Tag: drugs

• Saturday, October 8th 2011 - 08:09 UTC

  Latin America has highest rates of intentional homicide, says UNDOC report

  

  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, has released its first “Global Study on Homicide”, which shows that young men, particularly in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Central and Southern Africa, are at greatest risk of falling victim to intentional homicide.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 20:25 UTC

  Chile purchases UAV from Israel for border control of contraband and drugs

  

  Chile confirmed it had purchased Israeli manufactured Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) which will be used for border surveying to control contraband and drugs. However the UAV won’t be operational for at least another two years.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 - 06:42 UTC

  OAS calls for ‘shared responsibility’ from drug-consuming countries

  

  Consumer countries must assume their responsibility in the fight against the drug trade because as long as there is a demand, the illegal business won’t be stopped said the Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza who also praised his host Peruvian president Ollanta Humala for convening a presidential summit on the issue.

• Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:15 UTC

  UK to cooperate with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking

  

  The British government has announced a new co-operation deal with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking. During a two-day visit to Bolivia, Britain's Minister for Latin America, Jeremy Browne, said the Serious Organised Crime Agency in London will join forces with the counter-narcotics police in La Paz.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazil banned from selling Israeli-technology UAV to Venezuela

  

  Israel Aerospace Industries signed a joint venture with Brazil's Synergy Group to manufacture Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) (drones) to fight drug trafficking in Brazilian borders under the condition that the aircrafts are not sold to Venezuela.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 05:55 UTC

  Unmanned aircraft patrol Bolivia/Brazil border to control drugs and smuggling

  

  Four Brazilian unmanned aircraft guided by remote control, Drones, will begin operating in August along the Bolivian border announced Felipe Caceres, Bolivian Social Defence Deputy Minister.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 19:59 UTC

  Falklands’ deports Spanish seamen serving imprisonment sentences

  

  Two Spanish seamen serving imprisonment sentences for drugs related crimes in the Falkland Islands have been deported and since last Sunday are back in Spain, reports the Islands Police Headquarters.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 20:34 UTC

  Crime and violence cost Central American countries 8% of GDP, says World Bank

  

  Growing crime and violence in Central America not only have an immediate human and social toll but they also pose a tremendous threat to development potential in the region since it is estimated that these sources of instability cost 8% of GDP, once health, institutional, private security, and material expenses are accounted for.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 03:28 UTC

  Obama in El Salvador shifts from economic success to drugs and immigration

  

  President Barack Obama is nearing the end of a five-day tour of three Latin American nations to underscore the advance of democracy, and strong economic growth in the region.

• Saturday, March 5th 2011 - 05:07 UTC

  Nobel Prize Vargas Llosa calls for legalizing drugs to avoid the Mexican experience

  

  Nobel Prize winner in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa said that countries across Latin America will eventually suffer the same type of organized crime-related mayhem currently battering Mexico unless a decision is made to legalize drugs.