Non-Governmental or Academic Analyses
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Monday, August 30, 2010
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Drug War on the Poor |
| Author/Source: | Laura Carlsen CounterPunch |
| Brief: | In Mexico, the drug war strategy has set off a no-holds-barred battle for routes and markets among competing cartels that has broken through the boundaries of crime-on-crime and now affects daily life |
Thursday, August 26, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Cases |
| Title: | Urgencias en derechos humanos |
| Author/Source: | Gustavo Gallon El Espectador |
| Brief: | Ya el Gobierno ha empezado a anunciar medidas sobre tierras. Deberia apurarse tambien a anunciarlas en relacion con tres temas de especial preocupacion para el Comite. |
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombia's Workers Risk Lives to Gain Their Rights |
| Author/Source: | AFL-CIO Now Blog |
| Brief: | We all agreed that the proposed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement must not be passed until conditions for all workers in Colombia improve dramatically and there is genuine change. |
Thursday, August 19, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security, Uribe Government Security Policies |
| Title: | El Tiro de Despedida de Uribe |
| Author/Source: | Laura Carlsen CIP Americas |
| Brief: | Santos representa al partido de Uribe, el Partido de la U, de cuyo apoyo gozo durante las elecciones. ¿Por que Uribe buscaria crear una crisis diplomatica en la vispera de la toma de posesion de su heredero? |
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Cuba urged to end campaign against mother of dead hunger striker |
| Author/Source: | Amnesty International |
| Brief: | The Cuban authorities must act to end the harassment of the mother of a prisoner of conscience who died following a hunger strike to push for the release of other prisoners, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. |
Monday, August 16, 2010
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Santos-Chavez Santa Marta Summit: A Moment of Promise and Peril in the Americas |
| Author/Source: | Ray Walser, Ph.D. The Heritage Foundation |
| Brief: | Colombia's new President Santos has made a bold although not risk-free effort to tackle the most pressing challenge to peace and security in South America. |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Washington and International Donors Have Failed Haiti |
| Author/Source: | Mark Weisbrot Center For Economic And Policy Research |
| Brief: | It's time for members of the U.S. Congress to step up to the plate and change our foreign policy toward Haiti, as they did after the 1991 military coup. |