In response to growing bilateral and multilateral dialogues on citizen security, Presidents Obama and Santos met today on the margins of the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and agreed to deepen coordination of ongoing security cooperation activities throughout the hemisphere and West Africa. Both presidents agreed to formalize this coordination in [...]
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Guatemalan authorities have begun to see disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and another of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America — a deal that could set back U.S.-backed efforts to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in Central America. Jailhouse recordings and a turncoat kidnapper describe a pact between leaders of the Maras [...]
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The government of Guatemala has formed a new military unit with financial and technical support from the United States to fight drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean and the San Marcos region bordering Mexico, an official source announced yesterday. Guatemalan Defense Minister Ulysses Anzueto told reporters that Military Task Force Tecun Uman aims to prevent the entry of [...]
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And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]
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A Guatemalan court on Monday sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison for participating in a 1982 slaughter where 201 people were killed. Pedro Pimentel, 55, was deported last year from Los Angeles to Guatemala to face charges of murder and crimes against humanity. He is the fifth soldier to be sentenced for [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday began a tour of Latin America under intense pressure from business and political leaders to speak on a topic that no U.S. official wants to address: the decriminalization of drugs. The presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico, suffering the consequences of a failing drug war, [...]
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A record seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in western Mexico indicates that nation could soon be the world leader in meth production. The scale of the capture announced Wednesday in Jalisco can only mean the Sinaloa cartel, a major international trafficker of cocaine and marijuana, has moved into wholesale meth manufacturing. According to [...]
Worsening drug and organized-crime violence in Central America has forced the Peace Corps to pull out of Honduras and halt the flow of new volunteers to Guatemala and El Salvador, that organization has announced. Last month Peace Corps officials reviewed worsening conditions and decided to withdraw all 158 volunteers from Honduras in January and suspend training for 29 recruits. [...]
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Mexican officials report that almost 13,000 people were killed in violence blamed on drug cartels between January and September of 2011. That would bring the death toll to 47,515 since President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive against drug traffickers at the end of 2006. Officials claimed the 11% rise in murders was slower than in [...]
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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom announced Tuesday approval of a U.S. extradition order for former president Alfonso Portillo, who faces money laundering charges for the alleged embezzlement of $1.5 million in foreign donations. Colom said Guatemalan courts have already approved Portillo’s extradition and that he will respect those rulings. “The president should not get mixed up [...]
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