Department of Defense reported: BRASILIA, Brazil, March 29, 2012 – The Colombians have a good strategy to counter the main terrorist group in the country, and they will stick with it, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey spoke with reporters traveling with him from Colombia to […]
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OGOTA. – The Colombian Army sergeant Luis Alberto Arcia, released on Monday after 14 years and one month kidnapped by the FARC, said Tuesday that the guerrillas kept it, along with other hostages, “chained for eight long years.”Arcia and three noncommissioned and three noncommissioned officers released yesterday revealed at a press conference degrading and inhuman […]
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A strong assurance firearm cartridges, achieved official U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English) in Nogales, Arizona. A total of 10 ammunition seized as .9 mm caliber, 38 caliber 45, and multiple weapons magazines. In the event arrested a resident of Nogales, Sonora, whose identity was not revealed, but has 47 […]
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From this point of view, this purpose promoters claim that sexual violence has been used by all armed groups in the country as an instrument of war, in order to intimidate, silence, expropriate, moving and dominate, which makes rape in a widespread throughout the country. Therefore, according to Ivan Cepeda, this transformation in the offense […]
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Two Coca-Cola unionists who suffer threats from paramilitary groups since 2001 and have been victims of illegal surveillance by the Colombian state are investigated for conspiracy and terrorism. The trial result of the free versions of three commanders – ‘Coca Cola’, ‘Hawk’ and ‘Julian Bolívar’-present at the time of negotiation between the National Union Agri-Food […]
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The auxiliary Judge of the Superior Council of the Judiciary in Colombia, Maria Constanza Rivera Peña, warned of the risk in Mexico is the battle between criminal groups to control the transfer and sale of drugs. He estimated that if restrictive policies or through arms control are not accompanied by social programs and reclaiming public […]
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In search of the ‘Islamic menace’ in Bolivia One US congresswoman is convinced that the Iranian government is a danger to Latin American countries such as Bolivia. he possibility of a bomb in La Paz was raised in December 2011 by Ros-Lehtinen, co-star of a non-factual documentary entitled “La amenaza iraní” (“The Iranian Threat”), in […]
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The Ecuadorian army seized in February more than 7 thousand arms ammunition and 1,595 explosives in the province of El Oro (border with Peru). In recent operations conducted between 13 and 22 February, the military seized 48 firearms including shotguns, pistols, carbines, among others.In addition 403 ammunition, 1,595 sticks of dynamite, 220 meters of detonating […]
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Meanwhile, the authorities reported that a group of armed robbers stole four outboard engines to several fishermen in the area of Puerto Wilches Barrancabermeja. The authorities are on alert, because these elements can be used to perpetrate terrorist attacks. Read Article
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CHETUMAL, February 1 .- Personnel of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) Federal District moved to Chetumal to Cynthia Ann Vanier Canadian and Mexican Dávila Gabriela Huerta, accused of belonging to a network intended to illegally enter Saadi Gaddafi to Mexico, and operating with a discreet state-supported preventive elements entered the area of women’s Social Rehabilitation […]
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As reported by BBC journalist in Mexico, Alberto Najar, the detainees had spent 80 days in roots, the legal form to define a police custody outside the jail. Now waiting for the start of a trial against him. The PGR accused a Canadian citizen, a Dane and two Mexicans of falsifying official documents, human trafficking […]
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Amid the controversy over the installation of open-pit mining in La Rioja, Selene Herrera’s lawyer, defender of protesters detained in Catamarca in a protest against such activity, said environmentalists were “charged” by the highly controversial Terrorism Act enacted late last year by Congress with harsh criticism from opposition sectors and social movements Amid the controversy […]
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This school year will begin with new texts that are classified as terrorist Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA , as they explain the real criminal action developed, announced Education Minister Patricia Salas. Disappear also the terms “internal war” or “internal armed conflict” to refer to the violence unleashed by these terrorist groups, said Salas O’Brien […]
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As the New Year approaches, FARC has released 3 names of the 6 hostages that they will soon release. According to latribuna.hn, they are part of 11 military and police officials who have been held hostage for 12 years. FARC does not want the government to make any attempts to find and rescue these individuals. […]
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As Congress, Republican presidential candidates, and much of the U.S., South American, and European media are sounding the alarm on suspicious activities by Iran and Hezbollah in Latin America, the State Department is hitting the snooze button. State also has turned a blind eye to abuses of the administration’s liberalized rules for traveling to Cuba, […]
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Amid criticism of the judiciary, the president of this branch of government, César San Martín , justified travel permits granted to Lori Berenson MRTA members (the U.S.) and Lautaro Mellado (Chile), who traveled to their countries of origin despite having parole. San Martin denied that there is a “soft hand” with the terrorists, and denounced […]
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enezuela’s government today rejected statements by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon, who two days ago accused Iran of creating a “terrorist infrastructure” in Latin America, with the connivance of the Caribbean country, to attack U.S., Israel and its allies. “These abusive and biased statements, which come precisely from the representative of a government engaged […]
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The growing involvement in Latin American affairs was a while back mesoorientales evidenced by the various formal expressions of support provided by all South America, except Colombia, through official statements to an eventual unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state. By Julian Schvindlerman Brazil, surprisingly, that trend started responding to a key interest Palestinian obtain formal […]
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It used to be said that if the American economy sneezed, Latin America and the Caribbean would catch a cold. Not so anymore. Despite the great recession of 2008, the region has kept growing and avoided, largely unscathed, the troubles that still ail the United States. Read Article
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Following a three-week trial, a federal jury in New York City convicted a top international arms dealer, Viktor Bout, yesterday for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) — a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Colombia. The trial revealed that the weapons were to […]
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A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed a petition Thursday seeking to annul the residency visa granted to a former leftist rebel from Italy convicted in his homeland of four murders carried out in the late 1970s. Prosecutor Helio Heringer said the visa granted in June to Cesare Battisti should be annulled because it violates Brazil’s Foreigner’s […]
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The FARC intended to attack police stations located in areas of high Arborist, Candelaria and Sanfrancisco.As a result of the actions being undertaken by the authorities in the Colombian capital, and that is part of “Operation Colombia” in which they were captured late on three members of the Mobile Column of FARC Ismael Ayala, police […]
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In carrying out offensive operations in Antioquia, Meta, and Caldas, Army troops were uncovered three caches clandestine weapons, explosives and materials for the manufacture of alkaloids belonging to the Farc criminal gangs and drug trafficking.Initially, in the village gardens, city of San Francisco, Antioquia, units Mechanized Cavalry Group No. 4 ‘Juan del Corral’, located a […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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Policing Democracy: Overcoming obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America – Recorded interview with author Dr. Mark Ungar (Recording Time- 01:06:56) Recorded September 23, 2011. Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 PURCHASE BOOK:Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America Latin America’s crime rates are astonishing by any standard—the […]
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Until the 1980s, Mexico enjoyed relative freedom from violence. Ruthless drug cartels existed, but they usually abided by informal rules of conduct hammered out between several capos and representatives of the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country until the 1990s. Relying on bribes, the desperados pursued their illicit activities with the connivance […]
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The deputy said that about 90% of the number of homicides in the country are committed with firearms, thus confirming that arms proliferation must be eradicated. The National Assembly deputy, William Ojeda, claimed Sunday the indifference of the national executive against criminal boom and the criminal action that has made Venezuela has the highest murder […]
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Young radical eco-anarchists are multiplying their attacks against what they see as symbols of capitalism in the country. Anarchist violence in Mexico Grows Young radical eco-anarchists are multiplying their attacks against what they see as symbols of capitalism in the country, bank tellers, animal products companies, automotive. The parcel bomb against a scientist Tec de […]
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Brazil won’t acknowledge terrorists, raises global concerns as host of World Cup and Olympics. Even as the world has cracked down hard on terror, some countries have refrained from adopting anti-terror laws. Their stance has racked up consternation at a time when terrorism is a global concern, especially with Brazil now set to host the […]
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An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey has killed more than 50 people. Several gunmen burst into the building in broad daylight, dousing it with fuel and setting it alight. Amid the panic, many people were trapped and overcome by smoke. Officials suspect organised crime was behind the attack, […]
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According to hoy.com.ec, FARC is distributing brochures in the neighborhood Kennedy southwest of Bogota, on how to construct in twelve steps bombs. The phamplets show how to prepare, install, and activate the explosive devices. Residents in this populous area are concerned that many of the pamphlets will end up in the hands of minors. Read […]
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According to ElComercio.com a young Ecuadorian was willed and an Ecuadorian soldier wounded during a confrontation between the Ecuadorian military and a group of FARC guerillas located on the Colombian side of the San Miguel River. Officials say the confrontation occurred last Thursday, August 11th while a military patrol was performing control operations along the […]
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•Miguel Ángel Ariñez, also known as the Doctor of FARC, was captured in Cúcuta, Colombia after returning from Venezuela. •Ariñez, according to EFE, was responsible for the health of FARC’s central command and has information and connections to upper members of the group. •He spent years hiding in Venezuela and was forced to return to […]
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The U.S. House of Representatives released a report this month focusing on Lebanese and Iranian terrorist groups, specifically Hezballah, that have established networks in South America at the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay and in Venezuela, reports infobae.com. The Triple Frontier is already a haven for organized crime and trafficking, and the Islamist […]
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“It appears that Iranian organizations provide support to other terrorist organizations” in South America, Peruvian ex-chief of staff says.The world needs to act to counter the growing presence of Iranian-supported terrorist organizations throughout South America, former chief of staff of the Peruvian Armed Forces, Gen. Francisco Contreras, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Read Article
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According to a recent report by Correio Braziliense, the Federal Police say the increased use of maritime routes to smuggle arms is a significant development in arms trafficking into Brazil. Police identified Santos, in Sao Paulo, and Paranagua, in Parana – the country’s two biggest ports – as major points of entry for arms. They […]
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Peru21.pe reports that two soldiers were killed this morning, Tuesday July 19th, in a shootout with terrorists in Llochegua in the Ayacucho province. Officials say the attack occurred during a patrol of Llochegua, where two soldiers were wounded as well. The military patrol belonged to the Base Against Terrorism, “Mantaro Union. Officers of the Joint […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the ex-captain of the Peruvian Army Telmo Hurtado returned to Peru after being extradited from Miami, this past Thursday July 14th. Hurtado is the main suspect in the slaughter of 69 peasants in the Ayacucho community of Accomarca during the search for members of the Shining Path in August 1985. During the […]
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According to ElComercio.pe the Peruvian government began to compensate victims of the Shining Path movement, during the years of 1980 and 2000, on Saturday July 16th. Government officials say that a total of 20 million soles will be handed out in individual increments of 10,000 soles. The president of the Ministry Cabinet Rosario Fernandez says […]
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The “Protect Our Airport” Program currently in place in the Mexico City International Airport will be copied by 67 other airports in Latin America, according to NSS Oaxaca. Brazil will be modeling their airport security measures on the Mexico City program for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. The program’s success has […]
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According to RPP.com.pe, since February, Peruvian police have apprehended 15 senior members of the Shining Path terrorist movement. In a raid on February 3rd in Aucayacu by the National Police of the Huallaga Front, four Shining Path terrorists were captured, responsible for selective assassinations, blackmailing and propaganda activity. Officials say that weapons, ammunition and manuscripts […]
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In the past hour an anonymous caller warned officials of a bomb on an airplane at the Guayaquil airport in Ecuador, according to elcomercio.com. Specialized police reacted immediately and moved the plane from the terminal to the ground zero area of the airport near the control towers. Areas near ground zero were evacuated, but no […]
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The 9-year-old daughter of retired Navy officer, Victor “Lindoro” Olivera, was shot last night and is in critical condition today after undergoing surgery, according to lavoz.com.ar. The girl was in her family’s home in Partido de Pilar, Buenos Aires at around 10 p.m. when the shootings occurred. Olivera was charged last year for torturing and […]
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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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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 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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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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According to Eltiempo.com, three Chinese nationals working for the multinational oil company Emerald Energy were kidnapped along with his translator, yesterday (Tuesday) at 2:30 pm in a rural area of the municipality of San Vicente (Caquetá). The four employees were traveling with their driver in a pickup truck 4 x 4 when they were detained […]
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RPP.com reports that severe injuries have contributed to the death of two more soldiers on the eve of the presidential runoff. Two army non-commissioned officers died earlier today from wounds suffered in an apparent terrorist attack by the Shining Path. A special commando patrol in the Apurimac and Ene River valleys was ambushed by ‘terrorist […]
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Alan Garcia condemned the terrorist attack Choquetira town, which troops killed Huilber Angeles Casio, Alban Towers and Zózimo Rusber Huamán Cuyo. The president, Alan García Pérez, condemned the terrorist attack last night in Cusco , in which troops killed Huilber Angeles Casio, Alban Towers and Zózimo Rusber Huamán Cuyo. “We mourn the martyrs of democracy, […]
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The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is investigating whether or not the CIA sent money to Federal Police officers who investigated members of the Islamic community and terrorist organizations in the triple border between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Former police chief Queiroz Protógenes was charged with the task to find the source of the money that […]
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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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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is allegedly training a large number of Kuwaitis, Bahrainis and Saudis in a private training camp located in Waheera, a remote area near the borders of Venezuela and Columbia(sic), and intends to use them to carry out terrorist activities within their respective countries and other areas across the world in case Iran […]
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In a global triangulation that would excite any conspiracy buff, the globalization of terrorism now links Colombian FARC with Hezbollah, Iran with Russia, elected governments with violent insurgencies, uranium with AK-103s, and cocaine with oil. At the center of it all, is Latin America—especially the countries under the influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Read […]
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Recent public missteps by José María Tijerino precipitated his departure as Ministro de Seguridad Pública (Minister of Public Security) at a time when the Government is also evidencing failures to address the problem of insecurity. Read Article
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According to secret reports sent to Washington by the embassy in Ecuador there are 4 “terrorist groups.” The data contained in one of the secret information he got the news agency Wikileaks over Ecuador and were filtered from the State Department. Read Article
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The Federal Police has evidence that al Qaeda and other extremist organizations use the four country to spread propaganda and plan attacks, finance operations and attract militants. Read Article
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Al-Qaeda operatives are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading news magazine reported on Saturday, renewing concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for militants. Veja magazine, in its online edition, reported that at least 20 people affiliated with Al-Qaeda as well as the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, the […]
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Directed terrorist group financing and delivery of media aimed at increasing drug cartels with which to do business, either as a source of income or weapons. Speaking to a terrorist group, the key to leadership may be even more essential that the orientation of the direction of a drug cartel and its leaders can be […]
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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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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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National Police officers seized the suspected Shining Path Sergio Campos Rojas, alias Comrade “Sergio” in the town of Huari (Ancash), after a patient monitoring began several months ago. PNP General César Mendoza, Sergio Campos said that Rojas is as requisitions for justice from the March 31, 2006, for the crime of terrorism. Read Article
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A book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border, authorities tell Fox News. Read Article
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Paraguay’s president wants police to “exterminate” the activities of a leftist guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for three bombs in the last week. Interior Minister Rafael Filizzola says President Fernando Lugo has given orders to redouble efforts to arrest and shut down the Paraguayan People’s Army. Read Article Interesting Link about the Paraguayan People’s Army
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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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Tension was running high between Spain and Venezuela on Thursday over allegations that the Latin American country had become a refuge for the militant Basque separatist group ETA, which has plagued Spain for decades. Read Article
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Due punishment for international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his crimes was demanded outside the US Embassy on Monday by representatives of Salvadoran organizations. Leaders of the Salvadoran Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba gathered outside the US Embassy in San Salvador to address a letter to President Barack Obama, demanding justice against Posada Carriles. […]
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American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E), a global supplier of X-ray detection solutions, has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract from a Latin American country for its “Z Portal” vehicle screening system, the firm says in a written statement. The client country plans to use the Z Portal system for customs applications to safely and effectively […]
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Latin American drug barons have been exposed as a crucial source of funds for al-Qaida by paying them to ensure the safe passage of cocaine across North Africa and towards Europe. Islamist rebels familiar with the terrain of the Sahara have struck deals under which they provide armed security escorts for drug traffickers in return […]
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Guatemala captured nearly two dozen suspected drug traffickers, automatic weapons and small planes in a country-wide sweep to crack down on Mexican cartels smuggling drugs through Central America. The arrests, four on Saturday and 18 over the past week, are the biggest blow yet to the Zetas drug gang, now operating in around 75 percent […]
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From November/2010 – Translation from German Iran wants to place on Venezuelan soil, bases for medium-range missiles up and deepen the strategic cooperation with the regime of Hugo Chávez. World Online” learned from Western security sources, an agreement between the two countries during the last visit of the Venezuelan president in Tehran and signed on […]
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Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a prominent Mexican politician kidnapped in May, was released and back at his home Monday. “I am fine, thanks to God. I am strong and my life will continue to be the same,” he told the crush of reporters gathered outside of his home in Mexico City. Read Article
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More than 18 months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors were supposed to start enforcing stringent ID requirements at the nation’s land borders, millions of travelers are still being admitted without passports or other secure IDs, a new government audit shows. An Office of Inspector General report released Monday found that CBP remains unprepared […]
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The Washington Post revealed Monday the names of the top 12 traders of weapons seized by police in actions against organized crime in Mexico in the last two years. After a yearlong investigation, the newspaper reported that eight of the main suppliers of arms to Mexico are in Texas, three in Arizona and one in […]
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U.S. diplomats in Peru are keeping a close eye on the steady resurgence of the fanatical Sendero Luminoso insurgency but find that corruption in Peru’s army stymies efforts to fight the Maoist group, U.S. diplomatic cables show. A U.S. cable written in November 2009 said Lima urgently needed a better strategy “for turning the tide […]
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In the 1990s, then-Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori and his right-hand man (and spy-chief) Vladimiro Montesinos created a ring of corruption coupled a faction of major drug lords with Peruvian military commanders. At the same time as Montesinos, who was primarily responsible for the creation of this web, created this system, the Peruvian government was pledging […]
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A bomb on a bus detonated by suspected leftist militants in southern Colombia Tuesday killed three army troops and a civilian and injured another 16 people, local authorities said. Read Article
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