Word: colombia
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...repair kits and sells them in economies that are no longer booming--like those of Latin America and Asia--exporting more than 50% of its products. Carfel is beginning to take a dive. "Our sales have been dropping tremendously in Latin America," says Feldenkreis, pointing specifically to Venezuela and Colombia, where business is off 15%. He describes the company as "weathering" a bad situation. The situation has got so bad, in fact, that the company is rethinking its place in the automotive world, spending more money to try to diversify and develop new products...
Felipe B. Larrain, director of the CentralAmerican Project at HIID, is currently advisingthe governments of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua andChile on macroeconomic policy...
...Pacific Rim of Asia that once accounted for a third of world output "are in depression or recession, and we're still counting"; Japan, the world's second biggest economy, "is still going down--it looks like a drop of 2% this year"; in Latin America, Venezuela and Colombia are in recession and Brazil is "in a very dicey situation," saddled with an overvalued currency. Argentina also "is at risk because a chunk of its exports goes to Brazil." Even Canada is "slowing down because of Asia"--and Canada and Latin America together account for more than...
...will never escape the internal politics and warfare that continue to plague recipient countries. Despite guarantees that equipment and training be used to fight drugs, in reality policymakers have no way of knowing that military training and equipment are not used for counter-insurgency against guerrilla forces. In Colombia, where the War on Drugs and the government's counter-insurgency efforts are most intertwined, the bill earmarks $168 million for helicopters and other aircraft, despite repeated reports of clashes between Colombian air forces and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) guerrillas...
...allows Mexico $18 million for the purchase of six Bell 212 helicopters for use in Guerrero, Jalisco, and Sinaloa states, only a few hundred miles from the heart of the Chiapas rebellion. Meanwhile, resolutions and letters circulate condemning the conflicts in Colombia and Mexico and call for peace. If the U.S. is willing to aid any country militarily, it must also be prepared to become involved in the wars recipient countries are fighting. With recent comparisons to the U.S. involvement in El Salvador in the 1980s and even to Vietnam, recognition of the role we play in these conflicts...