Colombia Computer Distributor
E) South America
Law Enforcement Efforts. The GOB and USG began a two-year program to expand the size of the Special Drug Police Force (FELCN) and its specialized operational units. This expansion includes personnel growth of more than 15 percent, the upgrading of its existing physical infrastructure, and the basic construction of at least 14 new bases throughout the country. This improvement effort also includes constructing a national communication grid, establishing several computer-based data banks and information sharing systems and upgrading operational and office equipment and gear. ... [Read More]
E) South America
Through the LOA, in 2002, the USG worked closely with the Federal Police, SENASP (Brazilian National Public Safety Secretariat), and SENAD. Various operations, such as Operation Alianza 8 and 9, were supported with LOA funds. With SENASP, the USG worked with local state and military police forces throughout Brazil to ensure such forces had basic law enforcement equipment, including bullet proof vests, handcuffs, and computer equipment. Working with SENAD, the USG ensured that all of Brazil’s 26 state drug councils were provided with computer equipment and that they were hooked into a Brazil-wide network with SENAD. ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEINTERNATIONAl NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORTMARCH 1995BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRSSOUTH AMERICA 61Argentina 63Bolivia 67Brazil 73Chile 78Colombia 81Ecuador 89Paraguay 99Peru 99Uruguay 107Venezuela 110 ARGENTINAI. SummaryArgentina faces increasing problems with illegal narcotics. There is little cultivation or production of illicit drugs, but there is increasing transshipment through Argent ... [Read More]
U.S. and Central American Countries Conclude Historic Free Trade Agreement
Access to Services: The Central American countries will accord substantial market access across their entire services regime, offering new access in sectors such as telecommunications, express delivery, computer and related services, tourism, energy, transport, construction and engineering, financial services, insurance, audio/visual and entertainment, professional, environmental, and other sectors. Central American countries have agreed to change "dealer protection regimes" and loosen restrictions that lock U.S. firms into exclusive or inefficient distributor arrangements. ... [Read More]
Chemical Controls
Traffickers extract chemicals, particularly pseudoephedrine, from pharmaceutical preparations. The 1988 UN Convention does not control pharmaceutical preparations, allowing them to be traded internationally without regard to legitimate requirements unless exporting and importing countries impose such controls. These tactics are masked by the use of front companies, false invoicing, multiple transshipments, use of free trade zones, and any other device that will conceal the true nature of the product, its ultimate recipient or its final end-use. There is some recycling of the solvents used in illicit drug manufacture; recycling cannot be used for acids, alkaline materials or oxidizing agents. Since recycling requires some sophistication, and there is a loss of chemical with each recycling pr ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
FINANCIAL CRIMES AND MONEY LAUNDERINGMONEY LAUNDERINGOVERVIEWIn 1992, the major trends affecting money laundering policy were: (1) further sophistication of money laundering practices; (2) greater investment of drug and other illicit proceeds into established businesses, both to conceal money movements and to capitalize on illicit profits; (3) the internationalization of money laundering networks whose operations involve an ever larger number of countries and territories, regardless of their importance as financial centers or as drug producing or transit countries; and (4) the intensified involvement of the Sicilian Mafia and other criminal organizations in Europe, Asia and the Western Hemisphere who comingle proceeds from many crimes to confound investigators, and are now acting as brokers for funds unrelated to their own trafficking activities. These trends have made it more difficult to differentiate between drug-related money laundering and other forms of illegal money m ... [Read More]
Canada, Mexico, and Central America
As a result of reorganization, the Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) will assume responsibility for the Department of Justice International Criminal Investigation Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) in Guatemala. This program which will continue to focus on law enforcement areas not specifically related to narcotics trafficking, such as the unification of police and prosecutor forensic laboratories, establishment of an Internal Affairs Unit in the Public Ministry, computerization of police case files, and the continued development of a model precinct that includes offices for prosecutors and judges to increase successful case investigation and closure. ... [Read More]
F) Canada, Mexico, and Central America
Accomplishments. Significant milestones in the 2002-2008 National Anti-Drug Plan were achieved in demand reduction and drug supply. For demand reduction, the milestones were: development of municipal plans for drug prevention, holding youth workshops on drug use prevention, establishing minimum standards for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts, and inaugurating publicity campaigns against drugs. For drug supply, the milestones were: the donation of computers and software by the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNODC) for the installation of a national system for drugs and precursors; and participation in the International Seminar for Drug-Trafficking Control in Ports. El Salvador’s work with the UNDOC included participation in the “Fight Against Organized Crime and Corruption: Palermo Convention” seminar; organization of the first-ever International Anti-Drug Day in El Salvador; training on the management of the national database system; and financing for two dr ... [Read More]
Canada, Mexico, and Central America
The U.S. purchased specialized surveillance gear and related computer equipment for the Judicial Investigative Police Narcotics Section and the Drug Control Police to assist in narcotics investigations. The U.S. also acquired upgraded computer equipment for the Public Prosecutor’s Narcotics Section and the Ministry of Public Health’s Precursor Chemicals Unit. CICAD also received technical equipment to support the implementation of Guardian software and the Financial Analysis Unit. ... [Read More]
Article Alert, Archives--Electronic Advance Documents
This report uses data from the September Computer and Internet Use supplement to the 2001 Current Population Survey to examine the use of computers and the Internet by American children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17. The report examines the overall rate of use, the ways in which children and teens use the technologies, where the use occurs (home, school, and other locations), and the relationships of these aspects of computer and Internet use to demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as children's age and race/ethnicity and their parents' education and family income. ... [Read More]
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