The department also found a half kilo of cocaine, a bulletproof vest and a .38 caliber firearm. Before the explosion, a subject left the house of Porta and embarked on a red car, but no evidence to determine whether it was Balseca or anyone else, according to Aguilar. His body remains in a morgue refrigerator […]
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A year after the abortive purchase of arms that tried to Carlos Menocal, former Minister of Interior, the idea will be taken up by Mauricio Lopez, head of the Interior. At that time (January 2011) Congress stopped the procurement of equipment and ammunition to strengthen the National Civil Police (PNC), a process that identified alleged […]
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It ends in Santiago de Chile International Exhibition of Military and aerospace FIDAE-2012, which took place from March 27 until April 1. The Russian flag was one of the most important and impressive. It had more than one hundred models of military production. Most of these models were presented in the exhibition and operating models […]
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Department of Defense reported: BRASILIA, Brazil, March 29, 2012 – The Colombians have a good strategy to counter the main terrorist group in the country, and they will stick with it, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey spoke with reporters traveling with him from Colombia to […]
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There are 27 catches or seizures in the first quarter of this year. The smugglers bring goods without paying duty and enter neighboring Colombia from clandestine step, in order to evade the controls, said Pedro Guerrero, head of Customs Yahuarcocha Detachment. MERCHANDISE. Yahuarcocha detachment personnel made operational by means of first and second order, which […]
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Tired of insecurity, people in the streets Juan Pio Montufar and Manuela Cañizares, near El Mercurio, ask the Police often deploy controls. One of the residents, whose identity has been kept for safety, charged that wily thugs entered the courtyard of a house, although in the enclosure is an electric fence and seized a computer […]
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For thousands and join the growing number of victims of antipersonnel mines in Colombia. An enemy alike mutilated combatants and noncombatants. The degradation of the conflict has led to the installation of this type of cheating in school yards, backyards, roads … Today Colombia is the world’s second dishonorable victims of these traps, second only […]
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OGOTA. – The Colombian Army sergeant Luis Alberto Arcia, released on Monday after 14 years and one month kidnapped by the FARC, said Tuesday that the guerrillas kept it, along with other hostages, “chained for eight long years.”Arcia and three noncommissioned and three noncommissioned officers released yesterday revealed at a press conference degrading and inhuman […]
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BOGOTA. – A day after release remain the last ten hostages held by uniformed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Colombian government urged the guerrillas to stop kidnappings and release the civilians still has in his possession. “We want a reliable sample of the true will of the FARC to end this conflict,” he […]
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This morning, Criminalistics Laboratory Specialists (Labocar) of the Police are prepared to carry out surveys for determining the circumstances of the shootout between police ended with the death of uniformed Miguel Morales Faundez, 21. The researchers were preparing to start skills of visibility from the 3:45 pm today at the intersection of avenues Santa Rosa […]
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Durango is one of the main states where Policemen have been murdered. Ever since the President Felipe Calderon began his administration, there has been an estimation of 2 986 murdered policemen in Mexico. 184 of these reported police assassinations took place in Durango, followed by 76 in Coahuila. Read Article
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Brasilia – Boys and girls living on the streets of the Federal District police officers accused of physical and sexual assault. Complaints mobilized the Commission on Human Rights and Minorities of the House of Representatives and are similar to those investigated by prosecutors for a little over three years. The latest of these is a […]
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The hypothesis of death by burning Ulysses Canadian Richard Porta, which occurred last Thursday, would be discarded after the autopsy, the alien determined that the cause of death was two stab wounds. Canadian Richard Ulises Porta Attorney William Aguilar, who yesterday made the recognition of the scene, said the results of the autopsy has not […]
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The demonstrators, carrying flags and PCR Quebracho clashed with the police force in Recoleta. There were petrol bombs, rubber bullets and tear gas. After a march by several leftist organizations against the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, in the neighborhood of Recoleta, activists carrying flags of the group Quebracho and the Revolutionary Communist Party staged […]
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The deputy of the Movement Toward Social (MAS), Galo Bonifaz, this morning presented a bill aimed at investigating the fortunes of judges, prosecutors and police, as part of the policy against corruption that is implemented in the country. Read Article
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At 4:30 pm confirmed the news that the country wanted to hear: the release, after more than 10 years in kidnapping of 10 soldiers kidnapped by the FARC. The spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Maria Cristina Rivera, read a statement with the information. The soldiers were in two places near […]
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Macario Acosta, director of Durango’s public safety, was murdered on March 30th inside his house. A group of armed individuals entered his house, shot him in the head and escaped.Read Article
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Over 140 kilos of cocaine were seized and two people were arrested during a raid on the coast of Rio Bermejo in Salta department of Oran, on a boat from Bolivia. Sources of National Gendarmerie, by the procedure, reported today that the operation took place yesterday and was in charge of troops from 20 Squadron […]
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The 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, activists mobilized from the Retiro to the embassy where they burned a flag of Great Britain. Meanwhile, at 14:30 there will be another mobilization of the MST and the Polo Obrero Quebracho revolutionary patriotic movement called for a march this morning from the Retiro to the British Embassy, […]
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According to the agency Noticias Argentinas, in the last five years, murdered a person per month in acts of this type. In Argentina there is a community of 100 000 Chinese inhabitants and around 10 000 supermarkets, whose owners were often blackmailed into paying an amount ranging 50 thousand pesos a year as “canon”, under […]
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A man was arrested by state police officers, just in time to pre-purchase of two minors for conducting sexual acts. According to information obtained from the same authority, the detainee is San Gabriel Roman Hernandez, 57. An anonymous tip in the sense that Roman Hernandez, took advantage of the cashier job at a travel agency […]
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Police noticed yesterday the arrest of six youths, including two children, whom he accuses of being part of a local cell of the group Anonymous, which describes as “international network of cyber-terrorism.” According to a note by the Police, Milton Corniell David Jimenez, Jean Carlos Rafael Acosta, Cristian de la Rosa Jose de los Santos […]
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Police found a half ton of cocaine marked with symbol Red Dragon East and camouflaged between chicken and potatoes. An unsolved mystery. This is the first time police confiscated a shipment of cocaine with the seal of mythological Red Dragon. The data of the informants was necessary. Half a ton of pure cocaine was hidden […]
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NOGALES, Sonora (PH) A total of four subjects were arrested in possession of AK-47 type weapons, two squads and over 960 rounds of ammunition, after an operation in Nogales by the so-called Joint Operation. Were captured at 20:15 pm on Friday March 20, 2012, when attending a report of a pick up white in speeding […]
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Incident March 29, 2012 More than 10 thousand rounds of ammunition were seized in southern Arizona in a truck bound for Mexico, federal agents reported. Agents of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection examined the passengers on Thursday night at the Nogales station. A 47 year old Mexican driving a big rig reported the […]
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With an arrest warrant on 25 September 2001, last Friday the National Police arrested Onofre Mamani Pereira, a member of Shining Path under the alias “Coliton” Southern Regional Committee of that subversive group. At the time of his capture, “Coliton” sector was near Cerro Acllayoc Espinar province of Cusco, in whose division of Warrants being […]
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The two Cougar helicopters by Brazil 532UE ready for the unilateral release of 10 held by the FARC reached San Gabriel de Cachoeira, in northern Brazil. Prensa Latina (PL) recorded that from the border with Colombia, will leave on Sunday to the city of Villavicencio, in the center, and on Monday will begin the process. […]
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have committed to release on Monday the hostages Colombia’s oldest, ten police and military captives for more than thirteen years. These Colombians were kidnapped between 1998 and 1999, are the military Luis Alfonso Beltran Franco, Luis Arturo Arcia, Robinson Salcedo Guarin and Luis Alfredo Moreno Chagüeza, and the […]
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Ireport.cnn.com reported on March 30th, 2012, authorities discovered the bodies of a little boy, a sexually assaulted teenage girl and an elderly woman in Nacozari and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The victims were found to have been sacrificed in satanic rituals by a group of the “Santa Muerte” sect and by the victim’s own family […]
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Criminal organized network from Romania investigated for ATM fraud Six members of a Dolj County criminal organized group are being investigated for money laundering and ATM theft. Most members of the organization operate in Romania, while a few operate in United States and Mexico. The money stolen from US and Mexico’s ATMs is ultimately sent […]
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Peru: A ton of cocaine seized and 27 persons arrested Over a ton of cocaine was seized in Peru last week during a special operation by the Peruvian Police. Three British citizens were arrested when they were about to leave the country with 30 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride while three Italians were arrested with 89 […]
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The agency will bring together relief offices in Cuenca called Ecu 911 and will be inaugurated on April 12, date of founding of the city, has its head, it’s about Fernando Figueroa. Figueroa served as director of the Security Council and is currently the deputy chief of the Fire Department of the city, also a […]
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“The architecture of international human rights law is built on the premise that all persons, by virtue of their essential humanity, should enjoy all human rights.” — David Weissbrodt, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Non-Citizens Amnesty International’s report, In Hostile Terrain: Human rights violations in immigration enforcement in the US Southwest, examines the human rights violations […]
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A child under 12 years gave birth to a baby prematurely in the maternity of Mar del Plata and after initiation of an investigation, was arrested the girl’s stepfather, accused of “” sexual intercourse with the situation exacerbated by coexistence. ” The birth occurred on 12 March, but recently became known today as judicial officers […]
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Just four days met the 30 anniversary of the Falklands War and amid diplomatic crossing London for the sovereignty of the islands, the British Defense Secretary said that Argentina is not a “military threat” because it forces Armed only “old Mirage” which, evaluated, nothing can cope with the apparatus of war “more advanced in the […]
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The Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces confirmed the deaths of seven soldiers after a helicopter Superpuma 2216, Military Aviation, crashed in the state of Apure. “Today, March 29 at 5:15 pm (AM), helicopter crashed to the ground Superpuma 2216 Military Aviation Chaparralito Apure,” the CEO via @ ceofanb. Seconds later, he […]
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President Hugo Chavez said Thursday night that the police officers responsible for estadales are the governorates of each entity and ordered the intelligence “put him much eye “thereto. “Beware gentlemen, who are leading the policemen who are under the control of governors or mayors of the opposition,” said Chavez in national radio and television during […]
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President Hugo Chavez on Thursday released a stern warning against banks and companies that are aligned with plans of violence against the government. He went on to warn companies that are behind the violence and destabilization plans. “Large national companies and some international earn enough money, would not be bad, a decree of nationalization of […]
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The head of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE), José Luis Pérez Guadalupe , today recognized the corruption that exists between people who work in prisons and warned of the high level of overcrowding. Read Article
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Mexico: At least 10 policemen Killed in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. On the afternoon of March 28th, a minimum of 9 cops and a 1 police chief were killed in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua during a social party event. The attackers consisted of at least 20 armed individuals wearing black clothes. Read Article
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The arrest of a woman and the attempted assault of the mayor of La Concordia, Walter Ocampo, among other incidents, left last Tuesday’s visit of President Rafael Correa and several secretaries of state to the canton Quinindé (Esmeraldas). The detainee would niece of the late politician Jorge Chiriboga Guerrero, which seems to have made obscene […]
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“Listen now to the point of change commands (kill) some of them all, but fast.” That was one of the found text messages on cell phone Luje Paul Villegas, one of the four detainees for research, the last Monday for the murder of Daniel Soria, which occurred the morning of December 9, 2011 in the […]
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The Traffic Operations Unit of La Paz on Wednesday controls implemented surprise with undercover agents to apprehend drivers of public transport users who abuse and violate norms of behavior and good conduct, police said. Traffic Commander, Osvaldo Carlos Gutierrez told reporters that such controls will be permanent in response to persistent complaints from users. Read […]
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Military leaders of Bolivia and Brazil began a meeting yesterday in the city of Santa Cruz to plan joint air exercises in the framework of the fight against drugs by the two countries agreed last October. This is the Initial Meeting Planning BOLBRA II operation, which runs until Friday, detailed the Brazilian Embassy in La […]
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The transfer of weapons at a U.S. diplomatic vehicle, from Trinidad to Santa Cruz, unleashed another impasse between that country and Bolivia. The Government said the move threatened the security of the state, although the northern country denies irregularities. The car of the U.S. Embassy, registration number 27-MI-30, was arrested yesterday at about 05.00, in […]
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The Maldivian authorities confirmed that operations were suspended rescue of a cargo ship flying the flag of Bolivia, who was kidnapped by pirates because it was away from the guarded waters. In a statement from the Maldives National Defense learned that the ship MV Eglantine sailing the Indian Ocean on Monday, when he was approached […]
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Amnesty International said today Cuban authorities escalated their harassment of human rights activists during Pope Benedict’s visit, increasing arrests, disconnecting activists’ phones and surrounding activists’ houses to prevent them from speaking out about human rights abuses during the Papal tour. Amnesty International urged the Pope to condemn the crackdown and lack of freedom in Cuba. […]
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The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that one of his officers fell about 10 meters within a cross-border tunnel in California, while on a practice. San Diego Firefighters rescued on Tuesday the officer who fell into a sophisticated tunnel with concrete walls, confirmed Wednesday the institution. The incident occurred in the […]
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Protesters demand the rescheduling of the hearing where he presented an environmental impact study of Lagunas Punta gas project. Violence in the province of Sechura kills one | RPP Chaos, destruction and abuse in Sechura | RPP One person dead and 36 wounded was the balance left in the confrontation Sechura (Piura) during the strike […]
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Mexico: 2 USA soldiers were accused facilitating their services to a Mexican Cartel Sargent Samuel walker and former lieutenant Kevin Corley were detained by undercover officers when they attempted to be part of a Mexican organized crime cartel named the Zetas. Their plan was to charge the cartel members 50 thousand dollars for killing a […]
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President Dilma Rousseff plans to use her New Delhi visit later this week to sound out Indian leaders on the French Rafale fighter jet, which she is considering buying to beef up Brazil’s air force. Read Article
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Britain has denied sending a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic amid rising tensions with Argentina over the Falklands and accused Argentina of “rattling cages in any way they can”. UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg dismissed the claims as “baseless insinuations” in a clash with the Argentine Foreign minister at the international Nuclear Security […]
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In 2011 there were 190 arrests for minor drug trying to cross the San Diego | Agency Reform The number of children carrying drugs across the border, mainly methamphetamine, continues to rise, which is coupled to the growth of cases of “blind mules” carrying drugs without their knowledge, activists complain. In 2011 there were 190 […]
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Juan Perez, a resident of the sector,Ciudadela del Chofer said it requires the continued presence of law enforcement. Some houses have alarms and electric fences to prevent theft in homes, the neighborhood policy rarely meets the industry to address security issues, he said. Read Article
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The drug was withdrawn on Friday by the occupants of a vessel without registration or name that had been detected in the sea by a maritime surveillance aircraft of the Navy The Colombian authorities seized a stash of 752 kilos of cocaine had been hidden by some sailors on the beach in the Pacific coast […]
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“Operation Armageddon ‘is part of the government’s strategy called’ Sword of Honour ‘. Almost 70 of the 141 guerrillas that the Ministry of Defence has been reported as killed by the military so far this year, fell in less than a week in two operations millimeter-kept, with infiltrated by intelligence and months, in Arauca and […]
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After an intense firefight in the area of Las Lomas Street, between Third and Fourth in Central Urdesa, police failed to stop at approximately 20:45 on Thursday, three suspects, including a disabled person. Although no one was injured nor among the officers or the suspects, the police patrol UVC 179 of the citadel Kennedy received […]
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The arrest of Juan Carlos Calle Serna is not an isolated event. Official figures indicate that their ties are linked to criminal cases dating, for example, 2009. On 2 October of that year, drug agents staged a raid in four provinces, seized 3.8 tons of cocaine and arrested two soldiers: one sergeant and a former […]
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Authorities in Costa Rica in a week arrested about 160 illegal Cuban migrants who traveled from Ecuador to the United States who sought refuge, said Thursday the Director General of Immigration, Kathya Rodriguez. The Cubans, who entered into several groups, were arrested mostly in areas near the southern border of Costa Rica and Panama, said […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that 2,500 of coca plants were located by narotics police on two small islands in the Putumayo River in Sucumbios along the border with Colombia. The plants were destroyed by the armed forces of Ecuador.fternoon by members of the Narcotics Police, in collaboration with the Armed Forces of Ecuador. Read Article
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Mexico: Thousands of Children Detained Every Day in Mexico The Mexican Government detains thousands of undocumented children in a daily basis form Central American decent. on Wednesday March 21st a campaign against the arrest of minors was launched in Mexico. Read Article
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Starting on Tuesday, began extending for 90 days in the presence of members of the National Public Security Force at the border. According to the authorities concerned to support the actions of other entities organized crime. According to Justice Minister José Eduardo Cardozo, the presence of this force will be kept National Amazonas, Acre, Amapá, […]
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Puerto Aysen. – Part Guild rejects collective blockages that are taking place in Puerto Aysen, putting a pall of doubt and causing division in maintaining the city paralyzed. “Soon the rains will begin and we can not transport people. And it is humiliating to have to cross an old bridge Ibanez walk with groceries. What […]
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COYHAIQUE. – Buildings damaged, looted shops and the center of Coyhaique invaded by barricades is the balance of the serious incidents in that city last night when dozens of people clashed with police, after the arrival of a strong police contingent to the Region of Aysen. This was stated to Coyhaique Emol Governor Nestor Mera, […]
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The FARC suffered a blow today with the deaths of 33 guerrillas in a military operation in Arauca department’s oil Colombian-Venezuelan border, while confirming that the release of the ten police and military have kidnapped begin on March 26. The rebels killed were in the front-tenth of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and […]
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The Navy of Colombia held a Ecuadorian-flagged fishing and four fishermen of that country, which operated in Colombian territorial waters on the coast facing the border state of Nariño, said here Tuesday that institution. The Ecuadorian fishing, the second held in a week, was intercepted in the area of Natural Park Gorgona, when fished illegally, […]
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Argentine federal agents sized 450 kilos of cocaine in Buenos Aires harbor, drugs that were destined for Portugal. Last month 350 kilos of cocaine were seized in the port of Lisbon, Portugal within the same operation run by Argentine and Portugal governments. Argentina is a transit route for cocaine trafficking between South America and Europe. […]
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A plane of the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE), was today, Monday, an accident, near the Manta base, it was learned that no fatalities since their pilots managed to eject before the crash. This is a Super Tucano aircraft, so far there is no official version of the theme but it is known that the accident […]
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Police arrest alleged former member of Shining Path The entity has stopped the Peruvian Gelacio Luis Alberto Vieyra Terranova, alleged former member of Shining Path, who is accused of terrorizing and killing in his country, said today in a statement. He was arrested in the province of El Oro, on the border with Peru, will […]
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Mexico: Seized Drugs at the Mexico-Guatemala Border Federal agents discover 295 packages of cocaine and glass at a checkpoint in Huehuetan, Chiapas. The drugs were being transported into the center states in Mexico inside a false compartment in a tractor. Read Article
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On March 19th Quintana Roo, Mexico armed forces reinforced the surveillance in the border with Belize to prevent criminal activity. Residents of the border have reported the presence of armed strangers in the area. The check points operate 24 hours a day using sophisticated monitor equipment. Read Article
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Mexico: 12 Policemen Killed in Teloloapan, Guerrero Investigating those responsible for the murder of the 10 human heads left in Teloloapan, Gerrero, 12 policemen were ambushed and killed and 11 were injured by gun fire. Authorities have not yet located the rest of the beheaded bodies. During the past 24 hours a total of 21 […]
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The Americas experienced a 61% increase in arms imports between 2007-2011, while world trade in conventional weapons rose by 24% during the same period, according to a report released today by the International Institute Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In South America, Chile and Venezuela accounted for 61% of imports in the region and in the […]
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Mexico: Police Brutality In Monterrey Nuevo Leon federal police agents were accused of beating and leaving unconscious a Youth for no apparent reason. Later a man appears in the scene, violently kicking the youth in the head while the federal agents only observe the vicious events. Read Article
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This was acknowledged on Sunday President Juan Manuel Santos after assessing the situation in Arauca. This failure in the security protocols of the National Army guerrillas allowed the company ‘Drigelio Almarales’, the tenth head of the FARC ambushed troops Energy and Roadway Battalion No. 16, killing 11 soldiers dead and two wounded. “By not following […]
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Clan members are originally from Puerto Asis, but established themselves as lords and masters throughout the southern Pacific coast from the 80’s. Gradually extended their dominions from Tumaco (Nariño) to the border and set up clandestine shipyards in Ecuador. The patriarch of the network, Mauner Mahecha, the ‘Old’, was a partner of drug traffickers as […]
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Lisbon: Dismantled Cocaine Organization In December, 2011 the Lisbon Police department discovered acriminal organization dedicated to the transportation of cocaine concealedinside in coal containers. The organization members where all of Argentiniandecent, and were localized in Portugal and in Spain.Read Article
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As criminal activity has spread over Mexico, criminal organizations began to manage minor- criminal groups preparing them to be high-impact criminals. The requirement for the implementation of a new security model has been crucial. The new strategy model includes fighting and preventing crime through citizen participation.Read Article
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Municipal agents early today arrested nine people in a household where apparently manufactured cartridges for firearms. The incident took place around 4:00 am when they responded to a report which indicated a fight in a home located on the streets of the colony Tomas Ornelas Francisco Villa. Once in place the officers met with the […]
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Posted military from other countries arrived today to Tijuana, who will develop a working agenda, where it provides economic development and tourism in the region. The military arrived this morning at the Air Base No. 12, which is in the Urban Area 70-76 colony, where they were received by the State and Municipal authorities. General […]
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The domestic and international flights were normalized with the passing of the hours at the airport in Quito. The accident airplane House AEE-503, Ecuadorian Army, recorded at 18:00 on Friday, made the Mariscal Sucre airport is closed until midnight, restarting operations by 01:00 yesterday. Read Article
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Link from Ecuador Juan Carlos Calle “was considered the international link of the criminal gang Los Rastrojos in the trafficking of cocaine from Ecuador to markets in Europe, Mexico and Central America”, said Sunday the press Luis Alberto Perez, director of the police narcotics. Perez also announced the arrest of two women and a man […]
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Utu Rohozneanu, head of an organized crime group in Romania is now charged with running an international drug trafficking network while in a Romanian prison. A member of the syndicate was recently arrested in Madrid while two other suspects were arreste at the Romanian/Hungarian border with cocaine valued at 400,000 euros. The cocaine had been […]
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The Uruguayan authorities found the remains in military area, anthropologists working in the search for missing during the military dictatorship in the 70’s. The remains were found in Battalion 14, north of Montevideo. teleSUR
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Brazil gets new antennas to extend the protection of the Legal Amazon satellite The System of Protection of the Amazon (SIPAM), organ of the Ministry of Defense has invested R $ 8.2 million (4.73 million approximately) in the acquisition of three antennas with their respective equipment reception of satellite data, installed in the center of […]
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The soldiers were transferred to the border with Colombia, Brazil and Guyana, as required by new security plan Operation Sentinel. El objetivo es combatir al narco ya los grupos irregulares a lo largo de 4.600 km The aim is to fight the narco and irregular groups along 4,600 km. Rangel Silva Minister did not refer […]
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Five thousand young people, called by the Assembly coordinator of high school students (Aces), star in the first year student protest. Chilean students clashed again Thursday with police in Santiago, to resume the demonstrations by a public education quality, which last year spread over seven months in a constant headache for the government. Some 5,000 […]
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The leader of the protests mining in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios, Luis Otzuka yesterday announced a truce to bury the three dead in clashes on Wednesday and on Monday to negotiate with the government. Otzuka told the TV channel that will keep America “calm to find a viable solution in Lima”, which […]
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A factory has been shuttered due to manufacturing items with illegally harvested pine wood. The factory was using the illegal wood to build crates for fruit.
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They came for a few days off and took the shock of their lives. Eso le aconteció a la pareja de canadienses Laura Milcawich y Stephen Aube, quienes arribaron a este país y fueron asaltados mientras visitaban el cerro Mandango, en la parroquia de Vilcabamba, el 8 de marzo. That’s what happened to the pair […]
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table full of counterfeits was presented as evidence at the hearing of indictment against Mario Javier Villamarín Correa, 31, currently faces as a precautionary measure not to leave the country for the duration of the police investigation, led by the prosecution. Villamarin was arrested in possession of fake $ 100 000, Police presumed, would be […]
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The wife of a Canadian is recovering in a hospital, after they were attacked, on March 8 in Vilcabamba. Milcawich Laura feels a considerable improvement in his health, during medical treatment by the hospital of Rio in the northern part of Loja. There he received visits from friends and public officials. Do not leave it […]
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The Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported that four soldiers assigned to this county are investigated by allegedly received bribes from organized crime. XLV controls the Military Zone in the region disclosed the information during the First Regional Meeting with Opinion Leaders 2012, performed in 22 Motorized Cavalry Regiment. Since last December, described the federal […]
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A. – The Government of Peru rejects acts of violence carried by illegal miners in the Mother of God and calls upon the authorities of the region and the population at large to support the work of the police force to restore order and tranquility in that jurisdiction. 2. – At the same time, calls […]
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The Mexican army announced the capture of the alleged offender is identified as “Fabiruchis,” chief of the criminal organization Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo, U.S. border city. In a statement, the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported today that the arrested belong to that group since 2006 criminal and has been responsible for operations in […]
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The facilities of the company, which provides potable water service and sewer service to Machala, Passage and The Guabo, awoke yesterday militarized. The national government declared a state of emergency in these cantone. The company’s facilities in Machala awoke yesterday TripleOro militarized after the Government declared a state of emergency in the capital of El […]
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A further blow to illegal loggers. The three kilometer Yurimaguas-Tarapoto highway, environmental police officers, prosecutors and staff of the sub program address forest management and wildlife resources, managed to seize about three thousand feet of lumber worked with chainsaw. Read Article
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