News Links tagged "Politics And Security"
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Cristina Kirchner, puppet of her raging husband |
| Author/Source: | Matthew Campbell MercoPress |
| Brief: | Life in the pink palace of Argentina's ruling couple is no bed of roses, says a new biography of President Cristina Kirchner. It portrays her as the puppet of an authoritarian husband who once punched her |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Presentan Doctrina de Seguridad y Defensa de Bolivia |
| Author/Source: | Agencia Boliviana De Informacion Agencia Boliviana De Informacion |
| Brief: | Se trata de un escudo teorico doctrinal frente a los enemigos de Bolivia, la pobreza, el crimen organizado, los desastres naturales y explotacion irracional e ilegal de recursos naturales. |
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | "En Bolivia no hay libertad de expresion" |
| Author/Source: | Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | Un ex presidente acusa al gobierno de Evo de autoritario. |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Pinochet’s Spokeperson To Testify In Guzman Murder Case In Chile |
| Author/Source: | Ricardo Pommer The Santiago Times |
| Brief: | rancisco Javier Cuadra, a former civilian spokesman for the military government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet (1973 – 1990), last week said he was aware that his life and the lives of others were being plotted against in 1991 by an armed faction of the Frent |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Essays And Analysis, Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Essays And Analysis, Land Tenure, Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Title: | Las noticias de la guerrilla |
| Author/Source: | Leon Valencia El Colombiano |
| Brief: | Son malas noticias. La guerrilla ha realizado dolorosos ataques a la Fuerza Publica en estos dias. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Land Tenure, Politics And Security |
| Title: | "Si este gobierno logra restituir la tierra de los desplazados seria revolucionario" |
| Author/Source: | Juanita Leon La Silla Vacia |
| Brief: | La investigadora Ana Maria Ibanez es hoy por hoy una de las personas que mas sobre el problema de tierras en Colombia. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Press Freedom |
| Title: | Correa lanza un diario popular en Ecuador |
| Author/Source: | EFE El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, ha creado en tan solo cuatro anos en el Gobierno una verdadera red mediatica, que el lunes amplio con la puesta en circulacion de un diario popular con el que competira con los sensacionalistas. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | De doble cara acusan al gobierno de Lobo Sosa |
| Author/Source: | El Heraldo (Honduras) |
| Brief: | El sector empresarial hondureno arma un frente comun ante lo que ellos denominan un dano a la inversion privada. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Politics And Security |
| Title: | De doble cara acusan al gobierno de Lobo Sosa |
| Author/Source: | El Heraldo (Honduras) |
| Brief: | El sector empresarial hondureno arma un frente comun ante lo que ellos denominan un dano a la inversion privada. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Colombia Category: | Economy and Security, Land Tenure, Politics And Security |
| Title: | En cuatro meses se resolverian reclamos de quienes perdieron sus tierras a manos de grupos ilegales |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo, El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Asi esta contemplado en el proyecto de ley de Restitucion de Tierras que el gobierno del presidente Juan Manuel Santos debe radicar hoy en Congreso |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Critican a Garcia por disposicion a aceptar mas ayuda militar de EEUU |
| Author/Source: | Reynaldo Munoz Agence France Presse El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | La postura favorable del presidente peruano Alan Garcia a aceptar tropas de Estados Unidos entrenadas para combatir el narcotrafico fue cuestionada por analistas y ex jefes militares que advirtieron de que Peru tiene personal para ensenar a otros paises s |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez's support eroding in slum strongholds as hard times return and an election looms |
| Author/Source: | Fabiola Sanchez |
| Brief: | Venezuelans grow frustrated with recession, 30-percent annual inflation, bad public services and rampant crime |
Monday, September 6, 2010
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Brazil candidate Rousseff holds lead - poll |
| Author/Source: | Raymond Colitt Reuters |
| Brief: | Rousseff garnered 51 percent voter support against 27 percent for the main opposition candidate Jose Serra |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Honduras: desalojan a sindicalistas de universidad estatal |
| Author/Source: | ANSA La Tercera (Chile) |
| Brief: | El grupo mantenia tomada la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, en protesta por el despido de mas de un centenar de empleados |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez califica a opositores de ``podridos' |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El presidente venezolano, Hugo Chavez, afirmo el domingo que sus opositores son ``lo mas podrido que ha dado la historia politica de Venezuela'' |
Friday, September 3, 2010
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Rousseff mas cerca de convertirse en la presidenta de Brasil |
| Author/Source: | Aldo Gamboa Agence France Presse El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Segun los ultimos sondeos, Rousseff, de 62 anos, aparece con una ventaja de entre 22 y 24 puntos porcentuales en intencion de voto sobre el opositor socialdemocrata y ex gobernador de Sao Paulo Jose Serra |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Demanda en el Congreso contra Uribe por "traicion a la patria" |
| Author/Source: | Cesar Garcia Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | Una organizacion no gubernamental presento el jueves ante una comision legislativa una denuncia penal en contra del ex presidente Alvaro Uribe por presunta "traicion a la patri" al negociar un acuerdo de cooperacion militar |
| Location: | Colombia, Mexico, Peru |
| Category: | Maritime Security, Politics And Security, US Military Training |
| Title: | USS New Orleans returning home from Latin American, Caribbean deployment |
| Author/Source: | United States Southern Command |
| Brief: | USS New Orleans, along with Amphibious Squadron 5, and other embarked units, will return to their home-port San Diego Sept. 2, after completing a three-month independent deployment in support of Amphibious-Southern Partnership Station. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Calderon: Violence price worth paying in drug war |
| Author/Source: | Alexandra Olson Associated Press Google News |
| Brief: | Calderon delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address two days after his government brought down the third major kingpin in less than a year. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | In speech, Calderon acknowledges "central threat" of drug cartels to Mexico |
| Author/Source: | William Booth Washington Post |
| Brief: | President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Thursday that an increasingly bloody war with powerful drug trafficking organizations continues to pose "the central threat" |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Venezuela: en la calle con la milicia bolivariana |
| Author/Source: | Yolanda Valery BBC Mundo BBC Mundo |
| Brief: | Algunos los ven como una ayuda para el problema de la inseguridad, otros los consideran fuera de orden. Un tercer grupo no sabe quienes son ni que buscan. La Milicia Bolivariana esta en las calles de Caracas. Posiblemente para quedarse. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Elections, Politics And Security |
| Title: | 77% de los electores esta dispuesto a votar el 26 de septiembre |
| Author/Source: | Hernan Lugo-Galicia El Nacional (Venezuela) |
| Brief: | 42% votaria por los candidatos de la oposicion y 34% por los del oficialismo |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Venezuela niega haber violado derechos del huelguista Brito |
| Author/Source: | Ian James Associated Press El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El vicepresidente venezolano Elias Jaua dijo el jueves que el gobierno no violo los derechos de un agricultor que murio luego de una serie de huelgas de hambre. |