Police in Colombia say they have captured a man they believe to be the financial brains behind one of the country’s main drug-trafficking rings. Police arrested Fredy Ricardo Santos Ramirez in central Colombia. Read Article
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Suspected drug hitmen killed a senior police chief in one of the most brazen attacks yet in Monterrey, Mexico’s richest city, El Norte daily reported. Homero Salcido was the head of the state of Nuevo Leon’s security and intelligence agency and, according to preliminary investigations, was shot on Sunday night in an SUV. Attackers then […]
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According to Argentine sources the joint declaration reaffirms the “importance of the strategic relation between both countries” and is the continuation of what was agreed during the recent presidential summit of Dilma Rousseff with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Buenos Aires. Read Article
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23 drug dealers taken into custody by police. The gang included females and three police.
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I wasn’t planning to get too far ahead of yesterday’s news suggesting that a more unified, US-backed regional security plan for Central America may be in the works. But Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez seems to have opened the door. Minister Alvarez, speaking to reporters yesterday about the arrival in Honduras of US Assistant Secretary […]
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The amount of military construction in Latin America planned by the Pentagon for this year has doubled since 2009. This annotated map of current and planned U.S. military construction in Latin America is based on publicly available information on federal contracts (see www.usaspending.gov) and on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers activities. This map was created […]
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Last January, I wrote an essay for The Nation on Washington’s integration of Mexico, Central America and Colombia into a “security corridor.” I called it a “rump Monroe Doctrine,” an explosive mix of militarism and neoliberal economics. Militarily, assorted bilateral and regional treaties are fusing the region’s military, intelligence, and judicial systems into unified, supra-national […]
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THE government has been accused of pulling Royal Navy warships out of the Caribbean because Trinidad and Tobago cancelled a £150m deal to buy three patrol ships from BAE Systems. The Caribbean nation pulled out of a purchase of three offshore patrol vessels from BAE in September last year – despite the ships nearing completion […]
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Few know that fighter Squadron 201 was part of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force. The squadron was called “Aguilas Aztecas 201” (Aztec Eagles) and was attached to the 58th Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Forces during the battle for the liberation of the Philippine Islands. Read Article ———–
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The shootings at the military base of Huanta left a wounded soldier, who was evacuated for medical care. The shootings at the military base of Huanta left a wounded soldier, who was evacuated for medical care. An exchange of fire with long range ammo, including the police and suspected terrorists in the base “Mantaro Union, […]
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For several years now, STRATFOR has been closely watching developments in Mexico that relate to what we consider the three wars being waged there. Those three wars are the war between the various drug cartels, the war between the government and the cartels and the war being waged against citizens and businesses by criminals. In […]
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Bolivia is buying six Chinese combat aircraft as part of its effort to correct its image as a country that isn’t doing as much as it should to cut off the narcotics trail to North America. Read Article
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The government of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo reactivated at least four abandoned military forts in the region of the Chaco Boreal border with Bolivia, the newspaper El Nuevo Herald. The acting head of the Army, General Dario Caceres, announced yesterday at a press conference that “the programs will be implemented to improve infrastructure in order […]
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On the afternoon of 9 February, Marcos Baquero, a member of the municipal council of San José de Guaviare, was released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and handed over to former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba, delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a member of Colombians for Peace. […]
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IN May 1982 Spanish police probably altered the course of the Falklands War after stumbling on Argentinean plans to blow up British warships in Gibraltar harbour. A recently reissued documentary, directed by Jesus Mora, refutes Sunday Times claims that the French intelligence service alerted Britain to the plot. Read Article
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Venezuela’s Minister of Defense Carlos Mata Figueroa replied to criticisms made by opposition lawmaker William Ojeda concerning the presence of Cuban military in Venezuela by stating that international advisers have always been present in the Armed Forces. Read Article
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Venezuelan prosecutors have brought criminal charges against two retired generals for their roles in violence during unrest in 1989, the attorney general said Tuesday. Read Article
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U.S. Marines from a Security Cooperation Task Force (SCTF) held a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) subject matter expert exchange (SMEE) with Colombian marines from Colombian counter intelligence aboard the Colombian Marine Infantry Training Base, Feb. 2. Read Article
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Officials in Brazil say at least five inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the northeast, including some who were decapitated. Read Article
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Panama will spend at least $16 million dollars on four drones to monitor drug trafficking says Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino, which with operating costs could reach $93 million in the first year. The U.S. manufactured unmanned aircraft, valued at around $4 million each, are included in the ministry’s, $300 million budget. The monthly cost […]
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Since 1948 Costa Rica has had no army, relying on international law for defense of its borders, to live in peace and democracy. However, the incursion of Nicaraguan troops on a piece of land claimed Costa Rica – the alleged border invasion – has become a challenge to its neutrality. Read Article
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A KEY witness into events surrounding the killing of Irishman Michael Dwyer by Bolivian police has said his confession implicating Dwyer in terrorism was obtained under torture. Read Article
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Defendants facilitated the cultivation, production and marketing of drugs. First Criminal Judge Municipal de Buga (Valle) endorsed the request of the prosecution and intramural issued a security measure against eight former police officers for their alleged responsibility in the crime of conspiracy. Read Article
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Colombia’s defense minister proposes a strategy, including the creation of a Joint Task Force, aimed at destroying the infrastructure of criminal organizations throughout the country, El Espectador reports. Rodrigo Rivera presented the new strategy, known as “D6,” to President Juan Manuel Santos Monday. Read Article
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Border dispute with Nicaragua has Costa Rica rethinking its lack of army The International Court of Justice is expected to rule any day on a Costa Rica-Nicaragua border dispute. The case has caused the ‘Switzerland of Central America’ to reexamine its commitment to disarmament. Read Article
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Insurgents the Army battles in the future may be in Mexico, not the Middle East, Army Undersecretary Joseph W. Westphal said during a Monday lecture at the University of Utah. “This isn’t just about drugs and illegal immigrants. This is about the potential takeover of a government that’s right on our border,” Westphal said of […]
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Britain is to abandon its warship patrols of the Caribbean for the first time since the second world war because of the navy’s funding crisis, the Guardian has learned. The withdrawal means the navy will no longer provide a warship for anti-narcotic operations in the region, and will have to reduce its role in disaster […]
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The former director of the National Civil Police of Guatemala (PNC), Porfirio Perez, was found not guilty of the two serious charges he faced. Perez was acquitted yesterday during the trial that accused him of having stolen 300,000 USD seized from a alleged drug dealer. Read Article
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Rio de Janeiro police, with the support of the armed forces and other security agencies, on Sunday occupied nine “favelas,” or shantytowns, which were dominated by drug gangs and did so “without a single shot,” officials said. Read Article
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Campesinos leaders report a wave of abuses against local indigenous peasants in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz since a “state of siege” was declared there in response to the alleged presence of Los Zetas narco-network. Read Article
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20 people who form a high-level commission of the Carabineros de Chile come to Ecuador to provide advice to the National Police and collaborate in the creation of a corps of detectives, said President Rafael Correa. Read Article
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Colombian troops found a cache of the FARC in the jungles of the southern department of Putumayo, bordering with Ecuador, which had nearly a ton of explosives, officials said. Read Article
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Twelve people were injured and the partial destruction of the door of the church and a lodge, is the result of clashes between inhabitants of the municipality of Candelaria, Atlántico, and units of the Police ESMAD group. Read Article
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A new battalion of 600 men, come to reinforce the fight against the FARC in Huila. This is the ground combat battalion No. 13 ‘Cacique Timanco’, said General Henry Torres, commander of the Ninth Brigade. Read Article
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In early January, three Argentine pilots of a private modern jet were arrested in Barcelona, Spain, for transporting nearly a ton of cocaine. The episode is embarrassing for the Argentinean government since Spanish investigators have proof that the cocaine was loaded onto the plane from an Argentinean military airbase. Moreover, this was the last and […]
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BIKIE gangs and organised crime groups have foiled police attempts to tap their phones by importing untraceable, encrypted BlackBerrys from Mexico. The telecommunications black hole exploited by the Comancheros gang and drug cartels has come to light after several nations – anxious about terrorism and national security – threatened to ban the Canadian-designed BlackBerry phones […]
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ambushed the director of the nation’s main prison and shot up the car he was driving, wounding the official in the head and also hitting a prison employee who was a passenger. Read Article
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Bouterse Friday swore in a new army commander, as the man who once led a military coup made his first visit to a troop barracks since he was inaugurated in August. Read Article
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The strategy of bomb attacks against troops allowed the FARC to hit back on the tracks of Arauca, where the guerrilla group is still strong and ahead of a rebel offensive which has alerted the armed forces. They warn analysts on security issues after the attack occurred at dawn yesterday against an army patrol that […]
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Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry protested to its Nicaraguan counterpart the “intentional alteration” mapping of Nicaragua, as published earlier this week by the Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales (INETER) that includes the Harbour Head or Isla Calero, the piece of land in dispute between the two countries, as part of its territory. Read Article
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Justice Minister, José Serrano, said that while the debugging process culminates system prison guards, the Armed Forces personnel have custody of Social Rehabilitation centers. He explained that soldiers will guard the outside of prisons, while police will do the interior. The treatment process will begin in the coming days and will last about two months, […]
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Three hundred weapons, fifteen phones, forty doses of marijuana, crack cocaine and twenty twenty of cocaine seized police during the storming of the prison of El Bosque in the south of Barranquilla. Read Article
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A total of fifty kilos of explosives were found by police officers in a vehicle that was abandoned on a road in township Caguan rural area of Neiva. Read Article
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Suspected drug cartel gunmen hurled grenades, burned vehicles and blocked streets in a rapid series of attacks in Mexico’s second-largest city, authorities said Wednesday. Read Article
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Nicaragua has released a new map that includes as part of national territory in the Caribbean area of the Isla Calero or Harbour Head as it is known in Nicaragua, that Costa Rica considers its own the subject of a dispute between the two countries. Read Article
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On 28 January the Colombian Minister of Defence, Rodrigo Rivera, and the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Bogotá, Christophe Beney, signed a security agreement governing the pending release of five persons being held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP). The FARC-EP […]
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The Ministry of National Defense of Mexico stated the military confiscated a large stash of illegal drugs on an Aeromexico plane that was scheduled to fly from Guadalaraja to Tijuana. Read Article
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Fake goods worth more than USD 200 million have been seized and nearly 1,000 people arrested in a series of operations co-ordinated by INTERPOL across South America targeting organized criminal counterfeiting networks. Carried out under the auspices of Operation Jupiter in partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO), the year-long operation throughout 2010 led to […]
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Venezuela’s military says it has set off a controlled detonation to dispose of unexploded ordnance at an arms depot that was ravaged by a fire and a series of blasts. Gen. Cliver Alcala tells state television the explosion was carried out at one of the four sites where the fire broke out. Read Article
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The Colombian navy says it has seized a boat smuggling more than a tonne of cocaine. Navy personnel chased the speed-boat along the Pacific coast of Choco province. Read Article
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday warned Mexico’s drug cartels that any attempt to bring their violent tactics across the border would produce a powerful reaction. Read Article
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E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/16/2015 TAGS: EMIN, PGOV, SNAR, ASEC, EINV, ENRG, PE SUBJECT: MAJAZ ANTI-MINING VIOLENCE ON ECUADOR BORDER REF: A. LIMA 1432 B. 04 LIMA 5874 Classified By: Ambassador J. Curtis Struble. Reason: 1.4 (b,d) 1. (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent protests against British firm Majaz,s exploration for copper near the Ecuador border have resulted in […]
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A sixty-year old female was detained at the airport in Cusco, peru, for possession of 13 kilos of cocaine in two pieces of luggage. The suspect had arrived as a tourist and was stopped by authorities when attempting to depart for Lima and return to Spain. Read Article
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This past Friday, national police were called to the archaeology site of Huayacán Pariachi located in Distrito Ate., in the province of Lima. Thousands of Peruvians had taken possession the hillsides around the site. A police helicopter was called in and sprayed the residents with tear gas. Inhabitants claimed the may had offered the space […]
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The eight homicides were recorded in Limon center in the first 28 days this year than there were six cases in the first half of 2010. Read Article
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The Salvadoran National Defense Ministry on Friday took control of two more prisons in the country to put a total of 11 prisons under military vigilance. Assistant director of Penal Centers Nelson Rauda said that the measure is part of the efforts to neutralize the crime planning inside the prisons. Read Article
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Afiganistan desires to have crews from Colombia who have experience with the Russian MI helicopoters. Read Article
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A mother has been waiting a year to find out if a burned body found in Panama is that of her missing son. Backpacker, Alex Humphrey, 29, from Stockport, disappeared in Chiriqui in August 2009. In February last year a corpse was found not far from where Alex was staying. Read Article
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Diane Thorne, 67, and her husband Neil Edmondson have vacationed in Mexico more than a dozen times over the past 30 years without incident, but during their most recent trip Edmondson spent eight tense hours in a city jail following a car accident. The experience nearly sent the 78-year-old retiree, who has severe asthma and […]
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AT LEAST one person was killed and several injured in northern Venezuela early on Sunday when a series of powerful explosions shook an arms and munitions depot, officials said. The arsenal is located in the city of Maracay, in Aragua state. All residents living within five kilometres of the munitions dump, about 10,000 people, were […]
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The Spanish authorities in Barcelona seized an executive jet from Argentina this month that was carrying about 2,000 pounds of cocaine. An Argentine company specializing in private medical transfers, Medical Jet, was operating the plane, which was being flown by pilots whose fathers were generals during Argentina’s bloody dictatorship. Read Article
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As President Felipe Calderon insists on maintaining its drug war, articulated in groups organized crime increased their level of violence, from December 2006 to this date has claimed more than 34,000 murders, including foreigners from states U.S., Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Finland, China, Austria, Israel and Spain among other […]
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24 COMMUNITIES AT HIGH RISK Country’s mayors have warned of increasing violent deaths in some municipalities in Colombia, by the actions of the former strongholds of paramilitary and guerrilla groups known as the BACRIM. Read Article
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Federal police shot and killed a municipal policeman guarding the mayor of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday night, raising tensions between security forces amid a fierce drug war. Read Article
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It was Sunday, minutes past midnight, when a a student of the Instituto Tecnológico de Cartago looked in through the window of the police commander centre in Palmares, seeing the officials on duty were watching a pornographic movie. Read Article WARNING – VIDEO MAY BE TO GRAPHIC FOR SOME VIEWERS
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As mounting tensions continue to smolder on the Korean Peninsula, another border dispute has been heating up in Central America, pitting Nicaragua against Costa Rica. Though it lacks the geopolitical gravitas and explosive nature of the conflict between North and South Korea, the standoff over a small area along the San Juan River has been […]
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When George W. Bush left the White House, the rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief. The National Security Doctrine of unilateral attacks, the invasion of Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction, and the abandonment of multilateral forums had opened up a new phase of U.S. aggression. Despite the […]
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Some 7,000 Mexicans have participated in a program through which the Colombian government trains Mexican soldiers and police in techniques for fighting drug cartels, according to an article in the Jan. 22 Washington Post. The administration of US president Barack Obama is encouraging this effort, and the US is paying part of the costs. Washington’s […]
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Costa Rican investigators have searched two football stadiums linked to a businessman charged in the U.S. with defrauding clients of his life-settlement company. Read Article
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US drug czar Gil Kerlikowske on Tuesday in Colombia stressed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s recent announcement that Caracas will intercept any drug traffic aircraft overflying Venezuelan territory. “Venezuela has expressed clearly its support for curbing drug trafficking by air,” said Kerlikowske upon the beginning of his three-day visit to Colombia, DPA reported. Read Article
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Foreign Affairs Minister Surujrattan Rambachan and Venezuelan Ambassador to this country Eugenia Marcano Casado have intervened in the matter of three missing fishermen from Moruga. In a telephone interview yesterday, Rambachan said he is working with the Trinidad and Tobago Embassy in Venezuela to determine whether the men are in fact being held at a […]
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Five Ecuadorian military personnel perished in a small plane crash. The plane belonged to the Ecuadorian air force and was a Twin Otter, which was near Tena, in the province of Napo. There was one survivor and the cause of the was unknown. Read Article
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Argentina Federal Police requested assistance from the Brazilian Federal Police, based on the state of Rio Grande do Sul, for investigation of assault on Banco Provincia. Argentine agents are investigating whether the attackers fled across the border between the two countries. Read Article
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The Central Bank regulated the bank security law, passed on the end of last year amid the boom in the form of theft known as “leaks. And it presents a surprise: according to the vice president of the company, Michael Pesce, customers and employees should leave bags or lockers their cell phones when entering a […]
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In the wake of a January 15 grenade attack on the home of Chapala police chief Reynol Contreras Muñoz, Jalisco state police swept the community for suspects, dismantling a presumed cell of the La Resistencia crime syndicate that allegedly hatched the plot. Read Article
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Guatemala extended military operations on Tuesday to sweep out Mexican drug cartels from a lawless northern state where well-armed traffickers often outgun government troops. Hundreds of troops poured into the remote state of Alta Verapaz last month to attack traffickers, a surprise move by President Alvaro Colom to remobilize the army known for massacring civilians […]
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A Canadian woman who claims she was gang-raped by police in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on New Year’s Eve was arrested earlier that day with her fiancé because they were drunk and hit a car, officials at the Mexican Embassy in Canada said. Rebecca Rutland went to the Canadian consular agency in Playa del Carmen, […]
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Leftist guerrillas have claimed responsibility for a backpack bomb that injured four police officers, the third bombing in a week in Paraguay. A handwritten note from a group calling itself the Paraguayan People’s Army warns police to “forget the word mercy” as they continue anti-government attacks. Read Article
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NOTES: NARCOTRAFFICKING PERU 1. VRAE, Huallaga are considered the drug production region of Peru. 2. 80 percent of illegal drugs exit the country via sea. The Port of Paita is known as a major transportation port for drugs. 3. Aragoto a small town in northern Peru is a legend in Peru in terms of narcotrafficking. […]
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Local authorities acted quickly to solve the murder of lakeside resident Allan Robert Turnipseed, combing the community for clues that led to the capture early this week of two teenage brothers who have reportedly confessed to the grisly crime. The body of Turnipseed, a 62-year-old U.S. citizen, was discovered in his Riberas del Pilar home […]
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In the late hours and early morning in the state of Jalisco there were several attacks with heavy weapons and grenades that left three dead, one injured and physical damage. Some of the members arrested confessed to being part of a cell of the criminal organization called “resistance” that resulted from the breakoff of the […]
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Mexican authorities have arrested a man wanted in the 2009 kidnapping of a three year old in Riverside. Israel Moreno, 29, was arrested on a federal fugitive warrant after FBI agents in Riverside learned of his whereabouts in Guadalajara, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Moreno was one of two men charged in the May 3, […]
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Mexican authorities say a state police officer has been slain while on patrol in Monterrey, becoming the ninth officer killed in just two weeks in the northern industrial city. Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene says the officer was on patrol near the Tec de Monterrey University when he was killed. He says a […]
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Band of drug dealers apprehended in San Juan de Miraflores – video
Costa Rica is attempting to create an armed conflict with neighboring Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Army spokesman Juan Morales said citing counterintelligence information. Relations between the two countries became tense in November when the Nicaraguan military began widening the waterway in the San Juan River Delta and began establishing a military camp on the disputed Calero Island, […]
Five people have been arrested in the kidnappings of Central American migrants in southern Mexico, federal prosecutors said Monday. Federal police arrested a Nicaraguan man and a Mexican man on suspicion of involvement in the Dec. 16 kidnapping of about 30 migrants from a train in Oaxaca state. Information provided by 12 migrants who escaped […]
Two sons of former high-ranking military leaders in Argentina have been arrested in Spain after police allegedly discovered almost a tonne of cocaine on board a medical transport aircraft. Read Article
On January 6, 2010, a wanted individual was arrested by Peruvian police when the driver of a minivan acting as a taxi was attempting to pick up 8 tourists that had just arrived from the United States. The police were concerned about his behavior and it was discovered that he had false papers and was […]
This Friday, on 6 and 30 pm, while the top leader of FARC, alias Alfonso Cano , giving messages of peace through a video posted on the website Anncol , his subordinates carried out an attack was killed in a girl of only 12 years old, who was identified as Doris Adriana Mora. Read Article
Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, local media reported. The victims, all male, were discovered at dawn near a shopping mall along with several, threatening hand-written messages that are typically left as a calling card by drug cartels. Read Article
Some 120 rural workers in illegal and slave like conditions were discovered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires as part of a criminal investigation, union sources said. Many of the workers are from Santiago del Estero Argentina.Read Article
Gunmen killed four women and four children, including an 18-month boy, and wounded three others Thursday in an attack on a minibus in Honduras, officials said. The attack in the rural eastern province of Olancho appears to have been aimed at one of the passengers on the minibus, said Security Ministry spokesman Leonel Sauceda. Read […]
The new Ambassador of Ecuador in Colombia Raul Vallejo, told reporters that the government of President Rafael Correa will not allow the establishment of camps by armed groups outside the law, “be they paramilitary, be they drug traffickers, whether the guerrillas ( o) any sign or any name. ” The diplomat, who arrived yesterday in […]
In Neiva on Thursday morning a bomb believed to be set by FARC exploded caused damages to 50 homes. There were no reported injuries. Apparently, the bomb may have been set by FARC for a farmer failing to pay extortion. Read Article
There is a current multi-agency effort to destroy shacks and housing that drug traffickers are using northwest of Guayaquil. Establishments in the area that sell wood poles and housing supplies have been closed. Read Article
Staff of the security forces detained three individuals suspected of killing 15 lizards (much like the reptile iguana). The discovery was made possible when authorities received an anonymous call. Immediately, the police mounted a roadblock on the road where intercepted the car, a Mitsubishi Nativa black, within which located the 15 iguanas in a pot, […]
Famed chef Gordon Ramsay was covered in petrol and threatened at gunpoint in Costa Rica while conducting an investigation on shark finning as part of Britain’s Channel 4’s Big Fish Fight series. Chef Gordon Ramsay was conducting the investigation for Channel 4’s Big Fish Fight series. (Photo: Gordon Ramsay/FIS) “It is a multibillion dollar industry, […]
A female gang member was arrested in connection with the bombing of a bus in Guatemala City that left seven dead, authorities said. Sonia Veliz, a member of the Mara 18 street gang, was identified through a composite sketch police made based on statements from a witness, said Ronnie Lopez, prosecutor for organized crime. Read […]
Extortionists left a grenade under the seat of an inro to intimidate the owners of the charge carrier and quotas. A pineapple type grenade was found in one of the seats in interprovincial bus heading from Trujillo to Chiclayo, causing alarm among the passengers. The explosive was in a black bag that was left in […]
The scandal currently embroiling Germany’s biggest small arms manufacturer is becoming more and more difficult to contain. Heckler & Koch (H&K) stands accused of illegally exporting handguns and automatic rifles to embargoed regions of Mexico in the grip of a deadly drugs war, and of deceiving the Federal Security Council, chaired by Chancellor Angela Merkel, […]