http://justf.org/news/custom_news_links.php Links from a custom search of recent news about security in the Americas. en-ushttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/02/1803877/us-losing-latin-america-market.html Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Entire Region Author: Andres Oppenheimer Publisher: The Miami Herald (Tags -> Economy And Security, U.S. Policy: : ) While U.S. exports to the region are growing, in some cases significantly, their percentage of Latin America's overall imports is shrinkinghttp://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-152416-2010-09-02.html Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Argentina Publisher: Pagina/12 (Tags -> Human Rights: : ) Un militar imputado por las ejecuciones de presos politicos en Cordoba pretendio ayer apartar a un miembro del tribunal que lo juzga porque habria participado el ultimo 24 de marzo de una movilizacion para repudiar el golpe.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11160950 Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Brazil Publisher: BBC (Tags -> Corruption: : ) A judge has been appointed to run the city of 200,000 people in the state of Mato Grosso do Sulhttp://www.roubini.com/latam-monitor/259558/brazil___s_economic_policies_under_president_rouseff?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LatinAmericanEconomonitor+%28Latin+American+EconoMonitor%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Brazil Author: Thomas Trebat Publisher: Roubini (Tags -> Economy And Security: : ) The new administration will go to some lengths to convey continuity with Lula in terms of policies and playershttp://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/09/02/794033/santos-las-farc-son-asunto-de.html Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Countries: Brazil, Colombia Author: Yana Marull Wire Service: AFP Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Peace Prospects, Relations with Neighbors: ) El presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, dijo el miercoles ante su par de Brasil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, que su gobierno considera a las FARC como un asunto interno colombianohttp://en.mercopress.com/2010/09/02/rousseff-promises-if-elected-full-support-for-colombian-president-santos Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Countries: Brazil, Colombia Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations with Neighbors: ) Brazilian incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff held on Wednesday a private meeting with visiting Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and promised if elected that Brazil would continue with its willingness to mediate with the Colombian FARC ghttp://www.laprensa.hn/especiales/multimedia/Migrantes/index.html Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Countries: Central America Regional, Mexico Publisher: La Prensa (Honduras) (Tags -> Migration, Public Security: : ) 10 mil migrantes centroamericanos fueron secuestrados en territorio mexicano en el 2009FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in Colombia Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Colombia Author: Frank Jack Daniel, Patricia Rondon, Marianna Parraga, Daniel Wire Service: Reuters Publisher: Reuters (Tags -> Economy And Security, Politics And Security: : ) President Juan Manuel Santos' ambitious reform agenda, the country's waning guerrilla and drug war and still touchy relations with neighboring Venezuela and Ecuador are key issues.http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/E/entre_el_optimismo_y_la_euforia/entre_el_optimismo_y_la_euforia.asp Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Colombia Author: Rodrigo Botero Montoya Publisher: El Colombiano (Tags -> Politics And Security: Politics And Security: ) La sociedad colombiana registra un clima generalizado de optimismo, el cual contrasta con la situacion del mundo industrializado y la de varios paises latinoamericanoshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11161049 Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Colombia Publisher: BBC (Tags -> Recent Violence: Recent Violence: Caqueta) Five police officers have been killed and three injured by a roadside bomb in the Colombian state of Caqueta. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/01/v-fullstory/1803879/candidates-for-congress-cant-escape.html Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Cuba Author: Patricia Mazzei, Lesley Clark Publisher: The Miami Herald (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) 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. http://www.southcom.mil/appssc/news.php?storyId=2444 Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Entire Region Author: Rafael Martie Publisher: U.S. Southern Command (Tags -> Defense Cooperation, Politics And Security: : ) More than 2,000 civilian and military personnel from 18 countries concluded PANAMAX 2010, a 12-day regional exercise focused on training participants as a joint, multinational force to protect the Panama Canal. http://www.southcom.mil/appssc/news.php?storyId=2450 Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Guyana Author: Kim Williams Wire Service: High Speed Vessel Swift Public Affairs Publisher: U.S. Southern Command (Tags -> Defense Cooperation, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy: : ) 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.http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/08/146528.htm Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Author: Office Of The Spokesman Publisher: U.S. Department Of State (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations, U.S. Policy: : ) As announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations Patricia Espinosa in March 2009, the Merida Initiative Bilateral Implementation Office (BIO) opened today in Mexico City.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0119285420100902 Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Author: Catherine Bremer Wire Service: Reuters Publisher: Reuters (Tags -> Economy And Security, Public Security: : ) Raging drug gang violence is likely weighing on Mexico's economy as countries with crime problems can see 1.2 percentage points sliced off their GDP growth. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-labarbie_02int.ART.State.Edition1.359a5dd.html Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Author: Alfredo Corchado Publisher: The Dallas Morning News (Tags -> Narcotrafficking: : ) The Dallas Morning News first reported on the meeting of top cartel leaders in June 2007, a report that was dismissed at the time by President Felipe Calderon's office. http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/content/view/print/322562 Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Author: Sara Miller Llana Wire Service: Reuters Publisher: CS Monitor (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) The tenure of President Felipe Calderon, who is preparing to give his fourth state of the union address, has been marked by the brutal Mexico drug war and political infighting that's stymied reform.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-informe-20100902,0,5735105.story Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Author: Ken Ellingwood Publisher: The Los Angeles Times (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) In his state of the nation report, President Felipe Calderon notes the arrests or killings of drug kingpins and efforts to clean up police. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-4ZVqIO9z_UmpHxh9-aP9rjMsWQD9HVHLA81 Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: Associated Press (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) The report came days after Calderon conceded there has been a surge in drug-related violence and said he was willing to discuss changes in his strategy http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38956901/ns/world_news-americas/ Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Publisher: MSNBC (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) Mexican President Felipe Calderon prepared to deliver what's akin to a state of the union speech on Thursday, and ahead of that he released several video clips touting his priorities — yet none refer specifically to his war on drug cartels. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/banks_not_paying_price_of_their_role_in_drug_trade_102035763.html?showFullArticle=y Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Mexico Author: Veronica Flores-Paniagua Publisher: My San Antonio (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy: : ) 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 http://elcomercio.pe/noticia/631356/peru-cerro-negociaciones-corea-sur-firma-nuevo-tratado-libre-comercio Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Peru Publisher: El Comercio (Peru) (Tags -> Economy And Security, Free Trade: : ) El Peru culmino esta manana las rondas de negociaciones con Corea del Sur, en el marco de la firma de un Tratado de Libre Comercio.http://en.mercopress.com/2010/09/02/jewish-community-in-venezuela-shrinks-by-half Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Venezuela Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) If someone were to rank the most embattled Jewish communities in the world today, the Jewish community of Venezuela would certainly be high on that list. Over the past decade the community has shrunk by half its size, according to a report from Gil Sheflehttp://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/09/02/794031/lopez-propone-como-reducir-la.html Publication Date: 2010-09-02 Country: Venezuela Author: Ann Legard Wire Service: AFP Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) El ex alcalde opositor Leopoldo Lopez propuso el miercoles una serie de medidas que, segun el, servirian para reducir la inseguridad en Venezuela y culpo al gobierno de no hacer "lo suficiente."http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/31/latin-american-democracies-lash-out-at-the-press.print.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Entire Region Author: Marc Margolis Publisher: Newsweek (Tags -> Press Freedom: : ) The breadth of official incursions into citizen's lives has sent out distress signals from Patagonia to the Antilles http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/08/31/how_to_update_us_south_american_defense_agreements Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Entire Region, Colombia Author: Stephen Johnson Publisher: Foreign Policy (Tags -> U.S. Policy: U.S. Policy: ) Whereas Chavez signs all manner of troubling pacts with Russia and Iran without restraint, it's comforting to know that Colombia's Constitutional Court decided that the DCA required legislative approval.http://www.semana.com/noticias-politica/ley-victimas-polarizacion-saldra-adelante/143828.aspx Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Argentina Publisher: Semana.com (Tags -> : Victims: ) El representante Guillermo Rivera explico por que es importante la aprobacion del proyecto que busca la reparacion integral a damnificados del conflict. http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1300072 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Argentina Publisher: La Nacion (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations: : ) La oposicion rechaza un proyecto del Poder Ejecutivo que procura eliminar la instruccion castrense en esos institutos. http://en.mercopress.com/2010/09/01/argentine-to-increase-budget-defence-50-recovering-losses-of-falklands-war Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Argentina Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Defense, Defense Budgets: : ) Defence minister Nilda Garre said the Argentine government would increase the defence budget in coming years from 0.9% to 1.5% of GDP to help overcome decades of divestment following the defeat in the (1982) Falklands/Malvinas war.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jgk5kK8JoA_hechFA-YdjKDf1EswD9HULSN00 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Argentina Author: Curt Anderson Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: Google News (Tags -> Extraditions, Human Rights, U.S. Policy: : ) An Argentine federal judge issued an arrest warrant in February 2008 charging Bravo with 16 counts of murder as well as attempted murder charges. Bravo's attorney says he has done nothing wrong. http://en.mercopress.com/2010/09/01/timerman-visits-paraguay-announces-two-new-bridges-linking-with-argentina Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Argentina, Paraguay Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: : ) Argentina's Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman announced Tuesday in Asuncion the construction of two new bridges linking Argentina with Paraguay and the upgrading of an existing one.http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/09/01/793352/denuncian-corrupcion-con-avion.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Bolivia Wire Service: EFE Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> Corruption, Politics And Security: : ) La oposicion boliviana denuncio el martes un supuesto sobreprecio de unos $14 millones en la compra de un avion ejecutivo para el presidente Evo Moraleshttp://www.abi.bo/nucleo/noticias.php?i=2&j=20100831221224 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Bolivia, Peru Publisher: Agencia Boliviana De Informacion (Tags -> Extraditions, Politics And Security: : ) Un avion de la Fuerza Aerea Boliviana (FAB) se dirigia a Lima en procura del ex prefecto de La Paz, Luis Alberto Valle, profugo de la justicia boliviana hace 16 meses.http://www.abc.com.py/nota/efectivos-operativo-mataron/ Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Brazil Wire Service: AFP Publisher: ABC Digital (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations, Pub, Public Security: : ) Efectivos de la Policia Militar (PM) ocuparon el martes por tiempo indeterminado dos favelas en un municipio del area metropolitanta de la ciudad de Rio de Janeirohttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hdNiUGA_xjhMVnlq8ZpZVaSj0kAQ Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Brazil Wire Service: Agence France Presse Publisher: Google News (Tags -> Economy And Security: : ) President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he hopes to show that slum dwellers perhaps are impoverished but are just like people everywherehttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSRISKBR20100901 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Brazil Author: Raymond Colitt Wire Service: Reuters Publisher: Reuters (Tags -> Economy And Security, Politics And Security: : ) Heavy government spending, oil policies and the new balance of power in Congress after the presidential election are among the risks to watchhttp://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN3118572520100831 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Brazil Author: Raymond Colitt Wire Service: Reuters (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) Rousseff will have to reconcile competing demands from members of her own Workers' Party, which is divided between leftists pushing for a greater state role in the economy and moderates who back the more market-friendly policies.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iZ2HIYIUdyjeSwhZWACAATrWiPkgD9HUMJI80 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Brazil Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: Google News (Tags -> Environment: : ) The National Institute for Space Research says satellite imagery shows nearly 2,300 square kilometers (900 square miles) were destroyed in the 12 months through July 31, a 48 percent drop. http://www.dinero.com/negocios-online/comercio-exterior/visita-brasil-eje-relaciones-comerciales_76251.aspx Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Brazil, Colombia Publisher: Dinero.com (Tags -> : Diplomatic Relations, Relations with Neighbors: ) Tres dias durara la visita oficial de Juan Manuel Santos y su equipo de trabajo a Brasil. http://en.mercopress.com/2010/09/01/colombia-s-santos-meets-lula-da-silva-in-his-first-overseas-visit Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Brazil, Colombia Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations with Neighbors: ) Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos arrived Tuesday in Brazil for an official two-day state visit that begins Wednesday with a meeting with President Lula da Silva.http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/politica/viaje-del-presidente-santos-a-brasil_7887724-1 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Brazil, Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations with Neighbors: ) Enviando un mensaje de integracion, y con la intencion de estrechar lazos entre Colombia y Brasil, el presidente Juan Manuel Santos llego a la capital brasilenahttp://www.dinero.com/negocios-online/comercio-exterior/visita-brasil-eje-relaciones-comerciales_76251.aspx Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Brazil, Colombia Publisher: Dinero.com (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations with Neighbors: ) Tres dias durara la visita oficial de Juan Manuel Santos y su equipo de trabajo a Brasil. http://www.elespectador.com/columna-222011-del-dicho-al-hecho Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Brazil, Colombia Author: Arlene B. Tickner Publisher: El Espectador (Colombia) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations with Neighbors, U.S. Policy: ) Tan comun se ha vuelto que una vez elegidos, los presidentes en Colombia emprendan el peregrinaje "obligado" a Estados Unidos que es natural que la decision de Juan Manuel Santos de visitar primero a Brasil cause toda clase de especulacionhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2010/09/100831_chile_mapuches_ley_huelga_lav.shtml Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Chile Author: Cecilia Barria Publisher: BBC Mundo (Tags -> Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security: : ) En total, son 32 mapuches los que hace siete semanas iniciaron la huelga contra una ley que consideran injustahttp://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20100831/pags/20100831231932.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Chile Publisher: La Nacion (Chile) (Tags -> Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security: : ) El ministro Rodrigo Hinzpeter tambien pidio a los presos deponer el ayuno y terminar con las acciones violentas como medio para canalizar sus requerimientos a la autoridad.http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-152346-2010-09-01.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Chile Author: Christian Palma Publisher: Pagina/12 (Tags -> Indigenous, Indigenous Communities: : ) El conflicto que mantiene a treinta y dos mapuches en ayuno por mas de cincuenta dias, que el gobierno chileno y los medios de derecha mantuvieron en un bajo perfil, esta generando un repudio mundial.http://www.elespectador.com/columna-221997-una-prueba-reina Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Author: Cecilia Orozco Tascon Publisher: El Espectador (Tags -> : DAS Scandal: ) Lagos leyo frente a la jueza, el fiscal, los abogados de las victimas y la prensa, una declaracion contundente, despues de su suplica: "Lamento lo sucedido y pido perdon a todos por este hecho"http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3124571720100831 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Author: Patrick Markey Wire Service: Reuters (Tags -> : Economy and Security: ) President Juan Manuel Santos plans to centralize how royalties are managed to more evenly distribute around $3 billion a year. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100831-710339.html# Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Publisher: The Wall Street Journal (Tags -> : Economy and Security: ) Colombia's stubbornly high unemployment rate represents one of the top economic challenges for President Juan Manuel Santos. http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/09/01/793362/ex-paras-admiten-cremacion-de.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Author: Libardo Cardona Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> : Human Rights Cases, Justice and Peace Process: ) Un fiscal de la Unidad Nacional de Justicia y Paz dijo que paramilitares desmovilizados han confesado que cremaron los cadaveres de al menos 150 de sus victimas en hornos artesanales.http://www.verdadabierta.com/gran_especial/montes_de_maria.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Publisher: Verdad Abierta (Tags -> : Human Rights Cases, Justice and Peace Process, Para-Politics: ) La tragedia humanitaria que ha vivido Colombia en los ultimos quince anos fue peor en estas colinas caribenas. http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/occidente/denuncian-asesinato-de-guardia-indigena-en-el-cauca_7888078-1 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : Indigenous Communities, Recent Violence: Cauca) La comunidad indigena del Proyecto Unidad Paez del Resguardo la Cilia, reporto la muerte a bala del guardia indigena Richard Alexander Penahttp://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/A/a_las_comunas_con_todo/a_las_comunas_con_todo.asp Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Colombiano (Tags -> : Public Security, Recent Violence: Antioquia) A las comunas y barrios populares, no solo de Medellin sino de otras ciudades colombianas, que registran conflictos similares, hay que ir con todo el Estado. http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/E/estado_controlara_violencia_en_medellin_dice_santos/estado_controlara_violencia_en_medellin_dice_santos.asp Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Colombiano (Tags -> : Public Security, Recent Violence: Antioquia) El estudio de un conjunto de medidas excepcionales para combatir las bandas delincuenciales en Medellin, que ni el presidente de la Republica Juan Manuel Santos Calderon ni el alcalde Alonso Salazar Jaramillo precisaron, fue la gran conclusion del consejohttp://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/atentado-farc-deja-energia-electrica-70-pueblos/143863.aspx Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Wire Service: EFE Publisher: Semana.com (Tags -> : Recent Violence: Cauca) Rebeldes del VI frente de las Farc ingresaron a las instalaciones de la hidroelectrica ubicada en el municipio de CalotoEntregan firmas para ratificar convenio contra la desaparición forzada - Política en Colombia - ELTIEMPO.COM Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Wire Service: EFE, EFE Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : Victims, Victims: ) La entrega, encabezada por el congresista Guillermo Rivera, se realizo en la Camara de Representanteshttp://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/antioquia/consejo-de-seguridad-de-santos-en-medellin_7887210-1 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> Recent Violence: Public Security, Recent Violence: Antioquia) El mandatario sostuvo un consejo de seguridad con el alcalde de Medellin, Alonso Salazarhttp://www.elheraldo.hn/content/view/full/425307?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+elheraldo_titulares+%28El+Heraldo+-+Titulares%29 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Colombia, Honduras Publisher: El Heraldo (Honduras) (Tags -> : U.S. Policy: ) Colombia, Estados Unidos y Honduras concluyeron ayer tres dias de ejercicios navales contra el narcotrafico en la isla de San Andreshttp://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100831/wl_yblog_upshot/what-can-mexico-learn-from-colombias-drug-war Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Colombia, Mexico Author: Liz Goodwin Publisher: Yahoo! (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: Narcotrafficking, Public Security: ) To defeat the cartels in Colombia, the government employed a kingpin strategy: going after high-value traffickers and extraditing them to the United States.http://www.delicious.com/cip_jtf/?page=1 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Colombia, Mexico Publisher: El Universal (Mexico) (Tags -> Public Security: Narcotrafficking: ) Edgar Valdez Villarreal, La Barbie, declaro que tiene "inversiones" en Colombia, de donde asegura que proviene toda la droga.http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/08/29/v-print/791954/molina.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Colombia, Venezuela Author: Antonio Maria Delgado Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> Arms Trafficking, Venezuelan Foreign Policy: Arms Trafficking, Relations with Venezuela: ) El contraalmirante retirado Carlos Molina Tamayo, ex asesor de Seguridad Nacional de Hugo Chavez, no tiene dudas de que muchas de las armas que la guerrilla usa contra el gobierno de Colombia son suministradas por Venezuela.http://www.southcom.mil/appssc/news.php?storyId=2448 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Costa Rica Author: Cpl. Alicia R. Giron Publisher: U.S. Southern Command (Tags -> Human Rights: : ) Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 brought smiles, hugs and supplies to Costa Rican students during their visit to Westfalia and Hone Creek schools in Costa Rica, Aug. 25-26. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100901/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_fidel_castro Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Cuba Author: Will Weissert Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: Yahoo! (Tags -> Fidel Castro, U.S. Policy: : ) The images show Cuba's 84-year-old former leader with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Julia E. Sweig from the Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/09/01/1/1356/1000-millones-china-cubren-deficit.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Ecuador Publisher: El Universo (Ecuador) (Tags -> Chinese Foreign Policy, Economy And Security: : ) Ecuador y China firmaron ayer en Beijing el credito por $ 1.000 millones, acordado hace pocas semanas entre el Ministerio de Finanzas (MEF) y el Banco de Desarrollo de Chinahttp://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/09/01/793359/en-peligro-el-ecuatoriano-sobreviviente.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Ecuador, Mexico Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> Migration, Public Security: : ) El unico sobreviviente de la masacre de 72 migrantes en Mexico, el ecuatoriano Luis Lala, corre peligro 'incluso en Ecuador', afirmo el martes el subsecretario del ministerio del Interior, Edwin Jarrinhttp://www.elperiodico.com.gt/es/20100901/pais/172986/ Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Guatemala, Guatemala Publisher: El Periodico (Guatemala) (Tags -> Corruption, Public Security: : ) Al Comisionado le preocupa que el proceso electoral afecte la aprobacion de leyes.http://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20100901/pags/20100901014400.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Haiti Wire Service: EFE Publisher: La Nacion (Chile) (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) El Consejo Electoral Provisional (CEP) informo hoy que decidio adelantar para el 27 de septiembre proximo el inicio de la campana electoral con miras a las elecciones presidenciales y legislativas del 28 de noviembrehttp://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-152380-2010-09-01.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Haiti, South America Regional Publisher: Pagina/12 (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: : ) La Unasur inauguro ayer la secretaria tecnica UnasurHaiti, en el marco del Plan de Trabajo acordado por el presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa -a cargo de la presidencia pro-tempore del bloque- y por el secretario ejecutivo, Nestor Kirchnerhttp://www.elheraldo.hn/content/view/full/425352?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+elheraldo_titulares+%28El+Heraldo+-+Titulares%29 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Honduras Publisher: El Heraldo (Honduras) (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights, Politics And Security: : ) El teniente coronel fue acusado por el Ministerio Publico al suponerlo responsable del cierre temporal de dos medios de comunicacionhttp://www.elheraldo.hn/content/view/full/425317?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+elheraldo_titulares+%28El+Heraldo+-+Titulares%29 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Honduras Publisher: El Heraldo (Honduras) (Tags -> Economy And Security: : ) 72 de cada 100 hondurenos se ubican en el grupo de personas que padecen de inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/705589.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: El Universal (Mexico) (Tags -> Kidnapping, Public Security: : ) Los cubanos habian sido secuestrados desde hacia un mes y sus captores pretendian cobrar de ocho a 10 mil dolares a sus familiares en Miamihttp://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-lt-mexico-forgotten-victims,0,2481700,full.story Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Tags -> Migration, Public Security: : ) Mexico's National Human Rights Commission said there were witness accounts of 198 mass kidnappings involving 9,758 migrants in a six month-period in 2009http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/31/mexico.migrants/#fbid=51E2_c_CswG&wom=false Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: CNN (Tags -> Migration, Public Security: : ) The announcement comes a week after the bodies of 72 slain migrants from Central and South America were found in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-barbie-20100901,0,5187785.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld+%28L.A.+Times+-+World+News%29 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Ken Ellingwood Publisher: The Los Angeles Times (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) 'He might sing like a canary,' one analyst says the day after the capture of the Texas-born figure known as La Barbie http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11149934 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: BBC (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) US-born alleged drug kingpin Edgar "Barbie" Valdez has admitted to being involved in the drugs trade, but has insisted he worked alone.http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-labarbie_01int.ART.State.Edition2.35ade05.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Alfredo Corchado Publisher: The Dallas Morning News (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) The capture of the Texas-born fugitive, nicknamed "La Barbie," ends a bloody chapter in Mexico's battle against the cartels and could produce important intelligence on them.http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/31/1801735/capture-of-drug-kingpin-a-breakthrough.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: The Miami Herald (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Valdez-Villarreal had many enemies, but one of his bitterest feuds dated to his stint in Nuevo Laredo, where he battled the Gulf Cartel and its henchmen, Los Zetas, for smuggling routes.http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/content/view/print/323077 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Sara Miller Llana Publisher: The Christian Science Monitor (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) While experts say this is a political victory for Mr. Calderon and will boost Mexico's reputation, it is likely to have little short-term impact on the flow of drugs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/lg/news/2010/08/100831_mexico_drugs_wt_sl.shtml Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: BBC (UK) (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Mexico's top crime writer, Paco Ignacio Taibo, has written about the subject and has strong views on the drugs war.http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2010/08/mexicos_drug_war_0 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: The Economist (UK) (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Known as La Barbie for his supposed (and unconvincing) resemblance to a Ken doll, the Texas-born Mr Valdez cut his teeth as the chief enforcer for Joaquin El Chapo ("Shorty") Guzman.http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-slaughter_01edi.State.Edition1.129b78a.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: The Dallas Morning News (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) When gunmen are willing to line up and shoot migrants in cold blood, for whatever reason, the terrorists have descended into an entirely new realm of inhumanity.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/37e2c690-b534-11df-9af8-00144feabdc0.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Publisher: Financial Times (UK) (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Combating drug criminality is a police, not an army, job. The troops Mr Calderon has sent to the worst affected areas can therefore only be a stopgap solution.http://www.as-coa.org/articles/2617/Calder%C3%B3n_Takes_Aim_at_Money_Laundering/ Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Cecilia Farfan Mendez Wire Service: Americas Society/Council Of The Ame (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Mexican President Felipe Calderon sends his fourth state of the union to Congress September 1 at a point when some observers see the security outlook as gloomy at best.http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/01/1801746/what-if-the-drug-lords-prevail.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Mary Sanchez Publisher: The Miami Herald (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy: : ) Two hundred years after Hidalgo uttered his famous cry, or "grito," to begin the insurgency against Spain, Mexico must free itself from this devil within or risk a new form of colonization.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129584577 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Jason Beaubien, Robert Siegel Publisher: NPR (Tags -> Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) Mexico's President Felipe Calderon handed his assessment of the state of his nation to Congress on Wednesday. NPR's Jason Beaubien also assesses the state of Mexico http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-31/cancun-bar-attack-kills-eight-as-mexico-grapples-with-increasing-violence.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Jens Erik Gould Wire Service: Bloomberg (Tags -> Public Security: : ) The attack occurred at a bar called Castillo del Mar, about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the city’s main hotel zone, and all the victims were Mexican.http://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20100901/pags/20100901013451.html Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Wire Service: EFE Publisher: La Nacion (Chile) (Tags -> Public Security: : ) El numero de asesinatos cometidos por el crimen organizado en Ciudad Juarez supero los dos mil al mes de agosto. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/1/hezbollah-car-bombs-on-our-border/print/ Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Author: Rep. Sue Myrick Publisher: The Washington Times (Tags -> Terrorism, U.S. Policy: : ) A well-known international arms dealer was trying to orchestrate an arms-for-drugs deal in which cocaine from FARC - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which works with Mexican drug cartels to take cocaine into America - would be traded for thoushttp://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/08/146528.htm Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Office Of The Spokesman Publisher: U.S. Department Of State (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) This office will allow for daily exchanges between technical staffers of agencies of both countries with the purpose of fully implementing equipment transfer and training programs under the Merida Initiative.http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/08/146528.htm Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Office Of The Spokesman Publisher: U.S. Department Of State (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) This office will allow for daily exchanges between technical staffers of agencies of both countries with the purpose of fully implementing equipment transfer and training programs under the Merida Initiative.http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jG0JeHLyvQ1XiDyucYlO1hevfOwA Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Agence France Presse Publisher: Google (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) The office will oversee transfers of equipment and training under the so-called Merida Initiative.http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/82458 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Nicaragua Author: Jose Adan Silva Publisher: El Nuevo Diario (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations: : ) Tres nuevos generales de Brigada y doce mujeres ascendidas en diversos rangos. http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/politica/82419 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Nicaragua Author: Matilde Cordoba Publisher: El Nuevo Diario (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) El libro muestra la metamorfosis del FSLN, y el acumulamiento de poder en la figura de Daniel Ortega, un inesperado legado en su historiahttp://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/politica/82419 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Nicaragua Author: Matilde Cordoba Publisher: El Nuevo Diario (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) El libro muestra la metamorfosis del FSLN, y el acumulamiento de poder en la figura de Daniel Ortega, un inesperado legado en su historiaLa Policía Nacional cuenta con unos 11 mil miembros Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Nicaragua (Tags -> Public Security: : ) http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2010/09/01/nacionales/36400 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Nicaragua Author: Elizabeth Romero Publisher: La Prensa (Nicaragua) (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) Ortega critico que, como parte del Plan Merida, Estados Unidos otorgara a Nicaragua solo dos millones de dolares http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/politica/82432 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Countries: Nicaragua, Nicaragua Author: Leonor Alvarez Publisher: El Nuevo Diario (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) La trabajadora del area de Protocolo de la Cancilleria de la Republica, Carolina de Fatima Vega Noguera denuncio ayer en la Comision Permanente de Derechos Humanos, CPDH, que fue suspendida por ser opositora al actual gobierno.http://www.larepublica.pe/politica/31/08/2010/civiles-de-ffaa-toman-calles Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Peru Publisher: La Republica (Peru) (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations, Labor Rights: : ) Un grupo de trabajadores civiles de los institutos armados, quienes cumplen una huelga indefinida desde el 12 de agosto en demanda de la equivalencia de sus remuneraciones con los ingresos del personal militar senalado por un decreto legislativo, desplegahttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSRISKVE20100901 Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Venezuela Author: Frank Jack Daniel, Patricia Rondon, Marianna Parraga, Daniel Wire Service: Reuters Publisher: Reuters (Tags -> Economy And Security, Public Security: : ) Keep an eye out for unpredictable policy changes by socialist President Hugo Chavez, especially if the poll bolsters the opposition, as well as the chance of new nationalizations.http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/09/01/pol_ava_chavez-dice-que-radi_01A4411691.shtml Publication Date: 2010-09-01 Country: Venezuela Publisher: El Universal (Venezuela) (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) "Ellos (oposicion) pretenden llegar a la Asamblea no para hacer leyes, sino para dar un golpe como en Honduras. Por ahi va la linea que dio el imperio norteamericano"http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1299880 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Argentina Publisher: La Nacion (Tags -> Press Freedom: : ) Siguiendo estrictas indicaciones de la Presidenta, el procurador del Tesoro, Joaquin da Rocha, jefe de los abogados del Estado, denunciara supuestos crimenes de lesa humanidad vinculados a la venta de Papel Prensa. "Los responsables tienen nombre y ahttp://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-152314-2010-08-31.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Argentina Publisher: Pagina/12 (Tags -> Press Freedom: : ) La Presidenta critico a sectores opositores por defender "el interes de una empresa privada". Les pidio que debatieran e incluso modificaran la propuesta oficial para declarar de interes publico la produccion de papel prensa.http://www.latercera.com/noticia/politica/2010/08/674-288072-9-secretaria-de-estado-adjunta-de-eeuu-realizara-gira-de-tres-dias-por-argentina-y.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Countries: Argentina, Chile Wire Service: EFE Publisher: La Tercera (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) Secretaria de Estado adjunta de EEUU realizara gira de tres dias por Argentina y Chilehttp://www.abi.bo/nucleo/noticias.php?i=2&j=20100831004449 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Bolivia Wire Service: ABI Publisher: Agencia Boliviana De Informacion (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security: : ) "Ni el mando policial, de las Fuerzas Armadas ni los campesinos seamos agentes del capitalismo, es el mejor homenaje" a la revolucion cubana, paradigma del proceso de cambio que impulsa en Bolivia, afirmo el gobernante.http://www.eldeber.com.bo/2010/2010-08-30/vernotaahora.php?id=100830230603 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Bolivia Wire Service: ANF Publisher: El Deber (Tags -> Human Rights, Narcotrafficking: : ) La semana pasada efectivos de la Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotrafico (FELCN) allanaron la oficina de la Asamblea Permanente de Derechos Humanos, para llevarse computadorashttp://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2010/08/678-288066-9-evo-morales-afirma-que-iran-es-pacifista-e-israel-terrorista.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Bolivia Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: La Tercera (Tags -> Iranian Foreign Policy: : ) El mandatario boliviano denuncio que Tel Aviv posee entre 60 y 200 bombas nucleares "no declaradas" y que, aun asi, la ONU no le impone sanciones.http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/08/31/1/1363/un-nuevo-mapa-mundo.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Brazil Author: Celso Amorim Publisher: El Universo (Ecuador) (Tags -> Brazilian Foreign Policy: : ) El mundo y el Brasil han cambiado a una velocidad acelerada, y algunas supuestas "verdades" del pasado se van rindiendo ante la evidencia de los hechoshttp://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/news.php?storyId=2445 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Brazil Author: U.S. Embassy, Brazil Publisher: U.S. Southern Command (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: : ) U.S. Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, Commander of U.S. Southern Command, presented the United States Defense Department’s Legion of Merit medal to Brazilian Army Maj. Gen. Floriano Peixoto Vieira during a formal award ceremony Aug. 31 at Brazil’s Armyhttp://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-152295-2010-08-31.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Countries: Chile, Uruguay Author: Luciana Bertoia Publisher: Pagina/12 (Tags -> Human Rights: : ) Ex presos politicos uruguayos exigen que Mujica convierta al ex Servicio de Informaciones de Defensa en un espacio para la memoria. Los familiares de las victimas de Pinochet ven con preocupacion que este la derecha en el poder.http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-152296-2010-08-31.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Publisher: Pagina/12 (Tags -> : Civil Society Peace Initiatives, Relations with Neighbors: Narino) Dirigentes politicos de varios paises de America latina, entre los que se encontraba la senadora colombiana Piedad Cordoba, crearon en Buenos Aires el colectivo Latinoamericanos por la Paz de Colombia para intentar humanizar el conflicto en ese pais.http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/politica/ARTICULO-PRINTER_FRIENDLY-PLANTILLA_PRINTER_FRIENDL-7886487.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Tags -> : Peace Prospects: ) Eltiempo.com conocio que el propio presidente Santos pidio que en el proyecto que modifica la Ley 418 de 1997 quede explicito que no se permitiran este tipo de zonas especiales.http://www.elespectador.com/columna-221820-acaso-posible-reformar-justicia Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Author: Hernan Gonzalez Rodriguez Publisher: El Espectador (Tags -> Justice System: Justice System: ) Segun la Corporacion citada, en este momento existen tres millones de expedientes represados sin evacuar. Un juicio tarda en promedio 1.300 diashttp://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/S/santos_garantizo_fuerte_combate_contra_las_farc_si_no_reflexionan/santos_garantizo_fuerte_combate_contra_las_farc_si_no_reflexionan.asp Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Author: Juan Carlos Monroy Giraldo Publisher: El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia) (Tags -> Politics And Security: Farc: ) "Mientras las Farc persistan en el terrorismo, las combatiremos con toda la fuerza y la contundencia", aseguro el Jefe de Estado http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/lucha-contra-las-farc-del-gobierno-santos_7885803-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> Politics And Security: FARC Hostages, Politics And Security: ) El mandatario fue claro al senalar que mientras la guerrilla persista en el terrorismo "sera combatida con toda contundencia"http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/columnistas/salhernndez/que-esta-pasando-en-medellin_7886492-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Author: Saul Hernandez Publisher: El Tiempo (Tags -> Public Security: Public Security: ) Tiene razon el alcalde Salazar al pedir la intervencion del Gobierno Nacional y solicitar reformas de los codigos Penal y de Procedimiento Penal, que se convirtieron hace rato en el mayor obstaculo para aplicar pronta justicia.http://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/forolectores/victima-o-victimario_7886610-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> Public Security: Public Security: ) En la disparada de la inseguridad urbana en el pais, los jovenes estan adquiriendo un alarmante protagonismo.http://www.elespectador.com/columna-221821-herencia-de-no-nacimos-pa-semilla Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Author: Rafael Orduz Publisher: El Espectador (Tags -> Public Security: Public Security: ) LA INSEGURIDAD URBANA ESTÁ EN auge y menores de edad son protagonistas http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/antioquia/presidente-juan-manuel-santos-en-medellin_7885382-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Tags -> Public Security: Public Security, Recent Violence: Antioquia) Una vez mas el alcalde de Medellin, Alonso Salazar, insistira en la urgencia de endurecer las sanciones a delitos como el porte ilegal de armashttp://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/antioquia/nueva-asonada-en-comuna-de-medellin-con-un-muerto-y-dos-soldados-heridos_7886609-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Tags -> Recent Violence: Recent Violence: Antioquia) Los desordenes se produjeron tras la muerte de un hombre en el sector de La Silla http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/occidente/encuentran-cuatro-personas-muertas-en-una-lancha-en-tumaco_7885771-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Tags -> Recent Violence: Recent Violence: Narino) En esta region operan las bandas criminales al servicio del narcotrafico asociadas a paramilitares, al igual que el grupo armado ilegal Farchttp://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/31/former-chavez-advisor-claims-army-weapons-were-supplied-to-colombian-farc-guerrilla Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Countries: Colombia, Venezuela Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Venezuelan Foreign Policy: Arms Trafficking, FARC International Links, Relations with Venezuela: ) Molina Tamayo, a retired rear admiral, who is exiled in Europe following a failed 2002 coup, told Miami’s El Nuevo Heraldo that a close ally of Chavez's, retired navy Capitan Ramon Rodriguez Chacin, asked him to hand over weapons to the FARC guerrilla whttp://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-152291-2010-08-31.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Cuba Author: Carmen Lira Saade Publisher: Pagina/12 (Tags -> Fidel Castro, Politics And Security: : ) El lider de la Revolucion Cubana dio su primer reportaje tras la enfermedad que lo obligo a delegar el mando en su hermano. http://www.listindiario.com//la-republica/2010/8/31/156938/Pide-a-EEUU-identificar-a-17-oficiales Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Dominican Republic Author: Viviano De Leon Publisher: Listin Diario (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations, Corruption, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy: : ) El vicepresidente Rafael Alburquerque llamo ayer al gobierno de Estados Unidos a cooperar con las autoridades dominicanas para identificar a los oficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas que estarian vinculados al narcotrafico.http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/08/31/1/1355/comite-proteccion-mira-represalia-contra-periodista.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Ecuador Publisher: El Universo (Ecuador) (Tags -> Press Freedom: : ) El Comite para la Proteccion de los Periodistas (CPJ) considera una represalia la acusacion de terrorismo contra un periodista ecuatoriano por su dura critica a las autoridades locales http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/Capturan-allanamiento-Carcha-Alta-Verapaz_0_326367597.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Guatemala Author: Alta Verapaz Publisher: Prensa Libre (Guatemala) (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Las fuerzas de seguridad capturaron esta tarde, en San Pedro Carcha, Alta Verapaz, a cuatro integrantes de una celula del cartel de la droga denominado Los Zetas.http://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2010/08/678-288074-9-honduras-profesores-deponen-huelga-tras-acuerdo-con-lobo.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Honduras Wire Service: EFE Publisher: La Tercera (Tags -> Labor Rights, Politics And Security: : ) Tras un mes de protestas, el mandatario logro consensuar un acuerdo de 26 puntos con los maestros.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/31/tenth-federal-police-officers-fired-mexico-drug-wars Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Author: Jo Tuckman Publisher: The Guardian (Tags -> Corruption, Public Security: : ) Battle with drug cartels brings anti-corruption drive in which officers fail lie-detector or toxicology testshttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-police-fired-20100831,0,5955735.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld+%28L.A.+Times+-+World+News%29 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Author: Ken Ellingwood Publisher: The Los Angeles Times (Tags -> Corruption, Public Security: : ) Federal police commissioner Facundo Rosas announces the firings at a news conference in Mexico City.http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/82341 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Author: SALVADOR CAMARENA Publisher: El Nuevo Diario (Tags -> Migration, Public Security: : ) El caso de los 72 indocumentados masacrados en Tamaulipas fue muy publicitado, pero diariamente ocurren muchos en la misma ruta, que no aparecen en los medios.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083004187_pf.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Author: William Booth, Nick Miroff Publisher: Washington Post (Tags -> Narcotrafficking: : ) The traffickers have been caught hauling marijuana along the Texas border in fake versions of a Wal-Mart truck or FedEx van. They've employed sham school buses, dummy dump trucks and bogus ambulances. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-barbie-20100831,0,5384395.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld+%28L.A.+Times+-+World+News%29 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Author: Tracy Wilkinson Publisher: The Los Angeles Times (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Since Beltran Leyva's death, police say, Valdez had been locked in a vicious war with Beltran Leyva's brother Hector for control of the cartel's businesshttp://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20100830/pags/20100830212345.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Publisher: La Nacion (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Seis narcotraficantes y un militar murieron tras casi 15 horas de enfrentamientos en Panuco, en el estado de Veracruz http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/705297.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Author: Jose Gerardo Mejia Publisher: El Universal (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) El vocero en materia de seguridad nacional Alejandro Poire afirmo que Édgar Valdez Villarreal, alias La Barbie, es un "criminal de alta peligrosidad"http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2010/08/30/detienen-la-pf-a-la-barbie-en-morelos Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Notimex (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) La Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP) federal confirmo el arresto en el municipio de Lerma y agrego que la detencion es resultado de un trabajo de inteligencia que inicio en junio de 2009. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083002632_pf.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Countries: Mexico, Mexico Author: William Booth Publisher: Washington Post (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Alleged drug lord 'La Barbie' captured in Mexicohttp://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/politica/82349 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Nicaragua Author: Leyla Jarquin Publisher: El Nuevo Diario (Tags -> Civil-Military Relations, Demobilization And Reintegration: : ) El capitan en retiro Ronald Zeledon, de Matagalpa, denuncio que "gorilas" y "caimanes" que rodean a Ortega les impiden hablar con el.http://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2010/08/678-288063-9-cientos-de-ex-militares-sandinistas-llegan-a-managua-a-pedir-ayuda-a-ortega.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Nicaragua Wire Service: EFE Publisher: La Tercera (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) Ex soldados del Ejercito Popular Sandinista marcharon por 130 kilometros para solicitar pensiones y beneficios sociales al gobierno.http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2010/08/31/politica/36299 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Nicaragua Author: Ludwin Loaisiga Lopez Publisher: La Prensa (Nicaragua) (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) El diputado liberal Eduardo Montealegre hizo a un lado las medias tintas en su discurso y emplazo ayer al ex mandatario Arnoldo Aleman a deponer su aspiracion presidencial, a cambio de endosar a Fabio Gadea Mantilla como el candidato de consenso entre loshttp://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/politica/82357 Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Nicaragua Author: Matilde Cordoba (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) Las acusaciones del presidente Daniel Ortega contra Estados Unidos, sobre supuestos planes para promover golpes de Estado en Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador y Nicaragua no repercutiran negativamente en las relaciones entre ambos gobiernos, pues son tomadas cohttp://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/R/revocada_orden_de_prision_al_presidente_1/revocada_orden_de_prision_al_presidente_1.asp Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Venezuela Wire Service: EFE Publisher: El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations With Ecuador: ) Un juez ecuatoriano revoco la orden de prision preventiva contra el presidente de la Republica, Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, como parte del proceso que se sigue en el vecino pais por el bombardeo del primero de marzo de 2008 a un campamento de las Farc enhttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/31/1799840/will-chavez-steal-parliamentary.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Venezuela Author: Carlos Alberto Montaner Wire Service: Firmas Press Publisher: The Miami Herald (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) Possibly, Hugo Chavez could lose, so he's looking for a way to tamper with the results http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2010/08/31/noticia_0005.html Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Venezuela Wire Service: AFP Publisher: Perfil (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) Franklin Brito (foto) llevaba 5 anos luchando contra la decision del lider bolivariano de quitarle sus tierras http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/L/los_muertos_que_esconde_chavez/los_muertos_que_esconde_chavez.asp Publication Date: 2010-08-31 Country: Venezuela Author: Humberto Montero Publisher: El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia) (Tags -> Public Security: : ) Desde 2009 a mayo de 2010, el pais caribeno acumula una media de mas de 70 homicidios por 100.000 habitantes, por los 10,8 que padece Mexicohttp://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/19/argentine-economic-activity-expands-11.1-in-june-over-a-year-ago Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Argentina Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Economy And Security: : ) “This year’s estimated 9% crowns the longest period of sustained growth in the country’s 200 year history”, emphasized Mrs. Kirchner http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-152256-2010-08-30.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Argentina Author: Raul Kollmann Publisher: Pagina12 (Argentina) (Tags -> Public Security: : ) Hace mas de un ano que ese sistema funciona, pero es imposible sacar conclusiones utiles de sus resultadoshttp://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/30/serra-in-disarray-campaigns-for-lula-da-silva-s-protege-dilma Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Brazil Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) While the Brazilian ruling coalition presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff consolidates her lead in opinion polls and is almost certain to win in the first round October 3, her main rival Jose Serra’s campaign seems to have fallen in disarrayhttp://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/L/la_agenda__de_santos/la_agenda__de_santos.asp Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Author: Hernando Gomez Buendia Publisher: El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia) (Tags -> : Economy and Security, Politics And Security: ) Prosperidad minero-financiera si, para los ricos. Limosnas y Familias en Accion si, para los pobres. Pero: ¿empleo masivo y bien pagado?http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/08/30/792101/guerra-de-pandillas-controladas.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Author: Federico Rios Wire Service: EFE Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> : Emerging Criminal Groups, Recent Violence: Antioquia) En esta ciudad se contabilizan desde enero de este ano mas de 1,250 homicidios, lo que ha disparado las alarmas en todo el paishttp://www.eltiempo.com/opinion/columnistas/nataliaspringer/un-dictador-en-la-puerta_7884483-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Author: Natalia Springer Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : Essays And Analyses: ) Colombia es un Estado en formacion, que hasta hoy no ha conseguido integrar el Pacifico al centro del pais y aun tiene la Orinoquia y la Amazonia por descubrirhttp://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/occidente/fallecio-el-padre-del-sub-oficial-jose-libio-martinez_7884486-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : FARC Hostages: ) Fidencio Martinez era el padre del sub oficial Jose Libio Martinez, secuestrado en 1997http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/J/justicia_camino_a_la_prosperidad/justicia_camino_a_la_prosperidad.asp Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia) (Tags -> : Justice System: ) Se necesita una Reforma Judicial estructural que acerque la justicia al ciudadano, combata la violencia y la impunidad, e imponga practicas para erradicar la morosidadhttp://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/N/no_se_puede_negociar_con_terroristas/no_se_puede_negociar_con_terroristas.asp Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Author: Rodrigo Guerrero Publisher: El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia) (Tags -> : Peace Prospects: ) Si alias Alfonso Cano y las Farc, disminuidas por los golpes militares, ofrecen unilateralmente iniciar un dialogo sobre temas concretos, -destaco entre ellos el de la tierra, porque el actual Gobierno esta comprometido en abordar el tema- lo sensato es ahttp://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/politica/santos-ha-cumplido-lo-que-prometio-en-la-campana_7884596-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : Politics And Security: ) El presidente Juan Manuel Santos ha reiterado que cualquier proceso de dialogo con la guerrilla requiere de unas manifestaciones muy claras de parte de estos grupos armadoshttp://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/politica/plantean-tres-vias-para-pagar-la-indemnizacion-a-victimas-de-la-violencia_7884700-1 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : Victims: ) Manana, el ministro del Interior, German Vargas, y la bancada liberal les presentaran a los demas partidos de la coalicion de Gobierno y al pais, los puntos mas sensibles en torno a la Ley de Victimashttp://www.eluniverso.com/2010/08/30/1/1355/colombia-acepto-dialogo-sin-condicionamientos.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Countries: Colombia, Ecuador Author: Leonardo Arizaga Publisher: El Universo (Guayaquil Ecuador) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations with Ecuador: ) El subsecretario de Relaciones Bilaterales de la Cancilleria y designado embajador de Ecuador en China, Leonardo Arizaga, resalto los avances con Colombia en la ultima reunion de cancilleres, el pasado jueves en Ipialeshttp://www.lasillavacia.com/historia/17653 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Countries: Colombia, Ecuador Author: Laura Rico Pineres Publisher: La Silla Vacia (Colombia) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations, Economy And Security: Economy and Security, Indigenous Communities, Relations with Ecuador: ) Uno de los proyectos mas importantes para conectar ambos paises es el del Corredor del Sur, una carretera que promete convertir al Putumayo en un importante punto de intercambio comercial de Colombia hacia el surhttp://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2010/08/678-287727-9-santos-visitara-peru-para-profundizar-relaciones-bilaterales.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Countries: Colombia, Peru Publisher: La Tercera (Chile) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: Relations with Neighbors: ) La embajadora de Bogota en Lima, Maria Claudia Mosquera, informo que el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, viajara nuevamente a Peru en los proximos meseshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2010/08/100830_0403_cuba_presos_disidentes_damas_blanco_jg.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Cuba Publisher: BBC (UK) (Tags -> Human Rights: : ) Las Damas de Blanco, movimiento que agrupa a esposas de disidentes cubanos presos, denunciaron el reciente encarcelamiento en La Habana de tres activistashttp://www.listindiario.com//la-republica/2010/8/30/156821/Vincho-revela-EU-liga-17-oficiales-al-narcotrafico Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Dominican Republic Author: Ramon Perez Reyes Publisher: Listin Diario (Dominican Republic) (Tags -> Corruption, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy: : ) El asesor del Poder Ejecutivo en asuntos de narcotrafico, Marino Vinicio Castillo, revelo ayer que un analista de inteligencia de Estados Unidos identifico al menos 17 oficiales importantes dominicanos, entre ellos generales, que tienen vinculos con el nahttp://www.larepublica.pe/politica/29/08/2010/relacion-entre-ecuador-y-peru-pasa-por-quotel-mejor-momentoquot Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Countries: Ecuador, Peru Publisher: La Republica (Peru) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations: : ) El vicecanciller destaco la reciente reunion que mantuvieron delegados de ambos paises en la ciudad ecuatoriana de Guayaquil, donde, segun dijo, se avanzo en el desarrollo de planes sobre el regimen fronterizohttp://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/08/30/792096/funes-pide-reunion-con-calderon.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Countries: El Salvador, Mexico Author: Diego Mendez Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations, Migration, Public Security: : ) El presidente salvadoreno Mauricio Funes condeno la matanza de 72 migrantes centro y sudamericanos en el noreste de Mexico y solicito un encuentro con su colega mexicano Felipe Calderon http://www.lanacion.cl/noticias/site/artic/20100829/pags/20100829203920.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Countries: El Salvador, Mexico Publisher: La Nacion (Chile) (Tags -> Migration, Public Security: : ) El Presidente de El Salvador solicito un encuentro con su par mexicano para disenar una estrategia comun que “fortalezca la lucha” contra las bandas criminaleshttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opinion/30mon2.html?ref=opinion Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Haiti Publisher: The New York Times (Tags -> Economy And Security, Natural Disasters: : ) Haiti's urgent and unmet needs are staggering. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opinion/30mon3.html?_r=1 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Publisher: The New York Times (Tags -> Migration, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy: : ) We have delegated to drug lords the job of managing our immigrant supply, just as they manage our supply of narcotics. The results are clear. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/30/mexico.mayor.killed/?hpt=T2 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Publisher: CNN (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Marco Antonio Leal Garcia, mayor of the city of Hidalgo, was driving a truck around 4:30 p.m. when he was killedhttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN29135738 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Reuters (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Suspected drug hitmen killed the mayor of a small town in northern Mexico on Sunday in a region where two car bombs exploded last week and the bodies of 72 murdered migrant workers were foundhttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jF6JIpnXZOefTQkeBv8nzhS9Kwfg Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Agence France Presse Publisher: Google (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Mexico's blood-soaked drug war intensified in northeastern Tamaulipas state over the weekend, with fresh violence attributed to the Zetashttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11127005 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Publisher: BBC (UK) (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) The shooting is the latest violence in the troubled state, which saw a wave of bomb attacks over the weekendhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704147804575455663134960250.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Author: David Luhnow And Jose De Cordoba Publisher: The Wall Street Journal (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Car Bombs Hit Tamaulipas, Prosecutor in Migrant Massacre Disappears; U.S. to Pull Envoys' Children From Monterreyhttp://www.counterpunch.org/carlsen08302010.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Author: Laura Carlsen Publisher: CounterPunch (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) In Mexico, the drug war strategy has set off a no-holds-barred battle for routes and markets among competing cartels that has broken through the boundaries of crime-on-crime and now affects daily lifehttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2014003,00.html?xid=rss-world&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+time/world+(TIME:+Top+World+Stories) Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Author: Ioan Grillo Publisher: Time (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) How, newspapers asked, had the situation gotten so out of control that a heavily armed gang could commit such a massacre, comparable to some of the worst atrocities in wars, in one of the country's most developed regions? http://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/2010/08/678-287715-9-mexico-arrestan-a-supuesto-lider-del-cartel-zetas-en-monterrey.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Wire Service: ANSA Publisher: La Tercera (Chile) (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) El ministerio de Defensa informo en un comunicado la detencion de Juan Francisco Zapata Gallegos, "El Billy" o "El Pelon", el viernes en Monterreyhttp://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/28/1797209/mexico-needs-us-help-but-not-troops.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Mexico Author: Andres Oppenheimer Publisher: The Miami Herald (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy: : ) Washington should provide Mexico with more helicopters, intelligence and -- above all -- technical assistance and training to create police academies http://elcomercio.pe/noticia/631054/economia-peruana-mejora-expectativas-creceria8-fines-ese-ano Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Peru Publisher: El Comercio (Peru) (Tags -> Economy And Security: : ) El Peru recalculo al alza su proyeccion de crecimiento economico, el cual las autoridades creen que llegara a 6,8% a final del 2010 y no al 5,5% que habian calculadohttp://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-152239-2010-08-30.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Peru Author: Carlos Noriega Publisher: Pagina12 (Argentina) (Tags -> Elections, Politics And Security: : ) La candidata izquierdista Susana Villaran le disputa el gobierno de la capital peruana a Lourdes Flores, de la derechista Unidad Nacionalhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11126057 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Peru Author: Dan Collyns Publisher: BBC (UK) (Tags -> Human Rights: : ) Each one is knitting a message or epitaph to their loved one the size of an A4 sheet of page which will form part of an enormous scarf which, it is hoped, will reach a kilometre in lengthhttp://www.larepublica.pe/politica/29/08/2010/quotamnistia-por-crimenes-de-lesa-humanidad-seria-un-retrocesoquot Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Peru Author: Maria Elena Castillo Publisher: La Republica (Peru) (Tags -> Human Rights: : ) Salomon Lerner. Ex presidente de la Comision de la Verdad y Reconciliacionhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/world/americas/28garcia.html?_r=1 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Peru Author: Simon Romero Publisher: The New York Times (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) Few leaders in Latin America embody the rise and fall of political fortunes like Mr. Garcia.http://www.larepublica.pe/politica/29/08/2010/agp-reconoce-que-le-falto-mano-dura-en-materia-de-seguridad Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Peru Publisher: La Republica (Peru) (Tags -> Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) Presidente Alan Garcia reconocio que la seguridad ciudadana es un tema pendienten su gestionhttp://www.larepublica.pe/politica/29/08/2010/soldados-balean-candidatos Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Peru Author: Elias Navarro Publisher: La Republica (Peru) (Tags -> Public Security: : ) En Ayacucho. Los confundieron con terroristas. Patrulla abrio fuego sobre aspirantes a alcalde y regidores cuando regresaban de acto proselitistahttp://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/30/venezuela-only-economy-next-with-haiti-that-will-contract-in-2010 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Venezuela Publisher: MercoPress (Tags -> Economy And Security: : ) It is the fifth straight quarter that Venezuela's oil-dependent economy has contractedhttp://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1299506 Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Venezuela Publisher: La Nacion (Argentina) (Tags -> Politics And Security, Press Freedom: : ) Acuso a CNN y el Grupo Prisa, entre otros, de ser los artifices de una "conflagracion"http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/08/30/1/1361/venezolanos-marchan-contra-ola-violencia.html Publication Date: 2010-08-30 Country: Venezuela Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: El Universo (Guayaquil Ecuador) (Tags -> Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) Opositores del presidente Hugo Chavez marcharon por las calles de Caracas para protestar contra la violencia que cuesta miles de vidas cada anohttp://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/news.php?storyId=2438 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Entire Region Publisher: U.S. Southern Command (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) Commander, U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet (C2F) and director of operations for USSOUTHCOM visited U.S. 4th Fleet (C4F) headquarters in Mayport, Fla., Aug. 25. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-castaneda-world-20100826,0,378406.story Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Countries: Entire Region, Brazil Author: Jorge G. Castaneda Publisher: The Los Angeles Times (Tags -> Economy And Security: : ) Granting emerging economic powers a greater role on the world stage too soon could weaken the international system that upholds democracy, human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and environmental protection.http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1298609 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Argentina Publisher: La Nacion (Tags -> Politics And Security, Press Freedom: : ) La presidenta Cristina Kirchner anuncio anoche que el proyecto de ley para declarar el papel de diario un insumo de interes publico ingresara hoy al Congreso.http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/news.php?storyId=2443 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Barbados Author: Kim Williams Publisher: U.S. Southern Command (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) U.S. Marines and Sailors from the High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) held a Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) session Aug. 24 with members of the Barbados Defense Force (BDF) during Southern Partnership Station (SPS) 2010 in Barbados. http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2010/08/27/uhora/inter_2010082707152609.asp Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Bolivia Wire Service: EFE Publisher: Prensa.com (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, concluyo hoy su primer viaje oficial a Corea del Sur con un compromiso para trabajar conjuntamente en el desarrollo de las ricas reservas de litio bolivianas.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67P3MA20100826 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Countries: Central America Regional, Mexico Author: Sarah Grainger Publisher: Reuters (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Public Security: : ) Central America is struggling to contain rising violence as powerful Mexican drug cartels, facing an escalating government crackdown at home, expand southward and intensify operations in neighboring nations.http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/conceden-casa-por-carcel-a-alias-gaby_7881672-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eltiempo%2Fjusticia+%28eltiempo.com+--+Justicia%29 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Colombia Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : Emerging Criminal Groups: ) Wildon Gabriel Daza Mejia, alias 'Gaby' y conocido en Barranquilla como uno de los 'duros' de la banda 'los 40', (grupo de paramilitares de 'Jorge 40' que se rearmaron) quedo en libertad por orden de un juez de esa ciudad pese a estar procesado por narcothttp://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/paramilitares-presos-una-reforma-urgente-de-la-ley-de-justicia-y-paz_7881987-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eltiempo%2Fjusticia+%28eltiempo.com+--+Justicia%29 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Colombia Wire Service: EFE Publisher: El Tiempo (Colombia) (Tags -> : Justice and Peace Process, Para-Politics: ) Los desmovilizados detallaron la iniciativa en una carta al Secretario General de la OEA.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082604156.html Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Colombia Author: Edward Schumacher-Matos Publisher: The Washington Post (Tags -> : U.S. Policy: ) The new military agreement was one of the more ham-handed misfires of United States policy in Latin America. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2010/08/100826_1727_mexico_amenazas_familiares_freddy_fp.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Countries: Ecuador, Mexico Author: Paul Mena Erazo Publisher: BBC Mundo (Tags -> Public Security: : ) El gobierno ecuatoriano anuncio este jueves que ha adoptado medidas para proteger a los familiares de Freddy, el ecuatoriano que sobrevivio a la masacre de 72 inmigrantes indocumentados.http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/27/1794359/stop-killings-of-honduran-journalists.html Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Honduras Publisher: The Miami Herald (Tags -> Press Freedom, Public Security: : ) If past killings are any guide, his murder will go unsolved. A Committee to Protect Journalists' examination of the cases shows a "pattern of botched and negligent investigative work." http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2612608620100826 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Mexico Publisher: Reuters (Tags -> Economy And Security, Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security: : ) President Felipe Calderon said he would send proposals to Congress that would ban cash purchases of real estate and make it easier for officials to seize property from drug cartels and their front companies.http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/08/27/790326/calderon-anuncia-medidas-contra.html#storylink=rss Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Mexico Wire Service: Agence France Presse Publisher: El Nuevo Herald (Tags -> Narcotrafficking, Politics And Security, Public Security: : ) El presidente mexicano Felipe Calderon presento el jueves un plan para combatir el lavado de dinero del crimen organizado y el terrorismo, que incluye una limitacion a las transacciones en efectivo que superen los 100,000 pesos (unos $7,600). http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrQNazRx_G9M889RdiWnchHO4MqQD9HRR6O81 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Mexico Publisher: Associated Press (Tags -> Public Security: : ) A major Mexican television network says a car has exploded in front of its offices in a northern state where officials are investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants.http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-mexico-20100827,0,7229718.story Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Mexico Publisher: The Los Angeles Times (Tags -> Public Security: : ) The illegal trek north through Mexico is treacherous, and those who undertake it put themselves at the mercy of vicious predators. http://economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/08/mexico&fsrc=nlw%7Cgul%7C08-31-2010%7Cgulliver Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Mexico Publisher: The Economist (Tags -> Public Security: : ) Yucatan, where tourists flock to swim with whale sharks and clamber over Chichen Itza, has a murder rate of 1.7—slightly lower than Canada’s average of 2.1http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/news.php?storyId=2442 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Countries: Mexico, Uruguay Wire Service: Center For Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) Publisher: U.S. Southern Command (Tags -> U.S. Policy: : ) The Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) has selected U.S. Army Gen. John Galvin and former Uruguayan Defense Minister Dr. Jose Bayardi in the individual category and the Mexican Center for Superior Naval Studies (CESNAV) in the institutional cathttp://english.eluniversal.com/2010/08/26/en_pol_esp_venezuela,-mexico-ag_26A4388255.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Countries: Mexico, Venezuela Publisher: El Universal (Venezuela) (Tags -> Diplomatic Relations, Politics And Security: : ) The governments of Mexico and Venezuela will meet in Mexico City early next year in furtherance of bilateral relations and to complete agreements in the fields of energy, economy, trade, science and environment.http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2010/08/100826_1446_epp_esta_vacaciones_cr.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Paraguay Author: Eduardo Arce Publisher: BBC Mundo (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) El Ejercito del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP), un elusivo grupo armado al que se le atribuyen algunos secuestros y asesinatos, no ha tenido aparicion publica desde abril de este ano.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/latinamerica/7173336.html Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Suriname Wire Service: Associated Press Publisher: Houston Chronicle (Tags -> Politics And Security: : ) Suriname's newly elected president, former dictator Desi Bouterse, is ailing from an undisclosed illness and has temporarily ceded power to his vice president.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67Q05F20100827 Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Venezuela Publisher: Reuters (Tags -> Drug Seizures, Human Rights Cases, Narcotrafficking: : ) Venezuelan authorities found four tonnes of cocaine buried on a ranch on Thursday after stopping a plane presumably on its way from Mexico to pick up the illegal drug haul.http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2010/08/100826_venezuela_reforma_policial_aw.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Venezuela Author: Yolanda Valery Publisher: BBC Mundo (Tags -> Public Security: : ) Los cuerpos de policia de Venezuela, tal como existen en la actualidad, "no sirven para garantizar la seguridad del pais".http://english.eluniversal.com/2010/08/26/en_pol_esp_us-terms-unexplainab_26A4385773.shtml Publication Date: 2010-08-27 Country: Venezuela Publisher: El Universal (Venezuela) (Tags -> U.S. Policy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy: : ) In South America there is no arms race, "but it is unexplainable that Venezuela has engaged in an accelerated process of arms purchase," said Frank O. Mora, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense.