The Peruvian Navy will increase its monitoring devices along the country’s northern coast to better warn the population about impending natural disasters.In 2019, the Peruvian Navy’s Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN, in Spanish) will set up four oceanographic buoys along the northern coast of Peru. The buoys will strengthen [ … ]
Capacity Building
Portuguese-Speaking Service Members Prepare for Chemical Incidents
Service members from the Brazilian Armed Forces and seven other Portuguese-speaking countries gathered in Rio de Janeiro for training. Service members of the Brazilian Armed Forces took part in the first basic response course for chemical incidents. The Assistance and Protection for Portuguese-Speaking Participants course—per the training schedule of the [ … ]
Medical Brigades Benefit Honduran Communities
The Honduran Armed Forces, with the support of a religious organization, provide humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian brigades of the Honduran Armed Forces, in cooperation with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), provided free health services to western and central Honduran communities. The assistance campaigns, conducted June 2–July 5, 2018, provided medical care, [ … ]
Female Cadets Make Way in Military Education
Mariscal Francisco Solano López Military Academy promotes gender integration in the Paraguayan Armed Forces. At 5 a.m., reveille plays in the barracks of the Mariscal Francisco Solano López Military Academy (ACADEMIL, in Spanish). Among the students awakening at the sound of the call is Paraguayan Navy Cadet Aldana Belén Almada [ … ]
Colombia Takes First Place; U.S. is Runner-Up in Fuerzas Comando 2018
Special Operations Forces from 19 countries completed the nine-day competition in Panama City.When Diálogo asked Colombian Army Brigadier General Juan Pablo Forero what team he was rooting for, the head of the Exercises and Coalition Affairs directorate at U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), said: “I know that now I have two [ … ]
Strategic Training with a Comprehensive Approach
The Paraguayan Army Command and General Staff College trains officers in military leadership and national security. The Mariscal José Félix Estigarribia Paraguayan Army Command and General Staff College (ECEME, in Spanish) offers decision-making, operations management, leadership, and operational strategies and tactics among its professional training for military personnel. “We train [ … ]
Brazilian Air Force Enhances Mission Planning Capacity
FAB's latest aircraft, including H-36 Caracal helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano fighters, will feature the Aerial Mission Planning software. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB, in Portuguese) keeps up with technological advances with the Aerial Mission Planning (PMA II, in Portuguese) software to plan aerial operations. FAB developed PMA II through [ … ]
Military Training in the Face of Globalization
The Paraguayan Army’s Military Instruction Institutes Command provides comprehensive training and prepares students to confront the challenges of a globalized world. Guidelines and academic policies for future leaders of the Paraguayan Army are conceived within the facilities of the Paraguayan Army’s Military Instruction Institutes Command (CIMEE, in Spanish). For 38 [ … ]
Colombia and SOUTHCOM Align Victoria Plus Plan’s Objectives
SOUTHCOM evaluated the Comprehensive Action and Development model, which guarantees state presence in areas affected by the conflict and neutralizes factors of instability. The main focus of the First Interinstitutional Seminar for Unified Action was the integration of Colombian institutions to stabilize the region, consolidate peace, and transform areas affected [ … ]
Brazilian Army to Increase Women’s Participation in UN Missions
The goal is to respond to the United Nations’ call to increase women’s participation in peacekeeping missions from 10 to 20 percent. The Brazilian Army (EB, in Portuguese) seeks to foster women’s interest in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions. The goal is to respond to the UN’s call to troop-contributing [ … ]
Honduran Military Police Trains in Human Rights
The Honduran Armed Forces’ objective is to train all military police officers by end of 2018. The Honduran Armed Forces are training members of the Honduran Public Order Military Police (PMOP, in Spanish) in human rights. The course in human rights and proper use of force keeps the military police [ … ]
SOUTHCOM Donation Strengthens Honduran Elite Police Force
Future TIGRES will train at a new facility built with U.S. support. In early May, the Honduran government inaugurated a training center for the Government Special Response Security Unit (TIGRES, in Spanish), an elite unit of the Honduran National Police. A $3 million donation from U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) financed [ … ]