Nouvelles sur les armes à feu
Colombie,Équateur
Ecuador Claims FARC Buying Arms During Peace Talks
16 January 2013
InSight Crime (Bogota) / EFE News Agency
The FARC rebel group has been increasing its arms purchases since the beginning of peace talks with the Colombian government, according to an Ecuadorian general.
Army General Fernando Proaño Daza, who commands troops on his country's border with Colombia, told EFE that arms trafficking had increased since the beginning of the peace process, which formally began in October. According to Proaño, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is "taking advantage of... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : InSight Crime (Bogota) / EFE News Agency
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Équateur,Venezuela,États-Unis,Colombie
Colombia Busts Alleged FARC Arms Dealer
21 June 2012
InSight Crime (Bogota)
A suspected arms trafficker whose network is accused of supplying 500 rifles to the FARC rebels has been arrested in Colombia.
Carlos Enrique Pombo was arrested in Cali in a joint operation between Colombia and US law enforcement, and Interpol. US authorities accuse Pombo's network of smuggling some 500 rifles into Colombia for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, reported El Tiempo.
The accused trafficker has been operating since 2003,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : InSight Crime (Bogota)
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Estonie,République dominicaine,Équateur,Ukraine,Kirghizistan,Moldova,Kazakhstan,Belize,Lettonie,Venezuela,Bélarus,Lituanie,Bahamas,Bolivie,Azerbaïdjan,Russie,Antigua et Barbuda,Guyana,Afrique du Sud,Jamaïque,Honduras,Guatemala,Salvador,Amérique du Sud,Colombie,Brésil,Amérique centrale,Caraïbes
1/3 of Femicides Committed With Gun in Latin America and Caribbean [ES]
2 March 2012
RT-TV Novosti (Russia)
[Translated summary: Nearly a third of crimes against women are committed with a firearm and in Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras this indicator is 60% - Small Arms Survey.]
El mayor nivel de feminicidios se registra en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Catorce países latinoamericanos aparecen entre los 25 del mundo con la tasa más elevada de crímenes contra la mujer.
El informe de la organización de investigaciones independientes Small Arms Survey,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : RT-TV Novosti (Russia)
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Colombie,Équateur
Ecuador Gun Seizures Point to Military, Security Industry Leakage
17 February 2012
InSight Crime (Bogota)
Ecuador's military seized 170 firearms in the south of the country, raising the issue once again of the country's importance as a transit nation for small arms moving to Colombia.
The seizure, which included some 7,000 rounds of munition, shotguns, handguns and rifles, came in the southern province of El Oro which borders Peru. No arrests were made.
Ecuadorian authorities carried out the operation just one week after they found a similar, though smaller, cache of... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : InSight Crime (Bogota)
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Thaïlande,Malaisie,Indonésie,Koweït,Qatar,Mexique,Pérou,Venezuela,Colombie,Bolivie,Somalie,Népal,Oman,Lettonie,Maurice,Guyana,République démocratique du Congo (RDC),Bosnie-Herzégovine,Arabie saoudite,Liberia,Kazakhstan,Singapour,République dominicaine,Jordanie,Trinité-et-Tobago,Émirats arabes unis,Guatemala,Honduras,Chili,Équateur,Argentine,Zimbabwe,Zambie,Ouganda,Tanzanie,Sénégal,Congo,Nigeria,Niger,Namibie,Maroc,Mauritanie,Malawi,Côte d'Ivoire,Égypte,Burkina Faso,Brésil,Tunisie,Sri Lanka,Pakistan,Philippines,Yémen,États-Unis,Italie,Allemagne,Israël,Autriche,Russie,Afrique,Amérique,Asie,Europe,Afrique du Sud,Algérie,Angola,Botswana,Ghana,Guinée,Madagascar
Brazilian Gun Industry Seeks New Markets: Africa and Asia [PT]
27 January 2012
Publica (Brazil)
[Translated summary: With the support of the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs, Brazilian gun manufacturers seek new markets in countries with a history of human rights violations: Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines and Yemen. Brazil is among the six countries in the world with annual exports exceeding $ 100 million, according to recent research from Small Arms Survey. According to the Army, responsible for supervising and controlling exports from 2005 to... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Publica (Brazil)
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Équateur
The Ecuadorian Army Destroyed a Total of 3,903 Firearms
15 December 2011
InSight Crime (Bogota)
The Ecuadorian Army has destroyed almost 4,000 illegal weapons seized by the military and the police over the past year.
The army destroyed a total of 3,903 firearms in the furnaces of the Adelca steel company in the north of the country on Wednesday, including machine guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers, as well as a large amount of ammunition.
Edwin Lara, the head of the Department of Arms Control, said the weapons were held for at least 90 days by the... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : InSight Crime (Bogota)
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Caraïbes,Amérique centrale,Amérique du Sud,Amérique du Nord,États-Unis,Uruguay,Colombie,Mexique,Argentine,Brésil,Paraguay,Bolivie,Chili,Équateur,Pérou,Venezuela
Latin American Governments Target Gun Runners, Countries Making Guns
28 November 2011
United Press International
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Latin America's increasingly ambitious Mercosur regional bloc is aiming to focus on small arms suppliers who are seen as being behind the region's endemic and seemingly insurmountable problem of violent crime.
The area's disparate armed groups, guerrillas with political agenda and drug-related gangs have drawn attention from Mercosur's watchdog committees as senior officials explore ways of containing organized crime, rooting out myriad networks... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : United Press International
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Équateur
Street Gang Members Give Up Handguns for Destruction in Ecuador
22 February 2009
Christian Science Monitor
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — In the most dangerous neighborhood of Guayaquil — Ecuador's largest and most crime-ridden city — a dozen youths are busy working in the Paz Urbana Print Shop.
By the entrance, a young man designs a T-shirt logo with graffiti paint. In the back, amid the hip-hop music and paint fumes, tattooed young men with baggy pants and baseball caps compile an order of worksheets for schools.
The print shop is part of an organization of small businesses,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Christian Science Monitor
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Équateur
Ecuador Launches Police Operation Against Illegal Possession of Guns
5 June 2007
People's Daily / Xinhua
The Ecuadorean government on Monday began a police operation to seize illegally-owned weapons to boost citizens' safety, Ecuador's Interior Minister Gustavo Larrea said.
Authorities will patrol highways, streets, squares and areas where crime is high, Larrea told a domestic televion on Monday.
"Illegally bearing arms is a crime carrying a sentence of up to five years in jail," he said, adding that those with illegal guns should hand the weapons over to the nearest... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : People's Daily / Xinhua
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Pérou,Amérique centrale,Caraïbes,Amérique du Sud,Brésil,Colombie,Équateur,Venezuela
Latin America Top of the Global Gun Death Chart
19 August 2004
Latin America Press
A recent report by the Institute for International Studies in Geneva found that between 73,000 and 90,000 people are killed each year by firearms in Latin America and the Caribbean.
With an average of 16 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the highest percentage of firearm deaths in the world.
"At least eight Latin American and Caribbean countries have indices of firearm deaths higher than 10 for every 100,000... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Latin America Press
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Amérique du Sud,Argentine,Bolivie,Brésil,Chili,Colombie,Équateur,Mexique,Paraguay,Pérou,Uruguay,Venezuela,Amérique centrale
Latin America Armed to the Teeth With 80 Million Guns [Es]
3 July 2004
La Opinión (USA), Opinion
GINEBRA — Con una población conjunta de 464 millones de habitantes, 11 países — Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay y Venezuela —, poseen hasta 80 millones de armas de fuego, según revelan los resultados de la Encuesta de armas pequeñas 2004: derechos en riesgo, realizada por el Instituto de Posgrado de Altos Estudios Internacionales, dados a conocer en Ginebra la semana pasada.
Exceptuando a Ecuador, todos... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : La Opinión (USA)
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