Protesters rallying against Cuba’s government on July 11 expressed a number of grievances, including the state of the country’s economy and the response to the coronavirus pandemic. “What we want is change,” Yamila Monte, a Cuban domestic worker told AFP. “I have had enough.” The protests were the largest against [ … ]
In the uncertain times of the 21st century, the role of diplomacy, multilateral cooperation, international organizations, and coalitions of allies and partners is more important than ever before. Today, the challenges facing most nations are less about state-on-state military conflict and more about asymmetric threats from terrorist or criminal groups, [ … ]
In a ceremony held on June 9, the Brazilian Navy (MB, in Portuguese) took command, for the first time, of Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, a multinational anti-piracy task force that provides protection for global maritime trade in an area covering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, [ … ]
A cooperation agreement among the Peruvian government, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), now makes it possible to monitor illegal mining and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. The Radar Mining Monitoring Tool (RAMI), was officially launched on June 16, 2021, [ … ]
Hundreds of people in the rural communities of La Bodega and the 15 of April Cooperative, in Colón department, received humanitarian aid during a military medical operation carried out by U.S. Southern Command’s Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), June 29-July 1. A team of 42 members of the JTF-Bravo Medical [ … ]
Juan Manuel Pino Forero, Panamanian minister of Public Security, coordinates a national and regional effort to combat transnational criminal organizations. Interagency work with security agencies, binational border agreements, and cooperation with the Southern Triangle are part of his commitment to counter illicit networks. Minister Pino spoke with Diálogo during the [ … ]
On June 30, 2021, the Brazilian Air Force (FAB, in Portuguese) launched the new Ponta Porã Radar Station, in Mato Grosso do Sul (MS). The station is the third in a series of new radars that the FAB installed along the border in the country’s central-west region. The first station [ … ]
U.S. Army South conducted a change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on June 30. U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), presided over the ceremony in which U.S. Army Major General Daniel R. Walrath relinquished command to U.S. Army [ … ]
El Salvador’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in August 2018 was the third such change in Latin America following the end of the informal truce that had restrained the PRC’s diplomatic competition with Taiwan between 2008 and 2016. This pivot also precipitated expressions of concern from Washington, [ … ]
Rear Admiral Don Gabrielson, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. Fourth Fleet, hosted delegates from the Ecuadorian Navy for the annual Maritime Staff Talks (MST) June 25. Annual MSTs support the U.S. maritime strategy, “Advantage at Sea,” by building and strengthening working relationships between U.S. and partner nations’ maritime [ … ]
U.S. Army South (ARSOUTH) hosted Colombian Army senior enlisted leaders for the 15th iteration of the semi-annual military-to-military engagement Senior Noncommissioned Officer Integral Program (PISAJ, in Spanish), from June 14-19 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and June 20-25 at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. “We are here to enhance essential leadership [ … ]
Since the Constitution of 1991, Colombia has become a social state under the rule of law; that is, the state must ensure the integrity of citizens, and therefore, the country’s sovereignty rests with the people. It is a state with a democratic political system that has developed successfully in recent [ … ]
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