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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Location: Entire Region
Category:Economy And Security, U.S. Policy
Title:U.S. exports up, but losing market share in Latin America
Author/Source:Andres Oppenheimer
The Miami Herald
Brief:While U.S. exports to the region are growing, in some cases significantly, their percentage of Latin America's overall imports is shrinking
Location:Argentina
Category:Human Rights
Title:Un acusado que acusa
Author/Source:Pagina/12
Brief:Un militar imputado por las ejecuciones de presos politicos en Cordoba pretendio ayer apartar a un miembro del tribunal que lo juzga porque habria participado el ultimo 24 de marzo de una movilizacion para repudiar el golpe.
Location:Brazil
Category:Corruption
Title:Brazil arrests almost entire government in Dourados
Author/Source:BBC
Brief:A judge has been appointed to run the city of 200,000 people in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul
Location:Brazil
Category:Economy And Security
Title:Brazil’s Economic Policies Under President Rouseff
Author/Source:Thomas Trebat
Roubini
Brief:The new administration will go to some lengths to convey continuity with Lula in terms of policies and players
Location:Brazil, Colombia
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Colombia Category:Peace Prospects, Relations with Neighbors
Title:Santos: Las FARC son asunto de Colombia
Author/Source:Yana Marull
AFP
El Nuevo Herald
Brief:El presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, dijo el miercoles ante su par de Brasil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, que su gobierno considera a las FARC como un asunto interno colombiano
Location:Brazil, Colombia
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Colombia Category:Relations with Neighbors
Title:Rousseff promises, if elected, full support for Colombian president Santos
Author/Source:MercoPress
Brief:Brazilian incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff held on Wednesday a private meeting with visiting Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and promised if elected that Brazil would continue with its willingness to mediate with the Colombian FARC g
Location:Central America Regional, Mexico
Category:Migration, Public Security
Title:Zetas: la pesadilla del migrante
Author/Source:La Prensa (Honduras)
Brief:10 mil migrantes centroamericanos fueron secuestrados en territorio mexicano en el 2009
Location:Colombia
Category:Economy And Security, Politics And Security
Title:http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFRISKCO20100901?sp=true
Author/Source:Frank Jack Daniel, Patricia Rondon, Marianna Parraga, Daniel
Reuters
Reuters
Brief:President Juan Manuel Santos' ambitious reform agenda, the country's waning guerrilla and drug war and still touchy relations with neighboring Venezuela and Ecuador are key issues.
Location:Colombia
Category:Politics And Security
Colombia Category:Politics And Security
Title:Entre el Optimismo y la Euforia
Author/Source:Rodrigo Botero Montoya
El Colombiano
Brief:La sociedad colombiana registra un clima generalizado de optimismo, el cual contrasta con la situacion del mundo industrializado y la de varios paises latinoamericanos
Location:Colombia
Category:Recent Violence
Colombia Category:Recent Violence
Colombia Region:Caqueta
Title:Five Colombian police killed by suspected Farc bomb
Author/Source:BBC
Brief:Five police officers have been killed and three injured by a roadside bomb in the Colombian state of Caqueta.
Location:Cuba
Category:U.S. Policy
Title:House candidates David Rivera, Joe Garcia can't escape Cuba factor
Author/Source:Patricia Mazzei, Lesley Clark
The Miami Herald
Brief:It's not front and center, but Cuba is an issue in a hotly contested congressional race between Republican David Rivera and Democrat Joe Garcia.
Location:Entire Region
Category:Defense Cooperation, Politics And Security
Title:Multinational PANAMAX exercise concludes
Author/Source:Rafael Martie
U.S. Southern Command
Brief:More than 2,000 civilian and military personnel from 18 countries concluded PANAMAX 2010, a 12-day regional exercise focused on training participants as a joint, multinational force to protect the Panama Canal.
Location:Guyana
Category:Defense Cooperation, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy
Title:HSV Swift begins engagement mission in Guyana
Author/Source:Kim Williams
High Speed Vessel Swift Public Affairs
U.S. Southern Command
Brief:he crew of High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV) 2 made history Aug. 29, as the first U.S. military vessel to dock pier-side in Georgetown, Guyana.
Location:Mexico
Category:Diplomatic Relations, U.S. Policy
Title:Merida Initiative Bilateral Implementation Office Opens
Author/Source:Office Of The Spokesman
U.S. Department Of State
Brief:As announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations Patricia Espinosa in March 2009, the Merida Initiative Bilateral Implementation Office (BIO) opened today in Mexico City.
Location:Mexico
Category:Economy And Security, Public Security
Title:CORRECTED - Mexico says drug violence dents economy
Author/Source:Catherine Bremer
Reuters
Reuters
Brief:Raging drug gang violence is likely weighing on Mexico's economy as countries with crime problems can see 1.2 percentage points sliced off their GDP growth.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking
Title:Drug-trafficking suspect 'La Barbie' tells of drug kingpins' meeting in video of interrogation
Author/Source:Alfredo Corchado
The Dallas Morning News
Brief:The Dallas Morning News first reported on the meeting of top cartel leaders in June 2007, a report that was dismissed at the time by President Felipe Calderon's office.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security
Title:Calderon: Mexico shows gains in security, economy
Author/Source:Associated Press
Associated Press
Brief:The report came days after Calderon conceded there has been a surge in drug-related violence and said he was willing to discuss changes in his strategy
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security
Title:Felipe Calderon marks four years of reform efforts stymied by Mexico drug war
Author/Source:Sara Miller Llana
Reuters
CS Monitor
Brief:The tenure of President Felipe Calderon, who is preparing to give his fourth state of the union address, has been marked by the brutal Mexico drug war and political infighting that's stymied reform.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security
Title:For Mexico's president, cartels aren't only concern
Author/Source:MSNBC
Brief:Mexican President Felipe Calderon prepared to deliver what's akin to a state of the union speech on Thursday, and ahead of that he released several video clips touting his priorities — yet none refer specifically to his war on drug cartels.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security
Title:Mexico's crackdown on organized crime is working, Calderon says
Author/Source:Ken Ellingwood
The Los Angeles Times
Brief:In his state of the nation report, President Felipe Calderon notes the arrests or killings of drug kingpins and efforts to clean up police.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy
Title:Banks not paying price of role in drug trade
Author/Source:Veronica Flores-Paniagua
My San Antonio
Brief:Bloomberg's story noted that no big U.S. bank has ever been indicted for violating the Bank Secrecy Act — or any other federal law, apparently because of concerns that doing so could destabilize financial markets
Location:Peru
Category:Economy And Security, Free Trade
Title:El Peru cerro negociaciones con Corea del Sur para la firma de un nuevo tratado de libre comercio
Author/Source:El Comercio (Peru)
Brief:El Peru culmino esta manana las rondas de negociaciones con Corea del Sur, en el marco de la firma de un Tratado de Libre Comercio.
Location:Venezuela
Category:Politics And Security
Title:Jewish community in Venezuela shrinks by half
Author/Source:MercoPress
Brief:If someone were to rank the most embattled Jewish communities in the world today, the Jewish community of Venezuela would certainly be high on that list. Over the past decade the community has shrunk by half its size, according to a report from Gil Shefle
Location:Venezuela
Category:Politics And Security, Public Security
Title:Lopez propone como reducir la violencia en Venezuela
Author/Source:Ann Legard
AFP
El Nuevo Herald
Brief:El ex alcalde opositor Leopoldo Lopez propuso el miercoles una serie de medidas que, segun el, servirian para reducir la inseguridad en Venezuela y culpo al gobierno de no hacer "lo suficiente."

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Location: Entire Region
Category:Press Freedom
Title:Why are Latin American democracies suddenly attacking the free press?
Author/Source:Marc Margolis
Newsweek
Brief:The breadth of official incursions into citizen's lives has sent out distress signals from Patagonia to the Antilles
Location: Entire Region, Colombia
Category:U.S. Policy
Colombia Category:U.S. Policy
Title:How to update U.S.-South American defense agreements
Author/Source:Stephen Johnson
Foreign Policy
Brief:Whereas Chavez signs all manner of troubling pacts with Russia and Iran without restraint, it's comforting to know that Colombia's Constitutional Court decided that the DCA required legislative approval.
Location:Argentina
Colombia Category:Victims
Title:Ley de Victimas: "sin polarizacion, saldra adelante"
Author/Source:Semana.com
Brief:El representante Guillermo Rivera explico por que es importante la aprobacion del proyecto que busca la reparacion integral a damnificados del conflict.
Location:Argentina
Category:Civil-Military Relations
Title:Los liceos militares son necesarios
Author/Source:La Nacion
Brief:La oposicion rechaza un proyecto del Poder Ejecutivo que procura eliminar la instruccion castrense en esos institutos.
Location:Argentina
Category:Defense, Defense Budgets
Title:Argentine to increase budget defence 50%, recovering losses of Falklands war
Author/Source:MercoPress
Brief:Defence minister Nilda Garre said the Argentine government would increase the defence budget in coming years from 0.9% to 1.5% of GDP to help overcome decades of divestment following the defeat in the (1982) Falklands/Malvinas war.
Location:Argentina
Category:Extraditions, Human Rights, U.S. Policy
Title:Ex-Argentine officer fights extradition from US
Author/Source:Curt Anderson
Associated Press
Google News
Brief:An Argentine federal judge issued an arrest warrant in February 2008 charging Bravo with 16 counts of murder as well as attempted murder charges. Bravo's attorney says he has done nothing wrong.
Location:Argentina, Paraguay
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Title:Timerman visits Paraguay, announces two new bridges linking with Argentina - MercoPress
Author/Source:MercoPress
Brief:Argentina's Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman announced Tuesday in Asuncion the construction of two new bridges linking Argentina with Paraguay and the upgrading of an existing one.
Location:Bolivia
Category:Corruption, Politics And Security
Title:Denuncian corrupcion con avion de Morales
Author/Source:EFE
El Nuevo Herald
Brief:La oposicion boliviana denuncio el martes un supuesto sobreprecio de unos $14 millones en la compra de un avion ejecutivo para el presidente Evo Morales
Location:Bolivia, Peru
Category:Extraditions, Politics And Security
Title:Avion de la FAB va por Valle a Peru
Author/Source:Agencia Boliviana De Informacion
Brief:Un avion de la Fuerza Aerea Boliviana (FAB) se dirigia a Lima en procura del ex prefecto de La Paz, Luis Alberto Valle, profugo de la justicia boliviana hace 16 meses.
Location:Brazil
Category:Civil-Military Relations, Pub, Public Security
Title:Policia ocupa favelas y mata traficantes en area metropolitana de Rio - ABC Digital
Author/Source:AFP
ABC Digital
Brief:Efectivos de la Policia Militar (PM) ocuparon el martes por tiempo indeterminado dos favelas en un municipio del area metropolitanta de la ciudad de Rio de Janeiro
Location:Brazil
Category:Economy And Security
Title:Rio slums are Brazil's newest tourist destination
Author/Source:Agence France Presse
Google News
Brief:President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he hopes to show that slum dwellers perhaps are impoverished but are just like people everywhere
Location:Brazil
Category:Economy And Security, Politics And Security
Title:FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in Brazil
Author/Source:Raymond Colitt
Reuters
Reuters
Brief:Heavy government spending, oil policies and the new balance of power in Congress after the presidential election are among the risks to watch
Location:Brazil
Category:Elections, Politics And Security
Title:ANALYSIS-Brazil's Rousseff could face early leadership test
Author/Source:Raymond Colitt
Reuters
Brief:Rousseff will have to reconcile competing demands from members of her own Workers' Party, which is divided between leftists pushing for a greater state role in the economy and moderates who back the more market-friendly policies.
Location:Brazil
Category:Environment
Title:Brazil officials: Amazon deforestation declining
Author/Source:Associated Press
Google News
Brief:The National Institute for Space Research says satellite imagery shows nearly 2,300 square kilometers (900 square miles) were destroyed in the 12 months through July 31, a 48 percent drop.
Location:Brazil, Colombia
Colombia Category:Diplomatic Relations, Relations with Neighbors
Title:Visita a Brasil, eje de las relaciones comerciales
Author/Source:Dinero.com
Brief:Tres dias durara la visita oficial de Juan Manuel Santos y su equipo de trabajo a Brasil.
Location:Brazil, Colombia
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Colombia Category:Relations with Neighbors
Title:Colombia’s Santos meets Lula da Silva in his first overseas visit
Author/Source:MercoPress
Brief:Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos arrived Tuesday in Brazil for an official two-day state visit that begins Wednesday with a meeting with President Lula da Silva.
Location:Brazil, Colombia
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Colombia Category:Relations with Neighbors
Title:Visita a Brasil, eje de las relaciones comerciales
Author/Source:Dinero.com
Brief:Tres dias durara la visita oficial de Juan Manuel Santos y su equipo de trabajo a Brasil.
Location:Brazil, Colombia
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Colombia Category:Relations with Neighbors
Title:'Venimos a Brasil a estrechar lazos', dijo Juan Manuel Santos al iniciar visita oficial a ese pais
Author/Source:El Tiempo (Colombia)
Brief:Enviando un mensaje de integracion, y con la intencion de estrechar lazos entre Colombia y Brasil, el presidente Juan Manuel Santos llego a la capital brasilena
Location:Brazil, Colombia
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Colombia Category:Relations with Neighbors, U.S. Policy
Title:Del dicho al hecho...
Author/Source:Arlene B. Tickner
El Espectador (Colombia)
Brief:Tan comun se ha vuelto que una vez elegidos, los presidentes en Colombia emprendan el peregrinaje "obligado" a Estados Unidos que es natural que la decision de Juan Manuel Santos de visitar primero a Brasil cause toda clase de especulacion
Location:Chile
Category:Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security
Title:Falla intento por frenar huelga de hambre de mapuches en Chile
Author/Source:Cecilia Barria
BBC Mundo
Brief:En total, son 32 mapuches los que hace siete semanas iniciaron la huelga contra una ley que consideran injusta
Location:Chile
Category:Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security
Title:Gobierno reformara justicia militar y Ley Antiterrorista
Author/Source:La Nacion (Chile)
Brief:El ministro Rodrigo Hinzpeter tambien pidio a los presos deponer el ayuno y terminar con las acciones violentas como medio para canalizar sus requerimientos a la autoridad.
Location:Chile
Category:Indigenous, Indigenous Communities
Title:Pinera busca mediador
Author/Source:Christian Palma
Pagina/12
Brief:El conflicto que mantiene a treinta y dos mapuches en ayuno por mas de cincuenta dias, que el gobierno chileno y los medios de derecha mantuvieron en un bajo perfil, esta generando un repudio mundial.
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:DAS Scandal
Title:Una prueba reina
Author/Source:Cecilia Orozco Tascon
El Espectador
Brief:Lagos leyo frente a la jueza, el fiscal, los abogados de las victimas y la prensa, una declaracion contundente, despues de su suplica: "Lamento lo sucedido y pido perdon a todos por este hecho"
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Economy and Security
Title:Colombia hands key royalties proposal to Congress
Author/Source:Patrick Markey
Reuters
Brief:President Juan Manuel Santos plans to centralize how royalties are managed to more evenly distribute around $3 billion a year.
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Economy and Security
Title:UPDATE: Colombia's July Urban Jobless Rate Climbs To 13.3%
Author/Source:The Wall Street Journal
Brief:Colombia's stubbornly high unemployment rate represents one of the top economic challenges for President Juan Manuel Santos.
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Human Rights Cases, Justice and Peace Process
Title:Ex "paras" admiten cremacion de cadaveres
Author/Source:Libardo Cardona
Associated Press
El Nuevo Herald
Brief:Un fiscal de la Unidad Nacional de Justicia y Paz dijo que paramilitares desmovilizados han confesado que cremaron los cadaveres de al menos 150 de sus victimas en hornos artesanales.
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Human Rights Cases, Justice and Peace Process, Para-Politics
Title:Un pulso a las verdades en los Montes de Maria
Author/Source:Verdad Abierta
Brief:La tragedia humanitaria que ha vivido Colombia en los ultimos quince anos fue peor en estas colinas caribenas.
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Indigenous Communities, Recent Violence
Colombia Region:Cauca
Title:Denuncian asesinato de guardia indigena en el municipio de Miranda, norte del Cauca
Author/Source:El Tiempo (Colombia)
Brief:La comunidad indigena del Proyecto Unidad Paez del Resguardo la Cilia, reporto la muerte a bala del guardia indigena Richard Alexander Pena
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Public Security, Recent Violence
Colombia Region:Antioquia
Title:A las comunas, con todo
Author/Source:El Colombiano
Brief:A las comunas y barrios populares, no solo de Medellin sino de otras ciudades colombianas, que registran conflictos similares, hay que ir con todo el Estado.
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Public Security, Recent Violence
Colombia Region:Antioquia
Title:Estado controlara violencia en Medellin, dice Santos
Author/Source:El Colombiano
Brief:El estudio de un conjunto de medidas excepcionales para combatir las bandas delincuenciales en Medellin, que ni el presidente de la Republica Juan Manuel Santos Calderon ni el alcalde Alonso Salazar Jaramillo precisaron, fue la gran conclusion del consejo
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Recent Violence
Colombia Region:Cauca
Title:Atentado de las Farc deja sin energia electrica a 70 pueblos
Author/Source:EFE
Semana.com
Brief:Rebeldes del VI frente de las Farc ingresaron a las instalaciones de la hidroelectrica ubicada en el municipio de Caloto
Location:Colombia
Colombia Category:Victims, Victims
Title:Entregan al Gobierno mas de 10.000 firmas para ratificar convenio contra la desaparicion forzada
Author/Source:EFE, EFE
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Brief:La entrega, encabezada por el congresista Guillermo Rivera, se realizo en la Camara de Representantes
Location:Colombia
Category:Recent Violence
Colombia Category:Public Security, Recent Violence
Colombia Region:Antioquia
Title:Presidente Santos anuncio cambios 'operativos' para luchar contra el crimen en Medellin
Author/Source:El Tiempo (Colombia)
Brief:El mandatario sostuvo un consejo de seguridad con el alcalde de Medellin, Alonso Salazar
Location:Colombia, Honduras
Colombia Category:U.S. Policy
Title:Honduras, Colombia y EUA concluyen ejercicios
Author/Source:El Heraldo (Honduras)
Brief:Colombia, Estados Unidos y Honduras concluyeron ayer tres dias de ejercicios navales contra el narcotrafico en la isla de San Andres
Location:Colombia, Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Colombia Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:What can Mexico learn from Colombia's drug war?
Author/Source:Liz Goodwin
Yahoo!
Brief:To defeat the cartels in Colombia, the government employed a kingpin strategy: going after high-value traffickers and extraditing them to the United States.
Location:Colombia, Mexico
Category:Public Security
Colombia Category:Narcotrafficking
Title:La Barbie tiene 'inversiones' en Colombia
Author/Source:El Universal (Mexico)
Brief:Edgar Valdez Villarreal, La Barbie, declaro que tiene "inversiones" en Colombia, de donde asegura que proviene toda la droga.
Location:Colombia, Venezuela
Category:Arms Trafficking, Venezuelan Foreign Policy
Colombia Category:Arms Trafficking, Relations with Venezuela
Title:Denuncian envio de armas a las FARC
Author/Source:Antonio Maria Delgado
El Nuevo Herald
Brief:El contraalmirante retirado Carlos Molina Tamayo, ex asesor de Seguridad Nacional de Hugo Chavez, no tiene dudas de que muchas de las armas que la guerrilla usa contra el gobierno de Colombia son suministradas por Venezuela.
Location:Costa Rica
Category:Human Rights
Title:Marines bring joy to Costa Rican students during Continuing Promise mission
Author/Source:Cpl. Alicia R. Giron
U.S. Southern Command
Brief: Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 brought smiles, hugs and supplies to Costa Rican students during their visit to Westfalia and Hone Creek schools in Costa Rica, Aug. 25-26.
Location:Cuba
Category:Fidel Castro, U.S. Policy
Title:New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist
Author/Source:Will Weissert
Associated Press
Yahoo!
Brief:The images show Cuba's 84-year-old former leader with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Julia E. Sweig from the Council on Foreign Relations.
Location:Ecuador
Category:Chinese Foreign Policy, Economy And Security
Title:1.000 millones, de China para Ecuador
Author/Source:El Universo (Ecuador)
Brief:Ecuador y China firmaron ayer en Beijing el credito por $ 1.000 millones, acordado hace pocas semanas entre el Ministerio de Finanzas (MEF) y el Banco de Desarrollo de China
Location:Ecuador, Mexico
Category:Migration, Public Security
Title:En peligro el ecuatoriano sobreviviente de masacre
Author/Source:Associated Press
El Nuevo Herald
Brief:El unico sobreviviente de la masacre de 72 migrantes en Mexico, el ecuatoriano Luis Lala, corre peligro 'incluso en Ecuador', afirmo el martes el subsecretario del ministerio del Interior, Edwin Jarrin
Location:Guatemala, Guatemala
Category:Corruption, Public Security
Title:Dall’Anese se reune con jefes de bloque
Author/Source:El Periodico (Guatemala)
Brief:Al Comisionado le preocupa que el proceso electoral afecte la aprobacion de leyes.
Location:Haiti
Category:Elections, Politics And Security
Title:Haiti adelanta en un mes inicio campana electoral
Author/Source:EFE
La Nacion (Chile)
Brief:El Consejo Electoral Provisional (CEP) informo hoy que decidio adelantar para el 27 de septiembre proximo el inicio de la campana electoral con miras a las elecciones presidenciales y legislativas del 28 de noviembre
Location:Haiti, South America Regional
Category:Diplomatic Relations
Title:La Unasur ya tiene oficina en Haiti
Author/Source:Pagina/12
Brief:La Unasur inauguro ayer la secretaria tecnica UnasurHaiti, en el marco del Plan de Trabajo acordado por el presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa -a cargo de la presidencia pro-tempore del bloque- y por el secretario ejecutivo, Nestor Kirchner
Location:Honduras
Category:Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights, Politics And Security
Title:Sobreseimiento para militar
Author/Source:El Heraldo (Honduras)
Brief:El teniente coronel fue acusado por el Ministerio Publico al suponerlo responsable del cierre temporal de dos medios de comunicacion
Location:Honduras
Category:Economy And Security
Title:Inseguridad alimentaria afecta a 4.5 millones
Author/Source:El Heraldo (Honduras)
Brief:72 de cada 100 hondurenos se ubican en el grupo de personas que padecen de inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional
Location:Mexico
Category:Kidnapping, Public Security
Title:Rescatan a 6 cubanos secuestrados en Cancun
Author/Source:El Universal (Mexico)
Brief:Los cubanos habian sido secuestrados desde hacia un mes y sus captores pretendian cobrar de ocho a 10 mil dolares a sus familiares en Miami
Location:Mexico
Category:Migration, Public Security
Title:Mexico to announce plan to protect migrants
Author/Source:CNN
Brief:The announcement comes a week after the bodies of 72 slain migrants from Central and South America were found in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas.
Location:Mexico
Category:Migration, Public Security
Title:Massacre reveals hidden toll of Central American migrants killed crossing Mexico to the US
Author/Source:The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Brief:Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said there were witness accounts of 198 mass kidnappings involving 9,758 migrants in a six month-period in 2009
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Calderon Takes Aim at Money Laundering
Author/Source:Cecilia Farfan Mendez
Americas Society/Council Of The Ame
Brief:Mexican President Felipe Calderon sends his fourth state of the union to Congress September 1 at a point when some observers see the security outlook as gloomy at best.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Mexico 'drug kingpin' Edgar Valdez confesses on video
Author/Source:BBC
Brief:US-born alleged drug kingpin Edgar "Barbie" Valdez has admitted to being involved in the drugs trade, but has insisted he worked alone.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Audio: Mexico's drugs war: a crime writer's perspective
Author/Source:BBC (UK)
Brief:Mexico's top crime writer, Paco Ignacio Taibo, has written about the subject and has strong views on the drugs war.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Cocaine's cowboys
Author/Source:Financial Times (UK)
Brief:Combating drug criminality is a police, not an army, job. The troops Mr Calderon has sent to the worst affected areas can therefore only be a stopgap solution.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:In Mexico, skepticism that arrest of Edgar Valdez Villarreal - 'La Barbie' - will stem drug trade
Author/Source:Sara Miller Llana
The Christian Science Monitor
Brief:While experts say this is a political victory for Mr. Calderon and will boost Mexico's reputation, it is likely to have little short-term impact on the flow of drugs.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Drug lord's arrest called mark of progress against Mexican cartels
Author/Source:Alfredo Corchado
The Dallas Morning News
Brief:The capture of the Texas-born fugitive, nicknamed "La Barbie," ends a bloody chapter in Mexico's battle against the cartels and could produce important intelligence on them.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Editorial: Mass murder in Mexico
Author/Source:The Dallas Morning News
Brief:When gunmen are willing to line up and shoot migrants in cold blood, for whatever reason, the terrorists have descended into an entirely new realm of inhumanity.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Barbie behind bars
Author/Source:The Economist (UK)
Brief:Known as La Barbie for his supposed (and unconvincing) resemblance to a Ken doll, the Texas-born Mr Valdez cut his teeth as the chief enforcer for Joaquin El Chapo ("Shorty") Guzman.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Mexico's capture of accused drug lord may yield inside cartel information
Author/Source:Ken Ellingwood
The Los Angeles Times
Brief:'He might sing like a canary,' one analyst says the day after the capture of the Texas-born figure known as La Barbie
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security
Title:Capture of drug kingpin a breakthrough for Mexico
Author/Source:The Miami Herald
Brief:Valdez-Villarreal had many enemies, but one of his bitterest feuds dated to his stint in Nuevo Laredo, where he battled the Gulf Cartel and its henchmen, Los Zetas, for smuggling routes.
Location:Mexico
Category:Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy
Title:What if the drug lords prevail?
Author/Source:Mary Sanchez
The Miami Herald
Brief:Two hundred years after Hidalgo uttered his famous cry, or "grito," to begin the insurgency against Spain, Mexico must free itself from this devil within or risk a new form of colonization.
Location:Mexico
Category:Politics And Security, Public Security
Title:The State Of Mexico's Increasingly Brutal Drug War : NPR
Author/Source:Jason Beaubien, Robert Siegel
NPR
Brief:Mexico's President Felipe Calderon handed his assessment of the state of his nation to Congress on Wednesday. NPR's Jason Beaubien also assesses the state of Mexico
Location:Mexico
Category:Public Security
Title:Eight People Killed in Mexico Resort City of Cancun
Author/Source:Jens Erik Gould
Bloomberg
Brief:The attack occurred at a bar called Castillo del Mar, about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the city’s main hotel zone, and all the victims were Mexican.
Location:Mexico
Category:Public Security
Title:Mexico: Ciudad Juarez supera los 2 mil muertos en 2010
Author/Source:EFE
La Nacion (Chile)
Brief:El numero de asesinatos cometidos por el crimen organizado en Ciudad Juarez supero los dos mil al mes de agosto.
Location:Mexico
Category:Terrorism, U.S. Policy
Title:MYRICK: Hezbollah car bombs on our border
Author/Source:Rep. Sue Myrick
The Washington Times
Brief:A well-known international arms dealer was trying to orchestrate an arms-for-drugs deal in which cocaine from FARC - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which works with Mexican drug cartels to take cocaine into America - would be traded for thous
Location:Mexico
Category:U.S. Policy
Title:Mexico, US open joint office to combat drug gangs
Author/Source:Agence France Presse
Google
Brief:The office will oversee transfers of equipment and training under the so-called Merida Initiative.
Location:Mexico
Category:U.S. Policy
Title:Merida Initiative Bilateral Implementation Office Opens
Author/Source:Office Of The Spokesman
U.S. Department Of State
Brief:This office will allow for daily exchanges between technical staffers of agencies of both countries with the purpose of fully implementing equipment transfer and training programs under the Merida Initiative.
Location:Mexico
Category:U.S. Policy
Title:Merida Initiative Bilateral Implementation Office Opens
Author/Source:Office Of The Spokesman
U.S. Department Of State
Brief:This office will allow for daily exchanges between technical staffers of agencies of both countries with the purpose of fully implementing equipment transfer and training programs under the Merida Initiative.
Location:Nicaragua
Category:Civil-Military Relations
Title:Ejercito estrena a nuevos generales
Author/Source:Jose Adan Silva
El Nuevo Diario
Brief:Tres nuevos generales de Brigada y doce mujeres ascendidas en diversos rangos.
Location:Nicaragua
Category:Politics And Security
Title:De partido revolucionario a familiar
Author/Source:Matilde Cordoba
El Nuevo Diario
Brief:El libro muestra la metamorfosis del FSLN, y el acumulamiento de poder en la figura de Daniel Ortega, un inesperado legado en su historia
Location:Nicaragua
Category:Politics And Security
Title:De partido revolucionario a familiar
Author/Source:Matilde Cordoba
El Nuevo Diario
Brief:El libro muestra la metamorfosis del FSLN, y el acumulamiento de poder en la figura de Daniel Ortega, un inesperado legado en su historia
Location:Nicaragua
Category:Public Security
Title:Seguridad privada rebasa a la Policia
Author/Source:
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Location:Nicaragua
Category:U.S. Policy
Title:Diaz: Ayuda de EE.UU. no alcanza - LA PRENSA — EL Diario de los Nicaragüenses
Author/Source:Elizabeth Romero
La Prensa (Nicaragua)
Brief:Ortega critico que, como parte del Plan Merida, Estados Unidos otorgara a Nicaragua solo dos millones de dolares
Location:Nicaragua, Nicaragua
Category:Politics And Security
Title:La corren porque no es orteguista
Author/Source:Leonor Alvarez
El Nuevo Diario
Brief:La trabajadora del area de Protocolo de la Cancilleria de la Republica, Carolina de Fatima Vega Noguera denuncio ayer en la Comision Permanente de Derechos Humanos, CPDH, que fue suspendida por ser opositora al actual gobierno.
Location:Peru
Category:Civil-Military Relations, Labor Rights
Title:Civiles de FFAA toman calles
Author/Source:La Republica (Peru)
Brief:Un grupo de trabajadores civiles de los institutos armados, quienes cumplen una huelga indefinida desde el 12 de agosto en demanda de la equivalencia de sus remuneraciones con los ingresos del personal militar senalado por un decreto legislativo, desplega
Location:Venezuela
Category:Economy And Security, Public Security
Title:FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in Venezuela Reuters
Author/Source:Frank Jack Daniel, Patricia Rondon, Marianna Parraga, Daniel
Reuters
Reuters
Brief:Keep an eye out for unpredictable policy changes by socialist President Hugo Chavez, especially if the poll bolsters the opposition, as well as the chance of new nationalizations.
Location:Venezuela
Category:Elections, Politics And Security
Title:Chavez dice que radicalizara la revolucion despues del 26S
Author/Source:El Universal (Venezuela)
Brief:"Ellos (oposicion) pretenden llegar a la Asamblea no para hacer leyes, sino para dar un golpe como en Honduras. Por ahi va la linea que dio el imperio norteamericano"

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