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This section includes the latest news relating to U.S. security policy around the world. Updated daily, the news provided in this searchable database highlights the most relevant security developments from around the world. 

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El sabado entregarian cuerpos de los diputados

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Segun una version periodistica, sus cuerpos serian entregados este sabado en inmediaciones de Corinto (Cauca)Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Diputado sucreno Jhonny Villa, procesado por presuntos nexos 'paras' se acoge a sentencia anticipada

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
El diputado reconoceria su relacion con las Autodefensas, asi como el delito de concierto para delinquir agravado, por el cual se le procesaSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Hugo Chavez is an annoyance who only acts crazy

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The thing about Hugo Chavez is that he is not crazy. He just acts crazyEnglish
Country(s): 
Venezuela
Author(s): 
William F. Buckley
Jr.
Publisher / Source: 
The Houston Chronicle
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy
Foreign Policy

FBI niega haber arrestado en Miami al hombre del maletin

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
El FBI nego versiones de medios de prensa argentinos que indicaron el lunes que Guido Alejandro Antonini, el empresario venezolano acusado de tratar de introducir $800,000 de contrabando a Argentina, fue arrestado en MiamiSpanish
Country(s): 
Argentina
Venezuela
Author(s): 
Gerardo Reyes
Publisher / Source: 
El Nuevo Herald
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

Mexico rompe record de extradiciones: Garza

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
En 2006 extradito a 63 delincuentes; en 2007 van 64. Hoy fue enviado Hilario Larrago, acusado de traficar metanfetaminasSpanish
Country(s): 
Mexico
Publisher / Source: 
La Jornada (Mexico)
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade
U.S. Policy

Superpoblacion, causa de violencia en carceles de America Latina

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
El mantenimiento del orden funciona sobre la base de acuerdos entre presos y guardianes que dejan entrar armas y telefonos movilesSpanish
Author(s): 
Claire De Oliveira
Publisher / Source: 
El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua)
Wire Service: 
Agence France Presse
Tag(s): 
Security

A Mexican senator's two lives

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Rene Arce Islas says he's not part of a group that blew up pipelines, but he doesn't deny that his name is a pseudonymSpanish
Country(s): 
Mexico
Author(s): 
Hector Tobar
Publisher / Source: 
The Los Angeles Times
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security

Marcado por la violencia el paro de 24 horas en Bolivia

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
El ministro de Gobierno, Alfredo Rada, denuncio ayer que un paro de 24 horas que cumplen seis de los nueve departamentos del pais contra el presidente Evo Morales esta ''signado por la violencia''Spanish
Country(s): 
Bolivia
Author(s): 
andAacute;lvaro Zuazo
Publisher / Source: 
El Nuevo Herald
Wire Service: 
Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security

Colombia's Helicol Buys Three Bell Helicopters For $24.6 Million

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Colombia-based Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, or Helicol, bought three new helicopters for $24.6 million from Bell Helicopter to take advantage of the growing demand from oil exploration companies in the countryEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
CNN
Wire Service: 
Dow Jones
Tag(s): 
Security

Costa Rica: aumenta decomiso de cocaina

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
El decomiso de cocaina efectuado en Costa Rica el fin de semana aumento de 120 a 660 kilos luego que una patrullera guardacostas estadounidense recuperara mas droga en altamarSpanish
Country(s): 
Costa Rica
Publisher / Source: 
La Nacion (Costa Rica)
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Colombia to seek Israeli's extradition

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Yair Klein, arrested in Russia, has been convicted of training paramilitary groups in terrorismEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Chris Kraul
Publisher / Source: 
The Los Angeles Times
Tag(s): 
Security

In Article, Castro Reflects on Clinton-Obama Ticket

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Days after rumors of his death swept the Internet, Fidel Castro mused about the U.S. presidential election in an editorial published Tuesday in the Communist Party newspaperEnglish
Country(s): 
Cuba
Author(s): 
Manuel Roig-Franzia
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Capturan a suboficial (r) acusado de ofrecer informacion sobre la Armada a narcotraficantes

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Se trata de Victor Antonio Palmera Quintana, solicitado en extradicion para comparecer en juicio ante la Corte del Distrito de ColumbiaSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade
Extraditions
Military

Colombia seeks to extradite of Israeli "para" trainer

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Colombia said on Tuesday it will seek the extradition of a former Israeli army officer once convicted of training paramilitariesEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Wire Service: 
Reuters

US judge approves Noriega's extradition to France

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Panama's former dictator, Manuel Noriega, can be extradited to France for a money laundering trial after he completes a lengthy jail sentence in Miami next monthEnglish
Country(s): 
Panama
Author(s): 
Rory Carroll
Publisher / Source: 
The Guardian (UK)
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Pinochet-era general jailed for life

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Chile's supreme court has upheld the first life sentence imposed on a senior member of the country's former military dictatorship for human rights abusesEnglish
Country(s): 
Chile
Author(s): 
Fred Attewill
Publisher / Source: 
The Guardian (UK)
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

El FBI lo hallo en su casa, pero por ahora Antonini Wilson no hara las valijas para venir a Argentina

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
No lo detuvieron, aunque "informaron" de su paradero. El empresario venezolano esta en su mansion de MiamiSpanish
Country(s): 
Argentina
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
Perfil (Argentina)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy

Condenas por muerte de sindicalistas

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
La justicia colombiana condeno a 40 anos de prision a cuatro militares y a un civil por la muerte de tres sindicalistas en el ano 2003Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
BBC (UK)
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Paro con violencia en Bolivia

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Seis de las nueve regiones de Bolivia viven una jornada de paro civico marcado por hechos de violencia y vandalismoSpanish
Country(s): 
Bolivia
Author(s): 
Mery Vaca
Publisher / Source: 
BBC (UK)
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security

Ministro Wagner expresa disposicion de FFAA para trabajar con Forsur

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
El ministro de Defensa, Allan Wagner, afirmo que las fuerzas armadas estan dispuestas a trabajar con el Fondo para la Reconstruccion Integral de las Zonas Afectadas por los Sismos Spanish
Country(s): 
Peru
Publisher / Source: 
La Republica (Peru)

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