President Barack Obama has chosen a Marine to run U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean out of the Southern Command in Miami. The new Southcom leader is Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly, who enlisted in 1970 and was followed by both sons to the Corps as well. The youngest, 1st [...]
To defend the U.S. military’s information assets, Pentagon leaders say defense computers must be tied to the cloud — meaning an online environment that can be centrally locked down. Yet it’s difficult to police parts of that environment manufactured or even housed in countries that stand accused of cyberespionage, experts say. The shift of military [...]
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Worsening drug and organized-crime violence in Central America has forced the Peace Corps to pull out of Honduras and halt the flow of new volunteers to Guatemala and El Salvador, that organization has announced. Last month Peace Corps officials reviewed worsening conditions and decided to withdraw all 158 volunteers from Honduras in January and suspend training for 29 recruits. [...]
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
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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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Paraguay and the United States have good relations, cooperating extensively on counternarcotics and counterterrorism efforts. The United States strongly supports the consolidation of Paraguay’s democracy and continued economic reforms. Following the April 2008 election, then-U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay James Cason congratulated Lugo and the APC on their victory and expressed a commitment to work with them to [...]
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Addressing the press after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón this week, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Director Yury Fedotov stressed the impact that organized crime has on that region as well as other parts of the world. “These criminals are responsible for the death and misery of people across the globe [...]
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The Venezuelan government announced Friday that a planned visit from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been suspended while president Hugo Chavez recovers his “full health” after recent cancer treatment. Chavez, who returned from his fourth and last chemotherapy session in Cuba on Thursday, last week announced the visit would follow Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN [...]
Venezuelan chancellor Nicolás Maduro gave assurances this week that Venezuela has made effective progress against drug trafficking since breaking relations with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “The DEA functioned in Venezuela as they function in many other countries: as a cartel. They protected the drug cartels”, he said. ”Once we left them behind, [...]
On September 12th, and during the first day of the conference EISIC 2011 “European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference, on Counterterrorism and Criminology,” the first keynote speech was given by the expert Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyber Security (BT) (*). The title of his presentation was “Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications”. Among [...]
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