11/09/2014 | Sociedad
US - Think Tanks Should Take Money From Foreign Governments
We should work with them when we can contribute insight on the issues they are facing.Polls show that Americans’ trust in national institutions, especially those connected with government, is hovering around an all-time low. It is no surprise that think tanks are targets of scrutiny since they, too, are an American institution, going back to their invention early in the last century.
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08/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Algeria - Why Terrorists Hate This Place
May 8, 2013: More ethnic violence has broken out in the south (Ghardaia, 600 kilometers south of the capital) where at least a dozen were injured in street fighting between Arabs and Berbers. There was also a religious element to the hostility as the local Berbers belong to a Shia sect.
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08/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pirates Get Good News And Bad News
Piracy has been making a comeback in the last decade, mainly because of a surge in attacks off the Somali coast. In the last few years a massive international response to the Somali piracy problem has all but shut down the pirate gangs operating there.
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11/11/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Local Militias Replacing Corrupt Cops
In December the administration of President Felipe Calderon comes to a close. Mexico’s legislature is just now approving financial reform laws Calderon proposed two years ago. Last month the legislature passed a measure that cracks down on money-laundering.
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30/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Chavez Fades Some More
Victory in Colombia comes at a price, and part of that is finding out which government officials were corrupted by the drug gangs and the leftist rebels. Indictments, prosecutions, and convictions of current, or former, officials are increasing. As more bad guys are busted, their captured documents and testimony, reveals more dirty officials. Investigations, and often indictments, follow.
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09/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia - Ghosts Of The Past Return To Kill
Colombia has become recognized as the expert in dealing with large-scale drug gangs. Colombian success in crippling its own drug gangs has led Mexico and Peru to seek help in dealing with similar problems. Much of the South American (still largely Colombian) cocaine ends up in Mexico, for movement into the main market; the United States. This has led to growing violence between competing Mexican gangs, as well as the gangsters fighting the police. Colombia has moved to share techniques with Mexico, which has included over 5,000 Mexican police receiving counter-gang training in Colombia. Peru is seeking similar help because the Colombian drug gangs are being driven across the border to Peru.
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30/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - No One Expected The Knights Templar
The government is complaining that only 60 percent of the Merida Initiative aid, promised three years ago by the US government, have been provided. Mexico wants more surveillance equipment and helicopters.Security forces killed 11 members of the La Familia drug cartel in a firefight at a ranch in Jalisco state (western Mexico), and arrested another 36 after the raid.
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30/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - No One Expected The Knights Templar
The government is complaining that only 60 percent of the Merida Initiative aid, promised three years ago by the US government, have been provided. Mexico wants more surveillance equipment and helicopters.Security forces killed 11 members of the La Familia drug cartel in a firefight at a ranch in Jalisco state (western Mexico), and arrested another 36 after the raid.
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01/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - The Reality Check
A decade of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan has changed a lot of things, not all of them apparent. An example of the less visible changes are those imposed on the American Army National Guard and Army Reserve.
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