2011 Press Releases
Regional CBSI Fact Sheet
November 4, 2011
Working together through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), the United States and the nations of the Caribbean are combating the drug trade and other transnational crimes that threaten regional security. This partnership fulfills the commitment President Barack Obama made at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in April 2009 to deepen regional security cooperation and complements the other citizen security initiatives in the Hemisphere, the Merida Initiative in Mexico, Central America Regional Security Initiative, and Colombia Strategic Development Initiative.