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QUITO, Jan 17, 2024 (AFP) – The prosecutor investigating a dramatic armed assault by gangsters last week on an Ecuadoran television station during a live broadcast was shot dead Wednesday, the attorney general said. A prosecution source told AFP that Cesar Suarez had been in charge of finding the gang responsible for the terror-inspiring attack on state-owned TC Television in the port city of Guayaquil by hooded assailants armed with guns and explosives. AFP obtained […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A shootout between suspected drug cartels left 18 people dead Friday in Mexico, a government official said. The gunfight happened in a remote area of Zacatecas state in the country’s north, said Rocio Aguilar, a spokeswoman for the state government. Drug-related violence has claimed more than 300,000 lives in Mexico since 2006, when the government started deploying federal troops to fight the cartels. “There were 18 dead, and the confrontation […]
by Julio Cesar Aguilar Agence France Presse VILLA UNION, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican forces hunted Monday for a drug cartel commando behind a bloody firefight in a town near the US border that left six locals and 16 gunmen dead — the latest security embarrassment for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. At least 60 gunmen terrorized the small northern city of Villa Union over the weekend, riding into town in heavily armed four-by-fours and […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — At least three women and six children from an American Mormon community based in northern Mexico have been killed in an ambush, a relative of the victims said on Monday. Julian Lebaron said his cousin was on her way to the airport when she was attacked and shot in her car along with her four children in Rancho de la Mora, an area notorious for drug traffickers and bandits of […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture will be suspending the importation of bulb onions, Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said on Friday, March 22. According to Piñol, this was pending the results of the investigation of the Philippine Competition Commission and the National Bureau of Investigation into the reported operations of a cartel manipulating the buying price of onions produced locally. It was the DA that asked for the probe following reports trading firms closed […]
(Eagle News)–At least 36 kilograms of cocaine were found off Davao Oriental on Sunday, Feb. 24. The P200 million worth of illegal drugs was apart from the 34 kilograms of cocaine found off Surigao del Sur on the same day. The illegal drugs off Davao Oriental have been brought to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region 11. President Rodrigo Duterte has said international drug cartels were behind the illegal drugs found floating off Philippine waters. […]
(Eagle News)–A Makati court on Wednesday, Feb .13, convicted a man believed to be a member of the Sinaloa cartel for drug trafficking. Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete, also the Department of Justice spokesperson, said Branch 63 Judge Selma Palacio Alaras found Horacio Herrera guilty beyond reasonable doubt for selling 2.5 kilograms of cocaine worth P12 million in Makati on Jan. 11, 2015. Herrera, a Mexican national, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and given a fine […]
(Eagle News) — The “systemic corruption” in place in V. Luna Medical Center since 2016 was so bad one set of prosthesis for wounded Marawi soldiers, which costs only P338,000, was reported to have reached P1.4 million. This is according to General Carlito Galvez Jr., Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, who held a press briefing after the Palace announced President Rodrigo Duterte’s sacking of at least 20 military officials and personnel […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte warned rice cartels not to take advantage of the country’s “artificial rice shortage” as he said he would push for rice prices to be down by as low as P7 per kilo, by changing the system of rice importation. During his State of the Nation Address, Duterte said he has already directed intelligence agencies to unmask these rice hoarders, cartels and their protectors, and that they would be […]
MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno S. Aquino III has ordered the import of rice to secure the country’s rice supply but has also tasked the police to investigate the possibility of cartels manipulating the prices of commodities. The President aired his suspicion about a cartel that is manipulating the prices of certain agricultural products like rice, garlic and ginger. He ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to investigate […]
