Latin America
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While doing some online research, I recently stumbled across the “extranet” of the U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, the arm of the Defense Department responsible for U.S. military activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. (An extranet is the part of an organization’s internal computer network accessible to outside users.) The site says it is produced by…
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Despite the failure of their previous attempts to reach the United States — not to mention the obvious dangers of the journey — on February 26, [José Luis] Hernández and 16 other AMIREDIS activists set out from Honduras in a caravan to Washington, DC, with the intention of raising awareness about the circumstances that force…
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Looking at the timeline of arrests, extraditions and deals in recent months, it looks like the United States was moving to make the case against El Chapo completely airtight, allowing Mexico to detain him until U.S. officials were completely ready to make the official extradition request… This piece was co-authored with Sarah Kinosian. Read it in…
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The U.S. removed Paraguay from its list of major narcotics transit or producing countries in September 2010 because illicit substances from there are mostly “trafficked to the neighboring countries of Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay but not to the United States.” Still, it would be a mistake for the U.S. ignore narcocorruption in Paraguay just because drugs from there don’t usually end…
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One of the world’s most powerful and notorious drug lords, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as “El Chapo” (“Shorty”), has escaped from a Mexican prison. Again. El Chapo was first arrested in 1993 on drug trafficking and murder charges in Chiapas, Mexico. He was sentenced to 20 years at a maximum security facility in…
Mike LaSusa 