In another setback for Latin America’s oldest guerrilla army, FARC rebel leader Guillermo Leon Saenz was killed in Colombia on Friday. According to Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, Saenz, who was better known by his battle moniker Alfonso Cano, was tracked down in the southern department of Cauca. He had already been on the run [...]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon this week accused the United States of dumping criminals at the border to avoid the cost of prosecuting them, and claimed the practice has increased violence in Mexico’s border region. US officials have reported a record number of deportations in fiscal year 2011, and said the number deported with criminal convictions [...]
After nearly four years and 40,000 dead, Mexican president Felipe Calderón’s offensive against the five major drug cartels in his country has left two of them dominating the market. While other organizations have been hampered or fragmented by the arrest or killing of their leaders, the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel have taken advantage of [...]
Christoper “Dudus” Coke has pleaded guilty to trafficking three tons of marijuana and 30 lbs of cocaine into the US, as well as ordering the stabbing of a New York drug dealer. Coke, 42, told a judge in New York: “I’m pleading guilty because I am.” He said: “I also ordered the purchase of firearms [...]
The U.S. television network Univision claims to have access to Bolivian intelligence reports. In Univision´s report, released Thursday, the network linked the former commander of the Bolivian Police General Oscar Nina with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera , known as “Chapo” (Shorty). The Police Commander Nina allegedly provided protection when Chapo [...]
Mexico’s network of drug cartels is nebulous and complex, with organizations merging, splintering and shifting alliances in their quest to control drug-trafficking routes. Below is a rough overview of some of the major groups involved in the country’s drug trade, although there are numerous other affiliate groups and smaller players. READ MORE HERE
Panama and El Salvador agreed in sharing a security strategy that involves all countries in the region to tackle organized crime, reported the Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez after a meeting in Panama City. “What we’ve decided is a regional strategy against organized crime , that respects no borders and, therefore, the answer has to [...]
Mexican authorities said Friday they have arrested a suspected gang leader thought to be directly responsible for 600 murders. Mexico City – “He has admitted to taking part personally in 300 executions, and ordering another 300,” Alfredo Castillo, the prosecutor for the state of Mexico, told reporters in a news conference. Oscar Garcia Montoya, 36, [...]
Police in Colombia have arrested Dolly Cifuentes Villa in a wealthy neighbourhood of Medellin. Police say she laundered money for the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. Head of the Colombian police Gen Oscar Naranjo said Ms Cifuentes, 47, was “a high-ranking link between Colombian and Mexican drug dealers”. According to the US DEA, which took [...]
MEXICO CITY – Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, a former mexican police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror along the U.S.-mexican border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said Sunday. Acosta is also a suspect in last year’s slaying of a U.S. consulate employee near a border crossing [...]
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