cronica.com.mx reported that looting continues at hotels, stores, and homes in Cabo San Lucas and San José de el Cabo. Reports reveal that many of the looters are hooded. This information is from attorney Rdorigo sanchez Villa, who works for a hotel group. He stated “It seems that the situation is increasingly more severe, the problem of shortages, to the problem of lack of local authorities, is adding the of public insecurity,” he said in a radio interview.
He explained that in the vicinity of these two villages, the most important of the municipality of Los Cabos, “there are constant looting apparently hooded assailants”. The attorney further revealed that the hooded thieves are looting retail stores, hotels, homes and intimidating members of the community. Read Article
eltiempo.com reported, following the arrest of three persons yesterday morning, Chilean police and prosecutors continue a broad operation to disrupt a group that allegedly is behind the recent bombings in Santiago, including that last 8 September left 14 injured in the subway. More than 200 police officers, including the Grupo de Operaciones Especiales, GOPE, personnel […]
abcnews.go.com/AP reported federal police on Thursday vowed to restore order in the hurricane-stricken resort area of Los Cabos after looting emptied store shelves and unnerved residents who worried their homes could be next. Enrique Galindo, national commissioner of the Federal Police, said seven people, two of them carrying firearms, had been detained on suspicion of […]
cronica.com.mx reported…”Help, help! Inmates escaped, are entering houses and beating men, women and children! “.” The desperate cry of inhabitants of Buenos Aires, San Bernabe and sidewalks colonies, arriving at the airport is San José of the Cape international calling for the deployment of the armed forces in these colonies because escaped inmates of the […]
lainfo.es/AFP reported The Ecuadorian Interior Minister Jose Serrano, confirmed that 15 policemen were injured and at least eight people were arrested for violence at a march in favor and one against the government of Rafael Correa. The head of the ministerial portfolio reported that police officers were attacked with timbers and Molotov cocktails, as Public […]
en.molbuk.uz reported that a Ukranian touris was found dead in Yucatan and appeared to be murdered and robbed. Prosecutors reported that Alexander Batychko, age 25 was found in a rental car. The victim had been visiting archaeological areas. Read Article
ecuavisa.com reported the army discovered plants coca and a clandestine base of processing of drug in the Yasuni National Park. The finding was in Orellana province, canton Aguarico sector Nuevo Rocafuerte, where most of the 980 thousand hectares comprising the Yasuni National Park, is one of the most important ecological reserves of the planet. According […]
diario.mx reported Distrito Federal- The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), through the specialized attorney in investigation of organized crime (SEIDO), with the support of the Agency’s Criminal investigation and in coordination with the Federal Police dismantled in Nogales, Sonora, a network dedicated to United States from high-powered arms. In a statement the PGR explained […]
Every 9 days dies a woman in Mexico for domestic violence vanguardia.com.mx reported the Criminalist of the National Institute of Criminal Sciences, Magdalena Sánchez, said that 80 per cent of women suffered violence work, family and institutional. domestic violence takes the life of a woman every 9 days in Mexico, said the Criminalist for the […]
the project which would allow the use of electronic bracelets in Costa Rica might be law of the Republic starting next week, according to members of the third full Commission approved it in first debate earlier Wednesday. This initiative would allow persons who commit a minor crime not go to jail to saturate national prisons […]
france24.com reported the son of Surinamese President Desi Bouterse (pictured) pleaded guilty on Friday to US charges he sought to offer a home base in his South American country to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Dino Bouterse, once picked by his father to lead a counter-terrorism unit in Suriname, told a judge in Manhattan that […]
lainormacion.com reported an Italian citizen accused of being a capo of the Calabrian mafia, known as Ndrangheta, and wanted by Interpol was arrested today in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones province (to 1,300 miles from Buenos Aires), sources of the national gendarmerie. The detainee, identified as Pantaleone Mancuso, 47 years old, was caught when he tried to […]
Install alarms in the trade of Viña del Mar With a new tool to prevent thefts and assaults, have 220 warehouses of Viña del Mar, thanks to a government program, implemented by the Provincial Governor of Valparaiso with the collaboration of the municipality and the Chamber of Commerce of the city. It is the installation […]
telesurtv.net reported a Mexican attorney alleges that Silao´s police chief was behind the attack on 24 year old journalist Karla Silva. Carlos Zamarripa, Attorney General in the Mexican states of Guanajuato has signalled the local police chief as the one of the assailants in the attack of journalist Karla Janeth Silva. Silva was hospitalized after […]
dailymail.co.uk reported the parents of a 22-year-old psychology graduate who was found murdered in Chile traveled to the city of Temuco this week to transport their daughter’s body back to the United States. Chris Hagan and his grief-stricken wife were photographed Wednesday in Chile on their way to make final arrangements for Erica Faith Hagan, […]
amazonwatch.org/AP reported…An outspoken Peruvian opponent of illegal logging and three other native Ashaninka community leaders were slain in a remote region bordering Brazil, tribal authorities said Monday. The activist, Edwin Chota, had received frequent death threats from illegal loggers, who he had tried for years to expel from the lands for which his community was […]
KPHO.com reported two people were arrested and 16 vehicles valued at more than $400,000 were seized after search warrants were served in three Valley communities Wednesday morning. Nine of the vehicles were stolen in Mexico. The six-month investigation uncovered a criminal organization that would carjack high-end vehicles in Mexico, switch the Vehicle Identification Numbers and […]
Mexico’s National Citizen Observatory (ONC) has published a 166 page document discussing the culture of kidnapping in Mexico. Clearly, this type of crime is a pernicious social issue in Mexico. HIGH RISK AREAS IN MEXICO FOR KIDNAPPING CENTRAL MEXICO: Guerrero and Morelos have the largest concentration of kidnappings. The region of central Mexico has the […]
lahora.com reported Security in the parish Vilcabamba redouble that is the commitment that took the Colonel Marcelo Carrillo Valenzuela, Commander of the police in Loja, yesterday, when he met with the authorities and inhabitants. But the police will not act alone. The inhabitants are determined to cooperate with the military. In the jurisdiction groups similar […]
Amazon deforestation jumps 29% Theguardian.com reported satellite figures show surge in deforestation, as agriculture expands in states of Para and Mato Grosso The destruction of the world’s largest rainforest accelerated last year with a 29% spike in deforestation, according to final figures released by the Brazilian government on Wednesday that confirmed a reversal in gains […]
costaricantimes.com reported after two months of searching and nothing to indicate a missing Alaskan is lost and alone in rugged Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, Roman Dial now suspects his son fell victim to foul play. Dial traveled thousands of miles to Central America in early August, about two weeks after the disappearance of […]
buenosairesherald.com reported about 50 percent of prison inmates in the region are under 32-years-old and most of them have never been to school or dropped out during primary school, a report by University of Tres de Febrero revealed. “Jails in Argentina and Latin America are populated by young people with low educational level and precarious […]
thepublicopinion.com/AP reported Colombian authorities say a man posing as the Lebanese ambassador fooled local officials for months, until a suspicious army colonel checked with the embassy and unmasked him. Now, Jeyson Puello is being investigated as a possible con artist who rubbed shoulders with military officers, academics and local politicians in the northeastern city of […]
nerope.eu/ AP reported the seizure of 1,639 coca plants in southern Mexico marks the first known instance of the raw ingredient for cocaine being cultivated in the country, Mexican and U.N. officials said Wednesday. Mexico is home to various drug cartels that traffic large quantities of cocaine toward the United States, but coca itself is […]
dw.de reported a new policy in the war on drugs appears to be having the desired effect in Mexico. The murder rate is dropping, but despite a return to pre-2010 levels it’s still too early to declare victory over the drug cartels. “Narcomensajes”: the messages that Mexican drug cartels leave for their adversaries. These drug […]
elnuevoherald.com/AP reported Ecuador plans to invest eight million dollars to create a command of cyber defense unit for the country that he expects to be completely operable by mid 2015. General Luis Garzón, head of the joint command of the armed forces, said he expects the project to begin within 30 days. They are in […]
news9.com reported August Reiger went missing from a hike on Father’s Day in 2013 near Banos Ecuador. He had just graduated from the top of his class at Classen School of Advanced Studies in Oklahoma City and was set to begin a full-ride scholarship at the University of Oklahoma His disappearance is classified as a […]
publimetro.cl reported they had not passed even 24 hours of the terrorist attack at Escuela Militarstation, when last night through social networks began to spread a reckless threat that appeared in the Transantiago bus. The Twitter user @korpian captured the phrase scratched with spray that said “the next bomb will be on a bus”, accompanied […]
infobae.com reported chemical variation is one of the strategies that turn the narcos who sold designer drugs to achieve new products that are not even contemplated by the act as a prohibited substance for its novelty. Such is the case of the 25I-NBOMe, known as “Pandora” or “Bomb”, which was not registered still as prohibited […]
elnuevodia.com reported in the most serious attack occurred in years in Chile, a bomb detonated Monday in a shop of one of the main stations of the metro of Santiago and caused ten wounded, two of them serious. Francisco Bravo, which investigated 29 bombings that took place this year in Santiago, told reporters that the […]
eluniverso.com reported Costa Rica police found 27 undocumented citizens of Nepal in an area of Paso Canoas, border with Panama, joining other intercepted seven Nepalese weekend, in operations against the trafficking, officials said Monday. The regional director of the police in the South, Commissioner José Domingo Cruz, pointed out that the undocumented were found in […]
larepublica.pe reported “La Gran Familia” extends its tentacles to Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia. Criminal gang would have signed alliances with important national and international criminal gangs. “Old Paco” would still be leading. The criminal organization “La Gran Familia” would operate with its full might and apparently until recharged, since successfully extended its tentacles to Ecuador, […]
Human Trafficking from Southern Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala: Why These Victims are Trafficked into Modern Day Florida by Timothy Adam Golob ABSTRACT Florida is ranked as one of the United States’ top three destination states for human trafficking; many of those victims originate from Mesoamerica—Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Human trafficking […]
milenio.com reported at least 98 foreigners, of which 58 are Americans, the majority reported as not located in Baja California, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas border States are in the national registry of persons lost or missing in Mexico. Furthermore, half of the missing persons in the country are in a range of between 10 and 30 […]
bbc.com reported a group of indigenous people in Brazil’s Amazon region have detained and expelled loggers working illegally in their ancestral lands. Leaders of the Ka’apor tribe accused the Brazilian authorities of failing to protect them. They tied up the loggers and set fire to their trucks and chainsaws, before forcing them out, reported the […]
ticotimes.net reported Responding to pressure from residents in Costa Rica’s Northern Zone, who say they increasingly have become targets for assaults and robberies, the Public Security Ministry announced Thursday that it had conducted the first of several sweeps of the area in an effort to catch the bad guys. Mata met with San Carlos municipal […]
freebeacon.com reported Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week. Cuban intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually […]
July 23, 2014 nacion.com reported the security forces of Coto Brus confirmed this Wednesday evening the killing of an American woman, of 37 years, by a man of 20, who lived in the same House. The crime took place in Los Angeles of Limoncito, Coto Brus. At 2:40 p. m. received the alert through 911 […]
elcomercio.com reported a “transformation penance”. This spoke the Minister of Justice, Ledy Zúñiga, once were transferred to the regional jail in Latacunga 662 deprived of liberty in the prison of The Inca. Initially there were protests from the relatives of the women. According to the official, 45 children between 0 and 3 years old, live […]
ecuavisa.com/AFP reported a 97-year-old American woman was found dead inside the refrigerator of the House in which she lived in the tourist city Playas de Rosarito, in the Northwest of Mexico, the State Prosecutor’s office reported Thursday. “The two door refrigerator was closed with a towel as a tourniquet. When opening the refrigerator door a […]
plenglish.com reported Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patiño, urged United States authorities today to free the three remaining men who were part of the Cuban Five and who are about to complete 16 years of imprisonment on U.S. soil. “Hopefully at some point there will be understanding by the American authorities, and the the three Cuban […]
bbc.com reported Guatemala’s Prison Service Director Edgar Camargo has been arrested and charged with involvement in a lucrative corruption and extortion scheme. Prosecutors say the scheme was run by a high profile convicted criminal, Byron Oliva Lima, who paid bribes to Camargo. Oliva Lima took money from inmates to allow them access to phones, special […]
aljazeera.com/Amnesty International reported…Instead of water-boarding it’s called the tehuacanazo — and the water forced down the victim’s nose is carbonated, and sometimes spiced with chili pepper. It’s been a well-known technique used by Mexican police for decades. The tactic — along with electric shocks, sexual violence, near-asphyxiation and death threats — appears in the testimonies […]
bbc.com reported one of Chile’s richest men, Julio Ponce, has been fined $70m (£42.5m) for illegal share trading. Mr Ponce is the chairman of Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM), the world’s biggest producer of iodine, lithium and potassium. He was married to the daughter of Chile’s former military ruler, Gen Augusto Pinochet. Mr Ponce, who […]
According to latinonewsonline.com a female passenger on a flight from Bogota, Colombia was detained at the Madrid Spain airport for possession of 1.7 kilos of cocaine on August 29, 2014. The passenger age, 43 a Venezuelan national acted in a suspicious matter to agents and her luggage was screened and deemed not to contain contraband. […]
laprensa.hn reported the suspended officials are the judge for criminal matters of Francisco Morazán, Allan Fernando Rodriguez Sevilla, and supernumerary judge of the Court of Danli, Leader Federico Mendez Mendoza. The suspended officials it is the judge for criminal matters of Francisco Morazán, Allan Fernando Rodriguez Sevilla, and supernumerary judge of the Court of Danli, […]
eltiempo.com reported the lawyer of the taxi drivers in Colombia extradited to the United States, the country investigated for the murder of DEA agent James Terry Watson, said Monday that his clients would pay a penalty of 25 years in prison if they accept the charges, welcoming and a proposal that would have made the […]
COURT RECORDS SHOW THIS COLOMBIAN MAFIA IS REFERRED TO AS “La Hermandad”. The Brotherhood” SPECIALTIES – ROBBING HOUSES, CLONING, LOOTING ATM’S zocalo.com.mx REPORTED…Saltillo, Coah.- Mexican authorities call “the new Colombian mafia” as they do not smuggle drugs. The recruit in cities like Medellin and Bogota and Mexico reach to clone cards, extorting, robbing houses and […]
bbc.co.uk reported Something does not smell right in the world of baby diapers Colombia: after months of investigation, the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce of Colombia (SIC) decided to accuse the country’s leading manufacturers of conspiring to artificially inflate the prices of their disposable diapers. The scandal involves the manufacturers of the Winny, Huggies, Baby […]
The Directorate Against Terrorism (DIRCOTE), took over the investigation on finding weapons of war found in a hotel room Rimac, which overlooks the Government Palace. As known by a credible source, the possibility of an attack on the seat of executive power is not excluded. It also transpired in the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (Dirincri), […]
lanacion.com reported three shots in the neck; a fortune in pesos and dollars in the pockets of the victim and in a black bag he was carrying, which followed where it was, untouched, after the execution. It is not a violent scene from a Hollywood thriller black: It happened yesterday in Balvanera. A presumably young […]
diariopopular.com.ar reported Parents of students who attend the College Numen, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores, known closely the problems of the “rags”, which have cornered the surroundings of the educational establishment in the entry or exit of children, charging amounts ranging from 20 to 40 pesos to supposedly protect the car. The situation […]
elcomerco.pe reported this newspaper revealed last Sunday that 95% of the narcovuelos coming out of the country are directed to Bolivia, where, in addition, two Peruvian families would be on road to become the drug cartels. The police does not rule out that Radojicic and Uros have connection with the case of the Serbian Frederik […]
Paita y Callao Major Shipment Points for Sinaloa Cartel / Cocaine hidden in Coal Shipments larepublica.pe reported phone-tapping to the facade Carboniferas Alpha & Omega and Andean Betas of the Peru business owners facilitated the identification and location of two Mexicans identified as alleged representatives of the Sinaloa cartel’s installed in Trujillo, who oversaw the […]
sipse.com reported the injured child said that two subject, known theirs, intercepted it aboard a truck white Lincoln and it tried to put a vehicle by force, but by resisting, the pair of plagiarizing you stabbed him. The young said they attacked him because I didn’t want to “align” or work with them. One of […]
Rodolfo Calderón Umaña reported Central America’s emergence as a principal transit route for illicit drugs from South America to the U.S. has given rise to local retail markets supplying users within the region. A study of three Costa Rican communities – one in greater San José and two along the Caribbean coast – highlights several […]
aulablog.net reported pPrison overcrowding is a widespread problem in Latin America, primarily because of harsh drug-sentencing laws and inadequate budgets, but Costa Rica may be setting a useful example for dealing with it. In most countries, guards control the perimeter, but groups of prisoners or criminal gangs organize and control life inside the prison compound. […]
rsf.org reported Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, a freelance photographer and indigenous rights defender with dual French and Colombian nationality, has been the target of death threats for the past two weeks. Unable to return to his home in central Colombia, he is waiting for the authorities to respond to his request for protection. “You have just […]
The PGJ advises that through an operation carried out by the unit’s follow-up to the crime of trafficking in persons, with support of the Ministerial police, was the rescue of 12 women who were allegedly victims of sexual exploitation in a bar located in the Cologne Blue water meadows, of the city of Puebla. Derivative […]
ecuavisa.com reported Oscar Antonio Berrocal Sandi, alleged Sinaloa cartel representative in Ecuador, was arrested at Bogota’s El Dorado airport when he tried to enter the country from Quito, Colombia Migration reported today. Known by the alias “Charlie”, “the chef”, “the farmer” or “Rolex” Berrocal was in the spotlight of the American authorities for the crime […]
AFP, Yahoo News Reported after surviving a harrowing rape attempt, Any Hurtado took up boxing — and found herself surrounded by other Ecuadoran women using their fists for protection in a country torn by sexual violence. Statistics paint a disturbing picture of the threats women face in the South American country: six out of every […]
nationalreview.com reported Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED). High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources have confirmed to Judicial Watch that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack […]
bbc.com reported the authorities in Brazil say they have dismantled a criminal organisation they believe was the “biggest destroyer” of the Amazon rainforest. The gang is accused of invading, logging and burning large areas of public land and selling these illegally for farming and grazing. In a statement, Brazilian Federal Police said the group committed […]
bakken.com reported an illegal oil tap has been blamed for a spill that contaminated a 14-mile stretch of the San Juan River in the Nueva Leon state in northern Mexico. Mexico’s environmental protection agency Profepa puts the blame on criminal gangs attempting to steal the oil from a pipeline. According to Profepa, the rupture occurred […]
bbc.co.uk reported Police in Peru say they have seized at least 3.3 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a shipment of coal bound for Europe. Officers discovered the stash in a house near the town of Huanchaco after a six-week surveillance operation with the help of the US Drug Enforcement Administration. They arrested two Mexican and […]
BBC.com reported that Six Ecuadorean police officers have been given 12 years in jail for trying to assassinate President Rafael Correa. The six took part in a mutiny in 2010 during which officers besieged the president at a Quito hospital. One of Mr Correa’s bodyguards was killed when the mutineers opened fire on the president’s […]
lahora.com.ec/AFE reported the Peruvian authorities rescued eight indigenous people, among those who had an 8-month-old baby, from falling into an alleged network of human trafficking when they were transported to the region of Madre de Dios, in the South of the country, said today in a statement the decentralized direction of culture of Cuzco. The […]
Two foreign were arrested with drug eluniverso.com reported two Serbian citizens heading to Holland were arrested at the airport in Guayaquil, once detected a suitcase with 2,270 kilos of cocaine. Read Article
noticierovenevision.net reported the g/d Néstor Reverol Segundo Comandante and Chief of staff of the guard national Bolivarian (GNB) formalised the deactivation of the number 7 Regional command in the East to start the activation of the new area commands of the military body in Anzoátegui, Sucre and Monagas. Read Article
nearshoreamericas.com reported the Mexican government has formed a special police force to protect businesses from kidnapping and extortion by criminal gangs. This is the latest measure by President Enrique Pena Nieto to boost growth in Latin America’s second biggest economy. The 5,000-strong police force will combat industrial, agricultural and business crime in Mexico, where organized […]
bbc.com reported police in Brazil say rioters in a jail in the southern city of Cascavel have killed four fellow inmates and injured several others. Two of the victims were decapitated while two more died after they were pushed off the roof of the building. The authorities restarted negotiations with the rioters on Monday morning […]
LAINFO.COM reported Ecuador ranks fourth of the safest countries in Latin America, according to a study released by Gallup. The report notes that Ecuador has led the greatest leap in security Achievement 2009 to 2013 President of this country, Rafael Correa, attributed “to success in the fight against crime, gun control, the autonomy of the […]
biobiochile.cl reported call for nationwide alert issued the Ministry of health after discovering some products that they claim to be made on the basis of stevia, but that actually have anything but this plant used to replace sugar, which represents a serious health risk. According to a study carried out by the Seremi of health […]
ECUADOR, VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA BIGGEST VICTIMS IN LATIN AMERICA What is “Machete”? SECURELIST.COM REPORTED…”Machete” is a targeted attack campaign with Spanish speaking roots. We believe this campaign started in 2010 and was renewed with an improved infrastructure in 2012. The operation may be still “active”. The malware is capable of the following cyber-espionage operations: Logging keystrokes […]
ilovechile.cl reported the National Institute of Human Rights presented this Tuesday a complaint for the crime of traffic in human beings against an underage Ecuadorian national, who was enslaved by the defendants. This complaint adds to another lawsuit on behalf of the child, filled on August 4 by the National Youth Service (Sename). On Thursday […]
Ecuador’s coastguard boosts fleet with two Damen Stan Patrols (SPa) 5009 22 Aug 2014 Damen has recently signed a contract with Astilleros Navales Ecuatorianos (Astinave) to construct two Damen SPa’s 5009 for the Ecuadorian Coastguard. The Ecuadorian shipyard will build both vessels locally with Damen Technical Cooperation, which is Damen’s method of ‘building on site’. […]
latino.foxnews.com reported first it was moving marijuana and cocaine across the border. Then, it was human smuggling. Now, it appears Mexico’s drug cartels are getting involved in the lucrative – and slightly peculiar – business of trafficking the bladders of exotic fish to Asia. News of this fishy business began surfacing in June following the […]
hondurasweekly.com reported authorities in Honduras have seized 52 properties belonging to one of the country’s premier drug trafficking groups — the Valle family — in a move that could represent the beginning of a larger assault on the powerful clan. On August 18, authorities seized properties belonging to siblings Luis Alfonso, Miguel Arnulfo, Digna and […]
plenglish.com reported Ecuador is one of the victims of a cyber espionage campaign, seeking military, diplomatic and governmental information, which has been in place since 2010. It has also affected 778 people in Colombia and Venezuela, warned the Russian computer security firm Kaspersky Lab. “We can not speculate on the origins, but we know, that […]
by Jan Sonnenschein From Gallup World / Eight out of 10 countries with the highest homicide rates are located in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the region accounting for 36% of the world’s homicides in 2012, according to a United Nations report. Furthermore, the Americas have overtaken Africa — where index scores are only […]
lainformacion.com reported United States deported today to a Salvadoran who allegedly planned the murder of her husband, an American exmilitar, perpetrated in 2013 in El Salvador, local police said. The Salvadoran Nury Aquino was arrested by the international police (Interpol) officers at the international airport of Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, 44 kilometers south of San […]
ecuadortimes.net reported last Tuesday in Quito, doctors and medical students marched to ask the Judicial Council to prepare judges to judge their cases and to reject the twelve-month sentence of imprisonment imposed on one of their colleagues. Victor Alvarez, vice president of the Medical Federation, said that his colleagues remain concerned about how judges will […]
gba.urgente24.com reported three former police chiefs and 7 officers are being investigated for their involvement in a gang that was engaged in kidnapping express and the theft of cars in La Matanza. Administrative proceedings will kick off and they will be forbidden to carry its regulation, as well as separated from the police weapon. Three […]
theguardian.com reported that Colombian student may face up to eight years in jail for sharing article Diego Gómez is accused of violating ‘economic and other rights’, in what activists say is an ‘absurd’ application of copyright law.Diego Gómez, a biologist working on reptile and amphibian conservation, is accused of violating “economic and other rights” after […]
BBC.COM reported up to 5,000 pupils have not been able to start the school year in the northern Mexican state of Sonora after a toxic spillage from a copper mine. The authorities said 88 schools were not able to open this week for fear pupils could come into contact with water contaminated with acids. The […]
latimes.com reported WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange suggested at a news conference Monday that he could soon be leaving the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been holed up for two years to avoid extradition to Sweden. Assange did not explain, however, under what circumstances he thought he could go. Related story: WikiLeaks cheers Snowden […]
Washingtonpost.com reported in Mexico, with its history of drug-war violence and corrupt police, kidnapping is an old story. In the past, the crime tended to target the rich. Now it has become more egalitarian. Victims these days are often shopkeepers, taxi drivers, service employees, parking attendants and taco vendors who often work in cash or […]
Forbes.com reported the first set of sates to which U.S. government advises Americans not to travel are: Coahuila, Colima, Durango, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas. The second set in which it calls for caution are: Aguascalientes, Baja California Norte, Chihuahua, Morelos and Veracruz. […]
colombiareports.com reported Colombia’s police on Saturday said they had arrested a suspected FARC rebel convicted of taking part in the 2003 kidnapping of three American military contractors. The defense workers weren’t released until 2008. “Giovanny,” the nom-de-guerre of Duverney, is one of the guerrillas closest to “El Paisa, the feared commander of the Teofilo Foreo […]
portafoloio.co reported according to Venezuelan authorities, seizures in less than a week were 96 tonnes of food and almost 300,000 litres of diesel oil, petrol and lubricants Venezuelan. The Government of Venezuela said that in the past five days seized a volume of products seeking to be removed from smuggling to Colombia which outclasses all […]
gringosabroad.com reported… Accurate Details Regarding the Vilcabamba Kidnapping (August 2014) Here is an accurate summary of the events regarding the Vilcabamba home invasion, robbery, and kidnapping of an American couple. The couple requests that their privacy be respected and to please understand that each time they are asked to relay details it is traumatizing. Thus […]
Mexican man a suspect in 18 homicides NTNEWS.com reported that MEXICAN police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in at least 18 murders, one of the country’s top prosecutors says. MEXICO state Attorney General Alejandro Gomez Sanchez said on Saturday the arrest was made thanks to investigative work by police attached to his office. […]
elmercurio.com.ec reporte the police officers they come to reviews to avoid that the citizens carrying weapons. Aiming to reduce robberies at people and illegal activities, the national police develops operations called “Locks” “Cerrojos”, which consist of preventive controls in the streets to request identity documents to citizens and verify that they do not carry firearms, […]
Elmercurio.com reported that an American citizen was kidnapped in Vilcabamba Ecuador in Loja. The four assailants demanded a $400,000 ransom to secure her release. The kidnapping according to the prosecutor was conducted Tuesday August 12, in Viclabamba. Apparently the womans partner and a man helping with translations for the couple were not taken. The victim […]
diariocentinela.com.ec reported in the tourist information of the parish hall Vilcabamba police authorities, gathered political Lieutenant, Member of the municipality, parish GAD, and Presidents of the districts of Vilcabamba, to discuss the security of the place which in recent months has shown an increase. Diego Guerrero President of the parish Government of Vilcabamba (GADV) noted […]
cronicamercurio reported on their Twitter account that Four suspects were detained for the kidnapping/for ransom of an North American woman in Vilcabamba. The woman was found tied up in the storage area of a condo building in Cuenca. The suspected kidnappers demanded $400,000 in ransom for her release. The four suspects, a woman and three […]
Mercopress.com reported Chile has fired the security chief of the country’s main airport after an “embarrassing” robbery of more than 10 million dollars at the cargo terminal. Defense Minister Jorge Burgos said a probe had been launched into how eight armed men had managed to steal the money from a security van at the airport […]
Billion Peso Robbery at the Airport: lanueva.com reported a robbery of a BRINKS truck took place in the cargo wing of the Arturo Merino Benítez Airport this morning, an estimated CL$6 billion was stolen. The eight robbers were said to be heavily armed and proceeded to toss ‘miguelitos’ out the windows as they fled the […]
lanueva.com reported Chilean police are investigating two new attacks with bombs in various locations in Santiago last night, without causing victims, official sources reported today. Both explosions near the 1st and 39th police stations of police, one in the Centre of the Chilean capital, the other in the municipality of El Bosque, in the southern […]