All religious sculptures sent by mail, especially those of the Virgin Mary, must be scanned in Peru do to an increase of drug trafficking. Narco-traffickers have lately been sending their merchandise hidden inside these statues, Peru 21 reports. They have also been using funeral urns to transport drugs. Authorities announced that drugs have also been […]
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Also wanted in U.S. Benjamin Valeriano Hernandez Jr. and Mario Cazares, ‘Cachitas’, identified as the alleged leader of the Juarez cartel, was captured in Lomas de Chapultepec. According to the federal Public Security Secretariat ‘The jocks’ criminal activity began in 1998 as an alleged drug dealer in the U.S., crime for which has location and […]
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Alexánder Montoya Úsuga, believed to be the second-in-command of the Los Urabeños gang, was arrested on July 17, 2012 in Honduras. He was wanted for flying on an aircraft previously stolen from the El Dorado airport in Colombia, UPI Español reports. He is also believed to have been responsible for ordering and renting airplanes used […]
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The Mexican drug cartels are having an increasing presence in Silicon Valley, a town located in the county of Santa Clara, California, warned by the district attorney, Patrick Vanier. The situation is occurring because the gangs have ties to people in Mexico, who have relatives living in the county to receive the operating, said the […]
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Four fishermen from Ecuador were captured by members of the United States Coast Guard with 360 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride. The drugs were found on board a boat named “Santa Martha,” La Hora reports, and was headed toward Costa Rica. The vessel had departed from the Esmeraldas province. The suspects claimed they were hired to […]
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For many, a tattoo is a way to express yourself using your body as a canvas, but the type of art you choose to decorate their skin would prevent him from entering the United States.Immigration lawyers report an increase in the number of people whose visas have been denied because their tattoos are associated with […]
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Mexican police arrested in the tourist resort of Cancun on one of the men most wanted by U.S. authorities, who remained a fugitive for 24 years. Legrend Vincent Walters is wanted in San Diego, California, and is accused of murdering a woman in 1988 kidnapped as part of an operation involving drugs. He also faces […]
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A U.S. border inspector in San Diego was arrested Friday and accused of accepting bribes including thousands in cash, use of luxury cars and apartment rent payments from two people he allegedly allowed to drive past him with illegal immigrants in their car. Hector Rodriguez, 45, was arrested while on duty for the U.S. Customs […]
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Reggaeton singer Arcángel and the Jowell and Randy duet are under investigation in the United States after officials discovered the three artists attended the wedding celebration of arrested narco-trafficker Camilio Torres, alias “El Fritango.” The singers were hired as entertainment at the party, El Universal reports. The party was to last several days at the […]
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Brazil and the United States announced that it will create a working group to study the possibility of eliminating visas for travel between the two countries, following a meeting between Brazilian Foreign Minister and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Read Article
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A man died after being attacked by a swarm of bees in Nogales on Wednesday afternoon. The victim, 75-year-old Ramon Figueroa Rascon of Nogales, was helping to clean up trash and debris at a business at the 3200 block of Silver Hills Drive when he moved an old tire and disturbed a bee hive underneath, […]
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A woman was arrested after a drug seizure took place on a bridge between Texas, the United States and Reynosa, Mexico. She was spotted driving a 2001 Ford Focus by customs officials, according to Metro Noticias. After checking her documents, officials sent her to a secondary inspection, where vehicle discrepancies were noticed. With the help […]
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On July 11th, the border patrol agency seized 400,000 dollars hidden inside a secret panel of a vehicle crossing the border of El Paso Texas and Juarez. The driver was identified as a Juarez resident. The shipment was detected when K9 dogs sniffed the money inside the vehicle. Read Article
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The first cargo shipping from Miami to Cuba in more than 50 years sailed on Wednesday from a Miami River terminal, according to a report published by El Nuevo Herald. Port International Corp., an operator of the Miami River terminal will transport humanitarian goods to Cuba once a week. Such items are allowable under exceptions […]
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Two of the top 24 members of the Sinaloa cartel suspected to operate in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico were arrested along the border by officials. Fernando Arellano-Romero (24), also known as “Rayo”, “24”, “Gamma,” and “Blue Demon” was identified as one of the suspects. The other was identified as Daniel Franco López, alias “Micha,” […]
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Ecuador is investigating the whereabouts of 64 people who disappeared several months ago to emigrate illegally to the United States through Mexico, said Thursday the National Secretariat for Migrants (Senami).”There are data from 19 individuals in the province of Canar, and 45 more from the Azuay, who are known to meet a trip to the […]
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The tunnel discovered on July 7, 2012 between Sonora, Mexico and Arizona, the United States has confirmed to have been used as a means of transporting weapons. According to Vanguardia, the tunnel was also used to transport money and drugs. This information was released after intensive intelligence work performed by the Mexican Army. The tunnel […]
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The National Drug Control in the Dominican Republic captured a couple responsible for organizing and recruiting drug mules who would fly to the United States and Europe. The couple was arrested in a home raid, where 22 grams of cocaine, firearms, ammunition, radios, and a Hummer were also seized. According to Diario Libre, two passports […]
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A narcotúnel that connected to a home in Nogales, Sonora to another in the neighboring state of Arizona, was discovered in the border region for public safety elements of both sides, who also located and arrested suspected drug traffickers in drugs. Around 19:30 am on Monday, corporations of Nogales, Sonora received an anonymous message to […]
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The Mexican Ministry of National Defense informed the detection of a tunnel the border of Sonora going into San Luis Arizona. The tunnel had a depth of 18 meters and a length of 230 meters, and was used to transport drug packages across the US border. Read Article
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Two Nogales, Sonora men apparently took the term “money laundering” a bit too literally. Gabriel Lopez Iriarte and Carlos Arredondo Rosas were each sentenced to three-year terms at the Arizona Department of Corrections after they were caught on Interstate 19 with nearly $400,000 in cash stuffed into boxes of laundry detergent. According to court documents, […]
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Camilo Torres Martínez (30), alias “Fritanga” or “Mentira,” was captured shortly after getting married and guests arrived to celebrate his wedding for a week on Múcura Island. He was wanted for narco-trafficking, specifically to Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States. According to La Tribuna, he belonged to the Los Urabeños drug trafficking organization. […]
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A small plane crashed in the mountainous region near Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras that was carrying 600 kilograms of cocaine. One of the passengers, Elías Aureliano Herrera Silva, was killed in the crash, La Prensa reports. The other passenger, George Luis Herrera Bueno, suffered serious injuries, including fractures, and was transported to a hospital in the […]
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The National Drug Control of the Dominican Republic, the Coast Guard, and the U.S. DEA together in a joint operation seized a little over a ton of cocaine along the coast by Baní. The operation occurred in international waters at night on June 29, 2012. According to Globedia, 36 bags of cocaine were found on […]
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According to La Prensa, the remittances sent by more than 10 million Mexican workers in the United States will cease to be an important source of income for the Mexican Economy. That is what Jaime Ros, a consultant from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), said in his comparative study of […]
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20 kilos of cocaine valued at 2 million quetzales were discovered inside a commercial plane that made a stop in the Guatemala City airport after departing from Orlando, Florida, United States. According to El Salvador.com, the cocaine was found in 40 bags in the food preparation area of the plane. It was found when a […]
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The National Drug Control of the Dominican Republic announced that three people riding in a Jeep were arrested with 12 packages of cocaine. According to El Nacional, one of the individuals apprehended was Sergio Bolívar Germán, Sergeant Major of the National Police. The two other suspects were identified as Marciano Segundo Peña and Héctor José […]
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Eight tons of marijuana were confiscated by officials in Chicago, valued at 40 million dollars. The drugs had been produced in Mexico and entered the United States via a drug route through Texas. According to an Emol report, this was the largest marijuana seizure in Chicago in the last 20 years. The drugs were found […]
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Abigaíl Juncos Trinidad, alias “Viga” and Amadeo Wenceslao Junco Grijalva, alias “Maya” were captured in Guatemala. The two were wanted in Florida, the United States, for crimes of drug trafficking and conspiracy. According to Siglo 21, they were planning to distribute several kilos of cocaine and were intending to import the drug into the United […]
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The U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against five individuals for laundering money in Venezuela and Colombia on behalf of a Lebanese drug-trafficking organization. One of the suspects is believed to be raising money for Hezbollah, an Islamic terrorist group. Ali Mohamed Saleh, who has dual Colombian-Lebanese citizenship, is accused of coordinating Hezbollah’s activities in […]
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After three federal police officers were shot by two other officers in the Mexico City airport on June 25, 2012, officials have been investigating an international drug trafficking network operating within the airport. According to Milenio, drug shipments from Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala were permitted through the airport. Corrupt federal agents would encourage customs agents […]
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Ecuador will not send their military and police to the U.S. to be trained in the former School of the Americas, which challenges human rights violations committed by several of his students , the government announced today. The government “has decided that is not going to send more officers or soldiers or members of the […]
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Raids on two houses in Guayas, Peru, revealed almost a ton of cocaine that was supposedly destined for the United States and Europe. Seven people were arrested during the operation, Radio Centro reports. In one of the houses, a laboratory was discovered, in which cocaine was hidden inside cans of tuna. Neighbors claimed to have […]
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Sigfrido Altagracia Guerrero Arias was arrested in the Americas International Airport in the Dominican Republic, where he was intending to board a JetBlue plane to New York with cocaine capsules in his stomach. The suspect had been linked to a Puerto Rican drug network that would transport to the United States, Diario Libre reports. The […]
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A suspected narco-trafficker was shot by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) official during a raid in a small village in Honduras. According to DEA spokesperson Dawn Dearden, this is the first time an official has killed someone since the agency began sending support to aid local security forces in Latin America, El Informador reports. […]
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A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent shot and killed a suspected trafficker during a sting operation in northeastern Honduras, a U.S. embassy spokesman in the central American nation said on Sunday. “During the operation, a DEA agent fired on a suspected drug dealer when he tried to use his weapon. The agent protected his own […]
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The son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, was caught in the Colonia Jardines de la Patria neighborhood of Zapopan, Jalisco. Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, alias “El Gordo,” was arrested by special marine forces on June 21, 2012. El Gordo had been gaining increasing strength and power within the […]
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President of Guatemala Otto Perez Molina announced that the United States and Guatemala will work together the coming July in an operation aimed to combat drug trafficking through Guatemala. Guatemala also plans to coordinate efforts with Mexico due to the 900 kilometer border between the two, Siglo 21 reports. Part of the operation will involve […]
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A court in Chile to reopen the investigation into the death of Ronni Moffitt, U.S. citizen died in Washington in 1976 in an attack on a prominent political dissident. The Santiago Court of Appeals ruled that the criminal investigation should continue in Chile, as the authors were Chilean citizens. Moffitt died by accident while riding […]
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Mauricio Santoyo, former chief of security under President Alvaro Uribe from 2002-2006 and retired police general in Colombia, has been accused by the United States of drug conspiracy. La Republic reports that the United States believes Santoyo conspired to bring cocaine into the country with the help of assassins and narco-traffickers from 2000-2008. It is […]
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Miami Customs agents seize cocaine shipment from Puerto Plata Agents Customs and Border Protection Port of Miami in late May found a container with 459 to 169 pounds of cocaine bricks from Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, although the shipment originated in Panama. According to the DEA in Miami, the ship carrying the drug […]
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“Spice,” also known as K2, Yucatán Fire, Red Magic, and Mr. Nice Guy, among others, has become an increasingly popular drug. Spice is a synthetic drug, a mixture of marijuana, damiana, and other chemicals, according to Sexenio Nuevo León, and has become one of the most-searched-for terms on Google recently. The drug has piqued curiosity […]
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The race was one of many victories for the Treviño brothers, who managed to establish a prominent horse breeding operation in the United States, Tremor Enterprises, that allowed them to launder millions of dollars in drug money, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The operation amounted to a foothold in the United […]
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A new way to cheat migrant family was denounced by members of the Committee for Migrants and partnerships that ensure the rights of nationals. Payment must reach up to U.S. $ 375 and the offer is the procedure for obtaining the Temporary Protected Status (TPS by its acronym in English), which the U.S. Congress not […]
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After two recent plane crashes in the jungles Belize, one of which was found containing cocaine, it has become evident drug trafficking has become a problem for the country, La Prensa Grafica reports. For example, along the Northern Highway in the Orange Walk district, there is an airstrip built by the government in 1999, intended […]
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INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY COMMITTEE FOR LATIN AMERICA (CISPAL) CEPRID Chile, the homeland of O’Higgins, Mistral, Neruda, Allende and a hundred others, is poised to become a staunch ally of the empire in South America. The Southern Command of the Armed Forces of the United States (SOUTHCOM), at a cost of over $ 500,000 built Fort […]
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Money donated by the United States Southern Command (USSC) is being put towards the construction of a ‘humanitarian relief centre’ at the Resistencia Airport in Chaco Province, Argentina. The project is now in the final stages of construction and drawing heavy criticism. The centre is the latest in a string of USSC funded projects popping […]
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Walter Alirio Montejo Mérida, alias “El Zope,” a Mexican narco-trafficker associated with smuggling operations involving the Sinaloa Cartel, was captured in Guatemala City. According to Provincia, he is one of the most active drug traffickers in Guatemala and is reported to be the link between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Familia Lorenzana, a narco group […]
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John Darrel Krokos, 30, of the United States, was arrested in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico by state police. The Jornada reports that Krokos was wanted in the United States for drug trafficking, and Mexican authorities plan to extradite him to the United States. He was also arrested on counts of conspiracy and crimes against health. Krokos […]
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Federal U.S. agents launched a surprise anti-narcotics operation on June 6, 2012 in the San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín airport in Puerto Rico. 33 suspects were taken into custody, including airport workers, airline employees, and other suspicious individuals who were attempting to smuggle millions of dollars of cocaine onto commercial flights for at least a […]
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Two women were arrested by police after assaulting and robbing an American tourist in Palermo. The troops were able to arrest the mobile restaurant sectional 32nd, when they noticed that a young American on the street asking for help Borges 2300. Read Article
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Mexico’s justice on Thursday approved the extradition in the next few days a significant drug trafficker Sandra Avila Beltran, known as “Queen of the Pacific”, United States, a country who is wanted for cocaine trafficking. Avila Beltran, who was arrested in 2007 for being considered an important link in the drug trafficking between Colombia and […]
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The Narcotics Division of the National Civil Police in El Salvador and the Attorney General’s Office have reported the discovery of two kilos of cocaine in a JetBlue plane in the Comalapa airport on June 6, 2012. The captain, first officer and two crew members were all U.S. citizens. The aircraft was an Airbus A320 […]
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The Bolivian government denies it is persecuting the family of René Sanabria, ex-general of the police. Sanabria was sentenced to 14 years in prison in the United States for intending to traffick drugs into the country. Sanabria had denied links to drug activity within the government, Hoy Bolivia reports.The Bolivian government says it is not […]
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Javier Ramirez Rojas (34), alias “El Tinpan,” was arrested by state police in Tijuana, Mexico, after officials discovered 80 kilograms of marijuana hidden in his Ford F150. According to Agencia Fronteriza de Noticias, the marijuana was worth 3,200,000 pesos. El Tinpan was stopped after police saw him walking with a package that resembled those used […]
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has provided the Dominican government the names of 60 suspected Mexican narco-traffickers operating between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. These traffickers are thought to be working along a route that transports drugs from Latin America into Puerto Rico or Europe, specifically Spain, Italy, and Germany, Acento reports. The suspects […]
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Arizona police discovered five charred bodies in a white SUV on June 2, 2012. The SUV was found 100 miles from the Mexican border in the Vekol Valley, south of Phoenix. Experts believe this represents an extension of Mexican drug violence into the United States, according to El País. The bodies had been burned so […]
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Police in Santa María, California were surprised when they received a text message about an upcoming drug deal directly from the dealer, El Porvenir reports. The text contained details about a delivery of synthetic drugs. A spokesperson for the sheriff confirmed that the dealer and the buyer were apprehended at the location indicated in the […]
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The anti-narcotics department in Ecuador has released statistics that show an increase in drug trafficking in the country. U.S. officials from the Department of State agree, Noticias Montreal reports. They claim many exterior criminal organizations are operating in Ecuador, such as Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartels from Mexico, Russian and Chinese groups, and Colombian […]
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On Memorial weekend a man, resident of Sonora, was apprehended by Border Patrol officials when he attempted crossing 200,000 dollars into Mexico. The 37 year-old man was detained in the Dennis DeConcini Border Station, where officials found numerous packages, containing money, hidden in various compartments inside his vehicle. The suspect was incarcerated in the Santa […]
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The family of Javier Antonio Calle, head of the Norte del Valle cartel in Colombia, has been granted asylum in Spain. This results from an agreement between the U.S. DEA, Spanish authorities, and Calle himself. Because he agreed to turn himself in to U.S. authorities, Spain has agreed to allow Calle, his parents, two sisters, […]
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Colombia thwarts drug route to United States with ties to FARC, Los Rastrojos After 19 months of intelligence preparation, El Heraldo reports Colombian police have intercepted a drug route travelling from Colombia, through Central American countries such as Honduras, and into the United States. Mules, often young children, were used to deliver the drugs to […]
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On May 22nd a sixty two year-old man was detained by federal border agents when he pretended to cross bullets illegally into Nogales Sonora. During the inspection of the man’s vehicle, resident of Nogales Arizona, federal agents found gun ammunition in hidden compartments of the vehicle. Read Article
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U.S. DEA assists in Mexico-Italy drug trafficking ring bust El Sur reports 34 people have been arrested in Sicily in an operation labeled ‘Monterrey’ in relation to a drug ring operating between Italy and Mexico. 11 of those detained belonged to the Brancaccio mafia clan in Palermo. The remaining individuals were Italians residing in Mexico. […]
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In a joint effort between Honduran police and U.S. Drug Enforcement Office officials, four people died after a shooting intended to intercept what was believed to be a drug transfer on May 11, 2012. The Diario Las Americas reports the shots were fired by Honduran police from U.S. helicopters at a passenger ship traveling on […]
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Increased Crackdown on Mexican Border Forces Colombian Drug Routes Through Caribbean Due to increased security presence and attention to drug trafficking operations along the Mexican border with the United States, traffickers have had to find alternative routes to serve the illicit U.S. market, reports Listin Diario. These new routes transport drugs from Colombia, through Caribbean […]
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Arizona Prime Location for Mexican Drug Trafficking with 23% of Border Drugs El Universal released a report May 22, 2012 claiming Arizona has become a prime location for drug trafficking between the United States and Mexico, particularly the cities of Phoenix and Tucson. 53% of all drug money seized in 2011 along the border between […]
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Mexico: US murderer is detained in the Mexican border A US fugitive is seized with the help of Mexican border patrol and custom agents in the border of Tamaulipas and Texas. The fugitive was identified as 37 year old Carlos Mares, he was hiding in Mexico after committing murder in Sullivan city, Texas. Read Article
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Exporters in Peru and importers in the United States and around the world are currently timber from the Peruvian Amazon. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes through sheer negligence, each of the actors and agencies involved in this system are working as gears in a well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights […]
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Last year, a record 120 Americans were killed in Mexico, compared with just 35 in 2007. Most happened in areas bordering the U.S. But for the first time, a significant number of murders occurred in previously peaceful areas like Jalisco state, where 14 Americans were killed, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis of U.S. State […]
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FBI: Neo-Nazis Planned to Attack Mexican Consulate Two members of a new white supremacist group in Minnesota discussed killing former associates in the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) and using homemade napalm in a truck bomb attack on the Mexican consulate in St. Paul, newly released court documents say. Read Article
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Mexico: American Citizen kidnaped in Jalisco On May 18th, members of 2 drug cartels, Millennium and Los Zetas, kidnapped an American citizen in Chapala. When the foreigner walked his dogs, members of the drug cartels picked him up and released him hours later upon the condition to take a woman to a hospital. Read Article
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The U.S. government announced today that it has granted visas to Cubans 60 and rejected 11 applications for travel to a conference in San Francisco (California), to be attended by Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro. The State Department spokesman, Victoria Nuland, said the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) invited for XXX Congress […]
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Four people died and as many wounded in a raid were drug traffickers, they were humble and honest citizens, said yesterday the deputy Thank God Grawell Maylo Wood, and the mayor of Ahuas, Lucio Baquedano. The incident occurred last Friday morning when a helicopter with U.S. and Honduran police opened fire on a boat on […]
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Mexico spends almost 4 million pesos supporting Deported immigrants coming back from the US The Mexican department of labor has invested a total of 3 million 723 thousand pesos assisting individuals that have been deported mainly from the states of Texas and California. In the year 2012 there has been a total of 2 462 […]
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High U.S. military presence in Colombia formalized in the exercise of elite BOGOTÁ.Un top U.S. military aviation in Bogota today formalized the presence of the Colombian Air Force (FAC) during an international air polygon to be held next July in the North American country. The Colombian participation in the so-called Red Flag was enrolled at […]
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More than three thousand archaeological pieces Ecuador, including the most impressive works of the Manta culture, rest in the vaults of a museum in Washington, where the government said today that wants to get to a better understanding of the country’s history. Read Article
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Three Peruvian citizens were arrested with fake $ 31,200 sold for a quote lower than the official commercial area Once, in the Federal Capital. This is a woman and two men, who were seized in two raids in the neighborhood of Flores in the locality of Gerli, Avellaneda, by order of Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide. […]
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The Civil Liberties Union of U.S. (ACLU) asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to initiate an investigation into alleged abuses against U.S. citizens, legal residents and other visitors at ports of entry along the border with Mexico. The complaint, formally sent yesterday, cites evidence of 11 alleged victims of agents of the Bureau of […]
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Colombia anti-drug authorities and the United States completely dismantled a network of cocaine trafficking with the arrest of a U.S. exmilitar and a Colombian citizen. Narcotics Directorate (Diran) of the National Police of Colombia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Directorate (DEA) arrested in coordinated and called Alliance 31 to the two alleged ringleaders of the […]
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The Peruvian red cheese, produced in southern city of Lluta, in Arequipa will be exported to Chile and the United States, Arequipa’s mayor Elio Begazo said Wednesday. Begazo explained that currently the product goes through a standardization process in order to be exported to said countries. He recalled that farming is the main activity of […]
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The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its new national strategy, the first in eight years, during which their agents more than doubled and arrests of people entering illegally from Mexico fell to their lowest level in four decades. The new plan, outlined in a 32-page document whose preparation took more than two years has […]
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Summary The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, or U.S. Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, as it is officially called, is a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia, which will eventually eliminate tariffs and other barriers in bilateral trade in goods and services. The agreement will enter into force on May 15, 2012. […]
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Aa U.S. citizen was arrested in Tijuana, who was wanted by authorities in his country for allegedly committing a robbery. Ministerial Police Officers of the Organized Crime Attorney, arrested the fugitive, who identified himself as Dustin Kunkel, 25. The arrest was achieved by exchanging information with U.S. authorities had insufficient data is that the alleged […]
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The Obama administration yesterday formally recognized the relationship with Argentina is “difficult” and faces “obstacles” in sensitive areas such as the country’s international financial performance, security and the fight against drug trafficking. The Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson, said during a presentation to the Congress that Argentina “needs to resume a […]
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The Ministry of Defense of Peru would have taken the decision to cancel the acquisition of Air Defense System, which was awarded in February to Northrop Grumman Consortium (USA), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (Israel) and Bumar Group (Poland). The decision, according to unofficial information, respond to claims submitted by bidders, especially CPMIEC (China Precision Machinery […]
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The owner of a uniform store police and military in El Paso was arrested yesterday by federal agents on charges of smuggling bullets and tactical equipment to Mexico as well as money laundering. The man was identified as Hector Ayala, 48, who was detained in the jail of El Paso County and who is accused […]
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A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans now leave the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center. It is the first reversal in the trend since the Depression, […]
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The defense secretary said the country would sell 10 helicopters to Colombia. The Secretary of Defense United States, Leon Panetta, who was an official visit to Colombia confirmed the sale of 10 helicopters, reaffirmed cooperation on intelligence and expressed concern about weapons purchases by Venezuela. “America has no objection to what Venezuela is doing to […]
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The United States secretly supported the United Kingdom during the early days of the Falklands/Malvinas Island war of 1982, while publicly adopting a neutral stance and acting as a disinterested mediator in the conflict, according to recently declassified U.S. documents posted today by the National Security Archive. On the 30th anniversary of the war, the […]
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EE. States. revealed its priorities in the region. Venezuela, Argentina and Guatemala are being targeted. After Santos-Obama historic debate on the decriminalization of drugs in the Summit of the Americas, the U.S. government notified them to several countries in the priority plan to confront the drug cartels. In formal and informal talk of a new […]
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Mexico: The US provides specialized anti-crime equipment to Mexico The United States donated specialized equipment, valued at $725 543 000 dollars, to combat organized crime and violence generated by criminal groups in Mexico. The equipment, set up by microscopes, fingerprint scanners, office and training equipment will be delivered on Monday to the State Governor. Read […]
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The office of the attorney general of Venezuela, Luisa Ortega Diaz, asked on Friday to the international police agency (Interpol) issued an arrest warrant against the Venezuelan Supreme Court exmagistrado former prosecutor and military Eladio Aponte, who was removed from office last month for allegedly taking bribes from drug trafficker Walid Makled. Aponte responded by […]
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A U.S. truck driver was arrested after 268,000 rounds of ammunition were found in a semi-truck in Juárez by Mexican customs agents at the Bridge of the Americas on Tuesday afternoon. The case was one of the largest ammo seizures made by Mexican authorities in Juárez since a vicious drug cartel war that has claimed […]
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Transfer of drug grows in U.S. border. States. and Mexico New York. – Increased security at the border between Mexico and the United States does not prevent more drugs being trafficked or that more immigrants are exposed to violence of Mexican cartels, said a U.S. report released yesterday. Read Article Spanish
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Patients say they were disfigured and operations would have done without anesthesia. The attorney general of New York announced today that it filed charges against two fake plastic surgeons and a doctor, all Colombians, for performing plastic surgery procedures several women, some of which were permanently disfigured. Prosecutors identified the defendants as William Carlos Arango […]
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A former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice flown by federal agents to the United States is likely to be a trove of valuable information for U.S. authorities investigating the nexus of cocaine, payoffs and corruption in the government of President Hugo Chávez. Ex-Judge Eladio Aponte Aponte, who’s associated with a Venezuelan kingpin facing indictment in New […]
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The Venezuelan exmagistrado Eladio Aponte Aponte, dismissed for his alleged connection with a suspected drug dealer and who entered the country on April 2, left yesterday on Costa Rican soil in a plane of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English). Read Article
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The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) seized a suitcase full of cocaine headed to the United States at Las Americas Airport (AILA), with at least three arrests, including two employees of a company which provides service in the luggage inspection area, and seeks six others. Read Article
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