As recently reported in the New York Times, Honduras is the newest front in America’s drug war. Recent anti-narcotics operations in Mexico have forced over 90 percent of US-bound cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela through Central America. Over 30% of it passes through Honduras, which as a result now has one of the highest homicide rates on the planet. The [...]
2012 May 09 | Posted in
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Jaime Alberto Marín Zamora, a Colombian cocaine kingpin, has been sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to US drug trafficking charges. A judge in Miami imposed the sentence today on the 47-year-old, a former leader of Colombia’s North Valley cartel. He had faced up to 24 years, but prosecutors [...]
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A Colombian army attack against a FARC camp has left 33 guerrillas dead in an oil region bordering Venezuela, the sharpest blow struck by security forces against the rebel group in the last year, that government said Wednesday. The offensive against a column of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) took place in the northeast department of Arauca, the same [...]
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Venezuela announced Saturday the arrest of 11 police officers suspected in the death of the Chilean consul’s daughter in western Zulia state, in yet another black eye for the crime-plagued country. Karen Berendique, 19, died in a confusing incident on Friday night after officers allegedly opened fire on a vehicle driven by her brother in the capital of Zulia, Maracaibo. “The prosecution will present charges in [...]
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is sending fuel to Syria, a move that could undermine the impact of international sanctions against Damascus and prop up a government engaged in bloody clashes with civilian demonstrators. A shipment of low-sulfur diesel on board the tanker Black Hippolyta, Venezuelan flagged and operated by a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela [...]
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Thursday intensified his insults against the united opposition candidate, referring to him as a “mediocre pig” with no chance of beating him in the October elections. After an unusual silence following the opposition primaries held on Sunday, in the last two days Chavez resumed his marathon speeches. On Wednesday he [...]
A fugitive Colombian paramilitary leader accused of dozens of crimes and drug trafficking has been captured in Venezuela according to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, in a fresh sign of cooperation from Caracas. The capture of Hector Buitrago Germain, alias “Martín Llanos”, and his brother Orlando Nelson, aka “Horse”, took place this weekend in the [...]
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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to nationalize any private bank that fails to comply with local legislation setting standards for agricultural finance and other projects in the country. The leftist leader, who since 2008 has increased state involvement in the financial sector, has criticized banks repeatedly for their lack of support with agriculture [...]
“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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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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