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Japan Defense - More muscular China made change necessary The new defense guideline calling for a drastic shift to the southwest is a necessary and natural move for Japan amid China's growing military might and tougher diplomatic posture in the East China Sea, military analysts said. The...

Pakistan denies unmasking US spy Pakistan's top spy agency has denied blowing the cover of a US spy chief in Islamabad who was forced to leave the country following death threats. The CIA station chief was recalled after he was reportedly named in a legal complaint filed by the family of...

Inmates escape in Mexico jailbreak At least 140 inmates have escaped from a state prison in the northern Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, near the border with the US state of Texas. Police said the prisoners easily but slowly filed out of the jail's main entrance with the complicity of prison...

Mexico and the Cartel Wars in 2010 STRATFOR’s annual report on Mexico’s drug cartels. The full report, which includes far more detail and diagrams depicting the leadership of each cartel along with our updated cartel map, will be available on STRATFOR Website on Dec. 20. In our 2010...

Ivory coast faces bloodbath ABIDJAN - IVORY Coast stood on the brink of chaos on Friday as supporters of one of two declared presidents vowed to march for a second day despite a violent crackdown by heavily-armed security forces. In the Abidjan suburb of Abobo, crowds gathered shortly...

Cocaine lab found in Brazilian prison RIO DE JANEIRO - A ROUTINE seach of a prison in Brazil's Amazon region found a flourishing criminal enterprise behind bars in the form of a cocaine-refining lab hidden behind false walls, officials told AFP on Friday. Guards discovered the illegal...

Russia - Daimler Investigation Opened The Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office said Friday that it is opening a corruption case related to purchases of Mercedes-Benz automobiles by state agencies. "Due to results of a preliminary audit … a criminal case has been...

Russia - US Helsinki Commission Takes on Corruption in Former Soviet States For over three decades, the US Helsinki Commission has promoted the former Soviet states’ compliance with international human rights norms. Now the commission appears to be expanding the scope of its mission to...

Border deaths for illegal immigrants hit record high in Arizona sector The number of bodies recovered in the Tucson sector hit a record high in fiscal 2010, even as the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border declined. The discovery of record numbers of bodies along the Tucson...

With murders of 475 Mexican cops this year, rule of law dies, too When gangsters kill a police officer — or even three of them — it rarely makes news in this violent border city. What's worse, hardly anyone seems to mourn fallen cops. When officers are gunned down, as they have been...

An Arms Race in South America? By Kevin Casas-Zamora, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Latin America Initiative University of Miami Center for Hemispheric Policy INTRODUCTION In absolute terms, South America is spending much more in military pursuits than two decades ago. According to the...

US adds 20 Colombians to Kingpin List for FARC ties The U.S. Treasury adds 20 Colombian nationals and 24 businesses to to a list of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers banned from doing business with U.S. citizens. The individuals and businesses are all accused of being associated...

US indicts Dutchwoman, 17 other rebels on terror charges The United States indicted Dutchwoman Tanja Nijmeijer and 17 other members of Colombia's FARC rebel group Tuesday on terrorism charges stemming from the kidnapping of US hostages, the Justice Department said. The indictment charged...

Interpol issues Red Notice against Dutch FARC guerrilla Less than 24 hours after the United States announced it had indicted Tanja Nijmeijer, international police organization Interpol issues a request for the capture and extradition of the Dutch FARC guerrilla. The police organization's...

Mexico Arrests 2 Chinese Execs on Bribery Charges MEXICO CITY – Two top executives of a Chinese company were arrested in Mexico on charges they tried to bribe employs of state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos to obtain discounts on the purchase of polyethylene, authorities said on Tuesday. The...

Police Slay Kidnapper, Free Hostages in Peru Bank LIMA – A bank robber who held 18 people hostage for more than six hours in a Lima bank ended with the criminal being gunned down by police. After several hours during which police tried to negotiate with the criminal, who apparently took over...

Peruvian Gets 25 Years in Espionage Case LIMA – Peruvian air force Sgt. Victor Ariza was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison by a military court that found him guilty of selling classified information to Chile, the press reported. The court found Ariza guilty of the crime of treason...

Guatemalan Police Make More Arrests in Jailbreak GUATEMALA CITY – The number of people arrested in connection with the storming last week of a prison in western Guatemala to free the main suspect in the kidnap-murder of a pro soccer player has risen to 16, the National Civilian Police, or...

Bolivian Police Find Cocaine Lab Operated by Colombians LA PAZ – Drug enforcement agents found a cocaine lab in eastern Bolivia with the capacity to process half a ton of the drug weekly and which was apparently operated by Colombians, the official ABI news agency reported Tuesday. The lab...

Ecuadorian Troops Seize Ammo Cache on Colombian Border QUITO – The Ecuadorian army said it confiscated 32,000 rounds of rifle ammunition in Tulcan, a city on the border with Colombia. The bullets, found inside a private residence, were apparently intended for armed irregulars in the...