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Security & Strategic Review - September 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BRAZIL-US: Strong reaction to NSA ‘data collection’
President Dilma Rousseff’s decision to call off her scheduled late-October visit to the US, which would have been the first by a Brazilian head of state in 18 years, came in the wake of a series of new revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) spying that belied the assurances the US had offered about its purportedly limited scope. She did go to New York in September, though, to deliver before the UN General Assembly a scathing condemnation of Washington’s spying activities. At home, her government began to work on countermeasures intended to make it less vulnerable to snooping.
- War drums over half a square kilometre in the Gulf of Fonseca
- BRAZIL-US: Strong reaction to NSA ‘data collection’
- ARGENTINA: Rising violence & police corruption in the interior
- PARAGUAY: After military ‘take control’ the EPP strikes again
- POINTERS
- PERU: Lull as government moves against SL supporters
- BOLIVIA: Arrest of police officer in US reopens can of worms
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- MEXICO: New Juárez cartel suffers ‘decapitation’
- MEXICO-US: Illegal immigration on the rebound?
- GUATEMALA: Close-up on ‘narco-state’ scenario
- HONDURAS: Is the capability there to curb narco flights?
- POINTERS