From the monthly archives: September 2009
Kudos to the constitutional government of Honduras. According to various news reports, the Brazilian government has been advised that it has ten days to decide what it intends to do with the ousted Honduran president that has sought shelter in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa or face expulsion of the Brazilian Ambassador from [...]
The day after the United Nations Security Council adopts a resolution on nuclear security, not only do the Iranians says that are building another nuclear reactor, but a neighbor in the Western Hemisphere says that Brazil should have nuclear weapons. While this is not the first time Brazilian officials make such comments in public places, [...]
The Department of Justice and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced yesterday that a Dutch aviation services company – Aviation Services International, B.V. (“ASI”) - its director and sales manager pled guilty to federal charges related to a conspiracy to illegally export aircraft components and other items from the United States to [...]
The Bureau of Industry and Security reports that “five foreign subsidiaries of Thermon Manufacturing Company, a San Marcos, Texas-based firm, have agreed to pay a total of $176,000 in combined civil penalties to settle allegations that they participated in unlicensed exports and reexports of heat tracing equipment to Iran, Syria, Libya and listed [...]
The Hill reports that House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) may be “pressing ahead with an overhaul of measures intended to safeguard the export of sensitive technologies.” Interesting article as far as political statements, but little on substance. Labeling export control laws a “Cold War relic” has become a cliché used [...]
The Iranian regime continues to expand its presence in the Americas. Yesterday, officials with Ecuador’s Central Bank announced that the Iran Export Development Bank will open a branch in Quito. This is part of an agreement penned in December 2008 when Ecuador’s Rafael Correa visited Tehran. ”The agreement is in line with the Ecuadorian government’s [...]
“Obama’s Latin America team, especially NSC officials, have zealously made de-Bushification a priority in Western Hemisphere Affairs…”
The very targeted changes to U.S.-Cuba sanctions regulations announced late yesterday will allow for increased travel by Cuban-Americans to Cuba, more remittances, and travel by U.S. persons employed by telecommunications and agriculture companies. The amendment to the [...]
According to The Jakarta Post, the state-owned Indonesian weapons maker PT Pindad “will sanction an arms distributor that shipped its weapons to the Philippines should it prove to have violated its contract with the firm.” The statement came on the heels of the seizing of Pindad-made rifles aboard a Panamanian-flagged vessel by the [...]
The folks at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control report that “[b]ased on the IAEA’s figures, the Wisconsin Project judges that Iran’s stockpile should be sufficient to fuel two nuclear weapons by the end of this year if the material were further processed to weapon-grade.” It is backed up with interesting data and analysis. [...]
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