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COLOMBIA
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7 DEC 2010
Officials of the Colombian Administrative Department of Security (DAS) discovered six fire extinguishers packed with 18.7 kilos of explosive material…
BELTRAN LEYVA ORG
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6 DEC 2010
A U.S. government cable, reprinted in full here, from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico and various Washington government…
SINALOA CARTEL
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6 DEC 2010
Sandra Avila Beltrán, better known to the Mexican media as the "Queen of the Pacific," and her love interest, Colombian…
CARIBBEAN
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6 DEC 2010
Dominican authorities yesterday seized a plane carrying a shipment of drugs en route to Puerto Rico and arrested the two…
BOLIVIA
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6 DEC 2010
Bolivian government spokesperson, Sacha Llorenti, announced yesterday that Peru, Bolivia and Brazil all plan to hold a meeting to coordinate…
MEXICO
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6 DEC 2010
In a demonstration of the truly global spread of organized crime, Mexican officials arrested a group of drug traffickers that…
MS13
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3 DEC 2010
From the introduction of the article by John P. Sullivan and Samuel Logan, published in 'The Counter Terrorist,' a magazine…
ZETAS
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3 DEC 2010
From the introduction of the article, by John P. Sullivan and Samuel Logan, published in "The Counter Terrorist," a magazine…
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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3 DEC 2010
Mexican Federal Police arrested Eduardo Ramírez Valencia, alias 'El Profe,' an alleged operator of the Zetas crime syndicate in the…
ARGENTINA
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3 DEC 2010
A U.S. Embassy cable sent from Buenos Aires last year claims that Argentina is being flooded with drug money due…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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3 DEC 2010
In a move that many analysts see as potentially destabilizing for the region, Venezuela will begin to manufacture Kalashnikov rifles…
ARGENTINA
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3 DEC 2010
Argentina has become a hub for human traffickers in the region, with over 700 women from all over the world…
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