Colombia’s government today praised U.S. support for strengthening systems of technical (Sigint) and human intelligence (Humint) in the fight against illegal organizations like FARC operating in this South American country. “With the support of the U.S. government we are strengthening our systems of technical and human intelligence,” said Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, through a [...]
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“There’s no doubt that with the growth of China, we’ve seen a re-commoditization of Latin America,” said Colombia’s Mining Minister Mauricio Cárdenas, an economist and former Director of the Latin America program at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. In terms of economic development, Latin America did not take any advantage of the rising prices [...]
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The Obama administration has denounced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for implying that the U.S. could be responsible for a rash of cancer cases among Latin American leaders. The State Department on Thursday said Chavez’s comments were “horrific and reprehensible.” Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said they were not worthy of further response. Chavez has long accused the [...]
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of attempting to barter President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for campaign cash or personal favors, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. Blagojevich led the fifth-most populous American state from January 2003 to January 2009, one month after his arrest for what Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick [...]
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A newly formed Latin American and Caribbean organization has issued statements in support of Argentina’s claim to sovereignty over the British-ruled Falkland Islands and against U.S. sanctions on Cuba at the end of its first two-day summit. However, the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC, declined to engage in stronger anti-Western [...]
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon admitted on Sunday that in spite of combating drug cartels for five years, criminals today pose “an open threat” to Mexico’s democratic society. In a speech marking the start of his sixth and last year in the presidency, Calderon said that interference in elections by drug gangs “is a new fact, a worrisome fact.” [...]
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Caught up in a corruption scandal, the leader of Mexico’s leading opposition party resigned on Friday, just seven months before national elections in which his candidate is favored by a wide margin. Humberto Moreira, who became president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) president in March of this year, was under pressure to resign for contracting [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent thousands of National Guard soldiers into the streets of Caracas and surrounding states on Thursday, to reinforce police overwhelmed by widespread violent crime. “We’ve been fighting and reducing overall crime rates, but we’ve fallen short when it comes to the number of homicides,” Chavez said to troops at a downtown [...]
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Another Mexican official on Friday accused drug traffickers of attempting to influence elections in the western state of Michoacan, a charge previously leveled by some candidates and party leaders. Outgoing acting interior secretary Juan Marcos Gutierrez claimed a drug cartel conducted “boldfaced interference” in last Sunday’s state elections. Although he declined to name the group, a [...]
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Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on Friday approved the formation of a Truth Commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during and prior to that nation’s military dictatorship, which ran from 1964 to 1985. The creation of the seven member commission is the strongest step yet taken by the Brazilian government to resolve the many incidents of violence [...]
