This week the House of Representatives called for more Defense Department involvement in the drug war, Congress sanctioned Venezuelan officials and the State Department cleared the way for Mexico to buy over 3,000 vehicles from the U.S. to expand its army in the fight against the cartels.
This post examines the United States’ efforts to located the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, the U.S. response to militia violence in Libya, and much more
Georgian troops are participating in the U.S. Army's Combined Resolve II exercises in Germany, while tensions simmer between the government and the local population Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region.
The peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP guerrillas reached the halfway mark on May 16th, 2014 with a ground-breaking agreement on how to treat drug production and trafficking. This is the first peace process in history with a “drug policy” chapter.
For the third time in the past year, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made an official visit to the Gulf to meet with the defense ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. As the P5+1 resumed nuclear negotiations with Iran last week, Secretary Hagel traveled to...
This week lawmakers in the House proposed a review of U.S. drug policy in the region, Guatemala's Congress denied that there was ever a genocide and Costa Rica was still waiting for answers as to why the U.S. ran a covert Twitter-like program in Cuba from within its borders. Here's a roundup of these stories and other highlights from around the region this week.