Americas

Waiting for Consolidation: Monitoring Colombiaʼs U.S.-aided Counterinsurgency and Development Program

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 »

Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Underground Economy

By Dev Kar

Jan-30-2012 | Report

A report from GFI finds that Mexico lost a total of $872 billion in illicit financial flows (or illegal capital flight) over a 41-year period from 1970 to 2010. These illicit financial flows were generally the product of: corruption, bribery and kickbacks, criminal activities, and efforts to shelter wealth from a country's tax authorities... Read More »

Katrina Veterans Learn About Cuba's Hurricane Management

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 »

"Fantastic" Drone Technology Comes to Rescue on the Border

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 »

Drone Proliferation: Other Chapters and Other Challenges

By Tom Barry

Jan-17-2012 | Article

There is no doubt that the “accelerating use of drone weapons has opened a new chapter in the history of warfare,” as David Cortright contends in “License to Kill.”... Read More »

The Numbers Game: Government Agencies Falsely Report Meaningless Deportations and Drug Seizures as Victories

By Tom Barry

Jan-16-2012 | Article

The Department of Homeland Security says it needs a fleet of two-dozen Predator and Guardian drones to protect the homeland adequately. Designed for military use, 10 of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are already patrolling U.S. borders in the hunt for unauthorized immigrants and illegal drugs... Read More »

Report Launch--Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances and the Underground Economy

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 »

Honoring Colombia’s Victims and Human Rights Defenders

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 »

A Call for Cuba's Removal from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

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 »