News Links tagged "Kidnapping"
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Kidnapping, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Ventrell U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | This was law enforcement cooperation, and we're pleased that it was so extensive, and we were able to resolve this quickly. |
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Kidnapping, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Ventrell U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | I'm not aware of prior engagement other than to say that our U.S. Interests Section is engaging, and we work closely with both legal guardians and foreign governments. And in this case Cuba is the government, so we’re working with them. |
Monday, March 11, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Migration, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican navy frees 104 kidnapped migrants |
| Author/Source: | Richard Fausset Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The Mexican navy announced that it had freed 104 Central American migrants who appear to have been kidnapped by an organized crime group in the border city of Nuevo Laredo |
Monday, March 4, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Migration, Public Security |
| Title: | La oenege de Solalinde denuncia alza en el secuestro de migrantes |
| Author/Source: | AFP El Faro (El Salvador) |
| Brief: | Los secuestros se han multiplicado desde octubre |
Friday, February 15, 2013
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Dialogos senderistas alertaron a la embajada estadounidense |
| Author/Source: | Doris Aguirre La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | La interceptacion de las comunicaciones por inteligencia militar revela que grupo subversivo del Vraem estaria planeando el secuestro de estadounidenses en nueva etapa militar. |
Monday, January 28, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Secuestro aumenta en 8 entidades |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Los estados de Coahuila, Estado de Mexico, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon y Veracruz registraron un incremento en el numero de secuestros entre 2011 y 2012 |
Friday, January 25, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Europes Role, Justice System, Kidnapping |
| Title: | La carta de una victima a EPN: "Cassez era mi secuestradora" |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | En la misiva, firmada en Laredo, Texas, Ezquiel Elizade asegura reconocer "sin temor a equivocarme" a Florance Cassez como su "secuestradora" |
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Energy, Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Energy, Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca |
| Title: | Eln libero a dos ingenieros secuestrados en Saravena |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Empleados de una empresa subcontratista de Occidental fueron plagiados el 12 de diciembre |
Monday, December 17, 2012
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | Border Security, Kidnapping |
| Colombia Category: | Kidnapping, Recent Violence, Relations With Venezuela |
| Colombia Region: | La Guajira |
| Title: | La Guajira pide mas seguridad en la frontera |
| Author/Source: | Leonardo Herrera Delghams El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Denuncian al Frente 59 de las Farc de llevarse a los secuestrados a Venezuela |
Friday, December 14, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages, FARC Talks, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ransom paid for China hostages freed in Colombia: Uribe |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | The four Chinese oil workers who were held hostage for more than a year and released in November were set free after ransom was paid, ex-president Alvaro Uribe said |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Migration, Public Security |
| Title: | Secuestro: Pesadilla de migrantes |
| Author/Source: | Sergio Haro Cordero Y Luis Perez Chavez Zeta (Tijuana, Mexico) |
| Brief: | Migrantes nacionales y extranjeros se enfrentan en Baja California a los secuestros |
Thursday, November 15, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Forced Disappearances, Kidnapping |
| Title: | Mexico state uses tortilla wrapper ads for missing |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press CBS News |
| Brief: | "The disappearances in Juarez have to disappear," the ads read. |
Thursday, October 25, 2012
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Kidnapping |
| Title: | Haiti police investigate prominent businessman for alleged role in kidnapping ring |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Police spokesman Frantz Lerebours said businessman Clifford Brandt was locked up Monday on suspicion of involvement in kidnapping two children of another family in the capital, Port-au-Prince. |
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Politics And Security, Relations With Neighbors |
| Title: | Secuestro en Sucumbios tiene a Ecuador en alerta |
| Author/Source: | EFE Y AFP El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Dos turistas extranjeras fueron plagiadas y liberadas cerca de la frontera. |
Monday, September 17, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Peace Prospects |
| Colombia Category: | Kidnapping, Peace Prospects |
| Title: | Colombian rebels will admit past 'mistakes' |
| Author/Source: | Isaac Risco The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Brief: | Asked whether kidnappings were such a mistake, he insisted they were a '"valid'" policy at one point but caused FARC '"political problems'", which meant they had to be abandoned. |
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | ELN, Kidnapping |
| Colombia Category: | ELN, Kidnapping |
| Title: | Colombian guerrilla deserter helps Ecuadorean hostage escape |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Orlando Ibarra said rebels from the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) were preparing to begin a march when one of them approached him and asked if he wanted to go home. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | ELN, Kidnapping |
| Colombia Category: | ELN, Kidnapping |
| Title: | Colombian rebel deserter helps hostage escape |
| Author/Source: | Fox News |
| Brief: | Ibarra, a 39-year-old businessman, was seized on Aug. 2, 2010, in the border city of Ipiales. |
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Reconocen Marti y Morera desempeno de Garcia Luna |
| Author/Source: | Ignacio Alzaga Milenio |
| Brief: | Alejandro Marti, presidente de Mexico SOS, y Maria Elena Morera, dirigente de Causa en Comun, reconocieron el trabajo del secretario de Seguridad Publica federal, Genaro Garcia Luna, tras la captura de otro integrante de Los Petriciolet. |
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Marina y Ejercito, sin rastro de edil secuestrado en Guerrero |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico |
| Brief: | La Marina y el Ejercito siguen sin hallar algun rastro del edil priista con licencia del municipio de Tecpan de Galeana, Nadin Torralba Mejia, secuestrado la tarde de ayer. |
Thursday, July 26, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca |
| Title: | Journalist, engineer kidnapped in Colombia: official |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | The two women -- identified as radio reporter Elida Parra and environmental engineer Gina Uribe -- were taken Tuesday from their homes in the town of Saravena by men in civilian dress. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca |
| Title: | Colombian police say guerrillas may be holding 2 women captive |
| Author/Source: | EFE Fox News Latino |
| Brief: | Arauca's chief of police said it is very likely both women are being held by the National Liberation Army, or ELN. |
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Energy, Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Energy, Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca |
| Title: | Dos secuestros agravan situacion en Arauca |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Dos trabajadoras del oleoducto Bicentenario fueron sacadas por hombres de sus casas en Saravena. |
Friday, July 20, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages, Kidnapping |
| Title: | Video: "Las FARC tienen que recordar su promesa y devolver los secuestrados": Clara Rojas |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La nueva directora de la Fundacion Pais Libre, Clara Rojas, dijo en semana.com que de los 81 secuestros simples reportados entre enero y el 31 de marzo de 2012, 3 fueron cometidos por las Farc, 7 por el ELN y el resto por grupos de delincuencia comun. |
Monday, July 16, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping |
| Colombia Category: | Kidnapping |
| Title: | Aumentaron los secuestros en Colombia en el primer trimestre del 2012 |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Comercio (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | Los secuestros aumentaron en Colombia en el primer trimestre de 2011, con un total de 81 casos, revelo hoy la privada Fundacion Pais Libre. |
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Kidnapping |
| Title: | Mexico must free indigenous activists jailed on trumped-up charges |
| Author/Source: | Amnesty International |
| Brief: | The Mexican authorities must immediately and unconditionally release two indigenous men imprisoned after an unfair trial in the central state of Puebla, Amnesty International said today. |
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Kidnapping Wave Hits Major Highways in Argentina |
| Author/Source: | Tracey Knott InSight |
| Brief: | Argentina's wave of abductions does not appear connected to any other form of organized crime, although the country is increasingly facing a threat from gangs running drug and sex trafficking networks. |
Monday, June 11, 2012
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Corruption, Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | After Foiled Plot, 11 Guatemalan Cops Arrested for Kidnapping |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Looft InSight |
| Brief: | If police are carrying out kidnapping themselves, this would force down the number of crimes that are reported to the police |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Kidnapping, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Flood' of drugs from Mexico linked to area abductions |
| Author/Source: | Mary Lou Pickel Atlanta Metro News |
| Brief: | A recent increase in drug-related kidnappings in Gwinnett County has put a spotlight on drug violence in Georgia, federal agents say. |
Friday, June 8, 2012
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Corruption, Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | After Foiled Plot, 11 Guatemalan Cops Arrested for Kidnapping |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Looft InSight |
| Brief: | If police are carrying out kidnapping themselves, this would force down the number of crimes that are reported to the police. |
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Repuntan secuestros que concluyen con muerte de la victima |
| Author/Source: | Ruben Mosso Milenio |
| Brief: | En el primer cuatrimestre del presente ano casi la mitad de casos tuvo ese desenlace. |
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican Marines rescue 12, bust 10 in Nuevo Laredo |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | The marine unit had been dispatched to the location based on an anonymous complaint, had been patrolling the general area and found a residence where 11 men and one women were being held hostage. |