security assistance
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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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Below is a timeline of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Commander General John Kelly’s trips to Honduras since he began serving in his current position. November 19, 2012: Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly assumes command of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), relieving Air Force Gen. Douglas M. Fraser, who had been in the post since June 2009. January
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…[A] growing body of research indicates that Mexico’s strategy of deploying federal troops and police to crack down on areas where criminals are suspected of operating has not led to any lasting improvements in citizen security in Mexico. Rather than becoming safer, Mexico’s annual murder rate more than doubled from roughly nine homicides per 100,000 citizens in 2006 to nearly 20 per 100,000 in 2013. Over the same
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…Given the deluge of credible reports about the involvement of Mexican forces in numerous massacres and mass disappearances in recent months and years – and even more disturbing, the efforts of government officials to impede proper investigations and critical, investigative journalism – the United States should keep its international obligations in mind, and perhaps more
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Cross-posted with Public Diplomacy Musings In a 2013 interview with leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos addressed the comments of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who had called Colombia “the Israel of Latin America.” “If somebody called my country the Israel of Latin America, I would be very proud. I admire the Israelis, and I would
Mike LaSusa 