Only a week into the new year, 15 human heads sat outside a gleaming shopping center on the other side of the lush hills that frame this seaside resort’s big tourist hotels. Within hours, several bodies turned up in a taxi and elsewhere, bringing the number of victims to 33 in a single weekend, scattered around a side of town few visitors see. Read Article –
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Nicaraguan police seized the alleged members of a gang of kidnappers of migrants transiting through the country and rescued four illegal aliens, three Somalis and one of Eritrea, an official source. The operation was carried out in the community of Nacascolo, San Juan del Sur, Rivas, on the border with Costa Rica, local media reported […]
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The commander of the XIV Brigade, Colonel Edgar Copola, confirmed that in the morning the FARC guerrillas triggered a truck bomb in Union Bridge, which connects the town with the town of Amalfi, Antioquia, Medellin was affecting mobility and the move to the dam Porce III. Read Article
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After a command of fifteen trucks with armed men shooting caused panic businesses and people, the army took over the patrolling of the municipality of China, located about 100 kilometers from Monterrey. An account of the damage indicates that approximately forty properties between businesses and vehicles were damaged by bullets, including the San Felipe de […]
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Amid strong opposition claims of what they considered meager results of the security strategy and the growth of organized crime and violence, the federal Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said that the number of executions Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, has declined from the last two months of 2010. Read Article
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National Police officers seized the suspected Shining Path Sergio Campos Rojas, alias Comrade “Sergio” in the town of Huari (Ancash), after a patient monitoring began several months ago. PNP General César Mendoza, Sergio Campos said that Rojas is as requisitions for justice from the March 31, 2006, for the crime of terrorism. Read Article
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Peruvian prison authorities have denied Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot the right to speak to Radio Netherlands Worldwide. His lawyer Máximo Altez has lodged a complaint against Peru’s legal authorities. Mr Altez said that Peru is reluctant to grant RNW the interview because of general elections in three months. In normal circumstances it […]
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Fewer robberies, homicides and sexual assaults were reported in Costa Rica last year, according to statistics from the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ). The number of registered violent crimes decreased by 5 percent, from 68,708 reported cases to 65,482. According to OIJ Director Jorge Rojas, cases of auto theft decreased by 27 percent last year, the […]
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It was April Fool’s Day in 2007 when Paul Terroni supposedly drowned in the Coaque River in Pedernales, Ecuador. Just over a year later, very much alive, he returned to Australia with a new name. He had hoped to make a fresh start as Gabriel Alejandro Sanchez Cedeno but his old life came back to […]
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Fake goods worth more than USD 200 million have been seized and nearly 1,000 people arrested in a series of operations co-ordinated by INTERPOL across South America targeting organized criminal counterfeiting networks. Carried out under the auspices of Operation Jupiter in partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO), the year-long operation throughout 2010 led to […]
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A Yuma jeweler has been fatally shot in Mexico while visiting relatives. The family of Jorge Ahuactzin told the Yuma Sun that he and his brother were fatally shot Friday outside Manuel Ahuactzin’s home in central Mexico’s Tlaxcala state. Read Article
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Colombia on Monday identified three airports from which will come from and where will the helicopters with the humanitarian mission to receive the five hostages FARC guerrillas agreed to release, and said they are given all the security . Read Article
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The Honduran government should ensure a prompt and thorough investigation of the recent murders of transgender women and bring those responsible to justice, Human Rights Watch and Red Lésbica Cattrachas, a Honduran lesbian rights organization, said today. Six transgender women have been murdered in Honduras since November 29, 2010, with the latest killing on January […]
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Mexican prosecutors are offering 8 million pesos ($658,000) for information leading to the capture of two suspects in the massacre of 72 illegal Central and South American migrants. Authorities have already arrested eight people in the mass killings last August at a ranch in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday warned Mexico’s drug cartels that any attempt to bring their violent tactics across the border would produce a powerful reaction. Read Article
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EI condemns the brutal murder of Colombian teacher trade unionist, Manuel Esteban Tejada, on 10 January. His assassination brings the death toll to 27 teacher unionists who have been killed in Colombia in the past year. Manuel Esteban Tejada was affiliated to the Colombian teachers’ union, FECODE branch of Córdoba, ADEMACOR. He was a teacher […]
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Costa Rican authorities say they have dismantled a cocaine smuggling network that used fishing vessels to ship drugs from Ecuador and Colombia through Central America and into Mexico. Read Article
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Although the number of stolen vehicles was down in 2010, it still continues to be a problem for vehicle owners in Costa Rica, who authorities say that in many cases the vehicle’s owner unwillingly contributes to theft. The Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) reports that half of the stolen vehicles in 2010, owner’s neglect was […]
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“I came to Costa Rica because I thought they would help me protect my daughter. I fear that they will take her from me and put her in the hands of a person with a history of drug abuse and violence”, said Trina Atwell following a decision by the Sala Constitucional that ordered her daughter […]
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Two masked gunmen tried to storm the night of Friday, eight bus passengers and their driver when making the route between the city of Guápiles Pococí and Rita. The incident occurred at 7:45 pm in the community of La Zota de La Rita, located about 39 kilometers from downtown Guápiles. Read Article
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The eight homicides were recorded in Limon center in the first 28 days this year than there were six cases in the first half of 2010. Read Article
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The Salvadoran National Defense Ministry on Friday took control of two more prisons in the country to put a total of 11 prisons under military vigilance. Assistant director of Penal Centers Nelson Rauda said that the measure is part of the efforts to neutralize the crime planning inside the prisons. Read Article
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The Spanish authorities in Barcelona seized an executive jet from Argentina this month that was carrying about 2,000 pounds of cocaine. An Argentine company specializing in private medical transfers, Medical Jet, was operating the plane, which was being flown by pilots whose fathers were generals during Argentina’s bloody dictatorship. Read Article
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Dr. Liliana M. Dávalos, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook, and her colleagues note that the pace of deforestation in Colombia has accelerated over the past 20 years, even as population growth has slowed and the economy has shifted from agriculture to other revenue sources. This increase in deforestation overlaps […]
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As President Felipe Calderon insists on maintaining its drug war, articulated in groups organized crime increased their level of violence, from December 2006 to this date has claimed more than 34,000 murders, including foreigners from states U.S., Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Finland, China, Austria, Israel and Spain among other […]
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In Bolivia, it’s legal for children to stay with their mothers in prison until the age of 6. However, many of them stay on after that age for lack alternatives. Read Article This is an outstanding video with subtitles in English.
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Contingents of the Shining Path fired guns yesterday at workers of the CORAH Special Project, at a time when the eradicators rested from the daily work at their camp in the area of Canute, jurisdiction of the province of Tocache, San Martín region.Read Article
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The Venezuelan government says regulators have taken over a small bank due to irregularities. The banking regulatory agency says it has intervened in the savings and loan Casa Propia and has ordered closed. Read Article
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Arturo Aviles, 50, is missing in Mexico. He disappeared in November after he left Houston and drove his SUV to Mexico to apply for a vehicle permit in Matamoros. Read Article
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The police chief and all 38 police officers of a northeastern Mexican town have quit following a series of drug cartel attacks, including the decapitation of two of their colleagues. Read Article
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The Guatemalan authorities captured two suspected traffickers of methamphetamine linked to Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia Michoacana who are wanted by U.S. Courts. Read Article
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Drug smugglers are using an ancient invention as a new way to move marijuana across the border from Mexico to Arizona. The discovery of two “drug catapults” in the Mexican state of Sonora marks the latest twist in the cat-and-mouse game traffickers play with authorities. Read Article
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U.S. and Mexican authorities are investigating the killing of a U.S. missionary in Mexico, even as mission groups in Texas are re-evaluating the risks of working in the country. Fifty-nine-year-old Nancy Davis had ministered in Mexico for 40 years. Her husband said they were about 70 miles south of the border when gunmen in a […]
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24 COMMUNITIES AT HIGH RISK Country’s mayors have warned of increasing violent deaths in some municipalities in Colombia, by the actions of the former strongholds of paramilitary and guerrilla groups known as the BACRIM. Read Article
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Deputy Minister of Environment, Carlos Castaño, told RCN Radio that the Government expects to close by 2013, some 3 000 illegal mines currently in the country. “We identified these mines are illegal in 18 regions where this illegal activity, financed by illegal armed groups are also responsible for its operation and performance,” said Castano Uribe. […]
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The Attorney General of the Federal District conducted an operation in an annex, ie a treatment center for addictions and alcoholism, Cuajimalpa, which released 75 people imprisoned against their will. Hacinados, desnutridos, golpeados y con infecciones en la piel fue la forma en la que vivían estas personas, tres de ellas mujeres, tres adolescentes y […]
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This weekend, the Brazilian police recovered five stolen shot in the past 48 hours, in the area of Foz de Iguazu (Brazil), about to cross the border into CDE. En lo que va del año suman 23 las recuperaciones. So far this year add up to 23 recoveries. Read Article Opinion
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The Mexican government vowed Tuesday not to back down in its fight against La Familia drug cartel, despite mysterious banners proclaiming that the brutal gang has dissolved itself. Read Article
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Federal police shot and killed a municipal policeman guarding the mayor of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday night, raising tensions between security forces amid a fierce drug war. Read Article
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U-blox has announces the immediate availability of an off-the-shelf reference design for the Brazilian stolen vehicle tracking (SVT) market. The design, the C16-G26Q, addresses all key requirements of the Brazilian National Transportation Department (DENATRAN) to equip all vehicles with SVT devices to discourage theft and facilitate stolen vehicle recovery. Read Article
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Some 7,000 Mexicans have participated in a program through which the Colombian government trains Mexican soldiers and police in techniques for fighting drug cartels, according to an article in the Jan. 22 Washington Post. The administration of US president Barack Obama is encouraging this effort, and the US is paying part of the costs. Washington’s […]
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Gunmen spraying automatic weapons fire killed seven people at a park that had been built as an anti-violence measure in the besieged Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said Monday. Read Article
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The Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions reported that in 2010, there were 78,870 vehicles reported stolen. This number is 16 percent higher then the vehicles stolen in 2009. Recovery of stolen vehicles were down to 35% in 2010 from 40% in 2009. The two highest areas of theft were in the state of Mexico(22%) and […]
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Argentina, addressing a bank security problem that is bedeviling much of South America, said it would ban cell phones from bank lobbies to counter a rash of robberies of customers who are being assailed after making withdrawals. Read Article
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A Mexican singer accused of raping a 17-year-old girl has been given a six-day extension to present evidence in his defense, Mexico’s state media reported. Read Article
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Costa Rican investigators have searched two football stadiums linked to a businessman charged in the U.S. with defrauding clients of his life-settlement company. Read Article
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The government of Ecuador has rented a hotel in the historic sector of Quito to house illegal aliens during deportation proceedings. The government admitted that the illegals had been kept in quarters that were inhumane. The hostal is a three star accomodation for illegals to wait until they are removed from the country. The hotel […]
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Argentina Federal Police requested assistance from the Brazilian Federal Police, based on the state of Rio Grande do Sul, for investigation of assault on Banco Provincia. Argentine agents are investigating whether the attackers fled across the border between the two countries. Read Article
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The Central Bank regulated the bank security law, passed on the end of last year amid the boom in the form of theft known as “leaks. And it presents a surprise: according to the vice president of the company, Michael Pesce, customers and employees should leave bags or lockers their cell phones when entering a […]
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According to inforegion.pe, human trafficking in Peru continues to be a pernicious issue in society. Here are a few points on the current condition of human trafficking in Peru. 1. Traffickers are locating and using new routes to traffick their human cargo. 2. Previous methods involved moving young rural youth from the country to urban […]
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Federal Police took 55 migrants from Guatemala into custody at Benjamin Hill while being transported in a bus. They were in route to Ensenada. None of the migrants could prove they were legally in Mexico. Read Article
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In the wake of a January 15 grenade attack on the home of Chapala police chief Reynol Contreras Muñoz, Jalisco state police swept the community for suspects, dismantling a presumed cell of the La Resistencia crime syndicate that allegedly hatched the plot. Read Article
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According to a recent study by the non-governmental organization La Casa del Encuentro, 260 cases of crime against women were committed in Argentina in 2010, almost five per week, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday. In 64 percent of the cases, the executor was either the victim’s husband or de-facto spouse, the NGO highlights […]
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A Canadian woman who claims she was gang-raped by police in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on New Year’s Eve was arrested earlier that day with her fiancé because they were drunk and hit a car, officials at the Mexican Embassy in Canada said. Rebecca Rutland went to the Canadian consular agency in Playa del Carmen, […]
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Three Italians have remained in prison for eight months in Cuba involved in the death of a 12 year old girl, apparently in a case of drug abuse and prostitution on which the Cuban authorities have been silent about. Read Article
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Paraguay’s president wants police to “exterminate” the activities of a leftist guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for three bombs in the last week. Interior Minister Rafael Filizzola says President Fernando Lugo has given orders to redouble efforts to arrest and shut down the Paraguayan People’s Army. Read Article Interesting Link about the Paraguayan People’s Army
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The Canadian family of a British Columbia man is attempting to get him back from Mexico quickly after he was seriously injured by stray bullets Sunday. Penticton resident Mike Dilorenzo, 69, was walking by a shopping centre in Mazatlan at 1:30 p.m. when men opened fire with AK-47 automatic assault rifles. Another bystander was injured […]
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In the 10 years since he escaped from a high security federal prison in a laundry truck, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has transformed himself from a middling Mexican capo into arguably the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. The boyish-looking kingpin, who made his storied prison break on Jan. 19, 2001, has seized ever […]
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A cyclist identified as Ricardo Williams Grant died yesterday afternoon after being hit by a stray bullet near the bridge the neighborhood’s Cieneguita in the center of Limon. Witnesses said a taxi driver and another man facing death in the area when Williams went through the site. Los dos pistoleros huyeron, ilesos, tras herir al […]
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Colombian authorities over the past four months have closed 56 illegal gold mines and arrested 573 people, a police report stated. The report released Monday said that ’46 illegal deposits (have been closed, and) 573 people were arrested’, but it clarified that the majority of those people have been released on bail. Read Article
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The black-and-white photos still hang in the faded Hotel Los Flamingos. Over there is the muscled star of “Tarzan,” Johnny Weissmuller, who owned the hotel for a time during Acapulco’s heyday. There’s Maureen O’Sullivan. Tyrone Power. Errol Flynn. Fred MacMurray. Read Article
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Gunmen looking to settle a drug gang dispute in Monterey blitzed a corner store Monday, killing six people, including two apparent bystanders, authorities said. Four of the victims in the daylight attack were believed to have been peddling drugs from the store in the industrial city.Read Article
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Leftist guerrillas have claimed responsibility for a backpack bomb that injured four police officers, the third bombing in a week in Paraguay. A handwritten note from a group calling itself the Paraguayan People’s Army warns police to “forget the word mercy” as they continue anti-government attacks. Read Article
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NOTES: NARCOTRAFFICKING PERU 1. VRAE, Huallaga are considered the drug production region of Peru. 2. 80 percent of illegal drugs exit the country via sea. The Port of Paita is known as a major transportation port for drugs. 3. Aragoto a small town in northern Peru is a legend in Peru in terms of narcotrafficking. […]
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Local authorities acted quickly to solve the murder of lakeside resident Allan Robert Turnipseed, combing the community for clues that led to the capture early this week of two teenage brothers who have reportedly confessed to the grisly crime. The body of Turnipseed, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen, was discovered in his Riberas del Pilar home […]
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The Observatorio de Seuridad Ciudana recently released their report on stolen cell phones in Quito. In 2009, the number was 3,360. The number increased to 4,050 in 2010. Numbers of phones are stolen from victims during the middle of the day when students are leaving school and after work when people are returning to their […]
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In the late hours and early morning in the state of Jalisco there were several attacks with heavy weapons and grenades that left three dead, one injured and physical damage. Some of the members arrested confessed to being part of a cell of the criminal organization called “resistance” that resulted from the breakoff of the […]
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A Santa Fe family who had come to Carlos Paz to spend the weekend was the victim of a robbery on Friday while he was lunching in a flood Resturante Freedom and Maipú. The incident occurred around 15:15 am María Valeria Funes explained, one of the tourists. While eating in place, someone told them that […]
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In Romania, prosecutors say they have detained two Romanian men believed to belong to a drug cartel planning to transport €90 million (US$120.14 million) of cocaine to western Europe. Organized crime prosecutors accuse the two of involvement in a Colombian cartel transporting 1.5 tons (1.36 metric tons) of the drug from Ecuador to Romania, and […]
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Panama televesion network (TVN) has reported that FARC have been recruiting minors in Panama. The network provided an interview with a boy minor stating he had been recruited in the Darien province and spent three months with the FARC. In an interview with Panamian television network TVN, the boy said he had been recruited from […]
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The ITUC, together with its affiliated organisations in Guatemala and the national health workers’ union SNTSG, has firmly condemned the killing of a member of the health sector trade union at the opening of 2011. Read Article
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Venezuelan police have captured a drug suspect alleged to belong to Mexico’s Zetas drug gang. The Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday that 56-year-old Gloria Rojas Valencia was detained in Caracas this week. Read Article
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According to officials, the camp was discovered in the area of La Cueva Beach in the Darién. It was formerly used as a base of operations for Luis Mora Pestaño, alias Silver, A FARC leader who was killed in October by Colombian troops close to the border with Panama. Read Article
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Mexican authorities have arrested a man wanted in the 2009 kidnapping of a three year old in Riverside. Israel Moreno, 29, was arrested on a federal fugitive warrant after FBI agents in Riverside learned of his whereabouts in Guadalajara, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Moreno was one of two men charged in the May 3, […]
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Vehicle and parts thefts are a persistent problem in Ecuador. In Quito there are four areas where chop shops operate. Police indicate there are four known operators with two in the north, one in the center of Quito, and one in the south of the city. Chop shops disguise themselves as garages. There are gangs […]
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A foreign couple have been arrested for illegal trafficking of people in Quito. After agents of the Unit of People Smuggling Intelligence Police investigate possible immigration fraud, it was found that the Mariana Pérez Zavala Mexican and Colombian Carlos Alonso Chiduque are the perpetrators of this crime, police said. The operation called “North Coyote” discovered […]
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The mayor of the small central Mexico town of Temoac was shot to death Monday, and the body of a northern mayor was found riddled with bullets Friday. Oaxaca state prosecutor Manuel de Jesus Lopez said on Thursday that Luis Jimenez Mata, who only took up his post in Santiago Amoltepec at the start of […]
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The government should regard two grenade attacks this week on news media in northern Mexico – one against Televisa in Piedras Negras and one against a local newspaper in Monterrey – as a serious warning and should speed implementation of a federal-level convention on the protection of journalists that was signed in November. Read Article
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Mexican authorities say a state police officer has been slain while on patrol in Monterrey, becoming the ninth officer killed in just two weeks in the northern industrial city. Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene says the officer was on patrol near the Tec de Monterrey University when he was killed. He says a […]
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Tension was running high between Spain and Venezuela on Thursday over allegations that the Latin American country had become a refuge for the militant Basque separatist group ETA, which has plagued Spain for decades. Read Article
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O Globo reported on Wednesday a transvestite was murdered in Carjacica. He was standing near a motel he would often meet customers. A vehicle approached him with two people. One of the occupants exited the vehicle and shot the victim.
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Motochorros stole money intended for the president’s travel to the Middle East. The robbery and assault took place in the neighborhood of Palermo, of employee of the Presidency that is dedicated to coordinating presidential trips. Stolen from the assistant was $ 68 000 dollars and 17 000 euros. Read Article
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The presence of a group of armed men forcibly took possession of the property of foreigners in Drake, causing inhabitants of the area to be in fear. By early Monday, strangers, wearing military clothing (fatigues) and carrying large weapons, entered the field at about 4 am and threatened the caretaker, José Ángel Gómez Jiménez (aka […]
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Gringos Gone Wild – from Inside Costa Rica When you read this title the first thing that probably comes to mind are young girls engaging in nudity, indecent exposure and other sexual acts on camera like the film “Girls Gone Wild.” The kind of misconduct that that some Americans engage in here is quite different. […]
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Homicide Rates per 100,000 Esmeraldas – 62 Sucumbios – 44 Guayaquil – 25.6 Quito (urban) 10.6 Cuenca – 7.1 National – 18.5 Source – Observatorio Metropolitano de Seguridad Ciudadana
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Protests over gas price increases of 17 percent are intensifying in far southern Chile. Already, two women protesters have been killed and a baby was among those injured when a truck smashed into a barricade and knocked them into a bonfire. About 21 people have been arrested. Read Article
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The Tourism Law Association received 154 cases this year against 89 in 2009. In most, the tourists made the bank deposit and the landlord then disappeared. The coastal areas have been the areas most affected. Most of the scams are run on the internet, where the thief demands a fifty percent down payment for a […]
Band of drug dealers apprehended in San Juan de Miraflores – video
A father and son were brutally murdered after being removed from their home by members of the Shining Path(Sendero Luminoso). They were beaten and then gunned down and were accused of being snitches. The crime occurred in the town of Santo Domingo de Huacaybamba, northeast of Huanuco region on the border with the province of […]
It was 7:00am last Friday morning when a passenger bus of the Autobuses Unidos de Sinaloa line travelling from Culiacán to Mazatlán on the Maxipista stopped close to the town of La Cruz Elota and three young men boarded as passengers. As the bus approached Estación Dimas in San Ignacio, the young men left their […]
Due punishment for international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his crimes was demanded outside the US Embassy on Monday by representatives of Salvadoran organizations. Leaders of the Salvadoran Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba gathered outside the US Embassy in San Salvador to address a letter to President Barack Obama, demanding justice against Posada Carriles. […]
The National Popular Resistance Front denounced the kidnapping of a member of its executive committee, Juan Chinchilla, and called for a demonstration in the capital on Monday to demand his immediate release. Chinchilla was kidnapped this weekend on his way home near the rural settlement of La Concepción, in the municipality of Tocoa. Read Article
Five people have been arrested in the kidnappings of Central American migrants in southern Mexico, federal prosecutors said Monday. Federal police arrested a Nicaraguan man and a Mexican man on suspicion of involvement in the Dec. 16 kidnapping of about 30 migrants from a train in Oaxaca state. Information provided by 12 migrants who escaped […]
Almost two tons of chemicals that were to be used in the development of cocaine base in the Upper Huallaga and the province of Padre Abad in the Ucayali region, the National Police seized. En la operación fueron detenidas dos personas que son investigadas por las autoridades. In the operation were arrested two people who […]
Two sons of former high-ranking military leaders in Argentina have been arrested in Spain after police allegedly discovered almost a tonne of cocaine on board a medical transport aircraft. Read Article
A Jamaican businessman and his American stepdaughter who were last year implicated in an alleged human trafficking ring had their bails extended when they appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court last week. The pair will reappear in court on January 27 to plea and for a case management hearing. Read Article
A defrocked American priest who left the United States 17 years ago after he was accused of molesting two dozen children in New Mexico and three other states has died here. Joelle Louisor, a hospital administrator at the Pierre Zobda Quitman hospital, on Friday confirmed Laurence Brett’s death. He was 73. Read Article
On January 6, 2010, a wanted individual was arrested by Peruvian police when the driver of a minivan acting as a taxi was attempting to pick up 8 tourists that had just arrived from the United States. The police were concerned about his behavior and it was discovered that he had false papers and was […]
In 2010, there were 326 foreigners arrested at the international airport in Lima, for attempting to transport illegal drugs. Of the arrests there were 44 countries represented. 94 of those detained in 2010, were from Spain, 25 Filipinos, 18 Mexicans, 13 Dutch, 13 Britons, and 13 Portuguese. Mules in Peru are referred to as ‘burriers’. […]
When the Jan. 12 earthquake sent a shockwave through his office, Mario Joseph thought it was a bomb attack. After all, Haiti’s most prominent human rights lawyer is used to coming under fire. “Someone was shot in my office,” he said. “I receive a lot of threats.” It was only when he ventured outside that […]