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Honduras, police may be involved in extorition of taxi drivers

Tegucigalpa, National Commissioner of Human Rights, Ramón Custodio, denounced on Monday that members of the National Police could be behind the atrocities being inflicted on taxi drivers in different parts of the capital. Custodio said that extortion is a fixed amount which must be paid within a period of 48 to 72 hours and is a new modality. Read Article

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Ecuador, serious bus/truck crash on Banos-Puyo road

A bus with a transport cooperative Express banos album number 17, plate TAQ-001, which passed from Baños to Ambato, passed this afternoon collided with a truck Hino white, AFZ-0709 board, which was the opposite.The accident occurred at 12:45 on Monday in the La Pampa. Read Article

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Guatemala plans purchase of military aircraft and radars from Brazil

The Government of Guatemala announced today that borrow for almost $ 170 million to Brazil for the purchase of six Super Tucano aircraft, radar and other equipment for the fight against drugs in this country, bridge of the drug that reaches the U.S. from South America. Read Article

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Why Santiago D.R. is important for drug trafficking?

On 16 October 2010, the agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Darryl Galaway reported to the National Drug Control (DNCD) in the country operated an “international drug trafficking, with branches in Colombia Aruba and the United States, which used a boat identified as Tomahawk. ” Galaway established routes used by drug dealers to distribute […]

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Narco submarine (submersible) belonging to FARC found in Choco, Colombia

Colombian anti-narcotics police located and neutralized a modern submersible in the small town of Condoto, Choco, in Western Colombia, reports El Esperctador. The submersible, valued at 2 million US dollars, had a capacity to transport between 4 and 5 tons of cocaine. Anti-narcotics director, Carlos Enrique Rodriguez Gonzalez noted that the operation was achieved with […]

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5 dead, 6 injured in shooting rampage in Cordoba, Colombia

A soldier and four civilians are dead and six others injured Sunday evening in a shooting rampage in San Antero, Córdoba, Colombia, reports El Pais News. The four men were on two motorcycles and used small semi-automatic weapons to shoot indiscriminately to clients at a bar. The governor attributed this shooting to disputes between bandas criminales […]

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Colombian Police stamp out most oil thefts from pipelines

Police The police received special tanks to combat not only the terrorist attacks on pipelines, but also to thieves that the steal the petroleum.Police announced this weekend that the theft of gasoline was virtually eradicated in the country. Read Article

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FARC launches attacks on five towns in Cauca simultaneously

Factions of the FARC launched on Sunday morning five simultaneous attacks on towns in the department of Cauca, and stop time, a soldier dead, officials said. The attacks occurred in Silvia, Suárez, Siberia, and Caldono Jambaló he told reporters, Colonel Carlos Rodriguez, police chief of that department. Read Article

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Mexico, journalist decapitated for using social media to alert others of violent acts

Mary Elizabeth Castro Macias served as chief editor of the newspaper Primera Hora. The body of Mary Elizabeth Macias, the editor of the newspaper Primera Hora, was found yesterday in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, along with a blanket on which he was accused of passing reports of violent events in the city through social networks. Read […]

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Cartagena, mototaxistas contributing to increase in crime

What started as an alternative to employment in some cities on the coast became, over the years a strategic ally for the crime. Thefts, murders and freight costs (under the hired killers) are common in places where the surfaced mototaxistas as a way to compensate for the absence of transportation in the suburbs of the […]

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Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America

Policing Democracy: Overcoming obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America – Recorded interview with author Dr. Mark Ungar (Recording Time- 01:06:56) Recorded September 23, 2011. Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 PURCHASE BOOK:Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America Latin America’s crime rates are astonishing by any standard—the […]

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Terrorists in Quito (Opinion)

There is no doubt that opening the borders without restrictions was a cause of increased crime in the correísta regime with the introduction of new forms of violence and corruption as the crime of hired killers and mafia networks that administer the nationalization of foreign and trafficking in persons. It is not enough that here […]

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Venezuela, large seizure of marijuana

National Guard troops stationed in the fixed control point The Quebradona, Pan-American highway in the municipality Tulio Febres Cordero Merida state and assigned to the third platoon of Company Detachment second number 16, on the evening of Thursday 22 September a random verification procedure achieved the seizure of 2 000 745 as panela packaging marijuana. […]

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Leak of intelligence documents in Colombia – report

Tens of thousands of classified documents from Colombia’s intelligence agency have been sold to illegal armed groups, foreign governments and drug traffickers, according to the Colombian magazine La Semana. The massive sale of secret documents by agents working for the state intelligence agency, known as DAS, is the largest intelligence leak in Colombia’s history, the […]

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Former Bolivian anti-drug chief sentenced to prison in U.S. for cocaine trafficking

A former top Bolivian anti-drug official has been sentenced to 14 years in a US prison in a cocaine trafficking case that proved a major embarrassment for Bolivian president Evo Morales. Retired General Rene Sanabria, a former head of Bolivia’s leading counter-narcotics unit, pleaded guilty in June to charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into […]

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Brazil, Battles in the Amazon

The Brazilian government gave the green light to build in the Amazon region of Belo Monte megapresa. He argues that the country needs to produce more electricity to power its booming economic development. But experts say Brazilian and foreign irreparable damage this will cause to the environment and habitat destruction of Aboriginal communities that are […]

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Peru: Interior Minister attempting to block access and exit routes of drugs in the VRAE

The Ministry of the Interior, through the National Police, is blocking all possible routes of entry and exit of supplies and drugs in the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE), today announced the headline of this portfolio, Oscar Valdés. The Interior Minister, Oscar Valdes led the burning of more than 6 tons of […]

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Russian spy used Central Bank of Chile to transfer funds to secret agent

The information appears in a report recently sent to the prosecutor Central Bank Toledo Christian south, who decided to work with the Brigade Investigating Money Laundering of the PDI, and the spy Alexei Ivanov Slav, code-named “Antares” – won an identity in the civil registry in the name of Andres Vilches Carvacho, which could set […]

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Army, Navy conducting ground and air reconnaissance mission over Piedras Negras, Coahuila

Since this morning, four Navy helicopters from Mexico and the Mexican Army reconnaissance overflights made by different parts of northern Coahuila, while ground troops carried out dozens of operating in urban and rural for alleged members of organized crime. On board the helicopter including the type included two Black Hawk, the armed forces arrived in […]

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Forged Passports in Peru, $500, group of forgers arrested

They specialized in forging passports to criminals until the police disrupted the laboratory that had assembled in a house in the district of Villa El Salvador. For a month, agents of the Division of scams following the organization and found that in a three-story building, located in the block D of urbanization Pachacamac sold handbooks […]

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China’s Vice Premier arrived in Bolivia to meet with Evo Morales

China Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, arrived Wednesday evening at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where on Thursday will meet with President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, as part of an agenda marked by trade and the integration of both countries. Hui Liangyu arrived at Viru Viru airport to the local 22h00 (2h00 GMT on […]

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Venezuela takes out another clandestine airstrip used for drug trafficking(Video)

This act added five tracks destroyed since last August, four of which are located in the Llanos and said entity in Anzoátegui state, a total of 41 clandestine airstrips located in 2011 used for drug trafficking, located between the rivers Siunaruco and Meta, Apure state, south of the country, reinforcing the fight for a territory […]

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Mexico, former female police officer “la flaka” apprehended as leader of Zetas cell

A former municipal police Veronica Moreno played him one time, more complicated and violent, most volatile and transient, more uncertain, as to try to consolidate at the top of a drug cartel, his aggressive character, with traits of leadership and command about the members of Los Zetas cells operating in San Nicolas de los Garza, […]

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China is out to conquer the Caribbean

China will allocate 1,000 million dollars in preferential loans to support economic development of countries in the Caribbean. Es la primera vez que lo hace fuera de Cuba. It is the first time I made ​​out of Cuba. Chinese Vice Quishan Wang said that “China can not develop isolated from the world and the world […]

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Mexico, Threat Posed by Mounting Vigilantism

Until the 1980s, Mexico enjoyed relative freedom from violence. Ruthless drug cartels existed, but they usually abided by informal rules of conduct hammered out between several capos and representatives of the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country until the 1990s. Relying on bribes, the desperados pursued their illicit activities with the connivance […]

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China-Latin America Military Engagement: Good Will, Good Business, and Strategic Position

This monograph examines Chinese military engagement with Latin America in five areas: (1) meetings between senior military officials; (2) lower-level military-to-military interactions; (3) military sales; (4) military-relevant commercial interactions; and, (5) Chinese physical presence within Latin America, all of which have military-strategic implications. This monograph finds that the level of PRC military engagement with the […]

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Veracruz, 35 bodies dumped in street, police studying video

Mexico. Mejicanas authorities yesterday analyzing the video from a camera that captured the moment in which the bodies of 35 people killed were left on the street in a city of Veracruz. In turn, followed the identification of victims, including a policeman and two children. The prosecutor Reynaldo Escobar said that the images of the […]

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Colombia, Army and Police launched evacuation of oil workers in Puerto Gaitán

1. Communities of Puerto Gaitan Meta, for more than 6 years have been demanding municipal authorities, departmental, and national, as well as oil operators, the solution to a range of social, environmental, economic and employment without get any positive response. 2.Cepcolsa Spanish oil multinational, which operates the fields of Jaguar, Sitting Bull, and Cara Cara, […]

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Countries from former Soviet Union requesting extradition of fugitives in Ecuador

Russia, Belarus and Latvia (former countries of the former Soviet Union) have asked Ecuador to extradite nine fugitives who are wanted by the International Police (Interpol). Six Russians are required for alleged fraud, murder, drug trafficking and belonging to organized crime groups. One of them is M. Myasnikov, who was arrested on July 6, with […]

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12 year old girl’s father detained after being caught on film attempting to sexually assault her in Chimbote Peru

With hidden cameras provided by police, a mother could see how Fidel León Mejía Honorius tried to sexually abuse their minor daughter. Outrageous images. Fidel León Mejía Honorio was recorded with a hidden camera in the middle of trying to rape his daughter , a child under 12 years. This occurred in the district of […]

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Mexico, 32 prisoners escape from three prisons at nearly the same time

At least 32 prisoners escaped in the early hours of Monday leaks perpetrated almost simultaneously in three prisons in the Mexican state of Veracruz (east), said the state government, said 14 inmates have been recaptured. The leak occurred within an hour and a half in prison in the municipalities of Coatzacoalcos, Amatlán of the Kings […]

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Worker eradicating coca plants found dead on border of Colombia and Ecuador

A peasant coca plants manually eradicated died in a rural area of ​​the department of Nariño, which borders Ecuador, reported Social Action (Presidential Assistance Agency). The government agency did not specify the circumstances in which Benjamin Llanos Gasca, 28, died.However, he explains that the farmer was killed “during the third phase of operations that advance […]

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Uruguay, Five Navy Personnel in Prison for Sexual Assault while serving in Haiti

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Venezuela deports six Colombians and one U.S. citizen to the United States

Local authorities deported on Monday to six Colombians, two of them members of the FARC, and an American were captured this year in Venezuela, which are required in their countries of origin for the crimes of drug trafficking, kidnapping and homicide. Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami, announced Monday, from Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, […]

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Brazil begins large military operation along triple frontier to slow arms and drug dealing

Brazil’s army began on Friday gave a mega security operation on the Triple Frontier, with the aim of curbing illegal activities as smuggling and drug trafficking and weapons. The Brazilian general Ajax Porto Pinheiro, one of the persons responsible for operating Agate 2, announced that the controls in the area where forces are deployed will […]

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Two Brazilian men accused of attempted trafficking adolescents to Venezuela

According to AFP, tTwo Brazilians were accused of international trafficking, after being discovered while trying to bring Venezuela adolescents for sexual exploitation, according to the Office of the State of Rondonia (north) on Monday. The suspects, one of them the run-Venezuela tried to take three teenagers and a woman for the purpose of sexual exploitation, […]

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Chile, police discover tunnel from prison planned for escape in Valdivia

Gendarmerie managed to stop an escape attempt in jail concession de Valdivia, to discover a tunnel under construction by an undetermined number of inmates.The perforated had been made in the sector 44 of the penal wing, which holds a highly dangerous prisoners.The hole was discovered in the wall, ceiling height, and stood in front of […]

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Colombia, DAS secret papers

key documents that compromise national security and strategic operations of undercover life have been sold to the guerrillas, drug traffickers and foreign governments. Much of the information in this organization with the true identities of its agents, the names and trades used as fronts, the missions assigned to them, the targets that spies, the names […]

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Military air mobilization over Xalapa Veracruz, Mexico

An air operating Navy-Navy implemented in Mexico in this city yesterday afternoon, in the mobilization involving at least six helicopters that swept across the city, mainly in the northern colonies.The mobilization began around 17:00 and ground you could see armed soldiers in defensive positions, as the aircraft flew at low altitude. Officially there detained or […]

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Ecuador negotiating with Russia for purchase of military equipment

The Ecuador defense minister, Javier Ponce, confirmed today that negotiations to buy Russian military equipment including helicopters, armored vehicles and trucks, which are not acquisitions of “war material”, he said. Ponce revealed that between these teams including portable bridges, mobile workshops and specified that the helicopters are four Mi rescue and transport.Read Article

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Mexico, Minister of Education concedes organized crime has infiltrated sections of public institutions

The Minister of Education, Alonso Lujambio, admitted yesterday that organized crime had “right of territory” and “had infiltrated the whole sections of public institutions.” As the only speaker at the commemoration of the 201 anniversary of Independence, Lujambio defended the fight against crime launched by Felipe Calderón:Read Article

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Investigation underway regarding hacking threat by Anonymous in Uruguay

The Uruguayan police investigating a hacking threat by the local branch of the hackers group “Anonymous” that seeks to block the websites of the Parliament and government departments like the Ministry of Interior, local media reported Wednesday. The threats were disseminated in a video posted on Youtube and was considered a threat “real” by the […]

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Peru, over 13,000 national police sanctioned through August 2011

The Ministry of the Interior, through the Inspector General, launched a Plan to Strengthen discipline in this institution, which has resulted in 13 000 559 troops receive penalties for various reasons between January and August this year. Victor Ordinola, chief of said control body, said that police personnel are receiving lectures on Disciplinary Act and […]

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New illegal drug route discovered from Argentina to Chile

For the second time in less than a week, was discovered a large shipment of drugs, which tried to enter from Argentina to Chile through one of the crossings of the Araucanía. More than 65 kilos of drugs were hidden in packages and cylinders in the back seat of a car and a rear bumper […]

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Credit card cloning serious problem in Honduras, employees of establishments often in on scam

Cardholders in Honduras are not only exposed to cyber gangs who clone the “plastic money”, but also to employees of many commercial establishments that allowed irresponsible card payments without requiring the client to present their respective identification card. Read Article

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Colombia, Army locates 30 gas cylinders filled with explosives belonging to FARC

Escalating guerrilla terrorist had planned to perpetrate against oil and electricity infrastructure in Putumayo was unveiled by the Army, following the seizure of 30 cylinders filled with explosives and several launchers. In statements provided by the commander of Battalion No. 9 Special Energy based in La Hormiga, Colonel Leonardo Vargas Villegas, he realizes that the […]

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Chile, three men identified in texting false alarm of earthquake

The PDI identified three men as the perpetrators of a false warning of earthquake and tsunami in Constitution on 1 September. According to history, they made a joke and now under criminal investigation and risk a penalty of 60 to 540 days in prison.They sent a text message alert to five friends who work in […]

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Colombia, FARC changing strategy study shows

The FARC are not strengthened, but changed his strategy. So says a study by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, an observatory of the armed conflict in Colombia. In the report ‘The new reality of the FARC, “the NGO an assessment of the rebel group led by Alfonso Cano. And it ensures that the recent attacks […]

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Colombia, four police killed in attack by FARC

The attack by suspected members of the front 29 of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) occurred on the outskirts of the seaport of Tumaco in Nariño, which borders Ecuador.Read Article

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Shining Path fires on Peruvian military hellicopter, killing two soldiers

Military patrols were conducting counterinsurgency operations in the region of Junín when rebels fired on the aircraft. Two army officers shot killed Wednesday in a rebel attack on the rebel group Shining Path against a military helicopter in an area wracked country, the joint command of the armed forces. Read Article

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New Drug Route for marijuana and methamphetamine, U.S.to Mexico traffickers disguised as tourists

Drug traffickers in Mexico and the U.S. are trading marijuana from the neighboring country to country, so the Mexican army has intensified review of foreign vehicles, including those who come to visit, said the commander of the Second Military Zone, Gilberto Landeros Briseño. Confirmed that after a seizure that was made to an American at […]

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El Salvador, prison warden murdered in highway attack by armed thugs

Unknown on Wednesday killed the warden of the penitentiary Resume (north), Edwin Barraza, on a road in the northern outskirts of San Salvador, said the deputy director of Prisons, Nelson Rauda. “Gunmen in a car fired at the prison warden Quezaltepeque, Edwin Barraza,” who “died instantly,” said Rauda to the press. Read Article

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30 Costa Ricans in Spanish prisons for transporting illegal drugs as mules

Thirty Costa Ricans remain detained in prisons in Spain, after being captured by police in that European country because the drug drawn off from here. Ubaldo Garcia, Consul of Costa Rica in Spain, said most of those Ticos, who served as “mules”, fell at the airport Barajas, Madrid, between the clothes bring cocaine into the […]

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Argentina, Spanish tourist sexually assaulted and robbed by unofficial tour guide

A man of 27 years, a resident of Rio Ceballos, was arrested yesterday by order of the District Attorney 3 Turn 2, Alicia Chirino, who was charged on suspicion of criminal offense of “sexual abuse with sexual intercourse and theft.” He is accused of being the person who on Monday abused a young Spanish tourist […]

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Peru, two soldiers killed in attack on helicopter by narco-terroristas in VRAE

According to Canal N, there are two dead soldiers and one seriously injured was the outcome of a narco-terrorist attack against an army helicopter in the district of San Martin de Pangoa in VRAE. Read Article

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Venezuela, National Assembly Deputy claims mafia arms trafficking linked to government

The deputy said that about 90% of the number of homicides in the country are committed with firearms, thus confirming that arms proliferation must be eradicated. The National Assembly deputy, William Ojeda, claimed Sunday the indifference of the national executive against criminal boom and the criminal action that has made ​​Venezuela has the highest murder […]

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Táchira, Peru, violent deaths persist as severe social issue

During the third quarter (July, August and so far this month of September) of 2011, according to the balance contributed by the staff working in the first health center in this city, and workers morgueros funeral homes can not keep to meet so many lifeless bodies, especially on weekends. More than fifty bodies shot wounds […]

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Peru, plans against drug trafficking presented

At the beginning of his presentation, argued that there Soberón inconsistencies and double standards in its position regarding the fight against drug trafficking. “If we continue with the current policy on drugs, we have in 2016 about 70 thousand hectares of coca and 330 metric tons of cocaine hydrochloride,” he said.Read Article

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Buenos Aires Argentina, two trains and a bus collide at least 9 dead

At least nine people were killed this morning and about 212 injured in the collision between two trains and a bus occurred in the neighborhood of Flores (see Watch the video of the tragic accident ). There are about 48 seriously injured, sources said sel medical service Same ( video ). Images of the security […]

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Mexico shows off newly acquired military equipment

On September 16, 2011, Mexico will include in it’s Independence parade numerous new equipment it has acquired to fight the drug war. 14,000 troops will be marching. 105 aircraft will be displayecd along with the Sandcat Armored Vehicles which will primarily be assigned to the northern sectors of the country in the fight against drug […]

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Human Trafficking ring from Ukraine to Mexico final destination U.S. on trial

PHILADELPHIA “Band of brothers,” the U.S. Department of Justice calls them. These brothers number just five, hail from Ukraine, and stand charged with one of the most insidious crimes in the illegal immigrant underground: human trafficking. Omelyan Botsvynyuk, 52, and Stepan Botsvynyuk, 36, are set to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court in […]

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Chile, Civil unrest yesterday in celebrations of Allende’s downfall result in injuries, arrests

With less seriously injured after being hit by a bullet ended in Chile gears with incidents that took place yesterday to commemorate 38 years of the 1973 military coup that ousted then-President Salvador Allende, said the government of President Sebastián Piñera.The deputy interior minister, Rodrigo Ubilla, also reported that there were 280 prisoners and 40 […]

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Colombia, Defense minister seeking cooperation with Venezuela and Ecuador (Border Issues)

Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, said Monday that presidential orders seek to meet with their counterparts in Venezuela and Ecuador to seek a cooperative approach: “The order is dialogue with my counterparts in Venezuela, Ecuador and other nations and obviously expect to work in a cooperative attitude, that’s the attitude we have and that’s the […]

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Mexico, Zetas control at least one third of Nuevo León

Los Zetas, with traffic of drugs, kidnapping and extortion of money as casinos and betting sites, have occupied at least one third of the territory of Nuevo Leon, according to the operational files of the Federal Police. The corporation has verified the active presence of the arm in 17 of the 51 municipalities that make […]

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Córdoba, Colombia a paradise at severe risk, BACRIM is a major threat

Elmeridianodecordoba.com.co reported that law and order situation in the department has become a source of conflict between local and national authorities, for while Gov. Martha Sáenz Correa wields a figure of 356 dead at the hands of criminal gangs in so far year, the former Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera from Bogota said at the […]

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Guatemala, Food Crisis continues in Polochic as government repression continues

The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. When we heard, we were surprised. Not because we have any illusions about the benevolence of the Guatemalan government or the oligarchy it serves, but […]

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Colombia, BACRIM criminal groups operating in 21 of 32 departments

Following the demobilization of paramilitary groups, the then government of President Alvaro Uribe had considered regained control in areas that were dominated by the paramilitaries. However, these organizations were unfolding today monopolize their structures and 21 of the 32 departments. Aupados private armies for drug trafficking violence and overflowed the shot a sense of insecurity […]

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Brother of President Humala receives reduced prison sentence

Peru’s Supreme Court has reduced to 19 years the prison sentence of a brother of President Ollanta Humala who was convicted of leading a 2005 military uprising that left four police officers dead. Read Report

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Peru, gang of thieves and scammers posing as water employees in Lima

Thieves and con artists are presented as workers SEDAPAL Required to show their fotocheck, ID, and check the programming of these works by calling 317800 Aquafono . Given recent reports of criminals posing as SEDAPAL workers to enter homes and commit their crimes, the company warning its customers not to be surprised. SEDAPAL, through his […]

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Latin America exporting mercenaries

Latin America has established itself as a fertile ground for recruiting mercenaries. Ten years after the 11-S, Latin America has a new export product mercenaries. In this exclusive interview with Radio Nederland, José Luis Gómez del Prado, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group of the United Nations on the use of mercenaries examines how private security […]

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Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela public areas crime ridden and neglected

Of the the many places and phials that abounds in the city there are few that are in good condition. The majority of places are completely neglected.In a tour it was found that monuments and meeting places for recreational public they serve the Guyanese now play a different role for which they were enabled, beggars […]

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Dominican Republic, woman arrested in scam promising people visas for the United States

Police officers, assigned the Department of Immigration Control and Research deTrata and Trafficking in Persons, arrested a 21 year old female identified as a member of a gang dedicated to defraud unsuspecting people with false promises of trips to the United States, the which was seized 21 passports to name as many people as well […]

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Costa Rica, 8 out of 10 drivers speeding, new laws placed including fines and jail

Starting today, if you drive too fast, ie above 120 k / h, you could be fined up to ¢ 411 000, or even fall behind bars. The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) announced the launch of digital system cameras. Read Article

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Cordoba Argentina, fire crews remain on red alert

From the Province Civil Defense reported that several fire crews along with air tankers tried to contain this afternoon some isolated pockets in the Sierras Chicas. Meanwhile, warned non-circular paths near the fire. Not yet able to control the flames Characato. No routes. Fire this afternoon reiterated red alert by the various fires which still […]

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Puerto Rico Police serious problems with corruption, abuse of power

“The degree of corruption and criminal conduct by police in Puerto Rico is high and contributes to the crisis in public safety and civil rights. More PPR agents are involved in criminal activity than any other law enforcement agency in the nation” says the report. The Puerto Rico Police consistently violates the constitutional rights of […]

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Police response in Ecuador, an observation

One of the complaints you hear about police in Ecuador is lack of police response or involvement when a crime. Well I had the chance to observe police action in August 2011. Enjoying myself in a small house in a lower income neighborhood in Guayaquil, I heard a commotion outside and saw a man run […]

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Survey shows military candidate leads in polls for Guatemala’s presidency

After 26 years of civilian governments in Guatemala, a soldier could return to power, according to the survey agree that place retired Gen. Otto Perez as favorite to win Sunday’s election. Pérez Molina, nominated by the rightist Partido Patriota (PP), the main opposition, be heading to victory in the race for the presidency of Guatemala, […]

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Venezuela, military plans on setting up gold zones to control mining operations

The head of the Strategic Operational Command (CEO), Henry Rangel Silva, explained that approval of this plan would be aimed at ensuring safety in the development of the gold mining industry between large international, national and small-scale miners. Read Article

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Colombia, police capture militia chief of FARC’s southern bloc

The National Police who dealt crushing blow to the structures of the Southern Bloc of the FARC, captured in downtown Neiva, Cesar Polanco Cerquera, aka “Polo” or “Polanía.” The report said according to research by an interdisciplinary team of the institution, led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (DIJIN), this individual acted as […]

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Colombia, cocaine seized in maritime operation conducted by airforce and navy

Cocaine seized in maritime interdiction operation After a chase by sea and air units of the Navy and the Air Force, with support from the army and police seized 88 kilos of cocaine were transported in a wooden boat in the area of ​​Arboletes – Antioquia, Coveñas 80 nautical miles. The boat named “Muga” was […]

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Brazil, shootout between army and drug traffickers leaves one teenager dead

The Brazilian Army today sent 11 riflemen and 100 armored vehicles to the favelas of Complexo do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro, where an intense gun battle between troops of this force and drug traffickers last night left a teenager dead and injured adult.Ana Lucia da Silva, 15, died after being shot in the head during […]

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108 victims rescued from exploitation in Chiapas, Mexico

The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas has rescued 108 victims in the form of sexual and labor exploitation from the implementation of the Law to Combat, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons in 2009. In addition, 38 have initiated criminal proceedings are in preliminary stage and there have been five convictions in the […]

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Eleven people resuced this weekend on Venezuela’s beaches

A total of 11 attempts immersion and 15 cases of missing children parents were cared for by guardians of the beaches during the first weekend of September on the beaches of Higuerote and Rio Chico, and was announced by Secretary of Prevention and Emergency Miranda State and Civil Protection director general of regional, Victor Lira. […]

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Narcoambulancia apprehended in Cucuta transporting 45 kilos cocaine

laopinion.com, reported he driver of an ambulance, health department official was discovered on Thursday afternoon while transporting 45 kilos of coca base on the road-Cucuta El Zulia. The driver, who wore a vest Medical Mission, tried to evade the roadblock set up by men of the Metropolitan Police, in Cucuta. However, after a chase was […]

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Bolivia asks Argentina to return 1700 stolen vehicles

Argentina’s government of Bolivia asked to expedite the return of more than 1,700 stolen vehicles in that country and that were detected from a list of cars entered as Bolivian waiting smuggling legalization. Bolivian Customs reported that more than 7,000 stolen vehicles were detected in neighboring countries from the list of 128,000 in the process […]

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Jalisco, guns and grenades seized

Staff said military weapons, grenades and vehicles in the municipality of San Gabriel, Jalisco, said the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), through the Military Zone XV. He explained that in the framework of the Comprehensive Strategy of the Mexican state against Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime, the soldiers attended a citizen complaint that was achieved […]

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Minister of Brazil’s Defense encourages UNASUR to use strategy of deterrence

The Minister of Defense of Brazil, Celso Amorim, has defended the need for the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) design a strategy of “deterrence” to protect their “great riches” of threats outside the region. He also highlighted the steps taken by the twelve countries of UNASUR to agree on security strategies and “strategic development” […]

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Chavez warns NATO plans invasion of Venezuela

President Republic Bolivarian Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez warned the world and the people on the claims of NATO to invade the sovereignty of Venezuela. In this regard, he recalled in a recent speech by U.S. President Barack Obama would ensure that “Libya method could be applied to any other country in the fight against terrorism.” Read […]

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Tomás Rojas Cañete chief of large cartel along Argentina and Brazil border

he sign directed by Tomas Rojas Cañete, alias “Toma’i” is perhaps the most powerful operating on the border with Brazil.The operational structure of the organization is run by his brother Marcos Rojas Cañete, who allegedly manages the group’s money and the right arm of the drug czar. Read Article

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Peru, cocaine being transported by mototaxis in Tingo Maria (Video)

Staff police seized a motorcycle taxi That low of intelligence information that, It Was Used for basic folder cocaine distribution in the form of “delivery” in Tingo Maria to Different parts on all the areas in Alameda and Plaza de Peru weapons. Read Article

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Argentina, former pilot warns that radars effectiveness on drug smuggling minimal

The former pilot and filmmaker Enrique Pineyro warned two months ago in an interview with THE GAZETTE “for pilots, flying the north is potentially dangerous clandestine flights are a threat. It is a scene often must cross drug planes.” Read Article

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Peru, Intelligence shows narcos moving drug routes away from VRAE to Cajamarca

To the ‘strengthening’ of the military strategy in the area VRAE (Ene River valleys of Apurimac and) some drug dealers have migrated to this region to start a new drug route and that, in two separate intelligence reports, the Police Drug Cajamarca has already dubbed as the ‘small’ VRAE. According to narcotics agents require the […]

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Univision reports police allowing drug trafficking at Bolivian airports

Report a nexus of narco network at airports Facilitators. Univision Miami, says police operating in airports allow the drug to exit aircraft from Bolivia to America.The U.S. network Univision and opposition MPs claim that in some airports nationwide carrier networks exist that facilitate the activity of drug trafficking in Bolivia.From a report by the U.S. […]

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Venezuela, rate of violent deaths make it one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America

Recorded between 48 and 57 murders per 100,000 people, depending on who makes the measurement. August wrote himself with red blood in the streets of Caracas, where 563 people died (more than 85 percent killed) in the most violent month of this year and could end up running around the country with more than 19 […]

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Chile, military plane missing carrying reporters from television show

Felipe Camiroaga , journalist Robert Bruce, Carola Gatica, Rodrigo Cabezón Silvia Slyer team and the program “Good morning everyone,” traveled today at 14.00 to the island of Juan Fernandez to make a note for the morning of TVN, with a team lift up Chile Challenge, headed by businessman Felipe Cubillos and the military plane (FACH) […]

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Colombia, police locate two tonnes of buried cocaine

Colombian police said they have seized 2.2 tonnes of cocaine that was buried in a northern desert and which has a street value of $65 million. The drugs were found in 87 waterproof sacks several feet (metres) beneath the arid La Guajira department in the far north, a coastal province bordering Venezuela. Read Article

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Colombia ushers in a new security strategy with defense minister change

The rumors that Mr. Rivera was on his way out had been swirling for months, and each time leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) made a bold attack on government forces or neo-paramilitary groups massacred an entire family those rumors grew louder. Amid mounting concern that Colombia was backsliding in security, […]

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Brazil, officialy the government claims it has no terrorists

Brazil won’t acknowledge terrorists, raises global concerns as host of World Cup and Olympics. Even as the world has cracked down hard on terror, some countries have refrained from adopting anti-terror laws. Their stance has racked up consternation at a time when terrorism is a global concern, especially with Brazil now set to host the […]

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South America, U.S. military leaders meet in Chile to discuss humanitarian and disaster assistance

Senior military and civilian defense leaders from a dozen Western Hemisphere nations gathered in Santiago, Chile, Aug. 31-Sept. 1 to discuss future military support to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) operations in the region. Read Article

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Venezuela navy receives new ship from Spain

After a journey that began in Cadiz, Spain, Aug. 20, Patrolman ocean Warao (PC-22), arrived at the naval base cabinet Admiral Augustine, chief of the Venezuelan Navy, located in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state. The Warao was presented on August 2 at the Navantia shipyard in Puerto Real, Cadiz in the bay. This is the second […]

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