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APAN: A Vital Connection

Users of the social-networking site guided rescuers to earthquake victims in Haiti

Nicaraguan schoolchildren show their laptops at the Miguel Larreynaga school in the town of Tipitapa. The One Laptop per Child organization, in coordination with the Ministry of Education in Nicaragua, distributed laptops to 17,000 children in 150 public schools across the country.

Peru and Ecuador Strengthen Ties

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, center, declared that bilateral ties with neighboring Peru are at their strongest. The fraternal gesture came at a state visit to Lima in June where Correa and Peruvian President Alan García, left, signed an agreement to open a Peruvian interest section in Ecua...

Saving Forests in Peru

In the Amazonian high forest, the Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yánesha area in Peru is the home of the indigenous Yánesha and Asháninka. Both cultures had been working against the threat of deforestation to implement sustainable development until UNESCO lent a helping hand by naming the region a biosphere ...

New Horizons in Haiti

The U.S. Southern Command-sponsored humanitarian and civic assistance exercise New Horizons was conducted in Haiti during a four-month stint which ended in September 2010

Central America Is Mine-Free

Antipersonnel mines are a thing of the past in Central America as Nicaragua became the last country in the region to complete a de-mining process 20 years in the making. At the start of the program in 1990, half a million Nicaraguans were registered as living near a minefield, according to the Or...

Ecuador and U.S. Fight Drug Trade

Ecuador and the United States renewed their strategic partnership this year with a ceremony inaugurating the Andean nation’s newly renovated counternarcotics training center. In addition to renovations to the center, the U.S. government’s Narcotics Assistance Section provided $1.7 million worth o...

Cities Unite Against Crime

Mayors from across Latin America and the Caribbean are part of a new Cities Alliance for Citizen Security that combines best practices for violence and crime prevention. Bogotá Mayor Samuel Moreno and the Inter-American Development Bank hosted an event in the Colombian capital this year to form t...

Securing Caribbean Nations

The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, or CBSI, launched in May 2010 seeks to strengthen Caribbean-U.S. security ties and reduce spill- over violence from successful drug eradication efforts elsewhere in the region. According to the U.S. State Department, CBSI complements the United States’ Mér...

Coca Harvests Are Down In The Andes

Coca-leaf harvests in the Andes dropped 5.3% in 2009, thanks in large part to the 16% decline in Colombia. However, the U.N. warns of a growth trend of the crop in Peru.