Peru is interested in buying 10 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to patrol its Amazon borders, the Brazilian Minister of Defense said Tuesday, opening a new market for Brazilian manufacturer Embraer in Latin America. The announcement was made by Defense Minister Celso Amorim in Brasilia after meeting with Peruvian counterpart Alberto Otarola to discuss the [...]
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“There’s no doubt that with the growth of China, we’ve seen a re-commoditization of Latin America,” said Colombia’s Mining Minister Mauricio Cárdenas, an economist and former Director of the Latin America program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. In terms of economic development, Latin America did not take any advantage of the rising prices [...]
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Brazilian police are investigating possible connections between the organized crime groups controlling illegal gambling in Rio de Janeiro and Russian and Israeli mafias, with casinos in Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay. According to daily newspaper O Globo, the legal casinos play a key role in laundering money for operators of illegal lotteries and slot machines in [...]
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A newly formed Latin American and Caribbean organization has issued statements in support of Argentina’s claim to sovereignty over the British-ruled Falkland Islands and against U.S. sanctions on Cuba at the end of its first two-day summit. However, the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC, declined to engage in stronger anti-Western [...]
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In another setback for Latin America’s oldest guerrilla army, FARC rebel leader Guillermo Leon Saenz was killed in Colombia on Friday. According to Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, Saenz, who was better known by his battle moniker Alfonso Cano, was tracked down in the southern department of Cauca. He had already been on the run [...]
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Chilean airline LAN has avoided a lawsuit from local competitor PAL and reached an agreement that will allow LAN to proceed in their planned marriage with Brazilian airline TAM. The merger would create one of the largest airline groups in the world. LAN, one of the leading carriers of Latin America, announced Tuesday that [...]
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Another ten Colombian soldiers have been killed in a rebel ambush, this time in the eastern province of Arauca. It was the second such attack in two days. On Friday, a similar ambush left 10 soldiers dead in the southern province of Narino, close to Colombia’s border with Ecuador. The army blamed both attacks on [...]
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The Armed Forces of Ecuador are forming a special brigade to combat urban crime, according General Ernesto Gonzalez, chief of that country’s Joint Command. Gonzalez said that training is now underway for the troops, who will support the police but carry only short-barrel weapons. ”It’s not productive to use rifles on urban patrol”, he explained. [...]
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Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was acquitted along with 17 associates this week, on charges of violating arms embargoes on Ecuador and Croatia back in the 1990s. Menem, who is 81, was spared a possible eight years in prison by the two members of his three-judge panel who found him not guilty. The ex-president, who [...]
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During the inauguration in Montevideo, Uruguay of the XI International Conference of the Interpol Working Group on Technology Crime (including cybercrime) , the President of the Interpol Working Group Mr. Miguel Angel Justo (from Argentina) said that “the police of the countries of Latin America must bring their national legislation on tech crime to the conference, [...]
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