According to Venezuelan human rights nongovernmental organization (NGO) Provea, Venezuelan security forces killed 10,085 people in the last 10 years. The data presented in a new report mostly refers to extrajudicial executions, but also includes deaths during the massive protests that took place in 2014 and 2017. The number of [ … ]
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The Strategic Value of Taiwan and Stability in Asia for Latin America
This article was originally published on Infobae on June 11, 2024. On June 7, 2024, I had the privilege of participating as a speaker in an event in Miami, Florida organized by the Presidential Mission of Latin America, bringing together three former Latin American presidents, current senior Latin American government [ … ]
Rooting for Readiness, A Region Prepared for Anything
Senior military leaders and representatives from 22 partner nations gathered June 4-6 for the U.S. Southern Command- (SOUTHCOM) sponsored Senior Leader Logistics Symposium (SLLS), at SOUTHCOM’s headquarters in Doral, Florida. Under the theme “Readiness,” participants discussed improving logistics and interoperability for exercises, operations, and disaster efforts in the region. Argentina, [ … ]
US Coast Guard Supports Partner Nations’ Fight Against Illegal Chinese Fishing
In line with the U.S. Coast Guard’s (USCG) dedication to combating illicit maritime activities and to promote maritime security, the USCG Cutter James (WMSL 754) deployed to the South Atlantic Ocean to conduct joint missions with their South American counterparts aimed at combating illegal Chinese fishing in the region. Coastal [ … ]
Kremlin Disinformation Campaign Advances in Latin America
Russian disinformation campaigns are spreading in Latin America, raising concerns for regional stability, due to the growing presence of Russia in the information and geopolitical sphere. The Kremlin is leading efforts to exert influence in the “global south” through the media. This strategy seeks to promote non-progressive values and question [ … ]
Venezuela and Iran: Strategic Geopolitical Alliance
Venezuela and Iran have consolidated a strategic alliance that dates back more than two decades to counteract their international isolation due to their human rights violations and anti-democratic activities, an April 23 report of Italy-based Center for the Study of Geopolitics and International Relations (CEGRI) indicated. More than a bilateral [ … ]
Russia’s Hypocrisy and Double Standards on Nuclear Weapons in Space
Within weeks of blocking a United Nations (U.N.) Security Council resolution that sought to ban nuclear weapons in outer space, Russia likely launched a weapon into low-Earth orbit capable of inspecting and attacking other satellites, keeping up with its dangerous behavior in space. According to U.S. Space Command, the May [ … ]
Chinese Mafia Builds Up Their Marijuana Operations in Chile
Agents of Chile’s Carabineros OS7 anti-drug division apprehended two Chinese men in Chile’s central region believed to be members China’s transnational criminal organization Fujian Bang. The men were guarding two large marijuana plantations in two climate-controlled and irrigation-controlled industrial greenhouses when the arrests took place in mid-April, Chilevisión reported. While [ … ]
Russian Warships, Venezuelan Elections, and a Fabricated Crisis with Guyana in the Caribbean?
This article was originally published on The Policy Spotlight of Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, June 14, 2024. The deployment of Russian warships to the Caribbean is Kabuki theater. For 15 years, a Russia whose international power projection capabilities have deteriorated significantly since the end [ … ]
Brazil and China: Asymmetric and Troubling Relationship – PART II
Since the People’s Republic of China (PRC) set its sights on Latin America, at the beginning of the century, seeking mainly to acquire commodities to supply its industrial base and feed its huge population, it turned Brazil — Latin America’s largest economy and one of the world’s most important agricultural [ … ]
Russia Covertly Spreads Disinformation in Latin America
Using disinformation, economic coercion, and overt and covert political actions, Russia has weakened democratic institutions in Latin America, nongovernmental organization U.S. Institute of Peace said in a report. “This Russian machine is extremely pernicious and dangerous,” Jorge Serrano, a security expert and member of the advisory team of Peru’s Congressional [ … ]
Russia Seeks to Destabilize Latin American Countries
Under its new foreign policy concept, Russia outlines ambitious plans to destabilize peace and order in the Western Hemisphere and create rivalries among Latin American countries to further widen the gap between states already aligned with the Kremlin’s ambitions. “This document is the result of its [Russia’s] invasion of Ukraine,” [ … ]