Two young Korean-Paraguayans were shot Saturday, Korean time, on their way home from work in Lambare, Paraguay, the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday. Both were in critical condition. The two, 20-year-old Lee and 19-year-old Jeong, came under attack in Lambare, near Asuncion, the capital of the Latin American country, at 6:40 p.m. Friday local time, the ministry said. Read Article
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Mexican researchers are predicting the violence-plagued border city of Juarez will be home to an estimated 8,500 orphans by the end of the year. Read Article
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In a house in Los Olivos cocaine was found hidden in paintings and crafts, merchandise that was to be sent abroad through postal services and cargo. Read Article
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23 drug dealers taken into custody by police. The gang included females and three police.
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He tried to flee, but the long arm of the Costa Rican law reached out and got their man, who in less than 24 hours was back on Costa Rican soil, after being involved in a hit and run accident on the autopista General Cañas. The accident occurred late Wednesday evening (at 11:23pm) when a […]
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At midnight, a branch of BBVA in the eastern area of the capital were damaged as a result of a bomb. Read Article
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The French foreign minister said Friday that she plans to snub France’s year-long festival celebrating Mexican culture because of a court case that has strained the countries’ ties. Read Article
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Costa Rica Hit And Run Suspect Attempted Fleeing To Canada, Picked Up In The U.S. The suspect who ran over and killing one worker on the Virilla or “platina” bridge of the autopista General Cañas didn’t make it enter the United States when he was surprised by the US Customs and Border officials who detained […]
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The flight of the hit and run suspect caught in the U.S. fleeing Costa Rica, is a state of mind of many – not all – foreigners in Costa Rica. I am sure you have heard it being spoken in a bar or two somewhere over time – “if I get into trouble, I just […]
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The CIA is alarmed: Chavez may soon become one of the major drug lords in Latin America. On February 9, former Mexican president Vicente Fox accused him of assisting the Mexican drug mafia which flooded the States with cocaine. Read Article
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Six women and a man were shot dead in a bar in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez late Thursday after gunmen stormed the building, police said. The evening murders came after a bloody day that also saw eight suspected drug cartel members and one soldier killed in a shootout in the north-central Mexican […]
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An appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a French woman imprisoned in Mexico for kidnapping, a case that has ignited passions in both Mexico and France and caused friction between the two governments. Read Article
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The shootings at the military base of Huanta left a wounded soldier, who was evacuated for medical care. The shootings at the military base of Huanta left a wounded soldier, who was evacuated for medical care. An exchange of fire with long range ammo, including the police and suspected terrorists in the base “Mantaro Union, […]
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The driver suspected of killing a Costa Rican transportation worker and injuring another Wednesday night was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday. The suspect was arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents upon arrival to the U.S. and is thought to be responsible for the death of Transportation Ministry (MOPT) worker Omar Lépiz on the […]
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A gang of Colombians, including 25 people who stormed into the last seven days several homes in exclusive neighborhoods of the capital and the brother of the director of the National Police, was disbanded late Thursday were officially reported. Read Article NOTES: Gang is made up of men and women who often work as prostitutes. […]
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The term “BACRIM” is not an invention of the press and analyst specializing in security issues, is a definition that the military authorities and police gave these new criminal groups in 2006, when it was formed under the responsibility of the Directorate of Security Police and National Police Rural an interagency coordinating office and information […]
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A Mexican man has been detained in the death of a Royal Caribbean cruise employee who was discovered drowned in the sea off the resort island of Cozumel, authorities said Thursday. Read Article
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A San Diego-born teenager accused of being a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel has been charged in the killings of four men found decapitated in central Mexico. Read Article
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For several years now, STRATFOR has been closely watching developments in Mexico that relate to what we consider the three wars being waged there. Those three wars are the war between the various drug cartels, the war between the government and the cartels and the war being waged against citizens and businesses by criminals. In […]
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Representatives of the Awa indigenous people on Thursday reported five accidents with landmines on its guard in the southwest of the country that killed a member of their community. La muerte del awá fue al menos la segunda del año a causa del estallido de minas. Awa’s death was at least the second year due […]
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Bolivia is buying six Chinese combat aircraft as part of its effort to correct its image as a country that isn’t doing as much as it should to cut off the narcotics trail to North America. Read Article
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Although so far no details are known, a group of people threw Molotov cocktails at the home of Judge Ricardo Borinsky, in the locality of Castelar. However, upon hearing the explosion, the custodian of the judge and an oversee Borinsky deprived of a booth located in the area alerted police of Castelar. Read Article
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On the afternoon of 9 February, Marcos Baquero, a member of the municipal council of San José de Guaviare, was released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and handed over to former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a member of Colombians for Peace. […]
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Authorities in Mexico are reportedly investigating the shooting death of a man who was recently praised as a hero for defending his home from three armed men in a home invasion last month. Read Article
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Mexican prosecutors say a judge has authorized 40 days of detention for an alleged lieutenant of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel while authorities investigate the man wanted in the United States on drug charges. The Attorney General’s Office says federal agents arrested Adan Salazar Zamorano on Saturday but it gives no other details. Read Article
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On February 2, 2011, cartel, CJNG or Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion broadcast a video demanding that police commanders step down by February 10, 2011, who are involved with La Resistance and La Familia Michoacana. The video stated if they don’t resign, “The Hunt is On, according to blogdelnarco.com. However, there are known names police commanders […]
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Peru will begin to pay individual monetary reparations to victims and survivors of the 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, with top priority put on elderly people in remote villages in the country’s impoverished highlands, where most of the human rights violations took place. Read Article
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“He would punch my head all the time, pull my hair, smack and kick me. And he would make me wear long sleeves to hide the bruises; even on my wedding day I had a black and blue mark on my arm,” Heidi Velásquez told IPS in Guatemala. Read Article
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On Tuesday, the Ombudsman of Panama and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the “Campaign Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents”, which seeks to put a stop to this crime and promote a culture of zero tolerance for this crime among the Panamanian population. The Ombudsman, Ricardo Vargas, said in his […]
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A 28-year-old British woman who was on holiday in the Jamaican resort of Montego Bay was shot dead in a taxi in which she was travelling with her seven-year-old daughter, the Foreign Office has confirmed.
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A group of men armed with AK47 and AR15 rifles attacked the Sinaloa Unidad Administrativa office building in Fraccionamiento Tellerías in Mazatlán early Sunday morning, February 6, between 3:30 and 4am shooting out windows and damaging the façade of the building. No one was injured in the attack where over 100 shots were fired. Read […]
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The Colombian government on Tuesday reaffirmed its refusal to negotiate with the country’s Bacrim criminal gang and drug traffickers. High national security adviser Sergio Jaramillo said the country would not negotiate with those groups — mostly formed by demobilized paramilitary squad members in the previous administration. Read Article
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Cartel hitmen are murdering rivals and terrifying residents across Mexico’s second city Guadalajara as it prepares to host the Pan American Games in a deepening of the country’s drugs war. Gunmen firing automatic weapons torched vehicles and blockaded roads in the once-peaceful city this month, the most brazen act so far and an echo of […]
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A Chilean judge suspended criminal trespassing charges against a family of Easter Islanders on Tuesday despite their six-month takeover of a $50 million hotel development on their ancestral land. Judge Nora Bahamondes ruled the courts must first determine who rightfully owns the land before deciding whether anybody was trespassing….. Read Article
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U.S. customs agents in Texas seized a tripod-mounted machine gun they found on the back seat of a sport utility vehicle headed into Mexico and arrested the driver, authorities said on Tuesday. Read Article
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The people in human trafficking are similar to cockroaches. Once you stamp them out of one area they adjust, adapt, and keep coming back. The same is true with the human traffickers in Peru. There needs to be better education among all levels of the community about promises of jobs ect. to young people and […]
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Officials in Brazil say at least five inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the northeast, including some who were decapitated. Read Article
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Venezuelan authorities are undertaking criminal investigations into the construction sector, including confiscation of assets owned by suspects and companies allegedly involved in real estate frauds. Read Article
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On February 3, two Dutch nationals were assaulted and robbed of personal belongings by two thugs at Cerro de La Gloria in Buenos Aires. In just four days there were two robberies on tourists in the Cerro de la Gloria, with similar characteristics. Read Article
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A couple of tourists had a bad moment in the raft Maroma, on 1 February, when they broke the glass and stole the vehicle documents and other items. Solicitan que si alguien los encontró, los devuelva. Otra turista estadounidense fue víctima de un robo en la madrugada del domingo. They ask that if anyone found […]
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Panama will spend at least $16 million dollars on four drones to monitor drug trafficking says Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino, which with operating costs could reach $93 million in the first year. The U.S. manufactured unmanned aircraft, valued at around $4 million each, are included in the ministry’s, $300 million budget. The monthly cost […]
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Former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez is facing seven years prison for his role in the ICE-Alcate case bribery and corruption case that came to a close after more than a year. The prosecution requested for Rodriguez a penalty five years prison for the crime of aggravated corruption and two years for illicit enrichment and prohibition […]
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A foreigner was arrested in Santa Marta in the San José de los Campanos is prosecuted for the crime of violent sexual intercourse with child under 14 and child pornography. The Englishman Paul Anthony Braislford was presented yesterday to Judge First Municipal Criminal functions guarantees that legalized the capture of the subject, who did not […]
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A Canadian tourist died after a fight outside a nightclub at a beach resort in the Dominican Republic and police said Sunday that four other Canadians and an Algerian are accused of taking part in the brawl. Read Article
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A KEY witness into events surrounding the killing of Irishman Michael Dwyer by Bolivian police has said his confession implicating Dwyer in terrorism was obtained under torture. Read Article
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3.3 million children and adolescents who work in Peru, according to the Child Labour Survey prepared by the INEI and the International Labour Organization (ILO). This first and only specialized survey has served to make reports as “Child Labor in Peru” presented last year by the ILO and reveals that 70% of them (2.3 million) […]
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SL opens new fronts and routes of drug off-axis-Vizcatán VRAE El Comercio, emerged as armed spectra from the extensive cultivation of sugar cane and Rondayacu Uchubamba, two forgotten villages in the jungle of Jauja. One look was enough, the peasants had to think hard to conclude that those strange Andean leave armed with AKM rifles […]
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Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday. Read Article
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Friends of Kimberley Blackwell, a Canadian who was killed last week in Costa Rica, described her as an animal lover who had campaigned against sloth poaching in that country. Read Article
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Editorial – The arrests of 34 people in Arizona recently shed light on how drug gangs in Mexico can manipulate America’s gun laws to obtain the illicit weapons they want. The common image among many Americans is probably of weapons being bought “under the table” from illicit gun traffickers, much like illegal drugs are bought […]
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Noting that there is great concern for power and the actions that have reached the so-called criminal gangs, the government acknowledged that these illegal groups replaced the paramilitaries.Read Article
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Defendants facilitated the cultivation, production and marketing of drugs. First Criminal Judge Municipal de Buga (Valle) endorsed the request of the prosecution and intramural issued a security measure against eight former police officers for their alleged responsibility in the crime of conspiracy. Read Article
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According to Julio César Vidal leaders of these bands are willing to deliver weapons, roads and crops, even to extradite them if necessary. Bishop statements came during the inauguration of the National Assembly of Bishops, which will run until Friday. Read Article
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32% increase in the practice of kidnapping in Colombia during 2010, compared with the practice of crime nationwide during the preceding year. De 213 denuncias durante el 2009, se pasó a 282. Of 213 complaints in 2009, moved to 282. Common criminals were responsible for 57% of abductions in 2010, the FARC’s 23%, 12% ELN […]
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U.S. authorities never searched the yacht they say carried an ex-CIA agent illegally from Mexico to Miami in 2005, and they have no photographs or other physical evidence that he was ever aboard, a federal investigator acknowledged Monday. Read Article
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Mexican authorities say three teenage boys were shot to death in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, and at least two of them attended school in Texas. Read Article
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The former director of the National Civil Police of Guatemala (PNC), Porfirio Perez, was found not guilty of the two serious charges he faced. Perez was acquitted yesterday during the trial that accused him of having stolen 300,000 USD seized from a alleged drug dealer. Read Article
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Kimberley Blackwell was found outside her home near Puerto Jimenez, the woman found shot, a targeted by poachers and not strangled as indicated by earlier reports. Costa Rica officials say the autopsy revealed Kimberley Blackwell, 53, a former Whitehorse, Yukon resident, died from a gunshot wound. Her body was found Wednesday on the patio of […]
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Brazilian soccer player William Morais, 19, who played for the team America in Minas Gerais after being loaned by Corinthians, was murdered Sunday while resisting a carjacking, police said.Read Article
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Rio de Janeiro police, with the support of the armed forces and other security agencies, on Sunday occupied nine “favelas,” or shantytowns, which were dominated by drug gangs and did so “without a single shot,” officials said. Read Article
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A crew member of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship has been found dead in the Mexican resort island of Cozumel, possibly the victim of a violent crime, authorities and company officials said yesterday. Read Article
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Aside from falling rocks and landslides, there is another danger driving the San José – Caldera highway, rocks being thrown from the hills and overpasses. The road concessionaire, Autopistas del Sol, confirmed at least 20 vehicles suffered damage this past week. Read Article
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Campesinos leaders report a wave of abuses against local indigenous peasants in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz since a “state of siege” was declared there in response to the alleged presence of Los Zetas narco-network. Read Article
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20 people who form a high-level commission of the Carabineros de Chile come to Ecuador to provide advice to the National Police and collaborate in the creation of a corps of detectives, said President Rafael Correa. Read Article
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In early January, three Argentine pilots of a private modern jet were arrested in Barcelona, Spain, for transporting nearly a ton of cocaine. The episode is embarrassing for the Argentinean government since Spanish investigators have proof that the cocaine was loaded onto the plane from an Argentinean military airbase. Moreover, this was the last and […]
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BIKIE gangs and organised crime groups have foiled police attempts to tap their phones by importing untraceable, encrypted BlackBerrys from Mexico. The telecommunications black hole exploited by the Comancheros gang and drug cartels has come to light after several nations – anxious about terrorism and national security – threatened to ban the Canadian-designed BlackBerry phones […]
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“The moral reserve of this country is low. People have let too many things happen without taking to the streets…and they continue to let them go by,” peace activist Pietro Ameglio told IPS in this Mexican border city. Read Article
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Police authorities in the last hours deepen investigations into the death of a German citizen, whose body was found stabbed on Wednesday at the International Airport General Gregorio Luperon “in this jurisdiction. Erich Zipfel, 45, was found near the counter of the Dutch airline Martinair, the terminal located in the community of La Union (crabs), […]
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Two Arab developers, a father and son, were sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for conspiring to commit tax fraud to hide more than $150 million dollars in assets and failing to declare $49 million in revenue. Read Article
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ambushed the director of the nation’s main prison and shot up the car he was driving, wounding the official in the head and also hitting a prison employee who was a passenger. Read Article
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The Obama administration on Friday rejected a request for an emergency rule requiring gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of assault rifles, a proposal intended to make it harder for drug cartels to smuggle weapons. Read Article
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A health official in Mexico says the producer of the Superman films of the 1970s and ’80s is recovering at a hospital after being admitted in a state of disorientation and suffering facial and head injuries. Read Article
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The Foreign Affairs Department of Canada reported that a national has been murdered in Canada. Canadian authorities are working with their counterparts in Costa Rica to investigate the murder. The victim is Kimberly Blackwell, age 53. Friends reported that she had been beaten and strangled. Her body was located at the patio of her home […]
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The strategy of bomb attacks against troops allowed the FARC to hit back on the tracks of Arauca, where the guerrilla group is still strong and ahead of a rebel offensive which has alerted the armed forces. They warn analysts on security issues after the attack occurred at dawn yesterday against an army patrol that […]
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The Cámara Turismo de Jacó (Jacó tourism chamber) recognizes the problem of sexual exploitation of the Pacific beach town and proposes to create a zone of tolerance. Read Article
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The assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, where he was famously killed with an ice pick to the head, was organized from a drugstore in the US, according to a former CIA agent. Read Article
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Effect of violence on tourism brings new threat to the insect’s survival A soft afternoon sunlight cuts into a chilly forest of firs that provides winter haven for tens of millions of monarch butterflies. As their forebears have for time beyond memory, these monarchs have traveled as much as 3,000 miles, from across much of […]
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Between Monday and Tuesday evening, 25 children were discovered wandering the streets of a Mexican border city alone. Mexican police have found 25 abandoned children wandering the streets of the city of Nuevo Laredo in northern Mexico, only a short distance from the town of Laredo, Texas. The group includes 8 boys and 17 girls […]
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Supporters of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) kidnapped and held for a day 17 tourists, after a clash with peasants aligned with the government, near well-known waterfalls in the southeastern state of Chiapas, Mexican authorities said Thursday. Read Article REPORTS STATE TOURISTS WERE FROM CANADA, FRANCE, ARGENTINA, AND MEXICO
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A former officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection awaiting trial on drug charges claims he was subjected to illegal torture and extradition at the hands of a drug cartel working under orders of U.S. authorities, court records show. Read Article
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Justice Minister, José Serrano, said that while the debugging process culminates system prison guards, the Armed Forces personnel have custody of Social Rehabilitation centers. He explained that soldiers will guard the outside of prisons, while police will do the interior. The treatment process will begin in the coming days and will last about two months, […]
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Dominican Republic police are investigating the death of German touritst, Erich Erich Zipfel, age 45. He was found dead with mutliple knife wounds in a vacant area of the Puerto Plato airport. El Nacional.com.do
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Argentinean authorities captured one of the U.S. Marshals 15 most wanted fugitives in Buenos Aires on Thursday, a man accused of the brutal killing of an Arizona woman. Read Article
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The mayor said that despite the patrols in the area, nothing takes away the fear of the inhabitants. Girl Rafael Guzman said the situation on the presence of criminal gangs in their town is critical and was highlighted with the murder Wednesday night of two students of the Seine. Read Article
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The man who brought “Superman” to the big screen in 1978 has gone missing in Mexico City, according to his friends and family. 63-year-old Ilya Salkind was last heard from on Sunday, when he spoke to friends and business partners in L.A. Read Article
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U.S. customs agents in Texas seized 14 high-powered assault rifles when they searched a car heading into Mexico on Tuesday, according to the authorities. The cache of weapons was discovered in a vehicle which was searched as it attempted to cross the border into the country at the state’s Del Rio International Bridge. Read more: […]
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Police Chief Gen. Manuel Farfan Carreola was found dead with four of his bodyguards and his private secretary in Nuevo Laredo City, in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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The Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI) – the Costa Rican child welfare agency – cannot send back to the United States the small child whose father is seeking her return. The PANI action is blocked by a decision of the Sala Constitucional after accepting a writ of habeas corpus filed by the girl’s mother, […]
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The Banco de Costa Rica (BCR) is warning users of its online service to wary of a “trojan” virus that redirects users to a fraudulent site and asking the user for the information of the “tarjeta dinámica” that the bank uses to secure online transactions. The BCR is asking all its users NOT to provide […]
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Paul Terroni faked his own death in Ecuador to avoid driving charges and nearly four years later he found himself in a Sydney court being sentenced for those offences. Read Article
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Three hundred weapons, fifteen phones, forty doses of marijuana, crack cocaine and twenty twenty of cocaine seized police during the storming of the prison of El Bosque in the south of Barranquilla. Read Article
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A total of fifty kilos of explosives were found by police officers in a vehicle that was abandoned on a road in township Caguan rural area of Neiva. Read Article
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Based on the numbers supplied by the National Council of Industries (Conindustria), 70 percent of the State action against private parties materialized in 2009-2011. From January 2002 to January 2011, 623 attacks on business property have been recorded, as estimated by the Venezuelan Council of Industries. Read Report
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Suspected drug cartel gunmen hurled grenades, burned vehicles and blocked streets in a rapid series of attacks in Mexico’s second-largest city, authorities said Wednesday. Read Article
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Around 11 am today indigenous leaders were arrested in a joint operation of Army and National Police. Among those detained is acacha Pepe, one of the candidates for president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). Pepe acacha is former president of the Interprovincial Federation of Shuar Centers (FICSH) and next to him […]
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Although most drivers in Costa Rica still think the point system introduced last March in the new Ley de Tránsito is not in place, more than 2.000 drivers have found out the hard way, reaching the 50 point limit which means an automatic loss of a driver driver’s license for two years. Read Article
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By now, the routine is familiar. The Chamberlins fly Continental to Houston, then hop a connecting flight to Quito. From Ecuador’s capital, it’s a prop plane to Manta, where they step out onto the tarmac seeking justice, not sanctuary. “In August, I had eight men with body armor and submachine guns meet me when I […]
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Bars and barbed wire couldn’t keep a reputed Mexican drug cartel “queen” from getting Botox in prison, authorities said Tuesday. Mexico City’s prison authority says a doctor was improperly admitted to Santa Martha Acatitla women’s lockup in January to perform what it called a “procedure not authorized for inmates.” Read Article – AP
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