The new Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, is vowing to step up his predecessor’s military crackdown against leftist rebels, following an attack this week that left 14 police officers dead.
President Santos met Friday with top generals in the southern state of Caqueta, where the officers were killed in a roadside bomb [...]
Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation’s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.
The abductors, who were not apprehended in Tuesday night’s rescue, were seeking between $8,000 and $10,000 from [...]
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Federal police in Mexico today said they had captured an alleged drug gang kingpin who faces drug-trafficking charges in the US and has been blamed for a vicious turf war in central Mexico.
The announcement came just hours after the government revealed that almost 10% of the federal police force had been fired this [...]
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Bolivia and Brazil reinforced their fight against drug trafficking with a five-day joint-training drill, using mainly air force surveillance, according to a Saturday statement by the Bolivian air force and a report of the castrist news agency Prensa Latina.
According to the source, the maneuvers, dubbed “First Operational Exercise BOLBRA I,” focused on [...]
MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon proposed sweeping new measures Thursday to crack down on the cash smuggling and money laundering that allow Mexican cartels to use billions in U.S. drug profits to enrich their criminal organizations.
Legislation introduced by the Calderon administration would make it illegal to buy real estate in cash.
The new laws [...]
A Mexican drug cartel massacred 72 Central and South American migrants within 100 miles of the U.S. border that they were trying to reach, according to an Ecuadorian survivor who escaped and stumbled wounded to a highway checkpoint where he alerted marines, official said Wednesday.
The marines fought the cartel gunmen [...]
Chavez want to give political credibility to FARC.
Before the last summit of the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez proposed to country members of Unasur the “need for peace in Colombia after decades of violence, and for this a political negotiation with the guerrillas is essential”. [...]
The six businessmen accused of involvement with drug trafficking in the north of Rio de Janeiro, were presented on Thursday by the Civil Police in the auditorium of the 5th SD (Central Police). The criminals were caught in Brasilia, Campo Grande (MS) and São Paulo during Operation Without Borders. According to investigations, the group financed the [...]
A high court in Colombia has voided an accord with the United States that would allow an increased U.S. presence on seven Colombian military bases. The ruling on Tuesday by the Constitutional Court declared the agreement signed by outgoing President Alvaro Uribe unconstitutional because it bypassed approval of the Congress.
The agreement was signed in October and [...]
Latin America’s drug war has long been a byword for ugliness: a macho, brutal world where grim-faced soldiers battled ruthless narco-traffickers in jungles and slums.
In such a world, Jessica Anne Jordan Burton cuts a somewhat incongruous figure. The 26-year-old British-born former model and beauty queen has become a controversial figurehead in Bolivia’s increasingly fraught campaign against [...]
