Santo Domingo.- A group formed by judges, representatives of the Justice Ministry, the United States Government and various institutions nationwide started training on Monday, to bolster their ability to investigate and prosecute crimes against flora and fauna species in danger of extinction. Read Article
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The bodies of several girls and women were found on the border between Mexico and the United States, the gruesome discovery again unleash fears of women in Ciudad Juarez are killed en masse. The most recent discovery creepy-a total of 12 sets of bones found in January and February in fields in the valley Juarez, […]
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Gustavo Mohar Bentancurt, Assistant Secretary for Population, Migration and Religious Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior (Interior Ministry) said that 1.5 daily migrants die trying to cross the border into the United States. Opening the First International Conference on the Smuggling of Migrants, the official also said that one of every 11 Mexicans live […]
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Announcement of Ten-Year Visa Validity for Colombians Visiting the United States Fact Sheet Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC April 15, 2012 The State Department is pleased to announce an increase in the validity of visas for Colombians traveling on a temporary basis to the United States from five years to ten years. This means […]
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A cache of about 180 kilos of cocaine was seized within 27 kilometers of the coast of El Dorado, Northern District of Puerto Rico, in an operation against drug trafficking in which they were arrested six Dominicans. The head of the federal prosecutor in San Juan, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez announced at a press conference yesterday […]
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Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban agents convicted of espionage in the United States, returned Friday to leave U.S. soil after a fortnight to visit the island, Cuban state television said. Gonzalez, who has served 13 years in prison and since late 2011 is on probation but required to remain in the U.S., had […]
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U.S. General. States. says that analyze the application, which includes helicopters. A fleet of helicopters and spy planes and unmanned, better known as ‘drones’, asked Colombia to the United States , as part of the new phase of cooperation between both countries ( from the pump to ‘drone’ / analysis ). These aircraft would be […]
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United States and Central America did not sufficiently inform each other hundreds of criminals who are deported to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador each year, contributing to increased violence in the region on Monday raised U.S. experts. “We can do much more about sharing information when reporting on their records,” said Michael Shifter, a professor […]
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Highly dangerous as described yesterday, David Morales Velez, who is deported from the United States Matamoros thousands of people including many ex-convicts considered, as this incident in order to raise the crime rate and this affects the whole society because it does not have control, hence the authorities should abocarse to take steps to prevent […]
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Summary On August 5, 2004, the United States entered into the Dominican Republic-Central America- United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). Congress passed the implementing bill on July 28, 2005 (P.L. 109-53) and CAFTA-DR entered into force with El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala by July 1, 2006, the Dominican Republic on March 1, 2007, and […]
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Colombia has begun to receive the participants at the Sixth Summit of the Americas, which begins officially on Tuesday in the Caribbean city of Cartagena de Indias in the middle of quite a few expectations. And although the official agenda prepared by the Colombian government focuses on issues of physical integration, access and use of […]
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Brazil’s rising stature and influence will be on display when President Dilma Rousseff arrives in Washington this week — as it was when President Obama visited Brazil one year ago, accompanied by his top economic advisors, including several Cabinet members, and about 50 chief executives from the largest U.S. companies. The conundrum that faces the […]
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Ecuador Ecuador Report – Death by Non-Natural Causes (From 1-2011 To 12-2011) Date City Cause of Death 12-30-2011 Santa Elena, Ecuador Drowning 12-25-2011 Guayaquil, Ecuador Vehicle Accident – Auto 11-03-2011 Salinas, Ecuador Vehicle Accident – Pedestrian 09-09-2011 Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador Homicide 08-04-2011 Agrio, Sucumbios, Ecuador Drowning 07-14-2011 Santo Domingo, De Los Colorados, Ecuador Vehicle Accident […]
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Gone are the superpowers. Gone is the time when an empire or a country with great power, imposed on other desires. Of course there are still nations with the strength and resources to compel or induce other nations to behave and not another. But this is increasingly rare or sustainable. Today not even the U.S., […]
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In Nuevo Laredo there is an increment of 30 percent in Mexican tourists coming to the United States for the Easter holiday season or “Semana Santa”. On April 5th the average delay upon crossing the border towards Laredo, Texas was about two hours. Read Article
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On Wednesday, the leaders of the largest coalition of American labor unions sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to maintain pressure on the Colombian government to end the rampant violence against union workers in the South American nation. Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the signing of a Labor Action Plan between […]
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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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Quito, Ecuador 02/abr/2012.- expected to cooperate with Iran’s oil sector with the entry into a consortium in Venezuela and the Persian country offer to invest in a refinery in its territory, despite sanctions against Tehran , said today the manager of the state company Petroecuador, Marco Calvopiña. Read Article
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A three-judge appellate panel has again denied — for the fourth time — a motion by Chevron Corp. to block the Republic of Ecuador from enforcing an $18 billion judgment against the company. In a decision released last week, the Ecuadorian panel ruled that the oil giant was not entitled to use an order from […]
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Incident March 29, 2012 More than 10 thousand rounds of ammunition were seized in southern Arizona in a truck bound for Mexico, federal agents reported. Agents of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection examined the passengers on Thursday night at the Nogales station. A 47 year old Mexican driving a big rig reported the […]
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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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Criminal organized network from Romania investigated for ATM fraud Six members of a Dolj County criminal organized group are being investigated for money laundering and ATM theft. Most members of the organization operate in Romania, while a few operate in United States and Mexico. The money stolen from US and Mexico’s ATMs is ultimately sent […]
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“The architecture of international human rights law is built on the premise that all persons, by virtue of their essential humanity, should enjoy all human rights.” — David Weissbrodt, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Non-Citizens Amnesty International’s report, In Hostile Terrain: Human rights violations in immigration enforcement in the US Southwest, examines the human rights violations […]
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A prosecutor closed the investigation of Medellin exejecutivos against several of the banana, which admitted to the Department of Justice of the United States for several years paid ‘vaccines’ for paramilitaries in Urabá and Magdalena. Read Article
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The transfer of weapons at a U.S. diplomatic vehicle, from Trinidad to Santa Cruz, unleashed another impasse between that country and Bolivia. The Government said the move threatened the security of the state, although the northern country denies irregularities. The car of the U.S. Embassy, registration number 27-MI-30, was arrested yesterday at about 05.00, in […]
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The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that one of his officers fell about 10 meters within a cross-border tunnel in California, while on a practice. San Diego Firefighters rescued on Tuesday the officer who fell into a sophisticated tunnel with concrete walls, confirmed Wednesday the institution. The incident occurred in the […]
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Mexico: 2 USA soldiers were accused facilitating their services to a Mexican Cartel Sargent Samuel walker and former lieutenant Kevin Corley were detained by undercover officers when they attempted to be part of a Mexican organized crime cartel named the Zetas. Their plan was to charge the cartel members 50 thousand dollars for killing a […]
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In 2011 there were 190 arrests for minor drug trying to cross the San Diego | Agency Reform The number of children carrying drugs across the border, mainly methamphetamine, continues to rise, which is coupled to the growth of cases of “blind mules” carrying drugs without their knowledge, activists complain. In 2011 there were 190 […]
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Clan members are originally from Puerto Asis, but established themselves as lords and masters throughout the southern Pacific coast from the 80’s. Gradually extended their dominions from Tumaco (Nariño) to the border and set up clandestine shipyards in Ecuador. The patriarch of the network, Mauner Mahecha, the ‘Old’, was a partner of drug traffickers as […]
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President Evo Morales warned to “close” the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, if “still bothering” their government, following a wave of social protests in Bolivia and regional of various kinds, as the government reported Sunday. “I want to warn publicly, I have no fear. If again the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia continues to trouble, as […]
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Despite persistent reports of serious corruption and human rights abuses by the Honduran army and police, the Pentagon increased its contract spending in Honduras to $53.8 million in Fiscal Year 2011, up by 71% from the previous year. President Obama’s budget also proposes increased assistance to the Honduran military in the 2013 foreign aid budget […]
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We are back from our trip to the Texas-Mexico border and thought we would offer some preliminary conclusions about border management. There are several positive developments worth noting: There are still no signs of terrorist traffic according to any of the officials and non-governmental sources we met. Improved systems and technology now provide CBP with […]
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A court in Guatemala on Tuesday authorized the extradition to America of the alleged higher local drug lord, while the Central American country hardens a crackdown on organized crime. John ‘Chamale’ Ortiz López, who was arrested in March 2011 and is kept under arrest in Guatemala, is charged in a Florida court for trafficking tons […]
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As a result of bilateral work between Mexico and the United States on security, the Attorney General’s Office by the Delegation in Chihuahua, Ernesto Ortiz arrested Manuel Barraza, Mexican fugitive who has an arrest warrant rotated by the Eighteenth District Judge Federal Criminal Proceedings in the Federal District, for his alleged responsibility in the commission […]
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José María Cavero Zimic is not a common offender. Images show the precise time of the arrest of the Peruvian due to an order from a U.S. court for family violence and attempted murder. It is one of the men most wanted by the FBI of the United States and Interpol Peru. Zimic Cavero, a […]
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The seizure of just over $ 206,000 in cash, managed U.S. Customs officials to surprise an American woman trying to cross the shipment to Mexico.A public information officer for the U.S. authority in question reported that this occurred when conducting inspections in the immigration lines crossing the checkpoint Denis DeConcini. Read Article
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Eighty Ecuadorian arrive tomorrow deported from the United States, according to information provided by the National Secretariat for Migrants (Senami). The report notes that the Consulate General of Ecuador in New Orleans and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Integration, this February 24 compatriots arrive in the country deported by U.S. immigration authorities. Read […]
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The National Drug Control (DNCD) dismantled a clandestine printing and occupied about three million counterfeit dollars in a country house located in San Juan Mata community, near the Airport The La Isabela, in the north of this capital. The DNCD chief, Major General Rolando Rosado, revealed that a staff led by two colonels and a […]
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Extra newspaper print edition reported in the February 11th, 2012 edition a U.S. citizen was apprehended in La Libertad, Ecuador, during a routine police stop. According to the newspaper, Jack Daniel Malone Wallace aka James Martin Malone provided authorities an expired identification card from the United States. He was transported to a local police station […]
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More than six kilos (14 pounds) of methamphetamine were seized by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in southern Arizona, and a Mexican was arrested, authorities said. Agents working in the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales referred to a man of 30 years for a secondary inspection of his SUV when he […]
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An American was sentenced Tuesday by the federal courts of their country, to 85 years in prison for the crimes of producing child pornography and sexual tourism in Nicaragua, judicial sources said. Edgardo Sensi, 55, resident of Florida (Southeastern U.S.), had pleaded guilty in July 2010 on charges of conspiracy to produce child pornography in […]
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The National Director of U.S. Intelligence, James Clapper, said today in written testimony before the Senate that “there is still doubt” that the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, is cured of his cancer. According to Clapper, “Chávez announced that he has cancer, but there are still doubts about his health” and recalled that during his 12 […]
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U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, met yesterday in Bogota with the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, during a visit to this country marked by secrecy. Sherman began his visit on Sunday in Cartagena de Indias, where he traveled to hear firsthand how are the preparations for the celebration of the […]
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Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) had an accessory in their plan to rob the children of opponents and give them up for adoption related families: the United States. Elliot Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in 1982 with the Reagan Administration, said Thursday before the court that his country Argentina “was aware that children were stolen from their […]
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The Venezuelan government today deported three Colombian drug traffickers-one, one Canadian and Puerto Rican-requested third with Interpol red notice for Colombia, Canada and the U.S. respectively, and announced the capture of another required by Greece. Read Article
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W1420.com reported that the United States Consulate General in Matamoros was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat at its facilities, officials said. The threat was received by an anonymous call to the 066 Emergency Services Command Center, Computer, Control and Communications (C-4), which states that a bomb would explode in the U.S. office located […]
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Border Patrol to build a substation in New Mexico Some landowners in the area did not want the Border Patrol was established on that site that is private land, but the place was built on federal lands closest to the border. The U.S. Border Patrol will open a new post in southwestern New Mexico, just […]
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The governments of the United States, Brazil and Bolivia signed in La Paz yesterday finally to verify agreement with the UN as an observer, the destruction of illegal plantations of coca leaves to manufacture cocaine base, after several failed attempts to sign it for almost a year. Read Article
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The organization led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman uses the control of the runners on both sides of the border between Mexico and the United States to extend its dominance in Arizona. And as with Texas, the level of violence and attacks on law enforcement is increasing, according to a report of the Department of […]
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Ecuador will culminate today the destruction of eleven U.S. bombs from World War II, most of them of more than 200 kilos, which were found in 2010 by fishermen in the Galapagos Islands, the Ministry of Defence. The delegate of the Minister of Defense to destroy Galapagos pumps, Xavier Drouet, told Efe that exploded yesterday […]
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he Mexican traffickers continue to enjoy commercial success by introducing more drugs in the U.S., despite the country spent the last decade nearly 90 billion dollars in border security, reported on Friday a report from a coalition border. The report, prepared by the Texas Border Coalition (TBC), consisting of mayors, county officials and economic development […]
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Mexico’s government allowed a group of undercover U.S. anti-drug agents and their Colombian informant to launder millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday. The Mexican magazine Emeequis published portions of documents that describe how Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a Colombian trafficker-turned-informant and […]
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None of the 140 passengers from Flight 864 were injured Cabo San Lucas, a spokesman for American Airlines. The problem originated in the lubrication system of an engine. An American Airlines plane bound for the North Texas from Mexico had an emergency landing in El Paso because of a problem in the lubrication system of […]
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The United States expelled Venezuela’s consul general in Miami after he was disseminated reports that she discussed possible cyber attacks on U.S. government computers when he was at the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico. The State Department said Sunday that Livia told Acosta Noguera diplomatic persona non grata and gave her until Tuesday to leave the […]
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In southern Florida, an elite group of U.S. attorneys is assigned a goal: to help disrupt the criminal gangs (BACRIM) in Colombia. In fact, the capture of 30 people this week in Colombia, linked to the organization of ‘Loco Barrera’ is the first result of this mission, which, according to the prosecutor for the Southern […]
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U.S. authorities on Tuesday acquired a new unmanned aircraft for tasks of high-tech surveillance overflights and the Arizona border, looking for drug traffickers and illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico.The Predator drone-B is located in the Security Operations Center Air National Sierra Vista, a few miles north of the border with Mexico to southeastern Arizona, the […]
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The second defense industrial conglomerate in the world has ratified the contract announced in the last LAAD to update the M-113 of the Brazilian Army. The amount to invest seems to have descended from the original $ 48 million to about 42 in the end, but basically modernizing about 150 vehicles, of the 376 initially […]
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The United States Embassy in Mexico confirmed that three of the victims of the assault on passenger buses in Panuco had dual nationality. Three of the seven people killed in Thursday’s attack by gunmen on passenger buses in Veracruz and Mexico had the nationality of the United States confirmed Friday state and the U.S. embassy. […]
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United States today announced a joint venture of seizures of more than 327 000 articles in 66 piracy cities and in 55 of Mexico and the South Korean capital, worth more than $ 80 million. The operation “Fraud Christmas 2”, made in a period of six weeks, included raids on shops, street markets and other […]
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The US state has informed that the US Mission to Brazil processed a record number of visa applications – 820,000 – in fiscal year 2011, a 42 percent year-over-year increase. To meet the surging demand for US visas in Brazil, the Department of State is deploying waves of temporary employees to the US Embassy in […]
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Federal agents and the Department of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will arrive in the coming hours to the Dominican Republic to inquire with the authorities here, the death of Puerto Rican pilot Santos Rodriguez Silk.It was learned also that the pilot’s family found dead yesterday, a company owned aircraft in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, […]
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Between January and November the country’s banks have retained 11.032 counterfeit dollar bills of different denominations. In the same period in 2010 was seized $ 125.402. Read Article
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U.S. Citizen Services Emergency Message to U.S. Citizens About Carjackings in Matamoros The U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros has learned that a series of carjackings appear to have been committed by the same suspects in the first two weeks of December in neighborhoods in the north of Matamoros. At least five of the carjacking victims […]
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The long and fierce competition on the lucrative concession to wrap luggage at Miami International Airport (MIA) is reaching a new intensity. On one side is Synapse Trading USA, which has the exclusive multimillion-dollar contract to wrap in plastic machine the baggage of passengers at MIA. On the other hand is Secure Wrap of Miami, […]
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The Panamanian airline Copa today launched daily nonstop flights between Chicago and Panama City, said Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines. The first flight departed this morning from Terminal 5 Chicago O’Hare International Airport bound for Panama’s Tocumen international airport, where Copa has its center for the Americas.
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Elements of the Army discovered, near the border with Nogales, Arizona, a tunnel under construction, about 50 meters long, which claimed Friday with a gunman who was guarding him. The National Defense Secretariat reported that elements of the Military Zone 45, who were operating in Colonia Buenos Aires, they discovered the tunnel, which still had […]
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Bolivia and the United States decided to extend until December 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to protect the cultural heritage of the country. According to a press release from the Department of State United States, published on its website, the memorandum will enable to maintain the restrictions “on imports of archaeological material from pre-Columbian cultures […]
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Tucson Sentinel.com reported: Arrests Douglas Station agents apprehended a 15-year-old Mexican boy for illegally entering the United States Friday night. He admitted to being a member of the Sureños 13 gang. He was held pending removal. Naco Station agents apprehended a Mexican man Friday for illegally entering the United States. The man claimed to be […]
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The demand for electricity operator who submitted the Ulysse, is for alleged violations of the Bilateral Treaty on the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments (TBI). The U.S. multinational calls for the Government of Ecuador for compensation for at least $ 56.1 million to the alleged violations of a contract in 2006 to supply 50 […]
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The United States Embassy in Santo Domingo confirmed in a brief statement, which received a bomb threat by telephone. “As is routine in these cases, the Dominican National Police was notified and immediately increased patrols around the embassy and the consulate as a precaution.” Read Article ———————————————— Open Source Intelligence Tool for Latin America ———————————————— […]
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A former director of a Peruvian airline pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to integrated a price-fixing with competitors in shipments from the U.S. to Latin America , after the hurricane “Katrina” and “Rita”. George Gonzalez, who was chief Skies Airlines commercial, pleaded guilty in Federal Court Southern District of Florida , which will help you […]
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The bank was already in April the first of his country in acquiring an American institution, the Eurobank (Florida). In the new phase, the plan includes New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. “To keep our customer base in Brazil, we find it important to be not only a regional bank, but simply a world.” So […]
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The girl’s family Yarelis Bonilla, 5 years, do not lose hope. But the situation of this small New Jersey who suffers from a severe type of leukemia is complicated, after immigration authorities denied a visa to his sister who lives in El Salvador, and who is thus far the only one who can donate bone […]
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Mapuche Indians of Argentina invaded a portion of the gas processing plant of the company Apache Corporation, as a protest against the company, because this contaminates the water in the area where they live, local press reported. According to Reuters, the U.S. company Apache Corporation, had to discontinue work on the plant in the province […]
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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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A Guatemala man arrested earlier this year for attempting to re-enter Arizona illegally has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Federal prosecutors say Allan Yair Najera-Valenti was apprehended by Nogales Station Border Patrol agents on May 12.Read Article
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The family of Sincelejo merchant, John Alexander Mejia Gallego, extradited in May this year the United States, reported on his death in a Florida prison, and denounced the lack of medical care by the system, as responsible. John Alexander Mejia, 29, law student at a university in the capital of Sucre, was captured in May […]
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United States extradited to Panama to Louis Robinson, who in 1977 hijacked a bus and tried unsuccessfully to fly to Cuba from New York, but not before killing two people, said Thursday the agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Panamanian Robinson, 61, was taken to his home country on Wednesday by ICE agents after […]
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U.S. authorities have discovered Wednesday a tunnel of 370 meters used by traffickers to transport drugs from the Mexican city of Tijuana (Baja California) to the U.S. city of San Diego (California), as reported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The discovery occurred after U.S. authorities arrested the two occupants of a truck that had […]
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Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom on Tuesday authorized the extradition of former President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) United States, where he is accused of laundering $ 70 million (48.3 million euros) in banks in this country. In a press conference, Colom explained that his decision was motivated by his desire not to interfere in judicial decisions by […]
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A young American citizen died today when thrown into the waters of Petrohué Falls, in the Vicente Perez Rosales National Park in the Tenth Region.The victim was identified as Derrick Flahive 20, who along with his friend Samuel Edward age, decided to plunge into the water from a holding bar. Read Article
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As announced by Island Travel & Tours company, flights from the international airport Thurgood Marshall Baltimore-Washington DC (BWI) will begin on Wednesday, March 21 weekly, in partnership with the airline Sky King. Read Article
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Venezuelan authorities said Friday the rescue of the player Major League Baseball, Wilson Ramos. Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami, state television said Ramos is “safe.” The catcher of the Washington Nationals was kidnapped on Wednesday in the family home located in a working class neighborhood in the state of Carabobo, about 150 kilometers west of […]
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Oil Injustice – Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador – Recorded interview with author Dr. Patricia Widener (Recording Time- 01:44:05) Recorded November 08, 2011. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PURCHASE BOOK: Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador ——————————————————————————————– Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil […]
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Grupo Bimbo completed the purchase of fresh bakery business in the U.S. North American Fresh Bakery (NAFB) of Sara Lee. In a statement sent to the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, the Mexican bakery said that because of this, its consolidated results for the fourth quarter of 2011 reflect the integration of operations of NAFB. For […]
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In the next twenty months, Rafael Correa’s second and final presidential term that began in 2009, will come to a close. The story of the young and impetuous president who has weathered an attempted coup, endless criticism from a divided but increasingly boisterous opposition, and a relentless battle with the media, already has begun to […]
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Although the facade was a modest business printing of flyers and calendars, in fact it was one of the most powerful dedicated illegal printing counterfeit U.S. dollars and documents. During the raid conducted at the place, located in the neighborhood of Las Acacias of Suba, the DAS managed the seizure of more than two million […]
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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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Two Americans were shot several times inside his car while waiting to cross the San Ysidro border crossing in Tijuana, three teenagers from El Paso were killed while eating tacos in Ciudad Juarez, and another American was shot on a road in San Luis Potosi, although his murderers identified himself as a broker in the […]
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Key Findings: There are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents. If nothing changes, 15,000 more children may face a similar fate in the next 5 years. This is a growing national problem, not one confined to border jurisdictions or states– ARC […]
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A woman was arrested Friday afternoon after she was found selling antibiotics out of her minivan trunk on a San Rafael street, police said. Around 12:30 p.m. police received a complaint about a woman selling items from the back of her car in the 300 block of Canal Street. When police arrived at the location […]
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Federal agents arrested in the input port of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, a Mexican family who tried to cross the border with U.S. birth certificates, but not corresponded to its members, it was reported today. The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who described the arrest as “unusual,” he said in a statement that […]
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U.S. airlines increase the number of charter flights to Cuba, a country which has diplomatic relations with the United States for 50 years, U.S. media reported Wednesday. According to the source, American Airlines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines Continental and Delta, four of the largest U.S. airlines will provide aircraft charter flights to 25 U.S. companies […]
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Nogalesinternational.com reported a Nogales woman was arrested Wednesday on charges that she tried to smuggle an animal tranquilizer that’s also used as a date-rape drug into the United States from Mexico.The unidentified 25-year-old woman was trying to enter the United States through a pedestrian lane at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry when U.S. Customs […]
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Nogalesinternational.com reported, migrants crossing illegally into the U.S. from Mexico were once again the target of borderland bandits, who this time struck near the abandoned mining town of Ruby in western Santa Cruz County. Nine alleged victims told sheriff’s deputies that they were traveling with four other undocumented immigrants on the night of Oct. 17 […]
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Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations seized 3,788 pounds of marijuana on the Tohono O’odham Nation on Friday, ICE announced Monday. Officers from HSI’s Shadow Wolves unit, which tracks smuggling activity, followed tire tracks from two vehicles through the desert near Ventana and found a pickup truck hidden in brush and […]
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Abandoned vehicle and found military tactical gear, solar cells, gun and other implements. False fleeing military to be discovered by members of the National Defense Secretariat, leaving behind a pickup truck, late model, and within the unit had tactical gear, military style remote tracking equipment, solar cells, devices radio communication, marijuana residue, a kind weapon […]
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Government authorities yesterday dismissed the presence in the country of international drug cartels hours after the death of a police Umopar in a clash with drug traffickers in a cocaine lab found in the Tipnis and after the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency U.S.) issued a report of its intelligence agencies that Mexican cartels have extended […]
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302 At the Prosecutor’s Office with assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the case of Petty Officer U.S. Navy Deion Lemar Burton, who was caught with 5.4 kilos of cocaine on 12 October in the El Dorado airport in Bogota. The arrest took place when the military, 26, and commission in Italy, was […]
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An entrepreneur of 27 years, resident of San Jose, is the owner of the fishing vessel Miss Jacky Guard that the United States on Friday seized 250 kilos of cocaine in Pacific waters. Mojica’s wife name, is adjacent to the citadel of Puntarenas November 20 and owner of three other boats.The Miss Jacky was captured […]
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