International organizations are exerting pressure to prevent more abuses from the Nicaraguan government and restore democracy. Nongovernmental organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the European Union (EU) to implement the individual sanctions presented on October 14, 2019, against President Daniel Ortega and six top members of the Nicaraguan Police, [ … ]
The small waiting room at the home of self-styled healer "Brother Guayanes" in Caracas' rundown Petare district fills up quickly with patients — business has never been better. With Venezuela's chronic medicine shortages and hyperinflation, more and more people are turning to alternative medicine to treat common ailments in the [ … ]
Since September 2, oil has contaminated 494 coastal locations in 10 Brazilian states. The oil spill has washed up on beaches spanning over 1,300 miles and is considered the worst environmental disaster on the Brazilian coastline. Press and government officials said an analysis by Brazilian Oil Company Petrobras confirmed the [ … ]
South American air forces’ chiefs seek mutual solutions to current cyber and space security challenges, as well as transnational threats. “Cooperation as a Strategy Towards Progress” was the opening theme of the South American Air Chiefs and Senior Enlisted Leader Conference, held at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, [ … ]
On September 24, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four companies that operate in the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy. Additionally, OFAC identified four vessels that transport oil and other petroleum products from Venezuela to Cuba as blocked property owned or controlled by [ … ]
Diálogo met with Colonel Mario Adalberto Figueroa Cárcamo, chief of the Salvadoran Army General Staff (EMGE, in Spanish), during a visit to EMGE's headquarters in San Salvador. Col. Figueroa talked about his challenges, interagency work, and the Army’s role in citizen security. Diálogo: What's the most important challenge as commander of the [ … ]
Russia continues to search for spaces in Central America to take advantage of the isthmus’s geographical position, this time with an accord signed in the first half of 2019 with the Guatemalan-based Central American Parliament (PARLACEN, in Spanish), consisting of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. [ … ]
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