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According to a blog posting at The Nicaraguan Dispatch (no relationship with our DC Dispatches), and similar articles in Spanish from the region, there are a group of fellows that claim to be a modern-day version of the Nicaraguan freedom fighter movement, the Contras. I’ve had folks well connected in the region [...]
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 [...]
For several years the Iranian regime has been expanding its diplomatic and economic presence in the Western Hemisphere. It has done so with a great deal of assistance from Cuba – a State Department-designated state sponsor of terrorism – as well as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, among others. Even some of our better allies in the [...]
It is time for the U.S. to stop talking and start acting. Send the Iranian regime packing. It is not welcome in our backyard.
One of the unique traits of the Western Hemisphere are interstate border disputes. A great majority of these border matters date back centuries, kept politically fresh for parochial, political, and security [...]
U.S. Citizen Sentenced for Illegal Exports of Controlled Aircraft Parts to Iran. Last week the Department of Justice announced that the “director of Monarch Aviation Pte, Ltd. (“Monarch”), a Singapore company that imported and exported military and commercial aircraft components for more than 20 years, was sentenced … in federal court in Brooklyn to 46 [...]
This morning in Managua, Nicaragua there are reports that the U.S. Embassy was vandalized by supporters of the leftist Sandinistas party. Borrowing a page from the Castro-Chavez playbook for re-making Latin America in the Bolivarian image – just take a look at what they are doing over in Honduras – the Sandinista government is accusing [...]
The Millennium Challenge Corporation Board of Directors announced last week that it was going to “partially terminate MCC’s compact assistance to Nicaragua for activities previously suspended in December 2008.” According to the MCC the “termination will result in a reduction of approximately $62 million from Nicaragua’s original $175 million compact with MCC.” You [...]
The Treasury Department, Office of Foreign Assets Control, announced this week that “Los Zetas” has been added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) watch list, pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act regulations (SDNTK).
The Zetas have evolved into one of Mexico’s most ruthless death squads. Law enforcement officials suspect Zeta involvement in [...]
Nicaragua’s newspaper La Prensa reports this morning that the U.S. has frozen a foreign assistance program to Nicaragua funded by U.S. taxpayers through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Kudos to the MCC CEO, Ambassador John Danilovich, for moving swiftly to protect U.S. taxpayer monies and, in the process, send a clear message to [...]
A new chapter in a once promising story for Central American democracy is being written in the streets of Managua. Faced with possible defeats at the ballot box, it appears as if elements of the Sandinista Party have devolved to their old, Cold War ways.
In an speech before a Joint Session [...]
It appears as if elements of the leftist Sandinista Party of Nicaragua are back to their old, Cold War ways. Sandinista supporters donning masks and wielding weapons attacked the opposition leader yesterday while he was on his way to greet opposition supporters.
The violence stems from alleged wide-spread electoral fraud during last week’s election [...]
At a time of global economic uncertainty and rough times at home, U.S. taxpayers monies are an even more precious commodity that should not be squandered. Eliminating wasteful and inefficient foreign assistance programs is one way to cut U.S. Government spending, saving taxpayers potentially billions of dollars a year.
Our foreign assistance giving should be [...]
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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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