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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 |
| 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 |
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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" |