Former guerrillas of the FARC guerrilla organization abandoned this seemingly would provide military training drug traffickers in that country to avoid the control of the authorities and care for crops. This was revealed by the Bolivian Vice Minister of Social Defense, Felipe Cáceres and the newspaper El Deber reported on its website. The information submitted […]
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President Rafael Correa ordered the Armed Forces to respond “with all possible firepower” any alleged attack on Colombia rebel groups operating in the border. The president’s political decision of April 13 came after the confrontation that occurred four days earlier on the border with Colombia in the area of Palma Seca (San Miguel River sector). […]
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Major drug trafficking organizations controlling retail sales of small quantities of drug sales in Quito Ecuador. Drugs are being distributed door to door via motorcycles with empanada boxes to disguise drugs. Elcomercio.com reported that the empanadas were divided into houses, but deliveries were ‘normal’. Behind these operations was one international network microtráfico hide wearing buns […]
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The President, Rafael Correa, warned yesterday irregular groups of Colombia after the attack occurred this week in the province of Sucumbios, on the border with Colombia, where a helicopter was shot Armed Forces. “Gentlemen of the illegal groups in Colombia: FARC, paramilitaries, as they are called, with Ecuador not play,” he told the Citizen Link […]
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Eluniverso.com reporte that a new confrontation between the military Ecuador and Colombia’s illegal groups, infiltrated country, took place yesterday, at 10:45, on the northern border of Sucumbios (sector Palma Seca, Lago Agrio Canton), in a statement to the Fourth Army Division Amazon. Read Article
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MARISCAL – LARGE TOURIST AREA LISTED Elcomercio.com reported that follow-up lasted seven months. At that time, the undercover unit Combat Organized Crime (ULCO) tracked the criminal organization run by Oscar A., an alien who was wanted by the International Police (Interpol). Information sent from Colombia revealed that the suspect escaped in 2006 from a prison […]
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Nochistlán. Approximately 15 kilometers from the county seat, the Mexican Army shelter four properties, among them a ranch and a house that had been enabled sites as narcolaboratorios in which it was possible to process up to 60,000 liters of chemicals to produce synthetic drugs. These properties, secured and guarded by the Mexican Army on […]
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eluniverso.com reported that a group of Peruvian doctors and accomplices were reported to the Peruvian justice for having marketed since 2004, kidney transplants, sources confirmed to Efe OTP. Recipients of kidneys from the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia, paying up to $ 125,000 for medical expenses, including Peruvian donor recruitment, according to research […]
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On April 3, 2013 Chilean newspaper La Nación reported that two Ecuadorians have recently been indicted in Arica on charges of human trafficking. Marcos Renteria and his brother Julio Valencia were arrested at the Chacalluta border crossing on Tuesday after attempting to smuggle 10 Ecuadorians posing as tourists into Chile. According to evidence presented in […]
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About two million children and adolescents are sexually exploited in Latin America, a figure “alarming” that manages the Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, said its president in Ecuador, Rocío Rosero. “There are about two million children and adolescents who are in situations of sexual exploitation,” said Rosero to […]
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On April 5, 2013, Folha Vitória reported that police arrested members of a local gang suspected of a string of truck robberies in Vitória, capital of the state of Espírito Santo. Among the trio, fifty year-old Sebastião Francisco Bacelar is a repeat offender and well known by the police. He presented false documents to the […]
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According to noticias.uol.com.br African gangs; primarily Nigerians, are using postal services in Brazil, to smuggle small amounts of cocaine to countries such as Spain, China, and the United Kingdom, where overseas operating networks have expanded the illegal trade. Due to Brazil’s strategic location with neighboring cocaine-producing countries, in addition to its frequent flights to Europe, […]
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univisionamerica.univision.com reported that Mexican cartels are sending some of their best members to live and work in the United States, strengthening its presence to enhance its control over the lucrative drug market in the world and increase profits, experts say. An extensive review of cases before the courts and government agencies information, interviews with senior […]
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On March 31, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that police in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza are investigating a gang of bank robbers after arresting the head of the gang. Police arrested Antônio Carlos dos Santos, the “Tornado”, earlier this week as part of a local intelligence operation. “Tornado” has a long list of crimes […]
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On March 27, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police (Polícia Federal) concluded an investigation into crimes involving federal financial agencies. Codenamed “Operation Pícaro,” Federal Police targeted two groups in particular: one group was accused of defrauding the Brazilian Federal Economic Register (Caixa) to obtain money to purchase automobiles, while the other received the autos. The operation […]
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The National Police boarded at sea, north of Cape Verde, a ship from Venezuela bound for the European continent and in their warehouses carrying 2 tons of cocaine. The ship was bound for somewhere in the north of Portugal. “It is the biggest operation so far in 2013 in regard to the fight against drug […]
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Ten police officers in Peru drug (Dirandro) working in Lima International Airport were denounced by the prosecution for allegedly being involved in sending cocaine caches Mexican cops working for the Sinaloa cartel, reported the daily The Republic. According to the newspaper, on June 25, 2012 there was a shootout between police at the international airport […]
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On March 19, 2013, A Tarde reported that police in the Bahian city of Vitória da Conquista arrested a local drug dealer after catching him consuming marijuana. He also had drugs in tow, looking to sell them. Police found Alan Gomes Fonseca Pereira in a house in Conquista, a house which police say served as […]
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Modus Operandi of some of these gangs is to use explosives (grenades) to extort money from their businesses. No name of gang or gangs given in news report. Many of these extortionists operate on motorcycles. aldia24.com reported that a dangerous offender Colombian national and a member of a criminal gang, was arrested by officers attached […]
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On March 19, 2013, Estado de Minas reported that police completed an operation over the weekend that resulted in the disbanding and arrest of a prominent Belo Horizonte gang that specialized in house robberies. Members are the gang are suspected of performing at least eight robberies since September. Five of them have been arrested, while […]
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On March 16, 2013, A Tarde reported about the nature of reporting a crime involving human trafficking. A state attorney from Bahia, Vladimir Aras, said that a strong majority of victims do not report human trafficking crimes to authorities because they are afraid of the threats that they receive. Moreover, according to Adriano Figueiredo, head […]
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On March 18, 2013, O Estado de Minas reported that officials from the International Financial Action Group (GAFI), an intergovernmental body created to monitor financial activity throughout the world, will be going to Brazil in June to do a study on the country’s financial and legal system. GAFI also made a visit in 2010, in […]
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Drugs cartels are silencing the Mexican press according to rnw.nl. More and more Mexican newspapers are deciding to stop reporting crime news. And drugs cartels are increasingly succeeding in influencing the editorial line of the Mexican media. Journalists, bloggers and editors who criticise the activities of organised crime groups face death, kidnapping, decapitation or mutilation……Read […]
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With the death in combat of two individuals belonging to the armed offenders in northeastern Antioquia, amounted to 10 members of the guerrilla cells killed since December when the Army, in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office, launched the campaign Sword of Honor. The death of the insurgents who were armed with two rifles with […]
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On March 11, 2013, O Diário do Grande ABC reported that Joaquim Barbosa, President of the Supreme Federal Tribunal, issued a statement today saying that banks in Brazil are “lenient” when it comes to monitoring money laundering operations. This statement comes after he was responsible for the judgment of the mensalão scandal, in which 25 […]
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On March 1, 2013, G1 reported that police in the Brazilian state of Amazonas will implement a laboratory that will function until July to combat money laundering. The measure comes as part of an agreement with the state’s Public Safety Commission and the federal Justice Department, in which 16 different laboratories will be established in […]
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Organized crime struck again on Wednesday for a third day facilities daily El Siglo de Torreón , the main newspaper of the Laguna District, in northern Mexico. Around one in the afternoon yesterday were attacked federal police guarding the headquarters of the newspaper. A worker at a nearby maquiladora was killed and an officer wounded. […]
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DRUGS OFTEN PACKED IN MIDDLE OF MERCHANDISE ON CONTAINERS POLICE BELIEVE THEIR IS A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN TRAFFICKERS AND LABORERS OF SHIPPING YARDS/COMPANIES LOS RASTROJOS FROM COLOMBIA OPERATE IN ECUADOR SPAIN, HOLLAND, PORTUGAL AND BELGIUM ARE THE PRINCIPAL ENTRY POINTS FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS INTO EUROPE Elcomercio.comThe last Friday was not the only case. That day, police […]
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Along the border between Peru and Ecuador were detected 46 illegal crossings used by criminal gangs engaged in smuggling of arms, drugs and people, the minister warned Ecuadorian security coordinator, Homero Arellano. “To them should focus the armies of the two countries, together with the police, to support enforcement in those places,” he told Andina. […]
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laverdadyucatan.com reported……. While the brothers Chamas, Wt by Interpol as terrorists, Belize reach between 5 and 6 March, uncertainty about further scale in Merida has raised concerns in various fields, from politicians to the social within the business community with ancestry Syrian-Lebanese. The brothers Ahmad and Hasan Housein Housam Chamas, whose pictures were broadcast during […]
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vanguardia.com reported that the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in its annual report on the situation in Colombia, said criminal gangs, known as Bacrim, have become one of the largest sources of human rights violations. “The post-demobilization groups, are considered by all sectors of the biggest threats to public order, and responsible for the greatest […]
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Guatemalan officials reported this afternoon a clash between drug traffickers in the municipality of San Francisco, Petén, leaving several dead, officials say they are working to determine whether Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is among the victims.According to information provided by official sources, are recorded when two victims, but still not been identified, in the scene […]
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According to elnuevoherald.com, Guatemala authorities are investigating Thursday whether Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, may have died in a gun battle in the Department of Petén in northern border with Mexico, said Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez. “At the moment we have is the confirmation of an armed confrontation. […]
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Intelligence agents agree that in the country’s prisons, drugs, alcohol, weapons and cell phones are bought and sold by dealers networks run by mafias. These groups even vie for control of prisons, which leads to “strong govern disputes in the halls.” The researchers do not rule out that the facts of violence in the country […]
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On February 19, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police conducting a massive operation in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina arrested 147 people since last weekend with possible links to the attacks. On Tuesday they arrested Maykon Aurelio Saturnino, 29, in Florianópolis, the capital, believed to be the ringleader of many of […]
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The organization Interpol announced Tuesday the arrest of 194 people in 12 Latin American operation against illegal logging, which was seized the equivalent of 2,000 truck loads, whose price had hovered around $ 8 million. This is the first large-scale international operation against such crimes, Interpol said in a statement in which he said that […]
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Italian police dismantled a network that trafficked Italian-Mexican cocaine, importing it from Mexico to Italy as part of an operation called “Cancun” and in which agents of the country worked from 2011, official sources confirmed to Reform. As part of the police operation, three people, all of Italian nationality and one of them a Roman […]
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On February 18, 2013, A Gazeta reported that police arrested members of two gangs specializing in carjacking this past weekend in Vitória, the capital of the state of Espírito Santo. In all, six men were arrested, and four cars and one gun were seized. A spokesman for the local robberies unit, André Cunha, said that […]
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On February 18, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that the Brazilian city of Cuiabá reported seven murders over this past weekend. Five of the murders were gang-related and execution style, raising the number of gang-related murders this year to 29. The murderers of those five are believed to be hired guns. One man was murdered […]
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lahora.com.gt reported that researchers from the Department of Crimes against Life, the National Civil Police (PNC), captured six members of the Mara Salvatrucha, accused of committing dozens of crimes, some linked to extortion. The investigation began yesterday, in zone 1 of Chimaltenango, where they were arrested at a resort, the brothers Edilberto and Alvaro Adonai, […]
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CUSTOMIZED MEDIA MONITORING PROGRAM Carlos Federico Del Frade and published research that says that in the city of Rosario has 400 kiosks drug $ 2,000 million annually collect and also exposes employers of the night and a provincial official. Journalists Carlos Federico Mauro Del Frade and gave details about the route of the drug in […]
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The ELN announced Monday in a statement that “Canada remains” in his possession, after the Friday release his five fellow prisoners, all mine workers Geo Explorer. The armed group did not specify the reasons why the engineer did not provide Jernoc Wobert, VP Exploration of the Company, but justified the kidnapping in their struggle against […]
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vision.org (Reuters) A series of original studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) quantify the costs of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean using a combination of crime, health and economic statistics to come to fresh conclusions. In Brazil, one study found people pay an extra $13 billion to gain a […]
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On February 18, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a gang of 30 thieves stole an entire truckload of electronics from a stash in Campinas. The thieves loaded the goods into six separate cars and nine separate trucks and drove off. They entered the secure compound using a car owned by the security […]
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Source: Colombian Police: Operation “Republica 22” makes it clear alliance between the FARC and “Urabeños” for drug trafficking ANNP 17-FEB-13. Bogotá DC 13 people were caught in the departments of Caldas, Nariño, Norte de Santander and Santander. At the end of 16 months of research the Narcotics Division of the National Police in coordination with […]
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“600,000 pesos. In order to provide accurate data on the owner of the page Tamaulipas value “. The message of the pamphlets in recent days have appeared in several border cities of Tamaulipas state, northeast of the country, is clear: a reward of nearly 36,000 euros in exchange for the administrator who can identify a […]
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channel5belize.com reported that two well-known Belizean businessmen from the north are in lockdown in Mexico City after what is considered the biggest drug raid in Chetumal on Thursday evening involving one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels. Both men were caught in an alleged drug transaction at the house of a reputed Mexican drug lord […]
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elcolombiano.com reported at 11:00 am, the Minister of Defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón, began meeting with delegates of the International Red Cross to arrange the release protocol of three soldiers kidnapped by the FARC and the ELN kidnapped German . On the other hand, the ELN called on Monday to the German Government to appoint a […]
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elcolombiano.com reported the bodies of five people were found Monday in the village of La Bamba, the township Puerto Claver, in the municipality of El Bagre, located in the subregion of Bajo Cauca Antioquia, according to judicial sources. The victims, all African descent, were taken in a truck to the city morgue to the respective […]
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Elpais.com reported, Optimism that the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos , displayed on a happy ending future peace negotiations with the FARC keeps government in Cuba-sentiment shared by the negotiating team of the guerrilla clashes with what happens in the battlefield. Military and guerrillas have intensified the fighting and the latter have resumed the […]
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On February 1, 2013, the Christian Post (Portuguese) reported that police in Foz de Iguaçu arrested a female Evangelical pastor and charged her with drug trafficking. An anonymous tip brought police to the pastor and a previously undisclosed safe house, where they also found in the house weapons, drugs and money. Police also arrested three […]
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The police organization Interpol said Tuesday they have arrested 25 people and seized 360 tons of chemicals for drug manufacture and 200 kilos of methamphetamine, cocaine and LSD in an operation in eleven Latin American countries. The operation, called “Icebreaker” and which also confiscated $ 2 million in cash, affecting Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, […]
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NGOs say they have indirect presence in more municipalities than pointing Mindefensa. The fight for control of drug trafficking routes and illegal mining has focused the dispute and the presence of criminal gangs in at least eight departments. In this figure match reports from NGOs and the Ministry of Defence on the actual or active […]
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eluniversal.com.mx reported the Department of Public Safety reports that through inter-institutional work done in conjunction with members of the Ministry of National Defense, Navy of Mexico and Federal Police arrested 18 people who are related to his alleged role in high-crime impact and recent violent events in the Valley of Toluca….Salvador Neme Sastre, head of […]
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andina.com.pe/Senior military commanders from Peru, Colombia and Ecuador have agreed to strengthen the fight against organized crime in the region, the Peruvian military said Friday. During a four-day meeting in the northeastern Peruvian region of Loreto, military chiefs of the three countries discussed a variety of issues related to bilateral and multilateral cooperation, the Armed […]
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La Mano Negra – crime group vanguardia.com reported that few people dare to comment on the appearance of a pamphlet signed allegedly by ‘The Rastrojos and’ The Black Hand ‘, in which death threats against 30 youths, who, according to the letter, they were given a deadline of 48 hours to leave the sector.The threat […]
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Guayaquil Ecuador Eluniverso.com reported that the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR), along with thirteen prosecutors, captured eight adults and three children isolated early yesterday morning, which would be part of the band Flaco Édgar Edgar during the operation called Bastion, made in the north. Agents in charge of the investigation indicated that since last December […]
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Belize, which borders Mexico and Guatemala, has become dominated territory Cartel and Los Zetas gangs, warns a report by Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. According to the policy analysis group and intelligence in the last 30 years has intensified the phenomenon of drug trafficking in the small Central American nation that has become important point for […]
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SOURCE: http://yucatan.com.mx 1. In 2012 Labboun Rafic Mohammed (Muslim cleric) with alleged links to Hezbollah was arrested in Merida Mexico. He was also a fugitive from U.S. justice. 2. He arrived in Yucatan and apparently used a network of Lebanese government officials. These officials colluded with parties in Belize who provided a fake passport from […]
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SOURCE: laprensa.hn Authorities indicate that 11 Honduran cartels are part of narcotics smuggling network. Five drug cartels from Colombia are using Honduras as a drop off point to transport illegal drugs on to Mexico with ultimate destination of the United States. Research by Honduran office of drug trafficking (DLCN) and the Honduran military working in […]
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Nearly 84 people have reached the town of Tierralta after armed raid men who perpetrated a criminal gang of drug traffickers, apparently from Los Urabeños, Santa Isabel Manso, located in the middle lane Paramillo knot south Tierralta Township. A similar situation is being generated with the Embera Katio near the area, which are moving towards […]
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On January 23, 2013, Pioneiro reported that a man was arrested bringing guns and ammunition into Brazil from Uruguay and was charged in connection to a string of recent violence and robberies in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state. Nilton José Cassol, 54, was apprehended in the town of Cristal with an AK-47 in […]
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Xinuanet.com reported that Brazil’s President Monday highlighted the success of her plan in thwarting organized crime along the border. Dilma Rousseff said in her weekly radio show, “Breakfast with the President,” that authorities have seized more than 3,650 tons of drugs and 2,200 firearms in a year and a half since the Strategic Border Plan […]
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Colombia seized 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine that allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would be sent to the cartel Los Zetas in Veracruz Bogotá. – The National Police of Colombia seized late on a load of 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would […]
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animalpolitico.com reported that between 2008 and 2010, Mexico has detected 320 cases of trafficking for slavery, specifically for sexual exploitation and forced labor subjugation and two cases in which the victims they were excised organs, according to the Report Global Trafficking in Persons Report 2012, published last December by the United Nations Office for Drugs […]
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On January 20, 2013, A Tarde reported that the homicide rate for the Salvador Metropolitan Area increased 12.5% in 2012. Monthly reports from the local Public Security Office and news data from November and December counted 2,391 deaths, 300 more than in 2011. Public Security will not comment on the numbers until official statistics for […]
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According to rpp.com.pe, the U.S. military will train Mexican military in fighting organized crime with the tactics used to fight the terrorism of Al Qaeda. According to U.S. officials and military documents cited by the Associated Press, the Pentagon created for this purpose a new special operations headquarters on U.S. soil. The center, located in […]
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A total of 158 municipal police officers were arrested Friday in Durango State, northern Mexico, for his alleged links to organized crime, according to the prosecutor Sonia Yadira de la Garza . The operation affected the municipal Public Security addresses of the locations of Lerdo (150,000 inhabitants) and Gómez Palacio (350,000) and was attended by […]
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BBC.co.uk reported that a court in Nicaragua has jailed for 30 years each 18 people who tried to enter the country with $9.2m (£5.8m), posing as Mexican TV journalists. A judge in Managua found them guilty of money-laundering and organising a drug link between Mexico and Costa Rica. Read Article
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On January 8, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police (Polícia Federal) reported that it arrested the leader of a gang involved in a series of robberies throughout the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The gang leader was arrested in Natal, the capital, but the name was not released. Police used information […]
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thedialogue.org – Author, Julie Lopez In September 2012, Belize made international headlines, as it rarely does. The country’s name surfaced when Rafiq Mohammed Labboun Allaboun, allegedly a Lebanese terrorist associated with Hezbollah, was arrested in Mexico. He held a Belizean passport, driver’s license, and birth certificate in the name of a person who died in […]
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On January 17, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that Odemir Francisco dos Santos, 32, leader of the infamous Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), was arrested last night in the center of São Paulo. Dos Santos has been a fugitive from the law since his escape from confinement in Rio Grande do Sul, where […]
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According to the newspaper excelsior.com.mx, money laundering and weapons training are the main points in the relationship between Mexican drug cartels and alleged international terrorist groups operating in the country as Hezbollah. Although not confirmed links between drug trafficking and terrorist groups by Mexican authorities, according to experts and a review by the Strategic Studies […]
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On January 11, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that Paulo Furiati, ex-mayor of the city of Lapa, in the state of Paraná, was arrested by authorities for his role in a scheme involving bidding procedures in the area of education. The scandal encompassed Paraná, as well as the states of Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina and […]
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New São Paulo Mayor Names Cabinet Members Connected to Scandals On January 3, 2013, R7 reported that Fernando Haddad, São Paulo’s newly elected mayor, named two men to his staff connected to corruption at the state and federal levels. Oswaldo Napoleão Chaves, new chief of staff for Vice-Mayor Nadia Campeão, and Miguel del Busso, assistant […]
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In Ecuador moved to the front of a seafood dealer. He used three names: Hector de Jesus Ramirez, Octavio Leon and Henry Betancourt. His near what was known as ‘El Charro’. At the hearing of support and opinion of the case formulation on drug-Rise which has been linked, the prosecution makes it the “foreign financier” […]
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They were determined to Loja everything and had a large arsenal of heavy weapons, but did not imagine that the police on their heels and they were going to commit crime in the city of Cariamanga to 113km from the provincial capital of Loja would be frustrated by the military. There are eight men and […]
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Three routes identified by intelligence used by narco traffickers to enter and leave Bolivia from Brazil: San Ignacio de Velasco, San Matías, Pto. Suárez. Fruit of the ringleaders of the cartel detection First Command of the Capital (PCC) of Sao Paulo, Brazil, drug force identified three border routes used by traffickers to enter and leave […]
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Psychologist Rita del Carmen was responsible for one of the steps to follow. Your job is to try to prevent young people as falling into the net Chamboy Los Zetas, taking advantage of their poverty and lack of opportunity. Many are often killed when they refuse to work for the cartel. “Many young people under […]
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While the Government has implemented new strategies, such as building 10 bases in VRAEM insurgency to strengthen the state’s presence in the area, the narco clan of brothers Quispe Palomino had moved his headquarters to the Lower Urubamba, Cusco. Perú21 met through military intelligence sources, the brothers Victor and Martin Quispe Palomino-comrades ‘Joseph’ and ‘Gabriel’, […]
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Members detained also come from the United States The Kidnapping Task Force against plagiarists dismantled a band which they called the Babys, which ran less than 17 years. That day captured Wendy Mayén Amparo Morales and Maria del Carmen Sanchez, along with four under 17. So far, from January to October last, police have arrested […]
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A rifle costs $ 5200, a 4000 machine gun, a pistol and a revolver 1200 USD 800. Those prices were written with a ballpoint pen red on a white paper and crumpled. Appeared alongside images of each weapon found in a cabin Sealed Stone sector. In the last hours, this site jungle, in the northeast […]
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Yesterday the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico, Naval personnel captured two suspected logistics operators of “Los Zetas”, in the state of Coahuila. The incident occurred during a patrol in the Latin American colony, when marine elements observed two people who stepped off a vehicle carrying rifles and then enter into a house, so we […]
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Yesterday the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico, Naval personnel captured two suspected logistics operators of “Los Zetas”, in the state of Coahuila. The incident occurred during a patrol in the Latin American colony, when marine elements observed two people who stepped off a vehicle carrying rifles and then enter into a house, so we […]
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The increasing clashes between gunmen of the Zetas, the Gulf Cartel (CDG) and Los Chapos for control of the Valles region of Jalisco have caused casualties of the police forces of Magdalena and San Martin Hidalgo, which highlights the precarious municipal government just took over Oct. 1. The coordinator of the Rural Police of Jalisco, […]
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Narcobanners alerted the population of Saltillo on the arrival of a new cartel to the city, the authorities have not released the message according to tierradelnarco.com Mexico City. According to witnesses, it was during the early hours of today when the Distributed Mega Road a group of people put a blanket. Around 0830, the State […]
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Colombia police captured two alleged kingpin arrested successors ‘Diego Stubble’ and 25 members of the paramilitary drug gang Los Rastrojos, accused of having links to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, said on Saturday President Juan Manuel Santos. “Ringleader shown, we captured leader,” Bush said during a public meeting in the town of Villa de Leyva (northeast), highlighting […]
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The six alleged members were captured in the colony Xinantécatl streets, in the municipality of Metepec, where traveling in two vehicles. Salvador Neme Sastre, head of the Department of Public Safety (SSC) presented six suspected members of the criminal organization “The Knights Templar”. Among these is the alleged leader of “hawks” of the group, who […]
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Antonio Mazzitelli said that there are now new models of criminal organizations and the goal is no longer a route of drug control, but an entire territory “want to move an entire government, a society, and that the more control, more money is gets, and she emphasized this situation can only prevent citizens committed to […]
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The end of the first decade of the century confirms safety trends evidenced since its inception. U.S. concentrates on their challenges and extra-Brazil-recognized as an emerging power-creates the South American Defense Council (CDS) and collecting an orientation to continental separation, not accepted by all. Drug trafficking and transnational organized crime are the main challenges. In […]
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Mexican researcher Viridiana Rios developed an algorithm that uses Google maps to locate the activity, mobility and modus operandi of the drug cartels. his project, developed at the Center for US-Mexico Studies at the University of California in San Diego and in the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, seeks to identify strategies, […]
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Drug enforcement agents arrested four Mexicans who made a stopover at El Salvador’s international airport while carrying $40,000 in cash, police said Tuesday. The Mexicans, who were on their way to Colombia, were each carrying $10,000, the National Civilian Police, or PNC, said. Read Article
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The Brazilian government will assist the state of Sao Paulo in the fight against organized crime by the violence in this country of 42 million people. ( RadioPL ) The decision to support Sao Paulo was recorded after the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, were holding a telephone conversation with the governor of that state, […]
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sipse.com reported that Colombian authorities seized half a ton of explosives in an operation against the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN) on the border with Ecuador, said the Army and disseminated Notimex. War material was found by soldiers of Task Force Pegasus in the rural area of Mallama, in the southern department of Nariño, during […]
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In the colonies Ojocaliente and Villas of Our Lady of the Assumption, where in addition to the practice of torture by group children, have been detected in places where carried out clandestine, dog fighting, according to pagina24.com.mx. “It’s hard for us to intervene in these cases, since such practices as dog fighting come with drugs, […]
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The ill-treatment by their leaders, the constant military operations, lack of food and the desire to be with his family were the reasons that led to a member of the ELN, was given the run of his terrorist stronghold in search Supporter of the men of the Army, in the department of Nariño. The voluntary […]
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(proceso.com.mx.) reported that- The alleged drug trafficker Sergio Asuad Oscar Otero, Mouse, who is considered one of the links of the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested by the National Police of Colombia. In an official statement reproduced on Saturday Notimex news agency, the corporation announced that Asuad Otero was a member of the Colombian cartel Norte […]
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Elmanana.com reported that Mexico imported weapons and ammunition of 56.9 million dollars $ 9 million from January to August, ie 49 percent more than the same period of 2011 and a 209 percent above the 2006 record, according to foreign trade statistics of the Bank of Mexico. This category includes everything from military-style weapons, guns, […]
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The Spanish Civil Guard dismantled a drug ring that introduced drugs from South America to the Iberian country, simulating sightseeing trips, honeymoons, among others. Upon being arrested 29 alleged members of this organization. The dome of the network of seven Colombian and Ecuadorian, were also arrested in the operation. Additionally consisted Spanish citizens, and Ukrainian. […]
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