laht.com reported that the Anonymous group of activist hackers took responsibility for attacks on the Web sites of Mexico’s defense and navy departments. Hackers gained access to all of the information in the defense department’s computers, Anonymous said on Twitter… Read Article
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ElPais.com – Briceño studying violence since 1994, five years before Chavez came to power. “The homicide rate was then 20 per 100,000 inhabitants. And you were worried. In 1998 there were 4,500 violent deaths. In 2000 almost came twice. In 2003, when Chávez served four years in power, the killings amounted to 11,300, the rate […]
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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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On January 16, 2013, NE10 reported that a 15 year-old girl was arrested Tuesday night with a stash of marijuana weighing roughly 16 ½ pounds in São José de Mipubú, a town about 30 kilometers from Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. She was traveling on the highway near São […]
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On January 16, 2013, Conexão Tocantins reported that authorities discovered and closed down a drug selling point in Porto Nacional, roughly 70 kilometers south of Palmas, the state capital of Tocantins. Police arrested two men, Willian Alves de Freitas and José Lopes Sampaio, on drug trafficking and accessory charges. Police discovered Alves de Freitas and […]
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At least 2,900 bags of rice were seized Venalcasa brand / Norys Marquez, regional coordinator of the Institute for the Defense of People’s Access to Goods and Services (Indepabis) Zulia state clarified that the inspection was performed product of a complaint. Read Article
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Despite the intense search for young Cordoba, which involved troops and police dogs, yesterday met ten days without known trace of Marco Roldan. As time progresses, doubts grow about a French citizen who went with him to Mount Taras and that was the last I saw him. Mario Olivera, 30, a friend and fellow touring […]
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The FARC have increased the purchase of weapons in Ecuador since the start of the peace process with the government of Colombia, at the discretion of Brigadier General Fernando Proaño Daza, who commands the Ecuadorian military deployed on the border. In recent days the Operational Command Number 1 “North” has discovered a weapons and craft […]
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Liquid cocaine believed to have originated in Peru or Colombia – Fruit cans used had labels of well known brands in Ecuador. eluniverso.com reported ten million dollars would be worth the 190.625 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride Counternarcotics Police of Guayas discovered last Friday in a container, in the seaport of Guayaquil, south of the city. […]
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On January 14, 2013, NE10 reported that federal prosecutors have charged a group of individuals with drug trafficking in Vitória da Conquista, a city about 500 kilometers southwest of Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The activity was discovered through correspondences between branches of the Federal Police in the area. A package was left […]
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On January 14, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that three teenagers were arrested after killing a policeman, Francisco Luis Granjeiro, on Saturday. The murder occurred in Jangurussu, a neighborhood in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará. The policeman was on break Saturday morning when the teenagers accosted him, seeking to steal his motorcycle. Before he could […]
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The Mexican Army revealed a list of 101 military offenses committed nearly 10,000 over the past six years on the streets, ranging from theft, murder, housebreaking, protection for the escape of suspects, planting and transporting drugs, abuse and violence against persons, treachery and even clandestine burials and exhumations, which mostly acts and were punished by […]
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On January 12, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that an 80 year-old man was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a 9 year-old girl in the Brazilian city of Naviraí, about 350 km from Campo Grande, the capital of Mato Grosso do Sul. The girl was sleeping on a mattress on the floor next to […]
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nogalesinternational.com reported: Note to drug smugglers: If you get lost while hauling a pot load, it’s probably best to ask directions from someone other than the Border Patrol. A 21-year-old U.S. man learned that lesson the hard way on Thursday night after he approached agents from the Sonoita Station while hauling a stack of lumber […]
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Economist.com report on prisons in Latin America… Far from being secure places of rehabilitation, too many of the region’s jails are violent incubators of crime. But there are some signs of change..ON AUGUST 28th six members of the local Human Rights Council, an official watchdog, turned up at Romeu Gonçalves de Abrantes prison in João […]
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On January 11, 2013, TNOnline reported that authorities are seeking the family of a 17 year-old girl who says she escaped from a São Paulo prostitution ring, lured to the city after being offered work as a maid. The girl left her family in Jandaia do Sul, a small city in the north of the […]
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The material was found in two underground bunkers and would be destined for attacks on electrical towers and Pipelines. National Army sources disclosed the seizure of 4.3 tons of explosives in Nupe village in the municipality of Alto Ricaurte, Nariño. The explosives were hidden in a FARC camp, underground bunker in two wood, when they […]
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The Ministry of Public Security of Coahuila, reported the arrest of the chief of police in Matamoros, Edgar Cabrera, carrying two guns for the exclusive use of the Army and an envelope with white powder with the characteristics of cocaine. He was arrested and remanded to the PGR this morning while returning from Saltillo, after […]
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The Interior Ministry officials reported Tuesday that the amount of precursors seized last year totaled over what was seized in the operations of 2010 and 2011. According to statistics from the ministry, at the end of December 2012, it accounted for 25,000 containers of different features with prohibited substances while in the last two years […]
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rpp.com.pe reported that Police discovered refrigerators, televisions and fans during a surprise inspection in a prison in the northern state of Coahuila, officials said. The Attorney General of the State of Coahuila said in a statement that the appliances were found yesterday in a review of more than three hours in cells and common areas […]
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Panama authorities in 2012 seized 35 tons of drugs traffickers transported from South America to the United States, said Thursday the Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino. “The year 2012 ended in a preliminary 34.6 tonnes (seized) between January and December,” he said at a news conference Mulino. In 2011, 39 tons were seized, according to […]
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lanacion.cl reported that within 24 hours, police personnel OS-7 major El Loa intercepted two loads of marijuana and cocaine base were valued at 950 million pesos. Two people were arrested in the proceedings. In the first specialized staff, together with staff from the 1st station in Calama, JJAT arrested, aged 21, in Enaex checkpoint at […]
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On January 10, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that a drug dealer was arrested while selling marijuana in the street in Ananindeua, a town about 19 kilometers from Belém, the state capital of Pará. The local narcotics division caught Sandro Anderson de Souza Neves, 36, on the night of January 9. Police also captured the […]
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Authorities believe weapons headed to Colombia Eluniverso.com reported in Guayaquil: Elvin Yerovi Murillo Zambrano, who would be a member of an organization linked to the illegal international traffic in firearms, was caught off the town 11 606 cooperative apple March 4, Juan Montalvo sector in northern Guayaquil. When the military, including the Intervention and Rescue […]
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On January 10, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a boy was killed this morning after he was run over by a car while escaping from police during an anti-drug operation. The boy, identified as Rafael, was running from police on the far end of the Avenida Brasil, returning from the Nova Holanda […]
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On January 9, 2013, Zero Hora (Rio Grande do Sul) reported that authorities traced bullets involved in the death of Brazilian colonel Julio Miguel Molinas Dias to a pistol owned by policeman Denys Pereira da Silva in the state capital of Porto Alegre. According to ballistics reports, casings discovered at the scene of the crime […]
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On January 6, 2013, Diário Catarinense reported that a journalist from Curitiba, Paraná, fled the country after suffering threats from unknown sources. The threats were received after Mauri König published an article in Curitiba’s Gazeta do Povo criticizing the use of public vehicles by local police commissioners. Earlier this year he created a series of […]
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Trome.pe reported that on the morning of January 9, 2013 a group of criminals dressed as police and led by a female attacked an inter province bus of the company – Erick El Rojo”. The assault took place at kilmeter 101 on the PanAmerican North highway in Huacho Peru. Among the sixty passengers were a […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that police caught a subject suspected of was that on Monday approached the pharmacy located in Sana Sana streets and Rumichaca October 9, downtown Guayaquil, disguised as a security guard to guard the facility $ 8,889. The capture of this individual, identified as Hermogenes Eusebio Quinones Mora, alias ‘El Chevo’, he at 01:45 […]
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On January 9, 2013, G1 (Globo) reported that a state judge convicted two former police investigators and acquitted a third for their respective roles in a torture and corruption scandal. Alcinda da Silva Portela and José Juvenal Ferreira Lima were sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for allegedly holding a young man, and then releasing […]
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On January 9, 2013, Globo reported that authorities in the state of Mato Grosso arrested a boy found with twelve kilograms of marijuana. Local residents alerted the police after seeing the young man walking through the streets of the area with a weapon. After the boy denied having the weapon, police revisited his house and […]
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Eluniverso.com reported ….. Despite the presence of military police, arson attacks continued Tuesday in the Mapuche region of Araucanía, in southern Chile, with victimless attacks against at least two properties, raising a serious conflict in one of the poorest regions of country. “We are in the presence of an organized terrorist group with terrorist methods, […]
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On January 8, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that authorities discovered 43 marijuana plants in a woman’s apartment in the city of Diadema, in the state of São Paulo. She was arrested and charged with drug possession and trafficking. The woman reportedly told police that she believed the plants were tomatoes. The police also questioned […]
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On January 8, 2013, G1 (Globo) reported that authorities seized 2,736 illegal firearms in the Brazilian state of Paraíba in 2012, an increase of 25.6% from 2011. According to Claudio Lima, Secretary of the State’s Public Security Ministry, the number of police operations was decisive in advancing arms control throughout the state. “By taking firearms […]
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On January 8, 2013, Folha de São Paulo reported that São Paulo policemen are no longer permitted to rescue victims of violent crimes, as part of a resolution from the local Ministry of Public Security. The goal of such action is to prevent the police from altering the scene of the crime and to allow […]
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On January 2, 2013, Diario do Pará reported that local river police seized a collection of weapons and equipment along the Acará River, in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Pará. They also arrested two men suspected of participating in the transportation of contraband using the items seized. The men will have to first […]
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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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On January 5, 2013, Diário Regional reported that the Brazilian Federal Police launched an investigation into an illicit spy network believed to be targeting numerous federal officials, including President Dilma Rousseff. Federal Deputy Miro Teixeira (PDT-RJ) was responsible for presenting documents that began the investigation. Federal Police currently are investigating the messages’ potential ties to […]
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A new Brazilian penal law prohibiting preventative detention for those under investigation by Polícia Federal has led to a 40% drop in detentions since the law’s inception, according to a January 7 report from Folha de São Paulo. The new law advocates alternative forms of detention, such as the use of monitoring techniques and travel […]
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On January 4, 2013, Globo reported that federal prosecutor Kléber Martins will investigate the path of R$10 million sent to the state of Rio Grande do Norte in order to combat last year’s drought. The government of Rio Grande do Norte declared a state of emergency in April. As of October, 83% of municipalities in […]
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On December 31, 2012, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a policeman was shot and killed in Araçatuba. Antônio Roberto Rodrigues Costa, 39, was sitting in his police vehicle when he was shot three times. He pursued the gunmen, but lost control of his vehicle and hit a pedestrian. The pedestrian suffered minor injuries […]
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After installation of Mixed Operations Base on the border with Michoacán and Jalisco, police Township Marcos Castellanos were returned to the corporation to which they had given up for fear of organized crime activities. Authorities of the state government, confirmed that about 11 uniformed municipal, 25 who formed the corporation, patrolling the streets of the […]
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IPSNEWS.NET reported there are 429 prisons in Mexico, according to the latest report by the ministry of federal public security. Of that total, 15 are run by the national government, 10 by the authorities in Mexico City’s Federal District, 91 by municipal governments, and the rest by the states. Studies indicate that the prison population […]
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The No.1 Operational Command of the Armed Forces presented in a report, the results of military operations and security support of the State made in 2012 in the country. During that year, on the northern edge of the country there were 48 military operations and more than 15 000 shares to support the safety of […]
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Two men were arrested in the province of Santa Fe, accused of carrying on the car they were traveling more than 43 kilograms of marijuana, police sources said Sunday. The incident occurred during the last hours, when staff of the Directorate General of Prevention and Control of Addictions santafesina police conducted a raid on National […]
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At least eight people were killed and eight others injured today in three clashes between police and gunmen suspected of organized crime in the border between the states of Jalisco and Michoacan (western Mexico). Sources of public safety and the prosecution of Michoacan told Efe that four policemen were killed Briseñas Township this morning to […]
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The incident occurred at the height of the bridge of the Army, when three criminals attempted to rob passengers on routes of Evitamiento. A shooting inside a public transport vehicle left two dead and eight wounded, at the height of the Bridge of the Army, in full Via Evitamiento. The incident occurred when three armed […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that the national police on Friday presented the results of the operation called “Swirls II”, which managed the arrest of José Jiménez Marcos Olmedo, who according to the military would be the main leader of a drug trafficking organization, formed by Ecuadorians, Colombians and Peruvians. The network operated in the southern border and […]
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John McAfee, the fugitive software millionaire, was rushed to hospital in Guatemala last night after his request for political asylum in the country was rejected, his lawyer said. Mr McAfee, 67, who faces deportation to Belize for questioning over the death of his neighbor there, was brought out of an immigration service detention center on […]
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House Representative member Angela Robledo, denounced on Tuesday in political control debate, members of the armed forces were involved in cases of sexual violence in the context of armed conflict. “We have evidence that some members of the security forces, abuse of children and adolescents in conflict zones. Sexual exploitation by these officials and adolescents […]
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ECUADOR REAL ESTATE Eluniverso.com reported that Canadian tourists Cote Marie Eve and Bosse Picard Mellisa reported that they were assaulted and robbed in Baños Tungurahua province after having arrived in Ecuador two weeks ago. The unknown assailant who was armed surprised the victims who were walking down a central street of Baños. The victims reported […]
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El Universo.com reported that Venezuela, Haiti, Paraguay, Honduras and Nicaragua are the most corrupt countries in Latin America, while Chile and Uruguay are the most transparent countries in the region, according to an international study released Wednesday. In two out of three Latin American countries public sector corruption high on the list appears Perceptions Index […]
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President Evo Morales installed today the new Army High Command, replacing two military commanders and urging the new authorities to continue the work done by the outgoing general staff. The new High Command includes Maj. Gen. Edwin de la Fuente, who swore in as new commander of the Armed Forces of the Plurinational State, replacing […]
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With the goal of improving the exchange mechanisms in the country, Venezuelan authorities are focusing on frauds and irregularities in hard-currency transactions according to Prensa Latina. The Commission for Hard-Currency Administration (CADIVI), which is in charge of implementing the national policy on that field, has suspended 800 companies from that scheme after detecting violations of […]
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The National Police of Ecuador reported the capture and arrest of members of the criminal organization known as Los Topos, which operated in the center and two valleys north perimeter of this capital. The band, practicing assaults and armed robberies to homes, must answer for conspiracy, illegal possession of weapons, among other crimes. Read Article
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Rangers of the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) expelled on Sunday at 4 Israeli tourists ignore instructions within the camp Towers in Torres del Paine National Park. According to a statement released Monday by the state, “rangers, accompanied by police, proceeded to escort to the goal of Laguna Amarga a group of four Israeli citizens identified […]
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Captured alleged rapist – eltiempo.com.ec At 18:20 last Tuesday operational units of the Judicial Police, PJ, LL Vinicio captured Edgar, alias “Neruda”, for allegedly being the author of a citizen estadoudinense violation. German Cevallos, head of the PJ of Azuay, said on Saturday November 10, the foreign woman and her boyfriend had gone to Canton […]
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In combined operations between the Army, Police and Customs Carchi weapons were seized, cement, gas cylinders and clothing. In the area of The Leap, on the border with Colombia, early Thursday, were confiscated rubber boots, shoes and clothing, according to official data. The merchandise, the military said, was ready to be transported on mules for […]
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Team organized crime and drug (EDOA) Civil Guard has dismantled an organization Balears criminal smuggling cocaine from South America to Menorca. In the course of this operation has indicted five people for drug trafficking and have seized more than 11.5 kilos of cocaine. As reported in a statement, “Operation Robins’ began in late March and […]
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Authorities in Costa Rica announced today that six foreign women rescued victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in the tourism province of Guanacaste, on the Pacific country. The Department of Immigration said in a statement that women are rescued Friday Nicaraguan and Dominican, without specifying details for their protection, who were forced to work at […]
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This morning was arrested in Riobamba the blogger Paul Moreno, better known by his nickname on Twitter @ paulcoyote, by order of the National Public Data Registry (DINARDAP) with the charge of fraudulent access to computer systems and databases. On November 26, Paul Moreno had described in his blog a publication to demonstrate that the […]
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The Interior Minister Wilfredo Pedraza Sierra, announced in the city of Chiclayo that soon will adopt a new system and Disciplinary Research in the National Police, to reduce time and allow more drastic penalties for bad actors who cross the crime line. “Very soon we will adopt a new system of investigation and punishment for […]
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A police chief was killed and a paramedic was injured during an armed attack committed by a command meters from a public hospital spokesman reported the Attorney General’s Office (FGE), Carlos Gonzalez. The official explained that the incident occurred just blocks from the University Central Hospital when the police identified as Guadalupe Aceves Alfredo Tabares, […]
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Agents from the Drug Control Police seized more than a ton of cocaine in three different raids by land and sea. The first confiscation took place Tuesday evening in the waters of the South Pacific, 400 kilometers from Punta Burica, where agents seized a boat carrying near a ton of cocaine. Security Minister Mario Zamora […]
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Police yesterday intercepted more than 350 kilogrammes of cocaine at John Fernandes Limited shipping container facility on Mandela Avenue. Kaieteur News understands that the drug was found stashed in a consignment of Breeze Soap Powder. The drug was reportedly intended to be shipped to Niger, Africa, and was due to leave Guyana next Tuesday (December […]
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The trial involving several law enforcement officers accused in the largest drug seizure in recent history continued today before Justice Denis Hanomansingh in the Dangriga courts with arguments from the defense. Police officers Renel Grant, Lawrence Humes, Jacinto Roches, Mark Middleton and Customs boatman Harold Usher, as well as Victor Logan have been indicted for […]
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Peruvian prosecutors have reopened the case of forced sterilizations performed during the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), archived for two years. The Inter-American Commission asked the Peruvian State in October 2011 resume tax investigation following the complaint of 2,074 women who did not give informed consent or to whom food aid and social conditioned to […]
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The Costa Rica antidrug authorities captured the Honduran Sewnsen Pinnace Arthur Collins, who is wanted by the International Police (Interpol) and the United States on suspicion of drug trafficking, said Wednesday an official spokesman. Pinnace ran a network of drug traffickers in Central America that used the waterway to transport drugs to the United States. […]
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nortedigital.mx reported that: Mexico Navy warns guerrillas Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) and the Revolutionary Army of the Insurgent People (EPRI) have been rearmed with automatic rifles and rocket launchers also have in their arsenals. EPR (Popular Revolutionary Army) known locations of operations: Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Mexico […]
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According to aztecanoticias.com.mx, SAT (Mexican Tax Authority) seize 1.8 million illegal cigarettes Illegal merchandise was transported from Belize Customs detected Quintana Roo, said the Tax Administration Service. The Tax Administration Service (SAT) in Quintana Roo destroyed more than a million illegal cigarettes 800,000, from the free zone of Belize.In a statement, the agency reported that […]
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Ecuador: people demonstrate against oil licensing granted by Correa “The goal is to plunder our resources, everything that is damaged is the environment.” A hundred people demonstrated today Ecuadorians with drums and spears against the Bid Opening of new oil fields in the Amazon region where there is currently little wells. The Indians gathered at […]
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New type of fraud reported in Interbolsa / Curacao major destination for evading taxes According to FM is crossed emails and letters in recent days called ‘Premium Fund affected investors’. The FM said he is holding the first names of the investors of the controversial ‘Premium Fund’ running through Interbolsa and moved millions of money. […]
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Army chief of Nicaragua, General Julio Cesar Aviles, said Tuesday that Nicaraguan Guard remain in the maritime awarded by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to their country, without any presence of Colombian frigates. “We are at the limits that the ICJ has assigned us. We sailed east of longitude 82 and cays Quitasueño, Serrana […]
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Was reduced by 50 percent the complaints in the State Commission of Human Rights (ECHR) against the 21st Military Zone, said Jose Maria Cazares. A few days after the conclusion of the administration of President Felipe Calderón, the leader of the ECHR noted that because of the work that was done through lectures and training […]
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Maiah Jaskoski – Author ABSTRACT This article challenges two prominent explanations for military behavior: militaries, like other bureaucracies, will seek to maximize their budgets; and in the interest of maintaining professionalism, militaries will perform sovereignty missions—external defense and counterinsurgency—more intensively than policing functions. Running counter to these expectations, since 2000, Ecuador’s army has neglected its […]
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Public Security Forces with Private Funding: Local Army Entrepreneurship in Peru and Ecuador Abstract: In Latin America’s young democracies, actors in the private sector may influence military security work through resource transfers, with implications for state accountability and democracy in the region. This analysis finds that in Ecuador and Peru local army commanders—who frequently decide […]
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The chiefs of police in Sao Paulo were replaced on Monday as Brazil’s largest city emerged from a bloody weekend and authorities struggled to contain a wave of violence that has doubled the murder rate in recent months. Sao Paulo state security chief Fernando Grella, who took over the job four days ago, replaced the […]
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Kenneth McVicker was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 2, 2011, for transporting child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(1)-(2). A warrant was issued for his arrest. On March 17, 2011, Mr. McVicker was arrested in Belize by the Belize authorities, allegedly for local immigration violations. Present at the arrest was […]
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According to figures released by the National Prosecuting Authority, this type of crime associated with child exploitation meant that between 2007 and 2011 were initiated 479 criminal investigations under this figure. According to statistics held by the Sex Crimes Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority in 2007 were investigated 94 cases of promotion and facilitation […]
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Soldiers Venezuelan Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, militarized police) found buried $ 550,000 in cash along with a kilo of cocaine and a modern rifle HK 33KE, said the Ministry of Interior. The finding, in circumstances not yet revealed, occurred in a rural area of Apure state (western) border with Colombia, said the press officer of […]
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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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The National Police and the Public Ministry seized 55,000 counterfeit U.S. dollars in a parcel that was in a cardboard box inside the hold of a bus Tepsa company which carried out the route Lima – Tumbes. In work aimed at countering the smuggling of arms, ammunition and drugs, cops Cancas police station (district Canoas […]
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The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement entered into force on May 15, 2012. It is a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia, which will eventually eliminate tariffs and other barriers in bilateral trade in goods and services. On October 3, 2011, President Barack Obama submitted draft legislation (H.R. 3078/S. 1641) to […]
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Heavily armed assailants gunned down Police Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur in a hail of bullets on the morning of Fri., Nov. 9 near the Gérald Bataille circle in Tabarre. A police spokesman and some media have presented the killing as a response from criminals to the Oct. 22 arrest of prominent Haitian businessman Clifford […]
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Piñatas are usually filled with candy. But a truck carrying a load of the colorful party favorites into the United States through Nogales turned out to be filled with a more sinister surprise: 425 pounds of marijuana. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, its officers at the Mariposa Port of Entry referred Juan Marcelo […]
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Nothing like this had ever happened at Ben-Gurion International Airport before: A routine customs inspection uncovered an attempt to smuggle two unmanned aerial vehicles into Israel. The incident began when a Jewish citizen of Mexico tried to go through the “nothing to declare” lane with three suitcases. Something in his behavior aroused the customs inspectors’ […]
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Debutante balls have been a custom among upper-middle-class and wealthy Brazilian families. They mark a girl’s transition from childhood to adulthood. Home to around 53,000 people, Mangueira is the most symbolic shantytown so far to be occupied by the so-called ‘pacification forces’. Famed for producing legendary samba artists such as Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho and Carlos […]
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Her call for free education in Chile led to a nationwide shutdown last year. Now student leader Camila Vallejo is aiming higher – she wants a social revolution…..I almost didn’t meet Camila Vallejo. She missed her flight from Chile, and by the time the allotted hour arrived, she was still 7,000 miles away in Santiago. […]
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Yesterday at 18:43 Minister Jose Serrano, through his Twitter account, said that eight detainees, 500 kilos of cocaine, a small plane and two vehicles seized as a result of the operation called Blue Danube, executed by staff Narcotics Police. Read Article
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A senior negotiator Colombian rebels on Monday announced a unilateral ceasefire at the start of peace negotiations with the Colombian government in Havana. Iván Márquez said that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia have decided to stop all military operations and acts of sabotage from midnight Monday until January 20, 2013. Read Article
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Minister of Interior and Justice of Venezuela, Néstor Reverol, said yesterday that so far this year, the security forces of this country have captured 18 heads of “major criminal organizations” in collaboration with Colombia and noted that this has been achieved without the help of the United States. “We have an action plan with Colombia, […]
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The U.S. 4th Fleet guided-missile frigate USS Gary (FFG 51) with embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) boarded and searched two suspicious vessels, sinking one, of being involved in illicit cargo trafficking Nov. 7 as part of Operation Martillo. While on routine patrol in the Eastern Pacific in support of Operation Martillo, Gary’s […]
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A report of the Armed Forces Joint Command said that from January to September last, 15,083 military seized 943 weapons in the country. Army sources said that this is a successful figure, but recognize that they may be parties who say otherwise. Since 2011 the majority of deaths occur at home just with pistols or […]
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Today at the Halifax International Security Forum, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, signed a Canada-Colombia Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation, with his Colombian counterpart, Minister of Defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno. This Memorandum of Understanding provides a strategic framework for the growing defence relationship between our countries. Read Article
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Three policemen, a lieutenant and two sergeants, died today after facing intelligence agents that were discovered after making up a kidnapping ring, officials said. The three policemen and a civilian, apparently also a member of the band, died after confronting a group of agents who tried to stop them when they would kidnap a businessman […]
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The National Armed Forces of Venezuela, in order to modernize its fleet, China will purchase more aircraft, model Y-8, after EE. UU. refused to sell to the Latin American country units and aircraft parts, models C-130 Hercules and C-123. according to hispantv.com. “Since we have left are a few inches Hercules aircraft, we had only […]
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At least 51 members of the security forces and many civilians were injured in the clashes arising from a conflict of territorial boundaries in Bolivian region of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. “The police were attacked with sticks and stones. There are 51, including chiefs and officers, injured, injuries of varying magnitude, “said Friday the police […]
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Freddy Tellez JUDICIAL worked in the office of international affairs and prosecuting body, according to research, documents leaked to him capos. As Freddy Mauricio Buitrago Téllez was identified Prosecution official designated by the Attorney-General’s Office, Eduardo Montealegre, if the alleged perpetrator of the release of documents related to Colombian drug extraditions. The investigation began with […]
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Bolivia, Brazil and Peru studying create a common fund to pay rewards to informants who report drug trafficking, said the Bolivian Minister of Government Carlos Romero, who met Wednesday with their counterparts in Lima. The resources for the fund will come from the confiscation of drug traffickers to the implementation in the three countries that […]
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In Rumichaca Bridge during a control operation of Customs Surveillance Service (SVA), a patrol agents Colombian detected entering the country with two boxes of phones. Colombian Patrolman HMG-915 board with logos Counternarcotics Police of the neighboring country, had camouflaged cargo in the back seat, which is why he was taken to court for an inspection […]
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