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Colombian Coast Guard intl course to combat drug trafficking at sea, U.S. Homeland and 13 countries attended.

Recently , the Colombian Coast Guard opened a course to 20 naval officers from 13 countries across the Americas, including U.S. Homeland Security.  The United States Coast Guard USCG sends two fluent Spanish-speaking junior officers to the course each year. The objective of the course was to enable joint strategies for combating the increasing threat [...]

U.S.Senate: Dyncorp, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, ITT and ARINC concentrate 57% of all money that U.S. spent to fight drugs in Latin America, during 2005-2009.

MEXICO CITY- Dyncorp, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, ITT and ARINC get the most part of the U.S. budget used in the fight against drug trafficking by concentrating 57% of 3.1 billion dollars, that  the U.S. government has spent to fight drugs in Latin America. In the case of Mexico, the U.S. has spent 170.6 million dollars [...]

Spanish University organizes Seminar/Course on Jihad Terrorism.

Carmona (Seville), July 3rd. -  The ‘International Course on Jihadist Terrorism: Elements of a national strategy against terrorism’ is the name of the workshop which inaugurates the programming of the ninth edition of the Summer Courses of the University Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in collaboration with the Municipality of Carmona, Seville; to start in Carmona [...]

Central America will approve its Strategic Security Plan next June 23rd.

SAN SALVADOR – The Integration System of Central America (SICA) announced today that Central America has prepared its security plan that will be submitted next June 22nd in Guatemala to all countries and cooperating bodies of the region. The plan was completed in a meeting in San Salvador on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the participation [...]

U.S.Homeland Security plans more cybersecurity in dot-gov domains plus private websites.

The Department of Homeland Security DHS plans to increase its cybersecurity team by more than 50%, as legislators and the White House work to expand DHS`s authority in securing both government and private-sector websites. By October next year, the Department of Homeland Security cyber workforce will grow from 260 to more than 400 workers, said [...]

Good news: Giulani´s advice “Zero Tolerance” policies in Peru if Keiko Fujimori wins runoff elections.

Bad news for criminals: “Zero tolerance” expert Rudolph Giuliani is now advicer of Keiko Fujimori in Peru. Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori has hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as an adviser in public safety, and the former mayor of New York travelled to Lima to see first hand the situation of crime [...]

Chief Southern Command says U.S. threated by latinamerican transnational criminal organizations like Cartels.

The commander of the U.S. Southern Command said Friday that the threat to U.S. security in Latin America comes not from any conventional source but rather transnational criminal organizations. Mexican drug cartels have cut a murderous swathe across the United States’ nearest southern neighbor and also threaten Central America, but Gen. Douglas Fraser of the [...]

In DC Starts first security dialogue between U.S. and China, joined by both Armed Forces.

The third round of wide-ranging Sino-American talks will begin next Monday in Washington.  For the first time, they will include a strategic security dialogue that brings together diplomatic and military officials from both countries. As leading officials from the world’s two largest economies meet next week, “strategic security” might become one of the key phrases [...]

Judges of Brazil obtained major congressional breakthrough in fighting organized crime.

As a first concrete result of the judicial strike and shutdown of 24 hours of the federal courts, sponsored by the Federal Association of Judges of Brazil (Ajufe), the Senate of Brazil passed – the same day of the event – the supplementary bill that allows the judge decide the formation of an exceptional collegiate [...]

Gral. Petraeus moving into politics, will be new CIA Director.

President Barack Obama will nominate General David Petraeus to lead the CIA after the White House decided to nominate Leon Panetta as new Defense Secretary replacing Robert Gates. Obama is reshaping his national security team and will announce the nominations tomorrow. From a power game point of view, Obama´s moves are wise. Petraeus as hed [...]

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