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This request for additional foreign assistance includes aid to Mexico under the "Merida Initiative."
This request for additional foreign assistance includes aid to Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake.
Although the committee generally supports the efforts of SOUTHCOM to transform itself to meet the twenty-first-century challenges in the Western Hemisphere more effectively, the committee does have a series of concerns about the implications of these changes
Details from the International Affairs Budget Request as produced by the Bureau of Resource Management within the State Department.
A federal advisory committee's "effort to review current U.S. approaches to security capacity building, its goals, and its effectiveness." Does not represent official U.S. government positions or policies.
As a condition of spending funds for its Merida Initiative package of military and economic aid, the State Department had to submit a plan for how these funds would be spent.
A report "on the status of reform activities in Colombia funded or authorized, in whole or part, by the Department of State, USAID or DoD, to promote alternative development, the recovery and resettlement of internally displaced persons, judicial reform, the peace process and human rights."
Describing "any relationships between foreign governments or organizations and organizations based in Colombia that have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations under United States law," and U.S. "policies that are designed to address such relationships."
The State Department's certification that Honduras is implementing policies to protect freedom of expression and due process, and investigating and prosecuting human rights abuses in the civilian justice system. This certification frees up 20 percent of U.S. security assistance to Honduras.
A quarterly report that, while duplicating some information about these three programs available elsewhere, provides valuable new details.