Narco-Terrorist Attack in Peru Indicates New Drug Trafficking Route El Comercio reports on May 10, 2012 that an attack occurred in Quellouno, Peru. Experts agree that this attack indicates an attempt to open a new drug trafficking route in the area. Quellouno is positioned within easy access to Calca, Arequipa, Puno, and Cusco. Narco-trafficking expert […]
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400 Kilos of Drugs Seized in Peru; Possible New Drug Trafficking Route Discovered The Agenda Pascua reports on May 20, 2012 that 400 kilos of drugs were seized in Cacazu (Villa Rica), Peru. The type of drug was not specified. The drugs were packed into 350 individual brick-like packages. The dump truck in which the […]
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A center for processing clandestine synthetic drug was found half-educated, among the weeds in the receivership of Jesus Maria. At the site said 300 kilos of methamphetamine thousand strong, 140 liters of the same substance, 7 000 700 liters of various chemicals and twelve organic synthesis reactors. The authorities of the Ninth Military Zone reported […]
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Troops on Wednesday narcotics found cocaine processing laboratory near the site of the weekend crashed a plane in which they found $ 1.3 million that authorities believe came from or were destined for drug trafficking. The official news agency reported that the laboratory Andes was found “in an area close to the plane crash, which […]
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Four people died and as many wounded in a raid were drug traffickers, they were humble and honest citizens, said yesterday the deputy Thank God Grawell Maylo Wood, and the mayor of Ahuas, Lucio Baquedano. The incident occurred last Friday morning when a helicopter with U.S. and Honduran police opened fire on a boat on […]
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As a result of the violence generated mainly by organized crime and drug trafficking, one in 50 young Central Americans under age 20 will die before they killed 32, according to the UN. The homicide rate in the region, the largest in the world, is 400 times higher than the average in countries with low […]
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The operation was conducted by the Colombian Air Force (FAC) and the Police. In the action, which was also supported by the National Maritime Interdiction Unit, it was a clandestine airstrip, known as ‘discord’ in Pizarro, Department of Chocó. The report indicates that in that area offends the criminal gang ‘Los Rastrojos’ Officials explained that […]
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Guatemala is preparing to fight narco militarily. And they will do with the Kaibiles elite troops of the Army, already prepared for this Aldor Ismael Mendez, commander of the Army of Guatemala, said that in the jungle training with an objective to kaibiles “strengthen him, preparing for the end of the course is able to […]
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Gustavo Iturralde, the Financial Analysis Unit, said he was submitting evidence of Colombian traffickers in Mexico cartels An elegant woman holding a puppy and found dead in the wreckage of the plane falling at 21:00 on Sunday at Pedernales (Manabi) are part of a larger puzzle that so far attempts to arm the police investigating […]
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A total of 566 barrels and drums with 1.645 different chemicals, which are used as precursors for synthetic drugs have been seized from January 1 to May 14 this year, as recorded by the General Directorate of Information Analysis Counternarcotics (Sdgaia) of the Police. Read Article
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Presence of suspected members of the brothers column Quispe Palomino was recorded at 20:30 hours. The expert on drug trafficking and terrorism, Jaime Antezana, RPP reported by news that a group of armed entered the district Tahuanía, Atalaya province, Ucayali region at 20:30 hours, approximately.Apparently, it is 20 to 25 men belonging to the columns […]
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Michael C., owner of premises on Calama, lamented that “compared to other occasions for the same day would have more customers. Insecurity has affected business at least 50%. ” According Victimization Survey Metropolitan Public Safety Observatory (CSOM), La Mariscal ranks ninth among the ten most dangerous neighborhoods considered Quito. To this is added which is […]
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A Mexican registration plane has crashed into a hill 600 meters near the highway Coaque-Pedernales in Manabi, when flying at around 21h00 on Sunday, no lights and very low altitude, as reported last night the reporter Tania Tinoco your twitter account. The plane was found by residents of the place, which gave notice to the […]
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On Friday, the bodies of four women and five men were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas. All of the bodies reportedly displayed signs of torture, and a ‘narco-banner’ was hung nearby, a now common sight throughout drug war-weary Mexico. Read Article
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The soldiers of the Fourth Army Division detained the day before midnight three suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Coca, Francisco de Orellana. According to the military, is caught between the alleged chief financial officer of Block 48 of the guerrillas ‘Fredemiro’. In a bulletin issued by the Joint Command […]
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SANTO DOMINGO. – A Canadian tourist was arrested in Puerto Plata where he’ll be charged with possession of crack and marijuana, the National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) announced Wednesday. It also announced the arrest of three men on drugs possession at Santiago’s Cibao International Airport, two of whom went to accompany the third prior to […]
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In the northern city of Piura, was seized a half ton of cocaine hydrochloride, valued at $ 84 million, hidden in a load of bananas for export, in a container that was bound for the city of Belgium. Five people were arrested. The blow to the drug was given in a statement made by staff […]
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Colombia anti-drug authorities and the United States completely dismantled a network of cocaine trafficking with the arrest of a U.S. exmilitar and a Colombian citizen. Narcotics Directorate (Diran) of the National Police of Colombia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Directorate (DEA) arrested in coordinated and called Alliance 31 to the two alleged ringleaders of the […]
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A hit man, aged about 30, came yesterday in a restaurant the third ring and Busch Avenue in the city of Santa Cruz and riddled dead Cossio Williams Evans (42), a lawyer who usually attended large drug cases. It is the second case of this nature is recorded in Santa Cruz in less than 24 […]
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The bloody shootouts between gunmen and followed the Mexican Army in the Sierra de Choix for a second day in which the death toll rose to 15, including 13 gunmen, one soldier and an officer of the Municipal Police.
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Wilson Tapiero military captured in the border province of Sucumbios. The detainee was delivered Monday to the judicial authorities of Sucumbios, told Efe agency source of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Tapiero is suspect financial front 48 of the FARC . The suspect, 33, was arrested in Santa Elena farm, located 11 kilometers […]
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Violence and Sexual Abuse on the Rise for Girls in Mexico Children’s homicides have climbed 30% in one year in Mexico, according to reports from NSS Oaxaca. Kidnapping and sexual exploitation of young girls is also one the rise as a result of narcotrafficking and gang activity concentrated in the northern states. Read Article
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Four Romanians arrested May 04, 2012 on Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar International Airport (Maiquetia International) with 10 kilos of cocaine. It does not specify the city so I assume it is the capital. Drugs were hidden in shower gel containers. The suspects were scheduled to fly to Rome and then to Bucharest. Read Article
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Mexico: Violent confrontation between military and gunmen leaves 50 dead On Sunday April 29th Mexican military officials were ambushed by an unknown group of armed men in the town of Choix, Sinaloa. The confrontation left 30-50 deaths according to Eleazar Rubio, the Mayor of EL Fuerte. Read Article
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In the far north, the Air Force (FAB) will participate in Operation Agate with four fighters, reconnaissance, airborne early warning (radar plane), search and rescue and transport logistics. The area of operation is greater than the land area of Portugal and Spain. More than five thousand kilometers on the border of Brazil and Venezuela, Guyana, […]
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Shining Path rebels on Friday killed three members of Peru’s security forces and wounded two others while they were searching for police who disappeared in an earlier ambush, the armed forces said. It was the latest setback to the government’s push to retake a lawless bundle of jungle valleys in southeastern Peru where a remnant […]
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The Police Narcotics Unit presented yesterday the 115 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride and 5 kilos of cocaine base were seized in the canton Zapotillo of this province, in the operation called Southern storm that took place last Tuesday. The drug was found Infiernillos sector, we also found a lab where illegal substances were processed. In […]
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EE. States. revealed its priorities in the region. Venezuela, Argentina and Guatemala are being targeted. After Santos-Obama historic debate on the decriminalization of drugs in the Summit of the Americas, the U.S. government notified them to several countries in the priority plan to confront the drug cartels. In formal and informal talk of a new […]
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A Cessna 402 aircraft type, acronyms YV1255 was also destroyed in an operation carried out on 12,13 and 14 April in the pipe CANAME, Atabapo municipality of the entity. “Previous research in the days of Holy Week said illegal mining activity in the area, which is then associated with movements of elements linked to drug […]
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Eladio Aponte former judge accused the government of Hugo Chávez of collusion with drug cartels. Removed by benefit a drug lord, was exiled to the United States. He witnesses protected from DEA.Por Facundo F. Neighborhood Without strength?. According to the judge Aponte, Chavez led a government that has ties to drug traffickers. Sinks and wants […]
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Mexico: The US provides specialized anti-crime equipment to Mexico The United States donated specialized equipment, valued at $725 543 000 dollars, to combat organized crime and violence generated by criminal groups in Mexico. The equipment, set up by microscopes, fingerprint scanners, office and training equipment will be delivered on Monday to the State Governor. Read […]
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Mexico: Red code alert in Saltillo On April 20th a Code Red alert was implemented in Saltillo, after a shootout between an armed group and official authorities. Members of the armed group threw a grenade that exploded near a car dealership. The federal police and military officials followed the aggressors meanwhile one of the armed […]
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The presence of contract killings in recent years it has become evident in our country, data from the National Police to Ecuavisa revealed that the 2345 killings that occurred in 2011, 1052 were considered “account settings”, of which 113 operated under the type of alleged killings. The numbers of violent deaths are available on the […]
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TIJUANA, Baja California (PH) A 37-year-old taxi driver who pretended to be free, was insured by the Municipal Police, with 15 kilos of marijuana, in the vicinity of the colony Mariano Matamoros, the delegation Dam. According to information from the Municipal Public Security Ministry, the events occurred on the street and boulevard Javier Mina White […]
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Transfer of drug grows in U.S. border. States. and Mexico New York. – Increased security at the border between Mexico and the United States does not prevent more drugs being trafficked or that more immigrants are exposed to violence of Mexican cartels, said a U.S. report released yesterday. Read Article Spanish
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A former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice flown by federal agents to the United States is likely to be a trove of valuable information for U.S. authorities investigating the nexus of cocaine, payoffs and corruption in the government of President Hugo Chávez. Ex-Judge Eladio Aponte Aponte, who’s associated with a Venezuelan kingpin facing indictment in New […]
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Two Colombians, identified as Santos Minho Severo (41) and Rodrigo Velez Correa (53), who were in a house used as a nursery for marijuana, grown in a very peculiar, were arrested last night by officers of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad .) The prosecutor explained to Javier Ibarra ONE Radio that the operation was in […]
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Nearly 411,000 poppy plants, raw materials for producing drugs such as heroin, were destroyed in raids by soldiers and policemen in the province of Chimborazo, said Tuesday the Ecuadorian army. The poppy plants were located between licit crops, so “it was not ‘weed’ as said the residents of the community but were planted in a […]
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The Venezuelan exmagistrado Eladio Aponte Aponte, dismissed for his alleged connection with a suspected drug dealer and who entered the country on April 2, left yesterday on Costa Rican soil in a plane of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English). Read Article
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The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) seized a suitcase full of cocaine headed to the United States at Las Americas Airport (AILA), with at least three arrests, including two employees of a company which provides service in the luggage inspection area, and seeks six others. Read Article
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CAPTURE AND EXTRADITION OF ALLEGED SINALOA MEMBERS INDICATE CARTEL SPREADING INTO DR The Arrests of the Two Alleged Sinaloa Cartel Members Is Strongest Sign Yet That the Group Might Be Active in the Dominican Republic. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Two alleged members of the Sinaloa cartel were caught here and promptly extradited to the […]
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Offenders who covered their faces with balaclavas carrying guns and dressed caliber of police, stole more than a ton of drugs in the warehouses of the National Council of Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances (Consep). According to unofficial information, theft of drugs, including cocaine, heroin and marijuana, have occurred early Friday when the rogues arrived in […]
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Argentina and some of its Southern Cone neighbors, have become centers of operation of the Colombian mafia. Its geographical position, the contacts and some facilities were provided migratory their actions. The closest episode of this relationship between criminals here and there, surfaced last Friday, when in Buenos Aires arrested two Spanish, 12 Argentines and 11 […]
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Elements of state and municipal police, supported by the Mexican Army, conducted simultaneous raids criminal Cancun, Cozumel and Chetumal, where confiscated drugs, sharp stabbing weapons, cell phones, beer and cane liquor. In a statement, the Ministry of Public Security said that the operation in Cancun prison lasted about four hours and were eventually seized 221 […]
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A citizen of Spanish nationality aged 32 was arrested at Maiquetia International Airport while trying to board a plane with 8,280 kilos of drugs to Europe. The press officer of the Ministry of Interior and Justice, Jorge Galindo, noted that it is cocaine. This person was arrested in Maiquetía by National Guard troops as he […]
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Ads in newspapers in Tijuana that offered jobs in San Diego for those who have their papers in order, are increasingly common, and this has become a familiar scenario for the U.S. authorities, said ICE. In the past year a dozen people arrested carrying drugs at border crossings, said he knew nothing of the shipment […]
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The smugglers in Mexico use the same routes used by drug cartels to move drugs and guns from southern Mexico to the U.S. border, said on Monday a senior Mexican official. The smugglers of migrants’ is often guided by the course of drugs or weapons in southern Mexico or north “to” move through our territory […]
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Neiva, Huila. Members of the Criminal Investigation Branch (Sijin), in coordination with Army units, deployed an operation in rural area of Belalcazar, department of Cauca. The site was discovered a laboratory for the processing of cocaine, which were found 400 kilos of coca leaf ready to be processed, 330 gallons of gasoline, five kilos of […]
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Deputy Federal PJ, Natalia Gambaro, revived the controversy over the radar installation in the north and reported: “The Defense Minister Nilda Garre Resistance opens in an old obsolete radar donated by Spain, which replaces another even more obsolete and did not work and would have us believe that this is a milestone in terms of […]
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A cache of about 180 kilos of cocaine was seized within 27 kilometers of the coast of El Dorado, Northern District of Puerto Rico, in an operation against drug trafficking in which they were arrested six Dominicans. The head of the federal prosecutor in San Juan, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez announced at a press conference yesterday […]
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Three additional murders in agribusiness in Honduras Three employees of a large agribusiness company were killed Thursday afternoon in the valley of Aguán, in northeastern Honduras, which already account for 50 deaths in the context of conflict over land in that area of the country, officials said. A brief news report revealed that police “Denis […]
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Counternarcotics Police yesterday presented a consignment of more than 844 kilos of cocaine seized between Thursday and yesterday at the seaport of Guayaquil Simon Bolivar. According to research, the drug was bound for Canada and Europe. The first of these actions are called ‘Gandhisha’, by the name of the exporting company involved. The drug was […]
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The Drug Control Police of Costa Rica (PCD) seized 224 kilos of cocaine hidden in a shipment of candy transported in a truck, whose driver was arrested is from Guatemala, officials said. The discovery was made late on Tuesday in Peñas Blancas border with Nicaragua during a routine inspection conducted by the PCD’s truck license […]
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During 2011, the Armed Forces assigned to 118 000 569 soldiers and sailors to guard the country. Of these, 57 000 871 through the streets and various parts of the country to participate in high impact operations against drug traffickers, reveals the Fifth Report of Implementation of National Development Plan (NDP). Only the Ministry of […]
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Pichari. – Brave 30 Army soldiers held out for four days and five nights of the narco-terrorist attack with the body of Jesus Manuel Delgado Lieutenant EP Nauca in Pampa Aurora area, in the hills district Llochegua, Huanta province (Ayacucho .)The body of the officer, recently was rescued Wednesday afternoon, involving five helicopter gunships, while […]
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Mexico: Drug lords recruit the elderly According to the Attorney General’s office during the last six-year period the number of elderly involved in organized crime has increased markedly. From December 2006 to November 2011 there has been more than 4 000 senior citizens arrested for their involvement with drug traffickers. Since they inspire love and […]
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Dismembered body found with a Narco-Message in Sinaloa On April 9th a man was kidnaped in La Trinidad, Sinaloa and hours later his dead body was found in the international road in Guasave. The victim’s body was dismembered, his fingers where placed inside his mouth. The message left by the aggressors said “ this is […]
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Mexicali. – An ultralight aircraft, drugs, weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, were seized by elements of the State Preventive Police (PEP), in coordination with the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), the criminal organization “Los Garibay “. The Secretary of State Public Security reported that the actions took place in Chiapas ejido III area […]
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The trial has begun in Venezuela for a prominent drug trafficking suspect facing charges of money laundering, drug smuggling and murder. Walid Makled was captured in Colombia in 2010 and extradited to Venezuela last year. He has previously claimed he paid Venezuelan military officers and government officials for favors. Read Article
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In Baja California enterprise agreements were settled between two rival drug cartels; the remains of Arellano Felix Tijuana cartel and the Sinaloa cartel. According to the director of the Binacional Human Rights Center (Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos) Victor Clark Alfaro the pacts include lowering violence and continuing with the drug business. Read Article
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Studies Program Coordinator City of FLACSO Ecuador, an expert on public safety, urban policy, local development and planning. At home and outside the borders, the power of criminal organizations have increased at an accelerated rate, says Fernando Carrión, researcher and expert on security issues. In his opinion, Ecuador has become an international platform for drug […]
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Sergeant: Born in Colombia but Argentine nationality. Drugs, Cocaine confiscated Friday contained in shipment of antique furniture destined for Europe. 83 Colombians have been involved in the investigation, 42 businesses providing logistics for the Colombian Narcos. Security Minister Nilda Garre revealed that among the arrested drug traffickers, is a sergeant serving in Buenos Aires the […]
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After a police deployment in private villas Alcazar, the Army and local police located a home within which they found 445 packages of drugs. Elements of the Mexican Army in coordination with the Municipal Public Security elements in the city of Tijuana seized 844.5 kilos of marijuana. According to preliminary information, the operation was implemented […]
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Guatemalan authorities say they have begun to see new and disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America, a deal with the potential to further undermine the U.S.-backed effort to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in […]
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There is an estimated of 10 billion dollars being laundered annually by drug dealers in Mexico according to the Mexican IRS reports. 90 percent of the illicit gained money is laundered in the United States and a third portion of what is generated illicitly by the Mexican Cartels is reincorporated to the formal Mexican economy. […]
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The Government is concerned about these illegal networks to the point that on February 27 last, the Security Minister Homero Arellano asked to Armed Forces, “the patriotic participation” in the fight against these facts. That request did verbal to the troops of the Eloy Alfaro Military School as stated in the Comprehensive Safety Plan that […]
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Argentina seized 2.7 kg of cocaine cast in rubber About 2.7 kilos of cocaine hidden in rubber sheets were seized today at a hotel in central Argentina’s capital, when they were ready to be sent to Spain, the ministry of Security. In the operation were arrested a Spanish 48, a Peruvian 33, whose identities were […]
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Bad weather conditions prevented Honduras Tucano aircraft to track down the twin-engine Beechcraft plane that went on 18 March hangars Horizontal Aviation company in Bogota, which was reported as suspicious by the Colombian Air Force ( FAC). The director of the Aerocivil, Santiago Castro, said that since it is an issue of drug it is […]
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A plane reported stolen from hangar at airport El Dorado Bogota Colombia King 300 aircraft, which was one of the hangars from El Dorado Airport in Bogota, disappeared without so far have clues to his whereabouts. This was confirmed by the Director of Civil Aeronautics, Santiago Castro, who said that the owners of the aircraft […]
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Over 140 kilos of cocaine were seized and two people were arrested during a raid on the coast of Rio Bermejo in Salta department of Oran, on a boat from Bolivia. Sources of National Gendarmerie, by the procedure, reported today that the operation took place yesterday and was in charge of troops from 20 Squadron […]
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Intervention in his boat was in mid-month, but the British press has just revealed the relationship to rock idol. Phillip Austin Collins (37) son of cartoonist Clive Collins and nephew of legendary musician Phil Collins was part of the British trio arrested on drug charges in mid-month in Callao. On that occasion, was seized 40 […]
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Police say they arrested a woman carrying more than 4 pounds of cocaine stashed inside a fake pregnant belly strapped around her waist. The federal police says in a statement the 20-year-old woman was arrested Friday morning after arriving at the international airport in the northeastern city of Natal. Read Article
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Peru: A ton of cocaine seized and 27 persons arrested Over a ton of cocaine was seized in Peru last week during a special operation by the Peruvian Police. Three British citizens were arrested when they were about to leave the country with 30 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride while three Italians were arrested with 89 […]
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Military leaders of Bolivia and Brazil began a meeting yesterday in the city of Santa Cruz to plan joint air exercises in the framework of the fight against drugs by the two countries agreed last October. This is the Initial Meeting Planning BOLBRA II operation, which runs until Friday, detailed the Brazilian Embassy in La […]
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In 2011 there were 190 arrests for minor drug trying to cross the San Diego | Agency Reform The number of children carrying drugs across the border, mainly methamphetamine, continues to rise, which is coupled to the growth of cases of “blind mules” carrying drugs without their knowledge, activists complain. In 2011 there were 190 […]
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The drug was withdrawn on Friday by the occupants of a vessel without registration or name that had been detected in the sea by a maritime surveillance aircraft of the Navy The Colombian authorities seized a stash of 752 kilos of cocaine had been hidden by some sailors on the beach in the Pacific coast […]
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Drug gang fell while trying to send drugs to South Africa from Ezeiza He was arrested a member of the Airport Security Police and a former member of that force. A member of the Airport Security Police (PSA) and a former member of that force were arrested along with three others on charges of creating […]
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The arrest of Juan Carlos Calle Serna is not an isolated event. Official figures indicate that their ties are linked to criminal cases dating, for example, 2009. On 2 October of that year, drug agents staged a raid in four provinces, seized 3.8 tons of cocaine and arrested two soldiers: one sergeant and a former […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that 2,500 of coca plants were located by narotics police on two small islands in the Putumayo River in Sucumbios along the border with Colombia. The plants were destroyed by the armed forces of Ecuador.fternoon by members of the Narcotics Police, in collaboration with the Armed Forces of Ecuador. Read Article
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In less than four years, Russia has gone from being considered by the Bolivian government as the best ally against drug trafficking to be excluded from the new agreement against drug trafficking, especially cocaine, has signed with Brazil and the U.S.. And without any explanation from the government of Morales, who in recent days also […]
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Peru, Colombia and Bolivia seek to establish a system to measure the same criteria as the production of coca leaf, informed the president of the Peruvian anti-drug office, Carmen Masias. The decision, which includes the formation of teams in the three countries, was taken after the last two years to discrepancies about the amount of […]
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Argentine federal agents sized 450 kilos of cocaine in Buenos Aires harbor, drugs that were destined for Portugal. Last month 350 kilos of cocaine were seized in the port of Lisbon, Portugal within the same operation run by Argentine and Portugal governments. Argentina is a transit route for cocaine trafficking between South America and Europe. […]
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Mexico: Seized Drugs at the Mexico-Guatemala Border Federal agents discover 295 packages of cocaine and glass at a checkpoint in Huehuetan, Chiapas. The drugs were being transported into the center states in Mexico inside a false compartment in a tractor. Read Article
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Meanwhile, the tiny coastal nation has fallen to ruins. Two-thirds of its inhabitants live in poverty. Corruption runs rampant. South American drug traffickers ferry as much as $1 billion worth of cocaine each year through the un-patrolled islands that dot the country’s Atlantic coast. Read Article
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Mexico: 739 Kilos of Marijuana Seized in Sonora On February 24th Federal Police agents discovered 739kilos of marijuana inside an abandoned dark blue Chevrolet truck. The truck contained 76rectangular marijuana packages and was found in Agua Prieta Sonora. The vehicle was reported stolen on October, 10, 2010 in Douglas Arizona. Read Article
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In the Mexico and Guatemala border there are 123 uncontrolled border entries. These invisible locations have been used by narcotic traffickers who have installed money laundering and drug trafficking businesses. This southern border reports a monthly circulation of about 300 million dollars and a thousand kilos of cocaine. Read Aerticle
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Lisbon: Dismantled Cocaine Organization In December, 2011 the Lisbon Police department discovered acriminal organization dedicated to the transportation of cocaine concealedinside in coal containers. The organization members where all of Argentiniandecent, and were localized in Portugal and in Spain.Read Article
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As criminal activity has spread over Mexico, criminal organizations began to manage minor- criminal groups preparing them to be high-impact criminals. The requirement for the implementation of a new security model has been crucial. The new strategy model includes fighting and preventing crime through citizen participation.Read Article
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Utu Rohozneanu, head of an organized crime group in Romania is now charged with running an international drug trafficking network while in a Romanian prison. A member of the syndicate was recently arrested in Madrid while two other suspects were arreste at the Romanian/Hungarian border with cocaine valued at 400,000 euros. The cocaine had been […]
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The Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported that four soldiers assigned to this county are investigated by allegedly received bribes from organized crime. XLV controls the Military Zone in the region disclosed the information during the First Regional Meeting with Opinion Leaders 2012, performed in 22 Motorized Cavalry Regiment. Since last December, described the federal […]
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In a relatively new phenomenon, young people are increasingly being used as “mules” or distributors, whether to cross drugs into the U.S. or to sell in the cities, especially the border, said Victor Clark, a social anthropologist and specialist in the issue of drug trafficking in this region. “Minors are cheap labor and disposable for […]
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During various police actions against the distribution of drugs, agents of the State Preventive Police (PEP) was put under arrest four suspected drug dealers who were in possession of various amounts of “crystal”, heroin, marijuana and psychotropic pills. In the first case, state agents conducted surveillance patrols on the streets of the colony Baja California […]
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16 kilos of cocaine seized by the police and army in the border county Macara for a coordinated intelligence operation. The investigation originated in the north of the country. The National Police and members of the Brigade 7 Loja, in the light of American neighborhood in the city of Macara, seized in an address 18 […]
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Four hectares planted with coca plant were found in Brisas del Cuyabeno Sucumbios, during a patrol of the Army, on Thursday. Yesterday, officials of the Jungle Brigade 19 Napo, criminology and police officers were mobilized to narcotics there. Fifty soldiers guarded the premises, in a sector near the Cuyabeno Nature Reserve. Is there a risk […]
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Elements of the Department of Defense apprehended two alleged members of the cartel’s important Valencia, causing movement of criminal groups trying to save. The detainees were taken to the capital of Jalisco. wo killed and 13 blocks in streets, avenues and highways of the entity is the preliminary balance of a clash between suspected members […]
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An assessment by Ecuadorian security forces reportedly says that Ecuador is home to an increasing number of organized criminal groups, and that the authorities have underestimated the problem. El Comercio reports (in Spanish) that a review by the military says that drug trafficking and organized crime may soon overwhelm the country, if “adequate measures” are […]
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