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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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Desmovilizado jefe paramilitar 'Carlos Tijeras' reconocio 21 crimenes

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Para Jose Gregorio Mangones Lugo su accionar en las autodefensas fue un trabajo "comun y corriente"Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Judicial Reform

Fujimori con amnesia: “Supe de la matanza de Colina por la prensa"

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Culpa al gobierno de Garcia por masacre de Barrios Altos y dice -cinicamente- que los militares "lo hicieron por represalia"Spanish
Country(s): 
Chile
Peru
Author(s): 
Ana Veliz
Publisher / Source: 
La Republica (Peru)
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Comfort Sailor shares mission with family in Ecuador

Thursday, August 23, 2007
A Sailor born and raised in Ecuador and deployed with hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) shared his work with family members in Manta English
Country(s): 
Ecuador
Author(s): 
Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jeff Hall
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
USNS Comfort Public Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

http://www.eltiempo.com/nacion/tolima/21deagostode2007/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR-3691299.html

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Cinco ex jefes paramilitares del bloque Tolima de las Auc guiaron a la Fiscalia y a antropologos del CTI hacia el lugar donde enterraron a algunas de sus victimas. El trabajo, que ya completa dos dias, ha permitido el hallazgo de dos osamentas en lSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Violence

Hermoza Rios: Fujimori si sabia de crimenes de Colina

Thursday, August 23, 2007
El ex jefe de las FFAA y del Ejercito Nicolas Hermoza Rios –uno de los militares que por anos compartio el poder con Alberto Fujimori– dijo, a la justicia peruana, que el extraditable conocia de los operativosSpanish
Country(s): 
Chile
Peru
Author(s): 
Ana Veliz
Publisher / Source: 
La Republica (Peru)
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Seabees renovate Ecuadorian school

Thursday, August 23, 2007
The Seabees installed fans, replaced lights, repaired toilets and roofing, painted walls, produced two handicapped ramps and replaced both basketball and soccer nets during their five-day visitEnglish
Country(s): 
Ecuador
Author(s): 
Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Karsten
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
USNS Comfort Public Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

La actual campana repite los riesgos de las elecciones pasadas, reconocen analistas

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Los peligros advertidos son el clientelismo, la compra de votos, la transhumancia electoral, la financiacion irregular de campanas y el fraude en la mecanica electoralSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)

Venezuela niega contacto con las Farc

Thursday, August 23, 2007
El canciller venezolano, Nicolas Maduro, nego versiones de la prensa de ese pais sobre un supuesto mensaje de Raul Reyes al presidente Hugo ChavezSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict
Foreign Policy

U.S. military assessment team arrives in Belize following Hurricane Dean

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Approximately 20 Soldiers and Airmen from Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, deployed here as part of an initial assessment team following Hurricane DeanEnglish
Country(s): 
Belize
Author(s): 
Tech. Sgt. Sonny Cohrs
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
Joint Task Force-Bravo Public Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Suspected Colombian rebel group kills 3 women, 2 men

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Gunmen hunted down and killed five farmers in a Colombian region plagued by violence and drug trafficking in an attack authorities blamed on the nation's largest rebel groupEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Wire Service: 
Associated Press
Tag(s): 
Violence

Comfort Arrives in Colombia, Continues Mission

Thursday, August 23, 2007
After seeing thousands of patients in seven of 12 countries, hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in Colombia, Aug. 22, to continue its four-month humanitarian assistance deploymentEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelly E. Barnes
Publisher / Source: 
Navy News Stand
Wire Service: 
USNS Comfort Public Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

U.S. troops deploy to Belize

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Approximately 25 Airmen and Soldiers from Joint Task Force-Bravo here deployed to Belize Aug. 21 to assess the damage caused by Hurricane DeanEnglish
Country(s): 
Belize
Author(s): 
1st Lt. Erika Yepsen
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
Joint Task Force-Bravo Public Affairs
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Security industry growing in Colombia

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Security is big business in Colombia, where a four-decade civil war has spawned a cottage industry of manufacturers and service companies whose mission is to keep their clients aliveEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Chris Kraul
Publisher / Source: 
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Wire Service: 
Los Angeles Times
Tag(s): 
Security

Copei critico intermediacion de Chavez ante secuestros en Colombia

Thursday, August 23, 2007
El miembro del Comite Metropolitano de Copei Partido Popular, Angel Cacique, critico hoy la intencion del jefe de Estado, Hugo Chavez Frias, de servir de mediador con los grupos guerrilleros colombianos Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
El Universal (Venezuela)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict
Foreign Policy

Partnership of the Americas departs Nicaragua

Thursday, August 23, 2007
USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) departed Corinto Aug. 15, after completing theater security cooperation events with the Nicaraguan NavyEnglish
Country(s): 
Nicaragua
Author(s): 
Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Damien Horvath
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
Destroyer Squadron 40 Public Affair
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Con disturbios, heridos y detenidos termino marcha de ultraizquierda argentina

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Una marcha realizada hoy en Buenos Aires por agrupaciones de ultraizquierda de Argentina concluyo con incidentes en los que cinco policias resultaron heridos y 44 manifestantes detenidosSpanish
Country(s): 
Argentina
Publisher / Source: 
La Tercera (Chile)
Wire Service: 
EFE
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security

ELN dice que Granda tiene "mucha expectativa" de la gestion de Chavez

Thursday, August 23, 2007
El comandante del Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN) Pablo Beltran afirmo hoy que Rodrigo Granda, considerado el "canciller" de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) tiene "mucha expectativa"Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
El Universal (Venezuela)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict
Foreign Policy

Manta forward operating location changes command

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Lt. Col. Robert Leonard assumed command of the 478th Expeditionary Operations Squadron today at 9 a.m. in the base´s main hangarEnglish
Country(s): 
Ecuador
Author(s): 
2nd Lt. Naomi Evangelista
Publisher / Source: 
U.S. Southern Command
Wire Service: 
478th Expeditionary Operations Squa
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Farc no han respondido todavia llamado de Hugo Chavez, aclaro el gobierno venezolano

Thursday, August 23, 2007
El canciler Nicolas Maduro, en dialogo con periodistas en Caracas, aseguro que "hasta ahora no ha habido respuesta de las Farc"Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict
Foreign Policy

Colombia espera evitar que la controversia con Ecuador llegue a La Haya

Thursday, August 23, 2007
El canciller de Colombia, Fernando Araujo, declaro hoy en Brasilia que su pais confia en que la controversia con Ecuador por las fumigaciones antidrogas en la frontera comun seran resueltos por la via diplomaticaSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Ecuador
Publisher / Source: 
Yahoo!
Wire Service: 
EFE
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade
U.S. Policy
Foreign Policy

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