News Links tagged "Economy And Security"
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
| Location: | Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela |
| Category: | Brazilian Foreign Policy, Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazil trapped by Argentina and Venezuela economic mismanagements |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | "At the end of April, Dilma and Cristina held a very, very strong discussion, according to Brazilian and Argentine sources, because of the disagreements on trade and investment" |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Brazilian Foreign Policy, Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazil trapped by Argentina and Venezuela economic mismanagements |
| Author/Source: | MercoPress |
| Brief: | "At the end of April, Dilma and Cristina held a very, very strong discussion, according to Brazilian and Argentine sources, because of the disagreements on trade and investment" |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazil: bank runs and break-ins |
| Author/Source: | Samantha Pearson Beyondbrics |
| Brief: | Chaos broke out across at least 12 states over the weekend after rumours spread that the government was planning to suspend the nationwide Bolsa Familia social welfare programme |
| Location: | Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Colombia asumira la Presidencia de la Alianza del Pacifico en Cumbre de Cali |
| Author/Source: | Univision Noticias |
| Brief: | Este pais estrenara su liderazgo al frente de la Alianza, creada formalmente en 2012, con el reto de avanzar hacia una integracion economica y comercial entre cuatro de las naciones latinoamericanas con mayor crecimiento |
| Location: | Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | La alianza mundial que se gesta en Cali |
| Author/Source: | Semana |
| Brief: | El certamen, que arranca manana martes 21 de mayo y culmina el jueves 23, es la reunion de integracion comercial mas importante de America Latina, ya que reune a las cuatro naciones que mueven mas del 50 % del comercio de la region. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Displacement, Economy And Security |
| Title: | El nuevo gigante del carbon no restituye tierras |
| Author/Source: | Santiago Villa El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | En el ano 2002, paramilitares del Bloque Norte asesinaron a 18 de sus propietarios y desplazaron a los legitimos duenos de las tierras. Entonces llegaron los nuevos ocupantes |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Colombia aun no logra su potencial |
| Author/Source: | Isabel Junca Y Edwin Bohorquez Aya El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Michael Reid, editor de The Economist para America; e Irene Mia, directora regional de la Unidad de Inteligencia de la misma revista, analizan la posicion de la economia colombiana |
| Location: | Haiti |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | What’s next, locusts? |
| Author/Source: | Pooja Bhatia London Review Of Books |
| Brief: | Among the main beneficiaries were the US military and so-called Beltway bandits, American private contractors who chase down aid money |
Monday, May 20, 2013
| Location: | Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Colombia recibe a la Alianza Pacifico |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Su mision: hacer de Mexico, Colombia, Peru y Chile un solo bloque comercial |
| Location: | Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | La Alianza del Pacifico 'nace' el jueves en Cali |
| Author/Source: | Daniel Valero El Tiempo Portafolio |
| Brief: | Este jueves, los presidentes de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; de Chile, Sebastian Pinera; de Peru, Ollanta Humala, y de Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, tienen previsto formalizar una alianza. |
Friday, May 17, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Ecuador: President Send Urgent Reforms For Mining Law to Congress |
| Author/Source: | Mercedes Alvaro Dow Jones Fox Business |
| Brief: | Mr. Correa expects Ecuador to start large-scale mining production in the coming years. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Bolivia's Morales faces 11th day of protests |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press USA Today |
| Brief: | Protesters are demanding that President Evo Morales' government double pensions, which currently range from $21 to $28 a month. The government is offering an 81% hike. |
| Location: | Brazil, Uruguay |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Uruguay's Mujica talks up Brazil ties |
| Author/Source: | Jude Webber The Washington Post |
| Brief: | "We don't advocate free trade or extreme protectionism, nothing like that. But we think that for our country, stability and the rules of the game - investor security - are a strategic capital that is nonnegotiable." |
| 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: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Venezuela is running low on toilet paper, and it's blaming the media |
| Author/Source: | Elias Groll Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | On Tuesday, Alejandro Fleming, the country's commerce minister, announced that the government would make the equivalent of a frantic grocery store run to pick up some rolls. |
Thursday, May 16, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Mexico: Official Whose Daughter Forced Restaurant Closing Is Fired |
| Author/Source: | Karla Zabludovsky New York Times |
| Brief: | The head of the federal consumer protection agency was fired Wednesday, weeks after his daughter got inspectors to briefly shut down a restaurant that refused her the table she wanted |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | How food shortages are dividing Venezuela |
| Author/Source: | Irene Caselli BBC News |
| Brief: | While many praise the government programmes for giving them a chance to eat every day, opposition supporters say the economy is a disaster. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Now Venezuela is running out of toilet paper |
| Author/Source: | Fabiola Sanchez, Karl Ritter Associated Press Yahoo! News |
| Brief: | President Nicolas Maduro, who was selected by the dying Hugo Chavez to carry on his "Bolivarian revolution," claims that anti-government forces, including the private sector, are causing the shortages in an effort to destabilize the country. |
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | The Politics of Poverty: South America's Conditional Cash Transfers |
| Author/Source: | Michael Shifter, Cameron Combs World Politics Review |
| Brief: | Of these initiatives, the conditional cash transfer (CCT) has become the hallmark of the region's anti-poverty efforts. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | ¿'Happy birthday', TLC? |
| Author/Source: | Arlene B. Tickner El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Para lo que no parece haber servido el TLC es para mejorar la competitividad internacional de Colombia. |
| Location: | Costa Rica |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Costa Rica president's private jet use prompts investigation |
| Author/Source: | Isabella Cota Reuters |
| Brief: | Costa Rica has an Illicit Enrichment Law, which includes penalties of up to eight years in prison for public officials who accept gifts worth more than a minimum wage. |
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | The Obama Administration Looks to Latin America After Years of Neglect |
| Author/Source: | Tim Padgett Time |
| Brief: | Washington feels more urgency to look south at the moment largely because of China's increasing incursion into the hemisphere. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Indigenous Communities, Land Tenure |
| Title: | The fight for social equality in Brazil |
| Author/Source: | Julia Esther Castro The Independent |
| Brief: | Hopefully, in the future rural communities will be consulted by big corporations when they want to use their land for economic venture, and that peaceful life can become a reality for indigenous and Quilombola people in rural areas of Brazil . |
Friday, May 10, 2013
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Brazil's big government seen as good for politics, bad for economy |
| Author/Source: | Anthony Boadle Reuters Yahoo! |
| Brief: | The number of Cabinet posts has almost doubled since the Workers' Party took office under former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2003. |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chile students resume protests for free education |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Tens of thousands of students in Chile have resumed their protests for free education with marches in major cities. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Social Mobility in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Shannon K. O'Neil Council On Foreign Relations |
| Brief: | On the bright side, there is a significant amount of mobility in Mexico's middle three economic quartiles. In contrast, few of the richest and the poorest leave their origins behind. |
| 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. |
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazil isn't growing-so why are Brazilians so happy? |
| Author/Source: | H.J. The Economist |
| Brief: | After many decades in which the spoils mostly went to the richest, more of Brazil's growth is now going to those on modest incomes. |
| Location: | Brazil, Cuba |
| Category: | Cuban Foreign Policy, Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Cuba's greatest export? Medical diplomacy |
| Author/Source: | Elias Groll Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | It's a bitter irony for U.S. policymakers that 50 years after the imposition of the Cuban embargo, the communist regime is circumventing efforts to isolate it by sending, of all things, doctors around the world. |
| Location: | Nicaragua, Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Energy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Nicaragua pago en especie a Venezuela |
| Author/Source: | Ludwin Loaisiga Lopez, Ricardo Guerrero El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Nicaragua pago con 496,389 toneladas metricas de alimentos parte del petroleo que adquirio de Venezuela el ano pasado, que ascendio a 11.8 millones de barriles. |
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazil in talks to hire 6,000 Cuban doctors |
| Author/Source: | BBC (UK) |
| Brief: | Cuban authorities say Brazil is its sixth biggest trading partner and main food supplier |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazil tries to deal with the downside of a record harvest |
| Author/Source: | EFE Global Post |
| Brief: | Highways and ports are being overwhelmed by the record grain harvest due to the deficiencies in export infrastructure |
| Location: | Brazil, Cuba |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Title: | Brazil to deploy 6,000 Cuban doctors in remote areas -minister |
| Author/Source: | Reuters |
| Brief: | Brazil plans to hire 6,000 Cuban doctors to serve in remote parts of the country where medical services are deficient or nonexistent, despite controversy over the quality of their training |
| Location: | Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Economy And Security, Relations With Neighbors |
| Title: | Colombia, Mexico, Chile y Peru edifican un Parlamento de Alianza del Pacifico |
| Author/Source: | EFE Univision |
| Brief: | Los Congresos de Colombia, Mexico, Chile y Peru comenzaron hoy a edificar en Bogota el Parlamento de la Alianza del Pacifico, encargado de desarrollar el marco legislativo de esta integracion comercial y economica |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Energy |
| Title: | To power Mexico forward, Pena Nieto looks to energy reform |
| Author/Source: | Nick Miroff And William Booth The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Analysts say that unless Mexico can offer foreign drillers a share of the crude, rather than the fee-per-service contracts that Pemex offers, the country will have a hard time attracting the capital and expertise it needs |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Treasury Designates Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Bosses |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of The Treasury |
| Brief: | Each of the eight plaza bosses operates as a Sinaloa Cartel leader within their specific area of operation along the Sonora-Arizona corridor of the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary, which extends for nearly 375 miles. |
Monday, May 6, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | To Our Friends in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | When Colombia does well, the United States does well. And while we may have a few differences here and there with other countries in Latin America, let there be no doubt that Colombia is a bright, shining example for all of the world when we work together |
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: | Central America Regional |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Fact Sheet: United States Support for Economic Growth and Development in Central America |
| Author/Source: | Office Of The Press Secretary The White House |
| Brief: | For 2012, the United States committed $437 million to Central America to support nutrition, health, education, agriculture, women’s entrepreneurship, the protection of workers' rights, the elimination of child labor, construction of transportation infra |
| 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. |
Friday, May 3, 2013
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Human Rights |
| Title: | BRAZIL: Investigation opened over suspicions of illegal intelligence activities by mining company against social movements and human rights defenders |
| Author/Source: | International Federation For Human Rights |
| Brief: | The recent opening of an investigation against Vale, the second largest global mining company, for suspected illegal intelligence activities targeting social movements and human rights defenders |
| 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: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Economy And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | El Gobierno decreta el estado de sitio en cuatro municipios por oposicion a la mineria |
| Author/Source: | Edgar Calderon, Johan Ordonez AFP El Faro (El Salvador) |
| Brief: | La Fuerza Armada guatemalteca tomo cuatro poblados en los departamentos de Jalapa y Santa Rosa, donde desde este jueves rige el estado de sitio, tras enfrentamientos entre policias y opositores al proyecto de explotacion minera. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Economy And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | El hoy como espejo del ayer |
| Author/Source: | Iduvina Hernandez Plaza Publica (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | Segun el decreto gubernativo 06-2013, dos municipios de Santa Rosa y dos de Jalapa, tienen limitados sus derechos por la imposicion del estado de sitio |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Economy And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama's Mexico Policy Fails Both Sides of the Border |
| Author/Source: | Bloomberg |
| Brief: | Dismantling the monopolies and oligopolies whose products devour close to a third of an average Mexican’s household budget (and more for the poor) is a good start |
Thursday, May 2, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Gobierno decreta estado de Sitio en municipios de Santa Rosa y Jalapa |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Libre (Guatemala) |
| Brief: | Durante los disturbios, originados por la oposicion a las operaciones de la mina San Rafael en Santa Rosa, murio un agente de la Policia |
| 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 |