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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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Vote mejor: por la Libertad y la Paz

Monday, August 27, 2007
En las elecciones de octubre no solo hay que votar bien, con responsabilidad y transparencia, sino con un voto mejor que se compromete expresamente con la paz y la libertadSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Camilo Gonzalez Posso
Publisher / Source: 
Indepaz

Denuncia senador Arce Islas "coartada para atentar contra mi"

Monday, August 27, 2007
El legislador perredista dijo que la difusion de un reporte periodistico que le senala como "senador por el EPR" es represalia por su iniciativa legal para acabar con el fuero de los militaresSpanish
Country(s): 
Mexico
Publisher / Source: 
La Jornada (Mexico)
Tag(s): 
Civil-Military Relations

'Tommy', el primer perro entrenado para rastrear fosas humanas

Monday, August 27, 2007
Este labrador de 18 meses se ha convertido en una esperanza para hallar a cientos de desaparecidosSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Ivan Noguera
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Violence

Colombia FARC says won't free hostages in Venezuela

Monday, August 27, 2007
Colombia's FARC guerrillas insisted a handover of hostages must take place in Colombia, after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered an area in his countryEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Wire Service: 
Reuters (UK)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict
Foreign Policy

El presidente Chavez y el Acuerdo Humanitario

Monday, August 27, 2007
Esta nueva etapa de busqueda de caminos hacia la paz por medio de la mediacion de Venezuela, y posiblemente de un bloque Latinoamericano, debe ser aprehendida bajo tres grandes contextosSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Author(s): 
Gabriel Bustamante Pena
Publisher / Source: 
Indepaz
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict
Foreign Policy

El numero dos de las FARC asegura que estan dispuestos a participar en un gobierno progresista en Colombia

Monday, August 27, 2007
El comandante Raul Reyes, numero dos de la guerrilla de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) aseguro hoy estarian dispuestos a formar parte de un gobiernoSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
Terra.es
Wire Service: 
Europa Press
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Editorial: Elecciones: los remedios

Monday, August 27, 2007
¿Habra que resignarse a que ese dia se repitan esos males y se presenten otros nuevos, o hay remedios que los impidan o, al menos, los contrarresten?Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)

Venezuela comprara 5.000 fusiles rusos para la "guerra de guerrillas"

Monday, August 27, 2007
El presidente Hugo Chavez revelo hoy que comprara 5.000 fusiles Dragunov a Rusia para la "guerra de guerrillas", sin reparar en las criticas de Estados UnidosSpanish
Country(s): 
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
El Universal (Venezuela)
Tag(s): 
Arms Control
U.S. Policy
Foreign Policy

Colombian Defense Minister visits USNS COMFORT in Buenaventura and Highlights Humanitarian Day

Monday, August 27, 2007
On Sunday August 26, Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos toured the USNS COMFORTEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Embassy Bogota
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Suspected rebels kill 9 farmers in southern Colombia

Monday, August 27, 2007
Gunmen raided a rural farm in southern Colombia and killed nine farmers, including four children, in an attack which authorities blamed on the nation's largest rebel groupEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
The International Herald-Tribune
Wire Service: 
Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Violence

Panama Canal naval exercise planned

Monday, August 27, 2007
It is called Panamax 2007 and will host civilian and military forces from 20 countries and run from Wednesday to Sept. 7English
Country(s): 
Panama
Publisher / Source: 
The Miami Herald
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Price heads Colombia delegation

Monday, August 27, 2007
U.S. Rep. David Price will lead a group of House members on a trip to Colombia this week to work on strengthening that country’s governmentEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
The Raleigh News And Observer
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Global Fleet Station salutes Honduran Navy

Monday, August 27, 2007
The Honduran Chief of Naval Operations joined the Global Fleet Station pilot (GFS) team in a ceremony to recognize GFS mission efforts and send off the Honduran Sailors to participate in PANAMAX 2007English
Country(s): 
Honduras
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
CTG 49.9 Public Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

El Consejo Nacional de Paz celebra que el proceso entre el Gobierno y el ELN no este "congelado"

Monday, August 27, 2007
Miembros del Consejo Nacional de Paz calificaron como un logro el que el Gobierno de Alvaro Uribe y el Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN) no hayan "congelado" las rondas de conversaciones en La HabanaSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
Yahoo!
Wire Service: 
Europa Press

Insulza llega a La Moneda para reunirse con Bachelet y gobierno recrimina al oficialismo

Monday, August 27, 2007
En medio de los cuestionamientos a su visita, el secretario general de la OEA, Jose Miguel Insulza llegoSpanish
Country(s): 
Chile
Author(s): 
Cristian Chandia
Publisher / Source: 
La Tercera (Chile)
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security

End arms sales to Colombia, say MPs

Monday, August 27, 2007
Senior Labour figures are to demand that the UK ends military aid to Colombia because of alleged human rights abuses and concerns about the drug tradeEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Colin Brown
Publisher / Source: 
The Independent (UK)

Global Fleet Station completes Honduras training

Monday, August 27, 2007
While in Honduras, GFS had new trainers arrive from the Expeditionary Training Command in Little Creek, Va., and former trainers returned for another engagement of subject matter exchanges with the HonduransEnglish
Country(s): 
Honduras
Author(s): 
Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW) Cynthia Clark
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
Task Group 40.9 Public Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Venezuela no respondera a declaraciones de Raul Reyes de las Farc, dijo el canciller Nicolas Maduro

Monday, August 27, 2007
Al referirse a la insistencia de Reyes en el despeje de dos municipios del Valle para intercambio humanitario, Maduro dijo que es muy "complejo y delicado"Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict
Foreign Policy

Colombia's newfound security makes banks attractive prey

Monday, August 27, 2007
Crime rates and insecurity have fallen so substantially during the five years of President Alvaro Uribe's government that the threats no longer protect the domestic banks from their multinational peersEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Karina Robinson
Publisher / Source: 
The International Herald-Tribune
Tag(s): 
Security

Castro signs essay amid health rumors

Monday, August 27, 2007
Fidel Castro signed a lengthy essay published Sunday saluting a Cuban political figure but giving no hint of how he is feeling, even amid rampant rumors of his deathEnglish
Country(s): 
Cuba
Author(s): 
Will Weissert
Publisher / Source: 
Yahoo!
Wire Service: 
Associated Press

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