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Judge Baltasar Garzón called for citizens responsibility in security policies.

During a lecture under the XXIX Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights which concluded on August 19th at the American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica, the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón said that governments foster instability among citizens when politicians elaborate security policies without consulting the people. Garzón  called upon the american states to include [...]

Colombian Coast Guard intl course to combat drug trafficking at sea, U.S. Homeland and 13 countries attended.

Recently , the Colombian Coast Guard opened a course to 20 naval officers from 13 countries across the Americas, including U.S. Homeland Security.  The United States Coast Guard USCG sends two fluent Spanish-speaking junior officers to the course each year. The objective of the course was to enable joint strategies for combating the increasing threat [...]

Uruguay: survey shows majority of teenagers want to be drug dealers.

Montevideo, Uruguay.- Household surveys and high school students revealed that young children want to be drug dealers when the role model before for the teenagers was footballers, doctors, firefighters or police officers, informed high ranked officers of the Ministry of Interior in the  uruguayan Senate. “I recently took a survey that asked minors (below 18 [...]

Drones will fly Bolivia-Brazil border airspace to fight cocaine trafficking.

Starting in September, brazilian drones will start operating in the border airspace with Bolivia.  The goal is to fight against cocaine trafficking in Bolivia’s border with Brazil, Peru and Paraguay, as reported on Tuesday, July 5, by the deputy minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances from Bolivia, Philip Caceres. According to a report published [...]

Cocaine: Brazil, major “middleman” to Europe, and increasing drug consumer.

For decades, Brazil has been one of the countries through which the drugs produced in the Andean region are routed to major global markets, Europe and USA. The report released this week by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on cocaine and derivatives, shows that in addition to maintain and enhance that [...]

Central America will approve its Strategic Security Plan next June 23rd.

SAN SALVADOR – The Integration System of Central America (SICA) announced today that Central America has prepared its security plan that will be submitted next June 22nd in Guatemala to all countries and cooperating bodies of the region. The plan was completed in a meeting in San Salvador on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the participation [...]

U.S. Feds found corruption among U.S./Mexico border and customs agents. Cartels, specially Zetas, are responsible.

The drug cartels in Mexico have used cash and sexual “favors” as ways to bribe U.S. border and customs agents, an inspector general investigation has found. The corrupted agents allow/protect/escort contraband (allegedly drugs), traffickers or illegal immigrants through inspection lanes, and other crossing points. The bribed agents also -allegedly- leak sensitive information, said Charles Edwards, [...]

Criminal Identification News: “databank” with DNA samples and fingerprints from all prisoners, in Uruguay.

Uruguay seeks to create a genetic database with the DNA of all prison population. The proceeds will not be invasive, just mouth/buccal samples, or from neck, armpit or other body part. In that sense the Constitution and Law Committee of the Senate of Uruguay advances in the treatment of the draft bill to create DNA [...]

U2 Bono advocate to stop U.S. smuggled weaponry into Mexico.

Irish band U2 performed near the U.S. mexican border as part of their 360 Tour on May 11, 14, and 15 , as lead singer Bono met with President Felipe Calderon to discuss the nation’s growing drug-related violence and poverty. In their final concert on Sunday , lead singer Bono send a message to the [...]

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