Latin America’s drug war has long been a byword for ugliness: a macho, brutal world where grim-faced soldiers battled ruthless narco-traffickers in jungles and slums.
In such a world, Jessica Anne Jordan Burton cuts a somewhat incongruous figure. The 26-year-old British-born former model and beauty queen has become a controversial figurehead in Bolivia’s increasingly fraught campaign against [...]
In a recent visit to the region, the Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton stated that “the U.S. is committed to citizen safety in Central America…We are doing everything we can in the fight against corruption and impunity, in providing the equipment and the support that law enforcement and the military require, and helping to [...]
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With government budgets across Europe set to shrink significantly in the coming years, the parent company of Airbus predicted that the group’s military business would become increasingly focused on markets in Asia, Latin America and the Persian Gulf and it hinted that the outsourcing of European aerospace jobs to those regions was all but inevitable.
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The Argentine Alfredo Forti, Secretary of Defense for International Affairs, was appointed the first director of the Center for Strategic Studies for the Defense of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), was officially announced on Friday.
Mr. Forti is a survivor of the argentinian dictatorship. His mother was kidnapped and killed by the argentinian dictators.
Nowadays, [...]
WASHINGTON — They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers.
But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of a Russian espionage [...]
A top Colombian drug lord whom the United States has long considered one of the most dangerous smugglers pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to trafficking tons of heroin and cocaine into the U.S.
Francisco Gonzalez-Uribe had been awaiting trial in New York on charges of running a criminal enterprise dating [...]
Newark, U.S.- On this particular day at NJIT (New Jersey Science and Technology University), the focus of one of the top technological minds in the country is on cork.
It is a single cork, from Portugal, where 320 million pounds of bottle stoppers are produced every year. The billion-dollar cork industry is [...]
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President Obama’s nominee for the nation’s top intelligence job has begun to meet with key senators who have expressed skepticism about his commitment to the position’s independence. Gen. James Clapper (ret). had a “cordial” meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and later spoke [...]
The brazilian government plans to invest $ 215 million dollars on campaigns, treatment and suppression of trafficking. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed on Thursday (20) a decree establishing the Comprehensive Plan to Combat Crack. In the event that signed the decree, Lula said he was especially concerned with the scope of the drug that, [...]
In what appears to be a change of strategy of a major mexican drug gang, Mexico’s Zeta drug gang has entered El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras and has made contact with local gangs (Maras included) in what appears to be an exploration of opportunities. The contacts of the Zeta´s in El Salvador [...]
