Southern Pulse
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| founded_date = 2004
| founder = Samuel Logan
| location = Annapolis, Maryland
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| area_served = United States
| focus = Investigative Journalism
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| homepage = [http://www.southernpulse.com/home Southern Pulse]
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Southern Pulse is a consultancy and field-based organization focused on energy, politics, business, and security in Latin America. It was founded by the journalist and author Samuel Logan in 2004, and it now has a network of investigators that operate across the Americas.{{cite news|title=Southern Pulse: Description|url=http://www.fpa.org/jobs/?act=show_job&job_id=968|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=Foreign Policy Association|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240526085604/https://www.webcitation.org/6Bv3wdtpt?url=http://www.fpa.org/jobs/%3Fact=show_job&job_id=968|archive-date=26 May 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Southern Pulse, Networked Intelligence|url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Communities-and-Partners/Partners/Detail/?lng=en&id=89146|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=International Relations and Security Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615103106/http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Communities-and-Partners/Partners/Detail/?lng=en&id=89146|archive-date=15 June 2022|url-status=live}}
Foundation
Southern Pulse was founded in 2004 by Samuel Logan, a writer and investigative journalist, as a private human intelligence organization with focus in Latin America.{{cite news|last=McNair|first=Lesley|title=Seminar on small arms trafficking|url=https://www.un.org/disarmament/education/docs/SGReport67contributions/IGOs/IADC_Small_Arms_Trafficking_Seminar_Feb_2012_final_report.pdf|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=Inter-American Defense College|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217221308/http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/docs/SGReport67contributions/IGOs/IADC_Small_Arms_Trafficking_Seminar_Feb_2012_final_report.pdf|archive-date=17 December 2013|url-status=live|location=Washington, D.C.|page=14}} The organization currently based in Annapolis, Maryland.
It has operators in the Latin American countries of Mexico, Chile, El Salvador, Colombia, and Brazil, and seeks "to mitigate risk for public and private sector clients with exposure to political, security, financial, or legal risk in Latin America".{{cite news|title=Southern Pulse: Who We Are|url=http://southernpulse.com/who-we-are.html|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=Southern Pulse|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020011821/http://www.southernpulse.com/who-we-are.html|archive-date=20 October 2012|url-status=live}} Using in-country sources and field contracts, Southern Pulse gathers and produces information on these countries security, energy, politics, and business patterns via news feeds or weekly "pulses".{{cite news|title=IC/IM Jobs Digest, Vol. 1, No. 29|url=http://www.american.edu/sis/ic/upload/Jobs-Digest-Vol-1-No-29.pdf|access-date=4 November 2012|newspaper=American University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125184411/https://www.american.edu/sis/ic/upload/Jobs-Digest-Vol-1-No-29.pdf|archive-date=25 January 2013|url-status=live|agency=School of International Service|page=9}}
See also
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External links
- [https://twitter.com/southernpulse Southern Pulse] on Twitter