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Thursday, April 25, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia, Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC International Links, Public Security |
| Title: | Desertores de las FARC estan en Bolivia |
| Author/Source: | Miguel A. Melendres El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | Grupos de Élite e Inteligencia de la Policia boliviana descubrieron la presencia de desertores de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), que llegaron al pais para ofrecer instruccion paramilitar a los narcotraficantes. |
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia, Chile |
| Category: | Border Disputes, International Community |
| Title: | Bolivia demanda a Chile en Corte Internacional de La Haya y exige salida al mar |
| Author/Source: | Jose Miguel Wilson La Tercera (Chile) |
| Brief: | Delegacion de La Paz se encuentra en Holanda para iniciar hoy proceso contra Chile. Presidente Pinera dijo que argumentacion boliviana se basa en interpretaciones erradas |
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia, Peru |
| Category: | Border Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Peru envia 180 policias para reforzar frontera con Bolivia |
| Author/Source: | Miguel A. Melendres El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | La Policia boliviana logro despejar la ruta La Paz-Copacabana, pero aun no hay transitabilidad regular. Convocan una reunion para manana |
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Asuntos indigenas casi invisibles en parlamentos del continente |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza Mena El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Uno de los principales problemas que enfrentan los pueblos indigenas originarios de America Latina es la poca relevancia con que en los Congresos del continente se tratan los temas que les atanen, segun expreso en Managua el presidente del Parlamento Indi |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Halleslevens: EE.UU. y Nicaragua deben aliarce contra el narcotrafico |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza Mena El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Senalo que EE.UU. deberia considerar a Nicaragua como un aliado y no como un socio en la lucha contra el narcotrafico. |
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
| Location: | Honduras, Nicaragua |
| Category: | Border Disputes |
| Title: | Nicaragua no cedera mar |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Pescadores hondurenos entran en aguas nicaragüenses sin pedir permiso, afirma jefe de la Naval del Ejercito de Nicaragua |
Monday, March 18, 2013
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Al Gobierno no le importa la inseguridad |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Angel Toma Clarin (Argentina) |
| Brief: | Negacion del problema, manipulacion politica, incumplimiento de los deberes, utilizacion extorsiva de los fondos publicos, justificacion del uso de la inteligencia estatal contra opositores constituyen un coctail explosivo |
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities |
| Title: | Gobierno crea comision para proteger territorios indigenas |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | La funcion que tendra la Comision Interinstitucional sera la de afianzar los derechos ancestrales de propiedad en los territorios indigenas con las instancias operativas en esos territorios |
Friday, March 8, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Se declarara 'alerta' en las zonas con mucha violencia |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Angel Melendres EFE El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | En los ultimos cuatro anos, en Bolivia ha registrado 442.056 denuncias por violencia contra las feminas |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia, Chile |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations |
| Title: | Pinera afirma que Bolivia no recuperara territorios |
| Author/Source: | Miguel A. Melendres El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | Mientras autoridades bolivianas condecoraban en diversos actos a los tres soldados que estuvieron detenidos en Iquique, el Gobierno ve que las relaciones bilaterales con Chile estan en "punto muerto". |
| Location: | Uruguay |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Dos saltos hacia la impunidad |
| Author/Source: | Mercedes Lopez San Miguel Pagina/12 (Argentina) |
| Brief: | Tanto el Frente Amplio como organizaciones de familiares de detenidos y desa-parecidos y la central sindical PIT-CNT repudiaron la decision judicial y el lunes pasado marcharon en silencio por el centro de Montevideo |
Friday, February 8, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia, Brazil, Peru |
| Category: | Border Security, Defense Cooperation |
| Title: | Movilizaran tropas en la zona fronteriza |
| Author/Source: | Miguel A. Melendres El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | La medida sera trabajada y delimitada por un grupo de especialistas de alto nivel que se creo ayer a traves de un convenio tripartito. |
Monday, January 28, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Nothing to celebrate in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Jose Miguel Vivanco The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Obama should make a robust, public case for addressing the abusive practices of Mexico's security forces -- not only because it is the right thing to do but also because it would help to build public trust in the security forces |
Friday, January 11, 2013
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Corruption, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mafias de narcos reinan en la Dirandro |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Gutierrez La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | La delgada linea. Equipos de 'chuponeo' de la DEA revelan desde el 2011 existencia de comprometedores vinculos entre agentes antinarcoticos y brazo legal de mafias colombianas |
Thursday, January 10, 2013
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Comandante en jefe invisible |
| Author/Source: | Rocio San Miguel Tal Cual Asociacion Civil Control Ciudadano (Venezuela) |
| Brief: | La irresponsabilidad de la Sala Constitucional de Tribunal Supremo de Justicia ha dejado a la FAN huerfana, con un comandante en jefe invisible que no se sabe cuando vendra |
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
| Location: | Nicaragua, Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Cooperacion seguiria con Maduro |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | El vicepresidente Maduro ha tenido un fuerte acercamiento con Nicaragua, y Venezuela honrara los acuerdos de cooperacion |
Monday, January 7, 2013
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Energy, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Follow the Oil |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Tinker Salas The New York Times |
| Brief: | Control of the Venezuelan government implies control of the largest natural gas reserves in Latin America and the largest deposit of oil in the world |
Monday, December 3, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Operativos y violencia |
| Author/Source: | Alejandro Sota, Miguel Messmacher Nexos |
| Brief: | La evidencia muestra que despues de algunos meses de transcurrida la intervencion de la autoridad, el incremento de los homicidios que le antecedio se revierte. |
Friday, November 9, 2012
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Print Share Venezuela should not be elected member of the UN Human Rights Council |
| Author/Source: | Jose Miguel Vivanco Human Rights Watch |
| Brief: | Unfortunately, when it comes to promoting and protecting human rights, Venezuela currently falls far short of acceptable standards. |
Thursday, November 8, 2012
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Logran consenso sobre Ley de Bomberos |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | La manana del martes "salio humo blanco" en la reunion que sostuvieron los representantes del gremio bomberil, y los miembros de la Comision de Gobernacion de la Asamblea Nacional. |
Thursday, October 25, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Justice System, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombia: Letter to President Santos Criticizing the Expansion of Military Jurisdiction |
| Author/Source: | Jose Miguel Vivanco Human Rights Watch |
| Brief: | The latest version of the proposed amendment would result in serious human rights violations by the military - including extrajudicial executions, torture, and rape - being investigated and tried by the military justice system, in direct conflict with th |
Friday, October 12, 2012
| Location: | Colombia, Nicaragua |
| Category: | Border Disputes, Relations With Neighbors |
| Title: | Tension con Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Gobierno colombiano aseguro que la nave "Medepesca III" entro en su zona maritima sin permiso, pero Managua reitera soberania al navegar en aguas nacionales. |
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Cubanos cumplen 14 anos de prision por espionaje |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza Mena El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | El Embajador de Cuba en Nicaragua, Eduardo Martinez, recordo ayer los 14 anos de presidio de los cinco cubanos enjuiciados y condenados en Estados Unidos por espionaje. |
Monday, September 10, 2012
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Human Rights, Victims |
| Title: | Miles marchan en Chile en memoria de victimas de la dictadura de Pinochet |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Sanchez El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | En el 39 anniversario del golpe que derroco a Salvador Allende el 11 de septiembre de 1973 miles de Chilenos recuerdan las victimas de la regimen de Augusto Pinochet. |
Thursday, September 6, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico wants shooting explained |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Timoshenkov My San Antonio |
| Brief: | According to the victim's family, Guillermo Arevalo Pedroza, 36, was at a park by the riverbank in Nuevo Laredo, grilling fajitas with his wife and children when he was shot in the chest and leg. |
Friday, August 31, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | MARIGUANA, LA ÚNICA INVERSIÓN SEGURA |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Ángel Vega Rio Doce |
| Brief: | Si no hay trabajo, ni una industria que les genere empleos, es dificil salir adelante. Por eso la gente no ha dejado de sembrar mariguana. |
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
| Location: | Mexico, Nicaragua |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Ejercito investiga a los 18 mexicanos |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | El General del Ejercito de Nicaragua, Julio Cesar Aviles, dijo que el Sistema de Inteligencia Nacional, incluido el de la institucion que dirige, sigue un proceso investigativo para determinar con absoluta certeza los vinculos de los 18 falsos periodistas |
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
| Location: | Costa Rica, Nicaragua |
| Category: | Border Security |
| Title: | Chinchilla visita Penas Blancas |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Carranza Mena EFE El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | La presidenta de Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, llego ayer hasta el puesto fronterizo de Penas Blancas, limitrofe con Nicaragua, para inspeccionar el avance de nuevas obras de infraestructura que su Administracion realiza. |
Friday, July 13, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, News Email, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Leftist seeks to void Mexico's presidential election, again |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Gutierrez Reuters |
| Brief: | Lopez Obrador says the party has not changed its ways, and spent millions to buy building materials, food and pre-paid shopping cards to lure poor voters to the ballot boxes. |
Monday, June 25, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Shadow of leftist protests hangs over Mexico election |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Angel Gutierrez Reuters |
| Brief: | Another close finish would raise the risk of a new post-vote crisis and likely trigger legal challenges and street protests. |
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Environment |
| Title: | 60 dams in Brazil's Amazon? Controversy spills over into 'Earth Summit II' |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Llanos MSNBC |
| Brief: | Expected to be producing electricity by 2015, Belo Monte will be the world's third largest dam. And if the name sounds familiar, it's because Sting and other celebrities helped block the dam in 1989. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, News Email, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico front-runner cements lead as vote nears |
| Author/Source: | Mica Rosenberg, Miguel Gutierrez Reuters Reuters |
| Brief: | A poll in the Reforma newspaper showed Pena Nieto's lead climbing four percentage points to 42 percent while support for leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador fell by four points to 30 percent. |
Thursday, June 14, 2012
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Jugando con fuego |
| Author/Source: | Rocio San Miguel Asociacion Civil Control Ciudadano Provea (Venezuela) |
| Brief: | o mas grave, me temo, es que se aprobaran articulos que perversamente buscan desarmar a un sector de la poblacion para armar a otro que se asuma afecto a la Revolucion |
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico's Pena Nieto still favorite after debate: pollsters |
| Author/Source: | Miguel Gutierrez And Ioan Grillo Reuters Reuters |
| Brief: | "It was not a knock-out debate. I don't see that it will have a significant impact on the election". |
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Human Rights, International Community |
| Title: | DD.HH., Insulza, Brasil y Alba |
| Author/Source: | Jose Miguel Vivanco La Tercera (Chile) |
| Brief: | Lamentablemente el secretario general de la OEA, Jose Miguel Insulza, se ha sumado a los esfuerzos que la debilitan. |