Just the Facts

Just the Facts

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A civilian's guide to U.S. defense and security assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean

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"In the first 9 months of this fiscal year, 7,407 Cubans have entered the US through the border with ," - -

New "Week Ahead" podcast looks at Andes cocaine, Venezuela and Mercosur, U.S. terror report, House Ecuador resolution -

The looks at the huge discrepancy between US and UN estimates of how much cocaine is coming from -

Great new pub by U.Miami's Bruce Bagley for : "Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in the Americas" -

Deputy Secretary of State Burns, in , promises $50m in aid to assist reparations of victims -

Governor of Nariño, which for years has led in both coca-growing & fumigation, says eradication has failed -

Last week UN said Colombia produced 345 tons of cocaine in 2011. Today, U.S. press release says 195 tons. That's odd -

New "Week Ahead" podcast looks at human rights in Peru, pacification in Rio, coca in Colombia, Oswaldo Payá -

Coca growing in has hit its 3rd post-Plan Colombia plateau. Here's a blog post about the UNODC's estimates -

In Mexico, citizens "look with amazement at the ease with which guns can be purchased in the United States" -

Inter-Am Human Rights Commission condemns the recent death of national by U.S. Border Patrol Agents

As constitutional crisis continues, foreign minister comes to Washington to explain government's side -

New "Week Ahead" podcast covers Cauca, Colombia; El Salvador's constitutional crisis; Southcom commander; IAHRC -

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