A bomb aimed at a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 people in Bogotá’s uptown commercial district Tuesday, in the kind of attack not been seen in the capital for years. Former official Fernando Londoño suffered minor shrapnel wounds and was out of danger, authorities said. Video [...]
A higher number of foreign spies are active on U.S. soil today than there were during the Cold War, according to a former top CIA officer. Hank Crumpton, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center who led the U.S. response to 9/11, told the CBS news documentary program “60 Minutes” that China is the largest [...]
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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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During his trip to Colombia, Brazil and Chile this week, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta emphasized the role of those three neighbor countries as military partners in a region where U.S. influence is being challenged by China. And as the military relationships grow, defense officials say it can only help U.S. economic and political ties across the continent. Panetta’s meetings [...]
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Mexico will proceed to investigate allegations that the Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc bribed officials to expand its business there. The Mexican federal comptroller’s office said it had begun checking the federal paperwork and permits that Wal-Mart de Mexico, known as Walmex, obtained to open and operate its stores in Mexico. The comptroller’s office added that [...]
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Mexican customs agents have seized 268,000 rounds of assault rifle ammunition that an American transported in a semi-trailer across the border into Ciudad Juarez. Spokesman Angel Torres of the Attorney General’s Office in Ciudad Juarez, , said that the 37 year-old driver, a native of Dallas, was arrested on suspicion of trying to bring in the munitions from the city of [...]
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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Approximately one million Mexicans have returned from the US between 2005 and 2010, according to a new study of Mexican census data…. three times more than the previous five-year period. As a result, one respected US sociologist has declared migration levels at ”net zero” for the first time since the 1960s. The shift has serious implications for both countries – from a shrunken labor pool in [...]
Forensic experts report that pedophiles are increasingly using gaming systems to prey upon children, while terrorists are now utilizing them for online communication. With this in mind, on April 5 the United States Naval Supply Systems Command contracted a San Francisco company called Obscure Technologies for the research and development of “hardware and software tools that can be used for extracting [...]
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Nearly 20,000 mobilized to guarantee security in Cartagena Careful background checks for every employee at each of the nine hotels hosting heads of state, especially the chefs responsible for their meals, are only one of the strict security measures being taken for the upcoming Sixth Summit of the Americas in Colombia. For the past year, that nation’s police and military have been [...]
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