$1 billion for anti-narco programs, and no central database to track it

By Laurel Adams

State Department doesn't have a central tracking mechanism for its $1 billion counter-narcotics programs

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"… f State’s $1 billion supports programs in Mexico, Afghanistan, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Aff …"

"… ombia, $281 million to Afghanistan, $249 million to Mexico, $69 million to Peru and $39 million to Bolivia for State’s counter-narcotics efforts. …"

U.S. free trade agreements locked in limbo

By Laurel Adams

The number of bilateral and regional free trade agreements has been increasing worldwide, but the U.S. has been sitting on three

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"… ei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore, but other countries, like Australia, Peru, and Vietnam are considering the agreement.Following are other new watchdo …"

Harry Reid: In the clearing stands a boxer

By Josh Israel, Aaron Mehta and Caitlin Ginley

Senate Majority Leader Reid

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"… 48 of 51 scored votes since March 1999, ranging from trade agreements with Peru to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which lengthened the statute of limit …"

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ACLU challenges constitutionality of no-fly list

By John Solomon

The American Civil Liberties Union today sued the U.S. government, alleging it violated the constitutional rights of 10 U.S. citizens or leg

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"… y avoided flying over U.S. air space by traveling through Germany, Brazil, Peru and Mexico.“America is supposed to assume you’re innocent before prove …"

New global energy payments index may get boost from SEC

By Julie Vorman

A new Revenue Watch Index that measures disclosure about oil industry payments in 41 countries may soon have access to a gusher of details a

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"… nagement, followed by Norway, Russia, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Peru, Azerbaijan, and Ecuador, according to the index. The United States was No …"

Where journalists still get respect

By Gustavo Goritti

PANAMA CITY, July 21, 1999 — Investigative reporter Gustavo Gorriti, an ICIJ member and associate director of La Prensa in Panama, published

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"… e press almost as high as the Roman Catholic Church. In both Argentina and Peru, where journalists have a contentious relationship with the ruling regimes …"

"… s about several other current and former leaders, like Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Carlos Saúl Menem of Argentina, Ernesto Samper of Colombia and Carlos Sa …"

"… confrontation between the independent press and the Fujimori Government in Peru has been even more dramatic. When Baruch Ivcher, the Israeli-born owner of …"

"… , torture and murder, he was promptly stripped of both his station and his Peruvian citizenship.The Fujimori regime has also tried to frighten, discredit …"

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Reporters without boundaries

By Bill Birnbauer

Most of the reporting we do, even the in-depth investigative projects, stretches only as far as our borders

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"… over an editorial he wrote; and the rotund Gustavo Gorriti, forced to flee Peru after being “disappeared” by intelligence forces for several days. And …"

A Spy Inc. no stranger to controversy

LONDON / WASHINGTON, June 12, 2002 — Even within the secretive world of private military companies, AirScan is noted for being unforthcoming

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"… resumed killed.The Angolan loss followed another controversial incident in Peru in May 2001, when a plane carrying U.S. missionaries was targeted and shot …"

"… when a plane carrying U.S. missionaries was targeted and shot down by the Peruvian Air Force. The passenger plane had been targeted as suspicious by spot …"

CIA gave at least $10 million to Peru's ex-spymaster Montesinos

June 28, 2001 — The Central Intelligence Agency gave ex-Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos at least $10 million in cash over the last d

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"… igned from office on Nov. 20, 2000. …"

"… g others, had founded and personally controlled a counter-drug unit within Peru’s National Intelligence Service, known by its Spanish acronym SIN.It was …"

"… . The material on Montesinos is based on multiple interviews with U.S. and Peruvian officials.A CIA spokesman in Washington refused to confirm or deny tha …"

"… encies directed the CIA to continue to work with Montesinos because he was Peru’s designated chief of counternarcotics and the only game in town.Montesi …"

A growing death toll in Mexico

By Ana Avila

Asbestos casualties mount amid weak enforcement and a powerful lobby

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"… ed how his organization worked with its counterparts to ring up victories: Peru had been expected to follow Chile’s lead and ban asbestos and would have …"

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