Fishing communities along South America’s west coast face threats from illegal fishing, climate change, and pollution. “There are fewer fish, and we must go out to sea for days to find fish,” said Ricardo Laos, president of the José Silverio Olaya Balandra Association of Artisanal Fishermen of Caleta de Chorrillos [ … ]
Over the last two decades, China has built the world’s largest deep-water fishing fleet by far, with nearly 3,000 ships. Having severely depleted stocks in its own coastal waters, China now fishes in any ocean in the world, and on a scale that dwarfs some countries’ entire fleets near their [ … ]
Venezuela’s intelligence agencies are committing crimes against humanity as part of a plan orchestrated by the Nicolás maduro regime to repress dissent, warns a mid-September United Nations (U.N.) report. The repression is carried out “including through the commission of extremely grave acts of torture,” the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission [ … ]
China’s fishing activities from January to May 31, 2022, near the exclusive economic zones of Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina, were four times greater than those of all other countries combined that fish in the same areas, an investigative report from The New York Times indicated. In contrast, in all of [ … ]
The U.S. government donated 22 canines to the Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC), which will be trained to combat narcotrafficking and organized crime, the Guatemalan Ministry of Government (MINGOB) said in a press release. “For the PNC this donation represents a strong point to continue fighting the narcotrafficking and transnational [ … ]
For the first time, U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), sailing toward Latin America and the Caribbean as part of U.S. Southern Command- (SOUTHCOM) sponsored humanitarian mission Continuing Promise 2022, is breaking down gender barriers by expanding the perspective on traditional security and health issues. The current mission [ … ]
The Colombian Military Forces are keeping up their offensive against narcotrafficking and organized crime. As such, in mid-September, during two operations carried out in the Pacific coast of Colombia, troops of the Colombian Army and Navy seized nearly 3 tons of cocaine hydrochloride belonging to criminal group Clan del Golfo [ … ]
For 25 years, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies has been seeking to establish ties of cooperation among the different countries of Latin America, creating a network of professionals who are leaders in security and defense in the hemisphere, and able to offer shared solutions to contemporary [ … ]
When Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces laid siege to Kherson in Ukraine in March, they blocked Ukrainians’ access to independent news and censored web traffic. After the Burmese military seized power in a February 2021 coup, the military blocked internet access to undermine widespread public opposition to the coup and [ … ]
In the last decade, at least 1,733 people have been killed trying to protect their lands and the environment worldwide. More than half of the attacks have taken place in Latin American countries, the report A Decade of Resistance by Global Witness, a London-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) that documents these [ … ]
Nicaragua’s access to credible news is shrinking. The Ortega-Murillo regime not only continues to shut down local media and persecute its journalists, it is now also making content available from Russian radio network and broadcaster Sputnik to some 20 Nicaraguan state-owned media outlets. “This is a practice that by design [ … ]
Arkansas Air National Guard members worked alongside U.S. and foreign military forces, government officials, and civilian personnel to provide humanitarian assistance through medical care in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, from October 26-31, 2022, during Continuing Promise 2022. Senior Airman Tabari Matthews, 189th dental technician, assisted Canadian Army Captain Cleve Kim, dentist, [ … ]
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