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Monday, January 14, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks |
| Title: | Colombian government, rebels to resume peace talks |
| Author/Source: | Nina Negron AFP Google News |
| Brief: | "We really need to get things moving. I want to make that known to people in general, as well as to the FARC," former vice president de la Calle told reporters |
Friday, January 4, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | ELN Talks |
| Title: | La guerrilla ELN pide al Ejercito colombiano que trabaje por la paz |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | El ELN, la segunda mayor guerrilla de Colombia con unos 2.500 combatientes, ha manifestado publicamente su intencion de iniciar unos dialogos de paz |
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez has respiratory infection, now 'controlled' |
| Author/Source: | Vivian Sequera Associated Press |
| Brief: | The infection appeared a week after a six-hour operation that the government has said involved complications |
Friday, December 14, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages, FARC Talks, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ransom paid for China hostages freed in Colombia: Uribe |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | The four Chinese oil workers who were held hostage for more than a year and released in November were set free after ransom was paid, ex-president Alvaro Uribe said |
Friday, December 7, 2012
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez back in Venezuela after Cuba treatment |
| Author/Source: | Ian James Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Chavez last appeared publicly during a televised meeting on Nov. 15 in Caracas. |
Monday, December 3, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | New Mexican president signs accord with opposition |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | The leaders of the conservative National Action Party and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party joined Pena Nieto in signing the "Pact for Mexico". |
Friday, November 23, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Chinese Foreign Policy |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages |
| Title: | 4 Chinese oil workers freed by Colombian rebels |
| Author/Source: | Cesar Garcia Associated Press |
| Brief: | The four Chinese nationals, three contractors and a translator, were the only foreigners known to still be held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Mexico's president tries to change country's name |
| Author/Source: | E. Eduardo Castillo Associated Press |
| Brief: | The name "United Mexican States," or "Estados Unidos Mexicanos," was adopted in 1824 after independence from Spain in imitation of Mexico's democratic northern neighbor, but it is rarely used. |
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | International Community, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Record vote for UN resolution against Cuba embargo |
| Author/Source: | AFP Google News |
| Brief: | A record 188 countries voted Tuesday for an annual UN General Assembly resolution condemning the five-decade old US embargo against Cuba. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Border Patrol under scrutiny for deadly force |
| Author/Source: | Brian Skoloff Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has launched a probe of the agency's policies, the first such broad look at the tactics of an organization with 18,500 agents deployed to the Southwest region alone. |
Friday, November 2, 2012
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Crimenes e impunidad crecen sostenidamente en Venezuela, dicen ONGs a CIDH |
| Author/Source: | Diego Urdaneta AFP Google News |
| Brief: | La impunidad ha crecido de forma sostenida en Venezuela, donde en 2011 solo el 3% de las violaciones de derechos humanos terminaron en una acusacion judicial. |
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
| Location: | Panama |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Panama repeals land sale plan after protests |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | Panama's government has repealed a measure to sell state-owned land in a duty-free zone along the Panama Canal following a week of sometimes violent protests. |
Friday, October 26, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities, Land Tenure |
| Title: | Brazil's Indians appeal for help to stop eviction |
| Author/Source: | AFP Google News |
| Brief: | Guarani Indians, whose total population in Brazil is estimated at 46,000, have been trying to recover a small portion of their original territories, but face violent resistance from wealthy ranchers as well as soya and sugar cane plantation owners. |
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
| Location: | Central America Regional, Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration |
| Title: | Central American mothers look for missing migrants |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Sherman Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | The group sponsoring the trip estimates that some 70,000 Central American migrants have disappeared in the past six years |
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | FARC Talks |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks |
| Title: | Colombia rebels warn of unexpected delays to talks |
| Author/Source: | Nina Negron AFP Google News |
| Brief: | In a television interview, FARC leader Timoleon Jimenez blamed the delay on problems in getting arrest warrants for rebels suspended and with travel arrangements for chief negotiator Ivan Marquez. |
Monday, October 15, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | FARC Talks |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks |
| Title: | Colombia rebels opaque heading into talks |
| Author/Source: | Vivian Sequera Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | This time, most of the faces and names of the negotiators for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, are little known to their countrymen. |
Friday, October 12, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Source: Mexican teen killed by US BP agent |
| Author/Source: | Brian Skoloff Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Mexico's Foreign Relations Department issued a statement later saying it "forcefully condemned" the shooting and calling such deaths "a serious bilateral problem". |
Thursday, October 11, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Afro Latinos, Justice System |
| Title: | Brazil's Supreme Court elects 1st black president |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | Barbosa currently is presiding over a high-profile corruption trial involving a congressional cash-for-votes scheme. |
Friday, October 5, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico holds 2 in connection with border shooting |
| Author/Source: | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Federal police have arrested two men who may be connected with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent just north of the Mexico-Arizona border. |
Thursday, October 4, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Son of embattled Mexico ex-governor found dead |
| Author/Source: | Oscar Villalba |
| Brief: | A relative of Humberto Moreira, who was president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and governor of Coahuila state, says his son's body was found Wednesday night. |
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Demobilization And Reintegration |
| Title: | Rebel tailor sews change in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Phillipe Zygel AFP Google News |
| Brief: | For 10 years, Alvaro Perez was a tailor of war, making uniforms for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Now, as the rebels start a peace dialogue, he is living change: sewing school uniforms. |
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Activists dispute theory of Mexico lawmaker murder |
| Author/Source: | Adriana Gomez Licon Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | The activists called for federal prosecutors to take over the case, saying the slain man was a strong opponent of a bitterly contested water project in the northern border state of Sonora. |
Monday, September 24, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | FARC Talks, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | FARC rebels hope US will release top guerrilla |
| Author/Source: | AFP Google News |
| Brief: | Granda said the FARC would propose "mechanisms" to the Colombian government for Trinidad to be part of the talks, and insisted the rebel leader would not hinder negotiations. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Gangs to fight for drug routes after Colombian capo falls |
| Author/Source: | Guillermo Barros AFP Google News |
| Brief: | Mexican crime groups may attempt to take over Barrera's smuggling routes. |
Thursday, September 20, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | FARC Talks, Peace Prospects |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks, Peace Prospects |
| Title: | Colombian rebel says no deadline for peace talks |
| Author/Source: | Libardo Cardona Associated Press |
| Brief: | The idea of wrapping up the peace talks within months is "an expectation that he (Santos) is generating on his own, and it is against what was agreed in letter and spirit," Jimenez told Semanario Voz. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Caen otros dos colaboradores de capo colombiano "Loco" Barrera en Venezuela |
| Author/Source: | Jordi Zamora AFP |
| Brief: | Este jueves tambien fueron arrestados en ese pais su mano derecha, 'Rocio', y otro estrecho colaborador, 'Lucho'. |
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Venezuela: Drug lord changed look with surgeries |
| Author/Source: | Fabiola Sanchez Associated Press |
| Brief: | Leon said Barrera had been posing as a cattle rancher and when detained was carrying a fake passport. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Corruption, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico detains 16 guards in border prison break |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | Not all the escapees got away through the tunnel. Some left through the main door. |
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Brazil truth commission to probe only junta crimes |
| Author/Source: | Stan Lehman Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Brazil's Truth Commission will investigate only human rights abuses committed by the country's former dictatorship, not any crimes committed by opponents of the 1964-1985 regime. |
| Location: | Colombia, Venezuela |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Colombia says last big drug lord has been captured |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | U.S. and Colombian officials have alleged that Barrera's gang supplies cocaine to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, which ships the drug to the United States. |
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico: 132 inmates escape from border prison |
| Author/Source: | Oscar Villalba Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Authorities in Coahuila state said the 132 inmates fled the prison in Piedras Negras, a city across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, through a tunnel. |
Monday, September 17, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Justice System, Public Security |
| Title: | Report: 1 in 3 Mexican drug suspects go to prison |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | The report from the federal Attorney General's Office says Mexican drug enforcement authorities recorded 3,439 drug suspects arrested, but only 1,072 actually went to prison. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | 17 mutilated bodies found in central Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Arturo Perez Navarro Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | The bodies were dumped near a highway in the town of Tizapan el Alto by the border between Jalisco and Michoacan. |
Monday, September 10, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Ex-candidate quits Mexico's main leftist party |
| Author/Source: | Juan Diego Quesada Associated Press |
| Brief: | The motives for the break were not clear, but it could complicate efforts for the left to rally again around a single candidate. |
Friday, September 7, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | FARC Talks |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks |
| Title: | Colombia: No to FARC proposal for peace talk truce |
| Author/Source: | Cesar GarcIa Associated Press |
| Brief: | Santos said there would be no end to fighting until a peace accord is agreed on. He said Colombia's military and police have been told to intensify offensive actions. |
Thursday, September 6, 2012
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights, Indigenous Communities |
| Title: | Chavez says no evidence of alleged Yanomami killings |
| Author/Source: | AFP |
| Brief: | "Neither evidence nor accounts from the indigenous people themselves turned up anywhere," Chavez told a news conference. |
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | FARC Talks |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks |
| Title: | No cease-fire, drugs nag at Colombia peace talks |
| Author/Source: | Frank Bajak Associated Press |
| Brief: | The agreement, signed Aug. 27, does not include a cease-fire. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Mexico: Attack on US embassy car was an accident |
| Author/Source: | Michael Weissenstein Associated Press |
| Brief: | High-ranking Mexican security officials are portraying the shooting of two CIA agents by Mexican federal police as a well-intentioned mishap. |
Monday, August 27, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Even more brutal leader takes over Mexico's Zetas |
| Author/Source: | E. Eduardo Castillo Associated Press |
| Brief: | Miguel Angel Trevino Morales is a former cartel enforcer who apparently won a showdown with Zetas founder Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano for leadership |
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca |
| Title: | Colombia rebels release two hostages: Red Cross |
| Author/Source: | AFP |
| Brief: | Leftist Colombian guerrillas released two women they had held captive for nearly three weeks in the east of the country. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Kidnapping, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca |
| Title: | Colombian rebels free pipeline company workers |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | It was not known whether a ransom was paid. |
Thursday, August 9, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Fourteen killed across bloodstained Mexico |
| Author/Source: | AFP |
| Brief: | Three brutal killings on Wednesday claimed at least 14 lives across Mexico, in the latest bloodshed of a years-long crime wave fueled by warring drug cartels |
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombia extradites drug trafficking suspect to US |
| Author/Source: | AFP |
| Brief: | Dolly Cifuentes Villa resumed business with her other brothers, Alexander and Jorge Milton, partnering with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel Sinaloa Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman. |
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Corruption, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Defense in Brazil corruption trial rejects charges |
| Author/Source: | AFP |
| Brief: | Thirty-eight former ministers, lawmakers, businessmen and bankers face prosecution before the Supreme Court over alleged vote-buying in Congress from 2002 to 2005. |
Friday, August 3, 2012
| Location: | Colombia, Cuba, Mexico |
| Category: | Migration |
| Title: | US-bound Cubans pour into Panama through Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Juan Zamorano Associated Press |
| Brief: | In the first nine months of this fiscal year, 7,407 Cubans have entered the United States through the border with Mexico. |