El Comercio gained access to the document, called “Update on persons registered, identified and indicated as directors or heads of illicit drug trafficking (IDT) nationally and internationally,” […]
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Argentina’s strict abortion laws prohibit terminations except when the life or health of the pregnant woman is in danger or if the pregnancy results from the rape of a mentally disabled woman. The government has rolled out national contraceptive campaigns, but despite this there are still up to 500,000 clandestine abortions in every year. Read […]
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Argentina has accused the United States military of trying to bring guns and surveillance equipment into the country under the cover of supplying a police training course, creating the latest diplomatic rift between the countries. Argentine customs officials seized undeclared equipment on Thursday, including what they described as machine guns and ammunition, spy equipment and […]
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Former Quito Military Hospital doctor and nurse Andrea Merizalde and Elsa Gueva Montesdeoca were tried in absentia by the Pinchincha Fifth Tribunal and given four-year sentences to be served at a Quito women’s prison, for the manslaughter of Andrea Saá Toro. According to the sentence, Saá Toro checked in to the hospital on 28th May […]
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Suspected drug hitmen killed a senior police chief in one of the most brazen attacks yet in Monterrey, Mexico’s richest city, El Norte daily reported. Homero Salcido was the head of the state of Nuevo Leon’s security and intelligence agency and, according to preliminary investigations, was shot on Sunday night in an SUV. Attackers then […]
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In this regard, the National Service of Protected Areas by the State (Sernanp), supported by representatives of the Special Prosecutor in Environmental Matters, the Navy of Peru and the Division of Tourism and Environmental Protection of the National Police , who mobilized aboard the BAP ” Amazon “, arresting five and immobilized 7-wood forest tractor […]
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Fighting between the Colombian rebel group FARC and the drug gang “Los Rastrojos” left at least 15 people dead, authorities said Friday. Read Article
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Mexican officials say unidentified gunmen have killed eight people in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class suburb of the capital, Mexico City. Read Article
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At least six people were killed Saturday and 37 wounded when attackers sprayed the entrance to a bar in Guadalajara, Mexico, with gunfire and lobbed a grenade. The bar, called the Butler Club, is in the tourist district of Guadalajara, CNN said. Citing the Mexican news agency Notimex, CNN said gunmen opened fire outside the […]
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