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Thursday, February 26, 2009
| Location: | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Reports: Antigua and Barbuda |
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| Brief: | Country Reports on Human Rights Practices |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Reports: Argentina |
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| Location: | Bahamas |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Reports: The Bahamas |
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| Location: | Barbados |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Barbados |
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| Location: | Belize |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Reports: Belize |
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| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Bolivia |
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| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | EEUU halla abusos y amenazas a DDHH |
| Author/Source: | La Razon (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | Es uno de los resultados de su informe sobre DDHH en Bolivia.?Senala ademas que se practicaron arrestos y detenciones arbitrarias, que el Poder?Judicial fue victima de ataques y que hubo abusos y corrupcion |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Embajada de Estados Unidos desmiente a Evo Morales |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La embajada de Estados Unidos en Bolivia rechazo ayer la acusacion lanzada por el presidente Evo Morales sobre la supuesta infiltracion de un agente de la CIA en la petrolera estatal YPFB |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Brazil |
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| Location: | Brazil, Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing: Brazil and Cuba |
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| Brief: | Brazil: The Secretary Is Aware of the Goldman Case / Don't Know if It Will Be Raised in Her Meeting with FM Amorim; Will Continue to Work with Brazil on a Proper Resolution to this Case. Cuba: Policy is Under Review |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Chile |
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| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | 2 more resign from troubled Colombia spy agency |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | The Department of Administrative Security, or DAS, announced in a statement the resignation of its deputy directors of analysis and operations, Gustavo Sierra and Marta Leal |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | El DAS ya no podra interceptar comunicaciones |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El presidente Álvaro Uribe anuncio que el DAS ya no no podra realizar acciones de inteligencia que impliquen interceptacion a personas, sin presentarle sus planes previamente a la Policia |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | En vano fueron recomendaciones de 2006 para evitar 'chuzadas' |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Ramiro Bejarano, ex director del DAS, y uno de los "chuzados" dijo que hace tres anos una comision especial presento un informe para evitar nuevos actos indebidos |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal, Justice System |
| Title: | Magistrado Velasquez denuncia persecucion del Gobierno |
| Author/Source: | Radio Caracol |
| Brief: | Velasquez, el magistrado mas vigilado por el DAS con mas de 2 mil horas de llamadas telefonicas grabadas y seguimientos detallados de todos sus movimientos, senala que el espionaje del DAS afecta la independencia del poder judicial |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal, Justice System |
| Title: | Las "chuzadas" son un eslabon de una cadena de hostigamientos: Corte |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En una larga reunion con el Fiscal y el Procurador, la Corte Suprema de Justicia denuncio que es victima de un complot que busca entorpecer su labor constitucional |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal, Press Freedom |
| Title: | Colombian intelligence service wiretapped journalists |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Citing five unnamed DAS agents, the magazine said that rogue intelligence officials had monitored and intercepted thousands of e-mails and telephone calls at the end of 2008 |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal, Uribe Government Security Policies |
| Title: | La cabeza de la Hidra |
| Author/Source: | Pablo Emilio Obando El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Podriamos realizar un parangon entre la situacion yugoslava de Milosevic y la Colombia actual de Uribe |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Demobilization And Reintegration, Emerging Criminal Groups, International Community, Justice and Peace Process |
| Title: | OEA: grupos paramilitares en Colombia amenazan proceso de paz |
| Author/Source: | Telesur |
| Brief: | El informe identifica 28 zonas afectadas por las facciones armadas que comprenden 153 municipios, lo que seria el 14 por ciento del total de municipios colombianos |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Essays And Analyses |
| Title: | El terror modulado de las Farc |
| Author/Source: | Wieldler Guerra Curvelo Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Estas guerrillas han dado muestras de un marcado autismo social realizando acciones de depredacion social sobre los grupos humanos mas debiles |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Hostage chronicle unkind to Colombia's Betancourt |
| Author/Source: | FRANK BAJAK Associated Press |
| Brief: | One of the Northrop Grumman employees alleges she was haughty and self-absorbed, stole food and hoarded books, and even put their lives in danger by telling rebel guards they were CIA agents |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Held Hostage: 'When Am I Going to Die Here?' |
| Author/Source: | MIGUEL SANCHO, JUSTIN STURKEN And MICHAEL MENDELSOHN ABC News |
| Brief: | They were put in cages, and forbidden to speak to each other. By that point they had discovered that their captors were both young and frighteningly naïve |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Book Excerpt: 'Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle' |
| Author/Source: | ABC News |
| Brief: | The publisher provided the following excerpt of "Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle" by Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes and Keith Stansell |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | International Community, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | UN humanitarian chief travels to Choco region in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | On the second day of his mission to Colombia, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes traveled to the Choco region in northwest Colombia |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Mass Graves |
| Title: | En fosas de La Macarena (Meta) puede haber hasta 1.150 cadaveres |
| Author/Source: | Caracol Television |
| Brief: | Los lugarenos aseguran que vieron enterrar alli a centenares de personas, la mayoria, al parecer, combatientes de las FARC |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | La legalizacion de las drogas |
| Author/Source: | Guillermo Maya El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En este sentido, la mejor politica es legalizar las drogas, tanto la produccion como el consumo, bajo un consenso internacional y una fuerte regulacion estatal |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombian VP reaffirms support for war on drugs |
| Author/Source: | E.J. TAMARA The San Francisco Chronicle |
| Brief: | Santos, making a weeklong visit to the United States, reiterated his government's position two days after three former Latin American presidents said the war on drugs had failed |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Para-Politics |
| Title: | Mancuso senala a ex subdirector del DAS y asegura que militares venezolanos tenian vinculos con Farc |
| Author/Source: | Verdad Abierta |
| Brief: | En version libre desde Estados Unidos el ex jefe paramilitar del Bloque Norte, Catatumbo y Cordoba de la AUC, Salvatore Mancuso, senalo al ex subdirector del DAS, Jose Miguel Narvaez, y menciono presuntos nexos entre las Fuerzas Armadas venezolanas con la |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Bogota |
| Title: | Detienen en Bogota a un jefe del ELN |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | En un comunicado, las autoridades policiales precisaron que Wilson Eusebio Garcia Ramirez (alias ''Juancito'') fue arrestado anoche en una taberna de la capital colombiana tras ''varios meses de seguimiento y labores de inteligencia' |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombia: Having So Much in Common |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | It’s a real pleasure to have the representative of a country that has made so many strides and so much progress, and we have a lot to talk about |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Uribe Government Security Policies |
| Title: | Dieciocho mil policias reforzaran operativos contra las Farc |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | De acuerdo con el director de Seguridad Ciudadana, general Orlando Paez Baron, se tiene informacion de inteligencia que habla de posibles acciones armadas |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Reports: Colombia |
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| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Estoy muy orgullosa de trabajar con Colombia”: Hillary Clinton |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La Secretaria de Estado de EE.UU. recibio en su despacho al canciller, Jaime Bermudez, y al ministro de Defensa, Juan M. Santos, con quienes abordo temas de la agenda bilateral |
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Relations with Ecuador |
| Title: | El Ejercito se enfrento con las FARC en Coembi |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | Dos encuentros fortuitos con celulas guerrilleras de las FARC, libraron patrullas ecuatorianas desplazadas en la linea geodesica de Coembi, en el canton Putumayo |
| Location: | Costa Rica |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Costa Rica |
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| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Cuba |
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| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | La situacion de los derechos humanos en Cuba empeoro... |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La situacion de los derechos humanos en Cuba empeoro en el 2008, indico ayer el Departamento de Estado en su informe anual |
| Location: | Dominica |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Dominica |
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| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Dominican Republic |
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| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Southern Partnership Station Arrives in Dominican Republic |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Ball U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | High speed vessel Swift (HSV 2) arrived here today for a ten-day training mission during Southern Partnership Station (SPS). |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Ecuador |
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| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Ecuador |
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| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Candidato oficialista aventaja al FMLN en El Salvador |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La firma Borge y Asociados, que elaboro el estudio para el matutino El Diario deHoy, afirmo que Avila cuenta actualmente con un 40.9 por ciento de las preferencias electorales, mientras Funes, quien desde el ano pasado encabeza las encuestas, aparece con |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: El Salvador |
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| Location: | Grenada |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Grenada |
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| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Ejercito guatemalteco entrega sus archivos de la guerra civil |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El Ejercito de Guatemala entrego ayer a la justicia sus archivos sobre planes contrainsurgentes entre 1978 y 1983, durante la guerra civil, tal como lo demandaban entidades de derechos humanos |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Reports: Guatemala |
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| Location: | Guyana |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Guyana |
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| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Europes Role, Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Haiti |
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| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Honduras |
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| Location: | Jamaica |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Jamaica |
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| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Is Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels |
| Author/Source: | JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. The New York Times |
| Brief: | Mexican authorities have long complained that American gun dealers are arming the cartels. This case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Microfinancing still resilient in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | Until a year ago, microfinance and low-income banking in Mexico were a joint success story, growing at rates that made the rest of the country’s banking sector look sluggish |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Mexico |
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| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Napolitano Cites Mexican Drug Cartels as Major Threat |
| Author/Source: | Spencer S. Hsu |
| Brief: | Napolitano said she has reached out to national security adviser James L. Jones, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and local and state law enforcement officials to review ways to assist Mexican law enforcement |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Poderio del narco mina gobernabilidad en Mexico, advierte EU |
| Author/Source: | J. JESuS ESQUIVEL Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El creciente poderio de los carteles de la droga mexicanos mina la capacidad del presidente Felipe Calderon para gobernar con efectividad algunas zonas del pais, advirtio hoy Dennis Blair, director nacional de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico providing crisis close to home for Obama |
| Author/Source: | David Rieff The Houston Chronicle |
| Brief: | The only recent parallel in Latin America was a similar effort 15 years ago by the Colombian drug cartels. That disguised coup failed — barely — and there is no guarantee that the result will be similar this time around in Mexico |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | The Lawlessness South of the Border Continues...Too Dangerous for Marines? |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | These are dangerous, deadly times on the U.S.-Mexico border, dangerous enough to ban United States Marines. It is time we deal with the lawlessness on the U.S.-Mexico Border. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US raids target Mexican drug gang |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | A major crackdown on Mexican drug traffickers operating in the US has led to the arrest of 755 people, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Hundreds arrested in U.S. probe of Mexican drug cartel |
| Author/Source: | Josh Meyer The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Fifty arrests in California and elsewhere are the latest among 730 targeting the Sinaloa cartel in a 21-month investigation |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Moves Against Top Mexican Drug Cartel |
| Author/Source: | RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD The New York Times |
| Brief: | More than 750 people nationwide have been arrested, tons of cocaine and marijuana have been seized and the distribution of drugs has been disrupted through a series of raids and arrests |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | As drug violence escalates, Americans in Mexico warned |
| Author/Source: | USA Today |
| Brief: | The raids capped a 21-month operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration that rounded up 755 suspects and seized more than $59 million |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico's progress in U.S. interest |
| Author/Source: | MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLE The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | While few countries are as important to the United States, Mexico is unlikely to get the Obama administration's undivided attention |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Nicaragua |
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| Location: | Panama |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Panama |
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| Location: | Paraguay |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Paraguay |
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| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Peru |
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| Location: | St. Kitts and Nevis |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Saint Kitts and Nevis |
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| Location: | St. Lucia |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Saint Lucia |
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| Location: | St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
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| Location: | Suriname |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Suriname |
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| Location: | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Location: | Uruguay |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Uruguay |
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| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 2008 Human Rights Report: Venezuela |
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| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Venezuela rechaza critica de EE.UU. |
| Author/Source: | Yolanda Valery BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Venezuela rechazo el informe anual del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos, segun el cual hubo un deterioro de los derechos humanos en este pais |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Gobierno rechaza informe sobre derechos humanos de EEUU |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Venezuela) |
| Brief: | El gobierno rechazo hoy "de la forma mas categorica y firme" el informe sobre la situacion de los derechos humanos en el mundo presentado por el Departamento de Estado |
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | EEUU alaba avances en DDHH en Colombia y Guatemala |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El Gobierno de Estados Unidos critico hoy, en un informe anual sobre la situacion de los derechos humanos en el mundo, a Venezuela, Cuba y Nicaragua, pero destaco algunos avances en otros paises como Colombia y Guatemala. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security |
| Title: | UN: Latin America needs help vs. drug traffickers |
| Author/Source: | EDITH M. LEDERER MSNBC |
| Brief: | Central American nations need urgent international help to confront the increasingly dangerous presence of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, the head of a U.N.-backed commission investigating organized crime in Guatemala said Tuesday. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | President Obama and the OAS |
| Author/Source: | Michael Shifter Inter-American Dialogue |
| Brief: | It is no surprise that the new administration of Barack Obama has been getting a lot of advice about how it should approach US policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean in the coming years. There is a sense of enormous opportunity to shape a more pro |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations |
| Title: | Argentina: Holocaust Denier Is Ordered to Leave |
| Author/Source: | The New York Times |
| Brief: | Argentina has given a Roman Catholic bishop 10 days to leave the country or be expelled after he caused an international uproar by denying the extent of the Holocaust, the government said Thursday. |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Acuerdo a medias con el campo |
| Author/Source: | Valeria Perasso BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Tras mas de tres horas a puertas cerradas, los representantes del campo y del gobierno argentino anunciaron este martes que habian alcanzado "algunos acuerdos", dando la primera senal de acercamiento en un conflicto que lleva casi un ano, plagad |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Elections |
| Title: | Los candidatos para enfrentar a Morales surgen desde occidente |
| Author/Source: | La Razon (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | Los candidatos para hacerle frente a Evo Morales en las elecciones de diciembre surgen desde el occidente del pais, donde los votos de La Paz (1.278.022 segun el Padron Electoral) son decisivos para cualquier proceso electoral. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Morales acusa por la radio |
| Author/Source: | Veronica Smink BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, volvio a colocarse los auriculares y a sentarse frente a un microfono, en una sesion maratonica que condujo este martes en la emisora de los productores de coca, en la region del Chapare. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Evo dice que Santos mintio y cree que apano a corruptos |
| Author/Source: | La Razon (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | El Primer Mandatario sostuvo que pidio en cuatro oportunidades al ex presidente de la estatal petrolera que despidiese a Rodrigo Carrasco, de quien dijo era un infiltrado de la CIA en YPFB. Revelo que incluso penso en destituir a Ramirez. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | EEUU rechaza acusacion de Morales sobre "infiltrado" de CIA |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La embajada de Estados Unidos rechazo el miercoles las declaraciones del presidente Evo Morales que acuso a la central de inteligencia estadounidense, CIA, de supuestamente infiltrar en la petrolera estatal a un ex policia. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Arms Trafficking |
| Title: | Arms dealer jailed for 30 years |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | A Syrian-born arms dealer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to sell millions of dollars of weapons to Colombian rebels |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | 2 more resign from troubled Colombia spy agency |
| Author/Source: | Yahoo! |
| Brief: | Two more top deputies resigned from Colombia's domestic spy agency on Tuesday as prosecutors investigate allegations of improper eavesdropping on journalists, Supreme Court judges and opposition members. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | Comunicado del DAS |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Director senala que no se ha pensado en cerrar la entidad |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | ¿Director desinformado? |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El director del DAS dice que no hay registro en esa entidad de los documentos confidenciales que Semana denuncio que fueron filtrados desde el DAS a la guerrilla del ELN. Vealos aqui. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Diplomatic Relations, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | “Visitas de ministros a EU demuestran riqueza de la relacion entre los dos paises”: Embajadora Barco |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | La Embajadora de Colombia en Washington, Carolina Barco, explico que junto con los ministros de Relaciones Exteriores, Jaime Bermudez, y de Defensa, Juan Manuel Santos, se realizaran los primeros contactos con la nueva administracion del Presidente Barack |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions |
| Title: | Colombia's Drug Extraditions: Are They Worth It? |
| Author/Source: | John Otis Time |
| Brief: | http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1881510,00.html?iid=tsmodule |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Justice and Peace Process |
| Title: | Salvatore Mancuso dice haber entregado 25 millones de dolares para reparar a las victimas |
| Author/Source: | GUDILFREDO AVENDAÑO M El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Aseguro que las propiedades, representadas en su mayoria en tierras, las ha entregado incluso desde antes de desmovilizarse |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Defenders |
| Title: | Debilidades en procesos contra defensores de Derechos Humanos |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Testigos preparados, pruebas debiles e informacion de inteligencia como evidencia judicial son algunos de los errores que encontro la organizacion Human Right First en 32 expedientes contra defensores de derechos humanos en el pais. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Indigenous Communities, International Community, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Narino |
| Title: | Denunciaran a las Farc ante la OEA por muerte de indigenas Awa |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El embajador de Colombia ante la Organizacion de Estados Americanos (OEA), Camilo Ospina, denunciara a las Farc ante ese organismo para que los 34 estados que los conforman condenen el asesinato de los indigenas Awa |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Justice System |
| Title: | Hay 32 investigaciones sin sustento juridico contra defensores de DD HH en el pais, asegura ONG |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La denuncia fue hecha en un informe presentado por Human Rights Watch . |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Para-Politics |
| Colombia Region: | Cesar |
| Title: | Paramilitar confeso su participacion en 40 asesinatos en el sur del Cesar |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Un ex integrante de un frente de las Auc, que tenia su base en San Martin (Cesar) reconocio su intervencion en los asesinatos cometidos por las autodefensas. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Canciller se reunira hoy con la secretaria de Estado de E.U., Hillary Clinton |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Jaime Bermudez desarrollara las primeras gestiones con el nuevo Gobierno estadounidense, informo la cancilleria colombiana. |
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations |
| Colombia Category: | Relations with Ecuador |
| Title: | Ejercito de Ecuador asegura estar mejor desde ataque colombiano |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En Quito desde la incursion al campamento de ‘Reyes' han blindado la frontera con Colombia |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Guantanamo Complies With Geneva Conventions, Admiral Says |
| Author/Source: | Jim Garamone U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The detention facilities at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, meet all standards of humane treatment and are in compliance with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the vice chief of naval operations said today. |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Administration Draws Fire for Report on Guantanamo |
| Author/Source: | WILLIAM GLABERSON The New York Times |
| Brief: | The Pentagon official who inspected the Guantanamo Bay prison at the behest of President Obama and declared its conditions humane described himself Monday as a “fresh set of eyes” who had been given free rein to go about his work. |
| Location: | Cuba, Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Venezuela confirma colaboracion de policia cubana |
| Author/Source: | CASTO OCANDO El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El gobierno venezolano confirmo que un nuevo sistema de auditoria de la policia nacional que pondra en practica este ano, conocido bajo las siglas de Sigepol, fue disenado con apoyo tecnologico cubano, aunque altos funcionarios descartaron la participacio |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Guatemala: llamado contra la impunidad |
| Author/Source: | BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Amnistia Internacional (AI) pidio este miercoles al Congreso de Guatemala que apruebe la ley para la creacion de la Comision Nacional de Busqueda de Personas Desaparecidas Forzada e Involuntariamente. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Honduran Airmen Train with JTF-B Firefighters |
| Author/Source: | Rebecca Danet U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Honduran airmen train with JTF-B Firefighters |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Elementos de la armada de Mexico localizan y erradican plantios de marihuana y ampola en diferentes estados costeros |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Como resultado de la lucha permanente en contra del narcotrafico que lleva a cabo la Armada de Mexico, para debilitar a los grupos delincuenciales dedicados a la produccion de enervantes, personal naval localizo y erradico dos plantios de amapola y 8 de m |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Operation "Xcellerator" Cracks Down on Sinaloa Cartel |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Today the Government of Mexico extradited Miguel Caro Quintero, alleged former leader of the Sonora cartel responsible for the importation to the United States and distribution of multi-ton quantities of marijuana during the 1980s and 1990s. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. arrests 755 in Mexican drug cartel raids |
| Author/Source: | MSNBC |
| Brief: | DEA nets Sinaloa suspects in 120 cities; drugs, planes, boats, cars seized |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico's fierce drug war looms large for U.S. |
| Author/Source: | Shannon K. O'Neil MSNBC |
| Brief: | Can U.S. gun laws, immigration rules and drug control policies help? |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Texas pide mil tropas para prevenir el narco; Arizona, infestada de sicarios |
| Author/Source: | Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Mientras el gobernador de Texas, Rick Perry, solicito al Departamento de Seguridad Interior "mil tropas" para prevenir una eventual infiltracion del narcotrafico mexicano, autoridades de Arizona advirtieron del aumento de sicarios ligados al cri |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico: renuncia jefe policial |
| Author/Source: | BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | El jefe de la Policia de Ciudad Juarez, una de las zonas mas violentas de Mexico, renuncio a su cargo este viernes luego de que el crimen organizado le advirtiera que si no dejaba su puesto asesinaria a un agente cada 48 horas. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Asesinan a alcalde de Michoacan; tambien a una nina y un periodista |
| Author/Source: | Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Un presidente municipal, un periodista y una nina de tres anos fueron ejecutados este martes, junto con otras 16 personas. |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Nicaraguan Newspapers Lament New Sandinista Control of Journalist Association |
| Author/Source: | Ingrid Bachmann |
| Brief: | Nicaragua's National Journalists Guild elected new officers Saturday. La Prensa newspaper calls the results "A Blow to Journalism," and El Nuevo Diario describes "a Palbable Threat to Independent Journalism." |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Venezuela's determined voice of dissent |
| Author/Source: | Juan Forero The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Days after President Hugo Chavez won a referendum to eliminate term limits, Congressman Juan Jose Molina stood up in the National Assembly and called the victory "a major fraud" made possible by weak institutions and a populace manipulated by an |