News Links tagged "U.S. Policy"
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Sean Penn pide dejar a Bolivia fuera del Dakar |
| Author/Source: | Guider Arancibia Guillen EFE El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | El actor estadounidense Sean Penn pidio ayer ante la Camara de Representantes del Congreso de Estados Unidos ejercer presion sobre el Gobierno de Bolivia para que las autoridades liberen al empresario Jacob Ostreicher |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Brazilian Foreign Policy, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks With Foreign Minister of Brazil Antonio de Aguiar Patriota Before Their Meeting |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We want to resume our direct dialogue, very eager to do that, and look at the entire scope of the agenda. There is economic and trade issues, investment issues |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Terrorism, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Businessman Linked by U.S. to Hezbollah Is Arrested in Brazil in a Fraud Scheme |
| Author/Source: | Simon Romero New York Times |
| Brief: | The arrest focuses new attention on the Triple Frontier, a smugglers' haven that has long been under the scrutiny of intelligence agencies from the United States, Israel and South American nations. |
| Location: | El Salvador |
| Category: | Exercises, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Face of Defense: Soldiers Cook Up Smiles in El Salvador |
| Author/Source: | Army Staff Sgt. Ian Shay U.S. Army South U.S. Department Of Defense |
| Brief: | Joint Task Force Jaguar is equipped with Army-trained cooks and a mobile kitchen trailer |
| 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 |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Arizona Desert Swallows Migrants on Riskier Paths |
| Author/Source: | Fernanda Santos, Rebekah Zemansky New York Times |
| Brief: | As security at the border has tightened, pushing migrants to seek more remote and dangerous routes, the largest number of the deaths last year occurred along the punishing stretch of desert that spans the southernmost tip of the Border Patrol's Tucson sec |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | EE.UU. dona equipos a Policia y al Ejercito |
| Author/Source: | El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | La Embajada de Estados Unidos en Managua dono a la Policia Nacional de Nicaragua, cuatro detectores de drogas Hardened Mobile Tracers, valorados en US$166,000 |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Normalizar nexo con EEUU atado a aceptacion a Maduro |
| Author/Source: | Reyes Theis El Universal |
| Brief: | Segun Gerbasi, Venezuela tiene mas interes en restituir embajadores |
Monday, May 20, 2013
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | NY Times continues debating US role in Guatemala |
| Author/Source: | Mike Allison Central American Politics |
| Brief: | Declassified documents indicate that the US wasn't as involved in the Guatemalan genocide in the early 1980s as much as many people think. Reagan's public statements were probably some of the most damaging things that we did. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Drones, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Drones Over the Homeland: From Border Security to National Security |
| Author/Source: | Tom Barry Truthout |
| Brief: | These unarmed Predator drones are also steadily creeping into local law enforcement, international drug-interdiction and national security missions - including across the border into the heart of Mexico |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform |
| Author/Source: | Christopher Sherman Associated Press News Observer |
| Brief: | The current system of immigration enforcement and deportation produces a constant flow of people north and south that provides the cartel with a vulnerable labor pool and steady source of revenue. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | U.S. Policy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Venezuela esta dispuesta a normalizar relaciones con EEUU |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | “Vamos a seguir abiertos a la normalizacion de relaciones con Estados Unidos. (…) Lo primero seria restituir la delegacion diplomatica al mas alto nivel”, dijo Jaua |
Friday, May 17, 2013
| Location: | Belize |
| Category: | Defense Cooperation, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Navy Sponsors, Traines Belizean Navy SEAL Team |
| Author/Source: | Belizean |
| Brief: | Members of Belize Coastguard and Anti Drugs Unit graduate from Special Warfare Operations Course supervised by the US Navy. |
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne C. Richard Travels to Ecuador and Colombia |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | In Colombia, Assistant Secretary Richard will meet with Colombian government officials, Constitutional Court Magistrates, community leaders, women's organizations, and youth participants in a forced recruitment prevention project. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Trial on Guatemalan Civil War Carnage Leaves Out U.S. Role |
| Author/Source: | Elisabeth Malkin New York Times |
| Brief: | "The U.S. played a very powerful and direct role in the life of this institution, the army, that went on to commit genocide." |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Statement of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern on the Conviction of Jose Efrain Rios Montt |
| Author/Source: | Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) U.S. House Of Representatives |
| Brief: | The Guatemalan court's ruling demonstrates that everyone is subject to justice, and even the most vulnerable communities can seek and achieve justice for heinous crimes committed against them. |
Thursday, May 16, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Remarks: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the 43rd Washington Conference on the Americas |
| Author/Source: | Vice President Joe Biden Americas Society/Council Of The Americas |
| Brief: | The growth -- the economic growth, the security in this hemisphere is overwhelmingly in U.S. interests, exceeding almost any other interest in my view. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Ventrell U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | But in terms of our relationship with the countries in the hemisphere, we pursue them with our friends and with all countries in the hemisphere, and we pursue them, and we’re not concerned as people, as countries look at their various bilateral arrangem |
| Location: | Caribbean Regional |
| Category: | Drones, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | La Armada estadounidense aumentara patrullajes en el Caribe con mini UAV y Aerostatos |
| Author/Source: | Infodefensa |
| Brief: | Estados Unidos ya cuenta con diez aviones no tripulados del tipo Predator en la region. Dos de ellos vigilan actualmente la zona comprendida entre las islas Bahamas y Puerto Rico. |
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Drug Policy, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | EE. UU. propone una reforma de la politica de drogas para el siglo XXI |
| Author/Source: | Gil Kerlikowske El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La evidencia demuestra que la legalizacion no es una solucion viable para nuestro problema mundial con las drogas. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Defense Cooperation, Politics And Security, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | In Mexico, restrictions on U.S. agents signal drug war shift |
| Author/Source: | Nick Miroff The Washington Post |
| Brief: | The new protocols mean that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, CIA and other agencies can no longer bypass Mexico's central government to work directly with their trusted military contacts to pass along tips on the whereabouts of cartel targets. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Condenan en EU a 35 anos de carcel a Aurelio Cano, miembro del cartel del Golfo |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse La Jornada |
| Brief: | La justicia estadunidense condeno a 35 anos de prision al narcotraficante mexicano Aurelio Cano Flores, uno de los lideres del cartel del Golfo, por conspirar para importar grandes cantidades de cocaina y mariguana a Estados Unidos. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S.-Mexico Cooperation Against Cartels Remains Strong |
| Author/Source: | Stratfor Forbes |
| Brief: | The Mexicans also believe that if they can attenuate cartel violence, they will be able to free up law enforcement forces to tackle common crime instead of focusing nearly all their resources on containing the cartel wars. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Peru pedira mas fondos antidrogas a Washington |
| Author/Source: | Prensa Latina |
| Brief: | "La idea es que Estados Unidos, en los terminos de responsabilidad compartida, pueda incrementar los fondos de ayuda. Soy optimista frente a ello, la relacion con ese pais nunca pudo ser mejor", afirmo. |
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Press Freedom, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Daily Press Briefing |
| Author/Source: | Patrick Ventrell U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | These are issues that we raise across the hemisphere consistently. I don't have a specific reaction for you country by country, but this is something we work toward broadly. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Victory in Guatemala? Not Yet |
| Author/Source: | Victoria Sanford New York Times |
| Brief: | How can the Obama administration possibly justify sending military aid to a president who does this, let alone a president who might be guilty of genocide? |
| Location: | Paraguay |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Paraguay Independence Day |
| Author/Source: | John Kerry U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We congratulate the Paraguayan people for their recent presidential elections, and we look forward to working with President-elect Cartes and his team. |
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: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | A great country deserves a great immigration system |
| Author/Source: | Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) Fox News |
| Brief: | In an effort to save lives, many ranchers leave stashes of water throughout their property, but the corpses continue to accumulate at an alarming rate. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Study: The U.S. stops about half of illegal border crossings from Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Brad Plumer Washington Post |
| Brief: | The U.S. government doesn't provide good data on whether border security is actually working. |
Monday, May 13, 2013
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Bye, bye American pie |
| Author/Source: | The Economist |
| Brief: | As the Americans pack their bags, Mr Morales is just settling in. On April 29th the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that he was free to seek a third consecutive presidential term. |
| Location: | El Salvador, Guatemala |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Del conflicto armado a las pandillas: "Desasosiego" |
| Author/Source: | Julie Lopez El Faro |
| Brief: | La fotografa estadounidense Donna De Cesare reune en su nuevo libro un trabajo de tres decadas en El Salvador, Guatemala y Los Angeles, sustentando con fotografias que la violencia actual es consecuencia directa de los conflictos armados. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Joint Task Force-Bravo brings medicine to mountain villagers |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Southern Command |
| Brief: | Joint Task Force-Bravo partnered with Honduran Ministry of Health and Honduran military personnel to provide medical services to more than 500 Cuesta de la Virgen community members. |
| Location: | Honduras |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Palmerola: 30 anos despues |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Faro |
| Brief: | La Base Aerea Jose Enrique Soto Cano, conocida como Palmerola, es una estrategica base militar construida por Estados Unidos como punta de lanza contra el comunismo en la decada de los 80, durante la Guerra fria. Treinta anos despues, se mantiene. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Premium Article Mexican priest visits Dallas seeking changes in immigration policies |
| Author/Source: | The Dallas Morning News |
| Brief: | Migration can't be stopped, said the priest on a two-day visit in Dallas. It can be managed much better, though, he said. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | High Ranking Gulf Cartel Member Sentenced in Washington, D.C., to 35 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking |
| Author/Source: | Office Of Public Affairs U.S. Department Of Justice |
| Brief: | Aurelio Cano Flores, a Mexican national and high ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, was sentenced today to serve 35 years in prison for conspiring to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States. |