Brazil Supports Proposal to Create South American Defense School

June 18, 2013

Brazilian Minister of Defense, Celso Amorim, stated that Brazil supports the creation of a South American Defense School. The proposition to build the school was recently formalized by Ecuador during a meeting between deputy defense ministers, in Lima, Peru, within the scope of UNASUR’s South American Defense Council (CDS for its Spanish acronym).

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For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]

Brazil Supports Proposal to Create South American Defense School

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