Oswaldo Payá, an Cuban activist who spent decades trying to build a movement the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) that would pressure the government of Fidel Castro to allow more freedom and human rights, died Sunday in a car crash in Bayamo, a city some 750 kilometers (460 miles) east of Havana. He was 60. Paya [...]
A higher number of foreign spies are active on U.S. soil today than there were during the Cold War, according to a former top CIA officer. Hank Crumpton, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center who led the U.S. response to 9/11, told the CBS news documentary program “60 Minutes” that China is the largest [...]
Mexico’s congress approved a law Monday to recognize and protect the rights of crime victims, a longstanding demand in a country where more than 47,500 people have died in 5½ years of drug-related violence, and thousands more have disappeared. The law covers the dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing whether they are ordinary civilians or are [...]
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 [...]
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is sending fuel to Syria, a move that could undermine the impact of international sanctions against Damascus and prop up a government engaged in bloody clashes with civilian demonstrators. A shipment of low-sulfur diesel on board the tanker Black Hippolyta, Venezuelan flagged and operated by a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela [...]
A fugitive Colombian paramilitary leader accused of dozens of crimes and drug trafficking has been captured in Venezuela according to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, in a fresh sign of cooperation from Caracas. The capture of Hector Buitrago Germain, alias “Martín Llanos”, and his brother Orlando Nelson, aka “Horse”, took place this weekend in the [...]
Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes on Monday apologized for the massacre of 936 civilians in the town of El Mazote during a 1981 army counterinsurgency operation. He acknowledged the government’s responsibility for the killings and referred to the operation as “the largest massacre of civilians in the contemporary history of Latin America.” Government soldiers entered El Mazote on Dec. 11, [...]
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 [...]
Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
One of only two surviving leaders of the Shining Path guerrilla group has announced that his insurgents will halt attacks, and called for a truce to begin peace negotiations with the Peruvian government. Known by his war name of Comrade Artemio, Jose Flores Hala told journalists gathered in his jungle hideout Friday he “isn’t going [...]
Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.
EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats
Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.
Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.
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