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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According to former Uruguayan President Luis A. Lacalle de Herrera, a necessary overhaul of that nation’s security policy would entail proper enforcement and adaptation of its laws, prosecution for minor violations, streamlining the judicial process, improving prisons and establishing standards of accountability for juveniles. In an exclusive interview with the three online publications (*) of [...]
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Thousands of state police in Rio de Janeiro returned to work on Tuesday after a two-week strike that unleashed a wave of violent crime, disrupted preparations for carnival and raised concerns about safety for the 2014 World Cup. The police, who demand better pay, ended the strike late Monday to calm fears that the protest [...]
Brazilian soldiers on Monday laid siege to hundreds of striking military police in Salvador, trying to quell a protest that has triggered violence in a World Cup 2014 venue and damaged the country’s international image. Bahia State authorities accused the striking police of being behind some of the 94 homicides recorded since the start of [...]
Police in northern Mexico have captured a suspected member of the Zetas drug cartel, who confessed to killing at least 75 people, authorities announced Monday. Enrique Elizondo Flores admitted to investigators that 36 of his victims were bus passengers traveling through the town of Cerralvo, near the Texas border, according to Nuevo Leon state security [...]
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Brazilian prosecutors are planning to file criminal charges against Chevron Corp within the next several weeks, adding the possibility of prison time to an $11 billion civil lawsuit for a November oil spill offshore. The federal court filing in Campos, Brazil, will probably include a criminal indictment of Chevron Brazil CEO George Buck and other staff, [...]
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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 [...]
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Mexican security forces killed a top aide to the country’s most wanted drug trafficker in a raid in a mountainous area of northern Mexico, defense officials said Monday. Luis Alberto Cabrera Sarabia, alias “The Architect,” was killed Friday during an air and ground operation in Canatlan, Durango state. The action began with a firefight at [...]
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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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According to official figures released by the Mexican government this week, helicopters belonging to that nation’s police and military have been subjected to a minimum of 28 gunfire attacks in the five years since the government launched its campaign against drug cartels. The attacks demonstrate the increasing firepower of Mexican drug gangs, but may [...]
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