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 [...]
The Uruguayan Justice ordered the prosecution of four officers of the Navy, including the former Supreme Navy Admiral Commander Juan Fernandez Maggio, accused of doing fraud.
The former commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral (r) Juan Fernandez Maggio, was prosecuted with prison as coauthor of “an ongoing crime of fraud” for [...]
A judge in Peru granted freedom to a drug dealer and then went to drink beer with him in a bar in the northeastern city of Chachapoyas, where he was caught “in fraganti” by judicial authorities, according to a video released Wednesday in Lima.
Judge Edgar Víctor Quispe Gomez, criminal judge of Chachapoyas, about 790 kilometers north of [...]
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In a recent visit to the region, the Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton stated that “the U.S. is committed to citizen safety in Central America…We are doing everything we can in the fight against corruption and impunity, in providing the equipment and the support that law enforcement and the military require, and helping to [...]
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This year, the number of dead people involved with organized crime in Mexico are 7048 , and a total of 24 826 killings since the mexican President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006, reported yesterday the Attorney General of Mexico Mr. Arturo Chávez. The figures, which are based on the count of the national security cabinet up [...]
Mauricio Funes, president of El Salvador, declared war on the gang “los Maras”. This week the Maras showed its most savage face, while they put in fire a city bus killing 16 passengers (burnt).
Given the endemic violence plaguing the central american country, the government has decided to deploy 1,500 troops to monitor the most dangerous [...]
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Lima.- Transparency in political parties financing, multilateral cooperation to follow corrupt actions and an increased participation of the business sector are some necessary tools to fight corruption in the region, said Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) José Miguel Insulza.
“Corruption is in one of the first positions in [...]
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Panama City .- The United States will promote an international conference for fundraising in order to strengthen the fight against organized crime, drug trafficking and gangs in Central America, announced Friday in Panama Undersecretary of State for Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela .
“We are seeing how to make an international conference [...]
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The former ambassador of Argentina in Caracas Eduardo Sadous ,denounced in court that his country’s businessmen who wanted to do business with Venezuela were allegedly compelled to pay up to 20 percent in bribes to the argentinian authorities.
The diplomat said in its complaint that a group of Argentine businessmen told him they were asked for bribes [...]
One of the three public hearings held this week in Lima by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights discussed the responsibility of the Paraguayan state for violations of the right of indigenous communities to collective ownership of their land.
Paraguay is the Latin American country facing the largest number of complaints in the Inter-American Court regarding [...]
