Although the export sector sees as positive the renewal of the Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPDEA), the concern now is how to prepare for this system, once completed in July 2013 definitely. “It is gratifying to know that at least we have this extension until July 2013, which gives us almost two years to achieve […]
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Brazil received in three days, two containers with 46 tons of trash from the U.S. hospital in the port of Suape, near Recife (Pernambuco state, northeast), said Friday customs inspection to the Brazilian press.Waste (gloves, masks, syringes, surgical pajamas, sheets and dirty towels, etc.) were imported by the Brazilian company clothing Capibaribe-Santa Cruz in textile […]
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Mexico continues as the leading country for Citibank in Latin America, although Banamex profits in the last two quarters show a significant decrease versus the comparable prior periods. According to figures from the National Banking and Securities Commission (NBSC), from January to March this year compared to same period previous earnings of the second largest […]
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A 56-year-old undocumented immigrant died of heart attack in an Elizabeth hospital while waiting to be sent home to Ecuador, federal officials said today. Victor Antonio Ramirez-Reyes was arrested Sept. 6 and was awaiting deportation at the Elizabeth Detention Center, when he went into cardiac arrest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. Read Article
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On 16 October 2010, the agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Darryl Galaway reported to the National Drug Control (DNCD) in the country operated an “international drug trafficking, with branches in Colombia Aruba and the United States, which used a boat identified as Tomahawk. ” Galaway established routes used by drug dealers to distribute […]
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President Rafael Correa, the leftist leader of Ecuador, took on the media on Friday at the home of one of journalism’s pinnacles, Columbia University in New York.The school awards the Cabot Prizes, journalism’s oldest, which honor the best and most courageous reporters covering the Americas. Oh, and let’s not forget the Pulitizer Prizes. Read Press
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A former top Bolivian anti-drug official has been sentenced to 14 years in a US prison in a cocaine trafficking case that proved a major embarrassment for Bolivian president Evo Morales. Retired General Rene Sanabria, a former head of Bolivia’s leading counter-narcotics unit, pleaded guilty in June to charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into […]
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Another case of corruption involving the award of contracts in exchange for bribes was uncovered yesterday by the arrest of several employees of the Department of Education, including two former senior officials who handled the purchasing department, but this time, entrepreneurs were provided for the “little game” also fell into the federal raid. Read Article
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Guatemalan children living in shelters in the U.S. Some 60 children and adolescents in Guatemala remain in shelters in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being detained by immigration agents trying to cross the border between the United States and Mexico, the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Migrants Guatemala, Conamigua Alejandra Gordillo, who […]
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The Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has accused U.S. today of “blackmailing the world” in the fight against drug trafficking and being both a promoter of trade and consumption of narcotics. “If someone has failed and, rather than failure, have become promoters of the drug culture, violence, trafficking and consumption there is, in America,” Maduro […]
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A surprise visit by Bill Richardson, New Mexico’s former governor, has revived hope that Cuba may soon free a US government subcontractor whose imprisonment has snarled efforts to improve relations between the two countries, with a senior Cuban official praising the American politician yesterday and describing the jailed Alan Gross as a victim. Read Article
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“The degree of corruption and criminal conduct by police in Puerto Rico is high and contributes to the crisis in public safety and civil rights. More PPR agents are involved in criminal activity than any other law enforcement agency in the nation” says the report. The Puerto Rico Police consistently violates the constitutional rights of […]
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A group of Ecuadorian residents are accusing a federal judge of improperly allowing Chevron Corp. to re-litigate an eight-year trial that it lost to help bail out the oil giant, according to recent court filings. In February, an Ecuadorian court found Chevron liable for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste into the Amazon, causing […]
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The United States Embassy warned the public about a new form of fraud (fraud in visa), who deceives people through email, where fraudsters send money request to a fake address using a false name in exchange for a Diversity Visa (DV) or Immigrant Visa. Any email that promises to provide the Diversity Visa also known […]
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United States allows Mexican police launched operations against the drug cartels from its territory as part of the expansion of bilateral cooperation, revealed on Friday an article in the New York Times. “Mexicans have traveled quietly commands the United States, meet in designated areas and launch missions in helicopters across the border directed against suspected […]
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Mexico is one of the two countries in Latin America increasing its exports of fresh pineapples to the US during April, May and June of this year, thanks to trade promotion activities, supported by SAGARPA.Through the General Coordination of Trade Promotion and Export Promotion, ASERCA, SAGARPA, closed an agreement with the Pineapple Product System Committee […]
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According to Peru21.pe a Taca Airline crewmember was detained by police of the Dirandro Unit in the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Friday August 12th. Police say he was trying to leave the country with 2 kilos of drugs, cocaine and opium. The crewmember, Ricardo Velasquez Luque was arrested while in the international departures […]
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The trade surplus for all of Latin America with the United States went up 2.9% in June, according to abc.com.py. The total trade surplus for the first six months of 2011 totaled $38.644 million compared to $35.830 million last year, but not all countries experienced a gain. Mexico’s trade surplus increased from $32.884 million for […]
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According to Hoy.com.ec the United States announced today, Wednesday August 3rd, that they have dismantled an internet-based pedophile network reaching various countries including Ecuador. Officials have accused 72 people linked to the website of encouraging the sexual abuse of children. The authority’s investigation began in 2009, called “Operation Delago.” During the operation authorities arrested 52 […]
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RPP.com.pe reports the new government of Ollanta Humala has appointed the diplomat Harold Forsyth Mejia as the Peruvian ambassador to the United States. Forsyth succeeds Luis Valdivieso and was previously Peru’s ambassador to China, Colombia and Italy. An official government resolution with the support of President Ollanta Humala and the Peruvian Chancellor Rafael Roncagliolo was […]
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According to ElComercio.com the Guayas Prosecutors Office is continuing with the investigation into an online wire fraud case that used the name of the U.S. Consulate in illegal business transactions. Four months ago U.S. Consulate officials denounced the alleged online scam. The Guayas prosecutor says when a person put their house on sale they would […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a New York judge in White Plains sentenced the fourth assailant in a gang attack on an Ecuadorian man to 11 years in prison on Wednesday July 27th. On March 15, 2010 Julio Serrano was beaten by four people, which put him in a coma for three weeks. Jarron Slight, one of […]
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The U.S. House of Representatives released a report this month focusing on Lebanese and Iranian terrorist groups, specifically Hezballah, that have established networks in South America at the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay and in Venezuela, reports infobae.com. The Triple Frontier is already a haven for organized crime and trafficking, and the Islamist […]
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According to ElUniverso.com a package containing $70,100 in false United States dollar bills was caught being shipped from Cañar to Queens, New York. Cañar police say on Tuesday, July 19th a personal courier alerted them to a suspicious package bound for Queens. Police thought the package contained drugs, however when opened police found fake 100 […]
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A group of 50 American soldiers came to Chihuahua in the Punitive Expedition against the Centaur of the North, conducted research in the San Joaquin Canyon Found 13 pre-Hispanic sites, some of which were excavated, representing one of the first archaeological work in that entity. On March 15, 1916 the U.S. Army came to Chihuahua […]
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Two Mexican police officers assigned to work with U.S. diplomats in northern Mexico have been killed in a drive-by shooting, officials said Friday. Mexican authorities say the men were shot while off duty in Guadalupe, a suburb of Monterrey. They were riding a motorcycle when gunmen in a vehicle opened fire. Read Article
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A North American tourist, later identified as Larry Keith Zimmerman, was found dead in his hotel room in the tourist area of Boca Chica according to Dominicanshoy.com. Zimmerman was last seen Monday the 18th, until employees found him in his room two days later. An investigation has launched to determine whether the incident was a […]
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee began its Wednesday markup of the State Department authorization bill by voting to end funding for the Organization of American States (OAS), with Republicans lambasting the organization as an enemy of freedom and democracy. Read Article
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According to ElUniverso.com, Emilio Bowen was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of the United States citizen, Max Chamberly Madnick in Manta on November 3, 2009. Bowen’s defense attorney, Luigi Garcia confirmed the ruling, while saying it is impossible that Bowen killed Chamberly. Garcia says that Chamberly, an exchange student, whose family […]
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Recently seized weapons were intended to supply drug cartels, paramilitary groups, and Zeta groups in the area of Olancho, Honduras and most weapons are said to be trafficked from Florida through the Russian mafia reported La Tribuna. The weapons are also said to travel hidden aboard trucks or other vehicles, in exchange, mafias obtain large […]
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According to ElComercio.com Quito native, Ecuador Nelson Ivan Serrano was sentenced to death for the murders of four people in Florida December 1997. His nephew, Alfredo Luna says if Serrano’s defense team does not present an appeal by the next 12th of September, Serrano will be listed for execution in Florida. The article says that […]
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Dominican authorities reported on Thursday were returned to their families the bodies of the pair of Hialeah brutally murdered in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. Novoa Milagros Caridad and her husband, Augustine Novoa, were shot in the chest and abdomen at the hands of two men who entered his summer home in the tourist area […]
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Seven years after Guatemala signed a free-trade pact with the US that included an agreement to enforce its labor laws, Guatemalan union leaders complain that they are still assassination targets, and that businessmen still illegally fire workers. Read Article
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Indians have arrived in droves even as the overall number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. has dropped dramatically, in large part because of the sluggish American economy. And with fewer Mexicans and Central Americans crossing the border, smugglers are eager for more “high-value cargo” like Indians, some of whom are willing to pay more […]
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According to ElComercio.com the current Ecuadorian government has been asked to extradite 33 fugitives with criminal backgrounds ranging from drug trafficking to murder. An unknown government official has reported to El Comercio that from 1995 to 2011, 21 nations asked the Ecuadorian government for extradition of 86 criminals hiding in Ecuador. Additionally Jay Bergman, the […]
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A Wikileaks document released this week shows that U.S. Officials are intent on working with Brazil to combat drug trafficking, according to abc.com.py. The documents dated March 2009 talks about the importance of increasing funds to Brazil, the dominant country in South America and a leader in the fight against drugs. At the time of […]
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According to LaPrensa.com.bo Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera began Operation Together July 1st, where Chile’s navel fleet participated in military exercises with the United States, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Piñera says that the joint exercise will allow the Chilean Navy to show its force and preparation for military situations and defend the country of Chile. Reportedly, […]
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According to Peru21.pe Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala was in Washington D.C. on Wednesday July 6th to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza. While Humala meet with Tom Donilon, President Obama’s national security advisor, President Barack Obama appeared. Ecuadorian Ambassador Luis […]
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Back from a two-week sojourn in Michigan, where — at an informal lunch with some beloved alumni of mine — much talk turned to the topic of our late friend Marty Lewis, whose untimely death in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, I wrote about here several months ago. Read Article
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A classified U.S. diplomatic document written in June 2005 and released today by Wikileaks states that Brazilian diplomats are distrustful of Paraguay’s commitment to the fight against trafficking along their border, according to abc.com.py. Brazil is extremely devoted to securing their borders with Paraguay and the Triple Frontier between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil against drug, […]
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Milenio.com reports that Peruvian Police asked the FBI for assistance in locating the hackers that attacked at least eight web pages belonging to the Peruvian government, Friday June 24th. The chief of the Dirincri Division of High Technology, Oscar Gonzales, says that the level of attack is very high and therefore the technology available to […]
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According to Andes.info.ec interview with Eva Golinger, a United States writer and investigator, many Ecuadorian organizations receive funding from the U.S. State Department through agencies like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Goliger continues to say that these funds are specific for destabilizing the government of Rafael […]
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According to ElComercio.pe Peruvian president Alan Garcia immediately offered help to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Five cables verify that the Peruvian government immediately contacted the ambassador of Peru to the United States with an offer of 80-100 doctors to treat Peruvians and non-Peruvians affected in Louisiana and Texas. All the doctors were […]
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U.S. customs officials seized over 175 pounds of iguana meat from a U.S. citizen crossing the border from Tijuana, Mexico into California. The smuggler, whose identity has not been revealed, claimed to be transporting fish. At a secondary inspection point, over 175 pounds of iguana meat was discovered beneath fresh fish in three large coolers. […]
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According to ElUniverso.com Robert Hillyard Berhartd, 75 died yesterday, Monday June 13th, in a fire that occurred at his house in Urdesa. At 6:10 p.m. screams alerted the residents of av. Primera between Second and Third streets. Hillyard resided in Urdesa for more than 40 years. Firefighters tired to save his life, but Hillyard sustained […]
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The International Airport of El Salvador has a new tenant is the U.S. low cost carrier Spirit Airlines, which on Tuesday 14 June in the morning began to operate, with a flight that connects the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida with Salvadoran capital. Read Article
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Argentina has returned cargo seized in February from a US military plane in Buenos Aires, the US embassy says. An embassy statement said the incident had been “resolved satisfactorily”, adding that “involuntary administrative failures” were to blame. Read Article
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The office of Ecuador’s Attorney General will represent Ecuador in Washington at a June 30 hearing in the arbitration case filed against the Andean country by U.S. oil company Occidental Petroleum Corp. (OXY). Ecuador’s Attorney General Diego Garcia said in a press release that the final decision on the case could be known in the […]
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A hotel security guard has been arrested in Costa Rica in the shooting of a 16-year-old McLouth High School student, Costa Rica authorities said Friday. Authorities said the security guard is a 36-year-old Nicaraguan man who did not have permission to carry weapons in Costa Rica. Read Article
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Friday morning at the Puerto Caldera on the Pacific coast the United States government donated to Costa Rica two new boats to the Servicio Nacional de Guardacostas (Coast Guard) to continue its fight against international drug trafficking. To receive the boats was Costa Rican presidenta, Laura chinchilla, who accepted the gift under the framework of […]
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In April, the Washington, DC-based National Security Archive posted a 5500-page document tranche detailing the extent of Cincinnati-based food giant Chiquita’s dealings with Colombian death squad United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC). The documents shed further light on the relationship between multinationals and Colombia’s murderous right-wing paramilitaries. Read Article
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During the 1960′s, the U.S. oil giant Texaco/Chevron established facilities in Lago Agrio, a town loaded inside the Ecuadorean jungle. In 1977, the State of Ecuador obtained a 62.5% stake in the oil field, but Texaco continued operating and profiting from the oil field. Finally, in 1992, Petroecuador (the State oil company), obtained the remaining […]
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An international team of scientists from NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina, or CONAE, will investigate this possibility with the aid of a satellite named “Aquarius/SAC-D,” which launched June 9. Read Article
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A conviction in an Ecuador murder trial brought a sense of justice to an Oregon family last week. John Chamberlin, the father of murder victim Max Chamberlin, said three judges voted unanimously to convict Emilio Bowen of beating and fatally shooting the 22-year-old in November 2009. John Chamberlin attended the four-day trial that began June […]
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Hoy.com.es reports that the Ecuadorian government took control of offshore wells that tap natural gas and a hydroelectric power station in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. firm Noble Energy owned these operations and had an agreement with Ecuador in which Noble Energy was compensated USD 97 million. The wells and the power plant are to […]
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Mexican archaeologists have found a grave in Monterrey containing ten skeletons they believe to be U.S. soldiers from the Mexican-American War, SDP Noticias reports. The height of the skeletons and the shape of the skulls exhibit Caucasian characteristics, supporting the hypothesis that the soldiers fought for the United States. They are believed to have died […]
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On June 8 President Obama announced his nomination of Earl Anthony Wayne for the position of ambassador to Mexico. Wayne is presently the respected deputy ambassador to Afghanistan and previously served as ambassador to Argentina. He has diplomatic experience in economics, national security and anti-terrorism, however little is known about his view of U.S.-Mexico relations. […]
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A man wanted out of Lee County for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his customers reportedly took his own life in Belize. And that could mean his victims will never see restitution. Read Article
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As far back as 2005, U.S. Embassy officials in Panama were saying they had “credible and compelling information” that Supreme Court Justice Winston Spadafora took bribes to influence court cases, according to a confidential diplomatic cable. Read Article
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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez mocked U.S. concerns about Venezuela’s ties with Iran on Tuesday, joking that while his adversaries worry about Iranian-made missiles lining his country’s coast his government is actually erecting windmills there. Read Article
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FedEx Express launched direct international service in Colombia this week, setting the stage for improved global access for exporters of key goods including flowers, coffee and textiles.Colombia joins Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama among Latin American nations where FedEx is investing in direct service by building out delivery, operations and customer service infrastructure. The move […]
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A psychiatrist arrested in Argentina on charges of falsely billing $1 million in health insurance claims in Hawaii was involved in similar fraud some 30 years ago in Colorado, according to documents obtained Wednesday. Read Article
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A humanitarian group said on Tuesday it has given emergency GPS location devices to Mexican human smugglers in a controversial bid to save immigrants’ lives as they break into increasingly remote desert stretches of the U.S. border this summer. Read Article
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On Monday, a court sentenced 31 years in prison to the American William Trickett Smith II, accused of murdering his Peruvian wife and after having put the body in a suitcase, throw it into the sea 2007. The Criminal Division for prison inmates convicted Trickett, after he pleaded guilty on Thursday to qualify for the […]
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A wanted sex offender from Marion County was arrested in Guatemala and is being deported to the United States. According to a press release from U.S. marshals in Clarksburg, Phillip Christian Landmeier, 57, of Fairmont, was arrested by Guatemalan National Police in Rio Dulce, Guatemala, on Tuesday on immigration violations after deputy U.S. marshals tracked […]
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The U.S. Justice Departments is reportedly working on a case against HSBC bankers they say have laundered money from Mexican drug gangs. Still at the beginning of the investigation, the Justice Department is building its case against the bank. The investigation began in August of 2010, when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency […]
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Hiking through rough Arizona desert terrain a few miles north of the Mexican border recently with a group of armed DEA agents, we were approached by a lone U.S. Border Patrol agent. He warned we should be careful up ahead, because two people believed to be spotters for a Mexican drug cartel had just been […]
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Law enforcement officials announced Thursday the arrest of 21 people who they said used a remote area of the Tohono O’Odham Indian reservation in Arizona. Read Article
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Mexican federal police captured a leading member of the Gulf drug cartel Friday at what appeared to have been his birthday party, authorities said. Gilberto Barragan Balderas “is considered one of the main leaders of the Gulf Cartel” and is the subject of a $5 million reward by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said Ramon […]
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18 months after he fled Venezuela to avoid criminal prosecution for what authorities claim were $27 million dollars in illegal currency transactions, a U.S. court granted political asylum to fugitive Venezuelan banker Eligio Cedeño. Read Article
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When Meredith Aby met with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 2006, she asked what it would take to get them to stop fighting. Jess Sundin did the same during her trip to Colombia 11 years ago.They returned and openly wrote and spoke about their experiences, while criticizing the U.S. government’s involvement […]
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Many modern intellectuals (leftist economists and political scientists of various nationalities) have been advocating the readiness of Latin America, under Brazil’s leadership, to take the helm of the region’s defense, against the so-called imperialist powers of the West, and take every step to brainwash the local members of the elite, encouraging them to embrace the […]
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Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, frustrated by Ecuador’s refusal to return the man accused in the killings of a mother and son in Brockton, is urging federal officials to pressure the South American nation to hand him over for prosecution. Read Article
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An effort to declassify U.S. documents on Argentina’s dictatorship failed Friday in the U.S. Congress, disappointing rights activists in the Argentine capital who believe the secret files could help them identify young people stolen as babies by the military junta. Read Article
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According to information from the National Migration Institute, in the same year 20,438 repatriated Mexican migrant children from the United States, of which 13,705 traveled alone. This implies that at least some four thousand children were not channeled through the Mexican immigration authorities. Read Article
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A federal marshal says a fugitive Hindu guru convicted of molesting two girls on his Central Texas ashram is now believed to be hiding in Central or South America. Read Article
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Bolivian President Evo Morales blasted the West’s double-standard policies on different international conflicts, and took Washington responsible for aggravated instability in the world. “The US is the main element of instability in the world which pursues its goals through using military, political and economic tools,” Morales said in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister […]
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A report of three rifles missing from military barracks triggered the investigation into a former Salvadoran army officer who pleaded guilty this week in the United States to federal terrorism charges, officials in this Central American country said Thursday. Hector Antonio Martinez-Guillen, 32, acknowledged Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Virginia that he sold […]
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Recently, the United States and Colombia signed a long-awaited free trade agreement that is expected to boost job growth in both countries. Yet another recent trade deal that received scant attention is perhaps far more important to American interests. Read Article
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The Obama administration’s senior diplomat for Latin America is stepping down, and the top Republican on the House foreign affairs committee is happy to see him go. Read Article
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According to eltiempo.com, during operations against the narcotrafficking group ‘los Rastrojos’ which is headed by ‘los Comba,’ the anti-narcotics police force captured ‘Niño Malo’ in Cali early the morning of May 4th. Authorities consider him to be one of the most trusted men by the brothers “Calle Serna” also known as “Comba” and petitioned him […]
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A family is fighting to free a former Seattle man jailed thousands of miles away in Nicaragua. Jason Puracal is being held on drug trafficking charges his family claims are not true, and now the U.S. government is stepping in. Read Article
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Progress on a free trade deal with Colombia has cleared the way for the White House to seek Congressional approval of a package of trade agreements that includes pacts with South Korea and Panama, as Republicans have demanded. Read Article
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The U.S. Coast Guard was searching the waters off San Diego and northern Mexico late Tuesday for a woman who was reported missing from a cruise ship. Read Article
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In another important step towards winning Bolivia’s national sovereignty, the country’s Plurinational Assembly has announced the expulsion from Bolivia of USAID’s Environment and Economic Development (EED) program. Read Article
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Two obscure Cuban dissidents who sewed their mouths partially shut and launched a hunger strike a month ago said they were prepared to die for their demands, which include freedom for jailed US contractor Alan Gross and improved human rights. Read Article
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Is Sempra Energy purchasing renewable energy from itself? Well, sort of. Both San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) and Sempra Generation are subsidiaries of Sempra Energy and, according to this statement, the two have entered into a 20- year contract that would have SDG&E getting up to 156 megawatts (MW) of renewable power supplied from […]
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In the summer of 2011, Avianca airlines will begin new air service between Orlando International Airport and Bogota, Colombia.
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One of the first Mexican drug kingpins to oversee mass shipments of cocaine was extradited to the United States on Friday to face drug-trafficking charges, ending an eight-year effort by U.S. authorities to take custody of a man who once controlled one of the world’s most powerful cartels. Read Article
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On 10 April, Peruvians went to the polls in the first round of the country’s presidential elections. No candidate obtained the 50 per cent share necessary to assume the job outright, and so in just over a month Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori will go head to head in a contest that has ramifications far […]
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Three congressmen say one unmanned aircraft based in Corpus Christi is insufficient to patrol the 1,200-mile border between Texas and Mexico. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, made the comments after meeting with state and federal officials at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. Read Article
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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sherman interdicted a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel and took four people into custody 480 kilometres off the coast of Costa Rica, April 3. The semi-submersible and its crew were carrying an estimated 6.4 tons of cocaine, according to the Coast Guard. Read Article
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Right after Fidel Castro’s first year in power in Cuba, U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower took his first and only trip to Latin America on Feb. 20, 1960. He visited Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. He suffered a surprisingly bitter experience in each of those capitals. He saw threatening crowds waving banners with the images of […]
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He is a confidential informant and ex-felon. He lives among drug dealers and corrupt officials along the U.S.-Mexican border. And after a year on the job, he is calling it quits. Read Article
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Luis Posada Carriles told CNN recently he would “be gentle” with a newspaper reporter who accused him of masterminding decades of violent terrorist attacks in Central America, several to overthrow Fidel Castro. Read Article
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An Arizona sheriff says he has been flooded with calls and emails of support from local and federal agents who back his claims that the U.S. Border Patrol has effectively ordered them to stop apprehending illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. Read Article
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President Evo Morales, an outspoken critic of Washington “imperialism”, has accepted financial aid to monitor efforts to eradicate coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The government accepted the $250,000 offer following setbacks to its counter-narcotics programme which prompted calls for a return of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Read Article
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At 16:30 pm yesterday the U.S. plane Jumbo Boeing 747-10 (“Supertanker”) held yesterday its first flush of 76.000 liters of water and fire retardant chemicals in the Rancho El Bonito municipality of Acuña, Coahuila, reported the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). Read Article
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The doctor there performed cosmetic surgery in which a patient died. In a divided local home that even had a sign identifying Matallana attended Dario Galvis, who was arrested last Saturday in the U.S., presumably made after cosmetic surgery in which the patient died. Read Article
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