As a result of the violence generated mainly by organized crime and drug trafficking, one in 50 young Central Americans under age 20 will die before they killed 32, according to the UN.
The homicide rate in the region, the largest in the world, is 400 times higher than the average in countries with low levels of violence, said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to the General Assembly the United Nations.
According to the UN, the homicide rate in Guatemala is 39 murders per 100 000 inhabitants, while in El Salvador is 72 and that of Honduras is 86, which represents 10 times the world average . Ban said countries in the region, especially those of the Northern Triangle, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras-face “increasing levels of violence, fueled by transnational organized crime and drug trafficking.” Read Article
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Guatemala is preparing to fight narco militarily. And they will do with the Kaibiles elite troops of the Army, already prepared for this Aldor Ismael Mendez, commander of the Army of Guatemala, said that in the jungle training with an objective to kaibiles “strengthen him, preparing for the end of the course is able to […]
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A total of 566 barrels and drums with 1.645 different chemicals, which are used as precursors for synthetic drugs have been seized from January 1 to May 14 this year, as recorded by the General Directorate of Information Analysis Counternarcotics (Sdgaia) of the Police. Read Article
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Dominican police agents, assigned to the Interpol NCB Santo Domingo, seized a Russian who was required with an international arrest warrant for alleged involvement in a scam millionaire Gelendzhiksky city, Krasnodar Region, Russia. Interpol reported that the capture of fugitive Russian Alexander Logvinov, materialized last Friday by hard intelligence work in the Dominican capital. He […]
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The Mexican Navy seized at the port of Lazaro Cardenas, a shipment from China with 136 tonnes of precursor chemicals used to manufacture synthetic drugs, and bound for Honduras, officials said. The Secretary of Navy of Mexico (Semar) said in a statement that the substances were found in 1,748 barrels within seven containers of the […]
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Colombia anti-drug authorities and the United States completely dismantled a network of cocaine trafficking with the arrest of a U.S. exmilitar and a Colombian citizen. Narcotics Directorate (Diran) of the National Police of Colombia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Directorate (DEA) arrested in coordinated and called Alliance 31 to the two alleged ringleaders of the […]
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The Police Narcotics Unit presented yesterday the 115 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride and 5 kilos of cocaine base were seized in the canton Zapotillo of this province, in the operation called Southern storm that took place last Tuesday. The drug was found Infiernillos sector, we also found a lab where illegal substances were processed. In […]
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IN THE last days of Álvaro Uribe’s presidency in 2010, Colombia accused neighbouring Venezuela of letting the FARC and ELN, the two main leftist guerrilla groups, maintain camps along its border. In response Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, recalled his ambassador and skipped the inauguration of Mr Uribe’s successor, Juan Manuel Santos. Once Mr Santos took […]
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On April 18, in an operation implemented by members of the Secretariat of Public Safety personnel in coordination with the Attorney General of the State of Mexico, were arrested Francisco Garcia Brito Galdino “The Fanta”, identified as the manager of a cell of the criminal organization “La Familia Michoacana” operating in the region of Texcoco. […]
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Eladio Aponte former judge accused the government of Hugo Chávez of collusion with drug cartels. Removed by benefit a drug lord, was exiled to the United States. He witnesses protected from DEA.Por Facundo F. Neighborhood Without strength?. According to the judge Aponte, Chavez led a government that has ties to drug traffickers. Sinks and wants […]
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Jose Serrano, Interior Minister reported on the capture of 53 alleged antisocial formed the band Fight Breast and spread terror in the city of Quito. The announcement was made during the Citizen Link No. 268 held at the Coliseum The Quitus, located in the La Vicentina, north of the capital of Ecuador. Read Article
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Police investigation with the Attorney General, a gang of assailants on motorbikes who have perpetrated at least three robberies with large sums of money. The mayor of Leon, Ricardo Sheffield Padilla, said Friday that walking for 15 days on the trail of this criminal group and a band is ‘sophisticated’. “The situation is a band […]
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The two semi-submersible units, submarine-like craft that were discovered in El Oro, reveal, according to Ecuadorian authorities Narcotics, the southern border is becoming favorable entry of the drug that is destined to other countries. In 2009 discovered the first semi-submersible, in the canton of El Guabo shrimp. The device, which had the capacity to transport […]
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Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.-agents of the elite group of Municipal Police intelligence ‘burst’ another residence in Golden Meadow fractionation, securing just over two kilograms of cocaine and an arsenal again, highlighting a Barret rifle, caliber .50, of known as the ‘tomb aircraft’. Following the assurance, the last coming on April 13 a very similar arsenal seized […]
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Argentina and some of its Southern Cone neighbors, have become centers of operation of the Colombian mafia. Its geographical position, the contacts and some facilities were provided migratory their actions. The closest episode of this relationship between criminals here and there, surfaced last Friday, when in Buenos Aires arrested two Spanish, 12 Argentines and 11 […]
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Three additional murders in agribusiness in Honduras Three employees of a large agribusiness company were killed Thursday afternoon in the valley of Aguán, in northeastern Honduras, which already account for 50 deaths in the context of conflict over land in that area of the country, officials said. A brief news report revealed that police “Denis […]
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Mexico: Drug dealers robbing human organs In Mexico there has been an increase theft of cargo units. There were at least 12 cases where cargo drivers became victims of organ theft in the last two months. According to Rafael Ortiz Pacheco, the national president of the Mexican Alliance Shippers, victims are stripped of their units, […]
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Mexico: Drug lords recruit the elderly According to the Attorney General’s office during the last six-year period the number of elderly involved in organized crime has increased markedly. From December 2006 to November 2011 there has been more than 4 000 senior citizens arrested for their involvement with drug traffickers. Since they inspire love and […]
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Ecuador-Colombia border: Ecuadorian troops repel rebel attack Military Quito/Andes.- Ecuadorians were ambushed late on Monday in the province of Sucumbios (border with Colombia), presumably by Colombian irregular groups, said a military statement released by the Ministry of Defence. According to the ministry of state, soldiers from the “General Farfan” were attacked both the Ecuadorian and […]
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Five suspected gunmen, including an alleged regional leader of the group “The Knights Templar”, died in a shootout with a military patrol in the state of Michoacan, southern Mexico, officials said. The Secretary of
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United States and Central America did not sufficiently inform each other hundreds of criminals who are deported to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador each year, contributing to increased violence in the region on Monday raised U.S. experts. “We can do much more about sharing information when reporting on their records,” said Michael Shifter, a professor […]
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Dismembered body found with a Narco-Message in Sinaloa On April 9th a man was kidnaped in La Trinidad, Sinaloa and hours later his dead body was found in the international road in Guasave. The victim’s body was dismembered, his fingers where placed inside his mouth. The message left by the aggressors said “ this is […]
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Mexicali. – An ultralight aircraft, drugs, weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, were seized by elements of the State Preventive Police (PEP), in coordination with the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), the criminal organization “Los Garibay “. The Secretary of State Public Security reported that the actions took place in Chiapas ejido III area […]
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In Baja California enterprise agreements were settled between two rival drug cartels; the remains of Arellano Felix Tijuana cartel and the Sinaloa cartel. According to the director of the Binacional Human Rights Center (Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos) Victor Clark Alfaro the pacts include lowering violence and continuing with the drug business. Read Article
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Studies Program Coordinator City of FLACSO Ecuador, an expert on public safety, urban policy, local development and planning. At home and outside the borders, the power of criminal organizations have increased at an accelerated rate, says Fernando Carrión, researcher and expert on security issues. In his opinion, Ecuador has become an international platform for drug […]
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Sergeant: Born in Colombia but Argentine nationality. Drugs, Cocaine confiscated Friday contained in shipment of antique furniture destined for Europe. 83 Colombians have been involved in the investigation, 42 businesses providing logistics for the Colombian Narcos. Security Minister Nilda Garre revealed that among the arrested drug traffickers, is a sergeant serving in Buenos Aires the […]
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The FARC are “not weak” as stated by the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Andean country’s military leadership said “Ivan Marquez,” member of the ‘secretariat’ or top hierarchy of the guerrillas, in a video released Saturday. The Colombian rebel group is “not weak” because “is ready to fight,” said “Marquez, alias Luciano […]
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After a police deployment in private villas Alcazar, the Army and local police located a home within which they found 445 packages of drugs. Elements of the Mexican Army in coordination with the Municipal Public Security elements in the city of Tijuana seized 844.5 kilos of marijuana. According to preliminary information, the operation was implemented […]
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Guatemalan authorities say they have begun to see new and disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and the Zetas drug cartel, one of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America, a deal with the potential to further undermine the U.S.-backed effort to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in […]
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There are about 30 000 victims of sexual exploitation in Mexico, 80 percent of them average 10-14 years old. Human trafficking is considered the second and third most profitable business for organized crime, affecting 3.5 million people 90 percent of them adolescent girls. Read Article
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There is an estimated of 10 billion dollars being laundered annually by drug dealers in Mexico according to the Mexican IRS reports. 90 percent of the illicit gained money is laundered in the United States and a third portion of what is generated illicitly by the Mexican Cartels is reincorporated to the formal Mexican economy. […]
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The Government is concerned about these illegal networks to the point that on February 27 last, the Security Minister Homero Arellano asked to Armed Forces, “the patriotic participation” in the fight against these facts. That request did verbal to the troops of the Eloy Alfaro Military School as stated in the Comprehensive Safety Plan that […]
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The outgoing head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces (Armed Forces), Ernesto Gonzalez, warned of the security situation facing the country. Among the main threats, Gonzalez cited the organized crime, human trafficking, insecurity, drug trafficking and the presence of rebel groups. He said we can not ignore the effects of armed conflict in […]
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“Simpsons” had 15 arrest warrants against him. “Simpsons” was the second leader of the criminal gang “The Urabeños” in western Antioquia. Enrique Raul Pino, aka “Simpsons” 33-year-old was captured on a farm in the village of San Nicolas Sopetrán Township in western Antioquia, thanks to community information. Read Article
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There are 27 catches or seizures in the first quarter of this year. The smugglers bring goods without paying duty and enter neighboring Colombia from clandestine step, in order to evade the controls, said Pedro Guerrero, head of Customs Yahuarcocha Detachment. MERCHANDISE. Yahuarcocha detachment personnel made operational by means of first and second order, which […]
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Durango is one of the main states where Policemen have been murdered. Ever since the President Felipe Calderon began his administration, there has been an estimation of 2 986 murdered policemen in Mexico. 184 of these reported police assassinations took place in Durango, followed by 76 in Coahuila. Read Article
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According to the agency Noticias Argentinas, in the last five years, murdered a person per month in acts of this type. In Argentina there is a community of 100 000 Chinese inhabitants and around 10 000 supermarkets, whose owners were often blackmailed into paying an amount ranging 50 thousand pesos a year as “canon”, under […]
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NOGALES, Sonora (PH) A total of four subjects were arrested in possession of AK-47 type weapons, two squads and over 960 rounds of ammunition, after an operation in Nogales by the so-called Joint Operation. Were captured at 20:15 pm on Friday March 20, 2012, when attending a report of a pick up white in speeding […]
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Criminal organized network from Romania investigated for ATM fraud Six members of a Dolj County criminal organized group are being investigated for money laundering and ATM theft. Most members of the organization operate in Romania, while a few operate in United States and Mexico. The money stolen from US and Mexico’s ATMs is ultimately sent […]
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Theft of fuel is an ongoing problem in the energy sector of the state of Baja California and throughout the country, said the professor of Colef, specializing in economic issues, Alejandro Diaz Bautista. He indicated that over the municipalities of Baja California in 2012 were located clandestine footage of Pemex pipeline, like pipes with thousands […]
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Mexico: Provoking Messages by El Chapo found in Tamaulipas In Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, El Chapo, leaves challenging messages accompanied by dismembered bodies of some of the members of the rival cartel the Zetas. The messages incite the opposing cartel letting them know that el Chapo will be in charge […]
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Drug gang fell while trying to send drugs to South Africa from Ezeiza He was arrested a member of the Airport Security Police and a former member of that force. A member of the Airport Security Police (PSA) and a former member of that force were arrested along with three others on charges of creating […]
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A trail across contaminated and sterile clay mark the passage of corruption and illegal mining in the Amazon rainforest was once the Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru. Over tens of kilometers between the new Interoceanic Highway that links Brazil and Peru, and Manuani river, a tributary of Malinowski that marks the boundary of the […]
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The arrest of Juan Carlos Calle Serna is not an isolated event. Official figures indicate that their ties are linked to criminal cases dating, for example, 2009. On 2 October of that year, drug agents staged a raid in four provinces, seized 3.8 tons of cocaine and arrested two soldiers: one sergeant and a former […]
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Clan members are originally from Puerto Asis, but established themselves as lords and masters throughout the southern Pacific coast from the 80’s. Gradually extended their dominions from Tumaco (Nariño) to the border and set up clandestine shipyards in Ecuador. The patriarch of the network, Mauner Mahecha, the ‘Old’, was a partner of drug traffickers as […]
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Lisbon: Dismantled Cocaine Organization In December, 2011 the Lisbon Police department discovered acriminal organization dedicated to the transportation of cocaine concealedinside in coal containers. The organization members where all of Argentiniandecent, and were localized in Portugal and in Spain.Read Article
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Utu Rohozneanu, head of an organized crime group in Romania is now charged with running an international drug trafficking network while in a Romanian prison. A member of the syndicate was recently arrested in Madrid while two other suspects were arreste at the Romanian/Hungarian border with cocaine valued at 400,000 euros. The cocaine had been […]
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In the wave of violence in Mexico and tightened security measures at the border with the United States may trafficking to the north and not the best option, some networks have identified Spain as an unbeatable destination, by language and migratory access, despite the crisis facing the country. We offer a fake U.S. visa to […]
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The Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported that four soldiers assigned to this county are investigated by allegedly received bribes from organized crime. XLV controls the Military Zone in the region disclosed the information during the First Regional Meeting with Opinion Leaders 2012, performed in 22 Motorized Cavalry Regiment. Since last December, described the federal […]
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In a relatively new phenomenon, young people are increasingly being used as “mules” or distributors, whether to cross drugs into the U.S. or to sell in the cities, especially the border, said Victor Clark, a social anthropologist and specialist in the issue of drug trafficking in this region. “Minors are cheap labor and disposable for […]
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Romanian lawyer Radu Eugen Alexandru was arrested on March 09, 2012, for trying to influence the judges in a drug trafficking case. The smugglers were arrested for bringing into Constanta 160 kilos of cocaine, drugs with a street value of 10 million euros . The container came from Santa Cruz, Bolivia with final destination Western […]
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Elements of the Department of Defense apprehended two alleged members of the cartel’s important Valencia, causing movement of criminal groups trying to save. The detainees were taken to the capital of Jalisco. wo killed and 13 blocks in streets, avenues and highways of the entity is the preliminary balance of a clash between suspected members […]
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National Police on Monday captured drug trafficker and former member of criminal gangs is sought for extradition by U.S. for his alleged role in the death of a DEA informant.Through a statement, the authorities explained that the arrest of Fernando Arroyave, alias ‘Máquina’ took place in the early hours of Monday as the drug lord […]
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The Bolivian Foreign Ministry announced today that defined the mechanism for returning to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Paraguay than 1,400 stolen vehicles were entered Bolivia illegally. According to Deputy Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Alurralde, to return it, the countries concerned must require, through its own prosecution, seizure of the stolen vehicles in its territory […]
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The auxiliary Judge of the Superior Council of the Judiciary in Colombia, Maria Constanza Rivera Peña, warned of the risk in Mexico is the battle between criminal groups to control the transfer and sale of drugs. He estimated that if restrictive policies or through arms control are not accompanied by social programs and reclaiming public […]
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The Narcotics Police seized Guayas a new drug shipment at a port of Guayaquil. During an operation on Wednesday, officers discovered 119 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride packaged in blocks and hidden in the ‘Pallet’ (wooden supports) used to transport bananas. The cargo was stored in a container in a private marina. Read Article
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The operation called Lightning, which rode on the southern border Police seized 4,000 gallons of fuel and 16 LPG cylinders. This shipment, according to the agents was in clandestine warehouses Huaquillas 26, a town bordering Peru. In addition, seized empty plastic drums and accessories, which were allegedly used to illegally packaged fuel and then sell […]
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CONNECTIONS MADE BETWEEN ECUADOR – MEXICAN CARTELS – SHIPMENTS SENT FROM GUAYAQUIL IN LOADS OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS – DESTINATION BELGIUM. The undercover officers followed the steps you nine months. At that time, an agro-export company, based in Manabi, had reached a ‘record’ of exports. Last May, the commercial firm started exporting various agricultural products such […]
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A court in Guatemala on Tuesday authorized the extradition to America of the alleged higher local drug lord, while the Central American country hardens a crackdown on organized crime. John ‘Chamale’ Ortiz López, who was arrested in March 2011 and is kept under arrest in Guatemala, is charged in a Florida court for trafficking tons […]
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ARRESTS OF SUSPECTED ANONYMOUS MEMBERS IN COLOMBIA, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, SPAIN Guardian.co.uk reported Interpol’s website appears to have been the victim of a cyber-attack after the international police agency announced the arrests of 25 suspected members of the hacking activist group Anonymous in Europe and South America. The website went down briefly on Tuesday as supporters […]
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The gang called “Culebra del Norte” again outwitted the authorities, several trucks entering contraband goods from the border with Bolivia to Juliaca. On the way they clashed violently with police and troops of Customs. The authorities waited for the trucks with smuggled Huancané, but when they tried to stop them, they continued their way. Police, […]
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Lydia Cacho, a journalist and activist, said that in five years of research in Tijuana was found that in the Japanese mafia operated border trafficking. “When I was researching Tijuana found two areas. The first that organized crime is directly involved in the trafficking of people who come across the border are captured locally by […]
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The drug trafficking organizations are increasingly using small groups of young people to transport their goods through the remote desert of Texas and New Mexico, federal agents said. Agents said that some of these young people who enter the country surreptitiously carry 50 pounds (23 kilos) of drugs for days, travel in groups of two […]
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A sophisticated clandestine laboratory for processing synthetic drugs was located near the Mexican indigenous community of Cheran (west), where in May the people took their own authority to block access to the people and prevent entry of organized crime, the military said Saturday. “The narcolaboratorio was located near the community of Rancho Seco, located within […]
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Economic Crime Group of the National Police have discovered another company based in Belize and allegedly used by the Nóos group, led by Inaki Urdangarin to withdraw funds from Spain and pay less tax in our country. The company would be part of the campus of alleged front companies provided by the attorney Salvador Trinxet, […]
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The State Preventive Police (PEP) managed to secure five members of the criminal organization known as “La Familia Michoacana” who brought, as well as cartridges of high power, money, vehicles and a large quantity of drugs. In this important police operation, they were secured in total 16 kilos 324 grams of the drug known as […]
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Hector Cordero Mendoza, deputy director of the National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador, was emphatically confirmed yesterday COUNTRY recently captured five men belonging to an irregular armed group called People’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARP) January 22, and identified as members of a “new guerrillas” who would be scattered in various parts of El Salvador. […]
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A battalion of 800 soldiers from the center of the country is strengthening efforts to eradicate drug crops, interdiction of shipments of narcotics and special operations in southern Sonora from February 1, informed the commander of the Fourth Military Zone. Georges André Van Lissum Foullon said that strengthening the State arrived earlier this month and […]
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Profusion of cartridges of various calibers, magazines handguns and long guns, a grenade launcher and at least one sports car and even a taxi, not to mention cable owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) allegedly stolen, and a total of six people arrested, is the balance achieved by municipal police officers were conducting a surveillance tour. […]
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According to research conducted by the Prosecutor in charge, sentenced today were part of a network that was trafficking women living in the coffee with false promises of work, the city of Colon (Panama), where they were forced to engage in prostitution. Read Article
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The Spanish Ambassador Manuel Lobo Lejarreta announced Wednesday that his country will increase financial support for the fight against impunity in Guatemala through a commission established since 2008 by the United Nations for this purpose. During a ceremony, the diplomat said that “the act is a sign of commitment of the government of Spain to […]
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The Minister of Interior of Chile, Rodrigo Ubilla announced Friday that drones deployed to control its border with Bolivia and Peru, in order to prevent the passage of drug trafficking and smuggling. Friday, January 27, 2012. Chile-the-sum-to-country-that-fight-drug-intensified-in-the-borders-with-Bolivia Ref Photography: Frontera. The Plan, which aims to strengthen control of its three regions: Arica-Parinacota, Tarapaca and Antofagasta, […]
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One of the older men and bloodthirsty of the FARC, and that the Defense Ministry offered two billion pesos reward in October, proved to be the cousin of Juan de Dios Usuga, drug for which the ‘ Urabeños’ north of the country paralyzed for 20 days, after his death. Luis Carlos Restrepo Usuga, alias ‘Isaiah […]
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In a report this afternoon before Congress, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported that at least 43 innocent people were killed in armed clashes in 2011 between the crime organized and law enforcement as part of the war on drugs waged by the government of Felipe Calderón. Raul Plascencia, owner of the agency, said […]
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The Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, and his pair of Peru, Alberto Otárola, agreed today after a meeting in Bogota that both countries will increase joint operations and cooperation to cope with crime transnational border area between the two nations. “We will schedule joint and combined operations in coming months will be conducted, both […]
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The Buenos Aires police seized in raids that amount of 58 weapons, plus a dozen vehicles, as well as marijuana and cocaine. There are about fifty people detained. Departmental headquarters Pilar, San Martin and Zárate-Campana conducted raids in the north of Buenos Aires province together in the past four days, according to the security minister […]
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Three suspects were captured apartamenteros by police in the La Ceiba in Tulua. They seized firearms and items to subdue their victims, such as masking tape, and latex bands. Those arrested were a woman, a professional soldier and the caretaker of a renowned shopping center Tuluá, who apparently, according to authorities, were part of a […]
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In less than a month there are four homicides that have rocked the region of Tarapaca, why Investigative Police, PDI, does not rule out that these acts were performed by bands of gunmen linked to drug trafficking which would be most minors. The common pattern that characterizes the criminal acts occurred in Iquique and Alto […]
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The governments of the United States, Brazil and Bolivia signed in La Paz yesterday finally to verify agreement with the UN as an observer, the destruction of illegal plantations of coca leaves to manufacture cocaine base, after several failed attempts to sign it for almost a year. Read Article
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The organization led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman uses the control of the runners on both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States to extend its dominance in Arizona. And as with Texas, the level of violence and attacks on law enforcement is increasing, according to a report of the Department of […]
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Three suspected members of organized crime died in a confrontational fight with Mexico’s military in the municipality of Susupuato, Michoacan. According to cronica.com the fight lasted over 3o minutes and was followed by a car chase that ended when the escaping vehicle plummeted into a ravine. It is estimated that at least five other suspects […]
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All three bodies were without arms, without legs and without their heads. Three mutilated bodies were found in a grave drug in the Sierra de San Sebastian del Oeste, in the limits of the municipality of Puerto Vallarta. The bodies of three people are male and were mutilated, ie, they took away the legs, arms […]
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According to noticias.terra.com Canadian citizen Salid Abdulacis Sabas was found dead the morning of January 16, 2012 in an intersection of avenues in Culiacan Sinaloa. The body was found with several bullet holes in which the majority of impacts where to the head. Precise reasons for the murders are unknown, but experts believe the Canadian […]
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As identified by pulso360.com, seven contract killers were killed during a confrontational clash with federal police agents in Morelos, Cuernavaca. The shootout occurred Monday January 16, 2012 where one of the aggressors was captured. According to states authority the gunmen belonged to an unidentified organized crime group. The investigation is ongoing as the seven dead […]
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he Mexican traffickers continue to enjoy commercial success by introducing more drugs in the U.S., despite the country spent the last decade nearly 90 billion dollars in border security, reported on Friday a report from a coalition border. The report, prepared by the Texas Border Coalition (TBC), consisting of mayors, county officials and economic development […]
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Police discovered 21 minors during a lightning operation on a dangerous location in Bogotá, Colombia. According to eltiempo.com, they also arrested 4 individuals for drug possession and also confiscated weapons, IDs rented for criminal acts and other equipment. The police were also able to take down a site manufacturing adulterated alcohol. Read Article
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Mexico’s government allowed a group of undercover U.S. anti-drug agents and their Colombian informant to launder millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday. The Mexican magazine Emeequis published portions of documents that describe how Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a Colombian trafficker-turned-informant and […]
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Santa Catarina, NL • The holder of the Private Secretary of the municipality of Santa Catarina, Raul War denied this afternoon that municipal police officers have been arrested Monday morning for alleged links with Baltazar Saucedo, alias “El Mataperros”, arrested the week last.In an interview, War Novelo said the arrival of military and ministerial to […]
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According met this writing, the town of Arenal, on Thursday morning full of pamphlets signed by a group calling Gaitanistas Self, which challenged the national government and security forces for the death of top leader of the “Urabeños” alias “Giovanni” , which occurred in the department of Chocó. Read Article
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At least 22 people were arrested in an operation to dismantle a criminal network dedicated to the introduction and distribution in Europe of cocaine and hashish from Colombia and Morocco, respectively. The Spanish Interior Ministry said the Civil Guard led the operation Thessaloniki, coordinated by Europol, which was dismantled criminal organization comprised of Spanish citizens, […]
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Peruvian State will strengthen its presence in the Amazonian Trapezium, in the frontier with Colombia and Brazil, aiming to face drug trafficking, which has gone up in said area, Peru’s national commission for the development of life without drugs (Devida) stated Thursday.Devida’s President Ricardo Soberon said that there is a strong multisectoral commitment to correct […]
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In southern Florida, an elite group of U.S. attorneys is assigned a goal: to help disrupt the criminal gangs (BACRIM) in Colombia. In fact, the capture of 30 people this week in Colombia, linked to the organization of ‘Loco Barrera’ is the first result of this mission, which, according to the prosecutor for the Southern […]
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The border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua has become the new drug route. They loaded buses and trucks traveling from south to north, in the strategic post of Peñas Blancas, billed as the first (or last) border between Colombia and the United States. That is, one point that connects the north and south America. The […]
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Fear and anxiety seized dozens of residents of mountain communities of this county and its neighbor Uruachi, when they saw off planes full of armed men took over roads and trails, ostensibly to guard a new route to get shipments of marijuana and poppy produced in the Upper and Lower Tarahumara. “Since last week fell […]
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A boy of 12 years and two children under 15 and 17 were rescued this morning on a sweatshop where they made cartridge with children and football grounds in operating conditions, in a house in La Plata. There are two adults in custody, a man and a woman, presumably the owners of the place, judicial […]
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A head of the guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN) is designated as responsible for the kidnapping of an Ecuadorian citizen. The incident occurred around 13:30 on the last Tuesday in the town of Saravena, department of Arauca in the northeast of Colombia and Venezuela border. The Government of Arauca told El Comercio that the investigations […]
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When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming. The alert goes out from a taxi driver or a street vendor, equipped with a high-end handheld radio and paid to work as a lookout known as a “halcon,” or hawk. Read Article
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As Congress, Republican presidential candidates, and much of the U.S., South American, and European media are sounding the alarm on suspicious activities by Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America, the State Department is hitting the snooze button. State also has turned a blind eye to abuses of the administration’s liberalized rules for traveling to Cuba, […]
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