Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - The Policia Montada (Mounted Police), until now limited to caring for parks and participation in Topes (horse parades) and mass events, will be patrolling cities, beaches and areas of difficult terrain, as part of a modernization of the police unit. Six months ago, mounted police have appeared in...

TODAY COLOMBIA - A long standing border dispute between Colombia and Venezuela over the area known as the Gulf of Venezuela, or Gulf of Coquibacoa, resurfaced when the recent decree of President Nicolás Maduro established this area as an “operating maritime and insular zone of integral defense.” On May...

TODAY COLOMBIA - Medellin has seen a 133% increase in the number of victims who have been robbed with the drug scopolamine in 2015 compared to the same period last year, according to the police. Up until August 18 of this year, theft using scopolamine, also known as “Devil’s Breath”,...