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EXCLUSIVE: Investing in a secure, stable Central America (Joe Biden)
A great deal of work lies ahead. We have requested $1 billion for Central America in 2016 because Central America cannot do it alone. If the United States is not present, these reforms will falter. But the combination of Central American political will and international support can be transformative, especially since the three governments have committed to match or exceed international assistance to their countries. We intend to focus our assistance in three areas.
New Marine Task Force to Use New Platform in Central America Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-South (SPMAGTF South), a unit comprising about 250 Marines to be headquartered at Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, will answer a range of needs ranging from partner nation training to humanitarian assistance and counter-drug missions. It’s set to become active in June.
Identifying Mexico’s many dead along US the border
As the sun set over the desert, painting the sky in vivid shades of crimson, Schroeder’s colleague Maryada Vallet expressed their organisation’s collective frustration. “The number of human remains that we find here every year is as if a Boeing aircraft had to crash in our desert every single year since the last 10 years. And we still can’t figure out that this is a humanitarian crisis and not a law enforcement issue?”
Survivor tells of mass disappearance in Mexico
Garcia said he urges Americans to join in their non-violent movement by staging peaceful protests of their own, launching letter-writing campaigns and using social media. Given Garcia’s distrust of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, he said he would ask President Barack Obama to reconsider America’s policies with Mexico,” to avoid becoming an accomplice in the crime we have in our country.”
On January 20, the indigenous radio station Snuq Jolom Konob, which means the Mind of the People in the local Q’anjob’al language, in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango was closed and their staff threated after supporters of the municipal mayor blocked staff from entering the station. The 50 supporters had demanded that the reporters hand over their keys, and surrender the stations equipment – the reporters refused.
Nicaraguan indigenous group fears Chinese canal will be a death sentence
Rama leader Becky McCray says the $50-billion Chinese canal could be a deathblow for the culture of her people, who for centuries have scratched out a living as fishermen on Nicaragua’s southern Caribbean coast.
General in El Salvador Killings in ’80s Can Be Deported, Court Rules
In a decision setting a significant human rights precedent, an immigration appeals court has ruled that a former defense minister of El Salvador, a close ally of Washington during the civil war there in the 1980s, can be deported from the United States because he participated in or concealed torture and murder by his troops.
Colombia: is the end in sight to the world’s longest war?
Jaramillo issues a stark warning that “this is our last chance. This is the last generation of Farc that is both military and political, the last of Farc as a university-educated political movement with Marxist politics we disagree with, but they are at least politics. The generation coming up behind them know only jungle and war.”
Humanitarian law violations in Colombia up 41% last year: Red Cross
According to the humanitarian organization, 814 alleged breaches of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) were reported in 2014, an increase of 258 from 2013. In light of their increased figures, The Red Cross stressed that alleged progress in ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and rebel group FARC has so far failed to positively impact the general population.
Bolivia: A Country That Dared to Exist
Bolivia’s road toward decolonization is a rocky and contested one. But, as Felix Cardenas argues below, in a bleak world full of capitalist tyrants, bloody wars and racist exploitation, Bolivia’s Process of Change continues to shine as an alternative to the dominant global order.