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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks as Prepared to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere |
| Author/Source: | Roberta Jacobson U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | I am genuinely pleased to be able to speak with you again after an absence of several months, and I greatly appreciate this subcommittee's engagement and support for both U.S. assistance and our policies and engagement in the Western Hemisphere. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Iranian Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Iran Terror to the South! |
| Author/Source: | Glenn Greenwald Salon |
| Brief: | The Obama administration formally adopts one of the more inane bits of right-wing fear-mongering dogma. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Iranian Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Panetta: Violent Extremism Threatens Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | "We always have a concern about, in particular, the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] and efforts by the IRGC to expand their influence, not only throughout the Middle East but also into this region," Panetta said. |
| Location: | Argentina, Colombia |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Argentina, preocupada por delincuencia colombiana |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Avellaneda El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Buenos Aires ya forma parte de la ruta de la droga. Asesinatos de colombianos vinculados con las mafias hacen sonar las alarmas de las autoridades argentinas. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Evo Morales, en reposo a causa de "infeccion" |
| Author/Source: | EFE ABC (Paraguay) |
| Brief: | Linera dijo que a Morales "le ha dado una fuerte infeccion", aunque no especifico de que tipo. |
| Location: | Bolivia, Peru |
| Category: | Drug Seizures, Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | La Felcn confisca en Quillacollo 58 kilos de cocaina de Peru |
| Author/Source: | El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | La Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotrafico (Felcn) confisco en la localidad cochabambina de Quillacollo mas de 58 kilos de cocaina, alcaloide que se presume fue fabricado en Peru e ingresado al pais por La Paz. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Arms Transfers, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Brazil/US discuss military technology transfer as part of defence cooperation |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | The US recently admitted the possibility of technology transfer regarding the Super Hornet F/A-18 fighter jets - manufactured by Boeing – if Brazil accepts the US offer in the bidding to purchase 36 planes. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Arms Transfers, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Brazil Defense Minister: No Schedule For Decision On New Fighter Jets |
| Author/Source: | Jeffrey T. Lewis, Gerald Jeffris Dow Jones NASDAQ |
| Brief: | "There's no foregone conclusion; nothing is decided," Amorim said after a press conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Panetta: U.S., Brazil Partnership 'Is the Future' |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The secretary said the two nations share the same values and respect for human rights and democracy. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Environment, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Brazil congress delays vote on divisive forest law |
| Author/Source: | Marco Sibaja Associated Press BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | It's widely expected the lower house will overwhelmingly approve an updated version and send it to President Dilma Rousseff - it's the exact details of the measure that lawmakers are haggling over. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Environment, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Brazil Congress delays forest vote law amid wrangling |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | She is facing a political dilemma, correspondents say, as she seeks to combine support for economic development, but also uphold environmental pledges made during her election campaign. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Brazil: Major Step for Military-Rule-Era Justice |
| Author/Source: | Alertnet |
| Brief: | The case is the second in Brazil - and first in São Paulo - in which criminal charges have been brought against a Brazilian official for human rights crimes committed during the country's military dictatorship. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Shot Brazil journalist becomes fourth killed this year |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Colleagues said they were certain his murder was linked to his newspaper reports and blog posts about political corruption and hired killers. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Gunman kills reporter in northeastern Brazil |
| Author/Source: | Stan Lehman, Bradley Brooks Associated Press Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Brief: | Decio Sa, a political reporter for the newspaper O Estado do Maranhao in northeastern Brazil, was at least the fourth journalist slain this year in the South American nation. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Democratic Left |
| Title: | El pais de las maravillas: De marchas y de fobias |
| Author/Source: | Mario Morales El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Temerle a que victimas, campesinos, mujeres y minorias se encuentren, reclamen derechos o quieran paz negociada habla de nuestra endeble democracia. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Justice And Peace Process, Questions About Uribe |
| Title: | Indagaran a Uribe por inclusion del 'Tuso' en proceso con 'paras' |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Por la cuestionada desmovilizacion del narcotraficante Juan Carlos el 'Tuso' Sierra como jefe paramilitar, uno de los escandalos mas grandes del proceso de paz entre el pasado Gobierno y las autodefensas, la Unidad de Justicia y Paz compulso copias contra |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking |
| Colombia Category: | Arms Trafficking |
| Title: | Se perdieron 947 armas de la Gobernacion de Antioquia |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En Antioquia, uno de los departamentos con mayores indices de criminalidad del pais, literalmente se esfumaron 947 armas al servicio de la Gobernacion. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | La USA por carcel |
| Author/Source: | Pascual Gaviria El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Desde hace cinco anos se ha dicho que nuestros 'narcos' cambiaron radicalmente de lema: prefieren una carcel en Estados Unidos a una tumba en Colombia. |
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Presenter: Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and Colombian Minister of Defense Juan Camillo Pinzon |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | What Venezuela is doing in strengthening their military, we don't object to the fact that they're strengthening their military. What we'd be concerned about is how they use that military in this part of the world. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Contra el crimen |
| Author/Source: | El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | ¿Los militares estan preparados para una tarea que se desarrollara entre civiles? |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Public Security |
| Title: | La nueva cupula militar asume con tareas por cumplir |
| Author/Source: | El Universo (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | El aumento de la inseguridad en el pais obligo al Gobierno a buscar la participacion de las Fuerzas Armadas para combatir al crimen organizado, facultad privativa de la Policia Nacional. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Ecuador: temen censura previa |
| Author/Source: | EFE ABC (Paraguay) |
| Brief: | La Corte Constitucional de Ecuador escucho ayer el temor de sectores de la oposicion y la prensa a que se instaure la censura previa durante la cobertura electoral mediante una ley impulsada por el presidente Rafael Correa. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | El Salvador pone en marcha escuchas |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | La instalacion del Centro de Intervencion de las Telecomunicaciones (Cite), comenzo desde el 2010 con ayuda de Estados Unidos, que dono US$5 millones en equipo informatico de ultima generacion. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Civil Society Peace Movement, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Marti: "hay una guerra civil, es la peor epoca desde la Revolucion" |
| Author/Source: | Eugenia Jimenez Milenio (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Alejandro Marti, presidente de Mexico SOS, considero que "se vive una guerra civil, mexicanos contra mexicanos, la peor epoca quiza desde la Revolucion". |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Little outrage in Mexico for Wal-Mart bribe report |
| Author/Source: | Mark Stevenson Bloomberg Business Week |
| Brief: | While Wal-Mart says it is probing the allegations and U.S. Congress members are demanding answers, Mexican authorities say they have nothing to investigate. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Bribery in Mexico: what's the big deal? |
| Author/Source: | Adam Thomson Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | It is true that corruption is more common in markets like Mexico than it is in, say, Finland. But companies should not see corruption as inevitable. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Wal-Mart Vows to Fix Its Controls |
| Author/Source: | Charlie Savage, Randal C. Archibold, Andrew Martin The New York Times |
| Brief: | Allegations of widespread bribery at Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary continued to reverberate on Tuesday, with the company beginning a campaign to limit the damage. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Calderon Says Mexico Reduced Net Migration to U.S. to Zero |
| Author/Source: | Nacha Cattan, Eric Martin Bloomberg |
| Brief: | Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Calderon, whose six-year term ends in December, said the North American Free Trade Agreement signed two decades ago has improved the economic outlook on both sides. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Video: Mexican President Addresses U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| Author/Source: | C-SPAN |
| Brief: | Mexican President Felipe Calderon spoke about his country's economic competitiveness when he delivered the keynote address at the U.S.-Mexico Leadership Initiative Business Summit. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico presidential front-runner builds on big lead: poll |
| Author/Source: | Mica Rosenberg Reuters |
| Brief: | Pena Nieto's lead over Josefina Vazquez Mota from the ruling National Action Party (PAN) widened. Her support of 21.5 percent dipped 1.1 percentage points. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Horrifying video of death of a Mexican immigrant airs as Supreme Court takes up Arizona’s 'Show us papers' law |
| Author/Source: | Albor Ruiz New York Daily News |
| Brief: | After viewing the horrifying video, one has to wonder whatever happened to human rights. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Rescatan a seis menores secuestrados en Atoyac de Álvarez |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Milenio (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Elementos del Operativo Guerrero Seguro rescataron a seis menores de edad que habian sido secuestrados al salir de una escuela primaria de la comunidad El Ticui, region de la Costa Grande. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. indicts Sinaloa cartel boss "El Chapo," 23 others |
| Author/Source: | Jared Taylor Reuters |
| Brief: | The U.S. government has offered a $5 million award for information leading to the capture of Guzman, who was previously indicted in California and Arizona. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Was Chapo Sending a Message by the N. Laredo Car Bomb? |
| Author/Source: | Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | It was the slaughter of 14 persons attributed to the Sinaloa Cartel with a Narco Manta signed by El Chapo, that prompted the news conference. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Video: Zakaria: Is Mexico winning the drug war? |
| Author/Source: | Fareed Zakaria CNN |
| Brief: | Calderon is widely viewed as having blundered in taking on the drug cartels. But I have always admired his courage in doing so. And it might just be paying rewards. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Op-ed: Critical Decision for the Next President [In Spanish] |
| Author/Source: | Richard Downie Mexico Institute Wilson Center |
| Brief: | Downie suggests that it would be wise to learn from the Colombian experience, particularly as they learned that having citizen support and political will are key to the success of any strategy against organized crime. |
| Location: | Paraguay |
| Category: | Justice System |
| Title: | El problema no es la Constitucion |
| Author/Source: | ABC (Paraguay) |
| Brief: | El peor mal de todo esto empieza en la mentalidad, criterio y moralidad de las personas que proponen y escogen a los miembros del Consejo de la Magistratura. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Child Combatants, International Community, Public Security |
| Title: | Unicef: "Sendero Luminoso viola la Convencion de los Derechos del Nino" |
| Author/Source: | Andina El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | El organismo de la ONU rechazo el uso de menores en acciones de violencia armada por parte del grupo terrorista. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Corruption, Politics And Security |
| Title: | La guerra del fin del mando |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | Las denuncias que estan apareciendo en estos dias sobre malos manejos en una serie de rubros vinculados al accionar del Ejercito y de la Policia en las zonas de influencia del terrorismo llevan a pensar que por ahi estaria parte del problema. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Padres de los dos efectivos desaparecidos arribaron a Kiteni |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | Los padres de los dos efectivos desaparecidos tras la operacion Libertad, Jose Astuquilca Vasquez y Cesar Vilca Vese, fueron recibidos este martes por el Comando Unificado de la Policia Nacional y Fuerzas Armadas. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Venezuela descubre red de lavado de dolares |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | El Gobierno de Venezuela descubrio y desmantelo una red de lavado de dolares del narcotrafico, procedentes de EE. UU. y Colombia, anuncio ayer el ministro de Interior. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | ¿Quien reemplazaria en Caracas a un Chavez enfermo y ausente? |
| Author/Source: | Humberto Marquez C. Milenio (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El hombre con mayor poder en la estructura del chavismo este ano es Diosdado Cabello. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Dime con quien andas (2) |
| Author/Source: | Caracas Gringo |
| Brief: | Much of the information that Noriega disseminates has been accurate. But some of it is verifiably inaccurate and even has been refuted officially by the US government. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Europes Role, Politics And Security |
| Title: | CE advierte que Argentina sufrira mucho tiempo consecuencias de expropiacion |
| Author/Source: | EFE ABC (Paraguay) |
| Brief: | El comisario europeo de Comercio, Karel de Gucht, advirtio a Argentina de que sufrira durante "mucho tiempo" las consecuencias de la expropiacion de YPF. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities, Labor Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Cuarta semana de crisis en Bolivia con huelgas y marcha de indigenas |
| Author/Source: | EFE ABC (Paraguay) |
| Brief: | La cuarta semana de conflictos que comenzo ayer Bolivia estara marcada por la huelga de 48 horas que encabeza desde hoy la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) y por el inicio, manana, de una nueva marcha de indigenas. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Arms Transfers, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Brazil Wants U.S. Military Technology Transfer Restrictions Lifted |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse Defense News |
| Brief: | U.S. aviation giant Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet is up against the Rafale fighter, made by French firm Dassault Aviation, and Swedish manufacturer Saab's Gripen for the contract variously valued at between $4 billion and $7 billion. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Arms Transfers, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Brazil/US defence summit to consider military technology transfer and South Atlantic |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | Brazil wants the US to eliminate barriers to the transfer of military technology, an issued that will be addressed on Tuesday April 24, in Brasilia when US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta meets with his peer Celso Amorim. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Energy, Environment |
| Title: | Brazil: Legislation draws mixed results |
| Author/Source: | Joe Leahy Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | Increasingly stringent environmental processes, requiring a multitude of permits from different ministries and levels of government, are making it much harder for companies to start and run mines. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Energy, Labor Rights |
| Title: | 7,000 workers strike at Brazil's Amazon dam project |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | Work on the $11 billion project that has irked indigenous groups, environmentalists and local residents got under way last June. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Environment, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Brazil congress set to vote on divisive forest law |
| Author/Source: | Marco Sibaja Associated Press Fox News |
| Brief: | The bill was approved by Brazil's Senate in December and is expected to be easily passed by the lower house of Congress on Tuesday. It would then go to President Dilma Rousseff. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Illegal Mining Colombia's Biggest Challenge: Police Chief |
| Author/Source: | Edward Fox InSight |
| Brief: | Naranjo, who announced last week that he is stepping down, told newspaper El Tiempo in an interview that fighting informal mining is a far more politically costly than going after kidnappers or destroying coca crops. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Panetta Promises Continued Support to Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | After a meeting today with Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon Bueno, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta promised the U.S. military partner of 60 years continued commitment and assistance. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Emerging Criminal Groups |
| Colombia Category: | Economy And Security, Emerging Criminal Groups, FARC |
| Title: | En Antioquia, las Farc y las 'Bacrim' se financian con minas de oro |
| Author/Source: | Yeison Gualdron El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Segun Corantioquia, hay identificados 200 puntos mineros que explotan grupos al margen de la ley. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Progress or Promises? Free Trade and Labor Rights in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | James Bargent AlterNet |
| Brief: | The LAP called for Colombia to enforce pre-existing but widely ignored legislation banning the cooperatives. However, as the Rubiales workers testified, in many sectors little has changed. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Labor Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Labor Action and Inaction in Colombia Free Trade Deal |
| Author/Source: | Michelle Chen In These Times |
| Brief: | While the Labor Action Plan of the Washington Consensus might remain mostly on paper, pro-labor action at the grassroots is rolling on, with or without official approval. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Democratic Left, Politics And Security |
| Title: | 'Marcha Patriotica y Union Patriotica suenan a lo mismo': Antonio Navarro |
| Author/Source: | Diana Calderon El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Debe ser que tienen informacion que nosotros los ciudadanos de a pie no tenemos. Por ejemplo, que ellos si saben que las Farc tienen una decision de dar un paso hacia la paz. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Santos hailed as regional leader, but approval falls at home in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | James Bosworth The Christian Science Monitor |
| Brief: | Interestingly, President Uribe's approval rating has also dropped in Colombia. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ecos de la Marcha Patriotica |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Reforma agraria, una verdadera reparacion a las victimas, y un gobierno y Estado diferentes al actual, son algunas de las reivindicaciones de los integrantes de la Marcha Patriotica. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Con Vargas en Vivienda, Santos rebobina su gobierno |
| Author/Source: | Juanita Leon La Silla Vacia |
| Brief: | Desde hace un ano, Vargas Lleras habia dejado saber que queria ser Ministro de Vivienda pero Santos se habia hecho el de los oidos sordos. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | La ultima encuesta: el Estado pierde puntos, los grupos armados ganan |
| Author/Source: | Juanita Leon, Juan Esteban Lewin La Silla Vacia |
| Brief: | Esta caida muestra un menor rechazo de los encuestados a los grupos violentos. Ademas, al subir el apoyo a los dos bandos, muestra que no se trata de un movimiento del pendulo politico. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Press Freedom, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Press Freedom, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Antioquia, Tolima |
| Title: | Three Colombian journalists flee homes in recent months |
| Author/Source: | Committee To Protect Journalists |
| Brief: | Three provincial Colombian radio journalists have been forced to flee their homes in the past few months after receiving death threats from illegal armed groups. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US lessons in Afghanistan can aid Colombian troops |
| Author/Source: | Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Brief: | The U.S. has about 180 U.S. military in the country, including trainers. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Panetta Promises Continued Support to Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | From that cooperation arises the potential for the two military forces to work closely to help build the capacity of other nations in this region. |
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security, Relations with Venezuela |
| Title: | La frontera caliente |
| Author/Source: | Arco Iris (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En tan solo una decada se produjeron mas de 30 mil homicidios en la zona fronteriza entre Colombia y Venezuela. |
| Location: | Dominican Republic |
| Category: | Corruption, Press Freedom |
| Title: | R. Dominicana: Senador denuncia plan para matar periodista de investigacion |
| Author/Source: | EFE La Tercera (Chile) |
| Brief: | El senador del oficialista Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana (PLD) Wilton Guerrero dio a conocer un supuesto plan para matar a la periodista de investigacion Nuria Piera, quien ha denunciado presuntas actividades corruptas. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations |
| Title: | Video: Remarks With Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez Before Their Meeting |
| Author/Source: | Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We are very impressed by the progress that El Salvador is making under the leadership of President Funes and his government, and the United States stands ready to be a good partner going forward. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Acuerdo de paz con las maras |
| Author/Source: | Gustavo Sierra Clarin (Argentina) |
| Brief: | Sera dificil sentarse a negociar con delincuentes y asesinos pero al menos es un intento prometedor. Se trata de un modelo a seguir muy de cerca por toda la region. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | "La tregua es una oportunidad maravillosa, pero creo que no se sabe como seguir" |
| Author/Source: | Maria Silvia Guillen El Faro (El Salvador) |
| Brief: | La tregua entre las principales pandillas activada a inicios de marzo sorprendio incluso a las organizaciones que trabajan de cerca con los pandilleros o su entorno, como Fespad. Tambien les ha sorprendido el inusitado descenso en los homicidios y que el |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | "Las pandillas se han vuelto los nuevos proveedores economicos de la comunidad" |
| Author/Source: | Amparo Marroquin Parducci Sala Negra El Faro (El Salvador) |
| Brief: | Uno de los primeros academicos en estudiar el fenomeno de las maras reflexiona sobre la dificultad de recuperar el tiempo perdido en prevencion y rehabilitacion. Dice, ademas, que aun sin pandillas El Salvador seguiria siendo un pais violento. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Un 82% de guatemaltecos aprueba gestion de Perez con 100 dias en el poder |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Faro (El Salvador) |
| Brief: | La encuesta, realizada por la firma local Prodatos por encargo del diario Prensa Libre, indica que un 48% de los 1.201 personas entrevistadas considera aceptable la gestion de Perez y un 34% buena. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | La fila de los hombres armados |
| Author/Source: | Cindy Espina Plaza Publica (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | Segun el Digecam hay registradas mas de medio millon de personas con licencias para portar armas de fuego. El Instituto de Ensenanza para el Desarrollo Sostenible (Iepades) asegura que hay 800 mil armas en Guatemala. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Matan a comunicador en Honduras |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | El presentador de un programa de consultas psicologicas por television Noel Valladares murio ayer en Tegucigalpa, Honduras, junto a dos acompanantes, al haber sido atacados a balazos. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Title: | Arizona immigration law: Mexico gets involved in US Supreme Court case |
| Author/Source: | Warren Richey The Christian Science Monitor |
| Brief: | The Arizona immigration law threatens Mexico-US relations, says a brief submitted on behalf of Mexico and 16 other countries ahead of Wednesday's oral argument at the Supreme Court. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption |
| Title: | Even as It Hurts Mexican Economy, Bribery Is Taken in Stride |
| Author/Source: | Randal C. Archibold, Karla Zabludovsky The New York Times |
| Brief: | A baroque bureaucracy, something economists have long warned slows the potential for growth here, and low pay for public servants leads to peso-greased shortcuts for the simplest transactions. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Bribe report puts focus on Mexico's 'gestores' |
| Author/Source: | Mark Stevenson Bloomberg Business Week |
| Brief: | The pressure of corruption in Mexico is so great that some companies have reportedly opted to leave. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexican general once tied to cartels shot dead |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press El Paso Times |
| Brief: | In 2002, Acosta was accused of homicide in the disappearance of leftist activists and revolutionaries during the government's "dirty war" against dissent during the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico pres front-runner opposes legalizing drugs |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Fox News |
| Brief: | Enrique Pena Nieto said allowing the use of so-called soft drugs would only open the door to abusing harder substances. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Victims |
| Title: | Preven Ley de Victimas para el miercoles |
| Author/Source: | Notimex Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Cualquier persona que considere haber sufrido un "dano" en los terminos de esta ley debera presentar su caso ante el Sistema Nacional de Victimas, que seleccionara a aquellos que cumplan los requisitos para acceder a beneficios. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Kidnapping Drops 42% in Guatemala in 3 Years: NGO |
| Author/Source: | Elyssa Pachico InSight |
| Brief: | According to Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), Guatemala saw 213 kidnappings in 2008. The total dropped steadily over the following four years, falling to 126 cases in 2011. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico-US migration slips after 40 years of growth |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | A Pew Hispanic Center study shows immigration began to slow five years ago and may have reversed by 2010. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less |
| Author/Source: | Pew Research Center |
| Brief: | In the five-year period from 2005 to 2010, about 1.4 million Mexicans immigrated to the United States and about 1.4 million Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children moved from the United States to Mexico. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Report finds wave of Mexican immigration to U.S. has ended |
| Author/Source: | Paloma Esquivel, Hector Becerra The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The Mexican demographic trends and the U.S. political shift toward increased enforcement mean that immigration from Mexico is probably down for the long run. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Juarez drug cartel leader arrested |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Borunda El Paso Times |
| Brief: | Castillo was allegedly the boss of Jose Antonio "El Diego" Acosta Hernandez, who was the cartel's plaza boss in Juarez and Chihuahua City. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | ¿Cuando debe hacerse uso de la fuerza publica? |
| Author/Source: | Animal Politico (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Los documentos publicados este lunes en el Diario Oficial de la Federacion (DOF) establecen que el objetivo es que esas dependencias reconozcan y acepten, en el ambito de su competencia, la cadena de custodia, detencion y puesta a disposicion y uso legiti |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ruling party mayoral candidate attacked in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Fox News |
| Brief: | A National Action Party state leader in Nuevo Leon says candidate Eduardo Campos Espinoza fled through the back door of his house when he saw the gunmen approaching. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexican General's Murder Raises New Questions over Narco Ties |
| Author/Source: | Edward Fox InSight |
| Brief: | Acosta was briefly brought out of retirement by President Felipe Calderon to act as government representative in negotiations with some of Mexico's biggest drug gangs, according to Proceso. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Room for dissent in Mexico's resurgent PRI |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The "inconformes," as the dissenters are called, claim unfair or corrupt practices among party officials in Mexico City. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Prohiben a los militares disparar contra vehiculos |
| Author/Source: | Javier Vega, Ruben Mosso Milenio (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El gobierno federal hizo publicos los lineamientos que deben acatar las secretarias de la Defensa Nacional, de Seguridad Publica y la Procuraduria General de la Republica para el uso de la fuerza en situaciones en que tengan que someter a presuntos delinc |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ortega intenta "revivir" al PLC |
| Author/Source: | Plaza Publica (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | Ha pasado ya poco mas de un mes desde que Eduardo Montealegre anunciara su disposicion a sentarse a negociar con Ortega, pero hasta ahora no se ha concretado ni el calendario ni la agenda de ese posible dialogo. |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Nueva Embajadora de EU llego al pais |
| Author/Source: | Arlen Perez El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | A la espera de la entrega de sus cartas credenciales para asumir de manera oficial el cargo de embajadora de los Estados Unidos en Nicaragua, se encuentra Phyllis Powers. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security |
| Title: | El VRAE no es la caja de pensiones |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | ¿Cuantas veces va a poder hacer cambios de personal frente a las sucesivas evidencias de incapacidad frente a un enemigo que no parece facil de derrotar en estas condiciones? |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Corruption, Justice System |
| Title: | Venezuela's justice minister accuses former judge of being paid off by drug traffickers |
| Author/Source: | Fabiola Sanchez Associated Press Sun Sentinel |
| Brief: | Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami made the accusation against ex-Magistrate Eladio Aponte, who charged in a television interview shown last week that government and military officials have manipulated court cases. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Corruption, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez-Allied Ex-General Gunned Down in Venezuela |
| Author/Source: | Hannah Stone InSight |
| Brief: | Moreno's son did not say what knowledge he was referring to, but its possible that it relates to corrupt elements in Venezuela's military, high-ranking members of which are known to have ties with drug trafficking and organized crime. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Venezuela's Chavez calls home to squash death rumors |
| Author/Source: | Anthony Boadle, Diego Ore Reuters |
| Brief: | A healthy sounding President Hugo Chavez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba on Monday to dispel rumors fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Venezuela's Chavez breaks silence with lengthy phone call |
| Author/Source: | Mery Mogollon, Chris Kraul The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a half-hour telephone call to a state-run television station, claiming reports of his demise were part of a "dirty war." |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez Out of Sight but Big as Life on Twitter |
| Author/Source: | William Neuman The New York Times |
| Brief: | For more than a week, as he has undergone radiation therapy, the only public signs of the usually highly visible president were a series of messages on his official Twitter account. |