Yearly Archives: 2015

CENTRAL AMERICA NEWS - Guatemala's Joint Security Force, which consists of Army Soldiers and National Civil Police (PNC) officers, improves public safety by conducting patrols and vehicle searches and capturing dangerous suspects. The security force was launched in 2000, and its 4,500 Military service members and 3,000 PNC officers concentrate...

LATIN AMERICAN NEWS  - Police in Peru have reported that seizures of counterfeit dollars in 2014 were twice as high as the previous year, a pattern likely driven by the demand for fake dollars in economically unstable countries such as Venezuela and Argentina. According to El Comercio, the fraud division...

TODAY COLOMBIA - Over 400 cases of extortion were perpetrated by prisoners last year in Colombia, reflecting the ease with which this crime can be carried out from within the country's prisons using trickery and intimidation. Colombia's anti-kidnapping and anti-extortion agency (GAULA) registered 407 extortion cases that were perpetrated from...