U.S. Soldiers and Contractors in Colombia, 2009-2010
Source: Colombian Ministry of Defense, letter from Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera to Senator Enrique Robledo, February 2011. Sites were visited by U.S. personnel as part of military agreements during the previous two years. Link to Map – from http://forusa.org/ – Fellowship of Reconciliation
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On April 5, Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that a row of concrete Jersey barriers was being emplaced in front of the U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey, Mexico. The story indicated that the wall was put in to block visibility of the facility, but being only about 107 centimeters (42 inches) high, such barriers do […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, today criticized the management has given the press to a leaked cable from WikiLeaks which speaks of the alleged financing his campaign with money from Venezuela. In the cable published on Monday by Colombian semani week , The Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño mentioned as a possible link to get […]
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The U.S. government carefully examines the relationship between President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian media and the state of freedom of speech and press in the country. Several cables released by the website Wikileaks, which had access to this newspaper, newspapers aware of reports that the Embassy in Quito refers to the administration of Barack […]
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The undersecretary of state for Mexico and Canada, Roberta Jacobson, said yesterday that the violence caused by criminal organizations in Mexico and 230 cities has impacted the United States. Read Article
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I wanted so badly to include some other photos with this blog item. Our files are full of the most gruesome photos imaginable. There are dismembered corpses dumped on the sidewalk. There’s one of a mother and her child dead on the floor, their bodies bloodied and pockmarked by bullets. This one is the least […]
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Financial ties to the government of Rafael Correa sought to weave with Iran led to a concern to the U.S. Embassy in Ecuador. The relationship became stronger since December 2008 with the signing of an agreement for any claims Iranians to Ecuador and the creation of a branch of Iran’s Central Bank (BCI). Read Article
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United States saw the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, an “emotional immaturity” that led him to make decisions for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats in 2009, according to a cable that country’s embassy in Quito revealed by the WikiLeaks site. Read Article
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The Venezuelan goverment demanded the U.S. extradition of fugitive terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was acquitted on immigration fraud charges by a court in El Paso, Texas, in a trial described as a farce. Read Article
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osta Rican opposition politicians reiterated their rejection on Friday to U.S. military ships docking in Costa Rica under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. “We want to fight drug trafficking, but we do not accept the docking or prolonged stay of military ships in our country, because it violates our Constitution and our national sovereignty,” […]
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At 5:00 am this morning the U.S. Border Patrol was in pursuit of a Jeep Cherokee with two individuals who had passed into U.S. territory near San Luis, Sonora, Mexico. The jeep became stuck a few meters from the border and the two occupants escaped on foot into Mexico. Border Patrol discovered a truck equipped […]
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On Thursday the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday’s expulsion of the US ambassador from Ecuador. This now leaves the United States without ambassadorial relations in three South American countries – Bolivia and Venezuela being the other two – thus surpassing the Bush administration in its diplomatic problems in the […]
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The United States ordered Ecuador’s ambassador to leave the country on Thursday and scrapped a round of talks in retaliation for the expulsion of its ambassador in Quito. Read Article
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A U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South security cooperation team and more than 25 servicemembers from the Ejercito de Nicaragua (National Army of Nicaragua) conducted a five-day multinational hand-to-hand combat skills exchange at the Corinto Naval Base, Nicaragua, March 24. Read Article
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The government on Monday accused a reporter for Reuters news agency to establish a meeting between an informant of State Security infiltrated the dissident and an American diplomat to the island’s official television described as a CIA official, reported The Associated Press. Read Article
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Two men killed by a gunman who opened fire while they waited at a Tijuana border crossing were U.S. citizens, a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday, and their San Diego employer described them as diligent workers who had moved to the border city so they could afford to live on the beach. Read Article
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WIKILEAKS The Government of Ecuador decided to declare persona non grata to the U.S. ambassador in the country, Heather Hodges, and urged it to abandon Ecuadorian territory in the shortest time possible, reported the Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, who said that it is not expulsion. Read Article
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Mining Minister Jose Pimentel, began yesterday at the National Customs responsibility to respond by leaving the country in September 2010 of a container loaded with 10.5 tonnes of zinc and shipped to Miami, United States, through Coz Igreda company Roberto Orlando and, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), containing 144 kilos of cocaine […]
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He pretended he was a good Samaritan and managed the supply of money to create a company in Cali. More than a million and half dollars that the U.S. government had given to the provision of educational and health services in the state of Oregon (USA.) Ended up financing a commercial shrimp in Cali (Valle). […]
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As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored. Read Article
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Despite the multimillion-dollar federal investments to strengthen border inspection ports, U.S. weapons are entering into Baja California through land customs. In 2010, his first year of operation in Baja California, the System Monitoring and Control Vehicle (SIAV) only managed to detect a pistol and 31 bullets. So far, 2011 have seized two pistols, 613 bullets, […]
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Controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched a new operation on Wednesday that for the first time will include the use of small planes to detect the smuggling of drugs and undocumented immigrants across the border from Mexico. “Operation Desert Sky,” which will last several weeks, is being focused in the southwestern and southeastern corridors […]
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he Ecuadorian lawyer Juan Pablo Sanz, one of the litigants in the case, Chevron Texaco, reported Wednesday that U.S. oil manipulates the facts related to a court ruling issued against Ecuador, and the purchase of judges in the (U.S.) thinks no liability for damages caused to Amazon for nearly three decades. “Chevron has long said […]
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The Southern Command has admitted that there is a growing influence of Russia, China and Iran in Latin America that, although it is more diplomatic and trade, said he was concerned the sale of automatic weapons to Venezuela because they can end up in the wrong hands. “We see an increasing influence of external actors, […]
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American teens and young adults are being recruited by Mexican drug runners to smuggle drugs into the United States, according to the Border Patrol. Special Agent David Jimarez says smugglers lure teens into the violent drug words with promises of fortunes to be made. He said teens are offered hundreds of dollars, told they will […]
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Some Texas lawmakers, tired of cash and guns illegally making their way into Mexico and fueling violence in the northern part of the country, say they think they know how to help. They are proposing that southbound checkpoints be established where Texas law enforcers can stop and check vehicles about to cross the border for […]
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An American woman is demanding that the U.S. government do more to find the body of her husband, six months after he was presumably gunned down on a lake along Texas’ border with Mexico. Read Article
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Authorities in Mexico’s Chihuahua state Announced Along the U.S. border Sunday Preventive Health Measures to stanch the return of an H1N1 Epidemic four people after recently Died of the virus. “School checks will Mil Following a Renewed Outbreak of H1N1 human influenza, as a Means of Protecting students from all possible Infection,” Said Javier Gonzalez, […]
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Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin a three-day visit to Cuba on Monday for what is described as a “private, non-governmental mission” where the main topic may be the fate of a US aid contractor jailed for setting up illegal Internet service. The timing, coming shortly after contractor Alan Gross was sentenced to 15 […]
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Colombia has used unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, since 2006 to detect movement of the FARC and drug shipments, according to a leaked official cable published by WikiLeaks. One of the systems mentioned is the ScanEagle of Boeing. The document collected by the newspaper El Espectador, said that unmanned aerial systems arrived in the country in […]
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The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) financed, for ten years, an espionage operation against drug trafficking conducted by specialized agents of Costa Rica’s Dirección de Inteligencia Seguridad (DIS) – Intelligence Service. The daily La Nacion reported that a team of officers, as confirmed by the former minister de Seguridad, Rogelio Ramos, and the former […]
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A fugitive doctor who was at the heart of a scandal involving the theft of human eggs at a University of California, Irvine, fertility center was freed from jail in Mexico City, where he was being held for extradition to the United States. Read Article
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Hugo Chavez or, rather, the mental health of the Bolivarian cast doubt on the U.S. State Department: Hillary Clinton asked about the emotional state of Chavez during the crisis of U.S. bases in Colombia. Read Article
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The angry protesters organized two peaceful rallies on Sunday, complaining that the nuclear agreement was signed despite major nuclear crisis that developed in Japan following the huge earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on March 11, AFP reported Monday. Chilean opposition lawmakers and environmentalists argue that the Friday agreement is too risky for their […]
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Police in Chile say a small bomb exploded and broke some windows at a U.S. cultural institute hours ahead of President Barack Obama’s arrival. No one was injured in the attack, which happened in Vina del Mar, a seaside city far from the Obamas’ activities in the capital of Santiago. Read Article
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Chile and the United States signed a nuclear cooperation agreement, ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit Monday during his Latin America trip. Plans for Obama to participate in the ceremony were scrapped and the signing was pulled forward to Friday amid the post-earthquake and -tsunami nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. […]
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The objects were to be sent through the agency Serpost in Los Olivos. Creativity associated with crime has no boundaries. Police today seized a parcel containing guinea pig stuffed with false disguise $ 25 000, which were ready to leave for New York. Read Article
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), speaking at a conference on border issues Thursday, said 663 individuals arrested along the southwest border in 2010 were from countries designated as “special interest” or from countries known to have ties with terrorism. Read Article
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Port of Tampa says “Si” to Cuba.By: Brendan McLaughlin. TAMPA – The Port of Tampa is saying “si” to the idea of a ferry service from Tampa to Havana. At least two shipping companies are preparing bids to take passengers and their cars on an overnight cruise to Cuba. And though this would revive a […]
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Three U.S. senators are asking the Treasury Department to finish long-awaited rules on prepaid gift and credit cards that cross the U.S. border with Mexico bypassing anti-money laundering requirements that anyone transporting more than $10,000 declare his or her holdings. Read Article
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he Mexican government said Wednesday it has allowed U.S. drones to fly over its territory to gather intelligence on drug traffickers, but insisted the operations were under its control. The country’s National Security Council said in a statement that the unmanned aircraft have flown over Mexico on specific occasions, mainly along the border with the […]
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A New Mexico mayor, the police chief and a town official were busted in a scheme to supply Mexican drug cartels with guns, federal agents said. Eddie Espinoza, the mayor of Columbus, Angelo Vega, the police chief, and Blas Gutierrez, a village councilman, were arrested last week. Read Article
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The government of the United States has cleared the airport of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood to make trips to Cuba, which becomes the third terminal of Florida who may make such trips. The authorization was granted by the Customs and Border Protection, which granted it a week early to leave Tampa International Airport. Read Article
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A Northern Arizona University professor is reported to be safe and back with her family in Mexico after being briefly kidnapped. School officials said Saturday that Veronica Perez Rodriguez was the victim of a kidnapping late Friday while visiting family members in Ciudad Juarez. Read Article
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Argentine judge Marcelo Aguinsky dismissed charges against the U.S. after an American military aircraft was seized in the South American country for allegedly smuggling undeclared items, including weapons and surveillance equipment, local media reported Friday. Read Article
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Security forces from Panama and United States will perform joint tactical exercises for the next month to work on combating terrorism. “The training reflects the approach of Panama, which will work with the United States or any other country to strengthen its preparations in the field of security,” the Ministry of Security said in a […]
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FBI agents are traveling to Peru to study a laptop belonging to Joran Van der Sloot — who was arrested twice in connection with the Natalee Holloway case, but was not charged — according to a Lima court document. Read Article
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U.S. diplomats in Costa Rica have offered help in the construction of the “Centro de Intervenciones Telefónicas” (Telephone Intervention Centre), that the Poder Judicial (Judicial Branch) will be building in their effort to fight drug trafficking and increase public security. Read Article
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Today, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) announced its opposition to remarks made by President Obama regarding the role and safety of ICE Special Agents assigned to Mexico. After his meeting with Mexico President Calderon on Thursday, President Obama stated, “There are laws in place in Mexico that say our agents should not be […]
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U.S. law enforcement officials announced Wednesday that 10 Mexican nationals associated with a notorious criminal gang have been charged in last year’s murder of a U.S. consulate employee and two other people in Juarez, Mexico. Read Article
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Chevron, the second largest U.S. oil company, believes that to overturn the verdict ordering it to pay 9.5 billion dollars in reparations for environmental and public health damages in Ecuador’s Amazon jungle, the best defence is a good offence. Read Article
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The officials of pro-US Costa Rica fear the aggression by Chavez’s closest ally – Nicaragua. Costa Rican cabinet of ministers shared their suspicions to that effect on March 4. According to their statement, in recent days Nicaraguan President Ortega received an insane by the standards of the banana republics sum of money of the unknown […]
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Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday. Read Article
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Mexico will cut tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. products after the United States agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border, Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said. Read Article
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A statement by the Cuban government Saturday night said that during the trial Gross accepted some responsibility but added that he had been “used” and blamed the company that sent him to the island. The fate of Alan Gross, a 61-year-old Maryland native detained for more than a year since being caught bringing communications equipment […]
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More than 50 years of conflict between Cuba and the United States, and in particular Washington’s consistent support for dissidents in this Caribbean island nation, will leave their mark on the trial of U.S. citizen Alan Gross that began this Friday. Gross was arrested Dec. 3, 2009 when he was attempting to return to the […]
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PT federal deputy and an active member of the leftist movement Regeneration, Gerardo Fernandez Norona, said the plant will look for Sempra Energy, which serves foreign interests, will be closed. After criticizing the double mask of the deputies of the PAN, the legislator said he will not insist on the issue because the country’s president […]
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The US government considers that the bilateral counternarcotics cooperation between Venezuela and the United States is “inadequate,” according to the 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) submitted by the Department of State to the US Congress and disclosed on Thursday. Read Article
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Mexico and the U.S. agreed to end a ban on Mexican trucks crossing the border to operate across the United States. The agreement, announced today after a meeting by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington, would lead to Mexico dropping tariffs on $2.4 billion worth of U.S. pork, cheese, corn […]
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The U.S. Embassy in San José was involved in the definition of police strategy, trained and supervised the training of officers of the security forces (police) and rented buses to take them to the protest marches against the TLC (Free Trade Agreement), according to several diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks. Read Article
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When President Obama sits down Thursday with Mexican President Filipe Calderon, they might want to take heart about a part of Mexico that won’t be on their agenda. A vibrant, peaceful area in southeastern Mexico underscores why America’s southern neighbor has to win its fight against drug traffickers and why Mexican society may be strong […]
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A two-month operation by U.S. authorities has led to the arrests of 678 gang members from 113 different gangs, including 13 linked to Mexican drug cartels, a top law enforcement official said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teamed up with 170 law enforcement agencies around the country for […]
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Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, La Nación will begin publishing a series of reports and complete documents obtained from WikiLeaks on U.S. diplomatic communications on Costa Rica. La Nación, Costa Rica’s biggest media said it entered into an ‘understanding’ with WikiLeaks on February 15 in London, England, that allowed the media giant to obtain 827 diplomatic cables […]
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A senior Interior Ministry official who recently headed Bolivia’s counternarcotics police has been arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring. Read Article
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A young Belizean woman who has only been identified to the international press as “Jamelia,” disappeared from Belize more than ten years ago. She has now resurfaced in the United States as a young woman of 23, and the shocking charge is that she had been sold into bondage to an American woman by one […]
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The United States on Wednesday levied sanctions on more than 70 individuals and entities in six countries linked to Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cocaine cartel. The Treasury Department targeted a supply group — headed by Colombia’s Jorge Cifuentes Villa — on allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering activities spanning Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, Spain and […]
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PepsiCo has formed partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a multilateral provider of development financing, to drive social and economic growth in 26 countries across the Latin America and the Caribbean. Read Article
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Cuba and Nicaragua have sprung to the defense of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, with Fidel Castro claiming Tuesday that Washington plans to order a NATO invasion of Libya to seize oil interests. Read Article
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U.S. President Barack Obama plans to offer new financing for joint infrastructure projects between U.S. and Brazilian companies when he visits Brazil next month, sources with knowledge of the situation told Reuters. Read Article
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Argentina’s challenge to a ruling that froze some of its U.S. assets in order to satisfy court awards to hedge funds seeking to collect on the country’s defaulted bonds. Read Article
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Revelations released by Wikileaks question the truthfulness of Operation Jaque (Check), presented by the Colombian Government as a perfect military maneuver in 2008 that led to the rescue of 15 people held by the guerrillas. Wikileaks made public that on June 24, 2008, the US Embassy in Bogota issued a diplomatic cable about an alleged […]
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The United States has built a huge fence to keep Mexican immigrants out. It has cost billions, split communities – but does it work? Charlie Bruce was a Texas police chief of the old school. In more than four decades on the force he gave homegrown criminals good reason to steer clear of Del Rio, […]
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Police arrested nine people and seized 300 firearms, including assault rifles, in a raid targeting an arms ring that allegedly sold weapons to Mexican drug traffickers, authorities said on Thursday. The sweep came after a federal grand jury unsealed indictments against 17 defendants allegedly involved in shipping to Mexico firearms bought by third-party “straw purchasers” […]
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There’s no reason for us to make up any excuses. We’re still talking to Argentina and working as best as we can in order to solve this conflict,” Mr. Crowley explained in a press conference. The secretary assured that both countries “share a history of close cooperation,” so the US government is still “surprised and […]
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Experts from the United States, Mexico and Canada are working to draw up a new law regulating the trade in discarded electronics, Commission for Environmental Cooperation, or CEC, representative Marco Heredia told Efe. Environmental officials from the three countries and CEC representatives are meeting this week in Guadalajara, the capital of Mexico’s Jalisco state, to […]
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While they’ve made strides in arresting illegals and building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico line, the Border Patrol only has “operational control” of 44 percent of the southern border, and of that only 15 percent is air tight, according to new General Accountability Office report. Read Article
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Gunmen opened fire on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said. The two agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were attacked Tuesday afternoon while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey. Read Article
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The worst of two U.S. diplomatic communications about newly published Peru is espionage practiced by Washington in this country, reported a block of indigenous organizations. The Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations (IOTC), which integrate organizacones of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina, made the claim in a letter to U.S. Ambassador in Peru, Rose […]
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The Argentinean Minister of Interior, Florencio Randazzo, justified Tuesday the requisition carried out last Thursday of an airplane belonging to the US Air Force, a third of whose load had not been declared. Read Article
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Argentina has accused the United States military of trying to bring guns and surveillance equipment into the country under the cover of supplying a police training course, creating the latest diplomatic rift between the countries. Argentine customs officials seized undeclared equipment on Thursday, including what they described as machine guns and ammunition, spy equipment and […]
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American Scientific Resources, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ASFX) announces a distribution agreement with Sell-Out Ltd. based in Santiago, Chile. An importer and distributor of personal, health and homecare products, Sell-Out Ltd., has agreed to distribute Kidz-Med VeraTemp non-contact thermometers, from American Scientific Resources, in the Chilean retail market. Joaquin Schneider, Manager, Sell-Out Ltd. states, “We are […]
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A Latino activist in Utah says he will ask Mexico to bar Mormon missionaries from the United States in retaliation against tough immigration-reform bills. Read Article
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A controversial iPod and iPad application that makes a game of the perils of sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border has sparked controversy among activists for immigrant rights. Read Article
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I wasn’t planning to get too far ahead of yesterday’s news suggesting that a more unified, US-backed regional security plan for Central America may be in the works. But Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez seems to have opened the door. Minister Alvarez, speaking to reporters yesterday about the arrival in Honduras of US Assistant Secretary […]
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The amount of military construction in Latin America planned by the Pentagon for this year has doubled since 2009. This annotated map of current and planned U.S. military construction in Latin America is based on publicly available information on federal contracts (see www.usaspending.gov) and on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers activities. This map was created […]
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President Hugo Chávez may have to deal with more popular protests in Venezuela in the coming year, amid a “poor economic performance” and an “energized opposition,” predicted a report released by the director of National Intelligence (DNI). Read Article
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Yale University announced Friday that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago. Read Article
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The CIA is alarmed: Chavez may soon become one of the major drug lords in Latin America. On February 9, former Mexican president Vicente Fox accused him of assisting the Mexican drug mafia which flooded the States with cocaine. Read Article
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Few know that fighter Squadron 201 was part of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force. The squadron was called “Aguilas Aztecas 201” (Aztec Eagles) and was attached to the 58th Fighter Group of the United States Army Air Forces during the battle for the liberation of the Philippine Islands. Read Article ———–
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As an economic crisis began gripping Cuba in early 2009, U.S. diplomats in Havana reported the island was better equipped to withstand the blow than when its Soviet subsidies collapsed in 1989. Read Article
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Argentina’s Federal Planning Minister Julio De Vido referred to the recently published Wikileaks documents by Spanish newspaper El Pais, and advised the US embassy in Buenos Aires “to hire more competent employees” since performing a “cut-and-paste task from the yellow press is something any idiot can do.” Read Article
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Mexican prosecutors say a judge has authorized 40 days of detention for an alleged lieutenant of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel while authorities investigate the man wanted in the United States on drug charges. The Attorney General’s Office says federal agents arrested Adan Salazar Zamorano on Saturday but it gives no other details. Read Article
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investigating the possibility of lifting quarantine barriers for 30 different Peruvian products this year. Peru’s National Agriculture Sanitary Service (Senasa) said the fruits include figs, prickly pears, papayas, passion fruit, custard apples, tomatoes and camu camu, which is an Amazonian relative of the guava berry. Read Article
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The Mexican government condemned comments by a top U.S. Defense Department official characterizing the drug gang violence here as a “form of insurgency” — remarks the official later apologized for and retracted. Read Article
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U.S. customs agents in Texas seized a tripod-mounted machine gun they found on the back seat of a sport utility vehicle headed into Mexico and arrested the driver, authorities said on Tuesday. Read Article
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U.S. Marines from a Security Cooperation Task Force (SCTF) held a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) subject matter expert exchange (SMEE) with Colombian marines from Colombian counter intelligence aboard the Colombian Marine Infantry Training Base, Feb. 2. Read Article
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Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday. Read Article
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A small success is being hailed as a big step forward for conservation efforts to protect the world’s largest aquatic frog, the critically endangered Lake Titicaca frog (Telmatobius culeus). For the first time, frogs in captivity in their native country of Peru have laid fertile eggs, and although the resulting tadpoles did not survive, scientists […]
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Editorial – The arrests of 34 people in Arizona recently shed light on how drug gangs in Mexico can manipulate America’s gun laws to obtain the illicit weapons they want. The common image among many Americans is probably of weapons being bought “under the table” from illicit gun traffickers, much like illegal drugs are bought […]
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