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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Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebels on Monday abducted dozens of oil and gas workers in southern Peru but later released most while the Army sought to encircle their leader, sources in that nation’s Armed Forces have revealed. After several hours in the hands of leftist rebels, a group of workers from the Swedish firm Skanska was released leaving behind eight [...]
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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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Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday defended Bolivians’ right to chew coca leaves, the main precursor for cocaine, claiming it as an ancient tradition while insisting that his country is fighting drug trafficking. Holding up a coca leaf to make his point at a United Nations anti-drug meeting in Vienna, Morales, a former coca leaf farmer, said that [...]
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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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Peru is interested in buying 10 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to patrol its Amazon borders, the Brazilian Minister of Defense said Tuesday, opening a new market for Brazilian manufacturer Embraer in Latin America. The announcement was made by Defense Minister Celso Amorim in Brasilia after meeting with Peruvian counterpart Alberto Otarola to discuss the [...]
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Peruvian President Ollanta Humala announced Sunday his troops had captured the wounded leader of a surviving branch of the once-powerful Shining Path rebel group movement. The former army lieutenant colonel personally flew to the remote coca-growing Upper Huallaga Valley to congratulate police and soldiers for detaining 50-year-old Comrade Artemio and two of his compatriots. Artemio [...]
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Peru’s government said Wednesday it is investigating an alleged Chilean spy arrested in the vicinity of a military airbase in the north, in a case that could cast a shadow over relations between Lima and Santiago. Defense Minister Alberto Otárola, said when Luis Maximiliano Seraín was arrested he had in his possession a CD, a [...]
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Colombia and Peru have agreed upon a plan to combat criminal organizations on their common border, the defense ministers of the two countries announced to the press after a Wednesday meeting in Bogota. “Colombia and Peru have decided to aggressively confront organized crime which respects no borders, such as drug trafficking and illegal logging and [...]
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