theguardian.com reported Argentina’s supreme court has ruled that an American who took refuge and started a new life in the South American country can be extradited to face charges that he killed his wife more than a decade ago, a court spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday. Kurt Sonnenfeld moved to Argentina in 2003, after prosecutors in Denver charged him with first-degree murder. The decision to extradite him brings to an end a longstanding dispute between the US Justice Department and Argentinian courts that centered in part on differences over the death penalty. Read Article
forbes.com/Nathan Vardi reported… GMO Trust, the Boston investment company co-founded by prominent investor Jeremy Grantham, has sued the Republic of Ecuador in Manhattan’s federal court over the default of Ecuador’s foreign bonds in 2008, setting the stage for a second big U.S. court fight between a large U.S. financial firm and a sovereign South American […]
newsmax.com/N.Y. TimesThe State Department, while still under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, lifted a ban against a wealthy Ecuadorian woman after her family donated thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates, federal records show, so she could come to the United States and work for a company that raised money for President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign. […]
foodsafetynews.com reported that two seafood processors in Ecuador received warning letters. The Guayaquil-based Star Company S.A. was subjected to FDA inspection last June 2-3, 2014, and was afterwards provided with a copy of the FDA 483 form containing inspector observations. Star Company responded in writing on July 4, 2014, with corrective measures it planned to […]
dw.de reported four Syrians, one Tunisian and one Palestinian have been sent from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay to Uruguay. The six men, detained as terror suspects in 2002, were never charged. The US government announced on Sunday that it was transferring four Syrians, one Palestinian and a Tunisian from its prison in […]
RT.com reported Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has accused the US of “systematic, high-tech” cyber-attacks on his private internet accounts and computers, the last of which was traced back to American servers last Thursday. He outlines his accusations in a scathing Twitter post and later comments to the Latin American press. “On Thursday, all day I […]
miamiherald.com reported a former Ecuadoran municipal official who was arrested earlier this year at Miami International Airport (MIA) for failing to declare gold and cash she was carrying struck a deal with prosecutors that would spare her trial and prison, a federal prosecutor said in court Monday. “It [the deal] has been agreed to and […]
On 06-25-2014, Patrick R. Minga, pleaded guilty to attempting to induce and facilitate, for his own financial gain, the travel of an individual from Florida, to Quito, Ecuador for the purpose of that individual to engage in illicit sexual conduct with minor girls. Sentencing was scheduled for November 20, 2014. However, a motion to continue […]
Venezuela’s brewing economic troubles and high crime rates have been prompting Venezuelans — particularly young professionals — to emigrate by the thousands in recent months. But Cuban doctors stationed there are also getting in on the exodus: The number of Cuban medical professionals defecting from their posts in Venezuela has ballooned over the past year, […]
telesurtv.net reported… After numerous scandals involving its attempts to undermine governments, especially in Latin America, the self-declared “aid” organization is set to roll back its involvement in certain programs, but such roles look set to be continued by other State Department agencies. Self-proclaimed “pro-democracy” organization, the U.S. Agency for International Development, claims it will no longer […]
TELESURTV.NET reported the Isaias brothers, two bankers wanted over defrauding the state, could be turned in by the U.S. The brothers fled Ecuador and are living in exile in the United States. The United States could help the Ecuadorean government to extradite the fugitive Isaias brothers, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño announced after meeting the […]
andes.info.ec reported…As a “totally inadequate” response scored Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino the explanation secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson gave, on that country’s military involvement in the bombing on the Colombian border in March 2008. During the bombing, 26 people were killed, including the number two of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia […]
elespectador.com reported This year(2014) we have a terrible and regrettable sum that exceeds the 600 children who travelled unaccompanied”looking for their families, Vice-Minister of human mobility, María Landázuri told AFP. The number triples the cases reported in 2013.Son many, but no one speaks openly of “migrant children” because their families or friends know who travel […]
telesurtv.net reported U.S. federal agents allowed components for manufacturing grenades to illegally enter Mexico. The Department of Justice (DOJ) report indicated that the artillery parts were destined for drug cartels. U.S. federal agents allowed components for manufacturing grenades to illegally enter Mexico. The Department of Justice (DOJ) report released this week indicated that the artillery […]
bbc.com reported two health officials from the United States have joined other experts at an Ebola conference in Cuba, in the latest sign of cooperation between the long-standing adversaries. The meeting looks at ways to prevent the spread of Ebola in the Americas. It was organised by Alba, a leftist bloc founded by Cuba and […]
Chagas has largely slipped under the world’s radar because symptoms often don’t show up for months and years after a person has been infected. digitaljournal.com reported while much of the world’s attention has been focused on Ebola, another disease with equally devastating implications is surging. The CDC estimates that some 300,000 people throughout the U.S. […]
bbc.com reported a US judge has sentenced an ex-Colombian rebel to 27 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping of three American contract workers in 2003. Alexander Beltran Herrera’s unit was responsible for moving the hostages and imprisoning them in chains. The contract workers were on an anti-drug surveillance mission when their aircraft […]
theglobeandmail.com reported Chevron Corp. is trying to convince Canada’s courts to impose “novel and unnecessary” barriers to block a group of Amazon villagers seeking to enforce a controversial $9.5-billion (U.S.) Ecuadorean environmental judgment against the U.S. oil giant, a coalition of Canadian human-rights groups alleges.The battle over the cleanup bill for oil pollution left in […]
americateve.com reported the checkpoint J South Terminal of Miami International Airport was evacuated Friday afternoon after a suspicious package is found.At the moment the bomb squad of the Police Department Miami-Dade was heading to the scene. No flight has been affected by the closure of the checkpoint. Passengers had to pass through there were diverted […]
greenleft.org.au/Linda Pearson reported…As US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks show, USAID has worked in conjunction with other arms of the US government to further US foreign policy goals in Ecuador. USAID programs were used to garner support for Plan Colombia, the US-supported militarisation of drug interdiction efforts in Colombia. The agency’s “democracy promotion” activities were […]
time.com reported the Pentagon’s top commander in South America has warned that if Ebola surfaces in Central America or the Caribbean, there will be a stampede of people heading north across the Rio Grande to the U.S. to escape the disease. “If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be […]
DAVID GALVEZ SR. WANTED AS SUSPECT IN CALIFORNIA MURDER BELIEVED TO BE HIDING IN ECUADOR ECUADOR HOTELS AND LODGING nbcbayarea.com reported…This is the second dismissal the DA has issued in less than a week. Dr. Baldeon was arrested in June and accused of hiring his friend, David Galvez Sr., of Tracy to kill his […]
theguardian.com reported Cuban migrants stranded in homemade boat drank blood and urine to survive Only 15 of the 32 passengers on board survived three weeks adrift in Caribbean before being picked up by Mexican fishermen. A group of Cuban migrants drank their own blood and urine after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving […]
theguardian.com reported a Texas girl reported kidnapped 12 years ago was found near Mexico City with her mother after authorities received a tip, and the mother was quickly flown to Texas and jailed on kidnapping charges, investigators said Wednesday. The FBI and Mexico authorities said 17-year-old Sabrina Allen, whose case was twice profiled on the […]
mercopress.com reported that Argentine president claims the US wants her removed: “if something happens to me, look North” Argentine president Cristina Fernandez defiantly claimed on Tuesday that financial, industrial and local political groups together with outside support want to remove her from office, and warned that “if something happens to me, don’t look to the […]
medicalexpress.com reported recently published prevalence estimates of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in five Latin American countries—Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela—could suggest a new direction for United States foreign policy in the region, according to a tropical-disease expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Dr. Peter Hotez, the fellow in disease and poverty […]
businessinsider.com reported US authorities are testing a river in Arizona for possible cross-border contamination from a toxic mine spill in northwestern Mexico, an official said Tuesday. The checks came after a massive acid leak in the Sonora River from the Buenavista copper mine, the worst environmental disaster on record in Mexico’s mining industry. The spill […]
nytimes.com reported militants for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have traveled to Mexico and are just miles from the United States. They plan to cross over the porous border and will “imminently” launch car bomb attacks. And the threat is so real that federal law enforcement officers have been placed at a heightened […]
diario.mx reported Distrito Federal- The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), through the specialized attorney in investigation of organized crime (SEIDO), with the support of the Agency’s Criminal investigation and in coordination with the Federal Police dismantled in Nogales, Sonora, a network dedicated to United States from high-powered arms. In a statement the PGR explained […]
france24.com reported the son of Surinamese President Desi Bouterse (pictured) pleaded guilty on Friday to US charges he sought to offer a home base in his South American country to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Dino Bouterse, once picked by his father to lead a counter-terrorism unit in Suriname, told a judge in Manhattan that […]
foreignpolicy.com reported Preparations for the 2015 Summit are well underway and once again Cuba’s participation has become the flashpoint. Governments in Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua have already said they will boycott any summit where Cuba is excluded. Panama, the host, has announced its intention to formally invite Cuba, with its president saying that […]
KPHO.com reported two people were arrested and 16 vehicles valued at more than $400,000 were seized after search warrants were served in three Valley communities Wednesday morning. Nine of the vehicles were stolen in Mexico. The six-month investigation uncovered a criminal organization that would carjack high-end vehicles in Mexico, switch the Vehicle Identification Numbers and […]
care2.com reported the Islamic State extremists have discussed infiltrating the U.S. through its southern border with Mexico, a U.S. official said. Francis Taylor, under secretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, told a Senate committee today that the Sunni militants have been tracked discussing the idea on social-media sites such as […]
greenleft.org reported In the months leading up to Ecuador’s October 2006 presidential election, the US Embassy in Quito claimed to be impartial. Rather than supporting one particular candidate, then-US ambassador Linda Jewell said the embassy only wanted to help facilitate “a fair and transparent electoral process”. However, diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks show that behind […]
Human Trafficking from Southern Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala: Why These Victims are Trafficked into Modern Day Florida by Timothy Adam Golob ABSTRACT Florida is ranked as one of the United States’ top three destination states for human trafficking; many of those victims originate from Mesoamerica—Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Human trafficking […]
Border Militarization and Health: Violence, Death and Security in Mexico and the United States bepress.com ABSTRACT: Key Words: Violence, Trauma, Border Security, Migration Despite proposed increases in spending on personnel and equipment for border enforcement tied to the amended version of the U.S. Senate’s current immigration reform bill, the public health impacts of border militarization […]
U.S. Disengagement from Latin America: Compromised Security and Economic Interests Testimony before the House Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere March 25, 2014 Ilan Berman Vice President American Foreign Policy Council ___________________________________ Chairman Salmon, Ranking member Sires, distinguishe d members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the invitation to appear before you t […]
aljazeera.com Opinion …….(Gregory Weeks) The assertion that the United States is “losing” Latin America is a persistent and bipartisan obsession. In an era of intense domestic polarisation, analysts – especially in the United States but elsewhere as well – of all different political stripes seem to find agreement. This line of reasoning gathered steam in […]
patriotsinformationhotline.com/ reported from Cadena Noticias…. SHUT IT DOWN! September 20, 2014 We are but a small representation of Americans who are unsettled and deeply concerned with our current Administration, in all branches of Federal and State governments. Our mission is to Shut Down, every United States’ Port of Entry on the Southern Border, until our […]
eltiempo.com reported the lawyer of the taxi drivers in Colombia extradited to the United States, the country investigated for the murder of DEA agent James Terry Watson, said Monday that his clients would pay a penalty of 25 years in prison if they accept the charges, welcoming and a proposal that would have made the […]
nytimes.com reported and so began the inaugural broadcast of “Kichwa Hatari,” perhaps the only radio program in the United States conducted in Kichwa, an Ecuadorean variant of Quechua, an indigenous South American language spoken mainly in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Despite its humble source, the show’s principle objective is anything but modest: to save a […]
elnuevoherald.com reported a worker of the border Customs Office of the Mexican city of Piedras Negras, with United States, died and five others were injured by an explosion in the building of tax inspection, reported authorities Sunday while the causes of the incident are investigated. “My condolences to the family of our colleague at the […]
bbc.co.uk reported Police in Peru say they have seized at least 3.3 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a shipment of coal bound for Europe. Officers discovered the stash in a house near the town of Huanchaco after a six-week surveillance operation with the help of the US Drug Enforcement Administration. They arrested two Mexican and […]
Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade disqualified statements by Texas Governor Rick Perry, who warned about the entry of terrorists into the United States through the Mexican border, it was reported on Sunday. Prior to the official visit that President Enrique Peña Nieto will begin on Monday to California, the United States, Meade said, “there are […]
appeal-democrat.com/AP reported Costa Rica’s director of intelligence and security says his government will investigate undercover U.S. programs based in the Central American country that were designed to destabilize the government in Cuba. Mariano Figueres says Costa Rica has found no records or information on a project overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development that […]
lainformacion.com reported United States deported today to a Salvadoran who allegedly planned the murder of her husband, an American exmilitar, perpetrated in 2013 in El Salvador, local police said. The Salvadoran Nury Aquino was arrested by the international police (Interpol) officers at the international airport of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, 44 kilometers south of San […]
bbc.com reported that two Brazilian companies have made a $611m (£363m) bid for US banana group Chiquita. Juice maker Cutrale and conglomerate Safra have offered $13 a share, a 29% premium to Chiquita’s closing share price on Friday. Chiquita shares jumped 31% in New York after the bid was announced.The offer rivals the proposed merger […]
Tlaxcala and Puebla. aristeguinoticias.com reported on one side of this road is Tenancingo, people known as the international capital of traffickers in women, although in reality the phenomenon extends throughout the southern region of l os states of Tlaxcala and Puebla. She, like other women, many children, pay them 250 pesos-about 19 dollars for 15 […]
Breitbart.com reported about half of the nation’s federal criminal cases last year were filed in regions near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an alarming annual report from the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ). During FY 2013, U.S. Attorney’s offices filed a total of 61,529 criminal cases against defendants, according to the DOJ. Regions along […]
borderlandbeat.com reported the overwhelming corruption in Coahuila allows organized crime to prevail. Corruption from municipal city hall to the governors office, throughout the state, assure the narco business will comfortably flourish. During his governorship “Bert” Moreira and his gang of thieves have purchased luxury properties in San Antonio, and businesses in the area extending to […]
lainformacion.com reported the United States Army Southern Command donated today to Nicaragua two fast boats, equipment and resources for the construction of a center of operations to combat drug trafficking that operates, mainly in the Caribbean in the country, valued at about four million dollars. Read Article
eluniverso.com reported The Ecuadorian Juan Pablo Larrea Cruz, shareholder of the company’s chartering Sky Jet Elite Corp. (based in Miami), today said that he met with authorities of the drug enforcement agency of United States (DEA, by its acronym in English) due to the seizure of three aircraft of that company performed last week. According […]
bbc.com reported a group of American rabbis have called on President Barack Obama to negotiate the release of a US Jewish contractor detained in Cuba since 2009. Some 300 rabbis sent a letter saying they were concerned about the health of 65-year-old Alan Gross. Mr Gross has served four years of a 15-year term for […]
bigstory.ap.org reported… young Latin Americans were sent to Cuba by a U.S. agency to work in clandestine operations. The operatives were directed to recruit Cubans for the purpose of anti-Cuban activism. The cover for the program was under the ruse of civic programs.Read Article
bbc.com reported officials did not specify how many people would be affected, but said those “who have been responsible for or complicit in human rights abuses” would not be “welcome” in the US. The Venezuelan opposition has been lobbying for sanctions since thousands of protesters were detained during anti-government protests. At least 43 people were […]
bbc.com reported that Guatemala, Mexico and the United States have reached a deal to try to prevent migrants from jumping onto a freight train in an attempt to reach the US, according to Guatemalan officials. Tens of thousands of migrants stow away on the train, known as La Bestia (The Beast), every year. Hundreds are […]
dailymail.co.uk – The dead bodies of illegal immigrants are turning up in south Texas as Central Americans pour across the U.S.-Mexico border, and a veterinarian who ranches cattle 70 miles from ground zero has the photos to prove it. Dr. Mike ‘Doc’ Vickers of Brooks County, Texas showed some of the grisly images to MailOnline, […]
wfmynewsw.com reported in the U.S., few people know about the Chagas disease which is an life-threatening illness passed to humans by “kissing bugs,” or triatomines, living in Latin America. CDC figures that some 300,000 people may be infected here in the U.S. Some 8 million people have Chagas disease, a life-threatening illness passed to humans […]
latimes.com reported…Not only have more unaccompanied children illegally crossed the southern border this year — more than twice last year’s total — but they are crossing at much younger ages, according to a study released this week. There has been a 117% increase in apprehensions among unaccompanied children ages 12 and younger and a 12% […]
BBC.com reported A US appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against banana grower Chiquita brought by at least 4,000 Colombians who accused the company of supporting paramilitary forces who killed or tortured their relatives. The Florida-based court found US courts have no jurisdiction over the case. Chiquita, which is based in the US, has admitted […]
BBC.COM reported A top Venezuelan official, Gen Hugo Carvajal, has been detained in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba at the request of the American government. He had been accused by the US Treasury of assisting Colombian Farc rebels in their drug trafficking activities. The Venezuelan government said Gen Carvajal had a diplomatic passport and […]
blogs.miaminewtimes.com reported Venezuelan national Oscar Cordova-Cobian was charged with smuggling marine wildlife after TSA agents at Miami International Airport found more than 100 specimens of live corals, clams, and fish in his checked luggage. Cordova-Cobian nearly got away with his crustacean caper. The 42-year-old had already passed through MIA security and was waiting to board […]
RINCON PENINSULA, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com. The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of […]
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examiner.com reported on Monday, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina held a joint press conference in Playas de Catazaja, Mexico, to officially announce an agreement to make it easier for those making the illegal journey to the United States from Central America, to cross into Mexico. The Southern Border Program […]
tucsonnewsnow.com reported a Mexican law enforcement helicopter crossed the U.S. border southwest of Tucson and fired shots on the morning of Thursday, June 26, according to a statement from U.S. Border Patrol. The release said the helicopter crossed approximately 100 yards into Arizona, about eight miles southwest of the village of San Miguel on the […]
ORLANDOSENTINEL.COM reported….Partrick Minga admits he planned ‘sex tours’ with girls in Ecuador A former Florida resident admitted in Orlando federal court Wednesday that he operated a prostitution business in Ecuador and coordinated “tours” for Americans to have sex with girls. Federal agents in Central Florida began investigating Patrick Minga in August, when they spotted his […]
mynorthwest.com reported U.S. Congressman Adam Smith (D-Wash) is speaking out on behalf of a Renton woman who’s been held in a Mexican prison for 10 months. Smith tells KIRO Radio’s Jason Rantz that Nestora Salgado, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Renton, was trying to help fight crime in her old hometown in Mexico when she […]
US scientists took thousands of unauthorized blood samples from an indigenous group known for a unique genetic profile and disease immunity, some of which have been sold, Ecuador charged Monday. There were some “3,500 procedures” in which blood was drawn without authorization from 600 Huaorani, who live in a corner of Ecuador’s isolated Amazon basin […]
NPR.ORG INTERVIEW WITH ECUADOR’S AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.: AMBASSADOR NATHALIE CELY: It’s been difficult. And I’m not going to deny that. It’s been difficult. It’s been also difficult to educate different actors here in the United States about what is the government of President Correa about. KELEMEN: Rafael Correa has been president for seven years […]
fronterasdesk.org reported in recent months there’s been a notable uptick in Central American families and unaccompanied children coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. The largest share of migrants are coming through Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. For the first time in 16 years, that sector has surpassed Border Patrol’s Tucson sector as the busiest location for apprehending […]
theecologist.org reported two indigenous representatives from the Ecuadorian Amazon travelled to the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas to present a gift – poster-sized photographs of rainforest contaminated by oil spills and debris. Humberto Piaguaje and Robinson Yumbo, from the Secoya and Cofan nations, offered their donation to the museum’s executive director, Kathy Shannon. […]
FROM INTERPOL WEBSITE MAHUAD WITT, JORGE JAMIL Wanted by the judicial authorities of Ecuador for prosecution / to serve a sentence Identity particulars Present family name : MAHUAD WITT Forename : JORGE JAMIL Sex : Male Date of birth : 29/07/1949 (64 years old) Place of birth : LOJA, Ecuador Language spoken : Spanish , […]
dailymail.co.uk reported two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them. One reads ‘silver or lead’ in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels’ bribes or die. Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with […]
4-traders.com reported Citigroup Inc has fired four senior executives and seven other employees, saying they failed to do enough to protect the bank from loan fraud at its Mexican unit Banamex, according to an internal memo sent to staff on Wednesday. With the latest round of firings, the bank has terminated a dozen employees after […]
US diplomats confirmed on Saturday that Cuban officials have given them some information about four Florida residents who were arrested on suspicion of preparing attacks against military installations on the island. The US Interests Section in Havana issued a statement confirming the 8 May meeting with representatives of the Cuban ministry of foreign affairs. It […]
Washington (AFP) – The United States will end decades of anti-drug trafficking assistance to Ecuador this month, pulling its staff from the INL office in the South American nation, a top official said. “I am quite prepared to acknowledge right now the INL section, which has been in Ecuador now for more than 30 years, […]
chicagotribune.com/rueters reported…A 90-year-old Indiana man who admitted serving as a cocaine courier for a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in federal prison. Leo Sharp, a decorated World War Two combat veteran who turned 90 on Wednesday, was also sentenced to three years supervised release by Judge Nancy Edmunds in U.S. […]
lex18.com reported…It sounds like a movie plot, but the wife of a Morehead volunteer firefighter says it’s all true. Her husband, Dennis Walling, remains jailed in Ecuador for unknowingly carrying a suitcase lined with cocaine. Dennis Walling said he thought he was interviewing with Atlanta based Air Serv in Ecuador in March when his suitcase […]
NHREGISTER.COM reported…Ecuadorians protest at Ecuador consulate during President’s visit to Yale Wilmer Barzallo, an Ecuadorean resident, said Correa declined to meet with the community. “There are about 15,000 people in our community here and he won’t listen to us,” Barzallo said. Carmen Segovia said she wanted to participate in the protest because such opposition isn’t […]
Plenglish.com reported that the most recent subversive actions against the People”s Revolution in Ecuador, denounced by President Rafael Correa, are part of the operations planned in secret documents of the Pentagon and other US federal agencies. As the president said, the US entities in charge of espionage and subversion use all instruments at their disposal […]
cattlenetwork.com reported…Ecuador recently became the latest market to reopen to U.S. beef exports, after being closed for more than 10 years due to BSE(Mad Cow Disease). Cheyenne Dixon, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) technical services manager, explains that U.S. beef exports to Ecuador now face very few restrictions, with muscle cuts and offal items from […]
WESH.COM reported that a suspected promoter of international sex tourism involving under age South American girls appeared in court today in Orlando. An undervover Brevard County detective says the suspect ran a craigslist ad and said he specializes in taboo. The judge decided to issue bond and whether there is probably cause to prosecute him. […]
bbc.com reported that…Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) has told a court in New York he accepted $2.5m (£1.5m) in bribes from Taiwan. Portillo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to launder money and agreed not to appeal against any prison sentence between four and six years. He said he had taken the money […]
nytimes.com reported…The donations kept pouring in: hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to President Obama and more than a dozen members of Congress, carefully routed through the families of two wealthy brothers in Florida. They had good reason to be generous. The two men, Roberto and William Isaias, are fugitives from Ecuador, which […]
Former Florida resident arrested for attempted sex trafficking ICE.GOV reported…(press release) ORLANDO, Fla. – A former Florida resident was arrested Friday for attempted sex trafficking. The arrest resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. Patrick R. Minga, 50, formerly of […]
winknews.com reported that a former Cape Coral resident is accused of bringing an individual to Florida from Ecuador to have sex with minor girls for his own financial gain. If convicted, 50-year-old Patrick Minga faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. According to the criminal complaint, Minga advertised, on Craigslist, a sex […]
breitbart.com reported….Here are are the reasons why the court ruling by a US federal judge that Chevron should not have to pay $9.5 billion in damages to victims of oil pollution in Ecuador is a victory for common sense and justice which we should all be celebrating. 1. It’s not about David v Goliath. Though, […]
mondaq.com reported that…In Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corp, 2013 ONCA 758, the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed that an Ontario court has the power to recognize and enforce a judgment for approximately US $9.51 billion rendered by Ecuador’s National Court of Justice against Chevron Corporation (“Chevron”), and its Canadian subsidiary, Chevron Canada Limited (“Chevron Canada”), which […]
Elpais.com reported five percentage points of taxes are measured in money but also in time and distance. The industry know it well because, from January 1, not only pay more expensive good part of products that are no longer encumbered with a reduced 11% VAT but with 16% that affects the rest of the country. […]
examiner.com reported that on Sunday, the FBI, along with the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested Manuel Samano-Santoyo, 42, at his residence in Chicago. Samano-Santoyo and three other illegal aliens kidnapped a businessman in Paxton, Ill., in December, according to police. He is the last of the four suspects to be taken into custody, and […]
newschannel15.com reported that a Kentucky family is living a nightmare as they wait for any word about their loved one missing in Mexico. They are only holding on to hope that he’s alive. It has been 25 days since the family of James Stacy has heard anything about his whereabouts, and even then it was […]
US support for regime change in Venezuela is a mistake theguardian.com reported that the US push to topple the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro once again pits Washington against South America When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been simple: when the US government […]
Detentions of Activists in Cuba We are deeply concerned about the recent increase in arbitrary detentions, physical violence, and other abusive actions carried out by the Cuban Government against peaceful human and civil rights advocates. This past week saw the detention of Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, also known as “Antunez,” and the reprehensible behavior apparently […]
Dedicates New U.S. Consulate General in Guayaquil, Ecuador United States Dedicates New U.S. Consulate General in Guayaquil, Ecuador Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC February 7, 2014 Share on facebookShare on twitter Share In an important symbol of our commitment and enduring relationship with Ecuador, U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador, Adam E. Namm, presided […]
Strategic-Culture.com (Nil NIKANDROV) wrote: Rafael Correa is one of those Latin American presidents which ruling circles in the U.S. consider uncontrollable and thus especially dangerous. To get rid of such politicians, Washington makes use of a wide arsenal of means, from interfering in election processes to physical elimination. After the strange death of Hugo Chavez, […]
According to the Washington Post/AP Kenneth R. McVicker III pleaded guilty in Federal Court(Oregon) for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors. Federal prosecutors charged he molested at least eight boys between the ages of 5 and 12. The children were abused and photographed. The pictures were distributed. Ecuadorian authorities found hundreds of thousands of […]
naharnet.com reported that President Rafael Correa has pulled Ecuador out of a 1947 hemispheric mutual defense treaty on Wednesday on grounds it is outdated, the foreign ministry announced Wednesday. The move was the latest in a shift away from U.S.-led security arrangements in the region by Ecuador and other leftist Latin American allies. The foreign […]
A federal agent disguised in a gorilla suit and placed in a cage helped nab Mexican zoo officials who were attempting to smuggle primates to their homeland, a prosecutor said Tuesday. The Mexicans, including Victor Bernal, 57, the director of zoos and parks for the interior state of Mexico, were shown real gorillas, orangutans and […]
02/04/2014 PORTLAND, Ore. ice.gov/ — A former Maryland resident who moved to Ecuador where he sexually abused young boys and produced child pornography was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison. Kenneth Robert McVicker III, 50, pleaded guilty in October 2013 to traveling in foreign commerce and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors, […]