BOLIVIA / ARGENTINA
- Leaders from all over Latin America traveled to La Paz today for the inauguration of Bolivian President Evo Morales to his second term. Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, however, was not able to travel to Bolivia due to domestic troubles, including ...
One week has passed since a devastating earthquake brought one of the world's worst-ever humanitarian emergencies to the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and its surrounding areas. Over the past seven days, search-and-rescue operations have pulled over 121 people from the rubble left behind by the earthquake. The chance of finding survivors diminishes as every day passes; as of yesterday, however, 36 international...
This is cross-posted from the Center for International Policy's "Plan Colombia and Beyond" blog. A small sampling of some of the Haiti coverage we’ve found worth linking to is...
Shortly before 5:00 pm on Tuesday, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, leaving behind a major humanitarian emergency on the small island nation. As images and first-hand accounts from Haiti make it into the news today, the incredible level of destruction and immense loss of human life left by this natural disaster is still difficult to grasp, though the need for immediate emergency response and humanitarian assistance is obvious. Throughout the day, the Obama Administration has been outlining the steps that are being taken by the U.S. government to launch a multiagency...
Every year, the U.S. Department of State submits a report to Congress with its detailed budget request for International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) assistance. This program is the largest source of military and police assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean, and during the past decade has funded programs like Plan Colombia, the Andean Counterdrug Initiative, the Mérida Initiative for both Mexico and Central America, and the recently approved Caribbean...
2009 marked the Obama administration's first year, and proved to be a very eventful year in Latin America. Below is a list of significant U.S. policy and security events in Latin America in 2009. January: Barack Obama is inaugurated as the United States' first African-American president and hope for a new era of U.S.-Latin America relations is apparent throughout the region. February: Colombia's...