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Current News

Recent Government Statements, Reports, and Other Groups' Publications

"Taking No" coverTaking "No" for an Answer: The "American Servicemembers' Protection Act" and the Bush Administration's Security Relations with Latin America, by the Center for International Policy, May 2007 (PDF)

"Potential Threat: The New OAS Concept of Hemispheric Security," by the Washington Office on Latin America, August 2005 (PDF: English | Español | Portugues)

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This database offers the most comprehensive information publicly available about U.S. defense and security assistance programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. More...

Aid by Country

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Bahamas

Barbados

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Eastern Caribbean

Ecuador

El Salvador

Grenada

Guatemala

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago

Uruguay

Venezuela

Aid by Program

Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA)

Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program (CTFP)

Deployments for Training (DFTs)

Direct Commercial Sales (DCS)

Drawdowns

Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC)

Excess Defense Articles (EDA)

Exercises (Tentative exercise calendar)

Foreign Military Financing (FMF)

Foreign Military Interaction (FMI)

Foreign Military Sales (FMS)

Humanitarian Assistance

Humanitarian and Civic Assistance (HCA)

Inter-American Air Forces Academy

International Criminal Investigations and Training Program (ICITAP)

International Military Education and Training (IMET) and Expanded IMET

International Narcotics Control (INC)

Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) and other Special Operations Forces (SOF) Training

Leases

Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School

"Section 1004" and "Section 124" Counterdrug Assistance

"Section 1033" Counterdrug Assistance

Service academies

Spanish Helicopter School Battalion

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (Ex-School of the Americas)

Other Sections

U.S. Bases and Military Installations

Bases Overview
U.S. Southern Command
Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs / FOLs)
Soto Cano, Honduras
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Counter-Drug Radar Sites

Laws Governing Military and Police Aid

The Leahy Law
The American Servicemembers' Protection Act
The Foreign Military Training Report
Prohibitions on Security Assistance
Reporting Requirements
Proposed changes to the law 2007

Congressional Hearings and Official Statements

Recent News Coverage

Publications from the Just the Facts Progam

Erasing the Lines 12/05 (PDF | PDF en Español)
Blurring the Lines 10/04
(HTML | PDF | PDF en Español)

Other Organizations' Publications

Links

Last updated August 2007

Recent Publications

Below the Radar coverBelow the Radar (March 2007) U.S. military programs with Latin America, 1997-2007. [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Por debajo del radar (Abril de 2007) Programas militares de EE.UU. con América Latina , 1997-2007. [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

Memorandum: Analysis of the 2006 Foreign Military Training Report (November 2006) [Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format]

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Training Programs

Arms Transfers

Where Training Takes Place

Counter-Narcotics Aid Programs

Counter-Terrorism Aid Programs

Aid in the Foreign Operations Budget

Aid in the Defense Budget

Police Aid Programs

U.S. Bases in the Western Hemisphere

Government Reports

 

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 Project Staff  Adam Isacson (Senior Associate CIP isacson@ciponline.org)    Lisa Haugaard (LAWGEF Executive Director lisah@lawg.org
  Joy Olson (WOLA Executive Director jolson@WOLA.org)