Resources - Policy Statements
This section presents links to what people are saying about U.S. security policy around the world. Select one of the four types of policy statements from the menu at the right to filter the results below.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Hugo Chavez has cut poverty in half and given millions of Venezuelans access to health care and education. Voters will respond to thisEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Should political violence ensue, all bets are off on the Latin American front. Rather than play a productive role in the region Venezuela could arouse regional fears of a destabilizing spilloverEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Control of the Venezuelan government implies control of the largest natural gas reserves in Latin America and the largest deposit of oil in the worldEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Key political actors need to keep hardline militants on both sides in check and take steps to insure a peaceful, orderly transitionEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Chavez promised that between 2013 and 2018 he would make his experiments with “socialism of the 21st century” irreversible. Yet socialism in Venezuela remains consistently inconsistentEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Monday, January 7, 2013
If the opposition hopes to win the next election, it will have to create a political project that recognizes and addresses the newly empowered poor, sees them as part of the solution and addresses the issues of their daily livesEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Los tres reconocen avances que pueden ser de beneficio si se implementan en forma adecuadaSpanish
Country(s):
Guatemala
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Friday, January 4, 2013
For many of these countries, this electoral cycle provides an opportunity to move beyond recent confrontations and real challenges to electoral democracy itselfEnglish
Country(s):
Chile
Ecuador
Honduras
Paraguay
Venezuela
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Friday, January 4, 2013
Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 27 completed the construction of a facility addition at the Comando Regional de Entrenamiento de Operaciones de Mantenimiento de PazEnglish
Country(s):
Guatemala
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Former U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro predicts that “a deeply polarized and de-institutionalized Venezuela will be both turbulent and unstable for the foreseeable future.”English
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
While in the United States, there is a feeling that the door to discuss marijuana legalization is open and there is an opportunity to make changes, in Latin America, legalization in the United States has caused concerns and discontentEnglish
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
New reports suggest that Bolivia’s efforts to fight drug trafficking without the assistance of the DEA or other U.S. authorities may be having some bit of an impact, although it is considered controversial. English
Country(s):
Bolivia
Venezuela
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
We will not let up until Colombia is free of guerilla armies. But this irrevocable commitment to defeat terrorism does not preclude us from also prudently pursuing a solution to the conflict through dialogueEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
La primera restitucion de tierras efectiva, en el marco de la ley de victimas que entro en vigencia en enero del 2012, se dio a finales de diciembre en Mampujan (Bolivar)Spanish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, every one of the Caribbean islands has a sexual violence rate that is higher than the world average. English
Country(s):
Caribbean Regional
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Perhaps Mexico can live with the tamed cartels and their insidious corruption, but if it's going to get serious about eliminating their wealth and power, the only answer is increasingly clearEnglish
Country(s):
Mexico
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Friday, December 21, 2012
These examples suggest that abstention levels were roughly equal among pro-government and opposition municipalities and were not decisive in the outcomeEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Llegaron 1.314, numero significativo de las ganas que tienen los colombianos de participar en forma activa en el proceso de pazSpanish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Friday, December 21, 2012
This paper reviews the US-Mexican illicit drug landscape and documents the importance of this
criminal activity in both countriesEnglish
Country(s):
Mexico
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Friday, December 21, 2012
I rise to call attention to the plight of the United States Marine veteran, Jon Hammar, who has been unjustly jailed in a Mexican prison since August. Jon is an American hero and a patriot. English
Country(s):
Mexico
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