FARC guerrillas on Wednesday postponed releasing six Colombian soldiers held for over a decade, claiming that the area where the prisoners were to be freed has been occupied by government troops. “The area we had chosen for the release of prisoners of war captured in battle has been unfairly militarized by the Government of Colombia, [...]
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 [...]
Colombia’s government today praised U.S. support for strengthening systems of technical (Sigint) and human intelligence (Humint) in the fight against illegal organizations like FARC operating in this South American country. “With the support of the U.S. government we are strengthening our systems of technical and human intelligence,” said Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, through a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mexican officials report that almost 13,000 people were killed in violence blamed on drug cartels between January and September of 2011. That would bring the death toll to 47,515 since President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive against drug traffickers at the end of 2006. Officials claimed the 11% rise in murders was slower than in [...]
Peru’s government on Tuesday replaced top anti-narcotics official Ricardo Soberon after just five months in office, for his refusal to support coca crop eradication efforts. Soberon caused provoked controversy in August by temporarily halting elimination of Peru’s coca crop, the world’s second largest after Colombia’s. That move prompted complaints from U.S. Ambassador Rose [...]
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday rejected the possibility of reopening peace talks with that country’s FARC leftist rebels, until the group takes concrete steps towards ending 50 years of combat. His reaction came one day after FARC leader Rodrigo “Timochenko” Londoño suggested terms for resuming negotiations, which were frozen a decade ago. Those [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this week appointed a new defense minister, described by the United States as a “drug kingpin” involved in cocaine smuggling from next-door Colombia. “This good soldier, this humble soldier … this fighter for the people, today I publicly designate him as the new defense minister of the Republic,” Chavez announced while [...]
Police in Mexico have arrested an alleged member of the Zetas drug cartel for masterminding a casino fire that killed 52 people in the northern city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday. Jorge Domene, security agency spokesman for Nuevo Leon state, said Baltazar Saucedo Estrada is the lead hitman who was sought on a US$1,000,000 reward [...]
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