The U.S. government, through its Embassy in Peru, renovated 20 classrooms for the first Peruvian National Police’s (PNP) Criminal Investigation Postgraduate School in the Puente Piedra district, in the department of Lima. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs invested $400,000 in the project, [ … ]
Capacity Building
A Dangerous Frontier
The space environment is more competitive and dangerous than ever before. Technological advances, changes in strategic guidance, and new security challenges require United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) to adapt and innovate to ensure its space warfighters are prepared to accomplish missions in, from, and to space. Space affects almost every [ … ]
Exercise Viking 22: Building Partnerships for Peace
Exercise Viking is a training platform designed to prepare civilians, military, and police personnel for future deployments in United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping missions. As such, the Swedish Ministry of Defense, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, plan and conduct the exercise approximately every three years. Multidimensional, multifunctional, and [ … ]
Drones Strengthen Security in Colombia
Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano said March 12 that 20 drones have been put into operation to guarantee security, protect civilians, and dismantle armed criminal groups in the Arauca department. The rivalry between dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, in Spanish) and the National Liberation Army (ELN, [ … ]
General Richardson Meets with President Castro, Defense Leaders during Visit to Honduras
U.S. Army General Laura J. Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), met with Honduran President Xiomara Castro February 23 to discuss continued security cooperation and issues of mutual concern. The meeting with President Castro highlighted Gen. Richardson’s February 23-24 visit to Honduras, her first to the country since assuming [ … ]
US Supports Ecuadorian Army in Demining Efforts
The U.S. government donated $1.3 million to the Ecuadorian Army’s 68th Cotopaxi Engineer Battalion for demining efforts on the land border with Peru, March 3, 2022. The donation will finance two projects, including demining and medical training for demining personnel. Both projects include the necessary equipment to conduct the activities, [ … ]
SOUTHCOM Helps Preserve Honduras’ Cultural Heritage
Units of Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), a U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) component; representatives of the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the U.S. Virginia Museum of Natural History; the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH, in Spanish); and the Honduran Armed Forces carried out an exchange to learn how [ … ]
SOUTHCOM Supports Education in Belize
The U.S. government, through U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), delivered a new school building to the San Pedro Government School, in Belize’s Corozal district, to support the return to classes and improve the quality of education, the U.S. Embassy said in a March 1, 2022 statement. The project, carried out under [ … ]
Cultural Heritage Protection, Uniting Military Partners in Honduras Through Shared History
Central America is vulnerable to earthquakes, hurricanes, tropical storms, and volcanic eruptions, making damage to historic sites a high-risk. As partners to this region, U.S. Southern Command engineers integrated environmental experts into a Joint Task Force Bravo- (JTF-Bravo) led event, March 7-11, supporting the Honduran Army’s 120th Infantry Brigade and [ … ]
US Helps Strengthen Paraguay’s Health System
[caption id="attachment_56040" align="alignright" width="300"] The United States trained personnel of the Paraguayan Ministry of Health and the Armed Forces to set up and operate the hospitals. (Photo: Paraguayan National Emergency Secretariat)[/caption] The United States, through its Office of Defense Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance program, donated four field hospitals and 24 [ … ]
Brazilian Officers Support Humanitarian Demining in Colombia
Brazilian Army (EB, in Portuguese) Lieutenant Colonel Cláudio Santos Bispo and Brazilian Marine Corps Captain Gustavo Lopes da Silva Freitas are training Colombian service members to become national humanitarian demining monitors. The Brazilian officers are instructors of the National Humanitarian Demining Monitors Course, as part of the Inter-American Technical Advisory [ … ]
Brazilian Service Members Support Flood Victims in Rio de Janeiro
More than 1,000 service members of the Brazilian Armed Forces have been working since February 16, 2022, to support victims of the flood that occurred a day prior, in the municipality of Petrópolis, in the mountain region of Rio de Janeiro. After a month’s worth of rain fell on the [ … ]