Peru’s government said Wednesday it is investigating an alleged Chilean spy arrested in the vicinity of a military airbase in the north, in a case that could cast a shadow over relations between Lima and Santiago. Defense Minister Alberto Otárola, said when Luis Maximiliano Seraín was arrested he had in his possession a CD, a [...]
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FARC guerrillas on Wednesday postponed releasing six Colombian soldiers held for over a decade, claiming that the area where the prisoners were to be freed has been occupied by government troops. “The area we had chosen for the release of prisoners of war captured in battle has been unfairly militarized by the Government of Colombia, [...]
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The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa has promised an extensive probe into what happened to a Canadian woman hospitalized after she was badly beaten at a posh Mexico resort. Sheila Nabb, 37, was vacationing with her husband Andrew, at the all-inclusive Hotel Riu Emerald Bay resort last week when she was found inside [...]
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Air operations in a wide region of southwestern Colombia were delayed on Saturday following an attack by FARC guerrillas against a radar antenna system key to commercial aviation, said that nation’s Civil Aviation authority. One policeman was killed in the attack by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) launched on Friday night above [...]
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FARC guerrillas are “the only ones responsible” for the death of four hostages found shot this weekend after a firefight with government troops trying to free them, according to Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. “This is an atrocious crime which merits the condemnation of all Colombians as well as the international community”, he said during [...]
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Specially in Somalia´s waters, pirates are increasingly turning to kidnapping and hostage-taking to generate funding to purchase weapons and continue operations. As a comment to a recent statement of the United Nations, the Assistant Secretary Andrew Shapiro at the State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said that there has been a decline of piracy attacks [...]
Times are changing for many islands across the Caribbean, where escalating arms races between criminal gangs are turning previously peaceful neighborhoods into free-fire zones. The two-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, with a population of 50,000 people, has tallied 31 homicides already in 2011, marking their deadliest year on record. Gangs with names like [...]
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Honduran authorities believe that Friday’s massacre of six people at San Pedro Sula’s international airport was the result of a turf war between organized criminal gangs. “This was a battle between two delinquent factions”, said Security Secretary Pompeyo Bonilla. He denied that it had anything to do with the recent deaths of nine prisoners in [...]
Mexico’s General Prosecutor’s Office for Morelos is warning against criminal groups specializing in robbery and “express kidnapping”, operating both inside and outside of Cuernavaca nightclubs. Ministerial Police coordinator Jose Robles Quintana said that bands are most active on weekends on Playa de Ayala and Teopanzolco Avenues, targeting youngsters, tourists and people with luxury vehicles. “Early [...]
This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a) Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas in Thessaloniki, Greece b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]
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