The government of Guatemala has formed a new military unit with financial and technical support from the United States to fight drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean and the San Marcos region bordering Mexico, an official source announced yesterday. Guatemalan Defense Minister Ulysses Anzueto told reporters that Military Task Force Tecun Uman aims to prevent the entry of [...]
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And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]
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A former US Lieutenant and an active duty Sergeant have been arrested with four other men in Laredo, Texas, for drug trafficking and an alleged murder-for-hire plot, according to federal officials. The arrests followed a federal sting operation in which the suspects allegedy planned to purchase weapons for drug cartel members in return for money and drugs. Kevin Corley, 29, and Samuel Walker, 28, [...]
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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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Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday defended Bolivians’ right to chew coca leaves, the main precursor for cocaine, claiming it as an ancient tradition while insisting that his country is fighting drug trafficking. Holding up a coca leaf to make his point at a United Nations anti-drug meeting in Vienna, Morales, a former coca leaf farmer, said that [...]
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In an early Saturday raid at two prisons in the Mexican city of Morelia, the Michoacan Ministry of Public Security seized drugs, weapons, alcohol and a wide variety of household appliances including plasma screen televisions. At a press conference, the head of the agency said that items confiscated at Mil Cumbres prison included an M1 rifle with seven rounds of ammunition, a Colt [...]
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Colombia on Friday extradited another guerrilla to the United States, on charges of holding three kidnapped Americans in the jungle for over 5 years until they were rescued in 2008. Alexander Beltrán Herrera, known as ”Pirinolo”, is the latest rebel from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) extradited to the U.S., that nation’s main ally in the fight against drug [...]
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The following is stated in the investigation made by the Norwegian Narcotics Governmental Committee which members, more than 100 consultative bodies, has made a public statement in late February. The picture that emerges is the following: 1) the drug situation in Norway is improving, 2) law enforcement efforts should be reinforced, 3) amicable measures for [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday began a tour of Latin America under intense pressure from business and political leaders to speak on a topic that no U.S. official wants to address: the decriminalization of drugs. The presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico, suffering the consequences of a failing drug war, [...]
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