- On Thursday, 30 Colombian troops were wounded by explosives detonated by FARC guerrillas while they were traveling to defuse a car bomb in the Arauca department. While one soldier did require surgery for his injuries, none of the troops were critically injured. ...
- Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) electoral board announced that the Preval government's candidate, Jude Celestin, will not advance to the second-round presidential runoff on March 20. Instead, Michel Martelly will face off against Mirlande Manigat. This decision came after many groups and governments voiced their opinions and concerns about who should advance to ...
A visit from Colombia's defense minister. Cutbacks to control of arms smuggled into Mexico. Brazil's president visits Argentina, but America's president doesn't.
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- The AFP and The Los Angeles Times reported today on new concerns that the drug war may be spreading into the country’s capital, after 10 people were killed in the suburb of Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl in killings that are believed to be tied to The Zetas and ...
A December 2010 report by Human Rights Watch outlines the lack of accountability for human rights abuses committed during and following the June 2009 coup in Honduras. The report also documents 47 cases of threats or attacks, including 18 killings, against journalists, human rights defenders, and political activists since the inauguration of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo in January 2010.
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After an inexcusably long delay, the Department of State last week released the Foreign Military Training Report (FMTR) for 2008. Added to U.S. law in 1999 and due on March 1 of each year, the FMTR is by far the best source of information about U.S. training of foreign military and police forces. Information from the FMTR forms the core of the Training section of the Just the Facts project database.
The report released last week was due almost two...