Kidnappings of police, two bosses escaped from prison, riots in prisons and attacks with explosives in the streets: the drug trafficking puts the president in check Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, in his first crisis after assuming power in November. For two days now, the South American country has been experiencing nights of terror. Seven police officers […]
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Ecuador, the most violent country in Latin America: a person dies almost every hour
Although the insecurity crisis has been dragging on for almost three years, Ecuador It hit rock bottom in 2023 and will end with a violent death rate of more than 40 per 100,000 inhabitants, making it the most violent country in Latin America. And it is that in Ecuador Almost every hour a person dies […]
Drug trafficking takes advantage of anonymity on the internet to recruit young people in Mexico
He drug trafficking in Mexico take advantage of the “high anonymity” on the internet, especially in video games, to attract young people, who are “potential victims”, according to the executive director of the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe, Thomas Kattau. Within the framework of the ‘International Forum for Capacity Building Against Addictions and […]
The pain endures in victims of Pablo Escobar 30 years after his death
“They killed Pablo Escobar!“, his classmates at school shouted at Gonzalo Rojas Peña when they heard the news. “Aren’t you happy?“, they immediately added when they saw him stunned and sitting on the ground. The most wanted drug trafficker in the world and the person responsible for the death of his father had been killed […]
“They put a price on everything”: organized crime hits the pockets of Mexicans
Two abandoned plots stand out among gigantic crops of lemon and banana in ApatzingánMexico. Its owners were preparing the land to plant, but they preferred to leave when the organized crime He came to extort them. In this agricultural municipality in the state of Michoacán (west), as in many others in Mexico, criminals act as […]
Colombia: New drug policy will reduce coca production by 40%
He Colombian government presents this Saturday its new national policy drugswhich seeks to persecute major drug traffickers and support farmers, and with which it plans to reduce cocaine production by 40% to 900 tons per year, the Minister of Justice, Néstor Osuna, says in an interview with EFE. Currently Colombia is the country with the […]
Ministry of Defense confirms that the US will provide radar and intelligence for aerial interdiction
Jorge Chavez, the Minister of Defenseassured that the USA They will be equipped with radars, intelligence and training, to achieve a air interdiction successful in the fight against drug trafficking of criminal gangs in Peru. Also, the Minister of Defense indicated that drug trafficking generates a high degree of corruption, both in the civilian population […]
How did Ecuador become one of the most violent countries in Latin America?
Until a few years ago, Ecuador was an island of peace between Colombia and Peru, the world’s two largest producers of cocaine. But since 2018, at the rate of the seizures of drughomicides increase with the signature of transnational organized crime. The shooting murder of Presidential candidate in the center Fernando Villavicencio, second in the […]
Ecuador decrees a state of emergency after the assassination of a presidential candidate
Ecuador decreed on Thursday the state of emergency after the murder of the Presidential candidate Ecuadorian Fernando Villavicenciosecond in intention to vote for the general elections on August 20, registered on Wednesday night in Quito. The measure adopted by President Guillermo Lasso, which allows military patrols in the streets of this country plagued by violence […]
“Drug trafficking is a global business, but Colombia puts up the dead,” according to a writer
The Colombian writer Gustavo Forero denounced this Wednesday at the Semana Negra cultural festival in Gijón (northern Spain) that he drug trafficking It is a global business that moves more money than the budgets of many states, although it is “stigmatizes” to countries like yours when they are the ones who “they put the dead”. […]