This post was written by CIP Intern Cristina Salas
On April 9th, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that Defense Secretary Robert Gates would be traveling to Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean "to reaffirm U.S. commitment to the region and promote closer defense cooperation."
As we wrote last week on this blog, Defense Secretary Gates began his Latin America-focused week by...
The TransBorder Project, a sponsored-program of the Center for International Policy, released a new International Policy Report this week: "Fallacies of High-Tech Fixes for Border Security." In the report, Tom Barry, director of the TransBorder Project, examines the impact and promises of two remote surveillance initiatives employed by the Department of Homeland Security to monitor and secure the U.S. border: the SBInet...
This post was written by CIP Intern Cristina Salas Last week, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela visited Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. His trip received very little press attention in the United States. While the assistant secretary was still traveling, we posted an entry covering the little information we could find about the first half...
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim signed the U.S.-Brazil Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA). "The agreement is a formal acknowledgement of the many security interests and values we share as the two most populous democracies in the Americas," Gates said. "These common...
Adam interviews Kathryn Ledebur of the Cochabamba, Bolivia-based Andean Information Network (www.ain-bolivia.org). Ms. Ledebur discusses Bolivia's recent local elections, civil-military relations, drug policy and the state of U.S.-Bolivian relations.
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On March 25th, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and 22 other representatives introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives (H. Res. 1224) calling on the Government of Colombia to address the needs and rights of the country's large population of internally displaced people. The Washington Office on Latin America issued a...