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...said. “God does not want God’s creation destroyed. God does not like greenhouse gasses.” This message is not always clear, Page said. “There are some very vocal Christians,” including former Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt and many members of the Bush administration, “who have been opposed to good stewardship for the environment,” he said. Page also said he was worried that with the impending economic crisis and the drop in oil prices, “the government...
...been able to train up a significant local army and police force to support security operations. Also in contrast to Iraq, the insurgency in Afghanistan has a sanctuary available across the border in Pakistan. “Afghanistan is not Iraq,” says one former Afghan interior minister: “It is the theme park of problems...
Experts say Guatemala is no longer a mere drug corridor, but rather an essential and highly lucrative pit stop on the road north. One Guatemalan columnist likened the country's new role to a "privateering port." Julio Godoy, former vice-minister of security in Guatemala's interior department, called Guatemala "one big warehouse" for drugs. More and more Mexicans with suspected drug links are turning up in Guatemala. "They're clearly here essentially to establish themselves and to take on rivals," says ambassador McFarland...
...governments have been unable or unwilling to reverse the tide. "People perceive a breakdown of authority and really the authorities are the traffickers," says ambassador McFarland. In areas of high drug activity, the population has little choice but to align itself with the traffickers, says Godoy, the former Guatemalan Interior Ministry official. Plus, in a country where some 80% of citizens live below the poverty line, traffickers pay well for cooperation. "If [a trafficker] asks a person to shine a light at a [clandestine] airstrip and they're going to pay more than that person has earned all year...
...letter to Giorgopoulos' family, Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis expressed his condolences and assured them that such a tragedy "won't be repeated". Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos had earlier submitted his resignation, but Karamanlis has refused to accept it, as the fragile center-right government tries to avoid collapse under the weight of the riots. (See pictures of Greece ravaged by forest fires...