U.S. Assistant Secretary, William Brownfield states that drug cartels in Mexico on verge of collapse!

U.S. Assistant Secretary, William Brownfield, said that the response of organized crime violence is a sign that is “close to collapse”

 

If he is to be believed! Assistant Secretary, William Brownfield

The Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters United States, William Brownfield, said today that Mexico is seeing the beginning of the end of the drug industry.

In an interview with the online edition of the Colombian newspaper “El Tiempo“, the diplomat said that the answer of violence by organized crime in that country, is a sign that is “on the verge of collapse” because of pressure from the authorities.

“Four years ago we started a multinational effort in Mexico, dominated by the Mexican government, and what do we see today? In my opinion, we are seeing the beginning of the end with the beheading of cartels and reducing its operating capacity,” he said.

Brownfield said “is what we saw in Colombia in the 1980s and early 1990s, when the cartels felt pressure from the authorities and their response was violence.”

Brownfield, Colombia experienced a similar situation, but then it was not known that the violence was a “sign of an organization to collapse. My theory is that this is what we see in Mexico today.”

The U.S. official admitted that the success of Colombia’s efforts against the drug industry, led to the growth of the illegal activity in Mexico, before their travel to Central and North America.

He said the problem with Central America will move to the Caribbean and most likely will worsen in the coming months and years, because the drug is going to search for new routes to pressure from the authorities.

“They have two options: the Pacific, with sea lanes that are not very attractive, or return to the Caribbean, where they were in the ’80s,” Brownfield said.

He considered that “Dominican Republic is a victim of geography, if it was in the middle of the Pacific would have no problem. But they are in the middle of the Caribbean and the likelihood is that we will see more traffic through that area, no less. In my opinion, this crisis has not begun. “

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The criminal group Los Zetas, are main smugglers of cigarettes from Panama

The criminal group is listed as one of the main organizations involved in smuggling cigarettes to other countries

Criminal group los zetas main smugglers of cigarettes in Panama

The criminal group Los Zetas ranks as one of the main organizations involved in smuggling cigarettes from Panama to other countries in Central America, Mexico and Brazil, today unveiled a tobacco executive.

“The Zetas and the various mafias operating in Central America and the Caribbean are the main smugglers of cigarettes. Apart from their illegal actions they are in the smuggling because these products are easy to launder money, “said Alfonso Gordon, regional manager for trademark protection of British American Tobacco.

At a forum on the topic, Gordon said the Mexican criminal organization “is very influential in smuggling” in the region because their members have moved from Mexico to the south, specifically Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

He said that in discussions with various authorities in Central America in the course of investigations into smuggling from the Colon Free Zone (CFZ), the Caribbean, Panama, the band is mentioned Los Zetas.

He even cited that according to the investigations, 50 percent of the group’s business is related to drug trafficking and 50 percent to cigarette smuggling and human trafficking and weapons.

The way that the smugglers operate begins when one of its members visit cigarette factories in Paraguay, China and India to purchase product, which is then transferred to the FTA under a customs manifest “in transit” and then “re”.

“They’re going to Central and then to Mexico or Brazil. (Both countries) are the main target them for market size and the number of consumers, “said Gordon.

The executive said that organized gangs in the region raided the smuggling of goods as a means to legalize the money from drug trafficking or weapons.

“They get a lot of cash for drugs and somehow have to legalize it and one of them is by using products such as snuff tradition, which legalized in different countries and launder money,” he said.

A curious fact that Belize quoted destinations around the smuggling-record banking superior to all the countries of Central America “with connections to Panama,” without having a major industry, although three casinos on the border with Mexico.

One problem is that authorities cannot check the goods when it is stated that customs documents is in transit, although executives of British American tobacco, assessed the actions against the scourge of the Customs Authority of Panama.

Cordon said that for its geographical position, Panama is an important point in the logistics of the smugglers of cigarettes, illegal flow of 5.5 million units from the FTA, of which only one million remains in the country of the isthmus.

In Paraguay, the country with 35 cigarette factories which 90 percent were exports, India and China, should the snuff which triangulates the countries of the region from the Panamanian free zone, to impact the final consumer price.

On China, said a large factory in the country has an above-the three major tobacco companies in the world, including British American tobacco.

During the forum, the former prosecutor on intellectual property crimes and now a legal consultant, Ramiro Esquivel, warned of the economic, social and health from cigarette smuggling, counterfeiting and alteration.

As several countries in the region, Panama also tightened smoking with bans in public places and imposing tax rates of up to 100 percent, but as it impacted Cord increase consumption of illegal products.

 

Fritanga’s Bride left standing at the Alter!

The love affair between Diana Lucia Salazar, and Camilo Torres, alias “Fritanga ‘, began seven years ago when they decided to move in together.

Left standing at the alter!

Diana, 31, is a paisa model who has participated in countless advertising campaigns. People, who know her, describe her as a young attractive, quiet, who cared much for her physical. “She was always neat.” See the wife of ‘Fritanga’.

She spent most of her youth in the La Rinconada, in Cucuta, where her family settled in order to find new business opportunities. A few months later, her father Diofanor Salazar, opened a restaurant called La Casona in the center of the capital Norte de Santander.

“I remember I saw one of her U.S. brothers often go armed on a black motorcycle, “said one close to the family, who asked to remain anonymous.

In Cucuta, the ‘paisa’, as she told her friends, she studied and graduated with a bachelors degree from Cardinal Sancha School. Then she decided to relocate her graduating to Medellin to seek her fortune as a model and go with the excesses of plastic surgery.

While living in Cucuta, the Salazar family was no stranger to tragedy. Byron,the husband of Adriana, one of the sisters of the model, was murdered under mysterious circumstances never clarified, according to newspaper La Opinión.

Diana met the man who is now her husband and father of her three year old son in an event attended by known drug trafficker , who was captured during the eccentric wedding party held in the island Múcura.

Few of her friends were identified when the pictures appeared in company with the leader of ‘The Urabeños’, for now, they say, Diana looks very different for a number of surgeries performed.

Now, after the videos and photographs of the wedding of Diana and ‘Fritanga’ have occupied the front pages of newspapers, there are few who accept that the friends have been women.

 

In celebration of ‘Fritanga’ 7 Americans arrested 3 say they are police

Seven people, apparently of American citizenship and of which three police said they belong to that country, were in the wedding party drug trafficker Camilo Torres Martinez, alias “Fritanga” was arrested while celebrating on a Colombian island in the Caribbean.

Seven Americans celebrated Fritanga arrested including 3 that claimed to be police

This was revealed today in the Semana magazine on its website in which it shows in a video that at least one of them makes it clear to the Colombian authorities, “I’m a cop in America”.

According to the publication, the foreigners were identified as Jose Enrique Torres Vives, Luis Velazquez Junior Acosta, Eli Frabián Carrion Barreto, Jose Ivan Diaz and other people it is said that his name is Samuel, all of Puerto Rico.

Then there were John Rodriguez, New York, and Edwin Javier Marquez Market, Pennsylvania.

In the fvideo document it  several Americans can be seen on the stage occupied by the 11 bands liven up the party responsible, but are not seen dancing but give the feeling of being watched.

So far there has transcended what role these people played in the feast of 8 days at which the drug dealer invited about 150 people.

“Fritanga” request for extradition by the United States, contained in the “Clinton List” , which points to individuals and companies designated by issues of drug trafficking and prohibits transactions with U.S.

Authorities are investigating why Torres Martinez, 37, was arrested last Tuesday, and was listed as dead by the Registrar.

The drug dealer, officials said, paid about $ 1.4 million for the wedding reception held at an exclusive hotel on the island. This property is located on the island Múcura the Archipelago of San Bernardo, near the Natural Park Corales del Rosario, off the coast of Cartagena de Indias.

Mucura Island paradise for Drug Traffickers

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Argentine Bishop Fernando Maria Bargalló on Romantic Holiday

The Argentine Bishop Fernando Maria Bargalló, photographed on a romantic vacation in Mexico with a woman, asked for forgiveness today, amid the investigation began and the Vatican.

The television cameras of Argentina showed the eve of former President of the humanitarian organization Caritas Argentina when kissing a woman in a pool of a luxury hotel in Cancun.

On Wednesday, the television channel America 24 sought the bishop, who first refused to comment on the fact, but then gave his version.

Bargalló said the images are from two years ago when he traveled to the Mexican Caribbean to participate in the meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Secretariat of Pastoral Social Caritas.

“The photos actually respond to a meeting in Mexico, where we agree with this friend of my childhood, she and her family maintain strong bonds of friendship,” said the prelate.

The priest lamented the situation in which it was wrapped and admitted that his attitude was not exempt from “a certain recklessness” because “may have given rise to misunderstandings.”

Although the images are explicit, with kisses and hugs, the bishop confirmed his loyalty to the vows of chastity and poverty, and said it is “committed to God and the Church” Catholic.

However, the apostolic nuncio, Emil Paul Tscherrig, as reported to the Vatican, which will assess the penalty to be applied to Bargalló.

 

Welcolme for Obama- Two bombs explode near U.S. Embassy in Colombia

The outbreak arose hours after the arrival of President Barack Obama to the country to attend the Sixth Summit of the Americas

Two bombs explode near U.S. Embassy in Colombia

BOGOTA, April 13. – Two medium-intensity explosions occurred this evening near the U.S. Embassy in Colombia, hours after the arrival of President Barack Obama to the country to attend the Sixth Summit of the Americas.

A spokesman for the National Police reported that two bombs blew up in a drain near the embassy and the Attorney General of Colombia, although no damage or casualties reported.

The statements to Radio Caracol, the spokesman Alberto Cantillo said firecrackers were about a kilo and that in place and are explosion-proof units of the National Police.

According to the web site of the newspaper El Tiempo, the explosions were heard several blocks in all directions and close to the building of the Attorney General, adjacent to the embassy.

So far no person or group has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which alerted the security services of the Colombian capital. Authorities are investigating the fact and try to find clues of the authors.

Obama arrived Friday afternoon amid tight security in Cartagena, Colombia in the Caribbean to attend the Sixth Summit of the Americas this weekend.

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SANTO DOMINGO four teenagers kill seven year old for Envy!

The children admitted to the Police force that they led Randy Beltran to a deserted spot where he was beaten to death

SANTO DOMINGO four teenagers kill seven year old for Envy!

SANTO DOMINGO, March 28. – The Dominican police reported today that four teenagers, including two Haitians killed a seven year old because they envied him, because of the victim’s ability to receive cash by asking motorists on the streets in Santo Domingo.

The accused children confessed, to the authorities. They explained to the police that they led Randy Beltran to an uninhabited area of the sector La Puya in the Dominican capital where he was beaten to death and robbed of 300 pesos (7.70 dollars).

Three of the offenders, aged between 13 and 15, were arrested by the police, who established that both the accused and the child killed were known.

Police investigators also revealed that one of the minors detained recently stripped the victim of 500 pesos (about 12.8 U.S. dollars), after beating him and threatening him with death.

Randy Beltran was reported missing by his parents on 24 March and had since started a search ended yesterday with the discovery of his body.

In the Dominican Republic a minor under the age of 18 convicted of murder can only be sentenced to a maximum penalty of five years.

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