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Monday, May 20, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | La Sentencia |
| Author/Source: | Helen Mack El Faro |
| Brief: | Podemos, si queremos, edificar desde la aceptacion de la verdad, la reflexion serena y la conduccion inteligente de la vida social, a cada quien donde le corresponda, una convivencia social pacifica e inteligente |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Sherman Associated Press News Observer |
| Brief: | The current system of immigration enforcement and deportation produces a constant flow of people north and south that provides the cartel with a vulnerable labor pool and steady source of revenue. |
Friday, May 17, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks |
| Title: | "No entregaremos las armas" |
| Author/Source: | Mario Fernando Prado El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Con esta frase-amenazante, ademas- las Farc le han advertido a Colombia que, aun firmandose la paz con ellas, no cumpliran algo tan obvio como es entregar las armas. |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Cuban food production drops despite reforms |
| Author/Source: | Juan O. Tamayo Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Overall agricultural production, not counting sugarcane, dropped by 7.8 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the first three months of 2012. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Health |
| Title: | El Salvador Court Hears Arguments in Abortion Case |
| Author/Source: | Marcos Aleman Associated Press ABC News |
| Brief: | El Salvador's Supreme Court heard opening arguments Wednesday in a landmark abortion case in which a woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus has not been allowed to terminate a pregnancy in which the fetus is given no chance of surviving. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Trial on Guatemalan Civil War Carnage Leaves Out U.S. Role |
| Author/Source: | Elisabeth Malkin New York Times |
| Brief: | "The U.S. played a very powerful and direct role in the life of this institution, the army, that went on to commit genocide." |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Statement of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern on the Conviction of Jose Efrain Rios Montt |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | The Guatemalan court's ruling demonstrates that everyone is subject to justice, and even the most vulnerable communities can seek and achieve justice for heinous crimes committed against them. |
Thursday, May 16, 2013
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Cabello: No pagare a los diputados de oposicion |
| Author/Source: | Maru Morales, Alex Vasquez El Nacional |
| Brief: | El presidente de la Asamblea, Diosdado Cabello, dijo que no se pagara el salario a los diputados opositores porque no asistieron ayer a las reuniones de las comisiones legislativas. |
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks, Public Security |
| Title: | El ministro de la paz |
| Author/Source: | Mauricio Vargas El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La caida de 'Caliche' no es un hecho aislado. Segun documentos del Mindefensa, 2013 arranco muy bien para la Fuerza Publica. |
Monday, May 13, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks, Justice System |
| Title: | Colombia quiere paz o justicia? |
| Author/Source: | Carlos Julio Martinez Semana |
| Brief: | Polemica entre el fiscal y el procurador deja un dilema: que tan generosa sera la sociedad con las Farc si acaba el conflicto? |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group |
| Author/Source: | Elisabeth Malkin New York Times |
| Brief: | How long he will stay there is less clear than the verdict. His lawyers said they would appeal, and injunctions filed during the case still await rulings. |
Friday, May 10, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico's Abusive Well-Heeled Get Rare Comeuppance |
| Author/Source: | Mark Stevenson Associated Press ABC News |
| Brief: | Police officers, who get little pay and less respect, often bear the brunt of the arrogant, and traffic stops involving politicians' relatives can end with the threatening phrase, "You don't know who you're messing with." |
Thursday, May 9, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Op-ed in Miami Herald by President Obama: Improving our Partnership with Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Barack Obama The White House |
| Brief: | I went because this is a moment of great promise for our hemisphere. Today, almost all the people of the Americas live in democracies. Latin America has some of the world's fastest growing economies. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | El vicepresidente de EE. UU., Joe Biden, visitara Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Sergio Gomez Maseri EFE El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, anuncio este miercols que en las proximas semanas visitara Colombia como parte de una gira que emprendera por Latinoamerica. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Joint Task Force-Bravo brings medicine to mountain villagers |
| Author/Source: | Maj. Angelic Dolan U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Joint Task Force-Bravo conducts MEDRETEs throughout Central America each year in support of U.S. Southern Command's humanitarian assistance and disaster relief programs in order to strengthen civil-military cooperation between the United States and nation |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavismo After Chavez |
| Author/Source: | Alma Guillermoprieto New York Review Of Books |
| Brief: | While his political base crumbles, Maduro inaugurates theaters, attends circus performances, wears olive-green military-style shirts with ever-broader epaulets even though he never served in the army, and denounces coup and assassination plots against him |
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Fugitivos de EE.UU. prefieren Costa Rica y Belice |
| Author/Source: | Matilde Cordoba El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | De 239 fugitivos buscados por las autoridades de Estados Unidos, 145 fueron extraditados desde Centro y Sudamerica en 2012 |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Guatemala and Mexico: A Working Paper |
| Author/Source: | Colby Goodman Wilson Center |
| Brief: | Although many arms are trafficked into Guatemala from non-U.S. sources, this working brief aims to shine a spotlight on what is currently known about the illicit movement of U.S. origin firearms into Guatemala. |
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico Political Pact Survival Hinges on Probe, Opposition Says |
| Author/Source: | Nacha Cattan And Eric Martin Bloomberg |
| Brief: | The impasse in the so-called Pact for Mexico can be overcome once names of those suspected of wrongdoing are disclosed and the government shows a willingness to punish them, said Senator Miguel Barbosa |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico Has Violent Weekend, Despite Supposed Drop |
| Author/Source: | Martin Duran Associated Press ABC News |
| Brief: | Mexico saw a wave of killings over the weekend, despite what the government says is a drop in the number of deaths related to drug violence |
Saturday, May 4, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Weekly Address: Fixing our Immigration System and Expanding Trade in Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Barack Obama The White House |
| Brief: | We've put more boots on that border than at any time in our history, and illegal crossings are down by nearly 80 percent from their peak in 2000. But we've got more to do - not just to secure the border but to fix an immigration system that is badly brok |
| Location: | Costa Rica |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks by President Obama at Meeting with Business Leaders |
| Author/Source: | Barack Obama The White House |
| Brief: | I've emphasized that although I understand why there's been a great focus over the last several years on security issues -- security is important. It's very hard to create a strong economy when people are personally feeling insecure. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks by the President to the People of Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Barack Obama The White House |
| Brief: | And in the United States, we recognize our responsibilities. We understand that much of the root cause of violence that's been happening here in Mexico, for which many so Mexicans have suffered, is the demand for illegal drugs in the United States. |
Friday, May 3, 2013
| Location: | Central America Regional, Costa Rica |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks by President Obama and President Chinchilla of Costa Rica in a Joint Press Conference |
| Author/Source: | Barack Obama, Laura Chinchilla The White House |
| Brief: | I'm not interested in militarizing the struggle against drug trafficking. This is a law enforcement problem. And if we have effective law enforcement cooperation and coordination, and if we build up capacity for countries in Central America, then we can |
| Location: | Central America Regional, Costa Rica |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks by the President at a Working Dinner with SICA Leaders |
| Author/Source: | Barack Obama The White House |
| Brief: | Number one, we need to think about investments in our infrastructure -- roads, bridges, border crossings, customs, electricity grids; all of which can allow for more trade, more growth, more jobs. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Drug Policy, Justice System, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico's anti-narcotics tsar just one casualty of US-backed war on drugs |
| Author/Source: | Jo Tuckman The Guardian (UK) |
| Brief: | Ramirez believes that US pressure on Mexico to root out corrupt officials was a driving force behind the wave of detentions in late 2008 called Operacion Limpieza (Operation Cleanup). |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | What Obama Can Achieve in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Manuel Rueda ABC Univision |
| Brief: | Here are some concrete issues that both presidents might end up talking about and why they need to be addressed |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | La seguridad en la visita de Obama |
| Author/Source: | Raul Benitez Manaut Mexico Seguridad (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Aqui lo correcto es evaluar entre los dos gobiernos lo que si funciono y lo que hay que dejar de lado, siempre pensando en su eficacia, pero respetando los derechos ciudadanos |
Thursday, May 2, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Here's why teachers in Mexico are slinging rocks through government windows |
| Author/Source: | Roberto A. Ferdman Quartz |
| Brief: | Guerrero, Oaxaca and Michoacan are among a handful of impoverished districts also reputed for having particularly poor teacher attendance |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico: The Stranger Next Door |
| Author/Source: | Andres Martinez Bloomberg Businessweek |
| Brief: | The absence of more nuance in the coverage of Mexico isn't surprising. The country remains surprisingly exotic to many worldly Americans who've long obsessed over other parts of the world |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Political Chaos Grips Venezuela After Legislative Brawl and Rival Marches |
| Author/Source: | William Neuman The New York Times |
| Brief: | Government supporters and opponents held separate May Day marches in Caracas, the capital, on Wednesday that many had initially feared could turn violent. But the routes were changed to keep the rival bands apart. |
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Why Mexican opinion of the U.S. is at its most positive in years, in charts |
| Author/Source: | Max Fisher The Washington Post |
| Brief: | An impressive 74 percent support the U.S. training of Mexican troops and police; 55 percent approve of U.S. financial support for fighting the drug war. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Se reune al Gabinete de Seguridad estatal de Chihuahua |
| Author/Source: | Juan Jose Garcia Amaro Milenio (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Durante la reunion se analizo la jornada violenta que se registro, particularmente en Camargo, donde la madrugada de este lunes fue abatido el capo Sixto Juan Aguirre Infante, quien era buscado por la DEA |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Venezuelan lawmakers hurt during fistfights in parliament |
| Author/Source: | Mario Naranjo, Eyanir Chinea Reuters Chicago Tribune |
| Brief: | The opposition said seven of its parliamentarians were attacked and hurt when protesting a measure to block them from speaking in the National Assembly. |