Bolivia and Brazil reinforced their fight against drug trafficking with a five-day joint-training drill, using mainly air force surveillance, according to a Saturday statement by the Bolivian air force and a report of the castrist news agency Prensa Latina.
According to the source, the maneuvers, dubbed “First Operational Exercise BOLBRA I,” focused on [...]
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 [...]
During this week, VEJA.com (website of brazilian Veja magazine) published a series on one of the problems that most afflict the Brazilian and it certainly will weigh in choosing the next president: public safety and crime. In order to address that situation , here are the main proposals of the leading candidates for the elections.
All [...]
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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The Brazilian Federal Senate this week approved the Bill in order to grant police power to the Army, Navy and Air Force in the border regions, specially with Ciudad del Este and the Three Border Region. The project was approved without any legislative change also in the Chamber of Deputies.
After being signed by the President [...]
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SANTO DOMINGO – Police chiefs of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean agreed in Santo Domingo to increase the number of officers seconded to the Interpol and to improve the mechanisms for exchanging information/intelligence to combat organized crime.
“This will achieve a more secure region of prosperity and development”, said on Friday [...]
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Recently, the governments of the United States and Mexico agreed on new goals to broaden and deepen our cooperation to effect lasting change. We are accelerating our efforts to support stronger democratic institutions in Mexico, especially the police and justice sector, expanding our border focus beyond interdiction of contraband to include facilitation of legitimate trade [...]
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President Obama’s national security strategy released by the White House on Thursday, tackles a delicate but unavoidable question: How do we respond to security challenges in an era of financial distress at home and reordering of political power abroad?
In Obama’s case, his sober and comprehensive 52-page strategy incorporates the new realities and breaks with past strategies [...]
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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, [...]
Panama City .- The United States will promote an international conference for fundraising in order to strengthen the fight against organized crime, drug trafficking and gangs in Central America, announced Friday in Panama Undersecretary of State for Latin America, Arturo Valenzuela .
“We are seeing how to make an international conference [...]
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