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Woman Accused of Trying To Export Cocaine from Antigua9 November 2011 Caribarena.com
(Return to Contents) International Meeting against Corruption Begins (CU)9 November 2011 Prensa Latina
(Return to Contents) Colombian Police Seize 1.5 Tons of Cocaine (CO)8 November 2011 Latin American Herald Tribune
(Return to Contents) OPINION AND ANALYSISAnti-Corruption Plan To Target Government Contracting (MX)8 November 2011 International Law Office
the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, ratified by the Senate on June 2 1997; the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, ratified by the Senate on May 27 1999; and the UN Convention Against Corruption, ratified by the Senate on April 29 2004. The new initiatives draw on the principles established in these international conventions and are also influenced by foreign legislation such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and, more recently, the UK Bribery Act. The Federal Anti-corruption in Government Contracting Law establishes the liability and penalties applicable to individuals and legal entities, whether national or foreign, and in whatever capacity they may act - as shareholders, partners, legal representatives, clients or agents, advisers, subcontractors, employees or others. Such liability arises from participation in irregular conduct during direct or indirect participation in federal government contracting - including preliminary acts, bidding processes and any other act or proceeding deriving therefrom - or in international commercial transactions. In terms of government contracting, the legislative proposal highlights the following points: Irregular conduct that is subject to penalties includes: offering or paying money to a government officer in order for him or her to carry out (or omit to carry out) an action related to his or her function, carrying out acts to obtain an improper benefit or advantage in federal government contracting processes; participating in public bids despite being prevented from doing so by law or by an administrative resolution; or in any other way evading the rules or requirements of federal government contracting. Individuals may be fined from 1,000 to 50,000 times the general minimum wage in Mexico City (approximately $5,000 to $250,000) or between 30% and 35% of the amount of the government contract. For legal entities, the fines range from 10,000 to 2 million times the general minimum wage in Mexico City (approximately $50,000 to $10 million) or between 30% and 35% of the government contract. In additional, individuals and legal entities may be debarred from federal government contracting processes for between three months and eight years. The provisions of the Federal Law of Administrative Accountability of Public Officials are amended and expanded to establish: protective measures for individuals who denounce and provide information about breaches of duty by government officials, and the ability to file anonymous reports; greater means of discovery for federal government controllers and the heads of the relevant auditing and complaints and responsibilities functions; an increase in penalties for administrative offences, including the suspension of public officials for up to 20 years and their removal from office in the case of serious offences; the means to encourage officials to provide anti-corruption information, including a substantial reduction in administrative penalties in recognition of their collaboration; improved supervision of government officials' personal wealth; and the right to reward citizens who denounce acts of corruption. This legislation could become a powerful tool for strengthening the anti-corruption framework. It creates effective financial deterrents and places significant responsibility on the public as a key instrument in identifying corrupt procurement practices at federal level. Source: [www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.aspx?g=00e4e443-7b87-49e4-a6f8-82182f52565b] (Return to Contents) Will Brazil Become Like Venezuela? (BR)8 November 2011 CNN
(Return to Contents) Anonymous May or May Not Have another Mexican Operation (MX)8 November 2011 The Atlantic Wire After canceling and resurrecting Operation Cartel (twice), Anonymous now says they're redirecting their efforts towards corruption in the Mexican government. They're calling it, appropriately, Operation Corrupción. Does this news make you feel skeptical about the hactivists, like maybe they've cried wolf one too many times? It makes us feel that way, too. Anonymous announced Operation Corrupción with a very graphic video and scolding call-to-arms at Anonymous Iberoamerica, the "official blog" for the Spanish-speaking faction of the hacker collective. (Official blog gets scare quotes because Anonymous tends to avoid making anything official — websites, leaders, spokespeople and otherwise.) The threats laid out in the call-to-arms are incredibly vague. It reads (emphasis theirs): Therefore, we appeal to all the world's Anons, the entire global hacker community, to set aside our differences, and to ruthlessly attack all government agencies in Mexico: their web presence, their email, their servers. To bring to light all the hidden information that demonstrates that Mexico is corrupt. We officially declare war against corruption in Mexico. In talking to multiple sources with ties to Anonymous, we found that #OpCorrupción sounds an awful lot like #OpCartel. One Anonymous member using the Twitter handle ESanonymous, told The Atlantic Wire, that the collective plans to release 25,000 "interesting" emails out of a cache of 180,000 stolen during a hack on the Mexican government as part of #OpCorrupción. As we reported last week, #OpCartel planned to release the same number of emails but angled the attack at the Zetas cartel, rather than the government. Anonymous called off that attack after it said the Zetas released a member of Anonymous it was keeping hostage and warned that for every cartel collaborator publicly identified by Anonymous, the cartel would kill ten civilians, starting with the hostage's family. Anonymous told us last Friday that following the threat they declared a truce with the Zetas and would not be releasing the emails after all. The details of Operation Cartel, Anonymous's would-be attack on the Zetas drug lords, were sketchy since it started making headlines in early October. Much of the news on Operation Cartel came through the megaphone of the fast-talking "face" of Anonymous, who denies ever having any official role in the collective. (We've quoted him in our own coverage, though we have been admittedly skeptical about the details of his story.) On Friday afternoon, a blogger at Gawker accused him of latching on to the Operation Cartel and using the press attention to promote an upcoming book about his experience working with Anonymous, for which he received a six-figure advance from Amazon's publishing wing. Chen writes, "The whole Operation Cartel business was probably bullshit — a lot of sound and fury signifying people's lurid obsession with the boogeymen of Anonymous and the drug cartels." The “face” of Anonymous bristled at the criticism. "It's absolutely egregious what he did," he told The Atlantic Wire. "There's no real reason why this should be something involving the book." He points out that #OpCartel was well underway before he got involved last week — indeed, the first video about the operation was posted on October 6 — and adds that he parted ways with the Spanish-speaking branch of Anonymous after #OpCartel ended in order to pursue his own projects. (At the moment, he is most focused on bringing down a district attorney in Asheville, North Carolina, whohas flatly denied all of his allegations.) …. Source: [www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/11/anonymous-may-or-may-not-have-another-mexican-operation/44710/] (Return to Contents) Directory: gifiles -> attach -> 136 attach -> Adaptability Sustainment attach -> Pop-up 1 ("C" Chechnya) Header Text: Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov Image attach -> Russia and Islam are not Separate attach -> Chapter 13: The Northern Caucasus attach -> Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments attach -> The evolution attach -> The devolution 136 -> How the World will Change in the Next 30 Years: World Experts Talk about Global Trends and Forces that will Sweep the 21 136 -> Unclassified//for official use only Download 159.92 Kb. Share with your friends:
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