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 [ … ]
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US Navy Launches Groundbreaking Initiative in Chile
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 [ … ]
Virtual Violence: Terrorists, Criminals and Malign States Use Cyberspace as A Battlefield to Destabilize Society
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 Conducts Medical Engagement in Olancho, Honduras
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 perform [ … ]
Borderland Battles, the Maduro Regime and the ELN’s Co-dependency
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, [ … ]
Argentina’s Military Women Make Headway in Antarctic Bases
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 [ … ]
China’s Police Operates Around the World
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] [ … ]
Jamaica Fights Crime with US Help
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 [ … ]
Chile and Bolivia Seize 690 Tons of Chemical Precursors from China
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 [ … ]
Peru Wages War on the Tren de Aragua
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 [ … ]
1st Security Force Assistance Brigade Advisors Exchange Best Practices with Honduran Military
U.S. Army advisors assigned to 4th Battalion, 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) facilitated an information exchange on the U.S. Army’s Artillery targeting process with Honduran military counterparts on October 31, 2022. The information exchange was designed to improve interoperability between the two militaries. Such exchanges are part of the [ … ]
Peru Makes Headway in the Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking
Peru became the first country in South America to expressly recognize wildlife trafficking as part of a law against organized crime, said Oceana Peru, a branch of the international organization for ocean conservation. “The approval of the November [2022] initiative, which had been under discussion since 2018, is an important [ … ]