U.S. Government
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 00:00
"Food should always be a part" of efforts to end the "vicious cycle" of poverty, Gaddi Vasquez, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. agencies in Rome, said in the State Department's DipNote blog
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 00:00
“With courage and sacrifice, Colombians have taken their nation from the verge of failure to the brink of peace and prosperity
in little more than a decade. The U.S. has been with them every step of the way.” — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 00:00
Here is a hypothesis: Illegal drug use should return to the national spotlight.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 00:00
The Whole of Government Approach – Applying Full Spectrum Capabilities in Dismantling Transnational Illicit Networks and Corruption Nodes in the Crime-Terror Continuum
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 00:00
USS McInerney (FFG 8) and attached Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 44 Detachment 8 returned home Oct. 5 after a six-month counter-illicit trafficking deployment in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 00:00
Today, little is heard about the “war on drugs”—which was probably the wrong metaphor all along...
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian security forces have increasing ability to fight terrorists
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 00:00
Medical personnel embarked aboard USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) worked alongside Dominican Republic Armed Forces Oct. 4 to bring a variety medical services here as part of the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008.
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 00:00
Sailors from USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) received a warm welcome from local residents here Oct. 4 as they began work on a volunteer community relations (COMREL) project in support of the humanitarian/civic assistance (HCA) mission Continuing Promise 2008.
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 00:00
USS De Wert (FFG 45) returned to homeport at Naval Station Mayport Oct. 6 after a five-month counterdrug deployment to the Eastern Pacific with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 46 Detachment One (HSL-46 Det One) and Coast Guard Law Enforcement De