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A Colombian priest who carried cocaine in his stomach was arrested when he arrived at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) of the Russian Federation announced on January 30.
Under President Hugo Chávez, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has aligned itself politically with the Islamic Republic of Iran, among the world’s most conservative Muslim nations.
President Barack Obama enacted a law on December 28 to counter Iran’s alleged influence in Latin America, through a new diplomatic and political strategy to be designed by the State Department.
Potential investors, including Internet giant Google, were considering whether to proceed with a $1.5 billion undersea cable linking Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) to each other and the United States, a senior project official said. The 34,000-kilometer cable, which would be the first of its kind to link the BRICS group of emerging markets, is expected to…
Argentine Naval Prefecture (Coast Guard) captured two Chinese vessels that were fishing illegally in Argentine Atlantic waters, near Chubut province (south) on December 25, after the security force fired “intimidating shots,” the institution informed on December 26.
Uruguayan police disrupted a human trafficking network, whose victims were Chinese nationals. The victims were to be transported to Argentina through the Uruguay River, which borders both countries, and were probably destined to work in Buenos Aires, informed police sources on December 17.
Early Sunday morning, Guatemalan anti-drug authorities seized a shipment of 18,800 kg of chemical precursors shipped from China, according to an announcement by the 5th Deputy Interior Ministry, in charge of the fight against drug trafficking.
On January 17, Mexican authorities announced the seizure of almost 195 tons of a chemical substance needed to manufacture synthetic drugs, in a shipment coming from China and destined for Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Mexican authorities announced the seizure of more than 120 tons of a chemical substance needed to manufacture synthetic drugs, in a shipment coming from China and destined for Guatemala.
China passed new anti-terrorism legislation in October 2011 that will amend current criminal laws by providing a definition of “acts of terror.”
On October 12, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns briefed Argentine officials on the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C., a U.S. spokeswoman said.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez urged Iran to make good on its offer to help investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people.
