Continuing Promise 2022 (CP 22) personnel returned to Wharf de Jeremie December 14 to continue providing medical care following a one-day pause in operations to re-plan the mission to ensure we provide the best care to the great people of Haiti. Medical providers will continue their efforts providing high-quality adult, [ … ]
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Colombian Authorities Destroy 71 Drug Labs in the Amazon
The Colombian Public Force is not letting up its fight against narcotrafficking, achieving increasingly blunt results. As such, in late October, authorities destroyed 71 illegal laboratories that belonged to narcotrafficking organizations operating in the Colombian Amazon region, the Colombian Navy said in a statement. The labs, located in the departments [ … ]
SOUTHCOM Donates Cholera Treatment Supplies to Haiti
Three-hundred thousand packets of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), donated by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), were transferred to Haitian and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) officials December 14, 2022, during an official handover ceremony attended by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Erikson, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in [ … ]
B-21 Raider Makes Public Debut, Will Become Backbone of US Air Force’s Bomber Fleet
The U.S. Defense Department unveiled its newest bomber aircraft, the B-21 Raider, December 2, 2022 in Palmdale, California. As the first strategic bomber in more than three decades, the U.S. Air Force’s B-21 will serve as the backbone of America’s bomber force, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III [ … ]
Rule of Law Virtually Nonexistent in Venezuela and Nicaragua
According to the Rule of Law Index 2022 from international organization World Justice Project (WJP), published in October, the rule of law has declined globally for the fifth year in a row. Venezuela and Nicaragua are the countries that showed the most deterioration. “We are facing the dismantling of polyarchic [ … ]
Peru’s Submarines, Strategic Allies of the US
Peru’s Submarine Force has been a strategic ally of the United States, more specifically during the Diesel Submarine Exercises (SUBDIEX), which are part of the Diesel Electric Submarine Initiative, a U.S. Navy partnership with South American countries that supports their operations and fleet of diesel-electric submarines with readiness events off [ … ]
US Donates Helicopters to El Salvador for Peacekeeping Missions
The U.S. government donated four MD-530F helicopters and utility vehicles to the Salvadoran Armed Force (FAES) to strengthen its participation in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the Salvadoran Ministry of Defense announced. In addition to the helicopters, a fire truck, a water tanker, a forklift, [ … ]
USNS Comfort Arrives in Haiti
Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived off the coast of Jeremie, Haiti, in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) mission, December 11. This visit marks the final mission stop of CP22 and the sixth time the Continuing Promise mission has visited Haiti [ … ]
Argentine and Chilean Armed Forces Train for Peacekeeping Operations
Argentine and Chilean service members who make up the Combined Southern Cross Peacekeeping Force (FPC), designed to be made available to the United Nations (U.N.), trained together to demonstrate their capabilities in the eventuality of participating in a U.N.-mandated peacekeeping operation, the Argentine Ministry of Defense said. “From Argentina’s side, [ … ]
Firearms Trafficking in the Caribbean: Haiti’s Unrest and the Neighbors Next Door
Firearms trafficking is one of the main drivers of the Caribbean’s soaring violence, with Haiti reaching a breaking point. The country not only currently faces a catastrophic humanitarian situation and gang-related violence, but also a firearms crisis created and fueled by transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) operating in and around Haiti [ … ]
Colombia’s Environment and Native People, Victims of Illegal Gold Mining
Colombia’s gold mining industry has historically been rife with criminality, creating an immense black market for the precious metal. Criminal organizations including the National Liberation Army (ELN), dissident groups of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and other criminal gangs exploit Colombia’s large gold reserves, financing multiple criminal [ … ]
United States Provides Another Donation of Emergency Hurricane Relief Assistance to Belize
The U.S. Embassy is working closely with the government of Belize to provide critical humanitarian aid to Belizean communities devastated by Hurricane Lisa. On behalf of the American people, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Belmopan, a.i. Leyla Moses-Ones met in mid-November with Chair of the National Emergency Management [ … ]