During his trip to Colombia, Brazil and Chile this week, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta emphasized the role of those three neighbor countries as military partners in a region where U.S. influence is being challenged by China. And as the military relationships grow, defense officials say it can only help U.S. economic and political ties across the continent. Panetta’s meetings [...]
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Another ten Colombian soldiers have been killed in a rebel ambush, this time in the eastern province of Arauca. It was the second such attack in two days. On Friday, a similar ambush left 10 soldiers dead in the southern province of Narino, close to Colombia’s border with Ecuador. The army blamed both attacks on [...]
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Suspended Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno is the latest high-profile Colombian official to be to be imprisoned for alleged corruption. On trial for accepting bribes from contractors on public works contracts, Moreno, 51, was deemed to be a flight risk and locked up in Bogota’s high-security La Picota prison. The grandson of Colombian army general and strongman [...]
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The integration in the Americas should be the result of a positive interdependence among countries. Since the Declaration of Washington, the american states are in a process of growing interrelation. Nowadays, the Americas have a Democratic Charter to live up to, and the most important thing is our right to democratic self-determination and the [...]
2010 Jan 31 | Posted in
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In recent weeks, much has been written in the media about the purchase of armaments and military technology by some South American countries like Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. On the subject of the arms race in our subcontinent, I would like to make a few comments, some of them are strictly personal opinions [...]
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