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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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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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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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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Worsening drug and organized-crime violence in Central America has forced the Peace Corps to pull out of Honduras and halt the flow of new volunteers to Guatemala and El Salvador, that organization has announced. Last month Peace Corps officials reviewed worsening conditions and decided to withdraw all 158 volunteers from Honduras in January and suspend training for 29 recruits. [...]
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Mexican officials report that almost 13,000 people were killed in violence blamed on drug cartels between January and September of 2011. That would bring the death toll to 47,515 since President Felipe Calderon launched his offensive against drug traffickers at the end of 2006. Officials claimed the 11% rise in murders was slower than in [...]
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According to the Venezuela Violence Observatory, over 19,336 people have been killed there so far in 2011, averaging 53 per day. Those figures would make Venezuela’s murder rate the highest in South America, and four times worse than that of Mexico. Violent crime is already considered a major issue in elections next year, when President Hugo [...]
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The Honduran legislature decided this week to deploy the army against Mexican drug cartels, hoping to put the brake on growing violence in the most murderous country on the planet. Lawmakers voted by an overwhelming majority to follow the model used by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who launched a military campaign against powerful drug gangs after [...]
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According to a statement released this week by the office of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, six of the 14 most violent countries on this planet are located in Latin America. Launched by the United Nations in 2008 and now signed by 110 countries, the Geneva Declaration has the stated goal of [...]
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