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General Luis Muguruza, the police chief who commanded the bloodiest police operation of Alan Garcia's presidency, has been named to a government human rights commission. The appointment comes just...
Five people were killed and twenty-nine hurt today in a standoff between 1,200 police and about 3,800 miners who had blockaded a busy section of the Pan-American Highway in protest of new regulatio...
February 12. Governor of Brasilia, Jose Roberto Arruda, surrendered to police after the Brazilian Supreme Court voted 12-2 in issuing a warrant for his arrest. Arruda is accused of accepting bribe...
From the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/16/world/AP-LT-Drug-War-Costa-Rica.html?scp=2&sq=costa%20rica&st=cse "Costa Rican President-Elect to Fight Drug Cartels" President-...
http://www.hondurasnews.com/2010/04/24/fake-nurse-kills-patient-in-san-pedro-hospital/ This happened in Pedro de Sula, where there has been 3 murders of journalists in the past month. This article...
UPDATE: Apparently, 4,000 kg of cocaine hydrochloride is worth more than $320 million in the U.S. market. The articles were unclear as to whether it was four tonnes of pure cocaine or four tonnes T...
Several shootings between police officers and drug cartel members in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico resulted in many dead and wounded, and also forced the US consular office to close in the fac...
Feb. 7 A Brazilian landowner convicted of murdering nun and American national Dorothy Stang in 2007 was recently apprehended. Stang had lived in the Amazonas region of Brazil for thirty years cam...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/11/AR2010041102099.html There is a turf war in Honduras over the territories of the drug traffickers. 9 were killed in a bloody attack...
From InsideCostaRica.com March 12 http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/april/12/costarica10041201.htm "Costa Rica Frees 36 Asians From 'Modern Slavery' " On Sunday, March 10th, Costa Ri...
Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori gave away his daughter Saturday in a small wedding ceremony at the chapel of the Peruvian police's Special Operations Directorate headquaters. The ex-presi...
