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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities, International Community |
| Title: | Indigenas aun sufren la ``colonizacion'', segun la ONU |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Los pueblos indigenas aun sufren en America Latina "actos de colonizacion", pese a los "avances" en paises como Ecuador o Bolivia, denuncio hoy el presidente del Foro Permanente sobre Cuestiones Indigenas de la ONU. |
Friday, September 3, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | In spite of the boom in exports, Latam’s decade report is far from encouraging |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | Latin American and Caribbean exports are forecasted to grow 21.4% this year propped mainly by South American commodities according to the latest report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. |
Thursday, September 2, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. exports up, but losing market share in Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Andres Oppenheimer The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | While U.S. exports to the region are growing, in some cases significantly, their percentage of Latin America's overall imports is shrinking |
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Why are Latin American democracies suddenly attacking the free press? |
| Author/Source: | Marc Margolis Newsweek |
| Brief: | The breadth of official incursions into citizen's lives has sent out distress signals from Patagonia to the Antilles |
| Location: | Entire Region, Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | How to update U.S.-South American defense agreements |
| Author/Source: | Stephen Johnson Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | Whereas Chavez signs all manner of troubling pacts with Russia and Iran without restraint, it's comforting to know that Colombia's Constitutional Court decided that the DCA required legislative approval. |
Friday, August 27, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | SOUTHCOM commander visits U.S. 4th Fleet during PANAMAX 2010 |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Commander, U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet (C2F) and director of operations for USSOUTHCOM visited U.S. 4th Fleet (C4F) headquarters in Mayport, Fla., Aug. 25. |
| Location: | Entire Region, Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Reshuffling the geopolitical order |
| Author/Source: | Jorge G. Castaneda The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Granting emerging economic powers a greater role on the world stage too soon could weaken the international system that upholds democracy, human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and environmental protection. |
Thursday, August 26, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Overseas Military Missions, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 18 nations tackle training 'crisis' at Mayport |
| Author/Source: | Timothy J. Gibbons The Florida Times-Union |
| Brief: | More than 2,000 personnel are involved in the exercise, including about 100 sailors from South American and Caribbean countries who are controlling operations from Mayport. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Citizens feeling more optimistic |
| Author/Source: | Marifeli Perez-Stable The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Latin Americans are in an upbeat mood. Most (78 percent) feel that they and their families are moving in the right direction, even if their countries (45 percent) and the world (41 percent) are not. |
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | International Community, Public Security |
| Title: | Violence in some Latin American countries is an "epidemic" says OAS |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | Organization of American States (OAS) chief Jose Miguel Insulza, said that the violence in some Latin American countries with high homicide rates can be compared to an "epidemic." |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | AFSOUTH teams with World Food Program, 17 nations for PANAMAX Exercise |
| Author/Source: | Capt. Nathan D. Broshear U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Air Forces Southern is also simulating a full-scale relief operation in the fictitious country of Centralia, an island near the canal suffering from a massive hurricane. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | USS Texas returns from U.S. 4th Fleet deployment |
| Author/Source: | Ronald Gutridge U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | The state-of-the-art submarine is capable of supporting a multitude of missions including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, strike, naval special warfare involving special operations forces, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, |
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Overseas Military Missions, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Missions Show U.S. Commitment in Pacific, Latin America |
| Author/Source: | Donna Miles U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | As the U.S. military conducts disaster response operations in flood-stricken Pakistan, it's also engaged in major humanitarian and civic assistance missions in the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. |
Monday, August 23, 2010
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S.-Latin America Trade Rebounds |
| Author/Source: | Latin Business Chronicle |
| Brief: | Mexico and Costa Rica lead Latin America's growth in U.S. trade in the first half of 2010. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S.-Latin America Trade Rebounds |
| Author/Source: | Latin Business Chronicle |
| Brief: | Mexico and Costa Rica lead Latin America's growth in U.S. trade in the first half of 2010. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Energy, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas: Fact Sheet |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Joining ECPA is voluntary, allowing governments, Inter-American organizations, private industry, and civil society to lead or participate in initiatives focused on energy efficiency, renewable energy, cleaner fossil fuels, infrastructure, energy poverty, |