SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 21 July 2009

Hot Topics AR:  Britains warnings for travelers who want to visit Argentina: 07/16/09 BR:  RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Controversy Surrounds Army Search for Guerrilla Remains 07/17/09 CL:  Mapuche: No Effective Autonomy Without Political Will 07/17/09 CO:  Colombia: rebels funded Ecuador leaders election 07/17/09 CO:  Latin America: Washington, Bogota on Verge of Deal to Make …07/17/09 CO:  New Anti-Ecuador …

AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 20 July 2009

Hot Topics BW: Nationality for sale 07/18/09 CG: Congo-Kinshasa: An Action Plan to End the Worlds Deadliest War 07/16/09 ER: The Existential Threat to the Nation 07/19/09 KE: War is Boring: Kenya Allegedly Funneling Arms to Volatile South Sudan 07/15/09 LR: Charles Taylor: Preacher, Warlord, President 07/17/09 NG: Jihadis Identify US Plots against China in …

Journal: World Bank to Play Sheriff in Recovering Despot Funds

With a tip of the hat to Intelligence Online Issue No. 598 (16-29 July 2009), we are delighted to note that the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) is creating a special new investigative unit to focus exclusively on identifying and facilitating the recovering of assets stolen by politicians in the emerging countries, i.e. …