Federal police use tear gas to clear Mexico teachers Hundreds of federal police cleared protesting teachers from the main highway between Mexico City and Acapulco after the demonstrators blocked the roadway for hours, causing a huge traffic backup. The teachers were protesting against an educational reform that will submit them to evaluation and loosen union […]
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On April 6, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police in Rio de Janeiro are searching for a man suspected of raping a woman in a van in São Gonçalo, within the Rio Metropolitan Region. The man held her at gunpoint, ordered the vehicle to a deserted location, and sexually abused the woman. […]
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On April 6, 2013, A Tarde reported that the state of Bahia recorded the second-highest number of guns turned over to authorities out of Brazil’s 26 states, with only São Paulo collecting more. The collection is part of a national disarmament campaign. Bahia collected 1,380 illegal firearms between the beginning of this year and the […]
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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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Mexico City: Ministry of Public Security Forms Cyber-Crimes Task Force Mexican newspaper Proceso reported that the Ministry of Public Security (SSPDF) in Mexico City has recently formed a cyber-crimes task force to combat human trafficking, child pornography and internet fraud. The main purpose of the taskforce will be to combat criminals using the internet as […]
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People and Power In the early hours of April 16, 2009, a heavily armed special forces unit of the Bolivian police crept into a downtown hotel in the eastern city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. They made their way to two upstairs rooms and burst in. Within minutes, three European guests had been shot […]
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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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On April 5, 2013, A Tarde reported that a joint police force in the state of Bahia announced the results of a police operation seeking explosives. After surveying 23 municipalities, Operation Vulcan looked at 30 different companies in the state with connections to the sale of explosives, and police fined 14 of them. Eight of […]
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On April 4, 2013, Alagoas 24 Hours reported that a pair of high school students were arrested in the town of Marechal Deodoro, Alagoas state, after police found them at the door of their school with marijuana. The marijuana, police discovered, had been hidden in an adapted chassis within the Honda Biz motorcycle. Upon discovery, […]
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On April 4, 2013, Agência Brasil reported that homophobia-related cases in Rio de Janeiro now fall under the jurisdiction of the local police. The local Coordination Office for the Protection of Sexual Diversity (CEDS) will now pass all of its information to the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police, in an effort to strengthen public policy […]
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The Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said that air missiles seized from the FARC are too old and have little capacity to do harm to the military forces. He explained that the Colombian security forces aware of the intentions of the FARC to acquire missiles since 2008. Read Article
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CTI agents captured in the Santa Librada, south of Bogota, Vergara Graciela Bautista, alias ‘The Morenaza’, who was designated to be part of the FARC and provide food and coordinate logistical support to the guerrilla group from Bogota. “She had within their holdings supply food to the Front 53 of the FARC, who had connections […]
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lahora.com.ec reported that the true incidence of the express kidnapping in the city was evident yesterday when Alexander Vizuete, official Observatory Township Public Safety, reported that every day there are between 4 and 5 steals under this system. At a meeting held in the Convention Center with representatives Eugenio Espejo normal taxis, executive, peripherals and […]
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Value placed at 6 million dollars, suspected shipment from Colombia in route to Guayaquil A police operation ended with the intentions of two men, who were transporting almost 128 kilos of cocaine. The drug was hidden in the bucket of a truck ICD-371 plates. James N., and Alex S. were arrested. The incident occurred around […]
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On April 2, 2013, Midiamax reported that the Brazilian Army is initiating a project in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul to combat drug and arms trafficking along the Brazil-Paraguay border. Approximately 50 soldiers will be deployed in Mato Grosso do Sul, and their route will include roughly 600 kilometers of roads and waterways. […]
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On April 3, 2013, Portal Guaíra reported that the Brazilian Federal Police arrested a man and seized two vehicles late last night in the city of Guaíra, close to the Brazil-Paraguay border. Inside the two vehicles police discovered approximately 300 kilograms of illegal pesticides. The pesticides were confirmed to be of Paraguayan origin. The detained […]
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On April 3, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that authorities seized a cache of weapons and drugs in Cuiabá, capital of the state of Mato Grosso. Among the weapons, police found a military-grade, Israeli-made rifle restricted in Brazil for use by armed forces. They also found 50 kilograms of cocaine base. The motorist […]
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Manta Ecuador (charter flight from Panama)-Eluniverso.com reported that Zaina Molina, representative of the travel agency that organized the tour, said that since Monday afternoon began to be delivered the suitcases. “The gauges are evaluating several passengers surplus to see how much they should pay taxes.” José Rites, Customs district director in Manta, said one person […]
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Eluniverso.com reported a sailor dead, three wounded and three civilians left missing an explosion yesterday afternoon in Mobile Guard Station Rio Cuyabeno, located about 800 meters offshore, opposite the parish Palma Real, San Lorenzo canton (Esmeraldas), in the border with Colombia, the Navy reported. Carlos Vallejo, chief of the National Directorate of Aquatic Spaces (DIRNEA), […]
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One of the victims stated “crime out of control, police out of control” San Miguel de Allende now referred by some as San Miguel de Juarez. SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Guanajuato. -periodicocorreo.com.mx reported that two American women reported via a video, that were attacked by local police for a false but that they stole antiques, […]
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Michell Snowden Helen Connor U.S. citizens living in San Miguel de Allende San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Earlier today been released in some media about an alleged attack on two American women, this following a video showing themselves – and Michell Snowden Helen Connor – denounce alleged assault and theft suffered by members of the […]
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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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elpais.com.co reported that troops of Task Force Pegasus assigned to Joint Command South West found in the department of Nariño, a cache with Ecuadorian manufacturing explosives belonging to the FARC’s 48th Front, said Monday the Army of Colombia festive. During an operation in the town of Ipiales, the military found a cache with 1900 bars […]
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Elcomercio.com reported…The case went to the Homicide Unit of the Judicial Police (PJ), but Condor says that “there is no progress with the investigations.” It is not the only case. After knowing the disappearances and deaths of women nationally, their families also spoke of slowness of police in the search for people who do not […]
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According to cironline.org, it turns out that the Border Patrol catches more American citizens with drugs than it does Mexican couriers, according to an analysis of records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Three out of four people found with drugs by the border agency are U.S. citizens, the data show. Looked at another […]
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In a bizarre incident, hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week. Members […]
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On April 1, 2013, globo.com reported that a pair of men suspected of raping a foreign tourist were arrested on Saturday by local police. The two men are accused of having boarded a van in which the woman, 23, and her boyfriend were traveling the previous Saturday. Authorities indicated that the tourist are Americans (U.S.). […]
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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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A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bringing in unauthorized immigrants for financial gain and bribery, federal prosecutors in San Diego said. Hector Rodriguez, 45, admitted at a court hearing Thursday that for almost two years he accepted bribes in exchange for allowing carloads of unauthorized immigrants at the […]
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Two Peruvians were arrested in Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, following the seizure of one ton of cocaine. This was revealed yesterday by the director of the Special Force against Drug Trafficking, Gonzalo Quesada. The operation was conducted in the northeastern city of Guaqui, near Lake Titicaca, and the illegal cargo was transported in separate vehicles, […]
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Couple attempting to leave for Miami with 105,000 in hundred dollar bills hidden in their luggage Extra.ec reported that on Tuesday afternoon, Diego Fernando O., 56, Villamar Fabricio alternate councilor, was arrested by the Narcotics Police and the Unit against Money Laundering in the Mariscal Sucre airport as he tried to travel to Miami with […]
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Covert radars are installed on the nation’s highways to measure the speed of vehicles that are driven to different destinations. The national roads are guarded by elements Preventive Police Traffic and to guide and monitor the vacationers to accidents not only in the arteries of the North West there are 64 checkpoints. To control the […]
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Believed to have come from Medellin Colombia: laprensa.hn reported that a parcel in a small box found at the airport’s cargo terminal Ramon Villeda Morales contain at least 29.5 kilograms of cocaine, authorities said. The package was sent from the city Medellin in Colombia, according to the National Bureau of Special Investigation Services (DNSEI). The […]
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Ingeniero Budge Argentina: The drugs were hidden in a truck carrying wood. There are four detainees. Clarin.com reported that the Buenos Aires police yesterday seized 3700 kilos of marijuana (about four tons) in a shed Engineer Budge, Lomas de Zamora. The cargo was concealed within pine slats to place drug recessed. Authorities estimated that placing […]
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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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The National Police of Peru began the morning of Holy Thursday in Lima this operational plan called “Easter”, mobilizing 25,000 troops from different units in the city and on the highways and beaches. To ensure the safety of the thousands of citizens who come to visit churches or seek rest outside Lima, on beaches and […]
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Tingo Maria. – cronicaviva.com.pe reported that police officers clashed with drug traffickers in the area known as Quebrada La Llorona Oxapampa district, Tingo Maria. The criminals used a clandestine airstrip to smuggle drugs abroad. Drug traffickers opened fire when the police patrol arrived in the area. After the confrontation, the criminals managed to escape but […]
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Ecuador Military repelled shot and suspected members of the so-called illegal armed groups in Colombia (GIAC) located in a border area, a fact that no casualties among the soldiers, said the joint command of the armed forces. The agency said the soldiers “while performing operations Ecuadorian border protection in your jurisdiction, repelled with fire potential […]
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The subjects, aged 19 and 22, were captured when on a motorcycle by the sector of Ciudad Bolivar, in the field of Ciudadela Real de Minas de Bucaramanga. The two men were captured by the Bucaramanga Metropolitan Police after surveillance. The men tried to escape on a motorcycle black, when they noticed the presence of […]
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The Attorney General, in coordination with the Counter Narcotics Police, discovered last Saturday a shipment of Chancery allegedly contaminated with drugs. According to the official version of the attorney general, Galo Chiriboga, contamination of the drug, which is in the process of preliminary investigation, there was a burden that was handled by the Foreign Ministry […]
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Bogotá Metropolitan Police captured in the last hours in the Santa Isabel neighborhood, south of the capital, alias “Luis el Grande’, who handled everything related to the acquisition of weapons for the FARC Front 7. The man, whom authorities did not provide their real identities, 34, had spent several months in the capital with the […]
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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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Armed Forces personnel, through the various Operational Commands, won an important capture fuel and explosives during security operations carried out on Tuesday 19 March this year in several parts of the country. On the way to Tarapoa, Sucumbios province, members of the CO-1 “NORTH” made a raid on the premises of the company EQUISERCOM CIA. […]
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The Joint Command of the Armed Forces Operational Command over No. 3 “South” reports that on March 19 at approximately 00h05, military personnel captured control tasks performed in Patuca, Morona Santiago province, the amount of 3,250 cartridges 16 mm caliber. Saga brand and Raptor, the ammunition was carried by three men in a car Chevrolet […]
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Authorities in Costa Rica today reported the arrest of an Italian carrying liquid cocaine in bottles of vodka and a Guatemalan with 80 capsules of heroin in his stomach, both at the airport Juan Santamaría, on the outskirts of San Jose. The Italian had the flight route San Jose, Madrid, Touluse (France) and the authorities […]
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Over two thousand marijuana plants were discovered and seized in the upper district of Moro, in the province of Santa (Ancash), said the head of the Police Division of Chimbote, Edgar Aguilar Amaro. Amaro Aguilar said the police, together with the representative of the Public Ministry, have come after a long walk, to this remote […]
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tnpress.com.py reported the first procedure was recorded during the last hours, when members of the squad 51 “Resistance” Gendarmerie conducting vehicle checks on National Highway 16, at the height of the bridge General Manuel Belgrano. According to spokesmen reported, the police ordered the driver of a Citroen Berlingo to stop the march, who performed the […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that an Ecuadorean boat arrested Monday in the Costa Rican Pacific carried a total of 470 kilos of cocaine, according to the final tally made by the authorities, said Tuesday the Ministry of Security. The drug has already been sent to San José in aerial surveillance aircraft, while the four arrested, two Costa […]
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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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Possibly planted by ELN elcolombian.com reported that the National Police for disabled transit Gilberto Echeverri bridge sector of South 4th Street for a suspicious package that alerted the public in the early hours of the morning. Police officers who came to the area and cordoned off the place explosionproof group moved there to review its […]
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roops of the Navy detected and defused an improvised explosive device in the urban area of Bahía Solano (Chocó), which had been abandoned by members of the 57th Front of the FARC terrorist organization. The operation was performed in the early morning hours after a patrol Marine Brigade No. 2 surprised two men, trying to […]
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According to mercopress.com, Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, came on stage to once again question the Government of President Cristina Fernandez. In an interview with the Spanish media, the dictator said that in case the Kirchnerites try to “perpetuate in power, the armed and security forces along with the people will prevent it.” “Kirchnerism […]
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The alleged drug lord Ernesto Salvador Jorge Ulloa Sibrián, alias Onion, was repatriated by air yesterday his country by the Guatemalan authorities. Six weeks ago the Ministry of Interior received from the security authorities of El Salvador a request for urgent help: their intelligence services were located in Guatemala, whom they considered one of the […]
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The demands of the protesters were no new taxes, improved security, the fight against impunity, the refusal to reform teaching and allocation of funds to the University of San Carlos, among others. From 9.30 am bus lot in caravan made its entry into the capital on the routes to the Pacific, the Atlantic and on […]
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Chief of Naval Honduran ensures that navigates to the mouth, but recognizes that there is always persecution. Presidents would meet after Easter. Chief of Naval Honduran ensures that navigates to the mouth, but recognizes that there is always persecution. Presidents would meet after Easter. Gen. Rene Osorio said they have orders to continue performing normally […]
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Telenoticias7.com reported that Major General of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces Arcay Jacinto Perez said a few words during the ceremony prior to the transfer of former President Hugo Chavez to the Headquarters of the Mountain. Arcay Perez praised the president of a poetic form in his speech, one of his phrases that caused controversy […]
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The explosion of a mine field between the municipalities of Anori and Camp, in northern Antioquia, left six soldiers wounded, who were taken to hospital due to his injuries. This was confirmed by the Departmental Government Secretary, Santiago Londoño, who reported that the front 36 of the FARC continues the indiscriminate installation of antipersonnel mines […]
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On March 15, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police in the state of São Paulo have discovered close to a half a ton of drugs, along with 30 firearms, in a bunker in Juquitiba, a town about 78 kilometers from the city of São Paulo. No one was arrested, and police were […]
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nogalesinternational.com reported that a Mexican man was arrested Tuesday at the Mariposa Port of Entry after he allegedly tried to smuggle more than a ton of marijuana into the United States in a truck filled with bell peppers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers referred the 35-year-old man and the tractor-trailer he was […]
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Over 55 kilos of drugs were seized in three raids into port, south suburb. The first operation took place last weekend in the cooperative mz 3684 Santiago de Guayaquil. Staff said that after narcotics intelligence work was discovered in an apartment that kept 20,313 pounds of cocaine in 18 packages wrapped with packing tape. Uniformed […]
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Radiosantafe.com reported that units of Traffic and Transportation Branch seized Pentolite 36 bars on the road leading from the village of the municipality of Balboa Mojarras. The seizure occurred when the officers observed a man on his shoulders carrying a box and noticing it was followed by policemen quickened his pace leaving the box on […]
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www.scribd.com reported that Obama Closing Air Defense System on U.S./Mexico Border: Texas & America Vulnerableto Attack from Low Altitude Missiles and Aircraft Updates: Outrage Growing over Obama Cutting Homeland Security U.S. Border Air DefenseSystem (TARS)White House Petition Asks Obama Not to Shut Down TARS Air Defense System on Southern Border Call your Congressmen and Senators […]
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On March 6, 2013, Estado de Minas reported that Federal Police in the state of Minas Gerais are in contact with the Spanish National Police over a woman who recently denounced a man with whom she lived in Spain. Police in Spain arrested the man and questioned the woman, who is said to have been […]
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On March 2, 2013, Gazeta de Limeira reported that police discovered and seized some 90 kilograms of explosives near the city of Limeira, about 150 kilometers northwest of São Paulo. Authorities received an anonymous tip that there was a large cache of explosives near Limeira, and so two teams of São Paulo Special Tactics Unit […]
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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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On March 3, 2013, The Americas Post reported that the Brazilian government has agreed to use Israeli security drones in order to monitor violent and suspicious activity during this June’s Confederations Cup. FIFA has already expressed its concerns about the violence in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and so the government has agreed to […]
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As heroes were welcomed home three Bolivian soldiers who were released after being imprisoned in Chile accused of illegally entering the country on 25 January. Jose Luis Fernandez (18) Augusto Cardenas (19) and Alex Shock (20), who accepted the conditional suspension of proceedings at the hearing made this morning in Pozo Almonte, arrived at the […]
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On February 25, 2013, G1 reported that officers with the Brazilian National Security Force are teaming up with the National Environmental Institute to launch Operation Green Wave (Onda Verde), with the objective to curb illegal deforestation practices in the rainforest. Units will be concentrated in two cities in the state of Mato Grosso: Juina and […]
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On February 28, 2013, A Crítica reported that nine policemen in Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, were arrested this morning for suspected involvement in a drug trafficking scheme. The policemen are accused of aiding and abetting a string of drug traffickers throughout the north and west zones of the city, as well as re-selling […]
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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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On February 22, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police announced that it was launching a new investigation (Operation Hyena II) in the state of Piauí to combat fraud in income tax filings to earn undeserved refunds. Five arrest warrants have already been issued, and 20 federal agents are on the case. The report states that there […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that police seized 174 kilos of cocaine in Alamor-Arenillas, in the neighborhood of Canton Monte Huaico Puyango in Loja. A truck was stopped by police during the operation with plates from Pichincha. A double bottom on the floor of the truck revealed 101 packages of cocaine. Investigators believe the drug passed through the […]
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Defendant even had list of clients he planned on selling minor child for sexual services according to lapolicia.com. A girl of 13 years believed to have met the love of his life through Facebook and decided to travel to Tijuana to meet and start a life together, but what he really wanted was to sell […]
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This guy said his name was Javier Alejandro Ponce, 22-year-old native of the city of Tulare, California, United States. A dangerous criminal who was wanted in the United States for the crime of murder, was captured by members of the International Liaison Coordination of the State Preventive Police (PEP), during an operation in Florido Hills […]
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Tapachula, Chiapas (25/FEB/2013.) – Guatemala’s government prepares a group of highly specialized military, to combat drug trafficking and organized crime in his country on the Gaza border with Mexico, Guatemalan authorities said. Secretary of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic of the Central American nation, Francisco Cuevas Gallardo, said officers will be operational […]
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infobae.com reported that….. Las Damas de Blanco reported that paramilitary brigades harassed and arrested 56 of its members. They were also arrested dozens of activists. Cuban dissidents reported, on Sunday, while constituted the new People’s National Assembly and Raul Castro was reelected as president until 2018 , was organized a huge nationwide operation to prevent […]
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These ‘Alirio Comején’, who was also chief financial officer of that front. Infantry Battalion of Selva N. 19 in the town of La Esperanza, Puerto Rico (southern Meta), held on Sunday fighting with that front. As a result died guerrilla, who joined the FARC in 1984 in Santa fe Caguan (Caquetá) and he played for […]
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Argentina accuses Britain of sending nuclear ships to the Falklands The government Tuesday accused England of carrying nuclear weapons submarine to the Falkland Islands and violating international treaties that prohibit the use of these materials in the area. The ausación was made by Eduardo Zuain, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, during the Conference on […]
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Victim: Jan KM Sarens Belgian national, residing in Mexico City, tourist visiting Acapulco, eluniversal.com reported that the Attorney General of the state began investigating the murder of Belgian tourist, Jan KM Sarens 59-year-old, killed in the parking lot of a shopping center, located on the boulevard of nations and in the area of Acapulco Diamante. […]
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On February 22, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that three policemen were injured Thursday night in a series of shootouts that took place between two favelas in Rio de Janeiro. A local peacekeeping unit was on patrol in Parque Proletário, Zona Norte, when officers attempted to stop a duo on a motorcycle. The […]
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Radiosantefe.com reported the Army confirmed that a Black Hawk helicopter gunship he advanced joint operations with the Police in southern goal, crashed to the ground after presenting mechanical failure, despite the spectacular incident,According to the first report, the five helicopter crew escaped unharmed from the incident. Read Article
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Brazil and Russia signed several agreements in different fields geared to increase trade and to advance in defense, energy and agriculture cooperation, including the purchase of Russian anti aircraft missile batteries on condition that Moscow agrees to transfer technology. Brazil is beefing up its air defenses before the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that Army Commander Marco Vera Rivers stepped down on Thursday because he did not agree with the prmotions of three colonels to generals with the permission of the Minister of Defence, María Fernanda Espinosa. The discomfort of Vera would have arisen after Gortaire Nicholas Padovani (concuñado chief of the Joint Command of the […]
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On February 20, 2013, NE10 reported that a joint effort between civil and state police in the state of Bahia resulted in the seizure of over one ton of marijuana, which would have been dealt in Salvador, the capital. Five people were arrested during the three-day operation. Part of the drugs were found in a […]
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sub machine gun used in assault Zapopan, Jalisco. – oem.com.mx reported one step away with three young offenders were left, and that police were able to stop zapopanos after assaulting an employee at a petrol station in the colony Colli paradises. It was the way when a patrol was stopped by a citizen who immediately […]
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Police and the prosecution of Osorno investigate arson attack on the works of the hydroelectric Rucatayo, located in the area of Carimallín, bordering the regions of Los Ríos and Los Lagos. According to the police, campus guards ensured that at about 04:00 hours in the morning, five hooded persons fired at the lights, left the […]
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Colombian Army troops were seized in the south kilos of explosive ANFO 1850 allegedly by the FARC would be used to carry out attacks in several departments in the area, military sources said. The explosives were in a hideout that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were in a rural village of El Quebradón, […]
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Cuba sentenced 273 people with sentences ranging from six to ten years in prison for drug-related offenses in 2012, the year in which they seized the island in 3045 kilos of narcotics, according to official figures released today. Havana. Altogether, over last year in the country were penalized 628 people for offenses or drug offenses, […]
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Santa Fe police arrested a man as he tried to fly a Cessna carrying 250 kilograms of marijuana. Was on a rural road between the towns of Serodino and Clarke Station, 70 kilometers northwest of Rosario. The deputy provincial police commissioner greater Cristian Sola said that “it will analyze the black box and the GPS […]
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After the Robbery Squad of the Investigative Police raided a house in Talca, found more than 100 forms of license. These 150 forms and other documents were found in a residence of Father Alberto Hurtado population in the north of the city. The BIRO confirmed that they belonged to the Traffic Division of the Municipality […]
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On February 19, 2013, Zero Hora reported that police in Porto Alegre arrested some 26 people connected to a string of gas station attacks throughout the city. Through the arrests, 140 policemen were utilized, 14 guns and 2 vehicles were seized. Two other recently stolen cars were later found. The police action also recorded the […]
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Two police officers charged with extortion in Bogotá……It is the superintendent José Antonio Ochoa and Patrolman Luis Alexander White, who had received five million dollars from a woman to her husband not arrested for illegal possession of weapons. The circumstances being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office, were recorded in December 2011, in the town […]
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The police captured alias “Sarley” or “Countryman”, subject to 37 years of age who is the second leader of the criminal gang “Rebirth” that offends in the department of Chocó, mainly in the town of Istmina. The capture came when soldiers in a checkpoint located in the village of El Sabanal Monteria, Cordoba, they asked […]
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The National Police announced seizure of an arsenal of weapons against seven of the FARC and the logistical structure of the criminal gang known as “Pijarvey” a dissident ERPAC, known as “Libertadores del Vichada” in jungle area of Meta. In seizing two caches hidden underground, include machine guns, rifles, and rocket launchers, with which this […]
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On February 18, 2013, Diário Catarinense reported that police will begin to escort buses throughout the Florianópolis region starting today, after a deadly wave attacks that have swept the area in the past month. Bus terminals will also close earlier: certain terminals within the city will close at 11pm, while terminals such as the one […]
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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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