A former US Lieutenant and an active duty Sergeant have been arrested with four other men in Laredo, Texas, for drug trafficking and an alleged murder-for-hire plot, according to federal officials. The arrests followed a federal sting operation in which the suspects allegedy planned to purchase weapons for drug cartel members in return for money and drugs. Kevin Corley, 29, and Samuel Walker, 28, [...]
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A Colombian army attack against a FARC camp has left 33 guerrillas dead in an oil region bordering Venezuela, the sharpest blow struck by security forces against the rebel group in the last year, that government said Wednesday. The offensive against a column of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) took place in the northeast department of Arauca, the same [...]
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Britain denounced Argentina for intimidation against the people of the Falkland Islands on Friday, after Buenos Aires announced legal action against companies conducting oil exploration in the disputed South Atlantic protectorate. Tensions between the two countries have increased approaching the thirtieth anniversary of the Argentine invasion in the Falklands, a conflict that killed 650 Argentines and 255 British soldiers. The dispute has been revived by the discovery of [...]
A Guatemalan court on Monday sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison for participating in a 1982 slaughter where 201 people were killed. Pedro Pimentel, 55, was deported last year from Los Angeles to Guatemala to face charges of murder and crimes against humanity. He is the fifth soldier to be sentenced for [...]
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Colombia on Friday extradited another guerrilla to the United States, on charges of holding three kidnapped Americans in the jungle for over 5 years until they were rescued in 2008. Alexander Beltrán Herrera, known as ”Pirinolo”, is the latest rebel from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) extradited to the U.S., that nation’s main ally in the fight against drug [...]
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The following is stated in the investigation made by the Norwegian Narcotics Governmental Committee which members, more than 100 consultative bodies, has made a public statement in late February. The picture that emerges is the following: 1) the drug situation in Norway is improving, 2) law enforcement efforts should be reinforced, 3) amicable measures for [...]
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A pitched gun battle was fought across the Rio Grande river this week between U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican drug traffickers, authorities announced on Friday. The U.S. Border Patrol said gunfire broke out on Wednesday when agents confronted a band of smugglers loading marijuana bales into two vehicles on the banks of the Rio [...]
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The State of Texas on Thursday unveiled the second of six new ‘interceptor’ gunboats, similar to the Navy swift boats deployed on rivers during the Vietnam War, to patrol the US/Mexico border. The Texas Department of Public Safety announced the 34-foot shallow water craft would be deployed on the Rio Grande and the Intercoastal Waterway, [...]
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Peru is interested in buying 10 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to patrol its Amazon borders, the Brazilian Minister of Defense said Tuesday, opening a new market for Brazilian manufacturer Embraer in Latin America. The announcement was made by Defense Minister Celso Amorim in Brasilia after meeting with Peruvian counterpart Alberto Otarola to discuss the [...]
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Recent diplomatic tension between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands may affect growing bilateral trade which last year totaled 1.4 billion dollars, a new report indicates. Among Argentina’s 10 export markets under stress, the most significant is that of Great Britain, destination for 7.5 percent of Argentine sales to the European Union, says a [...]
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