Defense Minister, Nilda Garré, confirmed this morning that 1,500 kilos of cocaine were seized by Argentine police in 48 hours over the weekend, according to infobae.com. A maneuver called ‘Operation Transparency” arrested 2 Argentine police officers in Salta yesterday, near the Bolivian border, and seized 966 kilos of cocaine they were transporting from Bolivia and […]
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The Chilean government announced Sunday it will expel 14 armed Bolivian military officials detained Friday for illegally entering Chilean territory. The weapons they had carried have been confiscated and will not be returned, according to Manuel Guerra, district attorney for the border region of Tarapaca. Read Article
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According to ElUniverso.com the police of the hydrocarbon energy unit raided a hacienda in San Carlos in the province of Guayas on the morning of Friday June 17th. The unit found fuel stored for smuggling activities in the vicinity of the hacienda, reported the police. The fuel was bound for Huaquillas, a city located on […]
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ElUniverso.com reports that three heavily armed men robbed Natos La Parrilla, in the center of Guayaquil, on Wednesday June 15th at 8:45 p.m. Police report the assailants took about USD 5,000 from customers and restaurant workers. The robbed items included cell phones, and lab tops. Victims included foreigners who were dining at the restaurant. On […]
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According to ELUniverso.com the Ecuador’s Minister of the Interior, Jose Serrano announced that along with the elite police groups implemented by the national police, a plan called “safe circuits” will be exercised in an effort to reduce levels of crime. The elite police groups have been in place for about 21 days, however in Guayaquil, […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, five people reported to the judicial police that they were victims of abductions in Guayaquil between 8:00 p.m. last Monday and 6:20 a.m. on Wednesday June 15th. Four of the victims reported being abducted when returning to their homes in taxicabs. In one incident, a green car intercepted the taxicab with the […]
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RPP.com.pe reports that a Spanish citizen was arrested while trying to transport 2 kilos and 100 grams of cocaine hidden in a jacket, long with an article of jewelry, in the Cusco Airport. The national police of Peru have custody of the foreigner, whose name is no available. The apprehension of the suspect was done […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, on June 14th three businesses in the Guayas providence were robbed. Reportedly, two of the businesses were cased at dawn the same day. The first assault was against a jewelry business, Montero, at 2:40 pm. The owner and an employee were tending to a customer that began to assault them after another […]
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According to Inforegion.pe the residents of the districts in the valley of Apurimac and Ene (VRAE) have decided to create “self-defense committees” (CAD) to combat increased assaults and robberies on their population. These same community defense organizations were created to combat the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). The units will be coordinated with the district officials. […]
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According to Inforegion.pe, police carried out an operation against narco-traffickers on or about June 13 in the Monzon Valley. Police using four helicopters, destroyed two drug laboratories producing hydrochloric cocaine of high potency and PBC (cocaine paste). Police confiscated 130 kilos of drugs, and one and a half tons of chemicals. Also confiscated were weapons, […]
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According to Inforegion.pe OFIANES agents of the National Police of Peru captured Comrade “Artemio,” one of the lieutenants of the Shining Path. The Comrade is known as Larry Utia Perez or Comrade “Larry” or “Cat.” Police captured Artemio near the town of Juanjui in the San Martin region. Artemio was living in this area due […]
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ElComercio.com reports that a bus flipped this morning, June 17th, around 10:30 a.m. on the Ambato-Pillaro road. The bus was traveling the route of Quito-Pillaro with 30 passengers belonging to a group of retired Social Security members from Quito. The accident left four dead and 12 wounded. Police report that the bus lost control of […]
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According to ElComercio.com at 7:00 in the morning on Friday June 17th police arrested a foreigner, Dameus B. who was trying to enter Ecuador at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre airport with 32 people. Dameus was dressed in religious clothes, as was the rest of the group. Police report that Dameus was already under investigation in Ecuador […]
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According to ElComercio.com on Friday at 10 a.m. a taxi carrying four people fell down an abyss, 200 meters deep, in Salasaca in the province of Tungurahua. Amazingly the driver and three passengers survived the accident reports police in a preliminary investigation. The accident was probably due to speeding. The driver was able to escape […]
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•Recently in Colombia, a law was passed which included a new restriction that minors who committed crimes would be released on reaching 21 years of age. •Criminals would contract minors to commit crimes such as murders because they would be release after turning 21. Thus, one of the effects of the previous penalties was that […]
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The explosion at 11:22 p.m. last night in a small square in northern Bogotá affected 12 houses and as well as a bust of Laureano Gómez, but resulted in no injuries.The report by inernacional.eluniversal.com states that authorities have found several explosives in the past few days which were meant to destroy the bust of the […]
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Iñaki Domínguez Atxalandabaso is under investigation for his connection to the ETA and FARC, and is one of the most wanted terrorists by the Spanish police per elespectador.com. He was captured Thursday while heading to Paris from Milan, Italy. Read Article
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RCN Radio reports that Colombia’s Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera Salazar commented that FARC’s recent actions have been like those of Pablo Escobar. He makes this comment in relation to the methods of terrorism on civilians that FARC has utilized in response to successful actions against their operations. Read Article
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On Thursday June 16, 22-year-old Édgar Huerta Montiel, known as “El Wache”, was captured by Mexico’s Federal Police in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. El Wache is said to be responsible for organizing the massacre of at least 10 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, as well as abducting six buses and torturing their passengers. El Wache has worked […]
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•The Presidential Comission for Disarmament, Control of Arms and Munitions will set up different working meetings or workshops focusing specific issues of arms and munitions per el-nacional.com. •One topic will be the production, importation, and distribution of arms. •Another topic will be the registration, destruction, and auditing of seized arms. •Other topics will focus on […]
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Twelve policemen and a cooperative miner are missing as a result of a dynamite explosion during a violent confrontation between uniformed and cooperative employees of a mine during early hours of Tuesday in the mining center of Sayaquira, Inquisivi province of La Paz. Read Article
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According to ElUniverso.com 5 Bangladesh citizens were deported from Colombia to Ecuador via the International Bridge Rumichaca. The situation, as reported by the Administrative Department of Colombia (DAS), the arrests occurred when the Bangladeshis arrived at a ‘puerto seco’ and were arrested along the northern coast of Colombia. Authorities say that the Bangladeshis were trying […]
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Ecuadorenvivo.com reports that Interior Minister, Jose Serrano with the National Police commander, Patricio Franco and commander of the Navy, Daniel Donoso visited the area, San Lorenzo, Thursday, where many robberies have been occurring. Last Saturday 10-armed men assaulted the villagers of this island. The men robbed the community on speedboats. About 20 families live on […]
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llegal coca cultivation in Bolivia increased from 9700 hectares to 11 hectares. Coca has been planted in the Chapare, a stronghold of President Evo Morales election forward by a member of the UN Office, a body which will report annually on 24 June. The former senator of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Gastón Cornejo, regretted […]
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A serbian crime gang was seized by Brazilian federal police, showing an increasing problem for South America — foreign mafia groups (like the serbian) are increasingly using Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as corridors to export the continent’s cocaine to Europe and elsewhere. Read Article
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Police discovered yesterday that 4 Bulgarians arrested in Paraguay for having cloned credit cards were carrying false identification, according to abc.com.py. Officials from the Economic Crimes Police will be checking the identity of the 4 men with Interpol, in hopes that they will have accurate information. The men were in possession of about $350 million […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Counternarcotic Police of Guayas have seized over seven and a-half tons of drugs within the province of Guayas. In 2010, seven and 300 kilos of drugs were seized. The police say that the figure government measures are aiding in toppling drug traffickers and their organizations. Last week, 55 kilos of drugs […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec the second Court of Criminal Penalties in Azuay today, Thursday June 16th, sentences Juan Carlos Albin to six years in prison for the death of Edwin Barros. Barros was killed by a gunshot to the head after a police chase on December 2. Albin was charged with felony murder and convicted on […]
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•The three individuals, including two officers of the Colombian National Police, are suspected members of Los Rastrojos. They are facing charges for narcotics trafficking, responsibility for homicide, and conspiracy for delinquency. •As Radio Santa Fe reports, the two Police officers of Norte de Santander are John Jairo Rosas Carrascal and Raúl Alberto, and the other […]
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While performing a patrol in the area, two soldiers of the Brigada 27 de Selva died after entering a minefield attributed to FARC in Puerto Asís, Putumayo per radiocaracol.com.co. Read Article
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A large mob in one of Mexico City’s neighborhood’s attempted to lynch four accused criminals as they were being taken away by police, Estado de Mexico reports. A number of people were left with minor injuries, but no one was killed.
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Yesterday, Wednesday June 15th, the families of Nelson Ch., who disappeared Friday, were performing a search of the forest in El Troje along Av. Simon Bolivar in the south of Quito, reports ElComercio.com During the search they found a naked corpse, beheaded and without limbs or head. Police were called. Beside the corpse, police say […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec some police believe that the increase of government and police resources is not causing a decrease in crime. Wilson Alulema, Guayaquil chief of the National Police, says that cime stopping will be hard if society itself is ’broken.’ Policeman Diego Armendariz’s funeral was on Wednesday June 14th after criminals killed him Monday. […]
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ElComercio.com reports that on Wednesday June 15th at 8 a.m. the lifeless body of Corporal Eduardo Alcivar was found on the Rio Napo in Orellana province. The Ecuadorian army released a statement the same day. Corporal Alcivar and conscript Juan Alava were on the Rio Napo when their Vilma boat sank anchored at the pierz […]
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According to ElComercio, Louis J. was standing in his front yard, in La Pradera, talking to a friend Tuesday June 14th at 5 p.m. when two men on motorcycles stopped in front of his house. The men asked for the whereabouts of Louis J.’s son, and Louis J. refused to give them information, the men […]
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According to LaHora.com.ec the National Police will start safety circuits to combat crime. All units will cover about 4 kilometers of specific patrol. Forty-seven areas will be patrolled in Guayaquil at the beginning. The units are elite police groups that deal with specific crimes, ‘express kidnapping,’ extortion, killing, and drug trafficking among others. The Ecuadorian […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the killing of a policeman, Darwin Anrango in the morning of March 19th in Pintag, east of Quito has been connected to the murder of two young Colombians this past Saturday in northern Quito. Anrango was found in a dump in a courtyard of a vehicle business. Police discovered that it was […]
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•As reported by noticias.terra.com.co, the issue of overcrowded Colombian prisons has been studied by organizations such as the Office of Human Rights of the UN and the Defensoría del Público. •Different organizations have produced different statistics. For example, the Colombian government states that overpopulation in prisons is 30% while Senator Espíndola and officials of Inpec […]
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•According to El Mercurio, 13 illegal immigrants from Cuba and Africa departed from the Turbo Port and were attempting to travel towards Central America by sea after entering Colombia through Ecuador, and were caught by the authorities. •The two Colombians that aided these immigrants were arrested and charged with the illegal trafficking of migrants. Read […]
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El Universal reports: • Three Colombians and seven Costa Ricans were arrested Thursday in Costa Rica; they are believed to be part of a powerful international organization involved in drug trafficking and money laundering • 15 raids were conducted nationwide to act on an Interpol arrest warrant for Colombian Leudo Nieves, wanted by the U.S. […]
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According to ElComercio.com on Monday June 143h an explosive device was thrown into a house on the block, La Pradera. Four men on motorcycles committed the act of ‘terrorism’ at 3:30 in the morning. Witness report that the area resembles a war zone. The neighborhood has police protection but residents are still scared. The Intervention […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Carlos Mauricio Marin Chacon, 24 died while trying to enter the United States as illegally this past 29th of April. He is from the La Union sector, in the province of Azuay. For 40 days the family of Carlos did not know his whereabouts. On the 9th of June a person informed […]
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Members of the Municipal Police in Oaxaca arrested Francisco Sánchez Vallejo, 48, for impersonating a police officer to public transportation bus drivers, Diario Oaxaca reports. A call to the C-4 system alerted police to a man dressed in an officer’s uniform attempting to extort bus drivers. At the time of his arrest, Sánchez was carrying […]
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•According to El Colombiano’s Medellín section, one type of counterfeit scam involved woman who handed a taxi driver a 20,000 peso bill to pay her 14,000 peso fare. •The driver claimed that to the victim that the bill was false and returned it. • As the woman had no other 20,000 bills, the driver asked […]
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•This morning, Brigade 18 of the Colombian Army freed the Head of Security, Carlos Rodríguez, and a driver of the oil company Oxy after they had been kidnapped Monday around 1:00 p.m. by the ELN per El Tiempo. •Rodríguez is the Head of Security of the Gibraltar natural gas plant. •The army arrested Juan Carlos […]
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VEB-leasing, Russian Helicopters Partner Russian Helicopters and VEB-leasing recently signed an agreement that covers the Latin American aviation market. Russian-made helicopters currently make up 20 percent of the region’s military market. Read Article
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Military cuts mean Britain would be hard put to defend the Falkland Islands from another Argentine attack, the commander of the naval task force that recaptured them exactly 29 years ago said today. Read Article
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A new witness has emerged in the case against Argentinian-Dutch ‘death flights’ pilot Julio Poch. A Transavia staff member has given fresh evidence which implicates his role in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ in which opponents to the military regime were thrown from planes into the sea. Read Article
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This morning in Puerto Rico, Caquetá, FARC’s Teófilo Forero launched a mortar and machine gun attack against the sixth Brigade of the Colombian army and a Police station leaving 2 civilians dead and 10 people injured according to El Espectador. Read Article
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Argentina has returned cargo seized in February from a US military plane in Buenos Aires, the US embassy says. An embassy statement said the incident had been “resolved satisfactorily”, adding that “involuntary administrative failures” were to blame. Read Article
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According to a projection made by Luis Fernandez, director of the National Police, in a week can be fired only two municipalities Caracas some 189 thousand bales. The account got taken as a sign to Sucre and Libertador, where there are approximately 3,700 neighborhoods. “Using an average balance of shots of each neighborhood, including Friday, […]
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According to ElUniverso.com an unidentified man was the victim of a hit-and-run at 2:30 on Sunday June 12th between the streets Chambers and ‘la 38.’ Witnesses say that a car outside a nightlife sector hit him and the driver fled. The victim had serious head injuries. The witnesses complained that the fire department, called to […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, an operation in Madrid, Spain, Espejo, under-covered a network that laundered USD 25 million between 2007 and 2011. It began September 2010. The network used the façade of remittances. August 2010, Madrid police arrested an Ecuadorian migrant, Jenny Alexandra Fasce Schumacker with 40 others for crimes of money laundering, terrorism, and drug […]
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According to ElUniverso.com on Monday, June 13 at about 11:30 a shooting and an attempted assault occurred at the drive through for Banco de Machala. The bank is located on 25 de junio and 10 de agosto. Reportedly there was one fatality, a policeman, four alleged assailants were wounded and a passerby was struck in […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a man reported to judicial police that at 8 p.m. on Sunday June 12th that he was kidnapped by several people who approached his Ford F-150 near La Prosperina on Perimeter road. The victim says his attackers took advantage of a red light and intercepted him in a Chevrolet Spark. Two men […]
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According to ElUniverso.com nine Latin King gang members were arrested in Barcelona in connection with a serious attack on a young man who wanted to leave the gang. The arrested included two Ecuadorians, two Peruvians, two Spanish, a Dominican, a Moroccan and a Bolivian, between 15 and 32 years of age. Six of them are […]
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•According to policia.gov.co, the Colombian Police first discovered 20 smuggled gallons of foreign gasoline worth about 120,000 pesos in a vehicle on the ruta Valledupar Codazzi. •Another 100 gallons were discovered hidden in 3 cars on the road connecting Valledupar, La Paz, and Becerril. Read Article
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In an image diagram, ElComercio.com reports that robberies and assaults are occurring through three methods in Ecuador First, the pedestrian is robbed or assaulted by people in a car or on motorcycles. There are usually 3 to 5 assailants and the robbery lasts minutes. Most often, the victim is in an empty place. Two people […]
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El Universal Reports: • The state government has pledged 10,000 members of state, intermunicipal and municipal police to aid in the launch of Operation Conago 1 • Operation Conago 1 (standing for “Comisión National de Gobernadores” – National Committee of Governers) seeks to attack the 11 most common crimes in Mexico, including kidnapping, robbery and […]
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During an operation intended to increase safety in Cali, the Colombian Police found six charges with 12 kg of explosives belonging to FARC’s frente 30 as El Espectador reports. FARC was planning an attack against the Fuerza Pública in different parts of Cali. Another operation successfully confiscated 153 bars of indugel to be used in […]
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According to ElComercio.pe anti-drug police seized 125 kilos of hydrochloric cocaine in a container in terminal storage LISCA. One arrest was made. The drug was divided into brick-like packages, wrapped in duct tape and carbon paper with a SOL logo. The operation was carried out with the involvement of personal in the public prosecutor’s office. […]
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ElComercio.com reports that an operation in the port of Manta Ecuadorian police seized 82.7 kg of cocaine with a reported destination of Spain. The total cost of the confiscated drug is an estimated USD 5 million was found Saturday in a trailer of a truck of a Manta fishing company, the narcotics division told reporters. […]
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Following a story of an assassination of two people in northern Quito, Expreso.ec reports that the couple was Colombian. The couple was stopped at a light on Avenida Republica. While the couple was talking, the two men on motorcycles descended upon the vehicle and shot around 23 rounds into the couple. The assassins fled on […]
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According to ElComercio.com two people approached a blue Volkswagen Golf car on motorcycle firing 23 rounds into the vehicle. At 8:30 a.m. Saturday June 11th two people were murdered at the light on the streets of Eloy Alfaro and La Republica in Quito. Witnesses report that the assassins were waiting for the vehicle. At this […]
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According to Periodicodigital.com.mx an attack on the Global Express Hotel, located on the Mexico Puebla highway, allegedly was the work of the Zetas. The hotel is located near FINSA Park. However, a police investigation has produced important clues to what happened. The two employees that were held hostage for 50,000 pesos are part of the […]
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According to Expreso.ec a group of policewoman will patrol the streets of Quito on motorcycles for the first time. This pilot program is part of the traffic police patrol. If successful, it could be implemented nationally. The objective is that women will have more confidence in the police and support the women of the force […]
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According to Expreso.ec six robbers of bank customers were arrested on Friday June 10th. Also, a taxi driver was detained in connection with a criminal gang that stole USD 2,000 from a customer at a bank. The customer chased the assailants, as did a policeman on a motorcycle as the gang got away in a […]
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Reported by Expreso.ec an accident in the village Bola de Oro, near the Puebloviejo-Babahoyo highway left 5 people dead and 18 others injured on Thursday June 9th. The accident occurred when a truck hit a bus from the Bolivar Company. The bus veered to one side of the road after being hit. The police and […]
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Friday morning at the Puerto Caldera on the Pacific coast the United States government donated to Costa Rica two new boats to the Servicio Nacional de Guardacostas (Coast Guard) to continue its fight against international drug trafficking. To receive the boats was Costa Rican presidenta, Laura chinchilla, who accepted the gift under the framework of […]
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Italy has recalled its ambassador to Brazil after the South American country’s leading court barred the extradition of an Italian fugitive who was convicted of four murders in the 1970s. Read Article
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Two Florida men face a federal indictment in Ohio that accuses them of sneaking counterfeit U.S. $100 bills from South America into the United States, hiding them in the headrests of rental cars and using about $5,000 a day in fake money on shopping trips around the country, authorities said Thursday. Read Article
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A police patrol killed one soldier and wounded Army is a negative balance of the security forces clash with FARC guerrillas in the area known as the plane’s tail, jurisdiction Quilichao Santander, Cauca. Apparently, the insurgents sought to attack a base of the Pichincha Battalion, based in this population, when they were struck by patrol […]
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Eight policemen were killed and four others injured is the tragic toll of a plane crash reported on Saturday in Las Salinas Casanare. Although it is unclear what caused the crash of the helicopter of the National Police. Four police injured were treated at health centers in Yopal. Read Article
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According to Esperso.ec Mario Andres Perez was arrested by the judicial Police in connection with an assault on Assemblywoman Gilmar Gutierrez two months ago. Mr. Perez was arrested in Guayas with a warrant issued by the Fourth Criminal Court in Guayas. During a press conference yesterday, no details were elaborated on due to a continuing […]
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ElComercio.pe reports that the central market in Callao does not have a legal operating license or safety certificate. Therefore, 10,000 people are exposed daily to a serious risk in event of an earthquake, stated the council of Civil Defense. The market has a history in kidnappings, stabling and arrests. In 1940 there was an earthquake […]
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•Walter Hernández, alias “el Viejo,” was captured in El Doncello, Caquetá in Colombia according to El Periodiquito. •Hernández is one of the main heads of FARC’s “Teófilo Forero” column which operates in Caquetá and Huila. •The captured workers of Chinese Sinochem and British Emeral Energy have been identified as Zhau Hong, Yang Jing and Tang […]
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•17 members of the Colombian National Police have been arrested for being connected to narcotics trafficking in different cities in Colombia as reported by Rcn Radio. •The case is still in the initial stages and after Friday, the officers will face charges of narcotics trafficking and conspiracy to commit a criminal offense. Read Article
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According to RPP.com.pe the police chief of the San Martin region, Julio Ramos Chavez confirmed the capture of two suspected terrorists in Moyobamba. The National Criminal Court on Terrorism was seeking the capture of a man and a woman, Samuel Ramos Galvez and Herlinda Eufemia Julca Paico. The two people were caught when they went […]
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National Deputy of Argentina, Natalia Gambaro, announced today that the country is a sanctuary for drug traffickers. She says the government doesn’t want to accept that Argentina has a drug problem and has no political resolve to combat the issue. Gambaro sites Brazil as an example of national security in response to president Dilma Rousseff’s […]
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According to ElComercio.pe the miners in Puno have continued their strike against concessions in the region. Reportedly, the anti-mining strike is become more intense with roads blocked for 12 hours. The indigenous group, Aymara have blocked thirteen places within the 25-mile route between Desaguadero and Zepita. According to the ElComercio correspondent, Carlos Fernandez, located in […]
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According to Ecuavisa a merchant, Christian Ruiz Martillo, was killed in cold blood by his brother in law, Duval Mora Valverde. The incident was caught on tape in the city of Duran in the province of Guayas. Mr. Valverde was married to Mr. Ruiz’s sister, who moved to Spain with their children. Reportedly, Duval Valverde […]
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•As reported by elespectador.com, the British oil company Emerald Energy released a statement recognizing that the four workers of Chinese descent were kidnapped in San Vicente del Caguan yesterday and that the company is putting forth an emergency plan in response to the situation. •It appears that FARC is responsible for the kidnappings. •The statement […]
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According to Hoy.com.es, the Unit to Combat Organized Crime (ULCO) destroyed a coca plantation camouflaged on a hectare of land in Pastaza province in the jungle. The operation destroyed more than 150 coca plants, but no arrests were made. The commander of the second police division, Juan Ruales, reported that the population in the area […]
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•The girl identified as 19-year-old Milena Beltrán was drugged with scopolamine, commonly referred to as “burundanga,” and left naked near a military garrison. •As radiosantafe.com reports, the doctors of Hospital Simón Bolívar in Bogotá, Colombia and Police are still attempting to determine is sexual abuse was involved and if the girl is mentally ill. •The […]
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(Prensa Latina) Argentina warned of a worrying situation in the South Atlantic due to unilateral activities and war drills by the United Kingdom. The issue was put forward by Argentinean Foreign Minister Hector Timmerman during the 42nd General Assembly of the Organization of American States, closed in San Salvador on Tuesday evening after three days […]
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As described in the video by elespectador.com, in Barrancabermeja, Santander, Colombia, the young boy was caught in school with 7 small packets of marijuana in his bag. Authorities believe that narcotics sellers were using the child to sell the drug at his school. Read Article
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Colombia launched a major military and police operation Thursday to try to rescue four Chinese oil workers abducted by suspected leftist guerrillas in a remote southern jungle region. A land and air operation was under way around the town of San Vicente del Caguan, a longtime stronghold of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia […]
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•The Gaula Military Cundinamarca and the CTI performed a raid and captured three culprits responsible for using falsified military identification as reported by elespectador.com. •In the raid, the authorities also found items such as military ID, uniforms solely meant for the military, credit and debit cards and bank documentation. •At least 50 military personnel have […]
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The Federal Judicial Police conducted an operation on the central offices of Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration in Mexico City on February 15, 2011. El Proceso now reveals that the agents, who some sources indicate were US operatives, obtained a list of foreigners admitted to the country between 2008 and 2010, especially those from countries […]
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A man wanted out of Lee County for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his customers reportedly took his own life in Belize. And that could mean his victims will never see restitution. Read Article
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Terra.es reports that the Civil Guard found the body of a young man, 23 years old, who went missing in the area of Cueva de la Paloma. The body was found at one in the afternoon. The man went missing while climbing with a friend in the nature reserve of El Chorro. The government delegation […]
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According to ElComercio.pe the search for the missing young man who disappeared in the Colca valley will end in 20 days. Ciro Castillo Rojo has been missing for more than 60 days. Police believe that Rojo may have fallen off a waterfall in the middle of the Bomboya Mountains. He and his girlfriend were traveling […]
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•According to eltiempo.com, 15 officers of the Policía Nacional of Colombia have been captured in areas such as Bogotá, Cali, and San Andrés and are believed to have links with a narcotics trafficking network. •These officers allowed shipments of narcotics to pass in speedboats headed to Central America, and have been identified to have been […]
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•Rcnradio.com reports that in the southeast of Antioquia, Colombia, a 16 year old who had an argument with the girl’s father started randomly shooting leaving the 3-year-old girl dead and her mother seriously wounded. •The authorities are seeking the culprit who fled the scene. •The girl’s mother was transported to a hospital. Read Article
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•Three young natives, two of them minors, turned themselves in to the Colombian military last week in Inzá, Cauca per servindi.org/actualidad/46107. •The three indigenous youths reported that within the last two months, FARC has recruited 15 minors between the ages of 12 and 15 with recruitment focusing on the areas of Toribío, Corinto, La Caldera, […]
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•As rcnradio.com reports, the director of the Corporación Forjando Futuros, Gerardo Vega, points out a lack of safety in the process of restoring rights to lands in Colombia. •53 leaders of this process have died since the beginning and leaders being threatened are not receiving the necessary protection. •The Comisión Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the body a soldier was found in the Rio Napo. Last Saturday two soldiers went missing after their boat sank off the port of Vilma. The families of the two missing soldier were contacted by the Ecuadorian military. At the same time a search and rescue was implemented. On Tuesday June 7th, […]
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According to Vistazo.com, an anti-kidnapping unit rescued a taxi driver from his captor in Naranjal, Ecuador on Monday June 6th. Moises Enrique Arevalo disappeared for seven days after an officer, identified as Felix Xavier Criollo Giler, kidnapped him in Machala. Reportedly the officer detained Arevalo on suspicion of drugs. Once Giler transferred Arevalo into a […]
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As part of a military operation called Frontera Sur, Brazil has deployed troops to the cities Foz de Iguazú and Guaíra along the southern tri-border the country shares with Argentina and Paraguay to help fight crimes like drug trafficking and the smuggling of people and goods. Of Brazil’s 4 thousand men army, 800 are stationed […]
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