■UNITED STATES
Treasury blacklists 26 firms
The US Treasury on Tuesday blacklisted 26 companies and 14 people it said were tied to Peruvian drug lord Fernando Zevallos Gonzales and froze any assets they may have in the US. The action also prohibits US banks and consumers from conducting business deals with them. The companies included four air transportation service companies, three travel agencies, two aviation cleaning services and two printing press companies in Peru, the Treasury said. The investigation also targeted offshore companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands, the department said. The list also names Zevallos’ sisters, brother, mother and business associates.
■UNITED STATES
Man with gun arrested
A 64-year-old man with a gun was arrested on Tuesday near the Congress buildings after he told police officers that he had a “delivery” for President Barack Obama, police officials said. The man had driven up to the US Capitol to talk to the special police officers who protect Congress and ask about Obama’s whereabouts so he could deliver something, Capitol Police said in a statement. Police then questioned him and searched his vehicle. “The man admitted to having a rifle in his vehicle,” police said. Police confiscated the weapon and arrested Alfred Brock from the southern state of Louisiana on charges of possessing an unregistered firearm and ammunition.
■PERU
Car accidents kill 32
At least 32 people, among them two Italian tourists, were killed and about 100 injured in two traffic accidents in Peru, police said on Tuesday. Two buses and a truck collided on the road linking Arequipa, Puno and Cusco in southern Peru, about 1,100km south of the capital Lima, police said. Twenty people were killed, among them the two tourists, and about 60 people were injured in the crash. In a second accident about 600km south of Lima on Monday, 12 people were killed and 39 injured when a bus plunged into a crevice.
■ARGENTINA
Nine missing after mudslide
Nine people were missing on Tuesday after a mudslide that prompted the evacuation of more than 700 people, officials said. The disaster occurred on Monday in the northern town of Tartagal. Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo did not confirm reports that two people were killed in the mudslide, which occurred in the province of Salta. Tartagal Mayor Sergio Leavy said that “a 75-year-old woman and another woman who may be her daughter, aged 59, have been dragged off by the current” and may be presumed dead. Randazzo said Tartagal was going through a “tragedy,” with “a third of its population” affected by the mass of water, mud and uprooted trees that came down from the mountains into the Tartagal River.
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