As revealed on the "U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor" website last week, the U.S. Department of Defense intends to extend a five-year $15 billion global counternarcotics program that is due to expire in 2012. The "Special Notice" released on August 2nd by the DoD Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office (CNTPO) advises potential...
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08/12/11
In the News
- Colombian authorities arrested Dolly Cifuentes Villa on charges of money laundering for Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. Police allege that Cifuentes took over after her brother, who served as drug lord Pablo Escobar's personal pilot, was killed 18 years ago. The head of the national police called her "a high-ranking link between Colombian and Mexican drug dealers."
- Colombian Attorney General Vivian Morales ...
08/12/11
08/11/11
Here is a trend that's at least of modest interest. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
The X axis is U.S. military and police aid to all of Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the government figures in our database. The Y axis is economic, social and institutional aid to the hemisphere, after removing two big natural-...
08/05/11
Antioquía
- A key leader of the criminal gang "Los Rastrojos," Angel de Jesus Pacheco, better known by his alias "Sebastian, was killed by his own bodyguards. His killers later turned themselves in, confessing to the killings and providing information that links public figures to "Los Rastrojos." Authorities say that ...