From January next year, wear new uniforms 40,000 police so the company works against time Tecnistamp in the preparation of the costumes. In the company, are made pants, shirts, sweaters, jackets and even shoes, items that will be part of the new image of the police. The traditional olive green uniform will undergo “adjustments” because […]
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The Government of Veracruz corrected figures on kidnappings that had been forwarded to the National Public Security System (SNSP) and admitted that from January to September this year in the state have committed plagiarism and 29 non-zero, as had notified. The Executive Secretariat SNSP said Wednesday that Veracruz authorities reported new figures by electronic delivery […]
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These weapons will be melted soon in a public The Bicentennial Security Device (Dibis) has seized 2017 firearms in the state of Anzoategui, as reported by the Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Nestor Reverol, from Simon Bolivar Sports Complex in the city of Barcelona. “We are receiving today, while delivering to the Department of Arms […]
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A high-level delegation of the Chine4se Armed Forces will pay an official visit to Peru in November to strengthen ties in the field of defense, Peruvian Ambassador to China Gonzalo Gutierrez said. He noted that said visit seeks to boost bilateral relations between both countries’ armed forces and promote mechanisms of technological cooperation. Read Article
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More than two thousand teachers in the region Acapulco Coyuca Benitez made this morning a march to the Acapulco International Center demanding more security in areas where its campuses are located. During the trip safely carried banners demanding the state authorities claim that there are no guarantees for back to school, but clarified that this […]
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The day of marches CONFECH convened today by the College of Teachers and the United Workers Central (CUT), was marred by incidents near the main event with Beaucheff Blanco. Was injured, arrested, attempted looting and clashes between protesters wearing hoods who wanted to avoid further violence. Read Article
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President Fernando Lugo, publicly apologized to the families of two missing children in 1996 and 2000 during his military service is compulsory in Paraguay, to the mothers of the victims. “I apologize on behalf of the Paraguayan State. Reaffirm our commitment to respect the commitments to respect the agreements made in the field of Inter-American […]
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Amazon Indians who walked 600 km over 65 days, to protest the construction of a road through a nature reserve on Wednesday triumphantly entered La Paz to demand the government of President Evo Morales to cancel the project. The column, consisting of nearly two thousand Indians came out in August from the Amazon and in […]
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The police captured 18 people for illegal mining retroexcavadoras inmovilizadas por la Policía. They said that among the transactions that took place during the weekend highlights the capture of 18 people who are linked to illegal acts. These arrests have been made official since the national government declared a military target this activity to consider […]
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Formed a band dedicated to newborns buy Bolivian and Peruvian women without resources to deliver adoption in urban centers in the country. They used as a photo album catalog. The investigation is being presided by Judge Norberto Oyarbide. A baby-smuggling ring was broken in the last hours by La Federal Police, through multiple raids in […]
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not kill himself in Berlin in 1945 but ended his days in Argentina, a new book has claimed. British journalist Gerrard Williams has told Sky News he and co-author Simon Dunstan found an “overwhelming amount of evidence” to suggest Hitler died an old man in South America. Read Article
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Cali and Bogota top the list of cities with more crime partner, according to a report by the Institute of Legal Medicine. So far this year there have been seven cases each of these cities. Trends continue, the figure could be lower than last year. In 2010, the report of the National Reference Center on […]
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At about 7:30 yesterday a routine narcotics canine group Mariscal Sucre airport in the capital, allowed the discovery of about 82 packages of pure cocaine hidden in a false bottom in the roof luggage container number AKE 93,280 KL of the airline KLM. Read Article Read Artticle
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The perpetrator of a rape is a person known to the victim in 61% of cases, according to the Metropolitan Public Safety Observatory (CSOM). Of that percentage, 21% corresponds to an acquaintance, 9% to a relative, 7% for the stepparent, 5% of the bridegroom, 3% to the parent, and so on., As the 15 th […]
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Two workers held hostage for more than 72 hours in jail Tocuyito, in Carabobo state, reported that they are running out of food and asked for the presence of the Minister of Corrections, Iris Varela. Read Article
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Speakers truck with 2.5 tons of chemical inputs in Tingo Maria,The Huallaga Police Front Chief, General Ríos Whitman reported that early Sunday, police intervened a truck with 2.5 tons of chemical inputs used in the manufacture of drugs, in Tingo Maria, Huanuco. The police chief explained that they captured three people: Read Article
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While the persistent rain fell on Tegucigalpa, the body of a young woman employee of the Tax Office, lay in a car, in a quiet street in the capital. It took more than five hours since he was gunned down by suspected assassins acting on a motorcycle, before the arrival of prosecutors and forensic to […]
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The numbers are not surprising but nonetheless impact: the largest illegal trade fair in the country and Latin America, which employs 7 000 people and has nearly 39 thousand jobs and bill “between 150 and 200 million pesos.” Currently, the Salada houses about 30 000 jobs about 3 or 4 m2, and each tenant must […]
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Three key indicators of reduced crime in Rio de Janeiro in the first seven months of this year, reflecting an improvement in security conditions in the city prepares to host the 2012 Olympics and the World Football 2014. Read Article
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, announced Saturday that the investigation will resume the disappearance of Colombian brothers James and Andrew Restrepo, which occurred in 1988 after being arrested by police and whose bodies were thrown presumed in the lagoon of Yambo. The announcement was made during the weekly report to work at the premiere […]
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Ecuador plans to increase to 69,000 the number of police officers dedicated to crime prevention through 2017 as part of a process of strengthening the institution of the order, said the Ecuadorian Minister of Interior, Jose Serrano. “Nationally, in 2017, there must be 69,000 policemen Preventive Police,” Serrano told the press the point that now […]
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Spanish police arrested a young man who had come to Madrid from Bolivia in your body carrying 11 bags of cocaine mixed with oil, said on Sunday the Ministry of Interior. The woman, identified as BR Nely Cinda 24, was detained along with Carlos SC 34, who is charged in addition to an alleged illegal […]
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Colombian Counternarcotics Police deployed a major operation against the business of the criminal gang, Anti-Subversive Popular Revolutionary Army of Colombia, ERPAC, whose leader is Eberto Lopez Montero, alias ‘Caracho’, El Espectador reports. According to the official report, the “mega” laboratory, located in Guaracu, Meta, was used mainly for the processing of cocaine. Read Article
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Colombian attorney aims to establish whether former officials and candidates in Antioquia, Córdoba and Chocó had link with the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc of the AUC, El Espectador reports. Read Article
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The National Student Expanded Bureau reported that the crime was part of a strategy of stigmatization, intimidation and persecution of the student movement, whose primary goal away to students of all Colombian society.The National Student Expanded Bureau (NSAIDs) in Colombia reported that the boy died on Thursday during one of the protest marches was killed, […]
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A female federal police officer in Quer é taro, central Mexico, has been physically assaulted and threatened by her ex- partner , who is the federal police chief for the state. The authorities have refused to take action against him. She is at risk of further attacks, as are the women’s rights organizations that have […]
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The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, […]
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Public spending on security in the region in 2010 accounted for 2.66 percent of gross domestic product, about 4,000 million dollars, not that the policies implemented by governments against crime have been successful. The Central American countries assume a loss of 6,500 million dollars as a result of violence, almost 8 percent of GDP, more […]
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President Hugo Chavez proposed the discussion today in the National Assembly a bill providing for the shooting down of aircraft suspected of drug trafficking when they ignore the order to land. The Venezuelan leader said in a televised speech that the law would aim to discourage those flights in Venezuelan territory. Addressing deputies in a […]
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Recently, a massive, peaceful march sought to draw attention to the Venezuelan incursions into the region Northeast Front elements “Domingo Lain Sáenz ‘ELN, one of the main guerrilla organizations in Colombia. The protesters, members of neighborhood associations, peasant and labor organizations and local NGOs reported that irregular force applied “policy of extermination against the communities […]
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Mariela VP Nancy, 31 years old, was traveling on an interpovincial bus in Tulcán transporting two cardboard boxes containing 99 sticks of dynamite in the luggage hold. The woman was deprived of his liberty by threatening public safety. The arrest. According to the police report, at 03:00 yesterday during a routine they performed the gendarmes […]
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Saudi officials advised Argentina four months ago of an alleged Iran-backed plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington and possibly attack the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, an Argentine diplomatic source said on Thursday. Read Article
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Victims included Sam’s Club. The State Police broke up a gang of truck robbers, making eleven subjects assurance, six vehicles and a trailer with merchandise. The arrest of the criminals, mostly blood, occurred in North Street and Independence Avenue 3, in the municipality of Veracruz Tepeyahualco-bordering-where on board were armed vehicles guarding the trailer. After […]
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Emerging Threats and Security in the Western Hemisphere Press Release: US State Department Next Steps for U.S. Policy Testimony William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC October 13, 2011 ________________________________________ As delivered Madam Chairman, Ranking Member, ladies and gentlemen of […]
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Colombia’s judicial police arrested 16 suspected members of a prostitution of women who acted in several departments, and a Venezuelan border town, officials said Tuesday the operation. A woman prostitute from 2009 to his daughter, now 14, is in the group arrested in the raid, which was conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation Police […]
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546 kilos of cocaine were hidden in false bottoms of two commercial vessels on the Atrato River, in the area of Tagachi in Chocó, The National Army reports. Apparently, the captures planned to take the drugs to Turbo, which would then be transported by sea to Central America and then to North America where it […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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The criminal gang would initially threaten their victim by demanding 200 million pesos (US $ 100,000) in exchange for their safety, El Espectador reports. The band was disbanded due to a lawsuit in Boyacá by one of the victims. Detainees will be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Read Article
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The one-year investigation led the Colombian police to locate 10 members of the main structure of the Clandestine Communist Party of the FARC, known as the PC3, Caracol News reports. The police say that these suspects are directly related to the infiltration of student protests in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja, Cali and Bucaramanga. Read Article
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The Peruvian government has initiated a reorganization of the police with an unexpected and radical step. In one stroke, 30 generals were sent into retirement on Sunday, including director general. While waiting for their occurrence future promotions (usually occur later this year), the staff of the institution is reduced to 26 officers of the highest […]
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The complaint against Philip “Baron” was presented by Valter Drain Day Dos Reis, Brazil, owner of the ranch located in the area of Capitan Bado, which were found the two tracks underground. According to the complaint filed with the Public Ministry for the Brazilian citizen, on 17 September, at 10:00, received a phone call, a […]
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The night of September 1, from Dijin facilities in Bogota, deployed an impressive operation that involved over 350 police officers in three cities. Shortly before eleven o’clock at night General Oscar Naranjo gave the green light for the Special Investigation Unit gave the final blow. If they had achieved success disrupt that night, four powerful […]
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The new aircraft will be used by the armed forces against the scourge of narco-terrorism in the Tactical Air VRAE advantage and give greater confidence in the military, said the former head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces Jorge Montoya. He noted that is renewing and acquiring new material for military institutions, in […]
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Ambassador in Mexico, Belize, Rosendo Antonio Urbina Baptist, acknowledged that crime and organized crime have largely overcome the security forces on the border commissioners of both countries, which has motivated crimes such as trafficking of people, drugs and weapons are kept. Read Article
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Having done research work where they were seized 460 kilos of cocaine in the boat Juergen Schulte on Saturday night, Major General of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Miguel Vivas Alcides Landino, head of the National Drug and Gen. Edilberto Molina, deputy director of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) reported that the Bolivar state ranks […]
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The sleepy port towns, mangrove swamps and jungle airstrips of poorly defended, tiny Belize are becoming prime gateways for drug trafficking as Mexico’s billionaire mafias carve out new smuggling routes through Central America.Using light aircraft and ultra-fast boats, traffickers are moving more and more South American cocaine through Belize into Mexico, U.S. narcotics agents and […]
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A clash between federal, municipal police against alleged gunmen was recorded on Monday night in Mexico International Highway 15 exit north, at the height of the ejido of El Venadillo, leaving three dead two policemen and one gunman, as well three officers wounded.The shooting, which lasted several minutes, causing panic among drivers traveling on that […]
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The Colombian Army found and seized Monday from a stash of 546 kilos of cocaine and arrested 8 crew of two vessels that plied the river Atrato in Chocó (northwest), sources with the institution. The cocaine was hidden in false bottoms of the boats that plied the waters of the area of the small town […]
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President Evo Morales said Tuesday that with the purchase of six K-8 aircraft made in China for the fight against drug trafficking and other tasks, a technological revolution began in the Force Air, which celebrated the 88th anniversary of foundation. In a ceremony held in the Air Brigade of the city of El Alto, the […]
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The Association of North Lima announced that it signed in the coming days an agreement will serve to provide greater security to the residents of this sector of the capital. This is an agreement with the National Police with the aim of a helicopter that institution to patrol the area and thus help prevent and […]
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Carmen Aristegui, undoubtedly the best journalist in Mexico, released a recording of a telephone conversation in which Fidel Herrera Beltrán, when he was governor of Veracruz, gave his wife a government-owned aircraft for personal travel she realized. In the talk, Herrera says he will move the aircraft in an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, he did Fidel Herrera […]
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Rifles, carbines, shotguns and machine guns of different calibers were hidden in the trunk and under the seats of a maroon colored Peugeot 405 parked in President Quintana to 30 bis, in the south of Rosario. A procedure performed by the Association of Special Units of the Regional Unit II pemitió the secuetro than it […]
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In an unprecedented action, a six German parliamentarians announced their decision to recommend conditional cooperation with El Salvador until that country to implement an effective program to combat violence and impunity that plague the people of this Central American nation. During the Civil War (1980-1992), governments Washington and some European countries support conditions continued to […]
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14 guerrillas of the FARC’s Front 33 were killed in fighting with members of the police in Norte de Santander.T he incident took place in the village Luis Vero rural Sardinata Township. Read Article
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FARC SUSPECTED IN BOMBING Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, confirmed the deaths of seven soldiers who were traveling in a vehicle to administrative work. In Palo, rural area of Caloto (Cauca), killed seven soldiers were traveling in a vehicle in administrative work, as was stated by Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón.”Here in the department of […]
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A surprise operation conducted by the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR) of the Police, on a farm located in the canton of Pichincha, Manabi, did the arrest of seven alleged members of the band Los Choneros. Read Article
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Troops of the Task Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (FELCN) discovered in recent days new forms of drug delivery attempts at international airports in the city of El Alto and Santa Cruz. On October 3, police found drugs at the airport in El Alto 3 kilos 322 grams of cocaine hidden neatly in the middle […]
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Officials from the Regional Intelligence Unit Drug Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) were able to detect 478 kilos of suspected high-purity cocaine on board Juergen Schulte anchored in the port of Ferrominera Orinoco in Ciudad Guayana, Bolivar State. The 478 kilos corresponded to 354 packages hidden in a compartment of the ship’s engine room with Spanish […]
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Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in the Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences – Recorded interview with author Dr. Sara Schatz (Recording Time- 01:13:53) Recorded October 07, 2011. Publisher: Springer, 2011, Volume 10 in Studies of Organized Crime. PURCHASE BOOK:Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in […]
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Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos called on congress to approve a legislation draft that seeks to give a legal ground to the process of reintegration to demobilized rebel fighters, El Espectador reports. Santos warned on Wednesday October 5, 2001 that if the project is not approved at least 25,000 reinserted rebels could join illegal groups […]
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1360 phishing scams in 2011 This data revealed by the Attorney General of Ecuador. One of the last cases of this kind is detrimental to Council officials for Citizen Participation. According to the prosecution, this type of crime recorded a rate rise. In 2009 there were 168 claims in 2010 the figure rose to 2099 […]
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As an evening of terror and fear rated a score of passengers who witnessed yesterday’s murder of a young, unidentified, who rode the bus company Metrotrans, PUD-109 board, covering the south of the city stadium route Olympic-El Rocio. Witnesses recalled that when the unit stopped in 1677 a red light Avenue and Joaquin Maldonado Gutierrez, […]
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The Mexican Army seized over 358 kilograms of cocaine valued at $ 11 million in the illicit market. The seizure took place in a colonial home in this city Otay Vista. The commander of the Second Military Zone, Briseno Gilberto Landeros, explained that it is the largest seizure that has been done on this border […]
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he Justice attorney, Felipe Munoz Vazquez, announced that it is investigating all elements of the municipal Public Security Secretary of Aguascalientes. This, after giving the 14 elements known by the Mexican army arrested are allegedly involved in the criminal organization “Office” and the assassination of several former colleagues and civilians. Read Article
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The community of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Tlaxcala, members of the Sexual Diversity Tlaxcala, held a peaceful demonstration in Congress to reproach local lawmakers have not played since October 2, 2009 two bills concerning Prevention and Eradication of Discrimination and Societies of Coexistence. Read Article
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In Peru, there are more than 15,000 persons from the period of internal armed conflict (1980-2000) that are still missing. Their relatives refuse to give up hope of finding their whereabouts. The numbers are impressive, but the disappeared and their relatives are more than numbers; more than mere statistics. Read Article
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In the first fifteen days of September six foreigners have been detained for trying to transport cocaine from Buenos Aires to Qatar via mules. Those arrested are from Europe, South Africa, and Nigeria. according to lanacion.com.ar. Sources affirmed, they allegedly ingested cocaine capsules (liquid cocaine dissolved with solvents similar to nail polish remover) wrapped in […]
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Marticela Moreno Pérez, mother of 7, was shot three times a few meters away from family members, El Universal reports. The gunmen left in a red motorcycle. One person resulted wounded in the shooting as well, Alberto Avila Julio, 24. Both were taken to a hospital in Cartagena, where the woman was pronounced dead. The […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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In Chile, an average of 17 people are raped daily and 34 other victims of sexual abuse, according to a study released today by the Public Prosecutor (OTP), indicating that the 52 victims of these crimes leave daily, 38 are minors. During 2010, says the report, the income of reported sexual offenses skirted the 18 […]
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The authorities seized 118 parrots Honduras when they were brought illegally to El Salvador, from Nicaragua, an official source in Tegucigalpa. The birds were seized by members of the Border Police and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (SERNA), at the office of the Amatillo, border with El Salvador, two individuals from Nicaragua aboard […]
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Arrests and appropriation of municipal police in Monterrey are exposing the infiltration of organized crime in that corporation. Yesterday, military support to state Public Safety officers arrested four halconeo work to be done, ie surveillance for criminal groups. In the past four months, 55 officers have been held in royal state criminal for his alleged […]
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Bolivian natives angry over plans to build a highway through an Amazon nature preserve resumed their protest march Saturday after a violent police crackdown a week ago, a top demo leader said. The march began at daybreak in the town of Quiquibey, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) northeast of La Paz, protest leader Rafael Quispe […]
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Police of Catalonia in Spain arrested five people who allegedly were involved in transporting cocaine from Uruguay seized 3.3 kilos and those of the drug. The first two arrests were made in El Prat airport in Barcelona, when two of the now arrested had just arrived on a flight from Uruguay. Read Article
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According to a study conducted by Citizens Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, nearly twenty-five percent of the most dangerous cities in the world are in Mexico. 1. Ciudad Juarez 298 murders per 100,000 2. Chihuahua 131 murders per 100,000 3. Mazatlán 89 murders per 100,000 4. Culiacán 88 murders per 100,000 5. Tepic […]
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FARC’s Black Pearl could not make its first trip in the Colombian Pacific, El Colombiano reports. The narco-submarine was built out of fiberglass and steel and was able to navigate itself 4 to 5 feet under water and could carry up to four tons of cocaine. According to the anti-narcotics police, this is the second […]
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Assistant superintendent Aníbal Domingo Castro Arjona and patrol officer Cristian Camilo Zambrano, active members of the Police force in Cesar, were captured in Casacara and La Gloria respectively, by agents of the same Institution, El Pais Vallenato reports. The Public Prosecutor (Fiscalia) asked the Second Penal Court of Valledupar for the orders of capture against […]
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Civil servants of Invima manipulated the organization’s databases to grant illegal sanitary registries, El Tiempo reports. According to an internal investigation, there were seven cases of duplicity from registries. Some of the products the organization deals with can be utilized for criminal purposes, though no product was commercialized; however, the problem is that the registry […]
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According to El Nuevo Herald, newspaper of enormous influence in the Hispanic community in Miami, the president presents a picture of aplastic anemia, the disappearance of the cells responsible for blood production in the bone marrow, which was complicating its medical. Bone marrow aplasia may be total, affecting the production of white blood cells like […]
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Buenaventura is accustomed to violent death and, ultimately, increases the number of bodies, because there are vendettas between the FARC and a band called ‘the Company’, composed of former guerrillas and former paramilitaries, who decided to steal a packet of dollars (product of other packages coca), which claims ‘Mincho’, leader of the front 30. Read […]
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A senior Brazilian police officer has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the murder of a judge who investigated police corruption. Lt Col Claudio Luiz de Oliveira was detained Tues Sept 27 here and arrest orders have been issues for at least six other policemen in the city(Rio). Prosecutors say Col Oliveira ordered the killing […]
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos will send more troops to the country’s two southern provinces Narino and Cauca following a recent surge in drug-related violence. Santos said the number of armed forces in Narino, which is home to about 50 percent of Colombia’s illicit coca production, will be increased to 3,353 from 2,780 during the […]
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Brazilian authorities are trying to extinguish a 60-year-old family feud they say has led to at least 95 murders. Police say they sent 130 lawmen into six rural communities in northeastern Brazil to make arrests meant to end the bloodshed involving the Oliveira, Veras and Suassuna families. Read Article
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According to contrapunto.com.sv, since 2006, hundreds of corpses have been discovered in dozens of clandestine graveyards in San Salvador and its outskirts. Ninety five percent of the corpses are for individuals under seventeen years of age and eighty five percent of them are female. These numbers are frightening, even for one of the most violent […]
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In Argentina, 15 kilograms of illegal substances are found being distributed via coach buses. Six people were detained on Monday, September 26, for distributing drugs in long distance buses (coach) and selling them in the Argentine province of Corrientes and throughout Buenos Aires. According to terra.com.ar, these individuals are presumed to be members of an […]
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China is the undisputed new actor in international politics. It is not only courted the country to come to the aid of the dying economy of European countries, but its policy is becoming more welcome in a world that watches American decline accelerates and Western. China’s foreign policy is the implementation of a political and […]
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The defendant would have used for these acts alleged aid agency the woman in the city of La Paz. After research conducted since 2009, Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC) stopped the day before the Valencia Janeth Oropeza lawyer who would be responsible for a company where print media offered by families or groups of […]
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Luz Lopez Morales was sentenced for the crimes of trafficking, conspiracy to commit aggravated and simple money laundering charges after accepting the prosecution charged him, as co-author. The Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Pereira was sentenced to nine years and 15 days in prison and a fine of 763 minimum monthly wages in […]
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Bolivia’s president late Monday suspended a planned Amazon highway that has sparked clashes between police and Indians who say the road would despoil a nature preserve that is home to thousands of natives. President Evo Morales also distanced himself from the decision to break up a protest march Sunday. His announcement came hours after police […]
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After seven days of operating within the criminal review Achilles Serdán in Chihuahua, authorities rotated thousand modules to 800 inmates this morning, according to the Attorney General. In a bulletin, the agency also noted that basements were two courtyards of two modules of the prison, where last week he found a tunnel. Among numerous weapons […]
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Chilean Defense Minister Andres Allamand, is visiting in Israel, one of the world’s most militarized states, where he had access to new technologies in the country on the border. Allamand has also met with his Israeli counterpart, Ehud Barak. The relations between Chile and Israel enjoyed good health during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, mainly […]
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From Friday afternoon to Sunday morning at the mortuary caves of Monte Bello have been admitted to the bodies of 29 people, most shot to death in various acts of violence in the capital city, as it was known unofficially. Read Article
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Seven people were killed in a tragic way on Saturday and Sunday in Barranquilla, Atlántico department. Five of the victims were killed by bullets, one dagger and another died in a traffic accident. Read Article
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Between 2009 and 2011 there were 146 violent and nonviolent deaths in the 35 federal prisons in our country. The annual report Attorney’s Office Prison appears that the criminal Ezeiza is the unit with more deaths. The Procurator’s Office, Francisco Mugnolo, reported 91 deaths in federal prisons in Argentina. The figure comes from the 2010 […]
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Four heavily armed robbers exchanged gunfire with police on Monday during a chase in the region of Campinas, São Paulo. The group was caught in a Honda Civic from cars that were on a call of possible theft industry. Read Article
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The placement of a comprehensive monitoring system with satellite tracking devices will be compulsory in all public land transport units, reported Monday the Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Nestor Luis Reverol. After the third session of the Security Bureau with the various state security and national public transport sectors, the Deputy Minister announced that by […]
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22 suspected criminals were killed in clashes with armed forces in a joint operation of Army and Air Force 15 days in four northern states in which 14 hostages were released, according to the National Defense Secretariat. From 10 to 24 September the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) launched the second phase of “Operation Scorpion”, […]
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Venezuela ratifies dialogue in defense of their interests in state bordering Guyana The Venezuelan government issued a statement Monday through which reiterates that, in line with its foreign policy, defend their interests, respecting the friendship and solidarity that keeps all the peoples of Latin America and Caribbean, at the request recently submitted by the Republic […]
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