After the fall of the Soviet Union, one of the Defense Department’s initial efforts at creating security engagements with the Former Soviet Republics came through the National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP), which partners a U.S. state’s National Guard with a foreign nation’s military. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) describes the aims of the program as: “building defense relationships that promote specific U.S. security interests, developing allied and friendly...
Compiled by WOLA Intern Laura Fontaine.
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After meeting on June 11 with the president of Peru, Ollanta Humala, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged an extra $20 million to support the Peruvian government’s anti-narcotics efforts, in addition to the $40 million that the US already contributes to these efforts annually.
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Interview with Marino Cordoba of AFRODES from Adam Isacson on Vimeo.
Here is a conversation with Marino Córdoba of AFRODES, the Association of Displaced Afro-Colombians, an organization representing dozens of Afro-Colombian communities, mostly from the Atlantic and Pacific coastal regions, seeking to...
This post was written with CIP Cuba Intern, Ashley Badesch
Despite Cuba’s absence from the recent OAS meeting, where antidrug policy in the Americas topped the agenda, Cuba collaborates with Latin American and Caribbean nations, and even the United States, on counternarcotics...
A very contentious debate is nearly over. Last Wednesday, Colombia’s Senate approved legislation that will allow the country’s military to try its own personnel in many more cases of human rights abuse. On Monday, Colombia’s House of Representatives is expected to do the same.
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The following is a round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the past week.
US Policy
- Peruvian President Ollanta Humala visited the White House Tuesday to meet with President Obama, Vice President Biden and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as part of his three-day trip to the United States. The two presidents agreed to deepen cooperation on ...