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Thursday, September 9, 2010
| Location: | Central America Regional |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Plan toral contra trafico de drogas |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre |
| Brief: | Las raquiticas economias de los paises centroamericanos y del Caribe y sus endebles sistemas de seguridad y justicia imposibilitan el diseno de acciones exitosas contra el narcotrafico, y por eso se hace necesaria muy a pesar de quienes abominan de la |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Civil Society Peace Initiatives, Human Rights Cases |
| Title: | Vergonzoso intercambio epistolar |
| Author/Source: | Cristina De Toro R. El Colombiano |
| Brief: | Esa falaz denuncia con la que pretendieron desprestigiar nuevamente al Ejercito Nacional es tan repelente como el ambiguo comunicado que emitieron despues de la macabra matanza de carabineros en Doncello (Caqueta). |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Justice and Peace Process |
| Title: | Desmovilizados dicen que asesinaron mototaxistas por solicitud de taxistas en Monteria (Cordoba) |
| Author/Source: | Gudilfredo Avendano Mendez El Tiempo |
| Brief: | Aseguraron que entre el 2001 y 2002 cometieron los crimenes por orden de los jefes paramilitares, para acabar con este servicio de transporte informal en la ciudad. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Peace Prospects |
| Title: | Politica de paz: sin despeje ni intercambio |
| Author/Source: | Semana.com |
| Brief: | Aunque el Gobierno asegura que conserva la llave para un eventual dialogo con grupos ilegales, un futuro mecanismo no contemplara las llamadas zonas de despeje ni el intercambio humanitario para la liberacion de los secuestrados. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Europes Role, Indigenous Communities |
| Colombia Category: | Europes Role, Indigenous Communities |
| Title: | Asociacion de Cabildos Indigenas del Norte del Cauca recibio el Premio Bartolome de las Casas |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El premio a su gestion cultural, educativa y politica fue entregado por la Reina Sofia de Espana. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights Cases, International Community |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Cases, International Community |
| Title: | ONU dice que en La Macarena (Meta) no hay fosas comunes, pero le preocupa que haya tantos NN |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo |
| Brief: | En un informe de 27 paginas, la organizacion afirma que en el sitio "hay 446 personas sin identificar" muertas en combate, segun la Fuerza Publica. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights, Indigenous Communities, International Community |
| Colombia Category: | Indigenous Communities, International Community |
| Title: | Dozens of Colombian tribes face extinction, says UN report |
| Author/Source: | David Braun National Georgraphic |
| Brief: | A report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that at least 34 Colombian tribes face extinction due to continuing violence. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Antioquia |
| Title: | ¿Y mientras tanto que hacemos? |
| Author/Source: | Juan Gomez Martinez El Colombiano |
| Brief: | Dicen los expertos que la pobreza no genera violencia. Yo opino que no solamente es generadora de violencia sino que es violencia en si misma. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Narino |
| Title: | Bomb blast wounds 12 outside Colombia spy agency |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse Google News |
| Brief: | Twelve people were wounded when a bomb exploded outside the Colombian intelligence agency's offices in the southern city of Pasto, near the Ecuadoran border, the Red Cross said. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Narino |
| Title: | Atentado contra instalaciones del DAS en Pasto habria sido obra del Eln, dice gobernador de Narino |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Antonio Navarro denuncio la aparicion de varios grafitis que hacen mencion de la presencia de ese grupo guerrillero en la ciudad. Por su parte, la Policia atribuyo el hecho a las Farc y al Eln. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Controversial Georgetown gig for Colombia's Alvaro Uribe |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Hernandez Associated Press The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The arrival of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at Georgetown University is sparking campus debate on the two-term leader's legacy in security and human rights. |
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Relations With Venezuela |
| Title: | Colombia y Venezuela sanean sus relaciones |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El presidente Juan Manuel Santos anuncio el miercoles que las comisiones que recientemente establecio con su colega venezolano Hugo Chavez "estan produciendo resultados". |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Fidel Castro, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Is Fidel Castro Still in the Cuban Military? |
| Author/Source: | Joshua E. Keating Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | Theoretically, this means that Castro has the authority to demote his brother or other top officials and reinstall himself as Cuba's head of state and military commanders. |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Fidel Castro, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Fidel Castro says Cuban economic model 'doesn't work any more' |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Guardian |
| Brief: | The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a US-Cuba policy expert that the state-dominated system was in need of change. |
| Location: | El Salvador, Honduras |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Maras “mexicanizan” acciones criminales |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Diario |
| Brief: | La matanza de 18 jovenes trabajadores de una zapateria artesanal en San Pedro de Sula, Honduras, y la paralizacion del transporte colectivo en El Salvador por amenazas de grupos pandilleros, evidencian un grado acelerado de la "mexicanizacion" e |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights |
| Title: | Guatemalan Ex - Soldiers on Trial In Landmark War Case |
| Author/Source: | Sarah Grainger Reuters The New York Times |
| Brief: | Three former soldiers will go on trial for the 1982 massacre of more than 250 people, a judge ruled on Wednesday in the first such court case in Guatemala for crimes committed in its dark civil war past. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Corruption, International Community, Justice |
| Title: | El segundo tiempo de la Cicig |
| Author/Source: | Carolina Escobar Sarti Prensa Libre |
| Brief: | "Yo no soy politico y no hago promesas que no se puedan cumplir", dijo recientemente el nuevo comisionado contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, el costarricense Francisco Dall'Anese. Por ello, lo que ofrece para los pocos 12 meses de trabajo que tie |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | No let-up for radio stations that opposed coup |
| Author/Source: | Reporters Without Borders |
| Brief: | There has a new surge in cases of harassment and censorship of journalists working for radio stations that have been outspoken in their criticism of the government since the June 2009 coup d'etat |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Ejecutivo ordena operativos policiales |
| Author/Source: | El Heraldo (Honduras) |
| Brief: | El gobierno determino ayer emprender acciones encaminadas a disminuir los indices de violencia y criminalidad en Honduras, tal como ha ocurrido en ocasiones anteriores sin que se logren los resultados esperados. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Fueron asesinados para no dejar testigos |
| Author/Source: | El Heraldo (Honduras) |
| Brief: | La Policia cree que el principal movil es un ajuste de cuentas entre pandilleros de la Mara 18 y simpatizantes de la MS. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Andres Oppenheimer: How Obama could help stop Mexico's bloodshed |
| Author/Source: | The Dallas Morning News |
| Brief: | President Barack Obama could help reduce Mexico's bloodshed if he restored the expired U.S. ban on sales of assault weapons, as he promised to do during the campaign. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Arms Transfers, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | MAYORS AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS RELEASES NEW REPORT ON CRIME GUNS TRAFFICKED INTO MEXICO FUELING DRUG CARTEL VIOLENCE |
| Author/Source: | Mayors Against Illegal Guns |
| Brief: | The more than 500 members of the bi-partisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns today released a new report, entitled The Movement of Guns Across the U.S.-Mexico Border. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization |
| Author/Source: | Tim Johnson McClatchy |
| Brief: | MEXICO CITY: A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs once a taboo suggestion is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Unfair and undemocratic |
| Author/Source: | Ira J. Kurzban The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | The country's Provisional Electoral Council, which itself is not constitutionally composed, is refusing to allow the country's majority party -- Famni Lavalas (Lavalas Family) -- to participate in the election. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization |
| Author/Source: | Carlos Lauria, Mike O'Connor Committee To Protect Journalists |
| Brief: | More than 30 journalists and media workers have been murdered or have vanished since December 2006. As vast self-censorship takes hold, Mexico's future as a free and democratic society is at risk. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Press Freedom, Public Security |
| Title: | Report: Attacks on Mexican media 'national crisis' |
| Author/Source: | OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | MONTERREY, Mexico: At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, according to a U.S.-based media watchdog group that is calling on the government to respond forcefully to the dangers facing reporters who cover the country. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican Gunmen Kill Third Mayor in a Month as War on Narcotics Escalates |
| Author/Source: | Jonathan J. Levin Bloomberg |
| Brief: | President Felipe Calderon, in a statement yesterday, "energetically condemned" the murder of Alexander Lopez, mayor of El Naranjo in San Luis Potosi state. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Seven Mexican Gunmen Arrested In Migrant Massacre |
| Author/Source: | Adriana Barrera, Mica Rosenberg Reuters The New York Times |
| Brief: | Mexican authorities arrested seven suspected drug cartel members believed to have killed 72 migrants heading to the United States, in what is said to be the worst massacre in the country's escalating drug war, the government said on Wednesday. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization |
| Author/Source: | Randal C. Archibold The New York Times |
| Brief: | The authorities said Wednesday that they thought they had found the bodies of two law enforcement officials who were involved in the investigation of the massacre of 72 migrants last month. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 3rd Mexican Mayor in Month Slain by Hit Men |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The New York Times |
| Brief: | The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hitmen on the same day the U.S. secretary of state raised hackles in Mexico by saying the country is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago." |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Is Mexico at threat from a drugs insurgency? |
| Author/Source: | Ignacio De Los Reyes BBC |
| Brief: | Comparisons have been made before between Colombia of the 1980s and Mexico today with regards to drug-trafficking. But never before has a senior member of the US administration made such an explicit comparison. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico rejects Clinton drug crime 'insurgency' analogy |
| Author/Source: | Jack Izzard BBC |
| Brief: | Mexico has rejected remarks from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Clinton sees insurgency in Mexico drug trade |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Dombey, Adam Thomson Financial Times |
| Brief: | Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, has said drug-related violence in Mexico and Central America is turning into an insurgency, underlining Washington’s concern at the bloodshed beyond its southern border. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mayor of northern Mexico town killed by gunmen |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Mexican prosecutors say hooded gunmen have killed the mayor of a small town in northern Mexico. He is the third mayor to have been slain in the last month, apparently by Mexico's drug cartels. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Hillary Clinton: Mexican drugs war is Colombia-style insurgency |
| Author/Source: | Matthew Weaver The Guardian |
| Brief: | US secretary of state angers politicians and raises fears that controversial Plan Colombia may be used in Mexico |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Clinton says Mexico drug wars starting to look like insurgency |
| Author/Source: | Paul Richter, Ken Dilanian The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Her comments reflect a striking shift in public comment by the Obama administration about the violence and come as U.S. officials weigh a large increase in aid. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico's war compared to insurgency |
| Author/Source: | William Booth The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles that of war-torn Colombia a generation ago, with criminal cartels looking like "insurgencies" battling for control of territory. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Buscan alternativa antinarco para Latinoamerica |
| Author/Source: | Luis Alonso Lugo Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Estados Unidos busca un equivalente al Plan Colombia para combatir el narcotrafico en Mexico, America Central y el Caribe, dijo el miercoles la secretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton. |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | International Community, Justice System |
| Title: | Nicaragua: Denuncian ante la ONU falta de independencia en justicia |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press La Tercera |
| Brief: | El Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (Cenidh) y el Centro por el Derecho y la Justicia Internacional (Cejil) informaron el miercoles que pidieron la visita a Nicaragua de la relatora de Naciones Unidas sobre la independencia de jueces y abogado |
| Location: | Paraguay, Uruguay |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Latin America's impressive little guys: Uruguay and Paraguay |
| Author/Source: | Jude Webber Financial Times |
| Brief: | Paraguay and Uruguay are punching above their weight and both have just been upgraded by rating agency Standard’s & Poor's. |
| Location: | Paraguay, Uruguay |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Latin America’s impressive little guys: Uruguay and Paraguay |
| Author/Source: | Jude Webber Financial Times |
| Brief: | Paraguay and Uruguay are punching above their weight - and both have just been upgraded by rating agency Standard’s & Poor's. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Defense Budgets |
| Title: | En el 2011 habra primera inyeccion de 330 millones para salvar Caja Militar |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | En el 2009, caja de pensiones policial militar cerro con un deficit de 547 millones de soles. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights, International Community |
| Title: | ONU descarta que se promueva la impunidad en Peru |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | El Peru no es un pais de impunidad, expreso el relator especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre Derechos Humanos y Lucha contra el Terrorismo, Martin Scheinin, luego de concluir su mision de investigacion en el pais. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Aumentos de 100% para uniformados |
| Author/Source: | La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | En el papel. De comandantes a tenientes de FFAA y PNP, segun proyecto del MEF. Mayores incrementos de sueldo serian para oficiales de menor graduacion, tecnicos y suboficiales de institutos armados y la policia. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Empresario en Venezuela depone la huelga de hambre |
| Author/Source: | Fabiola Sanchez Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Un empresario venezolano-portugues, que se mantenia en huelga de hambre desde hace cuatro dias en defensa de su propiedad, levanto el miercoles la protesta tras una reunion que sostuvo con las autoridades. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Baduel hizo un llamado a "dar al traste con el comunismo" |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Venezuela) |
| Brief: | Desde el Centro de Procesados Militares (Cenapromil) ubicado en el sector Ramo Verde del estado Miranda, el general Raul Isaias Baduel, hizo llegar a CNN en Espanol un mensaje llamando a participar en el proceso en el que se elegira a la nueva Asamblea Na |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Religious Freedom |
| Title: | Chavez to talk with Jewish leaders in Venezuela |
| Author/Source: | Fabiola Sanchez Associated Press Chron |
| Brief: | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that he will meet later this month with the country's Jewish leaders, who are expressing concerns about anti-Semitism in some state media. |
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. |
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Invitacion a Diputados |
| Author/Source: | Pagina/12 |
| Brief: | El ministro de Justicia debera presentarse el martes proximo ante la Comision de Seguridad Interior. Tendra que informar sobre las acciones tomadas por su cartera. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Valor de exportaciones crece 28% en siete primeros meses de 2010 |
| Author/Source: | El Deber |
| Brief: | Un comunicado del Instituto destaca el aumento de las ventas a Japon (247%), Belgica (229%) y China (123%). |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Justice System, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ex presidente de Bolivia denuncia falta de libertades |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | "En Bolivia se esta destruyendo la democracia, se esta acabando la libertad de expresion mediante ataques desde el gobierno a toda opinion disidente con base en una guillotina judicial", dijo en rueda de prensa el martes Jorge Quiroga. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | “Steam roller” Rousseff collects more campaign funds than her eight rivals |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | The Brazilian presidential electoral campaign for pro-government candidate Dilma Rousseff has gathered more funds than the campaigns of her eight rivals combined. |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Indigenous Communities, Justice System |
| Title: | Pinera cambia la Justicia Militar |
| Author/Source: | Pagina/12 |
| Brief: | Con el conflicto mapuche planeando sobre La Moneda, el presidente Sebastian Pinera firmo ayer un proyecto de ley que busca modificar la Justicia Militar circunscribiendo su teatro de operaciones exclusivamente a causas en que esten implicados uniformados |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Justice, Justice System |
| Title: | Pinera envia al Congreso modificaciones a justicia militar |
| Author/Source: | La Nacion |
| Brief: | El Presidente dijo que su aprobacion significara que las mas de cuatro mil causas que hoy estan tribunales castrenses, muchas de las cuales afectan a mapuches, pasaran a ser conocidas por juzgados civiles. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Region: | Antioquia |
| Title: | Inicio con compas de espera |
| Author/Source: | El Colombiano |
| Brief: | La favorabilidad de Santos, que antes de posesionarse era del 76 por ciento, bajo al 64 por ciento. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | DAS Scandal |
| Title: | Ex funcionarios del DAS claves en 'chuzadas' dicen que cumplian ordenes de Maria del Pilar Hurtado |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo |
| Brief: | Se complica la situacion juridica de la ex directora del organismo de inteligencia. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security |
| Title: | Colombia orders arrest of reporter in rebel case |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Prosecutors say they have e-mails Parra exchanged with Raul Reyes, a rebel commander killed in 2008. They say that in one, Reyes asks Parra to buy missiles. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | UPDATE: Colombia's Govt Raises 2011 Deficit To Boost Spending |
| Author/Source: | The Wall Street Journal |
| Brief: | The increase in the estimated deficit is the result of an additional COP2 trillion ($1.1 billion) in investment projects geared at such sectors as agriculture and infrastructure, projects that the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos considers e |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Fue radicado en el Congreso proyecto que busca restitucion de tierras a las victimas de la violencia |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Reclamos de quienes perdieron tierras a manos de grupos ilegales se resolveran en 4 meses. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Cases |
| Title: | No hay fosa en La Macarena |
| Author/Source: | El Colombiano |
| Brief: | Salazar declaro su preocupacion por el gran numero de personas enterradas en el cementerio, cuya identidad y circunstancias de muerte no han sido esclarecidas. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Cases |
| Title: | Mindefensa celebra que la ONU reconozca que en La Macarena no hay una fosa |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador |
| Brief: | Rodrigo Rivera manifesto que el Gobierno esta interesado en que se conozca la verdad judicial. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Cases |
| Title: | Informe de la Oficina en Colombia del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos sobre el Cementerio de La Macarena, Departamento del Meta |
| Author/Source: | UNHCR |
| Brief: | La cifra de 446 es la mas confiable sobre la cantidad de personas reportadas por la fuerza publica como muertas en combate entre marzo de 2002 y junio de 2010 y inhumadas como no identificadas. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Entire Country |
| Title: | Mindefensa dice que no hay "triunfalismo" y si ofensiva |
| Author/Source: | Juan Carlos Monroy El Colombiano |
| Brief: | Rivera aseguro que los ultimos ataques contra los policias y militares se deben a una retaliacion por los ultimos exitos militares y "golpes de oportunidad" |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Entire Country |
| Title: | Colombia denuncia en el exterior a Eln y Farc por ataques |
| Author/Source: | Juan Carlos Monroy El Colombiano |
| Brief: | El Gobierno prepara un dossier de los ultimos ataques de las Farc y El Eln a la Fuerza Publica, que evidencian actos de barbarie, para denunciar estos grupos ante organismos internacionales de derechos humanos. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Colombian journalist wanted for rebel ties |
| Author/Source: | CNN |
| Brief: | William Parra, an independent journalist who previously worked with the Venezuelan-based Telesur network, said he would appeal the allegations to international bodies. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Press Freedom |
| Colombia Region: | Antioquia |
| Title: | Prensa: a cerrar filas |
| Author/Source: | El Colombiano |
| Brief: | El caso de las amenazas contra el corresponsal de Teleantioquia en el Bajo Cauca, Luis Carlos Cervantes, demanda la atencion inmediata de las autoridades y de los organismos que luchan por la libertad de expresion. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | No cayo bien entre expertos y congresistas la propuesta de judicializar a quienes paguen extorsiones |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo |
| Brief: | El ministro de Defensa, Rodrigo Rivera, anuncio que el Gobierno estudia la posibilidad de calificar como 'auxiliadores de las bandas criminales' a quienes las paguen. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | "Quien pague una extorsion sera visto como auxiliador del crimen" |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Los ministros del Interior y Defensa presentaron la 'columna vertebral' de la Politica de Seguridad Ciudadana, un proyecto que busca enfrentar con eficacia a las bandas criminales. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Antioquia |
| Title: | Presidente Juan Manuel Santos viajara este miercoles a la Comuna 13 de Medellin |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Santos estara en la Comuna 13 luego de que a mediados del mes pasado se realizara un consejo de seguridad ante el incremento de la violencia en ese populoso sector del occidente de la ciudad. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Narino |
| Title: | Asciende a seis el numero de policias muertos en Narino por ataque de la guerrilla |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El ataque, contra a una patrulla de la Policia Nacional integrada por 28 uniformados pertenecientes al grupo Encar 45, se registro en la madrugada de este martes en el sector de Balalaika, zona rural del municipio de Samaniego. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Video: A un mes de gobierno Santos, un 80% de los colombianos lo aprueba |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador |
| Brief: | Asi lo demuestra un sondeo del Centro Nacional de Consultoria para CM&. |
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Colombia Category: | Displacement, Emerging Criminal Groups, Relations with Ecuador |
| Title: | Colombia refugees still can't flee gangs |
| Author/Source: | The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Though many subsets of the Bacrim are causing problems across the country, the principal group in this jungle border region is called the Black Eagles. |
| Location: | Colombia, Panama |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Panama se compromete a cerrar frontera al narcotrafico |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador |
| Brief: | El Ministro de Seguridad Publica de Panama, Jose Mulino, afirmo que "afina" con distintas autoridades colombianas la cooperacion mutua en asuntos de lucha contra las drogas. |
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Relations with Venezuela |
| Title: | Venezuela designa embajador en Colombia |
| Author/Source: | BBC |
| Brief: | El gobierno de Venezuela anuncio este martes la designacion de Ivan Rincon Urdaneta como su nuevo embajador en Colombia. |
| Location: | Costa Rica |
| Category: | Justice System, Public Security |
| Title: | Gobierno reinstalara los retenes policiales |
| Author/Source: | El Heraldo |
| Brief: | El gobierno de Costa Rica anuncio ayer que restablecera los retenes policiales en las calles, prohibidos por la corte constitucional, y dijo que pedira al tribunal que aclare esta polemica decision |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Iranian Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews' |
| Author/Source: | |
| Brief: | Castro opened our initial meeting by telling me that he read the recent Atlantic article carefully, and that it confirmed his view that Israel and America were moving precipitously and gratuitously toward confrontation with Iran. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Press Freedom |
| Title: | Ecuador: Correa aboga por medios "sin fines de lucro" |
| Author/Source: | BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Correa se refirio a "la contradiccion entre intereses privados y el interes publico de estar informados" |
| Location: | Ecuador, Mexico |
| Category: | Migration |
| Title: | Ecuador poverty drives migrants north |
| Author/Source: | BBC |
| Brief: | Freddy, one of only three people thought to have survived the massacre, was put under police protection . |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Ministro de Defensa salvadoreno dice que Gobierno no negociara con pandillas |
| Author/Source: | La Tercera |
| Brief: | Las maras Salvatrucha y 18 han amenazado a los transportistas para que se paralicen en rechazo a una ley que penaliza a estos grupos. |
| Location: | El Salvador, Mexico |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Migration |
| Title: | Presidente Funes se reunira con Calderon |
| Author/Source: | El Heraldo |
| Brief: | Segun estimaciones del gobierno salvadoreno, 500 personas emigran diariamente con destino a Estados Unidos. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Suben a 46 los muertos por lluvias en Guatemala y suspenden rescate |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Las autoridades de Proteccion Civil de Guatemala elevaron el martes a 46 la cifra de muertos por las lluvias caidas desde el jueves. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Paro en Honduras por mejores sueldos |
| Author/Source: | Freddy Cuevas Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Miles de opositores paralizaron el martes sus labores para exigir un aumento salarial del 15 por ciento y el regreso a Honduras del derrocado presidente Manuel Zelaya. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Quitan a empresario canal televisivo en Honduras |
| Author/Source: | El Universal |
| Brief: | En una decision controversial, el Congreso apoyo una iniciativa de ley del presidente Porfirio Lobo y decreto el martes que la frecuencia del canal 8 de la television local, hasta ahora en manos del empresario Elias Asfura, es propiedad del Estado. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | En cinco dias, tres masacres dejan 24 muertos |
| Author/Source: | El Heraldo (Honduras) |
| Brief: | Segun lo revelado a EL HERALDO, de momento las autoridades policiales intentan determinar si los tres hechos criminales tienen alguna conexion. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Masacre en Honduras |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Nuevo Diario |
| Brief: | San Pedro Sula es la ciudad mas violenta de Honduras, pais que registra un indice de homicidios entre los mas altos del mundo. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations |
| Title: | Autoriza Senado que militares de 16 paises participen en desfile del Bicentenario |
| Author/Source: | La Jornada |
| Brief: | Del 7 al 20 de septiembre estara en nuestro pais un total de 575 efectivos militares de Alemania, Argentina, Brasil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Espana, Estados Unidos, Rusia, Francia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru y Venezuela. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, Public Security |
| Title: | Officials investigating Mexico massacre 'found dead' |
| Author/Source: | BBC |
| Brief: | The authorities in Mexico say they believe they have found the bodies of two officials investigating the killing of 72 foreign migrants last month. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, Public Security |
| Title: | Bodies found in Mexico could be those of massacre investigators |
| Author/Source: | Guardian Weekly |
| Brief: | Papers found on bodies in Tamaulipas suggest they are those of local police who were investigating massacre of immigrants. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Proceden de EU 19 mil armas vinculadas con crimenes en Mexico |
| Author/Source: | La Jornada |
| Brief: | Tres de cada 4 piezas recuperadas se vendieron estados fronterizos: Coalicion de Alcaldes. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Press Freedom, Public Security |
| Title: | Califican de crisis ataques a prensa en Mexico |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Mexico) |
| Brief: | El Comite para la Proteccion de los Periodistas, con sede en Nueva York, manifesto que ocho de los 22 periodistas asesinados desde que el presidente Felipe Calderon asumio el poder en el 2006 fueron ejecutados por su trabajo. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico Dresses Up for Battle |
| Author/Source: | Newsweek |
| Brief: | Mexico’s elite readily turn to armored cars and full-time bodyguards, but middle-class communities and small businesses have to go the cheaper route: they rely on alarm systems, cameras, and part-time security guards. |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Aspiraciones influyen en la desigualdad |
| Author/Source: | La Prensa (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Tal como lo indica el Primer Informe Regional de Desarrollo Humano (IDH), que esta semana presento en Managua el Programa de Naciones Unidad para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Nicaragua es uno de los paises con mayor desigualdad. |
| Location: | Paraguay |
| Category: | Elections, International Community |
| Title: | Mision de la OEA observara las elecciones municipales y regionales y el referendum del Fonavi |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | La OEA enviara una mision de observacion electoral para las elecciones municipales , regionales y el referendum nacional. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Peru eleva a entre 7,5 y 8 por ciento expectativa de crecimiento para 2010 |
| Author/Source: | La Tercera |
| Brief: | El Banco Central de Reserva de Peru elevo la prevision de crecimiento del producto interno bruto (PIB) para 2010 de 6,6 por ciento a entre 7,5 y 8 por ciento. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Ministro peruano niega que decretos traigan impunidad |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El ministro peruano de Defensa, Rafael Rey, nego el martes que los ultimos decretos emitidos por el Gobierno relativos a las fuerzas militares y policiales busquen la impunidad de los violadores a los derechos humanos. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Rey niega que polemico DL 1097 busque impunidad de violadores de DDHH |
| Author/Source: | EFE La Republica (Peru) |
| Brief: | El ministro de Defensa nego que las ultimos decretos relativos a las fuerzas militares y policiales, busquen la impunidad de los violadores a los derechos humanos. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Bancada nacionalista presentara hoy demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra DL 1097 |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | El vocero del Grupo Parlamentario Nacionalista, Daniel Abugattas, anuncio que hoy presentaran una demanda de inconstitucionalidad contra el Decreto Legislativo 1097, por considerar que la norma favorece a militares que violaron derechos humanos |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Justice System |
| Title: | Alan Garcia: "Lori Berenson ya no es una amenaza para el Peru" |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | El jefe de Estado dejo abierta la posibilidad de reducirle la pena a la ciudadana estadounidense sentenciada por terrorismo y expulsarla del pais. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Alan Garcia: "Sendero Luminoso es hoy un museo de cera del terrorismo que habia en el Peru" |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | El jefe de Estado aseguro a la cadena CNN en Espanol que los "residuos" del grupo terrorista no tienen ninguna capacidad para coactar la vida democratica del pais. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Alan Garcia admitiria ayuda de EE.UU. porque no tiene “complejo persecutorio” como Hugo Chavez |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Peru) |
| Brief: | El jefe de Estado aseguro que su homologo venezolano prejuzgo la ampliacion de tropas militares estadounidenses en Colombia porque pensaba que lo querian atacar. |