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Coup University: SOUTHCOM and FIU Team Up on Counterinsurgency
[Source - Upside Down World] Written by Adrienne Pine As it has done with great success throughout the past century, the U.S. military continues to find ways to use the academy and anthropological...
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The school of Latin America’s dictators
[Source - Guardian] President Manuel Zelaya was forced into exile after his residence was stormed by soldiers under the command of General Vasquez, a graduate of the US Army’s Western Hemisphere...
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Violence in Guatemala: Daniel LeClair’s story
[Source - BBC] Photographer Daniel LeClair works for Reuters and has been based in Central America since 1999, but is now facing the possibility that he will have to leave. The ongoing bus war and...
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Central American Nations Seek ‘Plan Central America’
[Source - InSight - Organized Crime] Top State Department official William Brownfield is expected to announce plans for a new, large-scale Central American security strategy in the coming days....
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Guatemala’s Crippled Peace Process: A Look Back on the 1996 Peace Accords
[Source - Council on Hemispheric Affairs] by COHA Research Associate Rebecca Tran • Relatively speaking, Guatemala is Latin America’s most violent nation • Guatemala’s homicide rate is four times that...
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U.S. pressures Guatemala on labor front
[Source - American Shipper] The Obama administration on Monday requested a meeting of the Free Trade Commission under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement...
View ArticlePCASC original: El Salvador and security
Last month’s killing of fisherfolk in Honduras was the consequence of a regional push to confront drug traffickers, typified by militarized solutions that harm the people and popular movements of...
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US State Department Visits El Salvador, Claims a Seat at Central American Summit
[Source - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador] July 2, 2012. On the heels of a US-inspired breakdown at the Summit of the Americas in April, the US claimed its seat as an observer...
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Pentagon Continues Contracting US Companies in Latin America
[Source: Fellowship of Reconciliation] The Pentagon signed $444 million in non-fuel contracts for purchases and services in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 2012 fiscal year, an overall...
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Guatemala: The Deported Return
Written by James Rodríguez Guatemalan nationals exit a plane and head for the Migration Office in Guatemala City’s La Aurora Airport after having been deported from the United States. Each week,...
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