As recently reported in the New York Times, Honduras is the newest front in America’s drug war. Recent anti-narcotics operations in Mexico have forced over 90 percent of US-bound cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela through Central America. Over 30% of it passes through Honduras, which as a result now has one of the highest homicide rates on the planet. The [...]
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In response to growing bilateral and multilateral dialogues on citizen security, Presidents Obama and Santos met today on the margins of the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, and agreed to deepen coordination of ongoing security cooperation activities throughout the hemisphere and West Africa. Both presidents agreed to formalize this coordination in [...]
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Guatemalan authorities have begun to see disturbing evidence of an alliance between the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and another of the most feared criminal organizations in Latin America — a deal that could set back U.S.-backed efforts to fight violent crime and narcotics trafficking in Central America. Jailhouse recordings and a turncoat kidnapper describe a pact between leaders of the Maras [...]
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The government of Guatemala has formed a new military unit with financial and technical support from the United States to fight drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean and the San Marcos region bordering Mexico, an official source announced yesterday. Guatemalan Defense Minister Ulysses Anzueto told reporters that Military Task Force Tecun Uman aims to prevent the entry of [...]
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And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]
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A Guatemalan court on Monday sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison for participating in a 1982 slaughter where 201 people were killed. Pedro Pimentel, 55, was deported last year from Los Angeles to Guatemala to face charges of murder and crimes against humanity. He is the fifth soldier to be sentenced for [...]
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The following is stated in the investigation made by the Norwegian Narcotics Governmental Committee which members, more than 100 consultative bodies, has made a public statement in late February. The picture that emerges is the following: 1) the drug situation in Norway is improving, 2) law enforcement efforts should be reinforced, 3) amicable measures for [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday began a tour of Latin America under intense pressure from business and political leaders to speak on a topic that no U.S. official wants to address: the decriminalization of drugs. The presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico, suffering the consequences of a failing drug war, [...]
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A European Union mission that observed Nicaragua’s presidential election in November, in which President Daniel Ortega was reelected, announced on Wednesday that there was a lack of transparency and that the elections were not credible. Ortega, the Sandinista leader who ruled Nicaragua after the revolution of 1979, won the election with 62 percent of the votes. [...]
Honduran forensic specialists on Thursday began the complicated task of identifying the bodies of over 350 inmates who were burned or suffocated this week in a massive prison fire north of the capital. Hundreds of relatives, many with faces swollen from crying, waited at the small morgue in Tegucigalpa where the forensic team, supported by [...]
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