{"id":701,"date":"2013-09-19T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/?p=701"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:06:24","slug":"warning-signs-for-developments-in-u-s-militarisation-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/2013\/09\/19\/warning-signs-for-developments-in-u-s-militarisation-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning signs for developments in U.S. militarisation in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sep 19 2013 (IPS)\u00a0&#8211; The United States needs to phase down its drug war and tighten the reins on its cooperation with local militaries and police in Latin America, according to a new report released here Wednesday by three influential think tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest is the increase in training deployments to Latin American and the Caribbean by the Special Operations Forces (SOF) \u2013 elite units like the Army\u2019s Green Berets and Navy SEALS \u2013 due in part to the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and drawdown from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Click link to read more&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2013\/09\/u-s-urged-to-curb-militarisation-in-latin-america\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sep 19 2013 (IPS)\u00a0&#8211; The United States needs to phase down its drug war and tighten the reins on its cooperation with local militaries and police in Latin America, according to a new report released here Wednesday by three influential think tanks. Of particular interest is the increase in training deployments to Latin American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21746],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lalc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}