Laura Carlsen discusses how today's victims of war, the drug war in particular, differ from the classic image of the soldier leaving to risk his life on the battlefield...
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New report highlights lessons to be learned from Colombia over the past 10 years that are now relevant for U.S. policy toward Mexico...
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Check out the Just the Facts blog for posts on recently released government documents, the week's top news stories from Mexico, summaries of key hearings and more...
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The Americas MexicoBlog chronicles and analyzes, in English, the latest developments in the U.S. and the consequences in Mexico of U.S. policies in the War on Drugs, Immigration and Globalization...
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Providing peaceful alternatives to militarized policies that neither serve U.S. interests nor benefit the people of the hemisphere.
Comprised of four projects – Cuba, TransBorder, Americas and Just the Facts – CIP’s Latin America Rights & Security program (LARS) covers a wide-range of issues relating to the United States’ relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean. From providing alternatives to the failed drug war to reforming ineffective border security issues to finding new ways to encourage cooperation with Cuba, the Latin America Rights & Security program advocates a U.S. policy to Latin America and the Caribbean based on cooperation, demilitarization and respect for human rights.
By Abigail Poe, Adam Isacson, Yamile Salinas, Nancy Sánchez
Feb-01-2012 | Report
During 2011, researchers from CIP, WOLA, INDEPAZ and MINGA carried out a joint project to monitor the Colombian Government's National Territorial Consolidation Plan (PNCT). This new publication lays out our organizations' principal findings, concerns and recommendations following our research visits.... Read More »
By Elizabeth Newhouse
Dec-23-2011 | Report
In early December, the Center for International Policy’s Cuba Project took Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré (ret.), “the hero of Katrina,” to Cuba to look at how the Cubans prepare for and respond to hurricanes and other natural disasters. In 2005, the commander of the U.S. First Army, General Honoré arrived in New Orleans as head of the Joint Task Force Katrina and turned around the disintegrating situation.... Read More »
By Elizabeth Newhouse
Dec-19-2011 | Report
A report from Elizabeth Newhouse summarizing the events of a Oct. delegation to Cuba that focused on the issue of racism in Cuba... Read More »
By Tom Barry
Jan-31-2012 | Article
Antelope Wells is the place to go if you want to see the Obama administration's economic stimulus package at work. Three years after the administration launched the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the stimulus funds committed to Hidalgo County are still working. But some may question whether the investment in this tiny, unincorporated dot on the map — where the population apparently totals two people living in trailers — is the best use of tax dollars... Read More »
By Tom Barry
Jan-26-2012 | Article
Candice Miller, the Republican chair of the House Border and Marine Security Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, is effusive in her praise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), referring to the drones at a March 15, 2011, hearing on Capitol Hill as "fantastic technology" that have proved "incredibly, incredibly successful in theater." As the new chair of the subcommittee that oversees the air operations of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Miller has become one of the leading Congressional advocates of increased domestic drone deployment... Read More »
By Tom Barry
Jan-20-2012 | Article
Although the United States has led the way in drone proliferation, Americans are not alone in addressing the issues and challenges associated with the new weapons, surveillance, and intelligence systems. This Cato Unbound forum is stirring “strong passions” and “vigorous debate” about the morality and strategic value of drones—passions and debate that Cortright contends are already spreading in America... Read More »
Jan-30-12 | Global Financial Integrity 1319 18th Street N.W. Second Floor Ballroom Washington, D.C. 20036
Join the Center for International Policy's Global Financial Integrity Program for the launch of the forthcoming economic report, Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances and the Underground Economy... Read More »
Dec-20-11 | Washington Office on Latin America, 1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 400, Washington D.C. 20036
Join us for a powerful event honoring Colombia's victims and human rights defenders... Read More »
Dec-01-11 | Zinger Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC
Join CIP and the Latin America Working Group for a conference on the lack of evidence to keep Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism and its effect on U.S. goals and interests... Read More »
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“All this time has gone by, and yet we keep it in place,” said Wayne Smith, who was a young American diplomat in Havana in 1961 when relations were severed ...Read More »
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“Congress and the taxpayers ought to demand some kind of real cost-benefit analysis of drones,” said Tom Barry, director of the TransBorder Project...Read More »
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According to Wayne Smith, former diplomat and member of the Center for International Policy, the workshop, which meets on Thursday, would clarify the situation...Read More »
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