BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — A former defense minister who would continue President Álvaro Uribe’s tough anti-guerrilla policies handily defeated a former Bogota mayor Sunday in the first round of presidential elections. Juan Manuel Santos, 58, who oversaw the most decisive strikes against rebel forces, did not garner the simple majority needed to win outright. But his [...]
Brazil, the oldest nuclear power in Latin America, is poised to attain industrial autonomy in the processing of uranium in a move pursued by the military to secure the country’s pre-eminent status in military and political fields.
Brazil completed enrichment on a small non-commercial scale many years ago but faced U.S. intervention in its long-standing [...]
WASHINGTON: In its new National Security Strategy, the US will make homegrown extremism an integral part of its counter-terror policy as it specifically named al-Qaida and its affiliates as its “adversaries”.
The strategy to be unveiled by President Barack Obama, for the first time focuses on home grown extremists who turn to Islamic radicalism in America [...]
Given the continuing attacks against municipal police commanders, the Secretariat of Mexico’’s Public Security (SSP) has decided to implement an institutional security scheme for those responsible of combating organized crime locally.
According to a statement released by the SSP in the Federal District, heads of municipal police corps and attorneys will be provided with armoured cars [...]
Attempted terror attacks in the United States are on the rise, and it’s only going to get worse, Homeland Security warns.
CNN reported on Thursday that an unclassified intelligence memo states “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year [...]
MEXICO CITY — A former mayor of Cancun who was running for governor of his Caribbean state laundered cash for two drug cartels, prosecutors charged Wednesday, a possible new sign of the taint of narcotics on Mexican politics.
Police arrested Gregorio Sanchez Martinez, who was running for governor , was arrested at the resort’s airport late Tuesday.
Sanchez [...]
In Bogota, the young are poisoned with a new synthetic drug whose ingredients are of high risk and are usually sold in heart shapes and color.
The OAS recommended further studies on the new threat in Lima, Quito and La Paz. READ MORE HERE (in spanish)
In South America, Colombia is the biggest producer of the dangerous [...]
Even after being criticized by Evo Morales and the Bolivian authorities, the PSDB’s candidate for the presidency in Brazil, Mr. José Serra, reaffirmed on the afternoon of Thursday (27), in an event in the city of Gramado, located in the southern mountains, that the government of Bolivia does not controls cocaine trafficking into Brazil. According to [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela — Leaders of a leftist party said Monday they won’t form an alliance with President Hugo Chavez’s governing party for September congressional elections because of the socialist leader’s uncompromising attitude.
The announcement by Fatherland For All – a longtime member of a pro-Chavez coalition – is a setback for the president’s Unified Socialist Party [...]
Data from the polling firm Ipsos Napoleón Franco sees Santos winning 35 percent of the vote versus Mockus’ 34 percent in a nine-way race. But among 18-24 year olds, Mockus has a favorability rating of 67 percent — an 11 point lead over Santos. READ MORE HERE.
