LatinNews Daily - 19 May 2011

COLOMBIA
US Deputy Director of Marshals Service, Brian Beckwith, arrived in Bogotá, Colombia on 22 October for a two-day visit to discuss cooperation between the two countries on the upcoming judicial reforms in Colombia. The US Embassy in Bogotá stated that Beckwith will meet with the Director of National Police, General Óscar Naranjo, and Deputy Attorney General Guillermo Mendoza to oversee training sessions offered to security agents in the country. Around 273 Colombian agents have been trained by the US Marshals Service, and the embassy announced that the US would continue to help strengthen the penal system in Colombia (an initiative that began in 2005).