Colombia’s government today praised U.S. support for strengthening systems of technical (Sigint) and human intelligence (Humint) in the fight against illegal organizations like FARC operating in this South American country. “With the support of the U.S. government we are strengthening our systems of technical and human intelligence,” said Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, through a [...]
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Police in Mexico have arrested an alleged member of the Zetas drug cartel for masterminding a casino fire that killed 52 people in the northern city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday. Jorge Domene, security agency spokesman for Nuevo Leon state, said Baltazar Saucedo Estrada is the lead hitman who was sought on a US$1,000,000 reward [...]
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Federal authorities captured a Mexican motorboat with over a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles early Wednesday, arresting 10 suspects in the latest of a growing number of West Coast maritime smuggling attempts. U.S. Border Patrol agents found the 27-foot craft packed with numerous bales of marijuana on the coast of Ventura County shortly before dawn, according to [...]
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Former drug capo Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty this week to federal racketeering and money-laundering conspiracy charges, putting an end to a long case against Mexico’s formerly most powerful organized crime group. Arellano Felix, 58, the former leader of the Arellano Felix drug cartel, converted Tijuana into a major trafficking route to the U.S. during a [...]
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An American military aircraft helped monitor the deadly 2010 raid by Jamaican security forces to capture a fugitive crime boss, that country’s prime minister has admitted, in spite of earlier denials by his government. The U.S. P-3 Orion provided aerial surveillance of the operation to arrest Christopher “Dudus” Coke, Prime Minister Andrew Holness told reporters [...]
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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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Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon admitted on Sunday that in spite of combating drug cartels for five years, criminals today pose “an open threat” to Mexico’s democratic society. In a speech marking the start of his sixth and last year in the presidency, Calderon said that interference in elections by drug gangs “is a new fact, a worrisome fact.” [...]
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Paraguay and the United States have good relations, cooperating extensively on counternarcotics and counterterrorism efforts. The United States strongly supports the consolidation of Paraguay’s democracy and continued economic reforms. Following the April 2008 election, then-U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay James Cason congratulated Lugo and the APC on their victory and expressed a commitment to work with them to [...]
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Under a new pilot program, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the entry process for air cargo is designed to reduce the number of customs holds that delay air cargo and help give shippers a better idea of when they can take possession of their goods Already starting in December, importers or brokers of air [...]
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