Three alleged al-Qaeda members arrived in New York to face charges of trying to set up a drug trafficking ring in Africa on behalf of Colombia's leftist FARC guerrilla group, officials said.
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Top Mexican Drug Lord Killed In Gunfight
Arturo Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug kingpin nicknamed the "boss of bosses," was killed in a dramatic shoot-out with the navy south of Mexico City, the government said Thursday.
Nearly 2,000 Militiamen Arrested In Colombia In ’09
A total of 1,937 suspected members of the new militia groups linked to drug trafficking have been arrested this year, the Colombian National Police said.
Crackolandia: Symbol Of A Plague Ravaging Brazil, Argentina, And Uruguay
Ragged, shoeless, and dirty, the drug addicts wander like directionless ghosts through the run-down historical city center of São Paulo, begging for coins to buy another rock of crack (cocaine base paste), eating occasionally, and sleeping wherever exhaustion overtakes them.
Rio Police On Alert After Deadly Drug Violence
Brazil deployed an extra 4,500 police Sunday as deadly clashes with drug traffickers brought down a police helicopter and left 17 people dead over the weekend in 2016 Olympics host city Rio.
Nearly Two Million Haitians Going Hungry
Some 1.9 million people in Haiti -- more than one in four Haitians -- are undernourished, according to a new report by the country's National Food Security Coordination Unit (CNSA).
Fourteen Films Compete In Latin American Cinema’s Showcase In Europe
Fourteen films, thirteen from Latin America and one from Spain, are competing for the top prize at the XXIVth Latin American Film Festival in the Italian city of Trieste, where a prize will also be given for the first time to the work that best promotes coexistence among peoples.
India Takes Credit for and Claims as Its Own the Discovery of Water on the Moon
New Delhi, 25 September (EFE).- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took credit today for the discovery of water on the moon, a discovery made by a NASA instrument carried on board an Indian satellite, the Chandrayaan 1, and confirmed by another Indian vehicle on board the vessel.
Motorized Caravan for the Release of Kidnapping Victims in Colombia Arrives in Europe
Madrid, 23 September (EFE).- The motorized caravan for the release of kidnapping victims in Colombia, in which former FARC hostages and their relatives are participating, in addition to volunteers, will cross the Atlantic in order to visit cities in Spain, France, and Italy over the course of eighteen days, prior [ … ]
1.69 Tons of Seized Cocaine Incinerated in Guatemala
Guatemala City, 23 September (EFE).- Law-enforcement authorities today incinerated 1.69 tons of cocaine coming from Honduras, seized on Monday in an operation near the Guatemalan capital.
United States Donates Ten Million Dollars to Fight Drug Trafficking in Guatemala
Guatemala City, 24 September (EFE).- The U.S. government donated another ten million dollars to fight drug trafficking in Guatemala, a country considered to be a natural stop along the way for the shipment of cocaine from South America to the United States, official sources announced today.
Violence Will Not Harm Rio’s Candidacy for Olympic Games
Violence will not harm the city of Rio de Janeiro’s candidacy to host the 2016 Olympic Games, for which it is competing against Tokyo, Chicago, and Madrid, the Brazilian Justice Minister, Tarso Genro, said, as quoted by state news agency Agencia Brasil.