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7 JAN 2011
Ecuador dismantled 125 camps belonging to guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during 2010, cementing the…
HONDURAS
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7 JAN 2011
At least eight people died and four were wounded in eastern Honduras in an apparent revenge killing Thursday. The killings…
GUATEMALA
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6 JAN 2011
Published by the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, December 2010.
6 JAN 2011
In this comprehensive study published in November 2010, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Washington…
ECUADOR
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6 JAN 2011
Police arrested a leader of the hemisphere's most powerful criminal syndicate, the Sinaloa Cartel, who ran an armed cell based…
COLOMBIA
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6 JAN 2011
Another bomb, the third in a week, exploded outside the offices of a wealthy rancher in the city of Neiva…
JUAREZ CARTEL
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6 JAN 2011
The Attorney General's Office is now offering rewards from 10 to 15 million pesos (about US$822,000 and $1.2 million) for…
GUATEMALA
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6 JAN 2011
On December 19, the government of Guatemala declared a state of siege in the central province of Alta Verapaz,…
GULF CARTEL
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6 JAN 2011
Gun battles have rocked Nuevo Leon during the first week of the new year. The border state is being contested…
HOMICIDES
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5 JAN 2011
Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the Mexican drug war and the strategic crossing point for illegal narcotics entering the…
BRAZIL
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5 JAN 2011
A Colombian drug trafficker told Brazilian police of a plan to kidnap former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's son.
COLOMBIA
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5 JAN 2011
In a two-month operation with Interpol, Colombian police rescued 10,000 animals as part of an offensive against eco traffickers in…
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