Panama closed 2022 accomplishing a major feat in the fight against narcotrafficking with the seizure of 128.6 tons of drugs in different operations throughout the year, Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo told the National Assembly in January. “Due to its geographic location Panama is easily connected to all ports in Europe, [ … ]
The Western Hemisphere countries are committed to strengthening space partnership to benefit the region. Such was the general message of military, governmental, and civilian space leaders who attended the Space Conference of the Americas held at the headquarters of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami, Florida, January 30-31, 2023. U.S. [ … ]
Russia’s war against Ukraine “not only generates thousands of deaths of innocent civilians and Ukrainian soldiers, but Moscow with this insane act is playing with the planet’s food security, worsening hunger and poverty,” Jorge Bedoya, president of the Colombian Farmers Society, told Diálogo on January 18. The Kremlin continues to [ … ]
In late December 2022, the U.S. Embassy in Chile, the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR), and its international arm ONR Global launched a project to encourage students, particularly girls and gender non-conforming students, to develop skills in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and the Arts (STEAM). The initiative will [ … ]
ISLAMIC MILITARY COUNTER TERRORISM COALITION The internet is globally decentralized, which allows for anonymity and contributes to its use as a platform for illegal activities, including property crimes and the promotion of violent extremism. Against such a backdrop of susceptibility — the exploitation of the internet by extremists and terrorists [ … ]
Joint Task Force – Bravo (JTF-Bravo) received a unique request during U.S. Southern Command’s Health Engagements Assistance Response Team (HEART) 2022 mission to work alongside partner nation medical professionals to provide surgical and medical services to communities in Guatemala and Honduras. The request was to come to Olancho, Honduras to [ … ]
After almost two years of inter-guerrilla conflict between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and factions of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombia and Venezuela’s borderlands remain war-torn and an epicenter of the drug trade in the Americas. Inconsistencies in official data for Venezuela’s drug seizures in 2022, [ … ]
The appointment of Argentine Army Major Vanesa Pía as head of the Carlini Base, one of the South American country’s six permanent bases in Antarctica, once again highlights the commitment of the Argentine Armed Forces to gender integration. Maj. Pía is the first military woman to command a unit on [ … ]
According to the report from Spain-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders Patrol and Persuade, Beijing established at least 102 undercover Chinese police stations in 53 countries to monitor and force its exiled citizens, mainly dissidents, to return to China to face charges. “Everything indicates that the work [of the stations] [ … ]
The Jamaican government, with the support of the United States, is seeking to identify criminals who orchestrate crimes in the country despite residing abroad. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement in December 2022, stating that he considered this a key point in his strategy to combat crime and [ … ]
Agents of the Investigative Brigade of Controlled Chemical Substances (BRISUQ) of Chile’s Investigative Police (PDI) and Chile’s Customs Service concluded 2022 with an unprecedented seizure at the Port of Arica. The seizure consisted of dozens of containers with more than 690 tons of chemical precursors used for the manufacture of [ … ]
The Peruvian National Police (PNP) has been dealing a forceful and systematic blow to the Tren de Aragua, Venezuela’s most powerful transnational criminal organization, and a threat to security in the region. The criminal group that originated in Venezuela’s Aragua state claims Tocorón prison, in Aragua, as its headquarters, where [ … ]
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