The Southern Partnership Station (SPS) 2019 Medical Engagement Team (MET) conducted their final mass casualty drill with Peruvian military medical personnel, October 21, culminating a month-long series of subject matter expert exchanges (SMEE) and field exercises. The U.S. and Peruvian medics conducted training on a variety of life-saving skills, including [ … ]
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Argentine Navy Conducts Nuclear Emergency Simulation
Service members applied prevention and decontamination measures around the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant, in Buenos Aires province. More than 200 Argentine Navy units participated in a red alert simulation at the Atucha nuclear complex on November 14, 2019, during the Nuclear Emergency Plan Exercise. The complex, consisting of the Atucha [ … ]
OAS Creates Counterterrorism Network
The network seeks to prevent the operations and funding of terrorist groups through information exchange between partner nations. In October 2019, the Organization of American States (OAS) announced the creation of the Inter-American Network on Counterterrorism, to exchange information and early warnings on threats in the hemisphere. “Through this network, [ … ]
US Naval War College Event Held Aboard USS Wasp
Twenty multinational naval officers assigned to the Combined Task Force (CTF) aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp participated in the first-ever U.S. Naval War College-hosted classroom education course on humanitarian and disaster relief (HADR) planning held October 13–November 5. The maritime CTF included representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, [ … ]
Argentina Launches First Smart Border Surveillance System In Latin America
The equipment will be essential to counter narcotrafficking coming from Bolivia and Paraguay. Argentina has taken a step forward in the fight against narcotrafficking with the addition of mobile sensors as part of an Integrated Border Surveillance System. The devices, operational since October 1, 2019, join a structure already in [ … ]
Colombian Navy Special Forces Provide Special Operations Training To Dominican Navy Commandos
The Colombian Navy Special Forces (COFEN, in Spanish) provided special operations training to their Dominican counterparts at Las Calderas Naval Base, on the southwest coast of the Dominican Republic, August 12-30, 2019. The training was part of the U.S.-Colombia Action Plan (USCAP) — a regional security cooperation agreement between both [ … ]
Colombian Air Force Crucial For Fire Control
Colombian pilots carry out fire extinguishing duties in one of the harshest drought seasons of the last 20 years. During 2019, the Colombian Air Force (FAC, in Spanish) worked tirelessly to extinguish and control fires. Pilots overflew the territory to extinguish fires that consumed 318,214 acres of vegetation due to [ … ]
South American Navies Strengthen the Fight Against Organized Crime
Paraguay was the host country for exercise Acrux IX, which helped counter arms and human trafficking through the Paraguay-Paraná waterway. The navies of Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay increased their regional cooperation against organized crime with combined exercise Acrux IX, held in Puerto Rosario, Paraguay, September 24-27, 2019. Officers of [ … ]
Brazil Supports Demining Actions In Colombian Territory
Colombia is one of the most contaminated country with antipersonnel mines, resulting in more than 11,000 victims since 1990, according to the Colombian government’s Office of the High Commissioner for Peace. As of September 30, 2019, 356 Colombian municipalities were declared cleared of antipersonnel mines with the destruction or neutralization [ … ]
US. And Interim Venezuelan Government Sign Cooperation Agreement For Reconstruction Of Venezuela
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Venezuelan interim government signed a joint cooperation agreement for $214 million to be used in several stages to rebuild democracy in Venezuela. The agreement was signed at USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C., in the presence of Carlos Vecchio, Juan Guaidó’s [ … ]
Brazil Prepares Female Contingent For UN Peacekeeping Missions
The Peacekeeping Operations Internship for Women spreads knowledge on peacekeeping operations and on promoting the increase of female contingent volunteers in missions. Between September 25 and October 4, 2019, the Brazilian Navy (MB, in Portuguese) conducted the third edition of the Peacekeeping Operations Internship for Women. The course brought together [ … ]
New York National Guard and Brazilian Army Carry Out Explosive Devices Neutralization Experience Exchange
The activity was conducted as part of the partnership Brazil and the United States established in early 2019, through the State Partnership Program. EOD, which stands for Explosive Ordnance Disposal, is an acronym used worldwide to refer to the location, identification, and neutralization of unexploded ordnances, such as explosive artifacts, [ … ]