This post was drafted by CIP interns Matt LaLime and Sebastian Belloni
- Each day between three and six narco-flights arrive in Bolivia from Peru’s VRAE region, according to a recent report from Peruvian investigative magazine IDL-Reporteros. That’s more than 20 per week or 80 per month. A kilo of coca ...
The U.S. government has spent billions since 1994 on a program that eradicates coca—the plant used to make cocaine—by having Colombian police and contractors fly over it spraying herbicides.
This “fumigation” program has been controversial. The spraying destroys legal crops, and restitution is very hard to obtain. It has generated many health and environmental complaints...
As such, it is still unclear how much Afghanistan’s neighbors can benefit from the United States’ Excess Defense Articles program.
Due to the success of Just the Facts, the Center for International Policy and its partners are expanding the scope of the project to include data on U.S. military and police aid worldwide.
Just the Facts will soon become the Latin America section of Security Assistance Monitor, a new website that tracks U.S. security assistance to the rest of the world....
This week Honduras made plans to double the number of military police in its most violent city, federal troops were deployed to one of Rio's largest slums and the Venezuelan military reaffirmed its support for the government after three air force officers were arrested for allegedly planning a coup. Here's a roundup of these stories and other highlights from around the region over the past week.
Tensions are rising in the United States over the Obama administration’s Syria policy, Libyan weapons continue to spread through North Africa, and Gulf Cooperation Council powers expand their naval presence. Below is a roundup of these stories and some of the other highlights from around the Middle East and North Africa over the last week:
United States Policy:
- The Fifth Fleet is expanding its operational ...