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Monday, April 23, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Arms Transfers, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Congress, White House in tug-of-war over arms sales |
| Author/Source: | Jim Wolf Reuters |
| Brief: | At issue are steps implemented by the State Department to curtail an informal consultative process, in effect since the late 1970s, that routinely occurs prior to a formal notification to the Congress of a proposed arms sale. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Defense Cooperation, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Secretary: U.S., Latin America Face Common Challenges |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | Latin America figures prominently in the Pentagon's new defense strategy as an increasingly capable region that shares common challenges with the United States, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said today. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Latin Lovers' Quarrel |
| Author/Source: | James Traub Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | The idea of an "American camp" in Latin America has been an anachronism for some while, but this became glaringly clear in Cartagena. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama's failed relationship with Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Teo Ballve Star Tribune |
| Brief: | A genuine partnership of equals would mean heeding the overwhelming consensus by Latin American leaders against the U.S.-sponsored drug war and the isolation of Cuba. |
| Location: | Entire Region, Mexico |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Asesinaron a 24 periodistas en un ano en el hemisferio: SIP |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El organismo, que agrupa a mil 300 publicaciones de la region, destaco el caso de Mexico, donde en 10 anos han sido asesinados o desaparecidos mas de 70 periodistas, en su mayoria por acciones de los carteles de las droga. |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Drug Seizures, Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Secuestran 45 kilos de cocaina |
| Author/Source: | La Nacion (Argentina) |
| Brief: | La droga era trasladada en un automovil en la localidad bonaerense de Gonzalez Catan y las autoridades estimaron que el vehiculo era utilizado como una suerte de "cocina movil". |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | YPF seizure approved by 62% of Argentines, according to opinion poll |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | 49% said the decision was positive and 47% admitted to fears that it would affect negatively the image of Argentina overseas. |
| Location: | Argentina, Colombia |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Policia argentina sospecha que 'El Loco' Barrera ordeno crimen en Buenos Aires |
| Author/Source: | EFE Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La Policia argentina apunta al capo colombiano del narcotrafico Daniel "El Loco" Barrera como principal sospechoso de la autoria intelectual del crimen de su compatriota Jairo Saldarriaga. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Buscan que Evo Morales no actue como "totalitario" |
| Author/Source: | EFE ABC (Paraguay) |
| Brief: | Vargas desde el miercoles encabezara una nueva marcha a La Paz contra la construccion de una carretera en la reserva natural Tipnis. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Environment, Indigenous Communities |
| Title: | 'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help |
| Author/Source: | Gethin Chamberlain The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil's rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations of using gunmen to wipe out the Awa, a tribe of just 355. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities |
| Title: | We can save the Awa tribe |
| Author/Source: | Stephen Corry The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | As the successful survival of other Amazon Indian tribes shows, protecting their way of life rather than imposing that of the west is the best way to keep them intact. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Brazil's great opening? |
| Author/Source: | Gregory Michener Al Jazeera |
| Brief: | Although it has yet a ways to go, Brazil's move to root out corruption and improve transparency bode well. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Brazil's Rousseff achieves record approval: newspaper |
| Author/Source: | Asher Levine Reuters |
| Brief: | Sixty-four percent of Brazilians believe Rousseff's administration is doing a good or excellent job, up from 59 percent in January. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Riot Brings Brazil's Horrific Prison Conditions Into the Light |
| Author/Source: | Dom Phillips Bloomberg |
| Brief: | They demanded new leadership at the facility, known as "Compajaf," and were incensed about overly aggressive guards and the treatment meted out to visitors. |
| Location: | Brazil, Chile, Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Panetta Targets Drug and Arms Deals in South America Tour |
| Author/Source: | Viola Gienger Bloomberg |
| Brief: | His agenda includes potential military aircraft deals with Brazil and a request from Colombia for more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aid to fight the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. |
| Location: | Brazil, Chile, Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Panetta Visit to Expand South American Defense Ties |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | "In the context of limited resources of the United States for defense ... we have an opportunity to partner together with other nations so they become security exporters." |
| Location: | Brazil, Chile, Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Panetta en Colombia, Brasil y Chile para coordinar ayuda a America Central |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse Univision |
| Brief: | Colombia ha contribuido al entrenamiento miles de policias en Mexico y Centroamerica en los ultimos anos, y esa tendencia se acentuara. |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Defense Cooperation, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Chile, U.S. dedicate MOUT facility for peacekeeping training |
| Author/Source: | Arwen Consaul Army South Public Affairs Office U.S. Army South |
| Brief: | More than 80 service members, representing 13 nations, attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly constructed Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) site here. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Chinese Foreign Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Chinese Foreign Policy |
| Title: | CPC official hails China-Colombia relations |
| Author/Source: | China Daily |
| Brief: | Bilateral relations between China and Colombia have been in a good shape and China is committed to developing closer ties with the Latin American country, Li Changchun, a visiting senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Drug Seizures, Narcotrafficking, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Drug Seizures, Narcotrafficking, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Narino |
| Title: | Colombia seizes two tonnes of 'Farc rebel cocaine' |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | The military raided a drug laboratory thought to belong to Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Justice System |
| Colombia Category: | Justice System |
| Title: | Eduardo Montealegre anuncia revolcon en unidades claves de la Fiscalia |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Los cambios incluyen las unidades de Justicia y Paz, Derechos Humanos y Antiterrorismo. No van a ser solo administrativos sino estructurales. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Democratic Left, Politics And Security |
| Title: | La gracia es que esten las Farc |
| Author/Source: | Leon Valencia Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Siento un frio en el alma cuando oigo y leo estas palabras. Me aterra la posibilidad de que se vuelvan a cometer los errores y los crimenes de la decada de los ochenta. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | ¿Que esta pasando con la popularidad de Santos? |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En los nueve meses transcurridos desde julio del ano pasado, la favorabilidad de Santos paso de 71 por ciento a 58 por ciento. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Marcha Patriotica, mas alla del estigma |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Aunque inteligencia de las Fuerzas Militares y columnistas han intentado poner un manto de duda frente a la concentracion de este fin de semana, las mas de 1.500 organizaciones de por lo menos 26 departamentos del pais continuan firmes. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Press Freedom, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Press Freedom, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Cauca |
| Title: | Voces en vez de balas |
| Author/Source: | Mariana Escobar Roldan Arco Iris (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En 2011, Cauca fue el departamento con mayor numero de ataques a periodistas. Las radios comunitarias indigenas de la zona se han convertido en el blanco de los grupos armados. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | La retirada |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Naranjo llego a su silla, de la que hoy se retira, con una vision definida sobre la criminalidad y el uso de la inteligencia para combatirla. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Tolima |
| Title: | Bombings of 2 Buses Wound 8 in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Latin American Herald Tribune |
| Brief: | At least eight people were injured by two bombs left, presumably by leftist rebels, on two public buses in Ibague. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | El secretario de Defensa de EE.UU. estara este lunes en Colombia |
| Author/Source: | EFE Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El secretario estadounidense se reunira con Juan Manuel Santos y con Juan Carlos Pinzon y visitara la base militar de Tolemaida. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Presidente de Ecuador apoya busqueda de nueva estrategia contra las drogas |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Faro (El Salvador) |
| Brief: | Rafael Correa expreso su respaldo para buscar otra estrategia para luchar contra el problema de seguridad en Latinoamerica y califico de valiente la propuesta de Otto Perez. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, International Community |
| Title: | Corte IDH revisa masacre El Mozote |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos examinara desde hoy, en Guayaquil, demandas por violaciones de derechos humanos contra varios paises latinoamericanos, entre ellas la masacre de El Mozote. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security |
| Title: | La encuesta de los primeros cien dias |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | En el tema de la despenalizacion de las drogas es donde obtiene un duro reves el Gobierno. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Inseguridad es el mayor problema de la Nacion |
| Author/Source: | Bill Barreto Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | La principal preocupacion para la mayoria de los guatemaltecos, en areas urbanas y rurales, sigue siendo la inseguridad, aunque la percepcion de su intensidad reporta un leve descenso. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican ex-general once accused of narco ties is shot dead |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Gen. Mario Acosta Chaparro was accused in 2000 of ties to the Juarez drug cartel in northern Mexico, but later exonerated. A lone gunman shot him three times. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle |
| Author/Source: | David Barstow, Alejandra Xanic Von Bertrab, James C. McKinle The New York Times |
| Brief: | Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico Ruling Party Candidate Vazquez Mota Back to Second Place |
| Author/Source: | Nacha Cattan Bloomberg Business Week |
| Brief: | Josefina Vazquez Mota of President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party won 21.7 percent support and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who narrowly lost to Calderon in the 2006 election, had 17.2 percent. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Analysis: Mexican women voters back "alpha male" over female rival |
| Author/Source: | Anahi Rama, Lizbeth Diaz, Mica Rosenberg Reuters Chicago Tribune |
| Brief: | Women are more likely to back Pena Nieto than Vazquez Mota by a ratio of eight to five. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico's Pena Nieto offers new start to PRI |
| Author/Source: | Dave Graham Reuters |
| Brief: | Pena Nieto has suffered less from the taint of corruption than previous governors in the PRI. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Retired Mexican general shot dead in Mexico City |
| Author/Source: | Armando Tovar Reuters |
| Brief: | In 2000, Acosta was convicted of ties to the powerful Juarez cartel and sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2002. He was exonerated five years later. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Promesas contra el crimen en el “termometro del pais” |
| Author/Source: | Miriam Castillo, Luis Garcia Milenio (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Los periodicos reportaron 10 ejecutados en la ciudad por la manana y el ex gobernador del Estado de Mexico tomo la seguridad como bandera en sus propuestas. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Reforzare la lucha federal "antinarco" en NL: Pena |
| Author/Source: | Maria De Jesus Lopez Castaneda Milenio (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El candidato presidencial del PRI, Enrique Pena Nieto, se comprometio a fortalecer la presencia de las fuerzas federales en Nuevo Leon para devolver la tranquilidad a los ciudadanos. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration |
| Title: | Pide PRD proteccion para el sacerdote Alejandro Solalinde |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El sacerdote quien es coordinador de la organizacion catolica Pastoral de Movilidad Humana Pacifico Sur del Episcopado Mexicano, recibio amenazas el 15 de abril pasado por dos desconocidos que interceptaron a migrantes. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico bar shooting kills 15 |
| Author/Source: | Jill Langlois Global Post |
| Brief: | At least 10 masked gunmen dressed in what looked like police uniforms stormed a popular Mexican bar in the city of Chihuahua on Friday. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Gunmen kill 15 in bar attack in northern Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Two local Mexican journalists were among the victims, officials said, but were not believed to have been targets. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Coahuila, en alerta tras balaceras |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Los hechos provocaron ademas varios granadazos, asi como un auto incendiado, por lo que las autoridades han pedido a la ciudadania evitar circular por la zona. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Capriles critica a Chavez y dice que "gobernar por Twitter" es una "burla" |
| Author/Source: | EFE Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Hasta ahora, el gobernador del estado Miranda (centro) se habia mantenido discreto sobre la convalecencia de Chavez. |