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19/05/2013 | En Profundidad
Remembering what gave rise to Argentina's mini-Nuremberg trials
As the Washington Post special correspondent who covered the 1985 "mini-Nuremberg" trials against General Jorge Videla and other senior military dirty warriors, and then went on to break the story in 1987 about Secretary of State Henry Kissinger giving the murderous and anti-semitic generals a "green light" for the so-called Rio de la Plata "dirty war. I suggest the following readings:
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08/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Interview with Robert M. Wells, director of training and education, National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy
Maritime piracy not only leaves ships and sailors exposed to hijacking; it increases the cost of shipping and, in particular, has meant significant increases in sea vessel insurance.
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08/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Interview with Pirate Alley author Adm. Terry McKnight
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Ret.) Terence E. �Terry� Mc K n i g h t was the pioneering U.S. Commander of Task Force 151 off the coast of Somalia and is the author of the new book, Pirate Alley, published by the Naval Institute Press. Recently McKnight visited AdvanFort�s Washington, D.C. office to share what Advanfort company President Will Watson called his �vast and valuable expertise� on maritime security issues and the challenges posed by piracy as a transnational security threat in the Gulf of Aden and, increasingly, in other areas of the globe.
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02/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
"The good, the bad and the ugly" private maritime security companies (PMSCs) and the search for lessons learned
The controversy in late April arising from the impounding by Spanish authorities of a seemingly fortress-like vessel owned by a former British navy officer offers a window into some of the continuing challenges faced by a world maritime shipping industry seeking to protect its crews, vessels and bottom lines.
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20/03/2013 | Dossier Francisco I
Pope Francis and some still dirty secrets from Argentina�s so-called dirty 'war'
When the accuser should stand among the accused
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23/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Piracy Mitigation Strategies � A Video Webcast Series
This episode is the 3rd webcast in a 10 webcast series entitled "Piracy Mitigation Strategies". The series is sponsored by AdvanFort, a recognized leader in global maritime security solutions.
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23/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Interview with Robert M. Wells, director of training and education, National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy
Maritime piracy not only leaves ships and sailors exposed to hijacking; it increases the cost of shipping and, in particular, has meant significant increases in sea vessel insurance.
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25/01/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Typhon's "private navy": A game-changer or a new maritime counter-piracy Maginot Line?
The announcement earlier this month that a British company, Typhon, is creating a private navy to protect commercial clients from piracy off the Horn of Africa and beyond caused a small sensation in much of the world's media.
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15/06/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Roadmap for Beating Latin America's Transnational Criminal Organizations
Transnational criminal organizations have become too well armed, resourced, and influential to be contained by law enforcement resources in Latin America, where official corruption is widespread, police are not trusted, ungoverned spaces leave a vacuum for crime to penetrate, and vulnerable publics are open to anyone who will provide the services and security the state cannot. The effects of crime and corruption on such a scale, permeating the political, social, and economic realms, must be met with an integrated law enforcement, military, and intelligence effort within a whole-of-government approach. Several countries are having success through a variety of approaches, but the problem remains severe.
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26/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Argentina - Legislative Alert
Immediately after Memorial Day, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D.-NY-22nd) is scheduled to offer an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act that would require the full declassification of U.S. government documents about Argentina's infamous "dirty war."
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04/05/2012 | En Parrilla
Looking Forward while Looking Back: Sandinista leader Tomas Borge dies in Nicaragua
In September 1988, as director of Latin American and Caribbean programs and the Civil-Military Project for the National Democratic Institute [NDI] then headed by former Vice President Walter Mondale, I brought a group to Managua that included Argentine pollster Analia Del Franco and several Democratic Party political consultants, such as current MSNBC commentator Steve McMahon.
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28/04/2012 | Frente Externo
Toast with a Real Cuba Libre: Remember the Bay of Pigs' Brigade 2506 heroes!
As one can see in the recent the Rajan Menon opinion piece in the Huffington Post ("Wanted: A new Cuba policy"), within the United States possible changes in bilateral relations with a Cuban regime keen on imitating the model of the Chinese Communist Party continues to be the subject of hot debate.
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17/04/2012 | En Profundidad
Ambassador Robert C. Hill, Henry Kissinger's ''green light'' for Argentina's 'dirty war,' and ethical dissent in the U.S. Foreign Service
"Tell me, Mr. Navasky," [Kissinger] said in his famous guttural tones,�"how is it that a short article in a obscure journal such as yours�about a conversation that was supposed to have taken place�years ago about something that did or didn't happen in Argentina�resulted in sixty people holding placards denouncing me�a few months ago at the airport�when I got off the plane in Copenhagen?"
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01/11/2011 | En Parrilla
Early Warning From Chiapas : Indigenous communities across Latin America are seeking empowerment; for democracy's sake, they must have it.
The bloody rebellion by Native Americans in Chiapas, coming at the end of the United Nations' "International Year of the World's Indigenous Peoples," underscores the urgent need to address the needs of Latin America's 35 million Indians, particularly their political rights and the protection of their lands and resources.
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04/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Un heroe militar argentino durante la dictadura militar y el Embajador estadounidense de entonces Robert C. Hill.
29 a�os despu�s del golpe militar, la jefatura del General Arturo A. Corbetta en la Polic�a Federal da un ejemplo de un oficial preocupado por los derechos humanos
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11/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS) Call for Papers

Dear Colleague,

In 2010, MALAS crowned its 60th anniversary with a highly-successful annual conference held in St. Louis, Missouri, held within sight of the famous archway landmark and under the heading "60 Years as a Gateway to the Americas."
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07/02/2011 | En Profundidad
Andersen Refutes Lucero�s Review of Peoples of the Earth in leftist A Contracorriente
Pity the book critic of an academic publication whose editor-in-chief ends up writing, to the author of the work reviewed, that s/he �regrets� a centerpiece argument used against it by their reviewer.
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24/01/2011 | En Profundidad
The "Letter to the Editor" the Wall Street Journal would not publish
On January 3, the Wall Street Journal published Mary Anastasia O�Grady�s �Argentina�s Forgotten Terror Victims,� in which distorted historical analysis supported otherwise unsustainable arguments on the nature of the so-called �dirty war� there during the 1970s.
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14/12/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Letter From The Community Of Whistleblowers To The National

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21/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Questionnaire on Ethnic Politics, Defense and Security in the Western Hemisphere
This e-mail is part of a canvas to see whom among you might have interest about and/or information on this important subject, or could pass this on to a colleague who might be interested in lending a hand.
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15/09/2010 | Sociedad
Onto the Right Side of History: Confronting the World�s Last Colonial Legacies by Supporting Indigenous Peoples
The struggle for liberation of the estimated two hundred and fifty million individuals belonging to five thousand distinct indigenous communities in 70 nation-states around the world is arguably the final frontier, and the unfinished business, of a more than century-long�or more than two-centuries-long, if the U.S. revolution is the starting point�process of global de-colonization.
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09/08/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Modelo Policial Norteamericano

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18/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Busqueda de contribuciones sobre mujeres en carreras de seguridad y defensa para el Security and Defense Studies Review
Estimado Colega,
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01/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Security and Defense Studies Review call for papers: Women in Defense and Security
Dear Colleagues,
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11/06/2010 | En Profundidad
Joint Force Quarterly 58 - (3er Trimestre, Julio 2010) Pol�ticas �tnicas, Defensa y Seguridad en Am�rica 'Latina' - (Ethnic Politics, Defense and Security in �Latin� America)
En Am�rica "Latina", una nueva din�mica ha emergido la relaci�n entre las comunidades ind�genas, representando al menos 40 millones de personas, y los gobiernos nacionales, particularmente en t�rminos de la tard�a incorporaci�n de los pueblos indigenas a las democracias putativas como ciudadanos, y su integraci�n.
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06/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ethnic Politics, Defense, and Security in 'Latin' America

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13/01/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
12 Questions for Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs Frank Mora
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs Frank Mora has been in his current position for just eight months, but has nonetheless embarked on a series of initiatives that clearly show the Obama Administration�s desire to �reengage, reestablish, and recalibrate� relations in the region. Friends say DASD Mora�s approach also reflects his own previous career as an academic, most recently as professor of national security strategy at the National War College, where he taught courses on strategy, global security, and Latin American and Caribbean defense and security issues. On January 5th, Mora sat down with Martin Edwin Andersen, the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) chief of strategic communications and assistant professor of national security affairs, for an azimuth check on progress so far. Here is part of what Dr. Mora had to say.
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29/10/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty
"Barry Scott Zellen poses tough questions about Canada's own claims to a vast swathe of the soon-to-be hotly contested resource-rich Arctic. Zellen not only shows how much these depend on whether a collaborative and interdependent relationship can be successfully forged with Native peoples struggling to preserve fragile ecosystems and their own ethnic identity, but how conceptions of human security, tribal security and national security are inexorably tied together. Zellen's keen insight and painstaking research suggests that truths from the land of the midnight sun might illuminate and guide the struggles of indigenous peoples around the globe. A must read for the 21st century."�Martin Edwin Andersen, author of Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in "Latin" America
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24/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Press Release - CHDS Launches its First Three Accredited Courses
September 14, 2009, marked an important milestone for the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies with the inauguration of CHDS�s first accredited courses: Statecraft: Peacekeeping and Nation Building (SPNB), Advanced Defense Policy (ADP), and Terrorism and Counter Insurgency course (TCI).
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03/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Strategic Superior Studies College of El Salvador named winner of 3nd annual CHDS William J. Perry Award
Press Release
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02/09/2009 | En Profundidad
Edward Kennedy and Human Rights in Latin America: Un solo corazon
I had the privilege of covering Senator Kennedy's trip to Argentina and Chile in 1986 for Newsweek. It was one of the most memorable experiences in six years of reporting from the region.In Buenos Aires, the government of President Raul R. Alfonsin had just successfully prosecuted in civilian court the military architects of the Argentine "dirty war," and Kennedy's coming to Argentina in the aftermath of that singular and momentous event was in itself an important symbol of international support.
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29/08/2009 | En Profundidad
Polish American Congress Mourns Passing of �Lion of the Senate� Edward M. Kennedy
The Polish American Congress, one of the country�s largest umbrella groups of Polish American organizations, joins with millions of other Americans to mourn the passing of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a great statesman and a tireless advocate for human rights in the United States, Poland and around the world.
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25/07/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Press Release- Latin America Historian Frederick M. Nunn Named Academic Dean at National Defense University�s Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) Director Dr. Richard D. Downie announced Friday that Dr. Frederick M. Nunn, a distinguished historian of the Latin American military, has been selected as the Center�s new Dean of Academic Affairs.
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25/07/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gacetilla de Prensa - Frederick M. Nunn, renombrado historiador de America Latina, Es nombrado Decano Acad�mico del Centro de Estudios Hemisf�ricos de Defensa (CHDS)
El Dr. Richard D. Downie, director del Centro de Estudios Hemisf�ricos de Defensa, anunci� el viernes que ha designado al Dr. Frederick M. Nunn, distinguido historiador sobre las fuerzas armadas latinoamericanas, como el nuevo decano de asuntos acad�micos del Centro a su cargo.
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01/04/2009 | En Profundidad
Raul Alfonsin: A Personal Reflection
Last night, Raul Ricardo Alfonsin passed away, reportedly at peace as is befitting a man who left behind a precious legacy.
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12/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
President Barack Obama visits Lincoln Hall to praise 16th Commander-in-Chief and the National Defense University
President Barack Obama came to the National Defense University Thursday to pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln, for whom the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies� new home is named, and to honor the military education and training activities of all of the NDU�s component institutions and centers.
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16/11/2008 | Frente Externo
Should Arturo Valenzuela get a post in Barack Obama's new government?
When it comes to Latin America, I truly hope the Obama team will give a pass on including former Hillary Clinton supporter Arturo Valenzuela on its foreign policy team. Not only is Valenzuela's dandyish personal style both boorish and pedantic; he has been proven dead wrong on several issues critical to democracy in Latin America and to U.S. security.
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14/11/2008 | Sociedad
Native American Heritage Month
This Monday I had the opportunity to introduce Lillian Sparks, a Lakota woman of the Rosebud and Oglala Sioux Tribes, who currently serves as the executive director of the National Indian Education Association as the guest speaker for National Defense University's celebration of Native American Heritage Month. I must say, I was moved by the invitation to participate, and I count it as the most personally rewarding experience I have had since I came to these halls three years ago.
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18/09/2008 | En Parrilla
"Maverick" McCain's sorry record on whistleblowing
While Barack Obama has stood firm on employee free speech rights, making sure that those who dare commit the truth on behalf the public integrity, the taxpayer and national security are protected, John McCain refuses to commit to real whistleblower protections.
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13/08/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Press Release: Colombian President Uribe, Chilean ANEPE win 2nd annual CHDS William J. Perry Awards for Excellence in Defense Education
Press Release
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28/01/2008 | En Parrilla
My blog on Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Argentina
Several years ago, at her request, I had lunch with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to speak about her upcoming trip to Argentina. I was happy to do so because as a teenager Bobby Kennedy was my hero, and I still consider myself an RFK Democrat.
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17/01/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Twelve Questions for Rear Adm. Moira Flanders: The New Inter-American Defense College Director
The appointment of Rear Admiral Moira N. Flanders as director of the Inter-American Defense College (IADC), whose last job was as the commander of the U.S. Naval Personnel Development Command, has created a lot of interest around the hemisphere.
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30/12/2007 | Frente Externo
Remembering Benazir
In July 1990 I accompanied Senate Majority Leader Alan Cranston to India and Pakistan in a show of bi-partisan support for confidence building measures offered by Deputy National Security Advisor Robert Gates and meant to avert the possibility of a war between the de-facto nuclear powers ignited by common claims of territory in Indian-held Kashmir.
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16/12/2007 | Frente Externo
My blogs on the DesMoines Register's endorsement of Hillary Clinton ...
My, my, my, Sen. Clinton is endorsed by the Register editorial board.
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02/12/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Dean of Students and Administration . Dennis F. Caffrey: An Appreciation
Sometimes the hardest part is saying �goodbye.�
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01/12/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Reconocimiento y agradecimiento a Dennis F. Caffrey, Decano de Alumnos y Administraci�n
A veces resulta muy dif�cil decir �adi�s�
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06/10/2007 | Frente Externo
Chavez: The Robespierre of the Andes (the ideological underpinnings of Bolivarianism)
Is recently-elected Venezuelan president and one-time putchist army Col. Hugo Chavez more a modern version of Simon Bolivar, the freedom fighter who liberated South America from Spanish domination? Or is he modeling himself after the 18th century French Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre, "the Incorruptible," who fleetingly dominated his country's revolutionary politics, instituting a reign of terror and a cult of the Supreme Being, before being brought down by his own excess?
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12/09/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Top Gun: Gene Renuart moves out smartly as Senior U.S. domestic general; extends hand to Mexico
It was at the beginning of Operation Desert Storm, and Saddam Hussein�s forces were still able to rain Scud terror down on the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel, and the U.S. military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
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17/06/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Steve Johnson, the DoD deputy assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, finds plenty of reasons to be upbeat about regional cooperation
For a former Air Force pilot his friends affectionately call "the Red Baron," Stephen C. Johnson, the new deputy assistant secretary of defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, the journey that took him to his current post, responsible for shaping and implementing U.S. military and security policy in the region, was more of a zigzag pattern than a straight line.
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17/06/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Steve Johnson, Subsecretario Adjunto del Departamento de Defensa para Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental, por muchas razones se siente optimista con relaci�n a la cooperaci�n regional
Para Stephen C. Johnson, un ex piloto de la Fuerza A�rea de los Estados Unidos a quien sus amigos llaman afectuosamente "el Bar�n Rojo", y que recientemente ha sido designado como Subsecretario Adjunto de Defensa para Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental, con la responsabilidad de dar forma e implementar las pol�ticas militares y de seguridad de EE.UU. en la regi�n, el camino que lo llev� a su cargo actual ha sido m�s zigzagueante que en l�nea recta.
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17/06/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Steve Johnson, Vice-secret�rio Assistente de Defesa do DoD para Assuntos do Hemisf�rio Ocidental, encontra muitos motivos para ser otimista com rela��o � coopera��o regional
Para um ex-piloto da For�a A�rea, chamado carinhosamente pelos amigos de "Bar�o Vermelho", Stephen C. Johnson, o novo Vice-secret�rio Assistente de Defesa para Assuntos do Hemisf�rio Ocidental, o caminho que o trouxe ao seu posto atual, como respons�vel pela formula��o e implementa��o da pol�tica militar e de seguran�a dos EUA na regi�o, foi mais um ziguezague do que uma linha reta.
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21/05/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
10 Questions for Stephen Johnson, the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Stephen Johnson, the new deputy assistant secretary of defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, likes to say that he never has had a job that he hasn�t learned from, and those posts included stints in El Salvador, Honduras, and Uruguay.
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06/04/2007 | Frente Externo
Sweet Opportunity: Ethanol and a Grand Bargain for Cuban Democracy
Creative bipartisanship in Washington that ties the potential of a massive boom in ethanol�s influence throughout the Western Hemisphere to ending United States oil addiction could also help ensure that nearly five decades of Cuban dictatorship will be followed by a transition towards democracy, a market economy and real independence, and not succession by Fidel Castro's brother Raul or another Communist figure.
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28/03/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
12 Questions for Gen. (ret.) Carlos Ospina Ovalle, CHDS Professor and Former Commander of the Colombian Armed Forces
"Without a free press, you can�t have a democracy," notes CHDS Professor Carlos Ospina, who spent four years interacting with Colombian and international media as head of that country's armed forces. "The press should play a vigilant role�it shouldn�t be fawning over the State, the government, or the armed forces. On the contrary, the press needs to point out the errors, defects and omissions that have been committed."
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12/01/2007 | En Profundidad
Drugs played role in Isabelita's fall (First published April 1, 2002)
Evidence suggests that Isabel Peron's alleged ties to drug traffickers gave Argentine military leaders the upper hand they needed to seize power in 1976
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18/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bravo Zulu: Stavridis moves to increase SOUTHCOM�s visibility, credibility in 32 countries in the region
One thing certain about Admiral James G. Stavridis, the new commander of the United States Southern Command, is that he moves fast and plays hard, something reflected in the very competitive figure he still cuts on the squash, tennis and basketball courts.
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22/09/2006 | En Profundidad
Estados en Proceso de Desestructuraci�n, Territorios No Gobernados y el Desaf�o Ind�gena en Latinoam�rica
(FAILING STATES, UNGOVERNED SPACES AND THE INDIGENOUS CHALLENGE IN LATIN AMERICA). Estados Unidos durante m�s de una d�cada se ha mantenido en gran medida al margen de las acciones de los pueblos ind�genas tendientes a participar de lleno en la vida pol�tica y econ�mica de sus pa�ses.
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03/08/2006 | Frente Externo
Countries at the Crossroads 2006: Venezuela
As the head of an oil rich country, President Hugo Chavez-whose own political ascendancy reflected popular disenchantment with Venezuela's exclusionary traditional political parties-has presided over the deterioration of the country's democratic institutions.
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01/08/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Book Review: Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina
Antonius C. G. M. Robben. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 467 pp.
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23/02/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Written Testimony Of Martin Edwin Andersen - U.S. Department Of Justice (Doj) Whistleblower, And Winner Of The U.S. Office Of Special Counsel's Public Servant Award (2001)

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08/10/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Center for Hemisphere Defense Studies Hosts Weeklong Security Seminar for Regional Diplomats
The Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) today announced the conclusion of a highly-successful week-long seminar for Washington-based Latin American, Caribbean and Canadian civilian foreign service personnel and military attach�s with present or future political-military responsibilities.
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18/08/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
GSN Perspectives: London bombings puzzle experts on both sides of the Atlantic
Martin Edwin Andersen, our Washington correspondent, draws upon his many sources, and his years of experience, to make some sense of the London terror attacks and their aftermath.
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22/07/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Security at Rand's new headquarters questioned - Private security review reveals weaknesses
The brand new headquarters of the Rand Corporation, the storied government think tank that advises governments around the world on intelligence, counter-terrorism and law enforcement issues, has itself been the subject of at least one highly critical review of its physical security measures since the beginning of the year, GSN has learned.
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15/07/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Andersen responds to Wall Street Journal editorial on Argentine

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12/07/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Latin American seaports forced to confront global terrorism
Ready for a little good news? Latin America and the Caribbean, a tumultuous region that in the 1990s was the scene of three deadly attacks from Islamist fundamentalists, is starting to focus greater attention on security for one of the pillars that sustain its economic well being -- its seaports.
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23/06/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Cyber czars: Bush Admin. hasn�t taken cyber security seriously
Nearly four years after the 9/11 terrorist outrages, former Bush White House cyber czars say that it is still unclear what the government�s role should be in protecting the country from -- and mitigating the effects of -- cyber attacks, with one sharply panning the administration�s computer security policies.
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14/06/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ready or not, here comes the Coast Guard. Deepwater equipment acquisition program stirs debate
The U.S. Coast Guard has always taken pride in its motto � Semper Paratus (�Always Ready�) � and following the terrorist outrages of September 11, 2001, a service whose political fortunes had once seemed in full eclipse quickly became one of the hottest players in homeland security � ready or not.
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25/05/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Underwater security garners more cash & new technologies
A growing number of security experts say that, if America�s seaports are, in the recent words of one U.S. senator, the �soft underbelly� of U.S. homeland security, then underwater security at those ports is the most tender spot in that yawning vulnerability, called by one the �soft underbelly of the soft underbelly.�
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26/04/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Canada's Nortel lands major Pentagon telecom project
The ink was barely dry on a Nortel Networks Corp. announcement that it had been chosen by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide upgraded, high-capacity Internet-based voice switches when the Defense Department�s press shop did a little voice-over switch of its own. �We wanted to take the time to clarify the announcement made by Nortel earlier this week,� a DISA spokesperson said in a March 31 written statement to GSN. �[DISA] did not award a contract to Nortel.�
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26/04/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Sector-wide ISACS have both critics and advocates
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), the main channel for industry and the federal government to exchange security information, are the focus of renewed debate about their usefulness amid continued complaints by business executives that the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies fail to provide adequate and consistent support for them.
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29/03/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Firmenich: �Doble Agente?
La irrupci�n del ex-dirigente montonero Mario E. Firmenich al escenario nacional pocos d�as antes del 29� aniversario del golpe militar de 1976 da mucho para reflexionar, y no s�lo sobre el exabrupto ante un periodista cordob�s que osaba preguntarle sobre su pasado. O sea, si jugaba "para los dos bandos" --siendo a la vez un guerrillero y por otra parte un informante militar--.
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19/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
DHS Inspector General outlines ambitious maritime audit plan for fiscal '05
CSI, deployment of radiation portal monitors and Coast Guard readiness among issues to be examined
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16/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
DHS Inspector General pans port security grant program
The Department of Homeland Security�s port security grant program is designed in a way that �compromises� its ability to ensure that funds are directed towards the nation�s highest homeland security priorities, the DHS Inspector General said in a just completed report.
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15/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
AAPA tells Senate more funds, better-focused security grant program needed
Executive Vice President Jean Godwin says Administration's new funding proposal runs counter to committee's intent
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11/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In the race for federal homeland security dollars, Port of New Orleans given the gate (kind of)
Of the $64 million needed to improve security, Washington has contributed only $8 million, port president Gary LaGrange observes
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09/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New federal budget proposal has seaports �deeply concerned,� AAPA�s Nagle says
AAPA chief says proposal to lump port funding into new catch-all public transport category puts port authorities in an �even more difficult� position to vie for federal security dollars
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09/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Cuatro paises del Hemisferio estar�n incluidos en initiativa de seguridad mar�tima EEUU
Bahamas, Chile, Honduras y Venezuela formar�n parte de proyecto piloto de $5.4 million
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06/02/2005 | Transparencia
Una ley de punto final a la medida del gobierno de Kirchner
�Nada hay m�s peligroso que las revoluciones que no cumplen los postulados que ellas mismas generaron, ni nada m�s indigno de fe que el hombre p�blico que, en la cumbre de poder, muestra estar en desacuerdo con las doctrinas que sustent� cuando estaba en el llano pol�tico, y que determinaron su ascenso." Hip�lito Yrigoyen
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04/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Speaking of port security ... Steve Flynn warns costs of a port shutdown "enormous"
Security maven says that in an "incredibly fragile" low-cost, interconnected world economy, manufacturing and retailing sectors run risk of crushing "gridlock"
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02/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analysis: Senate hearing on homeland security puts protecting seaports in focus
Critique offered by think tank analysts likely to be taken into account when debating new federal budget
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31/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Cox taps Ben Cohen as Homeland Security Committee staff director
Former deputy general counsel at DoD replaces CIA pro John Gannon at new House standing committee
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28/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Wall Street�s Robert Hormats warns on port security
WASHINGTON�A terrorist attack, or even a credible threat of one, on one or more U.S. seaports could have far-reaching effects on an American economy that is much less resilient than it was on September 11, 2001, a respected Wall Street economist warned Thursday.
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25/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hutchinson steps down as DHS border and transportation chief
One publication suggested recently that if Ridge's successor couldn't keep troubleshooter Hutchison on the job, he should "get his clone"
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25/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bush taps Michael P. Jackson for No. 2 DHS post
A recent book called Jackson "whip smart when it came to budget and operational details, a real manager who everyone seemed to think was destined for bigger things."
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24/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New House Homeland Security ranking member Bennie Thompson promises an �open door� for discussion and crafting of port security legislation
Those who know the House Homeland Security Committee�s new ranking Democrat, Bennie G. Thompson, say that the six-term representative from the Mississippi Delta won�t be content to sit at the sidelines, singing the Blues.
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18/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New Bush national security directive on maritime issues charts Administration course during his second term
On December 21, President Bush issued a national security decision directive on maritime security that is to become the linchpin of his Administration�s second-term policy in the area, Port Security News has learned.
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14/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Abraham says Megaports coverage to extend to 20 foreign ports
Says expansion of the nuclear detection initiative needs to happen "sooner rather than later" Megaports, the U.S.-led initiative designed to detect clandestine nuclear materials moving through foreign ports, should include 20�of the�world's busiest ports,�outgoing Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham�said Thursday.
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13/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Huntington Tri-State, nation's largest river port, gets beefed up security regime
The U.S. Coast Guard will fortify security measures at the Port of Huntington Tri-State, the largest inland river port in the United States, in what the maritime service's senior official said was a "prototype" for creating a more robust homeland security posture at other freshwater ports.
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11/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
LNG coming to a seaport near you:�A clear and present danger, or hot air about a cool fuel?
LNG proponents say a path-breaking Sandia National Laboratories report on LNG and maritime security includes arguments in their favor--and still tells only part of the story
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11/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Judge Chertoff picked to replace Ridge at DHS
Former New Jersey anti-organized crime prosecutor played key role in developing U.S. post-9/11 legal strategies
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11/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bahamas signs on with seaport nuclear detection program
The Megaports accord with the U.S. Department of Energy is the sixth with a foreign government, but a first in the Caribbean
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06/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson gets nod as ranking Democrat on new House Homeland Security Committee
The ranking Democratic member of the House Homeland Security Committee will be 7-term Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, whose 2nd Congressional district is bordered by more than 250 miles of Mississippi River frontage.
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04/01/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Port authorities� chief charges DHS/IG�s pan of port security grant program �misses

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24/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A leaked National Cargo Security Strategy White Paper draft seeks to answer: "Who�s in charge?"
A draft of a National Cargo Security Strategy White Paper, which circulated at the Cargo Security Summit that was convened in Washington last week to solicit comments from the maritime shipping industry on critical supply chain issues, admits that �jurisdictional questions� remain as to who in government has primary responsibility for cargo security.
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22/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Espa�a pondr� detectores de material radioactivo a un puerto no-identificado

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22/12/2004 | Transparencia
DHS Inspector General says port security grant program lacks coordination, criteria

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14/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Eagle soars: OSI/ARACOR�s mobile X-ray system�wins high marks for land and seaport screening for WMD

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06/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Customs brokers and forwarders� Peter H. Powell, Sr. says a post-incident game plan sorely needed for U.S. seaports �certainly has not been defined�
Peter H. Powell, Sr., 69, the chief executive officer of CH Powell, Inc., has been intimately involved with maritime and port security issues even before September 11, 2001.
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02/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hecha la ley:�ABS Consulting wins OAS contract to help Latin Americans with ISPS compliance

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30/11/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
IRPT�s Deirdre McGowan reminds that �little, broke ports� on inland waterways have security needs, too.

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23/11/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Anticipating al-Qaeda: DHS science and technology czar says new software for ports could have also countered Castro
The Department of Homeland Security efforts to improve maritime domain awareness include technological breakthroughs that, had they been available 40 years ago, might have let U.S. policymakers better anticipate, and thus counter, moves by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, Dr. Charles E. McQueary, DHS undersecretary for science and technology, said last week.
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20/11/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hablando del Affaire Nudler/Verbitsky ...
Los encontronazos entre los periodistas de P�gina/12 Julio Nudler y Horacio Verbitsky se pusieron al rojo vivo en los �ltimos d�as, cuando este �ltimo revel�, en una larga nota dominical, que Nudler padece de c�ncer, lo que a�n los amigos del "Perro" Verbitsky se�alaron como una "tarjeta amarrilla" (o sea, una maniobra c�nica).
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12/10/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
ABS Consulting security chief Kenneth J. Egan says real port security without private sector buy-in is �Mission Impossible.�
Native New Yorker Kenneth J. Egan, 59, the former deputy director of the Coast Guard�s International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) compliance program, is the security services project manager for the Houston-based ABS Consulting, which helps companies worldwide design, build, operate, and maintain offshore, port and terminal facilities.
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24/09/2004 | En Profundidad
Carta de Martin Edwin ''Mick'' Andersen al encuestador John Zogby : Horacio Verbitsky

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27/06/2003 | Transparencia
Survey Says: Discrimination at the IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the U.S. taxpayer-supported institution that is Latin America's biggest lender of investment capital, appears systematically to discriminate against blacks and women in hiring at senior management levels, a study conducted by Insight shows. The survey came in response to complaints to the magazine that Uruguayans occupy more of the 86 executive positions surveyed than do African-Americans. The IDB president, Enrique Iglesias, is from Uruguay, one of the smallest countries in Latin America (see "'Friends of Enrique' Enjoy Advantages," April 1).
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20/06/2003 | Transparencia
Bad Treatment Draws Scrutiny
Five Georgia congressmen, including a Republican deputy majority whip and members of the powerful Financial Services and Rules committees, have demanded answers about the treatment of an award-winning Atlanta businessman at the hands of U.S.-taxpayer supported multilateral development banks (MDBs).
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03/06/2003 | Econom�a y Finanzas
IDB Picks New Auditor General

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07/05/2003 | Transparencia
Opinion: Multilateral Bank Reform Is a Must

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06/05/2003 | Transparencia
A 'Graveyard of Dreams'
It was Oct. 15, 1997, and an auditorium packed with top business leaders in Sao Paulo - Brazil's industrial hub - was for Bernard van der Lande the realization of an American dream. In less than two decades the hard-driving, Dutch-born Georgia entrepreneur had built his Ashford International (AI) information-technology company into a thriving business with annual sales of $25 million. Now, the president of the United States was telling Brazil's business elite how the example set by AI, which only months before had won the U.S. Department of Commerce's presidential "'E' Award for Excellence in Exporting," was a model for a "world-class" Brazilian-American technology partnership. "Ashford International recently launched a project with Sao Paolo's local government supplying 5,000 multimedia computers for 1,000 area schools," Bill Clinton told the Brazilians. "That's good for the students and good for the Stone Mountain [Ga.] company and its workers."�
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24/04/2003 | Transparencia
Whistle-Blower Gives Lesson About Politics and Power

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16/04/2003 | Transparencia
IDB President Promises Reforms

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16/04/2003 | Transparencia
Treasury Czar Key to MDB Reform Efforts

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16/04/2003 | Transparencia
IDB President Promises Reforms

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16/04/2003 | Transparencia
Treasury Czar Key to MDB Reform Efforts

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10/04/2003 | Transparencia
Congressional Investigators Begin Probe of IIC
Congressional investigators have begun a wide-ranging probe of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), a sister institution of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Insight has learned.
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09/04/2003 | Transparencia
IDB Admits Pipeline Project Is in Trouble

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02/04/2003 | Transparencia
Dissed and Dismissed
U.S. businessman gets double-talk, but no answers, from IDB.
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27/03/2003 | Transparencia
Accountability at the World Bank, IMF
The Bretton Woods Project, a global watchdog group, has launched an important petition drive. A campaign expressing concerns about how the international financial institutions are run is operating at full throttle, and the watchers believes readers concerned with globalization and its discontents will wish to keep an eye on this one.
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21/03/2003 | Transparencia
Chairman Grassley Questions IRS Audit Of Judicial Watch
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has demanded answers from the IRS concerning the handling of an audit of Judicial Watch, the nonprofit advocacy group headed by bipartisan gadfly Larry Klayman. In his request for information, Grassley asked that acting IRS Commissioner Bob Wenzel include related "communications to and from IRS and third-party government and nongovernmental agencies, offices or personnel, including the White House."
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20/03/2003 | Transparencia
'Friends of Enrique' Enjoy Advantages
They are called "los FOE," a Hispanicized version of the English acronym for "Friends of Enrique." To be a "FOE" denotes membership in a select club at the U.S. taxpayer-supported Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the largest supplier of investment capital to Latin America, headquartered just two blocks from the White House. "Enrique" is IDB president Enrique Iglesias, who appears to have many friends, both inside and outside the bank, and for good reason.
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17/03/2003 | Transparencia
Oil Firms Should Declare Payments To Corrupt Regimes

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15/03/2003 | Transparencia
Give Him Credit?
Will somebody important please get Karl Rove on the phone at the White House and call Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon? Both should know about this one and do something about it fast.
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03/03/2003 | Transparencia
Watchers of the World Turn Their Eyes to IDB
Good-government and environmental activists from three continents have written to Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Enrique Iglesias to complain about a "general lack of transparency and effectiveness" in the bank's Independent Investigation Mechanism (IIM).
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22/02/2003 | En Profundidad
Claudicaciones �ticas por mayor: El �Proceso� de educaci�n, (o como encontr� el �pero�) de Horacio �El Perro� Verbitsky
Material Primicia para Off News
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17/02/2003 | Transparencia
Oversight Crisis at Development Banks

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07/02/2003 | Transparencia
The IDB Star Chamber
According to documents obtained by Insight an internal Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) tribunal last year sanctioned a senior bank official for being the "protagonist" in what a former administrative assistant at the organization's Brasilia headquarters called "Dantesque" psychological torture and harassment directed against her.
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04/02/2003 | Transparencia
The IDB's Nicaraguan Pi�ata
This magazine has published a number of investigative stories in recent months about alleged corruption and wrongdoing at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), an institution heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.
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01/02/2003 | Transparencia
Help Wanted at IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) reportedly has paid as much as $50,000 to a headhunting firm to find a replacement for outgoing Auditor General William Taylor, the watchers has learned.
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30/01/2003 | Transparencia
IDB Update: Kickback Case Referred to U.S. Attorney

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28/01/2003 | Transparencia
German Director Demands That IDB Answer Corruption Allegations
A powerful member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) board of directors, representing five European countries and Israel, has taken the lead in demanding that bank officials begin examining allegations of wrongdoing first reported by Insight.
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22/01/2003 | Transparencia
IDB Does the Corruption Dance
Early last December Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Enrique Iglesias took the unusual step of sending a three-page memorandum to his entire staff. In it, the Uruguayan promised to refer for criminal prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colombia a consultant with the IDB Auditor General's Office accused of orchestrating a jobs-for-money kickback scheme first reported by Insight.
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15/01/2003 | Transparencia
IDB Frustrates U.S. Justice?
Despite a Dec. 11 claim by Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Enrique Iglesias that an alleged kickback scheme run by a longtime bank employee was being referred to the U.S. Attorney's Office for criminal prosecution, the prosecutors' office says that it is still waiting to receive the case.
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26/12/2002 | Transparencia
Possible Investigation Has IDB Squirming

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24/12/2002 | Transparencia
�Dios Mio! IDB Corruption Probe Ends ...
After weeks of denials and then a dramatic about-face on Wednesday concerning allegations of kickbacks involving officials and consultants of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the multilateral financial institution announced on Thursday that it had finished its corruption probe, Insight has learned.
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22/12/2002 | Transparencia
Mikulski Demands Answers From IDB
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), a member of the Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over multilateral development banks, has demanded answers from Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Enrique Iglesias. The issue: allegations of corruption at the bank.
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13/12/2002 | Econom�a y Finanzas
IDB in Stunning About-Face
The case of a former senior official at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) who allegedly received kickbacks from consultants in exchange for work has been referred to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for possible prosecution, Insight has learned.
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13/12/2002 | Transparencia
Osama Casts His Shadow at the IDB

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01/12/2002 | Transparencia
Corruption Corrodes Development Banks
The flurry of e-mail was urgent and angry, and the subject was kickbacks. On the receiving end was a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), one of the major financiers of infrastructure projects in Latin America. Her interlocutor was an IDB operations manager. The correspondence did not mention that under-the-table kickbacks are against IDB policy. In fact the manager wanted to underscore how much the consultant owed him personally, in dollars, now that she had finished her well-paid consultancy work on IDB projects.
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06/10/2002 | Transparencia
Reich or Wrong?
Latin America Confidential
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04/10/2002 | Transparencia
Reich Denies "Corrupt" Menem Remark
Latin America Confidential
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28/09/2002 | Econom�a y Finanzas
Corruption Corrodes Development Banks
Investigative Report: Sneak Peek
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