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For folks who follow U.S. policy toward the Americas, this week we learned of a White House personnel change related and the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Dan Restrepo was leaving and would be replaced by Mr. Ricardo Zuñiga, a career foreign service officer.
The National Security Council staff includes individuals who cover different parts of the [...]
Seattle resident Yuri Montgomery (aka, Yuri Malinkovski) received a New Year’s present of sorts from Uncle Sam. He was slapped with a $340,000 civil penalty and was banned from exporting from the U.S. for 30 years. If he behaves for ten years, the government will only require an up front payment $17,500. The balance of [...]
The QRS-11 is back in the news this week. QRS what? In 2006, the Boeing corporation paid a $15 million fine and signed a consent decree with the U.S. government t stemming from the the unlicensed foreign sales of commercial airplanes carrying a small gyrochip with military applications, the QRS-11. This time it was not [...]
The Law Library of Congress – a non-partisan entity of the Library of Congress – has come under attack by high-ranking Congressional Democrats for a recent legal opinion on the situation in Honduras. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) are trying to politically [...]
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 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 [...]
“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 [...]
A message that the folks at the National Security Council should consider closely before making any further mistakes in the ongoing Honduras matter:
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A little over six months in the Obama Administration and his advisers have positioned the President as the quintessential “Ugly American” in Latin America. Recent moves to punish Honduran democracy will hurt U.S. economic and strategic interests in Honduras and Central America. It will also serve to further fuel a rabid anti-American populism whose sole [...]
The Obama Administration is considering a United Nations Security Council Resolution against the constitutional government of Honduras. Foggy Bottom is allegedly also threatening to cut U.S. foreign aid to Honduras if they continue to refuse to cooperate with efforts to re-install the impeached president. If all this pans out, the Obama Administration would be [...]
Jennifer Rubin pens on Obama’s non-proliferation fetish.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule to amend the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement the 2008 Australia Group (AG) intersessional decisions, which were recommended at the Intersessional Implementation Meeting held at The Hague on October 8-9, 2008. In part, the final rule [...]
In a masterful political move, the new Honduran government withdrew from the OAS this weekend and its leaders told the OAS Secretary General that they thought he was in Honduras to deliver the impeached President for arrest. Obama officials are reportedly seething and looking for a way out of this political crisis that they, [...]
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The following piece by Jason Poblete, "U.S. export control reform: a view from across the pond,"was recently published in the World Export Controls Review journal WorldECR.
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