The Deputy Minister of Decolonization, Felix Cardenas, proposed Thursday that military service is extended to two years for the military technical form strategic state enterprises. “We are working from the Vice Ministry of Decolonization with corresponding levels of the armed forces the possibility of a two-year military service, this in order that our children have […]
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Jornadanet.com reported that The National Coordinator of Trafficking in Persons of the Attorney General, Fabiola Tito Paniagua, reported that in the first half there were 116 cases of crimes related to this criminal. “We have 116 cases of offenses of Trafficking in Persons, in these cases the highest percentage is in Santa Cruz, La Paz […]
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Jorge Hernández Tinajero In this paper, I will try to present a general overview of drug politics and policies in México. It may be less scientific, but comes from our experience on the ground. I will refer especially to the impact of Mexican rates of consumption and violence created by the current government’s policies. This […]
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Eluniverso.com reported thatT. Francisco, who worked for four months as a guide in Ambato Rehabilitation Center, was arrested by police last Thursday, when trying to enter the prison cocaine base. Early yesterday morning the guide gave a statement to the prosecutor to flagrante delicto, Diego Moreno, in which he said he received threats to harm […]
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AP reported – Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious. Read Article
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Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2012 – The most recent statistics place Central America as the world’s most violent region. In the last decade there have been 145,000 homicides in 7 countries in the region, the vast majority of them in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. These countries appear each year among the […]
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ejercito.mil.co reported that in the last hours, developing military operations carried out in the department of Nariño, troops of the Third Division, assigned to the Southwest Joint Command located and destroyed a crystallizing used for processing coca paste. The discovery was made in the village Manipia Taminango Township, where soldiers from Infantry Battalion No. 9 […]
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A group of soldiers who were patrolling the area known as Caño Limón, in the municipality of Tame, were hit by a blast caused by a bomb, allegedly planted by FARC guerrillas. According to official information, while conducting operations territorial control area, an IED exploded and triggered the passage of armored vehicle, causing injuries to […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that officers investigated for alleged child pornography. The suspect was arrested by uniformed the Homicide Unit of the Judicial Police and the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR), at 18:00 on Tuesday, in a building north of Quito. The Police said the investigation was conducted after the mother of a 13 year old to […]
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In the enclave of Punta Blanca marine Jaramijó canton in northwestern Manta, Manabi a Chevrolet was abandoned in 1970. It happened at 21:30 on Thursday. In the automotive wooden bucket were two bags inside which there were 100 brick-shaped packages. A joint operation between the police and members of the Navy allowed to discover the […]
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Infodefensa.com reported Peru’s Interior Minister, Wilfredo Pedraza said during a presentation to the Congressional Defense Committee that the tender for the purchase of equipment for riot National Police of Peru (PNP) is in the process of implementation and the first teams will be received in the month of February 2013. The ministry has placed special […]
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Hundreds of students and teachers marched through the main Colombian cities, in what they called a demonstration of respect for public education, students and teachers, called by the Colombian Federation of Educators (FECODE). The day was disrupted by violent protests staged by some of the participants in the marches, especially in Bogota and Medellin, where […]
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Telegrafo.com.ec reported that Dina Lema Villalba, age 57, and on the list of most wanted from the province of Tungurahua, was captured on Spetember 4, 2012, in Quito, Ecuador. Dina Lema Villalba, according to authorities is believed to have participated in the murder of her niece Gloria Daniele Lopez Lema, and Ecuadorian national residing in […]
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Elcomecio.com reported that At 10:00 today, six people on motorcycles took part in a failed assault on one of the customers who came to a bank operating in Ambato. Police Commander Tungurahua (e), Mario Robalino, reported that an employee of a local cooperative attended the entity with the idea of withdrawing money, but ultimately did […]
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Lahora.com.ec reported that Guayas Counternarcotics Police foiled Friday night August 31 sending 434,689 kilos of cocaine that was headed for the port of Antwerp, Belgium. The discovery was made in the container stands CAXU 6194144, DAVIDE SA company, which was ready to sail from the seaport. The drug was found hidden in 77 iron pipes […]
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The daughter of Bolivian opposition Sen. Roger Pinto, who yesterday met 100 days asylum in the Brazilian embassy in La Paz, said that President Evo Morales is “a prisoner of his own fears and contradictions” in denying the pass that required his father to move the neighboring country. In a letter released yesterday, Denise Pinto, […]
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Five counts of aggravated robbery, abuse of authority in July, three drug trafficking, falsification 4, 5 illegal searches, 7 embezzlement and one offense of conspiracy are part of the charges for which is judged from yesterday to 14 policemen. All are linked to a series of blows that apparently occurred in 2010 in Goicoechea and […]
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According to nacion.cl the Police Special Investigations Brigade (BIPE) of the PDI arrested two men accused of assaulting women, which is on a motorcycle in the communes of Maipú and Cerrillos. According to records, the individuals were known as “the bikers (Los Motoqueros)” and roamed the streets looking for victims of these areas alone, who […]
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Panama is a priority in the fight against drugs, their weaknesses in the area of money laundering and drug trafficking across the territory are a concern for U.S. forces trying incessantly that the United States do not touch drugs. Only in 2010, 48 Panamanian Public Force were trained by the Americans to fight drugs, in […]
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The leaders of the Trade Union of Miners of Bolivia (FSTMB) reported today that police in the city of El Alto prevented the entry of at least 400 miners Colquiri, arguing that carrying explosives. “There was a police operation and co say Colquiri brought dynamite and various explosives so no entry allowed fleets but Colquiri […]
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Antidrug authorities of Costa Rica, with the support of the Coast Guard of the United States on Monday seized 725 kilos of cocaine coming in a boat whose four crew escaped to a mountainous area. A ministry statement said Public Safety officers found the drugs in the boat, which, after being chased, ran aground on […]
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The Peruvian government draws a new strategy to control the gangs who run the illegal mining in the country and would have for the job with financial support from the IDB and the governments of Norway and the U.S., said Monday Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar . “There is interest from the IDB, the government of […]
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Miguel Palacios took office instead of Colonel Landa Pastor Ruiz, in a ceremony at the airport Toncontin FAH, south of the capital, with the notable absence of President Porfirio Lobo, who used to attend these acts. The Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces, General Rene Osorio praised Pastor Landa, who according to local […]
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ElUnviverso.com reported that on August 21, 2012, a tourist from El Salvador arrived at the airport José Joaquín de Olmedo. Two suspects in a yellow cab committed a secuestro express fifteen minutes after Ileana Martinez Lainez arrived at the airport. Police reported that the cab had been used in other assaults on individuals. When police […]
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Radiosantafe.com reported that Colombian Armed Forces troops seized explosive material abundant tenth belonging to FARC front, in the municipality of Arauquita. Its location occurred when troops Mobile Brigade No. 34, developed a maneuver on the sidewalk infiltration Aguas Claras. Inside the secret hiding place, covered with black plastic and placed by terrorists of the FARC, […]
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The Venezuelan government said it “found no evidence” of the massacre of 80 indigenous Yanomami in a jungle area bordering Brazil that was denounced by NGOs and opposition MP. After “these visits we have made in the indigenous communities, we can tell the country that there was no evidence of any deaths or no evidence […]
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Agents Panel of the State Ministerial Police and the Mexican Army arrested Adalberto Montoya Iriarte, suspected member of an organized crime cell operating in northern Sinaloa. The alleged offender of 42 years and residing in the community Naranjo municipality of Sinaloa de Leyva, was associated with 22 homicides state and ministerial police, said the Attorney […]
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Senator and member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Colombian Congress, Alexandra Moreno Piraquive, warned that Nicaragua’s intentions to mobilize troops to the Caribbean area in dispute, would be an assault. A statement from the press office of Congresswoman signal “Nicaragua’s intentions to move troops to that area of the Atlantic Colombian territory would […]
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The early hours of Sunday, between 01:45 and 02:00, an incident would have been recorded in the historic center of Cuenca, leaving a toll of one killed by the name of Juan Antonio Serrano Salgado, 34, brother of Minister Interior José Serrano. According to reports from the police, apparently strangers entered a private party that […]
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According to opinion.com.bo – Bolivia was engrossed verbally in recent months with its neighbors by versions on installing U.S. military bases in Paraguay, the arms of Chile, Peru’s military incursion and Brazilian drug trafficking and asylum an opposition senator, with little appearance Foreign Ministry, but with several partners in the country, according to the former […]
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According to official sources, the front 36 of the FARC activated explosives in two electricity pylons in Anori, Antioquia, leaving the service to hundreds of people. A suspected guerrillas Front 36 of the FARC officials blamed for blowing up two power pylons in the town of Anori, northeast of Antioquia and the attack on a […]
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Elcomercio.pe reported a crew member of a commercial airline was arrested at Lima’s Jorge Chavez airport after they had checked attached to his waist and ankles and Computers Intel Core iPod Touch generation, which are valued at 23 thousand 698 dollars. The nervousness showed concern and intervened when leaving the International, and he was invited […]
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Ellider.com.co reported that an explosives factory guerrillas of the FARC 15th front settled in rural area of La Montañita, Caquetá, was destroyed by troops of the Twelfth Army Brigade during last Thursday night. The finding of the factory in which men of Joseph Ventura Gomez, alias ‘Wilmer’ made explosives, was made by troops of 35th […]
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It was a military operation carried out by Brazil. They also found thousands of counterfeit dollars, baring the chaos on the border with Argentina and Paraguay. 182 vehicles and boats, 11,764 kilograms of explosives, 315 detonators, 6087 kg of illicit drugs, 32 units of weapons in general, 748 rounds of ammunition of different calibers, 40,000 […]
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The Ecuadorian authorities have detained a ship with 30 sharks aboard Marine Reserve in the Galapagos Islands and arrested 14 people. The Governing Council of Galapagos said the vessel “Angelito Forever IV” used gear “not allowed”. He had set sail on August 25 Manta port in the continental coasts of Ecuador, about 1,000 kilometers of […]
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On July 23, 2012, Felipe Borman Quenama, an American-Ecuadorian was handcuffed and kidnapped at gunpoint at the Cofan Survival Foundation in Nueva Loja, Ecuador. According to the National Police of Ecuador website it was reported that Mr. Borman’s family received communications from individuals with Colombian accents, demanding $3 million dollars for the release of the […]
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Eluniverso.com reported the guides 361 replacement and corrections officers in the country, who failed the evaluations took place yesterday backed by troops of the Armed Forces and National Police tightened security of the 42 social rehabilitation centers and Provisional Detention exist nationwide.The 361 former officials took up a purchasing process of resignations after it was […]
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In the past 15 days, police arrested six people Manabi allegedly linked microtrafficking or retail drug sales. And since June Narcotics seized nearly 1.4 tons of alkaloid in the province. The latest raids led to four fish packers Manta and its periphery. For the head (e) of the Police Manta, Rafael Perez, Manabi has become […]
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RCN radio reported that there is an increase in the amount of explosives being imported by guerrilla groups from Venezuela. Much of this activity is in the area of Arauca and are for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities. To date in 2012 7 thousand kilos of explosives have been seized by Colombian authorities. […]
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The Interior Minister Wilfredo Pedraza said that wage increases for members of the National Police will materialize soon and will be “considerable”. He said the scheme will be implemented wage increases progressively over a period of four years. “The increases will be a reality soon and will be significant and will be implemented in four […]
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elnuevodia.com.co reported in La Tigrera, Ibagué rural, 52 explosive devices were found to be located in a minefield to attack the security forces. The items were located, with the support of an informant came to the place, located 20 minutes from the capital Tolima. In the place explosives seized items, located in PVC, with substance […]
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El Oro – Between January and August, 44,730 have been seized ammunition of different calibers, 3272.12 kilograms of explosives, 185 gallons of sulfuric acid (supposedly used in illegal mining), 494 guns of various types and sizes, were also arrested 20 people who have been invited orders of the Judicial Police of the province of Oro, […]
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A drug dealer wanted in the United States for the sale and distribution of methamphetamine was arrested in the port of San Felipe, in the southern town of Mexicali, where it remained hidden for five years. The International Liaison Coordinator State Preventive Police (PEP), Alfredo Arenas Moreno, said that with information provided by U.S. officials, […]
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The deployment of the Marines are part of Operation Hammer, an initiative involving several nations, which began on January 15 to stop the transit of illegal drugs by the Central American coast. A contingent of 200 Marines U.S. this week started patrolling the west coast of Guatemala in an unprecedented operation to fight drug traffickers […]
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Police in Ecuador seized 191.7 kg of cocaine from Colombia in an operation in the border bridge Rumichaca, the institution said yesterday. The shipment was transported on a truck Tuesday Ecuadorian registration had previously been in the Colombian city of Pasto, according to the official report. Read Article VIDEO OF BRIDGE FROM ECUADOR TO COLOMBIA […]
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Five producers of coca leaf died and 13 others were injured today when confronted by a group of police in the Peruvian region of Huanuco, said the representative of the Ombudsman’s Office, Pier Paolo Ricardo March. Two of the dead were identified as Rider Roque Moreno and Juan Espinoza Loarte, but still working to determine […]
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The Minister of Defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón, announced that in the coming months the country will have about 20 new helicopters, intelligence generation, patrol boats for the fight against drug trafficking and the increase in 25 000 men that will strengthen the security forces. Read Article
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Orlandosentinel.com reported a postal worker in the state of New Jersey received and distributed cocaine packets with false addresses during its route and established drug trafficking organization in Puerto Rico would send the drug regularly, U.S. authorities said Tuesday. Christina Nunez admitted intercepting shipments from Puerto Rico and delivering cocaine to accomplices in the city […]
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Elheraldodesaltillo.mx reported …. With a key geographical position between the centers of cocaine production in South America and the largest consumer markets in the United States, Nicaragua suffers the brunt of international drug cartels that use air corridors, land and maritime smuggling drugs to Central America . Research Institute for Strategic Studies and Public Policy […]
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Uniformed police seized late on 200 cartridges point fifty admitted that as explained by the Ecuadorian border to Colombia and were destined for the interior. In recent days in the Colombian Ecuadorian seized large quantity of war material as pentolite, ammunition and firearms, the border authorities explain that target irregular groups active in Colombia and […]
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The deaths of Luis Jaramillo and Danilo Bowen, aged 16 and 19, were sanctioned. The Sixth Court of Guarantees Manabi panels found guilty six policemen who were on active duty in Manta. The youth disappeared the night of October 16, 2011 in Las Cumbres neighborhood in Manta. And two days later their bodies were found […]
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150,000 people gathered Tuesday in the Alameda, the main avenue of the city, according to figures released by the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH) . “The government said we were a minority: today we saw a clear signal and call massiveness. The government said we were divided, today gave a clear signal of unity. […]
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Personal Protection police Moyobamba Highway, in coordination with the Attorney General, made operational in order to prevent and avoid the crime of human trafficking, raising awareness about the case, and common crime in the area. The biggest PNP Roger Bustamante Baca, who led the operation, said that the act helps identify subjects carrying Lima and […]
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Florence. A suspected member of the FARC voluntarily surrendered troops of the Sixth Division of the Army, stationed in the capital of the department of Caquetá. The guerrilla, 23 years old, appeared in yesterday afternoon at the Group’s facilities Gaula Twelfth Brigade, seeking the protection of the national army after fleeing the terrorist group’s ranks. […]
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Located on the border of Brazil and Colombia, the Special Border Platoon San Joaquin is the most remote military base in the Brazilian Amazon. A fence and a runway of 1,200 meters rarely used separates the trenches and the homes of the soldiers in a village of indigenous ethnicity Kuripaco. Much of the 100 soldiers […]
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According to Nogalesinternational.com a state police bomb squad was called to a home in Rio Rico this month after federal agents discovered six grenades there. On Aug. 17, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents served a search warrant at a home on Calle Dura as part of an investigation into suspected drug smuggling, said […]
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From this week, the city government is empowered to impose fines on those caught using your cell phone to “texting” while driving a vehicle, after the amendments to the Regulation and Control of Vehicular Traffic were published in the Journal Official State Government said the director, Jose Obed Silva Sánchez. Read Article
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A judge ordered the detention for 40 days of 12 federal police fired at a U.S. embassy vehicle in Mexico and wounded two employees of the government of that country. An official of the Attorney General..The official said Monday that the police will be taken to a detention center in Mexico City from the state […]
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A Colombian aged 49, was captured by units of the Judicial Investigation Department of the National Police (INTERPOL-Panama), after being requested by the government of the United States of America, for the crime of trafficking International drug. Read Article
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Staff of the Criminal Investigation Branch (Sijin), in a parking Quarter Vélez captured three people who were found 136 kilograms of cocaine, hidden in the trunk of a vehicle with a false bottom. These people, the narcotic substance seized and automotive assets were turned over to the Attorney Carepa Local 095, for the offense of […]
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August 27, 2012 Florence. In development of offensive operations in the last hours by troops of the Twelfth Brigade, assigned to the Sixth Division, was captured a suspected extortionist and neutralized an explosive device in the department of Caquetá. Initially fact, Caquetá Gaula Group units, in coordination with members of the Office CTI, caught in […]
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Automatic guns of various calibres, AK-45, AR-15, FAL, AFAG machine guns, rifles steyr, and dragunov, is the arsenal that is in the Yare I. According to intelligence work he did a group of officials from the Ministry of Correctional Services, that amounts to 500 weapons arsenal in total. To which must be added an unknown […]
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A long line of young Paraguayans dawned today at an office of the Ministry of Defense, in this capital, to express their opposition to a possible call to military service. Attendance at what is called Conscientious Objection address is part of a massive response from last week unleashed across the country to a military order, […]
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In a large-scale operation executed in the town of Ituango, north of Antioquia, Medellin Branch CTI and Army captured 23 suspected members of a support network of the FARC. The action of the authorities started at 4:00 am this Sunday, through searches and seizures in the village, at a place known as Pascuita and Santa […]
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The number of Mexican immigrants deported by this border, grew this year, according to figures from the National Migration Institute (INM), which alerted the Bureau of the Todos Somos Juarez program and human rights organizations. Unemployment in the United States, is an important factor to be generated this situation, he said, Olga Rosa Ortiz, UACJ […]
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The defense ministry is about to conclude two rules that will consolidate the sovereignty of the State in Bolivian airspace control. The first refers to an “Integrated Air Defense System” and the second is the Law on Illegal Interception of Aircraft. With these two rules the government intends to address the “new threats” of society, […]
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Iran Federico Sotelo, 22, was arrested at the airport in Phoenix procedetne Hermosillo. Descending from a flight from Hermosillo, Sonora, at the airport in Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested a subject of Mexican origin who had a pending arrest warrant for several crimes related to drug trafficking. Officials of the Department of Customs and Border Protection […]
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Prensalibre.com reported, Counternarcotics agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) seized 22 pounds -10 kilos-liquid pseudoephedrine was in plastic bins, hidden in a cardboard box in the office air Combex, in zone 13. The Interior Ministry, in a statement, said the drugs came from France and was bound for a company in San Jose Pinula. […]
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Some 30,000 ecstasy tablets were seized on Thursday at Ezeiza International Airport by Customs personnel. The drug was hidden in the false bottom of a suitcase and a Dutchman stopped there because. The Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP), through Customs, carried out the operation and managed to kidnap a total of 29,802 pills were […]
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Customs staff-Clorinda, kidnapped last night Saturday at the Loyola Bridge control 130 kilos of marijuana that were hidden in two spare wheels of international transport Paraguayan patent sought to enter the country. It is presumed that “the idea” was “crossing the empty truck” by Puerto Pilcomayo “but the strong wind that moves the raft did […]
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Staff Highway Patrol Arequipa early Wednesday seized seven kilos of alkaloid cocaine that belong to citizens Brady Zapata Rojas (23), who apparently had hidden it in a turbine. The alleged ‘burrier’ traveling in a bus company Hermanos Flores covering the route Lima-Arequipa-Desaguadero. The drug was camouflaged within the hydraulic turbine casing that was opened with […]
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Elmundo.es reported that the Environmental Protection Division of the Peru Police have seized 16,260 seahorses in Lima, where they were found by officers on the street, boxed. The shipment of animals was abandoned by smugglers when they realized that they had been discovered. The head of that division, Colonel Victor Fernandez said Thursday that apparently […]
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Saturday armed criminals convulsed the Mexican state of Jalisco with 22 blocks in various ways-seven in the capital, Guadalajara, the second largest in the country with stolen vehicles and sometimes on fire, local authorities said. “We confirmed 22 blocks, seven in metropolitan (Guadalajara) and 15 in the interior of the state”, leaving a bullet wounded, […]
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LOOKING FOR A HOME IN ECUADOR? TRADE accessed information of the General Command of the Police, according to which, from January to August this year, Ecuador reported the death of 44 policemen in various circumstances. In the same period of 2011, there were 57 deaths. In addition, last year there were 80 deaths in Ecuador. […]
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A former Border Patrol agent pleaded guilty in federal court in El Paso to conspiracy to procure weapons on federal business licenses in the city, while still working for the immigration agency, knowing that their final destination was illegal importation to Mexico. According to the district attorney of New Mexico, Kenneth J. Gonzalez, Ricardo Montalvo […]
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Police Investigation captured at least two people from Colombia, allegedly involved in residential burglaries and a jewelry store located in the historic center. Authorities of the Attorney General of the Federal District (PGJDF) indicated that among those arrested was the alleged leader of the gang, who answers to the name of Jimmy Neisa. Read Article
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– The Mexican Army destroyed a marijuana plantation, with an area of more than one hectare, this in Township. The National Defense Secretariat, through tepechitlán ohe Commander of the Eleventh Military Zone, said that in the town of Tepechitlan, Zacatecas destroyed by incineration one marijuana plantation covering an area of 1.5 hectares. Read Article
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After a confrontation between members of a criminal organization and elements Mexico State Police and the Mexican Army, was achieved the arrest of 13 people who would be linked to performance of the commander Israel Arriaga González, director of Public Security of the municipality Tenango Valley. It may be recalled that on August 17 Israel […]
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Attorney Arturo Nahle Garcia, reported that police and military forces reinforced the search operation of the warden of Cieneguillas, Fabiola Quiroz Zarate, kidnapped last Wednesday at his home. The prosecutor explained that intensified patrols with helicopter overflights and expanded the search radius to regions bordering the states of Coahuila and Durango. Read Article
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– Two officials of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico were shot and wounded on Friday after federal police fired on the vehicle they were traveling diplomat confirmed secretariats and Marina Public Safety. In the text state that “today at 08:00 am, a vehicle Embassy diplomat USA received multiple bullet wounds in the road stretch Tres […]
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Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, mountainous area outside the capital where the officers were looking for criminals, Mexican and U.S. officials said. Read Article
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Colombian citizen Alba Nidia Rivera Solano was arrested after officials in Peru caught her attempting to leave the country with drugs. She had been carrying a laptop that was concealing the drugs, El Comercio reports. They had been packed into areas designated for the battery, hard drive, and in areas under the keyboard and behind […]
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29,802 ecstasy pills were seized in the airport of Ezeiza in luggage belonging to a citizen of the Netherlands. He had arrived in Ezeiza several days earlier without his luggage. Once it arrived and he returned to the airport to pick it up, officials realized it was stuffed with drugs. According to Los Andes, the […]
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Over the course of several operations, police in Peru were able to seize seven kilos of cocaine paste and 280 kilos of dried coca leaves. In the town of Tutumbaru, a total of seven kilos, 300 grams of cocaine paste were seized, Info Region reports. Alex Urquizo (22) was arrested in one operation, in which […]
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In a container transporting a coffee shipment from Ecuador to Europe, officials discovered 2.3 tons of cocaine. According to Hoy.com, the shipment departed from the port of Guayaquil, arrived at the port of Antwerp in Belgium, and then made its way to the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The drug operation was linked to the […]
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Proceso.com.ms reported Nicaraguan authorities arrested 18 Mexicans who posed as journalists and alleged cover Televisa and the trial started on Wednesday 22 against an international drug ring linked to the murder of Argentine singer Facundo Cabral. The Chief of Police of Nicaragua, Aminta Granera, said Mexicans entered the country on Wednesday night in six mobile […]
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Five minors, all between the ages of 14 and 16, were arrested in the Dominican Republic for selling drugs in Higuey and La Romana. They were arrested in the possession of several hundred grams of various drugs, El Nuevo Diario Reports. One girl, 16, was arrested in La Romana with 35 portions of cocaine, four […]
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Elements of the Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico claimed 15 communications facilities in Veracruz and Tamaulipas, who allegedly were part of a drug trafficking network communication. In the first case in the state of Veracruz, is able to identify, locate and eradicate atop Coffer of Perote, Veracruz, 13 unauthorized communication facilities, which were secured […]
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Toluca, State of Mexico. – Army elements continue Wednesday with patrols in different colonies of the Capital mexiquense to prevent narcomenudistas(small drug sellers) mobilizations and to achieve more arrests. The operating controls that coordinate random requested help from the public in order to operate more effectively and anonymously report called the phone and email 7171326033 […]
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Seven people were arrested after officials dismantled seven illegal drug laboratories along the border between Colombia and Ecuador. In the Ecuadorian town of San Lorenzo, officials discovered an illicit chemicals marketing scheme was operating under the cover of a lumber company. According to El Nacional, the supplies were taken to Colombia to produce drugs, where […]
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Anti-narcotics police in Paraguay seized 726 pounds of cocaine in the private port of Caacupemí, in Asuncion. According to El Nuevo Heraldo, the drugs were found hidden inside pieces of wood in containers bound for Italy. Police have identified and arrested those responsible for the shipment, though their identities have not been released to the […]
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A 57-year-old was detained after U.S. customs officials caught him with drugs strapped to his body as he attempted to cross the border. He had intended to pass into the United States from Reynosa, Mexico to Hidalgo, Texas. The suspect had legal documents to prove he was a citizen of the United States, but had […]
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The Gulf cartel financed between 1998 and 2007 campaigns, a former governor and mayors of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the border with the U.S., as a protected witness, revealed yesterday by the newspaper Reforma. Read Article
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During the last few months has broken out between the Puerto Rico Police and the Forensic Science Institute of the true number of murders that have occurred in Puerto Rico during the year that has passed. The police provide a figure and the Institute of Forensic Sciences provides another figure significantly exceeds that provides the […]
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After a U.S. spy plane spotted a speedboat in Dominican waters, four Colombians were arrested: Aluchom Castro, Arechelleo Bocaleo, Rubén Bucaria and Micton Sretellea. They were trafficking one ton of cocaine, Diario Libre reports. The United States requested the extradition of the suspects. According to authorities, the suspects were members of a major South American […]
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462 grams of heroin derived from cocaine were found in a package meant to be shipped from Ecuador to a location overseas. It was discovered in a post office, El Mercurio reports. Officials do not know who sent the package, or who was to receive it. This type of drug is priced too high for […]
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Customs agents in Argentina arrested a Colombian man along the Bolivian border after he was caught with heroin. According to Nuevo Diario de Salta, he was carrying 1.890 kilograms of the drug. In Europe, this amount of drugs could be worth 200,000 euros. He was arrested after displaying strange behavior. This is the first time […]
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Two anti-narcotics operations in Argentina led to the capture of nearly 100 kilograms of cocaine and 82 of marijuana. The first seizure occurred at the Quiaca checkpoint on Route 9, where drug sniffing dogs were able to alert officials of a suspicious Peugeot vehicle. According to Diario La Nueva Provincia, 97 kilos of cocaine were […]
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Elespectador.com reported that the Navy seized a cache with war material in Nariño department recently had several attempts on the electricity infrastructure. War material belonged mobile column “Daniel Aldana” of the FARC, as authorities said Tuesday. War material was found in rural Salahonda and according to a statement from the Navy, consisted of 36 kilograms […]
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