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Venezuela’s “troubling” military spending?

September 16, 2009

Secretary of State Clinton has urged Venezuela to be "transparent" about its military spending – implying that Venezuela’s military spending is something that should be of concern to Americans. The blog Borev.net publishes a pair of graphs that help put this concern in context. Looking at military spending for 2007-8, among Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and…

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Congress Members Urge Caution on Colombia Base Agreement

September 15, 2009

Sixteen Members of Congress – fifteen Representatives and a Senator – have written to Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Defense Gates, urging caution in expanding the U.S. military presence in Colombia. The letter is here.

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Can We “Reset” Relations with Colombia?

March 5, 2009

President Obama wants, quite reasonably, to “reset” relations with Russia. He also said, quite reasonably, he would “go through the federal budget line by line, programs that don’t work, we cut.” Our relations with Colombia also need to be reset. “Plan Colombia,” which was supposedly going to cut the flow of Colombian cocaine into the…

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Venezuela’s “troubling” military spending?

Congress Members Urge Caution on Colombia Base Agreement

Can We “Reset” Relations with Colombia?