
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 [ … ]

US Promotes Water Security Project in Central America
The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched the Upper Lempa Watershed Project, which will benefit 180,000 people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The agreement was announced on October 27 in the Salvadoran department of Chalatenango, El Salvador’s National Aqueduct and Sewer Administration said [ … ]

US Air Force B-1Bs complete lndo-Pacific Bomber Task Force mission
The U.S. Air Force deployed four B-1B Lancers to conduct Bomber Task Force (BTF) missions in the Indo-Pacific region with key allies and partners from October 17 - November 20, 2022. The bombers are assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron, 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, [ … ]

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, [ … ]

Strategic Training Supports Paraguayan Air Force Mission
Captain María Belén Jara Lovera is the first woman in the Paraguayan Air Force (FAP) to complete the military air pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, under the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Aviation Leadership Program (ALP). Her training began in May 2011, when she traveled to the United [ … ]

Colombian Authorities Destroy 71 Drug Labs in the Amazon
The Colombian Public Force is not letting up its fight against narcotrafficking, achieving increasingly blunt results. As such, in late October, authorities destroyed 71 illegal laboratories that belonged to narcotrafficking organizations operating in the Colombian Amazon region, the Colombian Navy said in a statement. The labs, located in the departments [ … ]

SOUTHCOM Donates Cholera Treatment Supplies to Haiti
Three-hundred thousand packets of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), donated by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), were transferred to Haitian and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) officials December 14, 2022, during an official handover ceremony attended by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Erikson, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in [ … ]

B-21 Raider Makes Public Debut, Will Become Backbone of US Air Force’s Bomber Fleet
The U.S. Defense Department unveiled its newest bomber aircraft, the B-21 Raider, December 2, 2022 in Palmdale, California. As the first strategic bomber in more than three decades, the U.S. Air Force’s B-21 will serve as the backbone of America’s bomber force, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III [ … ]

Rule of Law Virtually Nonexistent in Venezuela and Nicaragua
According to the Rule of Law Index 2022 from international organization World Justice Project (WJP), published in October, the rule of law has declined globally for the fifth year in a row. Venezuela and Nicaragua are the countries that showed the most deterioration. “We are facing the dismantling of polyarchic [ … ]

Peru’s Submarines, Strategic Allies of the US
Peru’s Submarine Force has been a strategic ally of the United States, more specifically during the Diesel Submarine Exercises (SUBDIEX), which are part of the Diesel Electric Submarine Initiative, a U.S. Navy partnership with South American countries that supports their operations and fleet of diesel-electric submarines with readiness events off [ … ]

US Donates Helicopters to El Salvador for Peacekeeping Missions
The U.S. government donated four MD-530F helicopters and utility vehicles to the Salvadoran Armed Force (FAES) to strengthen its participation in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the Salvadoran Ministry of Defense announced. In addition to the helicopters, a fire truck, a water tanker, a forklift, [ … ]

USNS Comfort Arrives in Haiti
Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived off the coast of Jeremie, Haiti, in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) mission, December 11. This visit marks the final mission stop of CP22 and the sixth time the Continuing Promise mission has visited Haiti [ … ]