Roberta S. Jacobson
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 00:00
The vast majority - about two-thirds or $989 million - of our citizen security funding is directed towards rule of law activities and crime prevention, and only a third to the more traditional counter-narcotics activities.
Friday, June 21, 2013 - 00:00
Since the Merida Initiative was announced in 2007, we have based our
cooperation with Mexico on the recognition that our countries share responsibility
for combating transnational criminal networks and for protecting our citizens from
the crime, cor
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 00:00
The hallmark of our engagement is the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), through which we have committed $203 million toward improving citizen security, reducing violence, and combating illicit trafficking.
Preview of the Pathways for Prosperity/America's Competitiveness Forum in Cali, Colombia, Oct. 23-25
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 00:00
After a decade of Plan Colombia and partnership with the Colombian Government, the Rodriguez-Orejuela brothers are in jail and Deputy Secretary Burns is going to Cali, and that is transformative, I think.
Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 00:00
In most countries in the Western Hemisphere, we see governments working to provide greater political and economic opportunities for citizens but there remain exceptions.
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 00:00
It is a pleasure to be with all of you in Cochabamba to advance this dialogue that is so important to all the citizens of our hemisphere, and indeed, all the citizens of the world.
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 00:00
Secretary Clinton has described how harnessing the "power of proximity" between the United States and Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada is among the most strategically significant tasks facing our foreign policy in the years ahead.
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 00:00
Testimony Before the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee and the Homeland Security Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
Friday, March 20, 2009 - 00:00
Mexico, as well as our other neighbors in Central America and the Caribbean, is passing through a critical period.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 00:00
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs