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Friday, February 27, 2009
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Release of the 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report |
| Author/Source: | David Johnson Bureau Of International Narcotics And Law Enforcement Affairs U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | This report, sometimes referred to by its acronym, INCSR, is our annual review of foreign governments’ efforts to implement their international obligations under, in particular, United Nations drug control conventions. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | (PDF) 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, vol. 1: Drug and Chemical Control |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Air Forces Southern Hosts Regional Air Chiefs Conference |
| Author/Source: | Nathan D. Broshear U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | This week in Miami, the Commander and his team worked to build partnerships with Latin American peers as AFSOUTH welcomed general officers and representatives from 10 foreign Air Forces to discuss issues related to regional security, countering airborne d |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Reforman justicia militar en Argentina |
| Author/Source: | HERNAN DI BELLO El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | A partir del viernes, los militares deberan someterse a los tribunales federales ante cualquier delito penal, pero las Fuerzas Armadas tambien contaran con un procedimiento ''para tiempos de guerra'' |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Argentine anger over CIA claims |
| Author/Source: | Jude Webber F, Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | Jorge Taiana, Argentina's foreign minister, responded angrily yesterday to claims by Leon Panetta, the new Central Intelligence Agency chief, that the economic crisis could tip Argentina into instability |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | Uribe reins in Colombia intelligence service |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | President Alvaro Uribe Thursday restricted the eavesdropping powers of Colombia's intelligence service, which faces allegations of unauthorized spying, but stopped short of disbanding it |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | Spies in trouble |
| Author/Source: | The Economist (UK) |
| Brief: | The domestic-intelligence agency is caught misbehaving again |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal, International Community |
| Title: | Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos preocupada por 'chuzadas' del DAS |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) expresa su preocupacion por las actividades de inteligencia que, segun informacion de conocimiento publico, fueron adelantadas por el Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal, Uribe Government Security Policies |
| Title: | Deterioro institucional por seguridad |
| Author/Source: | Jorge Ivan Cuervo R. El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | LA SOCIEDAD COLOMBIANA ESTÁ pagando un costo muy alto por el restablecimiento de la seguridad publica: el deterioro de las instituciones encargadas de adelantar dicha tarea |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Displacement, International Community |
| Title: | Las renuncias de la ONU |
| Author/Source: | Laura Gil El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | A todas luces es notorio que la Secretaria General no tiene nada pensado para Colombia, probablemente por el poco interes que Ban Ki-moon muestra en America Latina. Es una lastima |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Justice and Peace Process, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Iguaran y Mancuso, cara a cara |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | El ex jefe paramilitar presentara a el Fiscal Mario Iguaran su propuesta para que sea Estados Unidos el encargado de administrar sus bienes |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Betancourt was 'haughty' in captivity: ex-hostages |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | "Ingrid had sent notes to (FARC commander) Sombra telling him that we were CIA agents and she wanted us out of there for that reason," Stansell writes |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Ingrid Betancourt was 'worse than guards', claims a fellow hostage |
| Author/Source: | Andrew Pierce Telegraph.co.uk |
| Brief: | The heroic status of Ingrid Betancourt, who was rescued from six years in the hands of Marxist guerrillas deep in the Colombian jungle, has been shattered by a memoir from her fellow captives |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Ex rehen de las Farc Óscar Tulio Lizcano jugo ajedrez con el hijo de su carcelero |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El encuentro con el pequeno en plena selva ocurrio en los primeros meses del 2003. Álex contaba entonces con unos tres anos |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | Betancourt vilified by fellow hostages |
| Author/Source: | Ed Pilkington The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | he attack on her exalted reputation comes from two of the three US military contractors who were among the 14 other hostages rescued alongside Betancourt |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Defenders, Uribe Government Security Policies |
| Title: | COLOMBIA: Spurious Cases Against Human Rights Defenders |
| Author/Source: | Constanza Vieira IPS |
| Brief: | Activists in civil war-torn Colombia are frequently accused of belonging to the leftwing guerrillas, or of slander or defamation, and are secretly investigated for months or years before being "illegally detained |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | United States Government Launches Program to Strengthen Labor Rights in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Trade Union Strengthening in Colombia, a new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded labor rights and union strengthening program |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombian bases could accept more US planes: official |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | The move could allow the United States to make up for the potential loss of Ecuador's Manta air force base |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombia permitira que Estados Unidos use bases aereas colombianas |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El ministro de Defensa de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, dijo que como parte de un acuerdo de cooperacion militar, su pais permitira el aterrizaje de aviones estadounidenses en bases colombianas |
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations |
| Colombia Category: | International Community, Relations with Ecuador |
| Title: | El secretario de la OEA busca acercar a Ecuador y a Colombia |
| Author/Source: | JEANNETH VALDIVIESO El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El presidente ecuatoriano Rafael Correa expuso las repercusiones del conflicto colombiano al secretario general de la OEA Jose Miguel Insulza, quien visita este pais andino como parte de los esfuerzos del organismo continental para lograr un acercamiento |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | EE.UU. dice jueces corruptos generan desconfianza en la justicia |
| Author/Source: | Edmee Velasquez, David Marroquin El Salvador |
| Brief: | El Informe sobre Derechos Humanos del Departamento de Estado vuelve a criticar a instituciones salvadorenas |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Arms Transfers, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | The Drug Cartels’ Right to Bear Arms |
| Author/Source: | The New York Times |
| Brief: | A vast arms bazaar is rampant along the four border states, enabled by porous to nonexistent American gun laws |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Comision de la ONU monitorea derechos humanos en Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Pedro Matias Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Representantes del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (OACNUDH) recorren el pais con miras a elaborar un reporte sobre violaciones a las garantias fundamentales. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping |
| Title: | Arraigan a funcionarios de Ixtapaluca implicdados en banda de secuestradores |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Cabildo Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El presidente municipal con licencia y la regidora del municipio mexiquense de Ixtapaluca, Mario Moreno Conrado y Silvia Lopez Herrera, respectivamente, fueron arraigados por 40 dias, como presuntos responsables de delincuencia organizada, privacion ilega |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | La armada de Mexico continuan la lucha permanente contra el narcotrafico |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Continuan los resultados de la lucha permanente en contra del narcotrafico por parte de la Armada de Mexico, para debilitar a los grupos delincuenciales dedicados a la produccion de enervantes. En esta ocasion personal naval localizo y erradico diez plant |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Ejercito y policias, preparan ‘ataque frontal’ al narco en Ciudad Juarez |
| Author/Source: | La Redaccion Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | La direccion de Seguridad Publica en el municipio de Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, continuara en manos de militares, anuncio hoy el alcalde Jose Reyes Ferriz. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Napolitano On The War In Mexico |
| Author/Source: | CBS News |
| Brief: | The Mexican government's crackdown on the cartels has resulted in a quasi war in which the rich drug gangs are fighting back with increasingly more sophisticated and powerful weapons |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Commentary: What Mexico's drug war means for U.S. |
| Author/Source: | Ruben Navarrette Jr. CNN |
| Brief: | Take it from someone who has known Mexican President Felipe Calderon since before he took the job -- back when we were in graduate school together nearly a decade ago -- that's not going to happen |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Calderon says drug lords not in control |
| Author/Source: | The Washington Times |
| Brief: | In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, he rejected U.S. government reports that questioned whether the Mexican government is losing control of its territory |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | 20 killed as Mexico crime gangs defy security |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | Rampaging organized crime syndicates thumbed their noses at reinforced security measures in northern Mexico, killing 20 people overnight |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | UPDATE 2-Mexico to send more troops to besieged city |
| Author/Source: | Reuters |
| Brief: | The army said on Thursday the deployment of up to 5,000 personnel could take the number of soldiers and federal police to over 7,000 in Ciudad Juarez |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | En el ano, 41 ejecutados en Guanajuato |
| Author/Source: | Veronica Espinosa Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Segun el recuento oficial, en lo que va del ano 41 personas fueron ejecutadas en la entidad. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Propone Torreblanca fiscalia especial para el caso de los mixtecos ejecutados |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Cabildo Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El gobernador guerrerense Zeferino Torreblanca solicito al Congreso local la creacion de una fiscalia especial para investigar el secuestro, tortura y posterior ejecucion de Raul Lucas Lucia y Manuel Ponce Rosas, dirigentes mixtecos en el municipio de Ayu |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | "No visiten Mexico", instruyen universidades de EU a sprinbreakers |
| Author/Source: | JUAN PABLO PROAL Proceso (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El departamento de Estado y las universidades de Texas y Arizona urgieron a sus estudiantes a no visitar Mexico durante las vacaciones de verano |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US Senate panel to examine violence on Mexico border |
| Author/Source: | Reuters |
| Brief: | The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said it will hold two hearings over the coming weeks |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Senate sets hearings on Mexico drug violence |
| Author/Source: | TODD J. GILLMAN The Dallas Morning News |
| Brief: | The Senate homeland security committee plans hearings March 25 in Washington on border-area violence, and another for April in Arizona |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Hill targets Mexico drug feuds |
| Author/Source: | Shaun Waterman The Washington Times |
| Brief: | Senators also want to look at how the U.S. government is working with Mexico, the statement said, for instance through the so-called Merida initiative |