Two sons of former high-ranking military leaders in Argentina have been arrested in Spain after police allegedly discovered almost a tonne of cocaine on board a medical transport aircraft. Read Article
In 2010, there were 326 foreigners arrested at the international airport in Lima, for attempting to transport illegal drugs. Of the arrests there were 44 countries represented. 94 of those detained in 2010, were from Spain, 25 Filipinos, 18 Mexicans, 13 Dutch, 13 Britons, and 13 Portuguese. Mules in Peru are referred to as ‘burriers’. […]
Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, local media reported. The victims, all male, were discovered at dawn near a shopping mall along with several, threatening hand-written messages that are typically left as a calling card by drug cartels. Read Article
There is a current multi-agency effort to destroy shacks and housing that drug traffickers are using northwest of Guayaquil. Establishments in the area that sell wood poles and housing supplies have been closed. Read Article
Narcotics Police seized 1.5 tons of cocaine in the port of Cartagena, which belonged to the illegal band The Urabaeños. According to Gen. Oscar Naranjo, director of the National Police, the drug valued at 7,200 million pesos was hidden in the roof of a container that was transported concentrate for dogs. Read Article
Police investigations reveal that several gangs involved in drug trafficking Nigerian international exist in Quito, Ecuador and Buenos Aires, Argentina. ountries. Traces to several African citizens in the Ecuadorian capital led to a finding that entertainment areas such as La Mariscal, north of the city, or The Michelena, in the south, were recruited for traffic […]
A Cobourg, Ont., woman has been arrested in Peru because authorities there believe she was part of a group that allegedly tried to smuggle 52 kg of cocaine out of the country on Dec. 26. Read Article
Ecstasy is a common drug among young people in large cities in Peru. However, there is information that the drug is gaining use among smaller cities in bars and nightclubs. In Aguaytía. Peru, there has been a noted increase in the us according to infoperu.pe. Read Article
Constitutional Court ruling allows US navy ships to enter Costa Rican waters in a joint antidrug operations with the Costa Rican Coast Guard, under the Joint Maritime Agreement in effect since 1999. The agreement permits the United States to enter Costa Rica’s waters and ports preapproved every six months by the Costa Rican legislature. Read […]
A letter purportedly signed by the La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated Sunday in the western state of Michoacan. In the one-page message, distributed by e-mail and in some cities door by door, the gang claims it will halt all crime activity during January to demonstrate that the cartel “is not responsible […]
Latin American drug barons have been exposed as a crucial source of funds for al-Qaida by paying them to ensure the safe passage of cocaine across North Africa and towards Europe. Islamist rebels familiar with the terrain of the Sahara have struck deals under which they provide armed security escorts for drug traffickers in return […]
Colombia’s president hailed Wednesday the killing by police of Pedro Guerrero, a notorious drug lord known as “The Knife” who had a 2.5-million-dollar US bounty on his head. Skip related content Related photos / videos National Police Chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo, holds a handgun seized from Colombian drug lord …More Enlarge photo .Authorities say the […]
Men claiming to belong to the Zetas drug gang forced radio stations to broadcast a threat of war in a northern Guatemalan province where the government declared a state of siege last week, authorities said Tuesday. The men arrived at three radio stations in the northern city of Cobán and threatened to burn the premises […]
A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable published Saturday depicts the leader of Mexico’s Army “lamenting” its lengthy role in the anti-drug offensive, but expecting it to last between seven and 10 more years. The cable says Defense Secretary Gen. Guillermo Galván mistrusts other Mexican law enforcement agencies and prefers to work separately, because corrupt officials had […]
Cocaine In Toys From Costa Rica Seized in Nicaragua A total of 334 kg of cocaine, which entered Nicaragua hidden in a shipment of candy and toys, was seized during the Christmas weekend, officials said. The cocaine, reportedly from Costa Rica, was seized at the Peñas Blancas border crossing in southern Nicaragua, judicial support director […]
At least 100 Nigerians have been arrested in Ecuador so far in 2010. Most of them have legal status in Ecuador under refugee status. A recent arrest of five Nigerians in an operation in Quito allowed four of the detained to be released because they did not have drugs on their person. The Nigerians are […]
Security forces have this year arrested over 27,000 suspected drug gang members, as part of Mexico’s ongoing bloody military-led crackdown on cartel operations, officials said. Among the top captures for Mexican authorities were the arrests of drug kingpin Edgar Valdez, known as “the Barbie,” as well as the killings of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a top […]
Agents of the Special Operations Group Jungle (GOATJ) belonging to the Anti-Drug Special Operations Division (Divo) were able to locate and destroy drug processing laboratory and stop “red-handed” three subjects engaged in chemical processiong in the town of Azpuzana branch, formerly the center of drug manufacturing in the Alto Huallaga. After receiving information from the […]
The Guatemalan government today declared a state of emergency in the northern department of Alta Verapaz because of the control exercised there by drug traffickers, according to press reports. The digital edition of Prensa Libre attributes confirmation of that measure to the secretary of communications of the presidency, Ronaldo Robles, and the Minister of Home […]
Special Force against Drug Trafficking (FELCN) destroyed 8,200 hectares of illegal plantations of coca leaf and did seize 28 tons of cocaine, according to management report presented yesterday at the central region of Cochabamba. Read Article
Faced with a poor education system and dismal job prospects, boys and girls as young as 11 are lured into acting as mules, peddlers, lookouts — even executioners — for drug cartels offering easy money. Read Article
According to Fox News, 150 miles north of Guatemala City, deep in the jungle, is a military base where Guatemalan Special Forces are being trained secretly by U.S. Green Berets. The U.S. officers say the Guatemalan troops are committed to the task of defeating the Mexican drug cartels and are training tirelessly. “They rest when […]
Although Guayas has alarming rates of crime, the other provinces are not immune to this crime wave that generates violence and is responsible for 2,225 killings and assassinations nationwide between January and October. Nationwide figures are growing insecurity linked to drug trafficking, contract killings and crime, which generates an unprecedented violence in the streets. Read […]
Now as Christmas approaches, mobsters have chosen a new target, turning their sights on humble schoolteachers. Painted threats scrawled outside numerous public schools demand that teachers hand over their Christmas bonuses or face the possibility of an armed attack on the teachers — and even the children. To make the point clear, assailants set fire […]
The commander of the Bloque Guainía del Ejército Revolucionario Popular Antisubversivo de Colombia (Erpac), was taken into custody in a rural area of Arauca on Tuesday. ERPAC is considered to be one of three emerging gangs involved in drug trafficking in Colombia. Read Article
Colombia, the world’s biggest supplier of cocaine, saw production of the illegal narcotic decline last year amid a government spraying campaign and declining U.S. consumption, according to a new report. Read Article
A Brazilian newspaper reported that drug traffickers control 70 percent of the marijuana plantations in Capitan Bado and Pedro Juan Caballero that are located in the Amambay department. These cities are located on the border with Brazil encompassing Mato Grosso do Sul. The First Commando da Capital (PCC) is believed to be the primary participant […]
Counterfeit medicines, or “bamba” en the Arequipa region of Peru are being sold in informal chemist’s/pharmacies, grocery stores, fairs, and even by ambulatory street vendors, stated Howard Revilla Díaz of the Regional Office for Oral Pharmaceuticals (Dirección Regional de Medicamentos Insumos y Drogas, or DIREMID). Among these pharmaceuticals are the analgesics Arponax and Dolocordralán and […]
A detained leader of Mexico’s notorious Aztecas drug gang claims to have ordered 80 percent of the thousands of murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez over the past two years, officials said Monday. View Story