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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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”. [...]
The Cartel Alliance between “Sinaloa” and ”La Familia” is strongly anchored in five states of the mexican Pacific Coast. The recent death of druglord Nacho Coronel consolidated the leadership of “Chapo” Guzman within the Sinaloa Cartel and its alliance with “La Familia”. The mexican authorities believe that these groups control now the inputs of materials for [...]
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Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in Saturday as Colombia’s new president, vowing to unify his country around the goals of prosperity for all and of thwarting the nation’s leftist rebels.
“It is possible to have a peaceful Colombia, a Colombia with no guerrillas, and we will prove that by reason or by force,” Santos said in [...]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has warned that drug gangs are seeking to replace the state and impose their own law in parts of the country.
The traffickers were intimidating and extorting communities, he said.
But Mr Calderon, speaking at the end of a three-day anti-crime conference, said the fight against gangs must continue despite rising violence.
More than [...]
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President Alvaro Uribe may go down as one of Colombia’s greatest presidents, with his policies for tackling guerrillas and drug-traffickers now a permanent fixture in the country.
“We were on the point of being a failed state,” said Maria Victoria Llorente of the think tank Fundacion Ideas para La Paz.
“There was only one item on the political [...]
The Brazilian Federal Senate this week approved the Bill in order to grant police power to the Army, Navy and Air Force in the border regions, specially with Ciudad del Este and the Three Border Region. The project was approved without any legislative change also in the Chamber of Deputies.
After being signed by the President [...]
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The United States threw its support behind key ally Colombia Friday in a row with Venezuela that has seen the South American neighbors break ties amid escalating military tensions.
Colombia’s allegations that Venezuela was harboring 1,500 Colombian rebels in camps on its territory — the trigger for the dispute — “need to be taken very seriously,” [...]
