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CRIMINAL JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES
16 March 2010
Special points of interest:
 FARC TIES TO VENEZUELA’S
CHAVEZ 1

LOS ZETAS CLAIM A PLAZA
IN MEXICO CITY 1
 MEXICAN POLICE SEIZE U.S.
$2.8 MILLION 1
 HONDURAN POLICE AND
DEA SEIZE 33 MILLION
PSEUDOEPHRINE TABLETS
FROM CHINA 1
 POLICE ARREST A FEMALE
MEMBER OF MS-13 ON
WEAPONS TRAFFICKING 1
 tion ETA.
EXTORTION IN PERU 1
 FARC SUSPECTED OF
TRUCK BOMB 1
 SUSPECTED VENEZUELAN
PLANE LANDING IN HONDU-
RAS CARRIES 1,000 KILOS
OF DRUGS 1
 LETHAL INJECTION IS NEW
EXECUTION METHOD IN
MEXICO 1
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COLOMBIA
A commission from the
Spanish National Intelli-
gence Center will arrive in
Colombia during the week
of 15 March to investigate
alleged ties between the
FARC, Venezuelan Presi-
dent Hugo Chavez, and
Basque separatist organiza-
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MEXICO
Los Zetas posted a narco-
banner on 10 March in Mex-
ico City to lay claim to the
plaza. The banner read: "We
are here to take over the
plaza. The land does not be-
long to those who work it. It
is ours. We have come to take
out the snitches. We don’t
want rats. Sincerely, Los
Zetas."
HONDURAS
Honduran police and the
Drug Enforcement Admini-
stration seized a shipment of
33 million pseudoephedrine
tablets shipped from China.
The drugs were discovered in
a warehouse owned by Em-
presa Nacional Portuaria,
located in Puerto Cortes.
A Global Threat Mitigation Firm
LATIN AMERICA BRIEFS
Mexican police arrested
four alleged members of
Colombia's Norte del Valle
drug trafficking organiza-
tion in Mexico City on 10
March, seizing more than
US$2.8 million. This cell
of the Norte del Valle
would receive cash ranging
from US$250,000 to US$1
million from Mexican part-
ners to prepare for delivery
to Colombia. They alleg-
edly used compact cars to
transport the cash.
EL SALVADOR
Police arrested a female
member of the MS-13 on 6
March on weapons traffick-
ing charges. The gang mem-
ber was transporting an M-16
and an AR-15 rifle to gang
members waiting to receive
the weapons near the Salva-
dor-Guatemala border.
PERU
Individuals on a motorcycle
threw and detonated fragmen-
tation grenade on 11 March
against the front of a house in
the Jose Leonardo Ortiz dis-
trict in the Peruvian province
of Chiclayo. The targeted
individual told police that he
had received telephone
threats and was being ex-
torted.
COLOMBIA
Police defused a truck
bomb on 4 March outside
of the Colombian army's
18th Brigade base in
Aracua, near the Venezue-
lan border. Authorities
suspect members of the
FARC's 10th front planted
the bomb.
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HONDURAS
An unregistered narco-
plane with a Venezuelan
flag landed on the night of
3 February 2010 in La
Trinidad, near El Medio,
Yorro carrying an esti-
mated 1,000 kilos of drugs.
The drug traffickers burned
the plane and unloaded the
drugs before authorities
arrived.
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MEXICO
On 25 February 2010, au-
thorities reported that or-
ganized crime has adopted
lethal injection as a new
method of execution after
discovering two unidenti-
fied bodies in Apatzingan,
Michoacan with signs of
torture and apparently
killed by injection of an
unknown substance.