Controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched a new operation on Wednesday that for the first time will include the use of small planes to detect the smuggling of drugs and undocumented immigrants across the border from Mexico. “Operation Desert Sky,” which will last several weeks, is being focused in the southwestern and southeastern corridors of Arizona’s Maricopa County and will include the participation of approximately 30 people, among them pilots, volunteers and deputies. Read Article
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American teens and young adults are being recruited by Mexican drug runners to smuggle drugs into the United States, according to the Border Patrol. Special Agent David Jimarez says smugglers lure teens into the violent drug words with promises of fortunes to be made. He said teens are offered hundreds of dollars, told they will […]
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Some Texas lawmakers, tired of cash and guns illegally making their way into Mexico and fueling violence in the northern part of the country, say they think they know how to help. They are proposing that southbound checkpoints be established where Texas law enforcers can stop and check vehicles about to cross the border for […]
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Police forces of Bolivia and Brazil left yesterday resulted in the seizure of more than two tons of coca paste and cocaine hydrochloride, four buildings, six firearms and 36 vehicles and seized 35 people, among Ecuadorians, Colombians, Brazilians and Bolivians. Read Article
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Mexican authorities said Thursday they had arrested the local leader of the dreaded Zetas drug cartel along with seven other suspects in the Caribbean beach resort of Cancun. Read Article
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Colombia has used unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, since 2006 to detect movement of the FARC and drug shipments, according to a leaked official cable published by WikiLeaks. One of the systems mentioned is the ScanEagle of Boeing. The document collected by the newspaper El Espectador, said that unmanned aerial systems arrived in the country in […]
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Mexican authorities have detained an in-law of top drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman who allegedly ran a transnational drug operation that reached as far as Ecuador. Suspect Victor Manuel Felix is both an in-law of Guzman and the godfather of one of the drug lord’s children. Read Article
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38 kilos of cocaine base were seized by officers of the IDPs, who found the drug hidden inside an interprovincial bus in La Calera, Fifth Region. Read Article
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A Colombian man is jailed in Miami 17 years after he and three brothers were indicted on charges of working for the now-defunct Medellin cocaine cartel. Sigifredo Maya made his first court appearance Friday and was ordered held without bail. Authorities say the 48-year-old Maya was detained a week earlier in Panama while attempting to […]
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The crime report describes the body of the shooting victim in the plain, unadorned language of the police: Thin. Black hair, light brown skin, purple blouse. Bullet wound in chest. Then comes the age: About 4 years old. Children, from toddlers to early teens, are increasingly falling victim to the brutal violence of Mexico’s drug […]
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Police estimate they took removed 226,000 marijuana plants from 23 locations in the Talamanca mountains in an operation that used a helicopter to locate the fields. To date for 2011 the Ministry of Security has successfully eradicated a total of 443,056 marijuana plants in Costa Rica. Read Article
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A Paraguayan-registered plane carrying 180 kilos of cocaine and 291 kilos of marijuana was seized in a raid by agents of the Brazilian Federal Police at the airport in the town of Lucelia, located west of the state of Sao Paulo. The aircraft departed from the city of Pedro Juan Caballero. Read Article
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he Mexican government said Wednesday it has allowed U.S. drones to fly over its territory to gather intelligence on drug traffickers, but insisted the operations were under its control. The country’s National Security Council said in a statement that the unmanned aircraft have flown over Mexico on specific occasions, mainly along the border with the […]
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Federal Police in Brazil captured drug trafficker who is also accused of numerou homicides. The suspect was near Rio Javarri which is located on the border of Brazil and Peru, and was transporting 30 kilos of cocaine. The operation also discovered an Israeli grenade along with weapons and cell phones. Read Article
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A security official in Honduras says a cocaine processing lab found in a remote mountain area may have been run by Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel. Security Minister Oscar Alvarez says evidence suggests Sinaloa installed and ran the lab, though he did not elaborate. Read Article
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The Defense Department says gunmen opened fire on troops as they approached the camp outside San Fernando, a town in the border state of Tamaulipas. Read Article
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Bolivian president Evo Morales has accused the United States and the United Nations of conspiring to defame his government in two drug reports. He said criticism over Bolivia’s handling of the war on drugs were part of a strategy to falsely link his government to drug trafficking. Read Report
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Peru’s presidential election race has been rattled by allegations that cash from the drugs trade has made its way into campaigns and that traffickers are extending their political influence. Read Article
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Banners hung in a western Mexican state announced a previously unknown gang calling itself the “Knights Templar” on Thursday, less than a month after the local La Familia drug cartel said it intended to disband. The signs said the “Knights” will replace the cartel, which is considered Mexico’s leading trafficker of methamphetamines, and fend off […]
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U.S. law enforcement officials announced Wednesday that 10 Mexican nationals associated with a notorious criminal gang have been charged in last year’s murder of a U.S. consulate employee and two other people in Juarez, Mexico. Read Article
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Gunmen swarmed a convoy transporting two prisoners in northern Mexico, shredding three police vehicles with bullets and killing seven officers and one inmate, prosecutors said Monday. Six officers and the second inmate were wounded. Read Article
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A nightmare is lived in the late-night in this capital, as a result of clashes between rival gangs of criminals who used the street to settle their differences with a bloody balance. Long minutes of tension, real panic among the citizenry were experienced after intense firefight in which surfaced from the fearsome assault rifles and […]
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Captured inside the country, staying in various hotels in the capital and then the training started in the same Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez: The mules were shown step by step the route to be followed, until the situation they faced in each of the checkpoints. Thus, an international mafia was directed from the Lurigancho used […]
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The US government considers that the bilateral counternarcotics cooperation between Venezuela and the United States is “inadequate,” according to the 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) submitted by the Department of State to the US Congress and disclosed on Thursday. Read Article
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Eight soldiers were arrested while transporting a ton of cocaine in Tijuana, said Thursday the military command. The commander of the Second Military Region, General Alfonso Duarte, told reporters that the military were working with a group of civilians to traffic drugs. Read Article
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THE United Nations has recognised Colombia’s progress in combating drug trafficking by removing it from a list of countries requiring special observation, an official said on Tuesday. Colombia is removed in 2011 from the special observation list,’ Camilo Uribe, a member of the International Narcotics Control Board, told reporters in Bogota. Read Article
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A two-month operation by U.S. authorities has led to the arrests of 678 gang members from 113 different gangs, including 13 linked to Mexican drug cartels, a top law enforcement official said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teamed up with 170 law enforcement agencies around the country for […]
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A senior Interior Ministry official who recently headed Bolivia’s counternarcotics police has been arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring. Read Article
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La alta Guajira, particularmente los municipios de Uribia y Manaure, es el principal epicentro del movimiento de las bacrim en este departamento. La Guajira, particularly the municipalities of Uribia and Manaure, is the global epicenter of the movement of BACRIM in this department. The authorities recognize that in this region are “franchises” ‘Urabeños’, ‘the Stubble’, […]
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Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala, H. E. Alfredo Martinez, told Amandala on Monday that there is already evidence that Guatemala’s narcotics problems are trickling to this side of the border. Martinez informed our newspaper that the Government of Guatemala is about to dispatch Special Forces soldiers to conduct regular foot patrols in the southern areas of […]
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The mayor of a town in northeast Mexico survived an apparent assassination bid Friday after his bodyguards repelled the attackers in a gunfight that left three gunmen dead and two others detained. Read Article
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One of Mexico’s most wanted men has been killed in a gun battle with police, officials say. Luis Humberto Peralta Hernandez, 44, was a top figure in the Juarez cartel, which controls many of the drug smuggling routes from Mexico into the US, prosecutors said. Read Article
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The Acting Commander of the Air Force of Paraguay, Miguel Christ, presented to the president, Fernando Lug or a modernization of the armed forces, an initiative that includes the acquisition of two mobile radars valued at four million dollars to help combat, mainly drug trafficking. Read Article
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The United States on Wednesday levied sanctions on more than 70 individuals and entities in six countries linked to Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cocaine cartel. The Treasury Department targeted a supply group — headed by Colombia’s Jorge Cifuentes Villa — on allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering activities spanning Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, Spain and […]
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Mexican marines found 72 sticks of commercial synthetic explosives at a heavily armed camp in the southern state of Guerrero, the navy said Tuesday. Such rural camps have frequently been used as training grounds and operating bases by Mexico’s drug cartels. Read Article
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Teacher apprehended transporting $120,000 worth of cocaine concealed in Peruvian chocolate bars.
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President Alvaro Colom said in an interview published Friday in the Mexican daily El Universal that his country, Honduras and El Salvador seek to create “special combined forces” to fight Mexican drug traffickers operating in Central America. Read Article
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Warring drug cartels fighting for turf in Mexico seem to be winning a battle for the hearts and minds of many young people enticed by the power, money and flashy images that glamorize the narco lifestyle. Songs that glorify drug lords, movies about their exploits and social networks offer a seductive view of a violent […]
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Mexico’s deadliest city lived up to its tragic reputation with at least 40 people murdered in drug-related violence in less than 72 hours, authorities said on Sunday. “These figures are quite high. It is one of the most violent weekends in Ciudad Juarez in years,” said a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office. Read […]
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Police arrested nine people and seized 300 firearms, including assault rifles, in a raid targeting an arms ring that allegedly sold weapons to Mexican drug traffickers, authorities said on Thursday. The sweep came after a federal grand jury unsealed indictments against 17 defendants allegedly involved in shipping to Mexico firearms bought by third-party “straw purchasers” […]
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Its mayor Victor Raul Hidalgo aims to fight against the narcotics trade and prostitution in the spa piurano.The mayor of the resort of Mancora , Víctor Raúl Hidalgo arrived in Lima to ask the Interior Ministry to send more police force to combat gangs and drug dealers Prostitution affecting this area of northern Peru. Read […]
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The Juan Santamaría International airport in San José, Costa Rica’s largest and busiest airport, handles up to three thousands uses with some 40 flights coming and going daily. And part of that daily commonplace activity is drug trafficking, mainly leaving Costa Rica headed for the United States, Canada and Europe. Read Article
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The Security Ministry has declared the province of Limón a priority in their efforts to combat drug trafficking, organized crime and delinquency. “Starting now Limón is a priority, and as such an integral effort will begin with gathering intelligence and analyzing everything that happens, so that through a widely coordinated effort begin [sic] to attack […]
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shootout that killed seven people in suburban Mexico City over the weekend resulted from an internal dispute between gangs tied to La Familia, a major cartel known for controlling organized crime in western Mexico far from the city, an official said Tuesday. The groups were fighting over territory in Nezahualcoyotl for local drug sales, said […]
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In 2010, heads of Peru’s main intelligence organizations met to compile a so-called “white list” of the country’s alleged leaders of narcotrafficking, which was kept secret until now. El Comercio gained access to the document, called “Update on persons registered, identified and indicated as directors or heads of illicit drug trafficking (IDT) nationally and internationally,” […]
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Police in Colombia say they have captured a man they believe to be the financial brains behind one of the country’s main drug-trafficking rings. Police arrested Fredy Ricardo Santos Ramirez in central Colombia. Read Article
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The Colombian navy has seized a submarine believed to have been built to smuggle cocaine to Mexico. The 31m-long (100ft) fibreglass vessel was found hidden in a jungle area in Timbiqui, in south-westernern Colombia. Read Article
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The tiny village of Las Marias lies on the banks of the Rio Platano, deep in the heart of Mosquitia, Honduras – the so-called “Little Amazon” of Central America, the largest area of tropical rainforest north of the Amazon Basin. In recent years, however, Mosquitia’s magnificent isolation has been shattered by intruders: drug smugglers and […]
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In a house in Los Olivos cocaine was found hidden in paintings and crafts, merchandise that was to be sent abroad through postal services and cargo. Read Article
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23 drug dealers taken into custody by police. The gang included females and three police.
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The CIA is alarmed: Chavez may soon become one of the major drug lords in Latin America. On February 9, former Mexican president Vicente Fox accused him of assisting the Mexican drug mafia which flooded the States with cocaine. Read Article
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Six women and a man were shot dead in a bar in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez late Thursday after gunmen stormed the building, police said. The evening murders came after a bloody day that also saw eight suspected drug cartel members and one soldier killed in a shootout in the north-central Mexican […]
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Bolivia is buying six Chinese combat aircraft as part of its effort to correct its image as a country that isn’t doing as much as it should to cut off the narcotics trail to North America. Read Article
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Cultivating coca bushes, the source of cocaine, is speeding up destruction of rainforests in Colombia and threatening the region’s “hotspots” of plant and animal diversity, scientists are reporting in a new study. The findings, which they say underscore the need for establishing larger protected areas to help preserve biodiversity, appear in ACS’ journal Environmental Science […]
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Authorities in Mexico are reportedly investigating the shooting death of a man who was recently praised as a hero for defending his home from three armed men in a home invasion last month. Read Article
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Mexican prosecutors say a judge has authorized 40 days of detention for an alleged lieutenant of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel while authorities investigate the man wanted in the United States on drug charges. The Attorney General’s Office says federal agents arrested Adan Salazar Zamorano on Saturday but it gives no other details. Read Article
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On February 2, 2011, cartel, CJNG or Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion broadcast a video demanding that police commanders step down by February 10, 2011, who are involved with La Resistance and La Familia Michoacana. The video stated if they don’t resign, “The Hunt is On, according to blogdelnarco.com. However, there are known names police commanders […]
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A group of men armed with AK47 and AR15 rifles attacked the Sinaloa Unidad Administrativa office building in Fraccionamiento Tellerías in Mazatlán early Sunday morning, February 6, between 3:30 and 4am shooting out windows and damaging the façade of the building. No one was injured in the attack where over 100 shots were fired. Read […]
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Cartel hitmen are murdering rivals and terrifying residents across Mexico’s second city Guadalajara as it prepares to host the Pan American Games in a deepening of the country’s drugs war. Gunmen firing automatic weapons torched vehicles and blockaded roads in the once-peaceful city this month, the most brazen act so far and an echo of […]
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SL opens new fronts and routes of drug off-axis-Vizcatán VRAE El Comercio, emerged as armed spectra from the extensive cultivation of sugar cane and Rondayacu Uchubamba, two forgotten villages in the jungle of Jauja. One look was enough, the peasants had to think hard to conclude that those strange Andean leave armed with AKM rifles […]
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Britain is to abandon its warship patrols of the Caribbean for the first time since the second world war because of the navy’s funding crisis, the Guardian has learned. The withdrawal means the navy will no longer provide a warship for anti-narcotic operations in the region, and will have to reduce its role in disaster […]
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A new battalion of 600 men, come to reinforce the fight against the FARC in Huila. This is the ground combat battalion No. 13 ‘Cacique Timanco’, said General Henry Torres, commander of the Ninth Brigade. Read Article
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In early January, three Argentine pilots of a private modern jet were arrested in Barcelona, Spain, for transporting nearly a ton of cocaine. The episode is embarrassing for the Argentinean government since Spanish investigators have proof that the cocaine was loaded onto the plane from an Argentinean military airbase. Moreover, this was the last and […]
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BIKIE gangs and organised crime groups have foiled police attempts to tap their phones by importing untraceable, encrypted BlackBerrys from Mexico. The telecommunications black hole exploited by the Comancheros gang and drug cartels has come to light after several nations – anxious about terrorism and national security – threatened to ban the Canadian-designed BlackBerry phones […]
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The strategy of bomb attacks against troops allowed the FARC to hit back on the tracks of Arauca, where the guerrilla group is still strong and ahead of a rebel offensive which has alerted the armed forces. They warn analysts on security issues after the attack occurred at dawn yesterday against an army patrol that […]
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According to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, the biosphere of Platano River, a World Heritage Site, is in danger due to drug trafficking in that area. UNESCO stated that despite the actions of the army there are landing fields for aircraft that carry drugs from South America. Read Article
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Between Monday and Tuesday evening, 25 children were discovered wandering the streets of a Mexican border city alone. Mexican police have found 25 abandoned children wandering the streets of the city of Nuevo Laredo in northern Mexico, only a short distance from the town of Laredo, Texas. The group includes 8 boys and 17 girls […]
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A former officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection awaiting trial on drug charges claims he was subjected to illegal torture and extradition at the hands of a drug cartel working under orders of U.S. authorities, court records show. Read Article
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Amid the peak Valentine’s Day flower season, U.S. agents in Miami are working overtime to make sure pretty love bouquets are not used as transportation by exotic South American pests or cocaine traffickers. Read Article
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National police captured a band of robamotos in a shootout in the village of Hunguimarán, Peru. This gang specialized in stealing motorcyles and then supplying them to drug traffickers known as traqueteros in the Huallaga valley. 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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TWO of the world’s most feared organised crime groups are working together to exploit Australia’s cocaine market, according to a UN expert. The head of the UN’s Office of Drugs and Crime in Mexico City, Antonio Mazzitelli, believes Mexican drug cartels have struck deals with Australian members of the powerful Italian mafia group, the ‘Ndrangheta, […]
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The Ministry of National Defense of Mexico stated the military confiscated a large stash of illegal drugs on an Aeromexico plane that was scheduled to fly from Guadalaraja to Tijuana. Read Article
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The Colombian navy says it has seized a boat smuggling more than a tonne of cocaine. Navy personnel chased the speed-boat along the Pacific coast of Choco province. Read Article
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E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/16/2015 TAGS: EMIN, PGOV, SNAR, ASEC, EINV, ENRG, PE SUBJECT: MAJAZ ANTI-MINING VIOLENCE ON ECUADOR BORDER REF: A. LIMA 1432 B. 04 LIMA 5874 Classified By: Ambassador J. Curtis Struble. Reason: 1.4 (b,d) 1. (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent protests against British firm Majaz,s exploration for copper near the Ecuador border have resulted in […]
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A sixty-year old female was detained at the airport in Cusco, peru, for possession of 13 kilos of cocaine in two pieces of luggage. The suspect had arrived as a tourist and was stopped by authorities when attempting to depart for Lima and return to Spain. 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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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 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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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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More than 3000 individuals have arrived in Anorí, fearful of possible retaliation by the FARC for the fumigation of illicit crops and the installation of three Army bases in the northeastern population of Antioquia. Read Article
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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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In the forest belonging to the indigenous community of Ava Guaraní Ko’eju in Itakyry, a delegation led by Manuel Rojas Rodríguez anti-drug prosecutor and effective anti-narcotics police found a plantation of 20 hectares of marijuana. Read Article
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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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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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US drug czar Gil Kerlikowske on Tuesday in Colombia stressed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s recent announcement that Caracas will intercept any drug traffic aircraft overflying Venezuelan territory. “Venezuela has expressed clearly its support for curbing drug trafficking by air,” said Kerlikowske upon the beginning of his three-day visit to Colombia, DPA reported. Read Article
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Guatemala extended military operations on Tuesday to sweep out Mexican drug cartels from a lawless northern state where well-armed traffickers often outgun government troops. Hundreds of troops poured into the remote state of Alta Verapaz last month to attack traffickers, a surprise move by President Alvaro Colom to remobilize the army known for massacring civilians […]
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Bolivia has embarked on an international mission to try to end the ban on chewing coca leaves. But the United States plans on getting in its way. Coca has been used in the Andes for thousands of years as a mild stimulant and herbal medicine, but it is also a raw ingredient in the drug […]
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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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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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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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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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Band of drug dealers apprehended in San Juan de Miraflores – video
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 […]