According to RPP.com.pe the Bolivian Government today, July 1st revealed that one of the five Peruvians accused of trafficking cocaine is a member of the Peruvian Shining Path. On Tuesday, June 28th police captured one Bolivian and five Peruvians suspected of trafficking cocaine, officials report. Three of the detainees posed as agents of the Bolivian […]
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An alley in the center of Mexico City was the successful center of a network of human trafficking and sexual slavery, CNN Mexico reports. An operation conducted on May 21, 2011 saw the arrest of Manuel and Armando Rodríguez Mejía, brothers who have overseen a successful prostitution and human trafficking ring for over 30 years, […]
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•Latin America has become a destination for laundering money from trafficking of narcotics, kidnapping, and other illicit activities more than any place in the world, and afterwords, they go to European countries. •According to hoyveracruz.com.mx, countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil have become hotspots for laundering money using casinos, lotteries and even churches. […]
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According to ElComercio.pe Maria Angela Holguin, Chancellor of Colombia today, Wednesday June 29th, stressed the importance of Colombian-Peruvian relations, the work of the Pacific Alliance and the fight against narco-trafficking. The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and President-elect Ollanta Humala are holding meetings this afternoon in Bogotá. Holguin adds that the Pacific Alliance is an […]
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According to LaRepublica.pe Maximo Villoslada Angulo, a retired coronel from the police forces of Peru and the Dominican Republic was arrested on drug and illegal arms charges in Santo Domingo, D.R with another Dominican citizen. Angulo was living on the D.R Air Force Base. Police say after a vehicle search, where military exclusive weapons and […]
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According to lavozdeasturias.es the Anonymous member who coordinated web attacks on Latin American government organizations, was arrested in a sting operation on May 20th. La Voz acquired access to court sealed documents where the suspect is being charged with electronic crimes and illicit association to a cyber terrorist group. The suspect, alias Devnuller, hid the […]
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A report from the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) shows that the state of Veracruz has the highest number of kidnappings of undocumented immigrants, according to Noticias Net. The agency’s first report in 2009 estimated that 2,944 kidnappings of migrants occurred in Veracruz between September 2008 and February 2009. The last report showed a […]
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ElComercio.com reports that a police shootout occurred this morning, Tuesday June 28th, two blocks from the Quito airport, Mariscal Sucre, leaving one dead and another wounded. The police have yet to identify the victim and the wounded was identified as one of the police officers involved. Officers report that three police officers were involved in […]
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According to ElComercio.com the two FARC guerrillas arrested in Quito were transferred to the headquarters of the narcotics police in Quito and are awaiting a deportation hearing Tuesday June 28th. Officials say this morning a Colombian DAS plane arrived to transport the guerrillas to Colombia. One of the suspects, Fabio R. is the second in […]
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According to ElTelegrafo.com.ec police found a “long-range” weapon inside a house in the South of Quito on Thursday June 23rd. An agent says that the gun was a 182-caliber, an army issued rifle. Authorities say that the gun has a price of $80,000 on the black market. The gun is not identified as an Ecuadorian […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Attorney of the Judicial police in Guayaquil denounced the increasing express kidnapping and violent robberies that are occurring in the Guayas province. As of yesterday 24 express kidnappings have been reported to authorities this month. However, President Rafael Correa reported last week that crimes had dropped by 15% from 2010 in […]
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Ecuadorinmediato.com reports that Peruvian authorities discovered 85 acres of land, valued at 25 million soles, dedicated to the production of marijuana. Authorities discovered the land in the annex of Pueblo Libre in the Pataz province. Drug traffickers moved about 800 kilos of marijuana monthly, police say. The marijuana was concealed in public transportation and individual […]
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Two bodyguards, part of the security team for the governor of Nuevo León, Rodrigo Medina, were murdered in the town of Guadalupe, Radio Formula reports. The governor is known for his stance against organized crime and threats against him were found on the bodies of the guards. The governor issued a statement via Twitter that […]
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Recent data provided by the Consulate in Buenos Aires and published yesterday in El País shows that of the estimated 309 Uruguayan prisoners and 500 defendants being held in Argentina, 79% of them are in prison for drug trafficking, per espanol.upi.com. Most of these traffickers are women between the ages of 18 and 35 and […]
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Defense Minister, Nilda Garré, confirmed this morning that 1,500 kilos of cocaine were seized by Argentine police in 48 hours over the weekend, according to infobae.com. A maneuver called ‘Operation Transparency” arrested 2 Argentine police officers in Salta yesterday, near the Bolivian border, and seized 966 kilos of cocaine they were transporting from Bolivia and […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the police of the hydrocarbon energy unit raided a hacienda in San Carlos in the province of Guayas on the morning of Friday June 17th. The unit found fuel stored for smuggling activities in the vicinity of the hacienda, reported the police. The fuel was bound for Huaquillas, a city located on […]
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RPP.com.pe reports that a Spanish citizen was arrested while trying to transport 2 kilos and 100 grams of cocaine hidden in a jacket, long with an article of jewelry, in the Cusco Airport. The national police of Peru have custody of the foreigner, whose name is no available. The apprehension of the suspect was done […]
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According to Inforegion.pe, police carried out an operation against narco-traffickers on or about June 13 in the Monzon Valley. Police using four helicopters, destroyed two drug laboratories producing hydrochloric cocaine of high potency and PBC (cocaine paste). Police confiscated 130 kilos of drugs, and one and a half tons of chemicals. Also confiscated were weapons, […]
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As reported by Proceso, U.N. consultant Edgardo Buscaglia stated on Thursday that 65% of electoral campaigns receive money from illegitimate sources including drug cartels. Buscaglia believes that Mexico needs a new strategy to combat narco-trafficking that is harsh but not repressive, but such a strategy will not develop until drug violence reaches the political elite […]
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A serbian crime gang was seized by Brazilian federal police, showing an increasing problem for South America — foreign mafia groups (like the serbian) are increasingly using Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as corridors to export the continent’s cocaine to Europe and elsewhere. Read Article
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Police discovered yesterday that 4 Bulgarians arrested in Paraguay for having cloned credit cards were carrying false identification, according to abc.com.py. Officials from the Economic Crimes Police will be checking the identity of the 4 men with Interpol, in hopes that they will have accurate information. The men were in possession of about $350 million […]
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According to ElUniverso.com the Counternarcotic Police of Guayas have seized over seven and a-half tons of drugs within the province of Guayas. In 2010, seven and 300 kilos of drugs were seized. The police say that the figure government measures are aiding in toppling drug traffickers and their organizations. Last week, 55 kilos of drugs […]
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A 60-year-old Bolivian woman was arrested yesterday in her home in the town of Ingeniero Budge in the Lomas de Zamora district of Gran Buenos Aires on drug trafficking charges. Police also confiscated 143 bars of chalk cocaine and money, according to la-razon.com. The defendant had traveled to Bolivia in secret to buy drugs and […]
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ElComercio.com reports that the killing of a policeman, Darwin Anrango in the morning of March 19th in Pintag, east of Quito has been connected to the murder of two young Colombians this past Saturday in northern Quito. Anrango was found in a dump in a courtyard of a vehicle business. Police discovered that it was […]
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Edgardo Buscaglia from the Mexican Autonomous Institute of Technology has shown in a recent investigation that Argentina is home to several drug trafficking networks extended from Mexican drug cartels like Sinaloa, Tijuana and Los Zetas, according to elespectador.com. He also confirmed that Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the most wanted man in the […]
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El Universal reports: • Three Colombians and seven Costa Ricans were arrested Thursday in Costa Rica; they are believed to be part of a powerful international organization involved in drug trafficking and money laundering • 15 raids were conducted nationwide to act on an Interpol arrest warrant for Colombian Leudo Nieves, wanted by the U.S. […]
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According to ElComercio.com taxi drivers are protesting the increased murders of their compatriots in the past year. Taxi drivers took to the streets Monday June 13th to protest the continuing deaths of their peers in the Esmeraldas province that boarders Colombia. The president of the Provincial Taxi Drivers Union, Segundo Gallegos, says that even though […]
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According to ElComercio.com on Monday June 143h an explosive device was thrown into a house on the block, La Pradera. Four men on motorcycles committed the act of ‘terrorism’ at 3:30 in the morning. Witness report that the area resembles a war zone. The neighborhood has police protection but residents are still scared. The Intervention […]
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According to ElUniverso.com, an operation in Madrid, Spain, Espejo, under-covered a network that laundered USD 25 million between 2007 and 2011. It began September 2010. The network used the façade of remittances. August 2010, Madrid police arrested an Ecuadorian migrant, Jenny Alexandra Fasce Schumacker with 40 others for crimes of money laundering, terrorism, and drug […]
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According to ElUniverso.com nine Latin King gang members were arrested in Barcelona in connection with a serious attack on a young man who wanted to leave the gang. The arrested included two Ecuadorians, two Peruvians, two Spanish, a Dominican, a Moroccan and a Bolivian, between 15 and 32 years of age. Six of them are […]
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When the Chiquita Banana Company turned over to the U.S. Justice department thousands of documents, they revealed the company’s involvement with paramilitary groups such as AUC, guerrillas, and the military in Colombia. The article by the National Security Archive links to these Chiquita Papers, which describe the company’s strategies to hide the payments to these […]
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According to Periodicodigital.com.mx an attack on the Global Express Hotel, located on the Mexico Puebla highway, allegedly was the work of the Zetas. The hotel is located near FINSA Park. However, a police investigation has produced important clues to what happened. The two employees that were held hostage for 50,000 pesos are part of the […]
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According to Expreso.ec six robbers of bank customers were arrested on Friday June 10th. Also, a taxi driver was detained in connection with a criminal gang that stole USD 2,000 from a customer at a bank. The customer chased the assailants, as did a policeman on a motorcycle as the gang got away in a […]
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A police patrol killed one soldier and wounded Army is a negative balance of the security forces clash with FARC guerrillas in the area known as the plane’s tail, jurisdiction Quilichao Santander, Cauca. Apparently, the insurgents sought to attack a base of the Pichincha Battalion, based in this population, when they were struck by patrol […]
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National Deputy of Argentina, Natalia Gambaro, announced today that the country is a sanctuary for drug traffickers. She says the government doesn’t want to accept that Argentina has a drug problem and has no political resolve to combat the issue. Gambaro sites Brazil as an example of national security in response to president Dilma Rousseff’s […]
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According to Hoy.com.es, the Unit to Combat Organized Crime (ULCO) destroyed a coca plantation camouflaged on a hectare of land in Pastaza province in the jungle. The operation destroyed more than 150 coca plants, but no arrests were made. The commander of the second police division, Juan Ruales, reported that the population in the area […]
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According to Mexico’s El Universal, at around 5:30 p.m. on June 7, five vehicles pulled up outside the Victory Center for Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation in Torreon, Coahuila, in northern Mexico. A gang of heavily-armed men emerged from the cars, and burst into the clinic. Methodically moving from room to room, they opened fire on […]
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•The Gaula Military Cundinamarca and the CTI performed a raid and captured three culprits responsible for using falsified military identification as reported by elespectador.com. •In the raid, the authorities also found items such as military ID, uniforms solely meant for the military, credit and debit cards and bank documentation. •At least 50 military personnel have […]
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Following a series of 25 raids by Buenos Aires police, more than 12 million doses of paco, cocaine paste, were seized today and 13 people were arrested in Lomas de Zamora. The operation has led to the disbandment of a gang called “Los Matatigres” who have been in operation for over 20 years committing crimes […]
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A clandestine grave was uncovered in the Mexican municipality of San Ciro de Acosta, San Luis Potosí on Sunday evening, June 5. Soldiers arrived at the location indicated by an anonymous call and discovered four corpses buried in a field. As the commander of the San Ciro de Acosta municipal police force disappeared two months […]
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U.S. security authorities and businesses are warning travelers to avoid the Mexican states of Sonora, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco and Nayarit. Many online sources, including Samuel Logan’s “Traveler Safety in Mexico” map, outline the most high-risk locations for U.S. tourists. This map indicates that half of the territory of Zacatecas is unsafe due to […]
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ElComercio.com interviews Francesco Forgione, former president of the Italian Anti-Mafia Commission and a criminal organization specialist. With no visa required of foreigners, Ecuador attracts criminal groups like Ndrangheta, the world’s most dangerous mafia, interested in coca. As a coca producer, Ecuador has become a crossroads for organized crime due to the increase in production and […]
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Terra.com.mx reports that a big threat for the next president of Peru, Ollanta Humala is the increased presence of drug trafficking. The presidencies of Alejandro Toledo and Alan Garcia lacked action against drug trafficking while increasing business corruption, according to drug trafficking expert Jaime Antezana. Peru has become the world’s largest producer of coca leaf […]
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Operations in Santa Fe and Córdoba over the weekend led to the rescue of 13 women who had been forced into prostitution at whiskey bars in Isla Verde, Monte Maíz and Santo Tomé. Of the 13 women, 3 were from Paraguay, 4 from the Dominican Republic and the other 6 from Argentina, according to lanacion.com.py. […]
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A report released in May by the U.S. State Department shows that Argentina plays a prominent role in the trafficking of women and children for the sex slave industry, according to infobae.com. The report shows Argentina is still a popular destination for sex tourism, and a country of origin, transit and destination for human trafficking […]
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The Mexican government has adopted the Colombian government’s system of battling organized crime. As leon.milenio.com reports, the two governments have been working together sharing information and technology in order to stop narcotrafficking groups who transport drugs from Colombia to the United States through Mexico. Although the Colombian government has reduced the production of cocaine by […]
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he National Commissioner for Human Rights, Ramón Custodio, expressed his concern about the apparent weakness of the government of Honduras to confront organized crime. The human rights advocate urged the government to attend as a priority and effective criminal actions carried out by organized groups, regardless of the law, “exacerbate the crisis of violence in […]
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ElComercio.com reports the discovery of new centers of human trafficking in Chile, which include mafia operations in Paraguay, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, occurred Friday April 27th. Chilean Labor Minister, Evelyn Matthei said that the government was looking into the issue and criticizing former Paraguayan senator Francisco Errazuriz for employing illegals on his farms and […]
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The provinces of Argentina adopted a new electronic tracking and registration system this week that officials at the Federal Records Council hope will strengthen their fight against organized crime and money laundering within the country. The provinces have been given membership rights to the National Registration of Societies and the National Information System of Real […]
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•Hoy.com.ec reports that the Ecuadorian police force considers FARC an internal security issue as the Colombian guerrilla group uses Ecuador as a base for planning and carrying out operations. •Their actions according to the Ecuadorian police force include trafficking of narcotics and arms, assassinations, and smuggling of fuel among other activities. •Between 2005 and 2008 […]
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•The Colombian National Police and the DEA of the U.S. worked together in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Spain, and Colombia to capture 22 members of “los Paisas” and the “Oficina de Envigado” as reported in rcnradio.com. •Within Colombia, 12 members of captured along with $480 million USD. •Currently in Boston, César Augusto Pinzón, Antinarcotics director […]
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An Argentine citizen living illegally in Ecuador, Fabian Jorge Bustamante, was arrested yesterday at his home in La Garzota. According to a spokesperson from the Judicial Police per confirmado.net, the man is the alleged leader of an active money laundering network with connections in Argentina and Spain. Police found $7,300 and Western Union receipts on […]
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•Minister of Minas and Energy, Carlos Rodado Noriega, affirms that after months of investigation, they have ascertained that old drug traffickers have been using the gold mining industry to launder money per rcnradio.com. •According to the minister, they have found 9,000 issued securities and 19,600 requests. Noriega states that one of the problems in Ingeominas’ […]
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Gunmen apparently from two rival drug gangs fought a ferocious gunbattle on a highway in a western Mexico state that killed 28 men Wednesday, authorities said. Read Article
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Noticias.univision.com reports that Jesús Ochoa, presumed member of the Sinaloa Cartel, attempted to hide the money in a carry on luggage when he was captured in Eldorado Airport in Bogotá, Colombia. The money is believed to be a partial payment from Mexican cartels for a cocaine shipment. Ochoa is to be processed for alleged money […]
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Forget bulk cash. Heavy and hard to hide, it’s simply not the most convenient cross-border conveyance for a 21st-century money launderer. A safer and increasingly attractive alternative for today’s criminal is electronic cash loaded on stored-value or prepaid cards. AP-Read Article
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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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Northern Mexico’s drug war continues to claim victims, with more than 360 bodies discovered in mass graves just last week. In a separate incident, 13 people were killed in a shootout between Mexican marines and members of the Las Zetas drug cartel. Read Article
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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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X-ray machines at checkpoints in southern Mexico are capturing the ghostly outlines of a clandestine business worth billions a year, people packed tighter than cattle and transported like consumer goods in tractor trailers to the United States. Read Article
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•The Dutch National Attorney General reports that the woman was captured in Amsterdam on Tuesday having been involved in the transfer of cash from the Netherlands to Colombia for years per elespectador.com. •The exact amount of the laundered money is unknown. •As part of an investigation with the Colombian justice system, 1.3 million euros in […]
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•On the grounds that the chain of custody was not followed, the files and emails lack legal sustainability according to the Supreme Court. •The discovery of these emails led to the investigations of the connection between FARC and leftist political leaders, journalists, and intellectuals. •The court has filed the processes being carried out for “Farc-política” […]
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The formal business of the country has lost 75 billion dollars a year due to the piracy and smuggling, estimated the president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-SERVYTUR) , Jorge Dávila Flores. Said at a news conference that the figure is “stratospheric” if a comparison is made with captured […]
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The violence and the state of siege in the northern Guatemalan province of Petén, following the massacre and decapitation of 27 farm labourers, has been building up for years. Maya archaeological sites in Petén are now surrounded by soldiers after the discovery of the bodies of those murdered Sunday May 15, presumably by Los Zetas, […]
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The Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to work in Mexico when shooting broke out and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five. Dozens of them were on their way for another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico’s industrial heartland when the violence erupted. Read […]
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Bacrim Use Children As Bomb Operatives and Messengers Vice President of Colombia, Angelino Garzón in a memorandum of understanding with UNESCO spoke out against the Bacrim’s use of children between the ages of 10 and 14 for operations per rcnradio.com. These operations include transportation messages and even operations involving explosives. He announced regions such as […]
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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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Spain Police broke up a group that laundered money to ship to Bogotá, Colombia, through call centers.A total of 21 people were charged, after sending abroad 223,000 euros (nearly 650 million dollars) by installments of the proceeds, mostly from drug trafficking, police sources reported on Saturday. Read Article
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Red Alert in the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Airport in Guayaquil, on Wednesday afternoon allowed the detention of Basque Jhon Jairo López, alias’ Nico ‘, considered by Colombian police as a ringleader of the criminal organization’ Cordillera ‘, Read Article
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tice Department arrested another person tied to the Cibao Cartel, an international network recently dismantled and whose main members exported more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine over the last 11 months from the Dominican Republic to the United States. Read Article
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Authorities reported the seizure of 512 kilos of cocaine, in the area Cape Shark Acandí township area in the Chocó Urabá. The drug was hidden in a false bottom of the fishing boat, named “Light”, which contained 520 packets with the cache, according to the official report. The anti-narcotics police said the drug would presumably […]
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The police reported the capture of 740 suspected members of criminal gangs operating in the country for so far this year. De los detenidos, 378 estaban vinculados con la estructura criminal de los llamados ‘Urabeños’, Of those arrested, 378 were linked to the criminal con structure of so-called ‘Urabeños’, 246 ‘Los Rastrojos’ y 69 con […]
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Efren Meneses Hector Yela is trusted man Calle Antonio Javier Serna, better known as the “Fighter” and head of the criminal gang Los Rastrojos, who also established a criminal alliance with the FARC. Caracol Radio reported, the drug had arrested more than two decades devoted to organized crime. As heir to the criminal, Serna Street […]
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Spanish to English translation The drugs were transported in a suitcase on a bus from San Cristobal line, covering the Santa Barbara del Zulia route to Caracas / Five people were arrested later / OS “Madrugonazo the Underworld” dismantled dangerous gang “The Zulianos” Officials of the National Drug Commission of the Body of Scientific, Penal […]
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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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Another heavy blow to a group effective criminal law enforcement, intelligence work it through and derived from another arrest was achieved ensuring three criminals operating in the state, who include a woman, girlfriend “Commandant Molo” Manager Tulancingo Square Los Zetas. Read Article
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Mexican drug gangs branching out into new criminal activity are earning a steady stream of cash from the mass kidnapping of migrants, making the already arduous journey to the United States even more lethal. Read Article
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In separate incidents, two municipal police officers were shot and killed yesterday bringing the total to three casualties of elements in the Ministry of Public Security within 48, after the threats made in three narcopintas appeared in different parts of the city last Thursday. Read Article
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Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office said Saturday that 14 suspects are being held for investigation into organized crime, kidnapping and weapons violations in connection with the kidnapping of bus passengers March 25 and the subsequent discovery of clandestine graves near San Fernando, Tamaulipas. Read Article
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The political leader, Wilson Merino adds to the list of victims of violent crime living in Ecuador, where mayors have also fallen. Merino, who was Secretary General of the Administration’s interim government and legislature Fabián Alarcón Radical Alfarista Front party was found dead after being reported missing 60 days ago. Read Article
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he most dangerous city in Mexico — Ciudad Juarez — suffered one of its bloodiest stretches this year finishing with 41 homicides in a four-day period, among them a 10-year-old boy who was shot and killed during an attack meant for his father, the spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors office told CNN. Read Article
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Mexico announced a plan Monday to reward people who report suspected money laundering, under a program that will allow them to get up to one-quarter of any illicit funds or property seized. Read Article
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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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The first time Adela Navarro saw her longtime mentor cry was when a top editor at their muckraking newspaper was murdered leaving a health clinic with his two young children. “How many more deaths do I need to understand that we can’t do this?” asked Jesus Blancornelas, who narrowly escaped an attempt on his own […]
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The Federal Police has evidence that al Qaeda and other extremist organizations use the four country to spread propaganda and plan attacks, finance operations and attract militants. Read Article
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Al-Qaeda operatives are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading news magazine reported on Saturday, renewing concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for militants. Veja magazine, in its online edition, reported that at least 20 people affiliated with Al-Qaeda as well as the Lebanese Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, the […]
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Juan Manuel Santos president on Saturday denounced the infiltration of violent groups in public universities, after public order disturbances caused this week, during protests by students in some schools. Says there is a clear strategy to organize groups of hooded men to attack the police with explosives and then posing as victims of police authorities. […]
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The state intelligence agencies track the investments you have the Russian mafia in the region east of the country and other tourist attractions in order to place them due to subsequent confiscation. Diario Libre is reporting that the presence of bosses is an especially Russians in the east where they have brought high-profile scandals, including […]
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The Director of Immigration, Jose Ricardo Taveras, said that institution in coordination with state security agencies investigating the existence in the Dominican Republic for an alleged Russian mafia. Read Article
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Directed terrorist group financing and delivery of media aimed at increasing drug cartels with which to do business, either as a source of income or weapons. Speaking to a terrorist group, the key to leadership may be even more essential that the orientation of the direction of a drug cartel and its leaders can be […]
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Battalion, attached to the Twenty-third Brigade in coordination with the CTI of Pasto, reported the capture of José Eulogio Narcizo Fuelantala, aka ‘Joe’ or ‘The Squib’ up arms dealer and supplier of the ELN in Nariño. Accused believed to be supplying arms to ELN from Ecuador – He is also known as ‘the squid” – […]
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Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice, Tarek El Aissami, reported in the early hours of Friday that security agencies seized in the state of Nueva Esparta (Northeast) to a U.S. citizen has applied for drug trafficking. The information on the capture of Lionel Scott Harris, who has red notice request by the International Police (Interpol), […]
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Organized crime seems to have been responsible for the murders of two journalists on 25 March in Monterrey, in the northern state of Nuevo León – José Luis Cerda Meléndez, 33, a program host on the national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for La Prensa, a daily based in […]
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The Mexican Society of Bodyguard (SMG) reported that months ago had warned about a new modus operandi on the part of organized crime in the sense that, for the professional activities of police and bodyguards, would now be their families who were at risk. Read Article
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Guatemala President Alvaro Colom, today expressed concern over the aggressions of organized crime in Central and confirmed the development by the government of a comprehensive plan to combat it. He said this project aims to unify efforts in the region for the prosecution, seizure and arrest drug traffickers and gangs that specialize in other crimes. […]
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Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of a new message from the “central column” of the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles) paramilitary group voicing threats against journalists, civil society figures and NGOs. Dated 14 March and sent from a Gmail account in the name of “fenixaguilasnegras,” the message promises the “extermination” and “purge” of a […]
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A 31-year-old Colombian man has been arrested here for running an international gang that committed two robberies within five days of its arrival in the capital, police said Wednesday. After his arrest Tuesday evening, gang leader Edier Jaidiber of Bogota told police that he had studied the Indian Penal Code and believed that he won’t […]
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