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Friday, January 16, 2009
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Reality check for U.S.-Mexico relations |
| Author/Source: | Denise Dresser The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Mexico may not be a failed state yet, but it desperately needs to wage a more effective war against organized crime, and it must have the right kind of American help and incentives to succeed |
Thursday, January 15, 2009
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Fidel Castro |
| Title: | Buzz grows about health of unseen, unheard Castro |
| Author/Source: | David Adams The St. Petersburg Times |
| Brief: | Two Latin American leaders have visited the island without meeting Castro, events that in the past would have generated photos and written remarks by the notoriously prolific comandante. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Press Freedom, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexico Media on High Alert After Attack on Televisa |
| Author/Source: | Ioan Grillo Time |
| Brief: | The Jan. 6 assault on Televisa's offices was the latest in a series of attacks on the Mexican media as the nation writhes in an orgy of drug-related bloodshed |
| Location: | Nicaragua |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Lines Drawn in the Sandinistas |
| Author/Source: | Freda Moon In These Times |
| Brief: | Nicaragua’s democratic left chafes under President Ortega’s rule |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Economy And Security, Energy, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez Lets West Make Oil Bids as Prices Plunge |
| Author/Source: | Simon Romero The New York Times |
| Brief: | Embracing the Western companies may be the only way to shore up Petroleos de Venezuela and the raft of social welfare programs, like health care and higher education for the poor, that have been made possible by oil proceeds |
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Economy And Security |
| Title: | Big hunt for small change in Argentina |
| Author/Source: | Jude Webber Financial Times (UK) |
| Brief: | Most fares can be paid only in cash but getting coins has become difficult in the past year |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chavez will try again to end term limits |
| Author/Source: | Chris Kraul The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | In Venezuela, a referendum is expected next month on a measure that would allow President Hugo Chavez and others to run for reelection an unlimited number of times |
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
| Location: | Aruba, Venezuela |
| Category: | Energy, Russian Foreign Policy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Venezuela worries Aruba |
| Author/Source: | Anton Foek The Washington Times |
| Brief: | Russia and Venezuela recently began a joint drilling project in the waters bordering Aruba |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, Public Security |
| Title: | Vatican suggests excommunicating Mexican drug traffickers |
| Author/Source: | Tracy Wilkinson The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Decrying the violence that Mexicans are enduring, the Vatican has suggested excommunication as a possible punishment for drug traffickers whose war with the government has led to the deaths of thousands of people |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama, Calderon meet in Washington |
| Author/Source: | Frank James, Ken Ellingwood The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | The meeting between Obama and Calderon, who heads Mexico's conservative National Action Party, was their first opportunity to address the global economic slowdown, drug violence along the border, immigration and trade |
Monday, January 12, 2009
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities |
| Colombia Category: | Indigenous Communities |
| Title: | Colombia Indians face down violence |
| Author/Source: | Chris Kraul The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Rebels, drug traffickers and soldiers may battle around them and encroach on their lands, but tribes hold on to their peaceful ways |
Saturday, January 10, 2009
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Obama represents hope for Cubans |
| Author/Source: | David Adams The St. Petersburg Times |
| Brief: | Obama has said he is willing to sit down for talks with Cuban President Raul Castro. And some analysts believe the 46-year-old U.S. embargo could be on its last legs, presaging the day Americans will flock back to Havana. |
Friday, January 9, 2009
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Q & A with Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos |
| Author/Source: | Chris Kraul The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | We are winning, but we haven't won yet. This could backfire very rapidly. [The end of Plan Colombia] is what the rebels want |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Politics And Security |
| Title: | For Redress of Grievances, Mexicans Turn to Bureaucracy Contest |
| Author/Source: | Elisabeth Malkin The New York Times |
| Brief: | Ms. Velazquez had won a government contest to identify Mexico’s most useless red tape, and President Felipe Calderon was on hand to present her prize |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Energy, U.S. Policy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Why Can't Big Oil Match Hugo Chavez? |
| Author/Source: | Tim Padgett Time |
| Brief: | If Chavez can keep donating fuel even as his oil revenues tumble, why can't any U.S. oil companies step up to do the same? |
Thursday, January 8, 2009
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Europes Role, Narcotrafficking |
| Colombia Category: | Europes Role, Narcotrafficking |
| Title: | Anti-narcotics agencies target West Africa routes |
| Author/Source: | Chris Kraul The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | South American producers are increasingly using Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and other countries in the region as transit hubs to Europe |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Change stirring in Cuba |
| Author/Source: | Georgie Anne Geyer The Washington Times |
| Brief: | One hates to be optimistic about Cuba and the United States after so many misunderstandings and so much suffering between them, but my feeling is that, with Raul's more reasonable temperament, that's a "maybe" |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | In Crime Wave, an Interrupted Meal Haunts Mexico |
| Author/Source: | Marc Lacey The New York Times |
| Brief: | It was outside El Meson that Felix Batista, an American security consultant who specialized in resolving kidnappings, was himself abducted on the evening of Dec. 10 |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. Plans Border ‘Surge’ Against Any Drug Wars |
| Author/Source: | Randal C. Archibold The New York Times |
| Brief: | Stephen Hadley, asesor de Seguridad Nacional del presidente saliente de Estados Unidos, George W. Bush, advirtio que el terrorismo y el narcotrafico son una "amenaza potencial" para la democracia en Mexico |
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Energy, U.S. Policy, Venezuelan Foreign Policy |
| Title: | Venezuela Suspends Heating Aid to the U.S. |
| Author/Source: | Simon Romero The New York Times |
| Brief: | Venezuela’s national oil company is suspending a program that provides discounted heating oil to poor communities in the United States, as officials here struggle to find ways of preserving hard currency reserves |
Monday, January 5, 2009
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Kidnappings in Mexico Send Shivers Across Border |
| Author/Source: | Sam Dillon The New York Times |
| Brief: | A string of similar kidnappings, singling out people with children or spouses in the United States, so panicked this village in the state of Zacatecas that many people boarded up their homes and headed north |
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | A new approach to Cuba |
| Author/Source: | The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Evolving views of the local population and 50 years of failed U.S. policy suggest change is long overdue. |
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Cuban Foreign Policy, Politics And Security, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | After 50 Years of Castro's Cuba, an End to the Cold War? |
| Author/Source: | Tim Padgett Time |
| Brief: | It's good that the Cuban Revolution's 50th anniversary falls on Jan. 1. That's the day for New Year's resolutions, and it's time for Washington and Havana to make some big ones. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Strategies for Mexico's drug war |
| Author/Source: | The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | Experts and public figures in the U.S. and Latin America offer a range of views, from stepped-up policing to legalization. |