•According to rcnradio.com, Plan Democracia is in effect to protect the candidates for the October 30th elections, but general Óscar Naranjo, director of the Police, said that it would be impossible to protect all of the candidates due to their substantial number.
•Nariño, Córdoba, Antioquia and Valle del Cauca are the departments with the highest danger. Read Article
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Tehran also is one of the allies of Hugo Chávez. Omitting the mullahs now even build missile silos in his country.The FARC terrorists are not the only villain with by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez admitted. How “World Online” in last November reported that Chavez has with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on October 19, 2010 […]
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The Chilean government has suspended the use of tear gar by police to disperse protests. The decision comes after police used tear gas on a demonstration in the capital that drew some 30,000 people opposing proposed dams in Patagonia. A tear gas canister fired by police in the city of Concepcion wounded one person in […]
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An effort to declassify U.S. documents on Argentina’s dictatorship failed Friday in the U.S. Congress, disappointing rights activists in the Argentine capital who believe the secret files could help them identify young people stolen as babies by the military junta. Read Article
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PUBLISHED FROM WARDEN’S MESSAGE WARDEN’S MESSAGE – PETEN GUATEMALA May 16, 2011 Dear American Citizen: The following is a Warden Message concerning Security in Peten. Please share the following information with any other U.S. citizens you know, as soon as possible. It should be disseminated as widely as possible within the U.S. citizen community. Please […]
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President Alvaro Colom declared tonight the state of siege in the department of Petén, after the slaughter of 27 agricultural workers who worked on the farm Los Cocos, La Libertad, Petén. He said he ordered the continued presence of the combined forces of police and army ” indefinitely “in Peten jungle region where Mexican drug […]
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While LatinAmericaCurrentEvents.com is a serious news aggregator, we could not help having a laugh at this video. We hope you enjoy it.
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•A video posted by elespectador.com reveals that a woman going to the station to report her son missing found and alerted the authorities of a grenade outside. •The inhabitants of the neighborhood, Aborizadora Alta, report seeing a man leaving the device outside of the Center of Immediate Action. Read Article
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Diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks reveal that the security company Global CST—led by Maj. Gen. Israel Ziv, the former head of operations for the Israeli military—made such inroads into Latin America that US diplomats saw it as a security threat and moved to thwart the company’s expansion. The diplomats’ efforts were given an inadvertent […]
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The Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to work in Mexico when shooting broke out and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five. Dozens of them were on their way for another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico’s industrial heartland when the violence erupted. Read […]
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Argentine Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government’s probe of crimes committed by Argentina’s dictatorship, died Saturday morning April 30 at the age of 99 in his Buenos Aires residence, from complications related to bronchitis, though he was in ill health during his latter years including being affected by partial blindness. Sabato only wrote three […]
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Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 65,000 firearms as part of a disarmament program designed to reduce the high levels of violent crime affecting the country. Gen. Julio Cesar Morales says the number is double last year’s total and includes revolvers, automatic pistols, assault rifles, rifles and even homemade firearms. Read Article
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The Colombian government announced on Friday that it will increase military presence on the border with Venezuela to counter the presence of guerrilla groups in that area. “We know for sure that all the cocaine, produced in this region, is coming out through the border” with Venezuela, Minister of Interior and Justice German Vargas Lleras […]
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A report of three rifles missing from military barracks triggered the investigation into a former Salvadoran army officer who pleaded guilty this week in the United States to federal terrorism charges, officials in this Central American country said Thursday. Hector Antonio Martinez-Guillen, 32, acknowledged Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Virginia that he sold […]
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Two prisoners and one prison law enforcement officer died as Costa Rican police thwarted a prison escape at the maximum security La Reforma prison on Wednesday (May 11). According to authorities, on Wednesday afternoon, a group of armed prisoners took the prison director and about a dozen guards hostage and tried to escape. Read Article
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Confiscation of Over 16,000 Rounds Believed to Be Headed to FARC Ecuadorian site eldiario.com.ec , reported the capture of 4 individuals (2 of them former members of the military) during an operation part of “Operación Relámpago” (Operation Thunder) today at 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The suspects were apprehended at 3km de la via Santo […]
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Police Find 3,700 5.56 Caliber Rifle Rounds in a Bus in Bogotá • A report by elespectador.com states that the police received a call reporting the strange movements of a bus and gave the plate numbers. • Upon stopping the bus, they discovered a box 3,700 5.56 caliber rounds. • The driver, now in custody, […]
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The operation of gangs migrated in recent months the country’s rural areas, according to the information handled by the Ministry of National Defense. El Ministro David Munguía Payés, reveló que las pandillas han trasladado sus operaciones a departamentos, que hasta el 2009 estaban alejados de todo tipo de violencia como son Morazán, La Unión y […]
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As reported by rcnradio.com, the military of the municipality of San Vicente del Caguán opened fire on a vehicle transporting two families. Of the 15 passengers, 8 suffered injuries. An unharmed passenger states that she and her family were driving towards her father’s farm when the army began to shoot the vehicle. Despite pleas for […]
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A total of 157 victims of criminal groups engaged in trafficking in patterns of sexual and labor exploitation have been rescued between January and April this year by members of the Division against Trafficking (Divintrap) National Police of Peru (PNP). Read Article
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In regions of Urabá Antioquia such as Carepa and Chigorodó, there have been invasions of plots of land by various farm hands per elcolombiano.com. Authorities state that these land plots have been recovered and are secured. This Monday the operations concluded as there were 15 plots occupied by around 1,400 families prior to the evictions. […]
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Colombia: Military Expenditures of 2010 Reach 21 Billion Pesos • A report by elespectador.com reports that 90% of that amount was spent on operation alone with the other 10% going to investment. • That 10% bought the Colombian army, navy, air force and the police force equipment, transportation, and weapons. • The official report from […]
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According to a report by eltiempo.com, a man reported his brother’s robbery at the hands of two men in a taxi hailed by phone at 03:00. Two taxi cabs arrived after he made the initial call asking for a taxi. They threatened him with a revolver and preformed “el paseo millionario” (the millionaire pass) in […]
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According to eltiempo.com, current President Juan Manuel Santos and Álvaro Uribe Vélez disagree about the government recognizing an armed conflict with paramilitary groups. Santos support for this part of the law of victims soon to be passed comes from the desire to avoid grouping victims of common crimes with victims of paramilitary attacks. Uribe expressed […]
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According to eltiempo.com, during operations against the narcotrafficking group ‘los Rastrojos’ which is headed by ‘los Comba,’ the anti-narcotics police force captured ‘Niño Malo’ in Cali early the morning of May 4th. Authorities consider him to be one of the most trusted men by the brothers “Calle Serna” also known as “Comba” and petitioned him […]
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Soldiers have evicted hundreds of Nicaraguans from buildings damaged in a 1972 earthquake, as part of a government plan to demolish the decaying structures. Read Article
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Representatives of customs agencies from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries on Tuesday met in the capital of Panama to discuss legal measures needed to be taken to improve the control of smuggling and how to apply new technologies. Read Article
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A Colombian general has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in a military raid during a hostage crisis at the Supreme Court in 1985. Read Article
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Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin agreed to help Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War as revenge for Britain’s crackdown on the Irgun during the British mandate of Palestine, according to a new book. “Operation Israel: The Reaming of Argentina During The Dictatorship,” by Argentinian journalist Hernan Dobry, explains how Israel secretly supplied arms and equipment […]
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Three congressmen say one unmanned aircraft based in Corpus Christi is insufficient to patrol the 1,200-mile border between Texas and Mexico. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, made the comments after meeting with state and federal officials at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Read Article
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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sherman interdicted a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel and took four people into custody 480 kilometres off the coast of Costa Rica, April 3. The semi-submersible and its crew were carrying an estimated 6.4 tons of cocaine, according to the Coast Guard. Read Article
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Five Colombian police officers were killed and two wounded when suspected leftist rebels attacked two police posts in different regions, authorities said Wednesday.Read Article
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Panamanian agents seized 140 kilograms of cocaine at the Cristóbal port, in the province of Colón, located along the Atlantic coast of Panama. This was reported yesterday by National Police Director, Gustavo Pérez. Read Article
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Specialized police agents will monitor the borders of Costa Rica with Panama and Nicaragua, beginning yesterday, in an effort to strengthen the safeguarding of territorial sovereignty, said President of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla. Chinchilla explained that the new force will secure the border areas between Costa Rica and neighboring countries in an attempt to ensure […]
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Right after Fidel Castro’s first year in power in Cuba, U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower took his first and only trip to Latin America on Feb. 20, 1960. He visited Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. He suffered a surprisingly bitter experience in each of those capitals. He saw threatening crowds waving banners with the images of […]
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Washington in August began patrolling the entire US-Mexican border with Predator drones, and several US counties reportedly have pilot programs in police and sheriff offices. The US also sends high-altitude drones over Mexico that “have been particularly useful in achieving various objectives of combating crime,” the Mexican National Security Council said in a statement March […]
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“Despite all I had confidence in the police, but after that I know two of them are guilty of the death of my brother, can not tell who is right or who’s bad,” says Rodrigo, Marco Samaniego Lara’s brother, killed in June 2010 allegedly by active agents of the Judicial Police of Pichincha (PJP). Read […]
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Argentina’s president has ordered all federal forces to search for a key witness against a former military officer in the death of a bishop who tried to intervene on behalf of victims of the dictatorship.The 52-year-old man’s wife said he disappeared on Monday, and President Cristina Fernandez ordered the federal search. Read Article
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After a 7-year process conducted by legal and diplomatic ways before the German Government, which concluded with success, Mexico recovered 49 archaeological pieces illegally subtracted from national territory. This is the first delivery made to Mexico of Prehispanic objects seized in 2004 in Frankfurt, part of the Patterson Collection. Read Article
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tice Department arrested another person tied to the Cibao Cartel, an international network recently dismantled and whose main members exported more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine over the last 11 months from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Read Article
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Former lieutenant Elias Enmanuel Núñez accused his supervisors of protecting drug dealers and stealing dope. He was fired, threatened with death, and officially logged as one of the 5,000 crooked police officers, soldiers or anti-narcotics agents sacked in the past three years, the United States newspaper Miami Herald reported. Read ArticleR
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A 53-year-old Canadian man sought by Interpol on pedophilia charges has been arrested at the Gregorio Luperon International Airport, in Puerto Plata, 215 kilometers from Santo Domingo. According to a press release, Gerald Genest will be turned over to Canadian authorities. Read Article
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After the killing, the guerrillas mounted next to the bodies a minefield to try to kill the patrols to try to recover the bodies. Near the gorge Taques in Toledo (Antioquia), were found shot in the head with the corpses of two soldiers kidnapped last Monday by the front 36 of the Farc in the […]
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According to Colombiareports.com, there have been at least seven robberies of tourists residing at hostels in La Candelaria district in Bogota over the last eight months. These robberies have been violent with the use of weapons and included sexual assault offenses. The website reported that at least one American tourist has been sexually assaulted. Furthermore, […]
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Even the Military Prosecutor of Valdivia arrived Mapuche community representatives Panguipulli to denounce police officers for abuses committed in the area. The parliament werken Koz Koz, Jorge Hueque, said that the police exceeded their authority to care for the farm Trafún owned forestry enterprise Vertientes, conducting illegal searches of the area communities. Read Article
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President Evo Morales, an outspoken critic of Washington “imperialism”, has accepted financial aid to monitor efforts to eradicate coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The government accepted the $250,000 offer following setbacks to its counter-narcotics programme which prompted calls for a return of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Read Article
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For Ruben Vargas, an analyst on security and drug trafficking, the Army and National Police of Peru must work in a coordinated manner, to join forces and analyze all the information they have to confront and weaken the Sendero Luminoso. “It would be interesting that the armed forces to share and discuss with the police […]
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The agents involved in the fight against drug trafficking, the Rural Patrol Unit Motor (UMOPAR), entered a surprise in the town of Manchuria, in the district of Monzon, and destroyed two giant labs basic rustic pasta cocaine (PBC). The operation began at 3 am, when the troops reached the area by land. According to investigations, […]
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The police reported the capture of 740 suspected members of criminal gangs operating in the country for so far this year. De los detenidos, 378 estaban vinculados con la estructura criminal de los llamados ‘Urabeños’, Of those arrested, 378 were linked to the criminal con structure of so-called ‘Urabeños’, 246 ‘Los Rastrojos’ y 69 con […]
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Carabobo Stereo 102.3 FM, a radio station based in the northern state of Carabobo, has been off the air since the evening of 18 March when around 30 representatives of the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) turned up unannounced with soldiers, shut it down and seized its equipment. Read Article
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El Salvador has issued temporary ban on firearms in 27 municipalities as part of its efforts to reduce violence and criminal rates provided that 70-75% the homicides involve firearms. Justice and Security Minister Manuel Melgar told the press the decree will remain in force in 20 such places until June 15 and till May 15 […]
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The Malaysian government failed to inform Washington that two “US-supplied” F-5 fighter jet engines had gone missing since May 22, 2008, despite having at least “three opportunities” to come clean, according to leaked United States diplomatic cables released recently. The engines two years later were finally located two years later in Uruguay. Read Article
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After almost twenty nine years of service to the Falkland Islands the Joint Services Explosive Ordnance Disposal team based at Hillside Camp in the capital Stanley will be transferring its service to JSEOD teams based at the Mount Pleasant Complex. Read Article
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While the perception of growing insecurity among Colombians and some indices on the situation of armed conflict, crime and violence show a clear deterioration in the interior of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence revive old personal rivalries and body, presumably overcome, which will hinder the government and the military to adapt its […]
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After receiving a report of a clandestine laboratory in Acoponeta, Nayarit, Mexican troops closed it down. They secured 82 kilos with 780 grams of powder with the characteristics of gum opium, 58 kilos with 640 grams of opium gum, 200 liters of processed opium gum and 9 kilos with 890 grams of a chemical compound […]
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Battalion ‘Juanambú’, belonging to the XII Brigade of the Army, defused in a controlled manner a house-bomb had been placed by FARC guerrillas in the village of redfish, a rural area of San José del Fragua, south of Caquetá . General Fabricio Cabrera Ortiz, commander of the XII Brigade of the Army, said the guerrillas […]
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On Tuesday of this week, according to the El Universo, three Colombian women were detained for failing to declare money they possessed over $10,000, at the Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. The money laundering unit of the police received information from a confidential source that the women were carrying undeclared money. The trio’s […]
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The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ecuador will investigate the veracity of a recently publicized WikiLeaks cable that claims Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa received campaign funding from the FARC and Venezuela, El Espectador reported Friday. Read Article
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At least 15 percent of the population over 18 years in the state of Oaxaca, Oaxaca 331 000 557, has been victim of bribery by members of various security forces, mainly identified a number of cameras business, based on the Seventh National Survey on Insecurity (ENSI) 2010. Canacintra Coparmex and revealed to news that the […]
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The Colombian authorities captured one of the political leaders of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) known by the alias “Simon Bernart ‘, official sources said. Troops of the fifth division of the Army of Colombia guerrilla arrested in the southwestern department of Tolima and, according to security agencies, the rebel had direct […]
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AEL Systems SA, the Brazilian subsidiary of Elbit Systems has signed a strategic agreement with Embraer aircraft during the show LAAD 2011 for joint exploration of the unmanned systems market, including the possibility of creating a company majority of whose capital would be jointly owned by Embraer. Read Article
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U.S. Soldiers and Contractors in Colombia, 2009-2010 Source: Colombian Ministry of Defense, letter from Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera to Senator Enrique Robledo, February 2011. Sites were visited by U.S. personnel as part of military agreements during the previous two years. Link to Map – from http://forusa.org/ – Fellowship of Reconciliation
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On April 5, Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that a row of concrete Jersey barriers was being emplaced in front of the U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey, Mexico. The story indicated that the wall was put in to block visibility of the facility, but being only about 107 centimeters (42 inches) high, such barriers do […]
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One ton and three hundred ten kilos of cocaine hydrochloride were seized by the Narcotics Police of Guayas in two operations in the seaport of Guayaquil. Read Article http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/04/13/1/1422/13-toneladas-droga-platanos-pinas.html?p=1422&m=948
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Traveling from Santiago del Estero to Buenos Aires, a man on a micro bus was apprehended when it was discovered he was transporting nearly 700 snakes and reptiles. He had plan to sell the animals. Read Article
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The agent of the Federal Public Ministry opened a preliminary investigation against Vladimir Gálvez AP/PGR/SON/STA-I/132/2011 Robledo, Carmelo Díaz and Carlos Gómez Corrales Cortez for his alleged role in committing the crime of violation of General Population Act, after being arrested with 25 Mexican Sonoyta. In response to a citizen’s complaint. Read Article
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The army commander, Gen. Alejandro Navas, admitted on Tuesday that if there were irregularities in the prison of the military fort. The senior officer said the army command in December knew about the irregularities in the prison, especially what I had to do with the improper use of the huts where relatives of the inmates […]
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Three “narcopintas” yesterday evening and other more this morning, were left and where threats to the police leadership and the Delta of the Municipal Group. Read Article
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Analysis of the expanding police warn that gangs operating in the country seeking to exercise, as in provinces bordering with El Salvador have seen graffiti that announce the arrival of these groups. The Development of National Unity against Criminal Gang (PANDA) will implement the Plan Panda in the east of the country in May. The […]
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The Secretary of Public Security, Damián Canales confirmed the arrest of suspected members of criminal group “Los Zetas”, operating in the municipalities of Tula Tulancingo and at least one of the insured is part of the important structure of this organization in the state, stressed the police chief. Read Article
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Equipment, connected to a central, lets you compare the images captured by the device to a database of those wanted by the Justice Department. Do not be surprised to find police officers wearing glasses with highly futuristic technology in the coming concerts, religious gatherings, festivals or football games opened in Sao Paulo. It is with […]
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RCN Radio De La Noche, experts in national security issues agreed on the need of Colombia to organize the issue of intelligence and counterintelligence to prevent each force make media show with every action it undertakes. Read Article
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Uruguayan Minister of Defense Luis Rosadilla pledged to renegotiate a defense agreement with the Venezuelan government. Read Article
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Would you stop for traffic officer not in his patrol car? That is the question posed by many during the last few days following the announcement of the policy of the Policia de Tránsito for the use of unmarked vehicles to surprise drivers. Read Article
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Lara Muñoz Gemner alias ‘Lucio 40’ accused of being the leader of the FARC’s Front 22, which operates in La Macarena and Vistahermosa, – was arrested by the Police Sijin in suburbs of the capital of Meta, near of a chain store on the road that leads to Catama. Read Article
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Three remain in custody Brigade sub-inspectors of Police Narcotics Investigation Iquique, for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery against two Bolivians. The incident occurred in the border sector Colchane far as 263 miles inland from Iquique. According to initial investigations, the police controlled the foreigners who were waiting for a bus and forced them […]
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osta Rican opposition politicians reiterated their rejection on Friday to U.S. military ships docking in Costa Rica under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. “We want to fight drug trafficking, but we do not accept the docking or prolonged stay of military ships in our country, because it violates our Constitution and our national sovereignty,” […]
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At 5:00 am this morning the U.S. Border Patrol was in pursuit of a Jeep Cherokee with two individuals who had passed into U.S. territory near San Luis, Sonora, Mexico. The jeep became stuck a few meters from the border and the two occupants escaped on foot into Mexico. Border Patrol discovered a truck equipped […]
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In the last hours of the OS-7 police nationwide made various micro-traffic control actions, making the arrest of more than 60 microtraficantes, paving more than 40 buildings and making the confiscation of a large amount of drugs. In several raids carried out in major cities of our country, police in the OS-7 carried out raids […]
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The U.S. denounced today deaths and tortures at the hands of the police forces, and the terrible conditions persist in Dominican Republic’s prisons in 2010. In its annual report on the world’s human rights situation, the State Department affirmed that people trafficking, violence against women, discrimination against minorities and little enforcement of the labor laws […]
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Yesterday, the Bolivian anti-drug police (Felcn) shot a killed a 13 year old boy, Ricardo Cruz, and wounded five other teenagers near Yapacaní on the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz road. Family members of the victims said that the boys were traveling in a car when the police opened fire on them, apparanently confusing them with drug traffickers. […]
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Guayaquil Police are attemtping to take police uniforms off the streets that are being sold via clandestine means. It is believed that the sale of the uniforms are being delivered to criminal gangs who use them in the commission of crimes. Only police are permitted to purchase uniforms and from authorized outlets. Read Article
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In order to curb crime in Juliaca , capital of the Province of San Roman, Puno , the city’s jurisdiction install 30 surveillance cameras later than 15 days. Cameras will be placed in areas where crime has been mapped. Read Article
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One of the Ecuadorian political civil and accused of instigating the police revolt of September 30, 2010 was declared innocent. The citizen Manuel Araujo, a former Ecuadorean military officer, was arrested almost immediately after the events of that day and has been jailed for eight months. Read Article
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A U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South security cooperation team and more than 25 servicemembers from the Ejercito de Nicaragua (National Army of Nicaragua) conducted a five-day multinational hand-to-hand combat skills exchange at the Corinto Naval Base, Nicaragua, March 24. Read Article
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The Department of the Navy Navy Mexico informed through a statement that was seized nine tons of marijuana in the border town of Puerto Peñasco, in northwestern Sonora.The report states that they were elements of Marines who claimed the drug on Thursday night at a home in the town of that name of the municipality. […]
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he most dangerous city in Mexico — Ciudad Juarez — suffered one of its bloodiest stretches this year finishing with 41 homicides in a four-day period, among them a 10-year-old boy who was shot and killed during an attack meant for his father, the spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors office told CNN. Read Article
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Russia has delivered two Mi-35P Hind E attack helicopters to Peru under a contract to provide the South American country with air power to combat cocaine production and terrorism. The disassembled helicopters were delivered to Peru on board a Russian An-124-100 Condor transport plane. Read Article
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Corruption is widespread “in the ranks of the National Police of Ecuador and who was their commander, Jaime Aquilino Hurtado, used his power as the ultimate authority to extort body, accumulating money and property, facilitate the trafficking and obstructing investigations against corrupt colleagues. These are the conclusions drawn by the U.S. Embassy in Quito, citing […]
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The inhabitants of the districts described as disturbing the affected security in the area, due to the presence of the guerrillas. “Since last year, when he left here the Mobile Brigade 20, the FARC came back and now feel very afraid,” said one citizen, who preferred anonymity. Read Article
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In the first two months of the year the United States repatriated 66 000 704 Mexicans, of which 63 thousand 970 are over 18 years and two thousand 734 were minors. Read Article
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Alleged Venezuelan drug trafficker Walid Makled, who is arrested in Colombia pending extradition, said in a TV interview that top Venezuelan military officers and government officials were involved in his businesses. Read Article
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The first time Adela Navarro saw her longtime mentor cry was when a top editor at their muckraking newspaper was murdered leaving a health clinic with his two young children. “How many more deaths do I need to understand that we can’t do this?” asked Jesus Blancornelas, who narrowly escaped an attempt on his own […]
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Nicaragua To File Complaint Against Costa Rica Nicaragua says it intends to file a complaint against Costa Rica at the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) for violating its territorial integrity. The Ortega government said on Sunday that it would file the complaint today, Monday. Nicaraguan Army Chief Julio Cesar Aviles on Friday […]
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Juan Manuel Santos president on Saturday denounced the infiltration of violent groups in public universities, after public order disturbances caused this week, during protests by students in some schools. Says there is a clear strategy to organize groups of hooded men to attack the police with explosives and then posing as victims of police authorities. […]
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The state intelligence agencies track the investments you have the Russian mafia in the region east of the country and other tourist attractions in order to place them due to subsequent confiscation. Diario Libre is reporting that the presence of bosses is an especially Russians in the east where they have brought high-profile scandals, including […]
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The Director of Immigration, Jose Ricardo Taveras, said that institution in coordination with state security agencies investigating the existence in the Dominican Republic for an alleged Russian mafia. Read Article
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In the middle of the night on Thursday a pirate or fake taxi picked up an Australian tourist in the center of Lima and her husband to go to the airport. The suspect who has a history of rape and robbery, kidnapped and robbed the victim who resisted and was shot in the stomach. She […]
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