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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 10:16
In 2014, more than 100 government-affiliated bodyguards were killed in Caracas, according to a tally kept by a major newspaper. The dead included at least six members of Venezuela's presidential guard, most slain in apparent robberies gone wrong. The bodyguard of Venezuela's first lady was among them. Many more bodyguards already have been killed in 2015, including the men guarding a governor, a minister and a mayor.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 10:13
The Mexican drug cartels have managed to recruit thousands of youngsters, in primary, secondary and preparatory schools in Texas, to form gangs under their control, in order to strengthen the flow of narcotic drugs to all of the United States.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 10:09
President Obama has been consistent. He has demonstrated deference, apology, and weakness time and again, from appeasing Iran, changing his mind on Syria, standing down on missile defense, lowering our Army and Navy readiness force, no meaningful commitment to Ukraine, and now Cuba.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 10:05
Vladimir Putin said that he would not allow the West to achieve military superiority over Russia. Russia will continue strengthening the nuclear potential, develop space forces, navy and long-range aviation. The Russian Navy plans to commission two new nuclear submarines. However, Russia lacks a developed system of bases that had been lost after the collapse of the USSR. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu tried to fill the gap during his tour of Latin America on February 11-14.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:46
A Colombian Army M1117 Pegaso 4x4 armored security vehicle (ASV) was destroyed on 15 February by an improvised explosive device (IED).
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:46
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:43
The FARC announced that they would no longer recruit any combatants under the age of 17. Previously, the FARC officially recruited minors as young as 15 and there is plenty of evidence of children as young as 12 or 13 entering their ranks.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:38
Argentina wants the United States to help it get to the bottom of a deadly 1994 bombing at the heart of a current political scandal by including the crime in the U.S. nuclear talks with Iran, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:34
An important first step in ending Colombia’s fifty-year conflict requires a paradigm change in thinking where violence is no longer viewed as an acceptable or necessary vehicle to secure political and economic change.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 07:15
the general sense of optimism that accompanied the end of the Qaddafi era has evaporated. For the past four years the rest of the world watched idly as Libya descended into chaos; now it looks less like a country inspired by the promise of democracyTthan a textbook example of a failed state. It is indicative of how far Libya has fallen that the forces of the Islamic State (IS) have managed, with apparent effortlessness, to gain a foothold in the country.