Arturo Valenzuela is the new Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He is a scholar who has spent almost four decades researching and teaching about Latin American politics at Duke and Georgetown universities. For the last twenty-two years he have directed Georgetown’s Center for Latin American Studies, now located in the Edmund A. [...]
Dear Readers of our blog: Starting now, TheAmericasPost.com will publish papers and essays from prestigious academics and decision makers within the US intelligentsia. Those documents will focuse on interamerican relations, and will bring us light into the way of thinking of the United States in relation to The Americas. In this case, this working paper [...]
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 [...]
Mexican activists have filed a war-crimes complaint against President Felipe Calderón at the International Criminal Court, claiming some 470 cases of human rights violations by the army or police in their war on that nation’s drug cartels. Attorney Netzai Sandoval said that Mexican drug lords have also committed crimes against humanity in the conflict, which has cost 35,000 [...]
FARC guerrillas are “the only ones responsible” for the death of four hostages found shot this weekend after a firefight with government troops trying to free them, according to Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos. “This is an atrocious crime which merits the condemnation of all Colombians as well as the international community”, he said during [...]
Jalisco state prosecutors have identified a baker, truck driver, soft-drink vendor and dental technician among the 26 cadavers found bound and gagged in the center of Guadalajara. The names of both the Zetas and Millenium drug cartels were written in motor oil on the victims’ bodies. Authorities see that as possibly meaning that those two [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s administration began repatriating that nation’s gold reserves from European banks on Friday, with the first shipment arriving on a flight from Paris. The shipment was protected by troops in a caravan of at least five armored vehicles directly to the Central Bank in Caracas. Government supporters cheered and waved flags as [...]
Under a new pilot program, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the entry process for air cargo is designed to reduce the number of customs holds that delay air cargo and help give shippers a better idea of when they can take possession of their goods Already starting in December, importers or brokers of air [...]
Specially in Somalia´s waters, pirates are increasingly turning to kidnapping and hostage-taking to generate funding to purchase weapons and continue operations. As a comment to a recent statement of the United Nations, the Assistant Secretary Andrew Shapiro at the State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said that there has been a decline of piracy attacks [...]
Next Monday is Cyber Monday! And as online shoppers take to the Web this Cyber Monday hunting for bargains and holiday deals, the U.S. Homeland Security reminds everybody about the campaign Stop.Think.Connect.™ This Campaign reminds online shoppers to be prepared and fully aware of the cybersecurity risks of theft, fraud and abuse. While many businesses [...]
Joe Parry says: In Intelligence Infographics ” a good sketch is better than a long speech”.
EISIC, Dr. Nasrullah Memon and Computational Criminology: Early Warning Informatics System could predict Terrorist Threats
Sensor Urban Environments can prevent and fight robberies, terrorism attacks, natural catastrophes and other emergencies.
Athens Cyber Security Conference, Dr. Thuraisingham´s “Data Mining for Security”.
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