EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper explores China’s public relations strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) through diplomacy, promoting study networks, cooperation among academies, and establishing a significant number of Confucius Institutes. This is supported by a vast network of print, audiovisual and digital media owned by China or LAC [ … ]
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Brazil Expels Illegal Miners from Indigenous Lands
Nine months after launching a major operation to dismantle extensive illegal gold mining activities in the Yanomami indigenous lands of the Amazon, the Brazilian government has achieved great success with a reduction of almost 80 percent of the territories affected by the illegal activity, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense said [ … ]
UNITAS LXIV: A Multinational Staff Operating as One
Partner nation sailors operated as a multinational staff during UNITAS LXIV, successfully conducting drills, maneuvers, and exercises from the Peruvian Navy flagship, BAP Pisco (AMP 156). The exercise took place off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, as part of UNITAS, spanning from 15-21 July, 2023. U.S. Navy ships and submarines [ … ]
Perry Center Addresses Urgent Security Challenges of Climate Change
For the first time, military and civilian personnel from 21 partner nations of the Americas and Africa came together for the course “Climate Change and Implications for Defense and Security (CCIDS),” in Washington, D.C., May 8-19, 2023. The William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies organized the course. “It’s [ … ]
Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez Meets with US Military Commanders
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez visited U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) March 30, where he met with U.S. Army General Bryan Fenton, SOCOM commander, U.S. Army General Laura J. Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), as well as other senior command and Department of Defense officials. The leaders discussed [ … ]
USNS Comfort Completes Its Final Mission Stop of CP22 in Haiti
U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) completed its fifth and final mission stop of Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) in Jeremie, Haiti, December 17. During the seven-day mission stop, the medical team, comprised of professionals from the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Canada, U.K., and Chile, provided [ … ]
Brazilian Federal Police Carries Out One of Largest Cocaine Seizures at Ports
On November 4, agents of the Brazilian Federal Police (PF) and the Brazilian Federal Revenue made the largest seizure of drugs ever recorded in Pará state, and one of the largest in Brazilian ports. The operation took place in the Port of Vila do Conde, in Barcarena, where authorities seized [ … ]
Continuing Promise 2022 Team Continues Its Promise to Haiti
Continuing Promise 2022 (CP 22) personnel returned to Wharf de Jeremie December 14 to continue providing medical care following a one-day pause in operations to re-plan the mission to ensure we provide the best care to the great people of Haiti. Medical providers will continue their efforts providing high-quality adult, [ … ]
Continuing Promise 22: Preparedness Is Key for Crises
The Dominican Republic and U.S. military forces, along with 911 operators, police officers, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, firefighters, and other first responders, participated in the Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) seminar at the Emergency Operational Center (COE) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, December 1. The seminar was part of the activities [ … ]
Hospital Ship USNS Comfort in Cartagena: Brothers Helping Brothers
Those who think that because the hospital ship USNS Comfort belongs to the U.S. Navy, its crew — which includes doctors, dentists, surgeons, and other members of the health care field, among others — is composed only of U.S. professionals and military personnel are mistaken. You don’t have to look [ … ]
Sailing as a United Team
As the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort sails to Latin America and the Caribbean as part of Continuing Promise 2022, mission commander, U.S. Navy Captain Bryan Carmichael, commodore of Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) Four, makes sure that they accomplish the two-month humanitarian assistance, readiness building, and goodwill mission to help [ … ]
Minuteman III ICBM Test Launch Showcases Readiness of US Nuclear Deterrent
The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Vandenberg Space Force Base (SFB), California, during an operational test September 7, 2022. The ICBM was equipped with three test re-entry vehicles, which traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This [ … ]