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These Incredibly Gorgeous Salt Ponds In Peru Are Something You Have To See Before You Die! SHEWALI TIWARI AUGUST 08, 2017 There is no dearth of magic on this planet and you'd be able to find that everywhere, just be sure that you're looking for it. Chanel and Stevo quit the 9-to-5 drill to see how far they could travel, and are now teaching peeps to do the same. During one of their expeditions, the duo stumbled across Peru’s unique salt ponds, something they've chosen to describe as the world’s most desirable salt. The pool is 3,000 ponds big...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rampant gang violence and drug turf wars in parts of Central America are fuelling child marriage as girls seek to marry or couple with gang members and older men as a form of protection, researchers say. Traditionally child marriage has been most prevalent among indigenous communities in rural areas across Central America. But humanitarian groups working in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, say anecdotal evidence gathered in the past five years shows drug-fueled gang violence and organized crime is driving more girls to get married in cities. "We are seeing and hearing that increasing numbers...

-excerpt- In recent months, authorities say, they have begun to see the first signs that the Zetas are providing paramilitary training and equipment to the Maras in exchange for intelligence and crimes meant to divert law-enforcement resources and attention

PROJECT: COUNTERINTELLIGENCESUBJECT: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / US LOCAL RESPONSEFILE: OPPOSITION RESEARCHTRANSLATION: SPANISH to ENGLISH (w/BABELFISH)Original Title: "Hispanics No Longer Feel Welcome in Virginia Due To Anti-Immigrant Measures" (Original Spanish: "Hispanos no se sienten bienvenidos en Virginia por medidas anti-inmigrantes") Text: "July 18, 2007 04:45pm ET by Reporter Isabel Conde "Washington, 18 July (EFE). - Because of the passage in the County of Loudoun (Virginia) of measures to prohibit to the undocumented immigrants to have access to county services, just like occured a week ago in the Prince William County also in Virginia, this causes the Hispanic community to not feel...

There has also been relatively little attention paid, on a policy and intelligence level, to the newer role of transnational criminal youth gangs based in Central America, such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Mara Calle18. Yet these groups, with aggregate membership now in the tens of thousands, pose a clear threat to U.S. critical infrastructure because of their strong organizations across the United States, their familiarity with weapons and explosives and rigid, brutally-enforced discipline. The U.S. military estimates that there are now at least 70,000 gang members in Central America and that "the level of sophistication and brutality of these...

At a recent UCLA forum on terrorism, Los Angeles officials said the city's estimated 40,000 gang members are an attractive target for terrorists like al-Qaida. "There are many, many more people who consider themselves jihadists now," said L.A. Police Deputy Chief Mark Leap. "And criminal enterprises are being used to support terrorist activities." ... There's also a wartime imperative to get control of the borders so that L.A. and other cities plagued by gangs can devote more resources to head off future terror attacks. The least thing we need is an "axis of evil" within our own borders that finds...

Mexico City, Jun 23 (EFE).- The Mexican Attorney General's Office is investigating the possible responsibility of Central American street gangsters for the decapitation this week of four people in the area along the U.S. border. "At this time there is a very recent investigation of a similar occurrence in Guerrero (state)," the head of the SIEDO narcotics division of the AG's Office, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, said in a press conference. "And this is the kind of violence and brutality that are characteristic of these gangs - so logic tells us that an individual or a group of them could...

By LTC Joseph Myers and Patrick Poole 28 April 2006: From the Article: "It is too early to predict how the current diplomatic crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons program will play out, but Americans should assume that any potential military hostilities could result in Hezbollah striking American interests across the globe and here in the US Homeland. Possibly the Iranian ayatollahs may decide that preemptive Hezbollah suicide attacks against America might serve as a deterrent to U.S. military action against their nuclear facilities. A strategic wave of Hezbollah suicide bombings, and well coordinated military attacks in America could very well...

EDCOUCH — The mid-April incident looked like a typical one for the Edcouch Police Department: two men caught and charged with multiple counts of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon while committing a home invasion. But something stood out to Police Chief Jose Perez as one of the suspects was being interviewed by his officers. The male suspect, who said he lived in the Elsa area but was really an undocumented Mexican citizen, said in Spanish to watch out for the Mara Salvatrucha-Treces, also known as the Maras or MS-13. The group has ties to Central America but began forming...

A burgeoning East Boston-based street gang made up of alleged rapists and machete-wielding robbers has been linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prompting Boston police to ``turn up the heat'' on its members, the Herald has learned. MS-13, which stands for La Mara Salvatrucha, is an extremely violent organization with roots in El Salvador, and boasts more than 100 ``hardcore members'' in East Boston who are suspected of brutal machete attacks, rapes and home invasions. There are hundreds more MS-13 gangsters in towns along the North Shore, said Boston police Sgt. Detective Joseph Fiandaca, who has investigated the gang since...

MATAMOROS, MEXICO -- The chief officer of the American Consulate in the border city of Matamoros says he is concerned about the Central American Mara Salvatrucha gang helping al-Qaeda. "The Maras are certainly a threat to the United States," Naland said. "The concern is that they might be just the kind of group which would take money to smuggle an honest-to-goodness terrorist into the United States.

A member of the notorious Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha was arraigned Tuesday in federal court for attempting to illegally cross into Brownsville last week. According to Border Patrol records, Francky Sanchez-Solorzano, 21, was arrested by Border Patrol on Thursday night as he and 13 others crossed the Rio Grande into Texas east of the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates. “Across the (McAllen) sector, he is the fourth or fifth (Mara) we have caught in the last several years,” said Senior Border Patrol agent Daniel Doty, adding that many others in the group were classified as “other than Mexican.”...