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Panama takes steps to stop illegal border crossings with Costa Rica

The Governor of Chiriqui and the security sectors of the province ordered the closure of hundreds of illegal steps on the border of Panama with Costa Rica, to curb smuggling, trafficking in arms and persons, to give more security to the area, confirmed the governor of the province, Aixa Santamaría. Read Article

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Ecuador, Wikileaks cable discusses long term impact of melting glaciers

For years, Ecuador has experienced symptoms of climate change such as melting glaciers, but successive governments take adequate preventive measures to face on several fronts and actions in the medium and long terms. The aftermath that the country suffers from this global phenomenon are analyzed in the 151 251 Cable , the April 24, 2008 […]

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Fifty percent of human trafficking gangs in Mexico operate out of Tlaxcala

At least 24 gangs trafficking in people, including 47 that operate in the country are headed by tlaxcaltecas because the state is where most families are conceived or criminal groups. Rosa Maria Salazar, director of the National Network of Shelters in the country, reported that it has the data on how many bands are operated […]

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Colombia, many residents of Medellin live in fear of exotortion “La Vacuna”

Extortion (la vacuna) is not a new scourge in Medellin and Valle de Aburrá. The “vaccine” is used for years as a way of financing illegal armed groups and common criminals. Transporters and traders are among the most affected unions. And in the midst of this illegal pressure, the average citizen suffers the humiliation of […]

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Ecuador is easy target for computer hackers according to expert

Security expert, Dmitry Bestuzhev, discusses the measures that should be established in the country to prevent cyber attacks. On August 10 the website of the Office of the President, the Vice Presidency, the Ministry of Telecommunications, the Municipality have already been hacked. Not only hacker activists walking in the Ecuadorian sites, but the criminals who […]

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Anonymous has hacked at least six Latin American countries

The escalating cyber war by Anonymous, seconded by cyber activists and hackers of all kinds have been disabled for hours, even days, the websites of the governments of Peru, Colombia, Chile and Ecuador, including Argentina recently. The foray into Colombia, where he hacked into the websites of the Senate and the Ministries of Defence and […]

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Ecuadorian Police Investigate 2 Networks of Crime Organizations

According to ElComercio.com the arrest of Dan D., a foreigner ten days ago, is an important break in bringing down an international crime organization involved in drug and weapons trafficking. Ecuadorian police say this man along with two accomplices who were also arrested, are important players in a crime network that carries out many illegal […]

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U.S. Authorities Dismantle Internet Pedophile Network Throughout 14 Countries, Ecuador Included

According to Hoy.com.ec the United States announced today, Wednesday August 3rd, that they have dismantled an internet-based pedophile network reaching various countries including Ecuador. Officials have accused 72 people linked to the website of encouraging the sexual abuse of children. The authority’s investigation began in 2009, called “Operation Delago.” During the operation authorities arrested 52 […]

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Colombian President Santos’ Facebook Hacked by Anonymous

•Yesterday, Colombian Independence Day, the group Anonymous hacked President Santos’s Facebook account and posted a video called “La Falsa Independencia” (The False Independence) against the celebration of Independence Day. •According to Spanish.peopledaily.com.cn, the video stated that in the face of issues such as violence, unemployment, and uneven distribution of wealth, independence could not be celebrated. […]

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Spanish Police Dismantle Drug Ring Using Dog Food Cans, Ecuadorian Ties

According to ElUniverso.com Spanish police in Madrid, Spain dismantled a drug ring that ran between many European and South American countries, including Ecuador, on Friday July 15th. Officials say drugs, like heroin and cocaine, were hidden in cans of dog food and put on airplanes that delivered them to their destination. The Spanish Interior Ministry […]

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Ecuador: Nations Ask for Extradition of 33 Criminals Hiding in Country

According to ElComercio.com the current Ecuadorian government has been asked to extradite 33 fugitives with criminal backgrounds ranging from drug trafficking to murder. An unknown government official has reported to El Comercio that from 1995 to 2011, 21 nations asked the Ecuadorian government for extradition of 86 criminals hiding in Ecuador. Additionally Jay Bergman, the […]

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Peruvian Police Asked For FBI Assistance on Cyber Attacks

Milenio.com reports that Peruvian Police asked the FBI for assistance in locating the hackers that attacked at least eight web pages belonging to the Peruvian government, Friday June 24th. The chief of the Dirincri Division of High Technology, Oscar Gonzales, says that the level of attack is very high and therefore the technology available to […]

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CIA Ties to Ecuadorian Organizations says U.S. Investigator

According to Andes.info.ec interview with Eva Golinger, a United States writer and investigator, many Ecuadorian organizations receive funding from the U.S. State Department through agencies like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Goliger continues to say that these funds are specific for destabilizing the government of Rafael […]

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Peruvian Air Force Investigating Phenomena Seen in Sky

LaRepublica.pe reports on June 15th, the Directorate of Aerospace Investigation (DINAE) was created a decade ago due to unexplained aerospace events. In 2001 the Air Force of Peru (FAP) set-up a department dedicated to researching ‘anomalous phenomenon.’ Three events influenced the creation of this naval department; Ecuador and Chile, were opening their own aerospace departments, […]

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San Carlos, Ecuador: Police Raid Camp, Fuel Storage Found

According to ElUniverso.com the police of the hydrocarbon energy unit raided a hacienda in San Carlos in the province of Guayas on the morning of Friday June 17th. The unit found fuel stored for smuggling activities in the vicinity of the hacienda, reported the police. The fuel was bound for Huaquillas, a city located on […]

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Bulgarians arrested in Paraguay with false identification and counterfeit credit cards

Police discovered yesterday that 4 Bulgarians arrested in Paraguay for having cloned credit cards were carrying false identification, according to abc.com.py. Officials from the Economic Crimes Police will be checking the identity of the 4 men with Interpol, in hopes that they will have accurate information. The men were in possession of about $350 million […]

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Migrants Used to Launder USD 25 million to Ecuador

According to ElUniverso.com, an operation in Madrid, Spain, Espejo, under-covered a network that laundered USD 25 million between 2007 and 2011. It began September 2010. The network used the façade of remittances. August 2010, Madrid police arrested an Ecuadorian migrant, Jenny Alexandra Fasce Schumacker with 40 others for crimes of money laundering, terrorism, and drug […]

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Ecuador, Special Unit Combat Crime in Guayas Province

According to Expreso.ec six robbers of bank customers were arrested on Friday June 10th. Also, a taxi driver was detained in connection with a criminal gang that stole USD 2,000 from a customer at a bank. The customer chased the assailants, as did a policeman on a motorcycle as the gang got away in a […]

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First Int’L Colloquium on Latin American Integration Scheduled for Argentina in June 12, 2011

According to ACN: Cuba will participate in the First International Colloquium ‘Latin America and the Caribbean: From the Independence Revolutions to the Emancipatory Integration’ scheduled for next week in Rosario, Argentina.

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Peru, Two Suspected Terrorists Captured

According to RPP.com.pe the police chief of the San Martin region, Julio Ramos Chavez confirmed the capture of two suspected terrorists in Moyobamba. The National Criminal Court on Terrorism was seeking the capture of a man and a woman, Samuel Ramos Galvez and Herlinda Eufemia Julca Paico. The two people were caught when they went […]

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Pastaza, Ecuador: ULCO Destroys Coca Plantation

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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Likely “Terrorists” on Mexico’s Immigration Registry

The Federal Judicial Police conducted an operation on the central offices of Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration in Mexico City on February 15, 2011. El Proceso now reveals that the agents, who some sources indicate were US operatives, obtained a list of foreigners admitted to the country between 2008 and 2010, especially those from countries […]

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Argentina, Provinces adopt new electronic registration system to combat organized crime

The provinces of Argentina adopted a new electronic tracking and registration system this week that officials at the Federal Records Council hope will strengthen their fight against organized crime and money laundering within the country. The provinces have been given membership rights to the National Registration of Societies and the National Information System of Real […]

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Brazil investigates CIA payments to Federal Police who monitor Triple Frontier

The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is investigating whether or not the CIA sent money to Federal Police officers who investigated members of the Islamic community and terrorist organizations in the triple border between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Former police chief Queiroz Protógenes was charged with the task to find the source of the money that […]

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Network that produces documents for foreigners in Paraguay, Triple Frontier under investigation

A network that provides documentation for Chinese and Arab citizens on the Triple Border of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil is under investigation by the Antiterrorism Police. The investigation focuses on a series of seemingly fraudulent transactions starting in 2009 that relates to providing documentation to Chinese, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Pakistani citizens. Interpol of Asunción […]

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45 Million Active Cellphones in Colombia

•This number was recorded by the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio for the first trimester of 2011 per radiocaracol.com.co which reports that there are more cellphones than people in Colombia. •There has been an increase of 694, 458 subscriptions to cellphone companies from the fourth trimester of 2010 to the first trimester of 2011. •Complaints […]

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Iranian missile base in Venezuela in the planning phase

Tehran also is one of the allies of Hugo Chávez. Omitting the mullahs now even build missile silos in his country.The FARC terrorists are not the only villain with by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admitted. How “World Online” in last November reported that Chavez has with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on October 19, 2010 […]

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WikiLeaks cables expose Israeli military intrigues in Latin America

Diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks reveal that the security company Global CST—led by Maj. Gen. Israel Ziv, the former head of operations for the Israeli military—made such inroads into Latin America that US diplomats saw it as a security threat and moved to thwart the company’s expansion. The diplomats’ efforts were given an inadvertent […]

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What the Farc files really reveal

The release Tuesday of a “dossier” of Farc files, which were supposedly seized by the Colombian government in 2008, is truly a non-event. The report, by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), appears to be an attempt by hawks in the US and the UK to perpetuate, using “black propaganda”, the failed policies of […]

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Colombian House of Representatives Passes Law on Intelligence Operations

Colombian House of Representatives Passes Law on Intelligence Operations • Rcnradio.com reports that the House has passed the Law of Intelligence and Counter-intelligence. • The law seeks to punish the illegal surrender of information and to stop interception of calls. • Another purpose is to protect the identity of members of law enforcement working secret […]

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US saw Israeli firm’s rise in Latin America as a threat, cables show

A security company led by the former head of operations for the Israeli military made such inroads into Latin America a few years ago that U.S. diplomats saw it as a security risk and moved to thwart the company’s expansion, U.S. diplomatic cables show. The diplomats’ efforts were made easier when an interpreter for the […]

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Colombia – New Paramilitary Group Threatens Officials and Public Servants in Barranquilla

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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Ex-CIA operative tells story of U.S. presence in Latin America

Luis Posada Carriles told CNN recently he would “be gentle” with a newspaper reporter who accused him of masterminding decades of violent terrorist attacks in Central America, several to overthrow Fidel Castro. Read Article

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Colombia, Experts recommend creating counterintelligence agency

RCN Radio De La Noche, experts in national security issues agreed on the need of Colombia to organize the issue of intelligence and counterintelligence to prevent each force make media show with every action it undertakes. Read Article

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Nine tons of marijuana confiscated in Rocky Point (Puerto Penasco), Mexico

The Department of the Navy Navy Mexico informed through a statement that was seized nine tons of marijuana in the border town of Puerto Peñasco, in northwestern Sonora.The report states that they were elements of Marines who claimed the drug on Thursday night at a home in the town of that name of the municipality. […]

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Havana accuses a foreign journalist to serve as liaison between dissidents and the

The government on Monday accused a reporter for Reuters news agency to establish a meeting between an informant of State Security infiltrated the dissident and an American diplomat to the island’s official television described as a CIA official, reported The Associated Press. Read Article

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Iran makes Latin American inroads beyond Venezuela

Iran has expanded its ties in Latin American beyond its close relationship with Venezuela, a top U.S. commander said Tuesday as he described a troubling development that the United States is watching closely. Read Article

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Dominican Republic, investigations pointing to Russian Mafia in eastern part of country

The state intelligence agencies track the investments you have the Russian mafia in the region east of the country and other tourist attractions in order to place them due to subsequent confiscation. Diario Libre is reporting that the presence of bosses is an especially Russians in the east where they have brought high-profile scandals, including […]

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Colombia, spying on partners is a booming business

Up to two million pesos is the approximate cost to spy and find out if your partner is cheating. Bogota has a record of 144 private detective agencies who promise absolute confidentiality, expertise and evidence through videos, photographs and chat conversations or cell phone. Read Article

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Mexico, two police officers accused of spying

By performing espionage (like hawks) in the service of organized crime, two elements of the Monterrey Police Forces were arrested for Support of the State Police this morning. Read Article

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CIA Financed Costa Rica’s Intelligence Service Espionage On Drug Trafficking: Former Security Minister

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) financed, for ten years, an espionage operation against drug trafficking conducted by specialized agents of Costa Rica’s Dirección de Inteligencia Seguridad (DIS) – Intelligence Service. The daily La Nacion reported that a team of officers, as confirmed by the former minister de Seguridad, Rogelio Ramos, and the former […]

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Argentina dissolves U.S. military cargo plane dispute

Argentine judge Marcelo Aguinsky dismissed charges against the U.S. after an American military aircraft was seized in the South American country for allegedly smuggling undeclared items, including weapons and surveillance equipment, local media reported Friday. Read Article

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Attorney General Accuses INTERPOL of “Meddling” in Venezuelan Internal Affairs

Venezuela’s Attorney General on Friday accused the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL, of “creating impunity” as it relates to Venezuelan bankers removed from lists of international fugitives that Venezuela demanded be brought to justice. Read Article

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WikiLeaks: Israel, Chile Spied on Iranian Activity in Latin America

According to the cable obtained by the website WikiLeaks, U.S. officials reported that Israel worked with the Chilean government to monitor what it called “unusual activity” by Iran’s envoy to Santiago. Read Article

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Condemnation of U.S. intelligence Peru

The worst of two U.S. diplomatic communications about newly published Peru is espionage practiced by Washington in this country, reported a block of indigenous organizations. The Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations (IOTC), which integrate organizacones of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina, made the claim in a letter to U.S. Ambassador in Peru, Rose […]

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Argentinean Ministry Justifies Requisition of US Military Airplane

The Argentinean Minister of Interior, Florencio Randazzo, justified Tuesday the requisition carried out last Thursday of an airplane belonging to the US Air Force, a third of whose load had not been declared. Read Article

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Argentine minister recommends US diplomacy “to hire more competent employees”

Argentina’s Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido referred to the recently published Wikileaks documents by Spanish newspaper El Pais, and advised the US embassy in Buenos Aires “to hire more competent employees” since performing a “cut-and-paste task from the yellow press is something any idiot can do.” Read Article

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US never searched key yacht in ex-CIA agent’s case

U.S. authorities never searched the yacht they say carried an ex-CIA agent illegally from Mexico to Miami in 2005, and they have no photographs or other physical evidence that he was ever aboard, a federal investigator acknowledged Monday. Read Article

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Trotsky’s assasination planned in U.S. drugstore

The assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, where he was famously killed with an ice pick to the head, was organized from a drugstore in the US, according to a former CIA agent. Read Article

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Argentina – Air Force to begin monitoring UFO’s

The Argentine Air Force has created a commission to record and investigate reports of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in the South American country’s airspace, a spokesman told AFP Wednesday. Read Article

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Peru – Peruvian army has purchased a MicroFalcon UAV

The Peruvian army has purchased a MicroFalcon UAV system from manufacturer Innocon of Israel. Read Article

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