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 [...]
2011 Dec 13 | Posted in
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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 [...]
2011 Nov 28 | Posted in
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency added a second Predator B aircraft in Texas in October and will soon deploy another based in Arizona, bring total active drones on the Mexico border up to six by the end of the year. Since they were first deployed six years ago, the unmanned aircraft are credited [...]
2011 Nov 13 | Posted in
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The factory of German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch was raided on Thursday by some 300 German agents, on suspicion of bribery related to the sale of weapons to Mexico in 2005. Authorities in Stuttgart confirmed that the search, which included the homes of some employees, was for evidence of bribes paid to Mexican officials [...]
2011 Nov 11 | Posted in
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Amnesty International released a highly critical report on Tuesday, saying the national police force kills and tortures with impunity in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican national police were responsible for 15 percent of violent deaths recorded annually in the Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2010, according to the report. The London-based human rights group said [...]
2011 Oct 27 | Posted in
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Times are changing for many islands across the Caribbean, where escalating arms races between criminal gangs are turning previously peaceful neighborhoods into free-fire zones. The two-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, with a population of 50,000 people, has tallied 31 homicides already in 2011, marking their deadliest year on record. Gangs with names like [...]
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Governors along the U.S.-Mexico border agreed on Thursday to study the possibility of shared databases to exchange suspect DNA and other biometric data in order to curb the flow of guns and drugs between the two countries. The agreement was announced at the end of an annual conference of regional leaders from both sides of [...]
2011 Oct 01 | Posted in
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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. [...]
2011 Sep 18 | Posted in
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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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70% of light weapons in the world are in civilian hands, according to a report by the organization “Small Arms Survey,” which warns of the difficulty of having a reliable control over the sale and use of such weapons. The report says: 1) in the world there are 926 million light weapons, 2) of which [...]
