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Bogotá, June 8 (EFE) - FARC have a plan to attack 11 councilors in Bogota, as reported today by city councilor Darío Fernando Cepeda, who wanted to make sure the public knew about the letter sent over the weekend by the District attorney's office to the mayor of Bogota, Samuel Moreno Rojas, warning him of the alleged plan.
Tegucigalpa, June 7 (EFE). - Honduran police rescued without harm the namesake son of the oil businessman Henry Arévalo, who had been kidnapped almost a month ago, and arrested several of his captors, an official source reported today.
Madrid, 05 June (EFE). - Today in Madrid, representatives from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) presented the a general overview of their plan to prevent the expansion of drug trafficking in the areas of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, a project they are developing together with regional organizations and the governments of countries in these…
BOGOTA, 04 June, 2009 (AFP)-On Thursday, the Colombian Navy reported that during the course of this week, Colombian authorities have confiscated five submarines used for drug trafficking.
BOGOTA, 03 June 2009 (AFP) - The leader of the Colombian Guerrilla Group FARC, Alfonso Cano, released a statement on the Internet this Wednesday blaming President Alvaro for obstructing the liberation of an Army corporal who has been held hostage for more than 11 years.
BOGOTA, 02 June 2009 (AFP)-The Navy reported this Thursday that Colombian authorities had seized 1.5 tons of Cocaine, a submersible and a speedboat near the Pacific coast.
Bogota, 29 May (EFE). - Colombian authorities arrested for drug trafficking activities eleven alleged members of a money laundering network who are claimed for extradition by the United States, the Attorney General's Office reported today.
An 11 year old boy in the early morning hours started out on a 100 km walk for his father, a soldier, who the boy doesn’t know because he had been kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla forces just a little before the boy had been born, the boy had stated on Thursday.
Paraguayan narcotics agents at an airport in Asuncion seized several craft masks made of cocaine, which totaled 40 kilos of drugs that were to be sent to Italy, official sources reported today.
Today the United States Southern Command in El Salvador introduced an unmanned aircraft that could help combat drug trafficking in Central America, and which will be tested in a surveillance center for two weeks.
Quito, 12 May (EFE). - Ecuadorian antidrug police seized over 17 tons of cocaine hidden in a ship flying a Spanish flag in the port of Guayaquil, a city in the southwest of the country, and arrested three Ecuadorian citizens and two Russians, the institution told Efe today.
Today Colombian police official Luis Mendieta, who had been held hostage by the FARC for more than 10 years, was promoted to the rank of General by President Álvaro Uribe, who urged the Army to rescue all the hostages.
