The new Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, is vowing to step up his predecessor’s military crackdown against leftist rebels, following an attack this week that left 14 police officers dead.
President Santos met Friday with top generals in the southern state of Caqueta, where the officers were killed in a roadside bomb [...]
Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation’s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.
The abductors, who were not apprehended in Tuesday night’s rescue, were seeking between $8,000 and $10,000 from [...]
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The use of unmmaned aircraft -drones- and smaller aerial devices (as used in Afganistán) could be the future for the protection of any american country´s territorial waters and borders, without bigger expenses in border personnel.
Tomorrow the Department of Homeland Security will be expanding their use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) along [...]
Federal police in Mexico today said they had captured an alleged drug gang kingpin who faces drug-trafficking charges in the US and has been blamed for a vicious turf war in central Mexico.
The announcement came just hours after the government revealed that almost 10% of the federal police force had been fired this [...]
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Bolivia and Brazil reinforced their fight against drug trafficking with a five-day joint-training drill, using mainly air force surveillance, according to a Saturday statement by the Bolivian air force and a report of the castrist news agency Prensa Latina.
According to the source, the maneuvers, dubbed “First Operational Exercise BOLBRA I,” focused on [...]
President Hugo Chavez’s allies launched their campaigns Wednesday for crucial congressional elections that come just as recession, crime and inflation have pushed the socialist leader’s popularity to a seven-year low.
A survey by Venezuelan polling firm Consultores 21 found that just 36 percent of Venezuelans approve of Chavez’s performance, the lowest [...]
A Mexican drug cartel massacred 72 Central and South American migrants within 100 miles of the U.S. border that they were trying to reach, according to an Ecuadorian survivor who escaped and stumbled wounded to a highway checkpoint where he alerted marines, official said Wednesday.
The marines fought the cartel gunmen [...]
Chavez want to give political credibility to FARC.
Before the last summit of the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez proposed to country members of Unasur the “need for peace in Colombia after decades of violence, and for this a political negotiation with the guerrillas is essential”. [...]
This week, California became the first state to be provided with resources to deploy National Guard troops to its southern border with Mexico. The move is a part of a promise from the Obama administration to secure the border. Gov. Schwarzenegger said he was proud to be the first state to [...]
PANAMA CITY — Military commanders and troops from 18 countries including the United States mounted extensive naval exercises focused on defending the Panama Canal against terrorist activity that could threaten maritime traffic, says a security report of the news agency UPI.
In what defense industry analysts saw as a potential major opportunity to showcase the latest [...]
