On February 21, 2020, service members of the 24th Infantry Battalion of the Colombian Army’s 22nd Jungle Brigade, together with units of Colombia’s Anti-narcotics Police, located and dismantled a lab that produced about 1,323 pounds of cocaine hydrochloride a month in Miraflores municipality, Guaviare department. [caption id="attachment_33067" align="alignright" width="577"] The [ … ]
U.S. Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) delivered 170 sets of safety equipment, valued at $483,000, to 34 rural companies of the General Corps of Volunteer Firefighters of Peru (CGBVP, in Spanish), on February 11, 2020. “This is a very important donation, because in the last seven years we [ … ]
The Guatemalan Armed Forces have seized more than 40 tons of cocaine in different operations in the last three years. The Army, Navy, Air Force, and National Civil Police constantly coordinate to face regional narcotrafficking. [caption id="attachment_33021" align="alignright" width="423"] The Guatemalan Army conducts routine patrols in different parts of the [ … ]
In mid-January 2020, Chilean security forces made the largest seizure of contraband copper, about 80 tons estimated at $305 million, found in a junkyard of the Lampa community, 22 miles northwest of Santiago de Chile. Chile’s Investigations Police (PDI, in Spanish) said in a press conference that the metal was [ … ]
The pressure against Nicaragua’s regime is increasing with the launch of a new national coalition that brings together several opposition organizations to restore democracy in the country. The police has responded by strengthening security to prevent protests against President Daniel Ortega. “The regime fears a wave of protests as these [ … ]
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) plans to increase U.S. military presence in the Western Hemisphere while taking on funding cuts to security programs that help Latin American partners counter drug cartels. In written testimony March 11, U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, SOUTHCOM commander, said the U.S. “only enabled the successful [ … ]
Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo) hosted Honduran military and civilian leaders at Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua, Honduras, February 28, 2020, to strengthen partnerships and recognize the value of continued camaraderie. Among the attendees was retired Honduran Air Force General José Enrique Soto Cano, namesake for the air base, [ … ]
Recent data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE, in Portuguese) indicates that the Brazilian Amazon lost 3,769 square miles of vegetation in a single year. The deforested area, which is larger than Puerto Rico, refers to the period of August 2018-July 2019, and increased 29.5 percent compared to [ … ]
Without water, health preservation is an impossible task, Venezuelan doctors and nurses say to illustrate their fear and concerns about the risk of a coronavirus outbreak in the country. They say that hospitals lack medication, surgical equipment, and primary care supplies, such as masks, I.V. drips, and thermometers, or a [ … ]
“Corruption threatens the safety and the way of life of citizens all over the world,” said Brazilian Appellate Court Judge Reis Friede, director of the Federal Justice Cultural Center in Brazil. “Corruption costs lives, especially when someone dies because of lack of medication or care because a corrupt politician embezzled [ … ]
The Nicolás Maduro regime and its allies continue to find new ways to repress democracy and brutalize the Venezuelan people. When Interim President Juan Guaidó returned from his diplomatic trip abroad on February 11, pro-Maduro bullies attacked him at the airport near Caracas. One tried to smash his car’s window [ … ]
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro visited U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) March 8 to meet with U.S. Navy Admiral Craig Faller, SOUTHCOM commander, as well as other command and Department of Defense leaders. Bolsonaro’s historic visit marks the first time a Brazilian president has visited SOUTHCOM. The leaders discussed the growing defense [ … ]
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