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According to ElUniverso.com a women was wounded in the face during a street brawl on Tuesday, June 14th at 3:30 on the streets of 10m y Sucre in Guayaquil. The victim says that the fight broke out with a drug dealer know as El Ronco about the packages of drugs. The people involved were poor […]
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•El Espectador reports that in pharmacies and drug stores in Bogotá, Colombia, young people can obtain these “pepas,” drugs that can act as hallucinogens, without having a legitimate prescription. •Councilor Patricia Mosquera reports that one can obtain false medical documents to buy these drugs, and that over 100,000 Colombians have taken “pepas” and that half […]
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The Argentine Naval Institution seized 242 kilos of marijuana at the end of last week from Buenos Aires, Mendoza and Misiones and arrested 7 people that were part of a drug trafficking network working out of Buenos Aires. According to abc.com.py, the network transported the drugs at the Triple Frontier from a supplier in Pedro […]
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According to ElComercio.pe anti-drug police seized 125 kilos of hydrochloric cocaine in a container in terminal storage LISCA. One arrest was made. The drug was divided into brick-like packages, wrapped in duct tape and carbon paper with a SOL logo. The operation was carried out with the involvement of personal in the public prosecutor’s office. […]
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ElComercio.com reports that an operation in the port of Manta Ecuadorian police seized 82.7 kg of cocaine with a reported destination of Spain. The total cost of the confiscated drug is an estimated USD 5 million was found Saturday in a trailer of a truck of a Manta fishing company, the narcotics division told reporters. […]
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A police patrol killed one soldier and wounded Army is a negative balance of the security forces clash with FARC guerrillas in the area known as the plane’s tail, jurisdiction Quilichao Santander, Cauca. Apparently, the insurgents sought to attack a base of the Pichincha Battalion, based in this population, when they were struck by patrol […]
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Between 2000 and 2006, fumigations with glyphosate were performed to kill plants that could later produce drugs. A study performed by the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de la Universidad de las Américas states that 10% of Ecuadorians on the border area between Colombia and Ecuador near Sucumbío may face irreparable genetic damage such as cancer, […]
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The Buenos Aires government today burned over a thousand kilos of marijuana on the premise of the Desler SA Company at the Parque Industrial San Eduardo de Tortuguitas in partido of Malvinas in Buenos Aires. Governor of Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli attended the burning saying it is a symbol of Argentina’s fight against drug trafficking. […]
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•17 members of the Colombian National Police have been arrested for being connected to narcotics trafficking in different cities in Colombia as reported by Rcn Radio. •The case is still in the initial stages and after Friday, the officers will face charges of narcotics trafficking and conspiracy to commit a criminal offense. Read Article
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National Deputy of Argentina, Natalia Gambaro, announced today that the country is a sanctuary for drug traffickers. She says the government doesn’t want to accept that Argentina has a drug problem and has no political resolve to combat the issue. Gambaro sites Brazil as an example of national security in response to president Dilma Rousseff’s […]
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According to Hoy.com.es, the Unit to Combat Organized Crime (ULCO) destroyed a coca plantation camouflaged on a hectare of land in Pastaza province in the jungle. The operation destroyed more than 150 coca plants, but no arrests were made. The commander of the second police division, Juan Ruales, reported that the population in the area […]
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•The girl identified as 19-year-old Milena Beltrán was drugged with scopolamine, commonly referred to as “burundanga,” and left naked near a military garrison. •As radiosantafe.com reports, the doctors of Hospital Simón Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia and Police are still attempting to determine is sexual abuse was involved and if the girl is mentally ill. •The […]
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As described in the video by elespectador.com, in Barrancabermeja, Santander, Colombia, the young boy was caught in school with 7 small packets of marijuana in his bag. Authorities believe that narcotics sellers were using the child to sell the drug at his school. Read Article
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According to Mexico’s El Universal, at around 5:30 p.m. on June 7, five vehicles pulled up outside the Victory Center for Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation in Torreon, Coahuila, in northern Mexico. A gang of heavily-armed men emerged from the cars, and burst into the clinic. Methodically moving from room to room, they opened fire on […]
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A British grandfather wrongly imprisoned for drug smuggling following a holiday in Peru has finally been cleared of the charges and freed to return home. Alan Rae, 40, was arrested after his travel companion, Nathan Brandon, was found carrying cocaine when they were stopped at Lima Airport in April 2009. Read Article
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The couple was pulled over at the Villa Florida checkpoint by drug agents of the Federal Police Wednesday night, according to abc.com.py. Police discovered 111 bricks of marijuana, about 94 kilos worth (207 lbs), in their medium sized Mitsubishi truck. The drugs came from San Pedro de Ycuamanduju and were being transported to Encarnación. Read […]
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•According to eltiempo.com, 15 officers of the Policía Nacional of Colombia have been captured in areas such as Bogotá, Cali, and San Andrés and are believed to have links with a narcotics trafficking network. •These officers allowed shipments of narcotics to pass in speedboats headed to Central America, and have been identified to have been […]
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Following a series of 25 raids by Buenos Aires police, more than 12 million doses of paco, cocaine paste, were seized today and 13 people were arrested in Lomas de Zamora. The operation has led to the disbandment of a gang called “Los Matatigres” who have been in operation for over 20 years committing crimes […]
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Police led an operation today in Spain that broke up a human and drug trafficking network in Málaga and Fuengirola that was forcing illegal immigrants from Paraguay to become prostitutes to pay off their debt to the company for flying them to Spain. According to abc.com.py, the network was run by a Spanish man and […]
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ElComercio.com interviews Francesco Forgione, former president of the Italian Anti-Mafia Commission and a criminal organization specialist. With no visa required of foreigners, Ecuador attracts criminal groups like Ndrangheta, the world’s most dangerous mafia, interested in coca. As a coca producer, Ecuador has become a crossroads for organized crime due to the increase in production and […]
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Terra.com.mx reports that a big threat for the next president of Peru, Ollanta Humala is the increased presence of drug trafficking. The presidencies of Alejandro Toledo and Alan Garcia lacked action against drug trafficking while increasing business corruption, according to drug trafficking expert Jaime Antezana. Peru has become the world’s largest producer of coca leaf […]
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•In cooperative effort, the antidrug police, the Army, and the Colombian Air Force found and destroyed 14 tons of marijuana ready to be packaged, which were valued at 35 billion pesos, in La María, Torbio, Cauca as reported by elespectador.com. •The marijuana belonged to Miguel Ángel Pascuas Santos, alias “el sargento Pascuas”, who is the […]
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•Elpais.com.co reports that while on vacation near the lake Calima in Colombia, Swiss tourist Huggler Johannes Matthias died of an apparent cocaine overdose shortly after being transported to Hospital San Jorge de Calima El Darién. •Hidden on his person were found two plastic bags with what appeared to be the illegal substance. Read Article
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Women in the Mexican state of Guanajuato are the top consumers of coke and crack cocaine in the country; Guanajuato is one of top 10 states for illegal drug consumption in Mexico In workshop held on policies for addiction prevention, Carlos Tena (Commissioner of National Council Against Addiction) argued against drug legalization, saying it would […]
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•In April, as armada.mil.co reports, the National Navy of Colombia and the Antinarcotics Police found 210 kilos of cocaine worth $5 million USD dissolved in 350 gallons of diesel fuel on the Honduran ship “Seven Sean”at the Las Flores sector in Barranquilla. •The fuel tested positive for alkaloid and the process of examining the net […]
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The Mexican government has adopted the Colombian government’s system of battling organized crime. As leon.milenio.com reports, the two governments have been working together sharing information and technology in order to stop narcotrafficking groups who transport drugs from Colombia to the United States through Mexico. Although the Colombian government has reduced the production of cocaine by […]
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According to ElComercio.pe four Europeans tried to smuggle hydrochloric cocaine concealed in their luggage out of Peru. The Europeans and three Peruvians were apparently traveling to Madrid at the time of their arrest. Police confiscated 2 to 7 kilos of hydrochloric cocaine. The arrest of the three Peruvians occurred as they were trying to transport […]
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ElComercio.com reports the discovery of new centers of human trafficking in Chile, which include mafia operations in Paraguay, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, occurred Friday April 27th. Chilean Labor Minister, Evelyn Matthei said that the government was looking into the issue and criticizing former Paraguayan senator Francisco Errazuriz for employing illegals on his farms and […]
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The fruits of drug trafficking are on open display in this western state capital: Cartel members honor their dead with gaudy mausoleums at the main cemetery, black-market moneychangers work in the open, and store shelves are stuffed with products from businesses identified by the U.S. Treasury Department as being fronts for organized crime. Read Article
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According to msemanal.com, last month’s massacre of 28 Guatemalan farm workers by the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas represents a first act of extreme violence aimed explicitly at civilians since the end of Guatemala’s Civil War. However, it is not the first instance of violence attributed to Los Zetas in El Petén, the department of […]
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•Hoy.com.ec reports that the Ecuadorian police force considers FARC an internal security issue as the Colombian guerrilla group uses Ecuador as a base for planning and carrying out operations. •Their actions according to the Ecuadorian police force include trafficking of narcotics and arms, assassinations, and smuggling of fuel among other activities. •Between 2005 and 2008 […]
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•Elespectador.com reports that the Policía Nacional Civil found 166 kilos of cocaine in a container from Colombia in a warehouse of the Santo Tomás de Castilla port in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. •There were no arrests. •Yesterday, the police seized $4.29 million USD of cocaine in the El Progreso department during which two presumed members of […]
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•So far in 2011, The National Police of Colombia have captured 34,456 people, 3,968 of them under 18, involved in narcotics according to policia.gov.co. •In the last two days, the police have shut down 250 stores of hallucinogens as part of the operation. •198 firearms and 12,209 white arms were seized as part of the […]
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The cocaine was seized during a surprise raid today by police and anti-narcotics prosecutors at Puerto Fenix in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay. According to neike.com.py, the shipment came from an area near Ciudad del Este, Bolivia and was probably heading to Mozambique, Africa. The man caught carrying the shipment was Ángel Tomás Aguayo Saldívar. Read […]
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•The operation that the Spanish Guardia Civil started in October allowed them to capture 1,000 kilos of cocaine and 22 members of the illegal band responsible for the transfer of narcotics including cocaine from Colombia as reported by diariosigloxxi.com. •The Guardia Civil received information about the transport of Colombian cocaine to Belgium dissolved in containers […]
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A police patrol in the Yotoco municipality in Colombia detained a red Mazda 626 with 61 kilos of marijuana, amounting to more than 60 million pesos, hidden in the doors and seats of the car as reported by elespectador.com. The driver fled through the sugar cane fields and avoided arrest. Read Article
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•Minister of Minas and Energy, Carlos Rodado Noriega, affirms that after months of investigation, they have ascertained that old drug traffickers have been using the gold mining industry to launder money per rcnradio.com. •According to the minister, they have found 9,000 issued securities and 19,600 requests. Noriega states that one of the problems in Ingeominas’ […]
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The Policía de Control de Drogas (PCD) – drug enforcement police – and the Fuerza Pública (regular police) had a busy weekend, seizing some 371 kilograms of illegal drugs in the 24 hours between Friday and Saturday, increasing the haul in the last 10 days to 1.3 tons. Read Article
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In Giradot, Cundinamarca, Police captured a drug trafficker alias “Mago de Oz” (Wizard of Oz) as shown by video posted by elespectador.com. He attempted to escape while being searched by an officer by jumping into the Magdalena River, but was later apprehended and found with 700 doses of marijuana hidden on his person.
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•The strengthening of intelligence through technology and training is part of the plan according to elpais.com.co. •The Política Integral de Seguridad y Defensa para la Prosperidad also plans to protect the people and respect rights. •A security expert from the Fundación Arco Iris, Ariel Ávila, emphasizes the need to get rid of any infiltration of […]
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An Uruguayan citizen was arrested early yesterday by the Narcotics Brigade for carrying more than 8 kilos of cocaine paste valued at 1,624,000 pesos. A series of investigations led police to determine that the man was entering Uruguay from Argentina Wednesday morning at the Terminal Tres Cruces. The man had planned to distribute the drugs […]
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•Elespectador.com reveals that during a 100-man operation in the Calle del Bronx, 17,000 doses amounting to 843 kilos of marijuana were confiscated which is worth over 200 million pesos. •Investigations revealed that marijuana came from the south of Colombia to be sold in Bogotá. •Seven people were captured in the operations, and these illegal actions […]
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Gunmen apparently from two rival drug gangs fought a ferocious gunbattle on a highway in a western Mexico state that killed 28 men Wednesday, authorities said. Read Article
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Noticias.univision.com reports that Jesús Ochoa, presumed member of the Sinaloa Cartel, attempted to hide the money in a carry on luggage when he was captured in Eldorado Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. The money is believed to be a partial payment from Mexican cartels for a cocaine shipment. Ochoa is to be processed for alleged money […]
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•On Tuesday, the Santos Administration presented a three-year plan called the Integral Policy of Security and Defense for Prosperity to end organized crime and narcotrafficking as revealed by eldiarioexterior.com. •This plan is seen as an update to the Plan Colombia of the Uribe Administration. •Details about the funds for the plan have not yet been […]
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Police found the tank during a raid on a remote ranch in Jalisco, western Mexico. The armour plated vehicle, dubbed “Monster Zeta” has a revolving gun turret and welded metal sheeting designed to withstand explosions. Read Article
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Forget bulk cash. Heavy and hard to hide, it’s simply not the most convenient cross-border conveyance for a 21st-century money launderer. A safer and increasingly attractive alternative for today’s criminal is electronic cash loaded on stored-value or prepaid cards. AP-Read Article
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•Semana.com that the Colombian navy seized the cocaine hidden within containers of whole cane sugar for animal consumption. •The antidrug dogs of the Antinarcotics department of the National Police detected the drug within the 33,450 units, about 500 grams each, of the sugar headed from Cartagena to Veracruz, Mexico. •The CTI is still measuring the […]
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A report in the Honduran press says that the Crime Investigation Unit of Honduras is investigating the twin engine plane used in the biggest drug bust in Belize. Read Article
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The police seized on Tuesday afternoon, 80 sharp weapons, six cell, two hammers and 40 grams of marijuana sting in several prison cells in El Roble, in Puntarenas. In a surprise operation, the Police Force and Prison Service made a requisition on the modules A1 and A2 of the prison in the afternoon. Read Article
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They begin arriving in early evening. These are children, adults and squalid women, some pregnant women, who form a battalion of crack addicts who walk toward the sidewalk stunned the parking lot of a supermarket in the center of Duque de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense. Under Secretaries of Social Promotion and community councils, the scene […]
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A state of emergency has been declared, travel advisories have been issued and regional beach volleyball championships have been postponed since the massacre in La Libertad, Petén over the weekend. We have been following the story because of the close proximity of Petén to western Belize and possible risks to locals travelling across the border […]
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Northern Mexico’s drug war continues to claim victims, with more than 360 bodies discovered in mass graves just last week. In a separate incident, 13 people were killed in a shootout between Mexican marines and members of the Las Zetas drug cartel. Read Article
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Hiking through rough Arizona desert terrain a few miles north of the Mexican border recently with a group of armed DEA agents, we were approached by a lone U.S. Border Patrol agent. He warned we should be careful up ahead, because two people believed to be spotters for a Mexican drug cartel had just been […]
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Law enforcement officials announced Thursday the arrest of 21 people who they said used a remote area of the Tohono O’Odham Indian reservation in Arizona. Read Article
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Mexican federal police captured a leading member of the Gulf drug cartel Friday at what appeared to have been his birthday party, authorities said. Gilberto Barragan Balderas “is considered one of the main leaders of the Gulf Cartel” and is the subject of a $5 million reward by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said Ramon […]
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Manuel Baldizón, leader of a minority opposition party, reported Thursday that their parents have received death threats from the Mexican cartel Los Zetas because they asked to punish those responsible for the killing of 27 people at a farm in northern department of Petén. Read Article
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The police officers of the Drug Enforcement National Police of Peru (DIRANDRO-PNP) took the Peruvian Victor Hugo Castro Moreno, 46, and a Colombian citizen Jhon Alexander Giraldo Cardona, 25, to find seven kilos of cocaine his room at the Hostal Sebastian Inn, in the district of Lince, Lima. Read Article With other Cases
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The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in Petén are now surrounded by soldiers after the discovery of the bodies of those murdered Sunday May 15, presumably by Los Zetas, […]
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Judge Kattia Jiménez Fernández, Pavas Criminal Court, granted the two Mexican arrest linked to the plane, loaded with 177 kilos of cocaine, which crashed on October 10 last year in the Torres River Canyon, San Joseph. Read Article
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As Makled was handed over today to Venezuela by Colombian forces. Elespectador.com reported that he left behind a recording stating that he had proof, including video, of the involvement of Chavez and other Venezuelan officials. He expressed willingness to present this proof before the International Criminal Court. Makled professes that there is a route used […]
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Representatives of customs agencies from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries on Tuesday met in the capital of Panama to discuss legal measures needed to be taken to improve the control of smuggling and how to apply new technologies. Read Article
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A “Burri” from Lithuania (European country), who arrived a few days ago as a tourist, was killed reventársele of 60 capsules containing cocaine that had taken it out of the country. Guntis purins is Latuijas (25) who, at 5:30 pm on Friday, suffered convulsions in a hotel and was taken by his compatriot Kalendaova Laura […]
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One of the first Mexican drug kingpins to oversee mass shipments of cocaine was extradited to the United States on Friday to face drug-trafficking charges, ending an eight-year effort by U.S. authorities to take custody of a man who once controlled one of the world’s most powerful cartels. Read Article
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Three congressmen say one unmanned aircraft based in Corpus Christi is insufficient to patrol the 1,200-mile border between Texas and Mexico. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, made the comments after meeting with state and federal officials at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Read Article
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Panamanian agents seized 140 kilograms of cocaine at the Cristóbal port, in the province of Colón, located along the Atlantic coast of Panama. This was reported yesterday by National Police Director, Gustavo Pérez. Read Article
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He is a confidential informant and ex-felon. He lives among drug dealers and corrupt officials along the U.S.-Mexican border. And after a year on the job, he is calling it quits. Read Article
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A former top public servant accused of cocaine smuggling in Argentina has defended carrying more than one driver’s licence, saying she is “not a criminal”. Sharon Armstrong, 54, was arrested by police in a Buenos Aires airport about two weeks ago after 5 kilograms of cocaine was discovered in the false bottom of her suitcase. […]
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A courier in Cuenca, Ecuador tipped off the Counter Narcotics Police when he became suspicious of the weight of ten guinea pigs he had been given to ship to Brooklyn, New York. An investigation of the ten roasted guinea pigs (called cuy in Ecuador) revealed 365 grams of liquid heroin and 1,140 grams of cocaine. […]
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A group self-named “Bloque Central Caribe” released pamphlets in Barranquilla, threatening individuals such as journalists, syndicates, public prosecutors, lawyers and public leaders. They are a new group part of the Águilas Negras, a paramilitary group involved in the trafficking of narcotics. The Defender of the People, Valomar Pérez has condemned these threats and has asked […]
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This is the time of year when Mexican families traditionally drive long distances to celebrate Easter together. But Highway 101 through the border state of Tamaulipas is empty now — a spooky, forlorn, potentially perilous journey, where travelers join in self-defensive convoys and race down the four-lane road at 90 miles per hour, stopping for […]
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tice Department arrested another person tied to the Cibao Cartel, an international network recently dismantled and whose main members exported more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine over the last 11 months from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Read Article
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Former lieutenant Elias Enmanuel Núñez accused his supervisors of protecting drug dealers and stealing dope. He was fired, threatened with death, and officially logged as one of the 5,000 crooked police officers, soldiers or anti-narcotics agents sacked in the past three years, the United States newspaper Miami Herald reported. Read ArticleR
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President Evo Morales, an outspoken critic of Washington “imperialism”, has accepted financial aid to monitor efforts to eradicate coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The government accepted the $250,000 offer following setbacks to its counter-narcotics programme which prompted calls for a return of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Read Article
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For Ruben Vargas, an analyst on security and drug trafficking, the Army and National Police of Peru must work in a coordinated manner, to join forces and analyze all the information they have to confront and weaken the Sendero Luminoso. “It would be interesting that the armed forces to share and discuss with the police […]
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The agents involved in the fight against drug trafficking, the Rural Patrol Unit Motor (UMOPAR), entered a surprise in the town of Manchuria, in the district of Monzon, and destroyed two giant labs basic rustic pasta cocaine (PBC). The operation began at 3 am, when the troops reached the area by land. According to investigations, […]
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Authorities reported the seizure of 512 kilos of cocaine, in the area Cape Shark Acandí township area in the Chocó Urabá. The drug was hidden in a false bottom of the fishing boat, named “Light”, which contained 520 packets with the cache, according to the official report. The anti-narcotics police said the drug would presumably […]
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30% of cultivated land areas in Mexico are a legal product crops mixed with marijuana or opium, on Tuesday reported a Mexican senator who proposed a legal reform to encourage farmers to convert these crops. “30% of the crops are mixed with drugs with a legal culture,” he told the full Senate chamber Felipe Gonzalez, […]
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After receiving a report of a clandestine laboratory in Acoponeta, Nayarit, Mexican troops closed it down. They secured 82 kilos with 780 grams of powder with the characteristics of gum opium, 58 kilos with 640 grams of opium gum, 200 liters of processed opium gum and 9 kilos with 890 grams of a chemical compound […]
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Spanish to English translation The drugs were transported in a suitcase on a bus from San Cristobal line, covering the Santa Barbara del Zulia route to Caracas / Five people were arrested later / OS “Madrugonazo the Underworld” dismantled dangerous gang “The Zulianos” Officials of the National Drug Commission of the Body of Scientific, Penal […]
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The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ecuador will investigate the veracity of a recently publicized WikiLeaks cable that claims Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa received campaign funding from the FARC and Venezuela, El Espectador reported Friday. Read Article
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The Colombian authorities captured one of the political leaders of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) known by the alias “Simon Bernart ‘, official sources said. Troops of the fifth division of the Army of Colombia guerrilla arrested in the southwestern department of Tolima and, according to security agencies, the rebel had direct […]
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One ton and three hundred ten kilos of cocaine hydrochloride were seized by the Narcotics Police of Guayas in two operations in the seaport of Guayaquil. Read Article http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/04/13/1/1422/13-toneladas-droga-platanos-pinas.html?p=1422&m=948
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At 5:00 am this morning the U.S. Border Patrol was in pursuit of a Jeep Cherokee with two individuals who had passed into U.S. territory near San Luis, Sonora, Mexico. The jeep became stuck a few meters from the border and the two occupants escaped on foot into Mexico. Border Patrol discovered a truck equipped […]
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Yesterday, the Bolivian anti-drug police (Felcn) shot a killed a 13 year old boy, Ricardo Cruz, and wounded five other teenagers near Yapacaní on the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz road. Family members of the victims said that the boys were traveling in a car when the police opened fire on them, apparanently confusing them with drug traffickers. […]
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he most dangerous city in Mexico — Ciudad Juarez — suffered one of its bloodiest stretches this year finishing with 41 homicides in a four-day period, among them a 10-year-old boy who was shot and killed during an attack meant for his father, the spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors office told CNN. Read Article
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Mining Minister Jose Pimentel, began yesterday at the National Customs responsibility to respond by leaving the country in September 2010 of a container loaded with 10.5 tonnes of zinc and shipped to Miami, United States, through Coz Igreda company Roberto Orlando and, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), containing 144 kilos of cocaine […]
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Alleged Venezuelan drug trafficker Walid Makled, who is arrested in Colombia pending extradition, said in a TV interview that top Venezuelan military officers and government officials were involved in his businesses. Read Article
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Despite the multimillion-dollar federal investments to strengthen border inspection ports, U.S. weapons are entering into Baja California through land customs. In 2010, his first year of operation in Baja California, the System Monitoring and Control Vehicle (SIAV) only managed to detect a pistol and 31 bullets. So far, 2011 have seized two pistols, 613 bullets, […]
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The first time Adela Navarro saw her longtime mentor cry was when a top editor at their muckraking newspaper was murdered leaving a health clinic with his two young children. “How many more deaths do I need to understand that we can’t do this?” asked Jesus Blancornelas, who narrowly escaped an attempt on his own […]
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Drug traffickers seek to circumvent the control measures with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Thus, the use of submarines, including two that were discovered last year in the country (one in the province of El Oro and Esmeraldas other) capable of carrying up to eight tons of cocaine into Mexico and United States forces government agencies to […]
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Two headless bodies are dumped on a street in suburban Mexico City along with a message sent by a mysterious group called “The Hand with Eyes.” Days later, a severed head shows up in a car abandoned outside an elementary school in the same suburb. Read Article
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Directed terrorist group financing and delivery of media aimed at increasing drug cartels with which to do business, either as a source of income or weapons. Speaking to a terrorist group, the key to leadership may be even more essential that the orientation of the direction of a drug cartel and its leaders can be […]
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Battalion, attached to the Twenty-third Brigade in coordination with the CTI of Pasto, reported the capture of José Eulogio Narcizo Fuelantala, aka ‘Joe’ or ‘The Squib’ up arms dealer and supplier of the ELN in Nariño. Accused believed to be supplying arms to ELN from Ecuador – He is also known as ‘the squid” – […]
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The project would be located on 50 square meters and the final product would be sold as a tea infusion. Appealing to the measure. That’s what made the agronomist Alvaro Gomez, owner of Agrofuturo, a company that on 31 January had been empowered by the SAG for marijuana plants in his farm in Los Angeles. […]
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The Protection of Rights of the Ministry of Interior and National Police rescued 31 Haitians, alleged victims of crimes of smuggling of migrants, reported the ministry. After several days of investigations, in an operation called “Dawn”, officers went to a house in the north of the capital where they located the citizens “who have entered […]
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Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice, Tarek El Aissami, reported in the early hours of Friday that security agencies seized in the state of Nueva Esparta (Northeast) to a U.S. citizen has applied for drug trafficking. The information on the capture of Lionel Scott Harris, who has red notice request by the International Police (Interpol), […]
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Delegates from 12 countries are trying to reach agreement on how to implement the first multinational treaty designed to stop drug trafficking in the Caribbean. They met this week in San José, Costa Rica at a time Mexico’s and Colombia’s wars against illegal drugs are pushing the gangs farther into Central America. Read Article
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