Guatemalan authorities have begun to see disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and another of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America — a deal that could set back U.S.-backed efforts to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in Central America. Jailhouse recordings and a turncoat kidnapper describe a pact between leaders of the Maras [...]
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The government of Guatemala has formed a new military unit with financial and technical support from the United States to fight drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean and the San Marcos region bordering Mexico, an official source announced yesterday. Guatemalan Defense Minister Ulysses Anzueto told reporters that Military Task Force Tecun Uman aims to prevent the entry of [...]
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And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]
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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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New Big Brother story. A new CCTV camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of archived camera footage instantly, and find any face which has ever walked past it. The camera ‘processes’ faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly as a [...]
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Sturm Ruger & Co.’s recent announcement that it would freeze orders until it eliminates a huge backlog is the latest indicator that business is great for the U.S. firearms industry. Late Wednesday, Sturm Ruger announced that it had received orders for more than 1 million units during the first quarter of the year. And despite “efforts to increase [...]
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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The Brazilian navy has detected a thin oil slick, stretching for about a mile, in the same offshore field where U.S. oil company Chevron had a minor spill in November. Navy officials reported the spot on Friday after a surveillance flight off the Atlantic coast of Brazil, according to a statement issued late on Friday. The Navy, oil industry regulator ANP [...]
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 [...]
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday defended Bolivians’ right to chew coca leaves, the main precursor for cocaine, claiming it as an ancient tradition while insisting that his country is fighting drug trafficking. Holding up a coca leaf to make his point at a United Nations anti-drug meeting in Vienna, Morales, a former coca leaf farmer, said that [...]
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