News Links tagged "U.S. Policy"
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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 |
| 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: | 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: | 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. |
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
| 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: | 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. |
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Usan a Inteligencia del Estado contra jefe CAT |
| Author/Source: | Elsalvador.com |
| Brief: | La labor del OIE, segun su ley, es esencial para la seguridad del Estado, y no para aspectos disciplinarios. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Diplomatic Relations, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Peru Willing to Accept U.S. Military Aid in Drug War |
| Author/Source: | Latin American Herald Tribune |
| Brief: | During an interview, Peruvian President Alan Garcia says that "on all matters that are humane and universal, I don't have any disagreement over sovereignty and patriotism." |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Alan Garcia acepta tropas de EE.UU. |
| Author/Source: | Pagina/12 |
| Brief: | Lima. Hoy la cadena CNN difundira una entrevista al presidente peruano, que dijo que Estados unidos puede instalar tropas en su pais, si asi lo desea |
| 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 |
Friday, September 3, 2010
| Location: | Costa Rica |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Humanitarian Mission Personnel Participate in Festival of Black Culture |
| Author/Source: | US Embassy Costa Rica |
| Brief: | The U.S. Air Force Band, representatives from CP2010 and Embassy personnel participated in the parade |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama prorroga un ano mas las medidas de embargo comercial contra Cuba |
| Author/Source: | El Deber |
| Brief: | El presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, anuncio hoy la extension, hasta el 14 de septiembre de 2011, de las sanciones de la Ley contra el Comercio con el Enemigo |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Arms Trafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Drug violence is worse, Calderon admits |
| Author/Source: | William Booth The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Most of the explosives are legacies of the Cold War, manufactured in the United States and shipped to Central America to fight leftist revolutionaries in the 1980s. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama administration recommends withholding funds to Mexico, citing human rights concerns |
| Author/Source: | Martha Mendoza Associated Press The Washington Examiner |
| Brief: | Under the rules, Congress must withhold 15 percent of the funds until Mexico meets specific human rights requirements including banning torture and prosecuting law enforcement agents and soldiers |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Guns, drugs, and La Barbie: Why America is responsible for Mexican drug cartels |
| Author/Source: | Jacob Bronsther CS Monitor |
| Brief: | We give the bad guys their money by buying their drugs; we sell them the guns that enable their continued existence; and they threaten a nation of more than 100 million people at our border. |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Video: Callahan se va de acto por insultos |
| Author/Source: | La Prensa (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Justamente cuando el presidente Daniel Ortega insistia en la existencia de planes de golpe de Estado en su contra, por parte de agencias de inteligencia de Estados Unidos (EE. UU.), a quienes llamo "los estrategas de la maldad", el embajador de |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Energy, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Chavez confirma merma de crudo para EE.UU. |
| Author/Source: | EFE La Prensa (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Hugo Chavez admitio ayer que Venezuela ha disminuido el suministro de crudo a Estados Unidos, su principal cliente, porque el pais ha diversificado su mercado hacia Asia, Europa, Suramerica y el Caribe. |
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 |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | House candidates David Rivera, Joe Garcia can't escape Cuba factor |
| Author/Source: | Patricia Mazzei, Lesley Clark The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | It's not front and center, but Cuba is an issue in a hotly contested congressional race between Republican David Rivera and Democrat Joe Garcia. |
| Location: | Guyana |
| Category: | Defense Cooperation, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | HSV Swift begins engagement mission in Guyana |
| Author/Source: | Kim Williams High Speed Vessel Swift Public Affairs U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | he crew of High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV) 2 made history Aug. 29, as the first U.S. military vessel to dock pier-side in Georgetown, Guyana. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Banks not paying price of role in drug trade |
| Author/Source: | Veronica Flores-Paniagua My San Antonio |
| Brief: | Bloomberg's story noted that no big U.S. bank has ever been indicted for violating the Bank Secrecy Act — or any other federal law, apparently because of concerns that doing so could destabilize financial markets |