RSSA December 14, 2009 report by the Spanish security-news agency Infodefensa.com states that Colombia is now prepared to dispatch a battalion of its Special Forces and air force personnel to Afghanistan. The Colombian involvement is being sponsored by Spain in order to aid Coalition forces now engaged[...]
Archive for the ‘Peru’ Category
January 22nd, 2010 - 12:22 pm § in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Front Page, Peru, Reports, Uncategorized
Peacekeeping and Military Operations by Latin American Militaries: Between Being a Good Samaritan and Servicing the National Interest
The Dirty Little Secret: Nuclear Security Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean
Globally, nuclear power has become an increasingly important source of energy, accounting for about 15% of the world’s electricity supply. When it comes to Latin America, 3.1% of electricity comes from this source. However, the nettlesome security issues resulting from utilizing nuclear energy sou[...]
El VRAE: Alan García’s Failed Domestic Policy
Since early 2006, almost fifty members of the Peruvian armed forces and the national police have died in the region of el VRAE (a Spanish acronym for the valley of the rivers Apurimac and Ene). For approximately two decades, this region has been the setting of an ongoing series of lethal encounters [...]
September 28th, 2009 - 1:57 pm § in In the News, Peru
Interconnect: García’s Decline in Peru
Interconnect Newsletter September 2009, Vol. 16, No. 3 By COHA Research Associate Steve Schaffer When Alan García first came to power in Peru in 1985 under the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) party, he was wildly hailed as Latin America’s JFK. Unfortunately, his reign was, ins[...]
García’s Decline in Peru
-Plummeting poll ratings register a remarkable shift of status When Alan García first came to power in Peru in 1985 under the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) party, he was hailed as “Latin America’s Kennedy.” Unfortunately, his reign was instead marked by corruption, economic [...]
RIGHTS-PERU: Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage
June 16, 2009 By Haider Rizvi Inter Press Service News Agency NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) – The United States government is coming under intense pressure from rights organisations and environmental groups to redefine its trade pact with Peru, a tool that they charge the government in Lima is using[...]
June 15th, 2009 - 7:41 am § in In the News, Peru
‘We are fighting for our lives and our dignity’
June 13, 2009 By John Vidal The Guardian, UK Across the globe, as mining and oil firms race for dwindling resources, indigenous peoples are battling to defend their lands – often paying the ultimate price It has been called the world’s second “oil war”, but the only similarity be[...]
Murder in Peru: Indigenous Rights and Corporate Interests
Alan Garcia is no friend of the indigenous, thus his close relationship with the former Bush Administration should come as no surprise. Garcia’s sponsorship of regularizing the opening up of the Amazon to exploitation for oil exploration and logging was no accident, and the mess into which he has [...]
June 12th, 2009 - 8:00 am § in In the News, Peru
The Global Significance of the Amazon Protest
June 11, 2009 By Sam Urquhart Countercurrents.org Peru’s Amazon region has been locked down, after the death of perhaps 40 indigenous protesters and 20 police during an attempt to break up a blockade last Friday. Some reports put the death toll as high as 84, in the worst violence that the Ama[...]
Time to Debate a Change in Washington’s Failed Latin American Drug Policies
- Unrelenting forces prove their strength in the war on drugs, but not their wisdom - American prohibition on drugs compounds the problem it was meant to cure - It is time to reexamine failed drug policies and learn new vocabulary words: decriminalization and legalization It is time for policymakers[...]