Category archives for: Mutual Legal Assistance

Colombia and Peru team up against organized crime

The Americas Post - This bridge is covered, but what about the other 1,600 kilometers?

Colombia and Peru have agreed upon a plan to combat criminal organizations on their common border, the defense ministers of the two countries announced to the press after a Wednesday meeting in Bogota. “Colombia and Peru have decided to aggressively confront organized crime which respects no borders, such as drug trafficking and illegal logging and [...]

Peruvian anti-narcotics chief fired

The Americas Post - Ricardo Soberon won't call the shots in Peru's drug war any more.  Photo Credit:  ANDINA

  Peru’s government on Tuesday replaced top anti-narcotics official Ricardo Soberon after just five months in office, for his refusal to support coca crop eradication efforts.   Soberon caused provoked controversy in August by temporarily halting  elimination of Peru’s coca crop, the world’s second largest after Colombia’s. That move prompted complaints from U.S. Ambassador Rose [...]

More Mexican drug smugglers going to sea

The Americas Post - It doesn't look like much, but this boat carried over a ton of marijuana

Federal authorities captured a Mexican motorboat with over a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles early Wednesday,  arresting 10 suspects in the latest of a growing number of West Coast maritime smuggling attempts. U.S. Border Patrol agents found the 27-foot craft packed with numerous bales of marijuana on the coast of Ventura County shortly before dawn, according to [...]

US loaned surveillance plane for Jamaica raid

The Americas Post  -  Plane?  What plane?  Oh, you mean THAT plane...

An American military aircraft helped monitor the deadly 2010 raid by Jamaican security forces to capture a fugitive crime boss, that country’s prime minister has admitted, in spite of earlier denials by his government. The U.S. P-3 Orion provided aerial surveillance of the operation to arrest Christopher “Dudus” Coke, Prime Minister Andrew Holness told reporters [...]

Gadhafi son planned escape to Mexico

The Americas Post - Al-Saadi Gadhafi was headed Al Puerto Vallarta.  Photo Credit:  AP

Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]

U.S.- Paraguay: Ciudad del Este is a center for international illegal activities.

Paraguay and the United States have good relations, cooperating extensively on counternarcotics and counterterrorism efforts. The United States strongly supports the consolidation of Paraguay’s democracy and continued economic reforms. Following the April 2008 election, then-U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay James Cason congratulated Lugo and the APC on their victory and expressed a commitment to work with them to [...]

Another Mexican drug lord captured

The Americas Post -  We've been seeing more group pictures like this lately.  Photo Credit:  AP

Mexican soldiers have arrested Ovidio Limon Sanchez, a top lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel and one of the DEA’s highest profile targets. Captured in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state on Mexico’s Pacific coast, Limon Sanchez was described by that country’s Defense Ministry as being on the ten most-wanted list and “one of the most [...]

U.S. accused of dumping criminals into Mexico

The Americas Post - Calderon doesn't want so many crooks back

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mexico signed extradition agreement with Italy and antimafia collaboration.

Mexico City.- Marisela Morales Ibáñez , attorney general of Mexico,  signed an extradition treaty with Italy and a Treaty on Criminal Legal Assistance to fight against organized crime. The mexican Attorney Gral also held a meeting with the Italian Anti Mafia Director Mr. Piero Grasso.  Both parts will collaborate in technical asssistance on Organized Crime, [...]

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