Israel’s contention that its regional foe Iran is helping Venezuela build combat drones is raising concerns that the two anti-U.S. allies could enable such drones to be used for terrorism.
The oceanographic vessel BAP Carrasco completed Peru’s latest scientific campaign in Antarctica (ANTAR XXVIII), which was carried out December 30, 2021-March 17, 2022. The crew consisted of 96 people: 62 members of the Peruvian Navy (MGP, in Spanish), 20 from the Army, and 14 crew members from the national and international scientific community.
Russia uses artificial intelligence to spread deepfakes — a combination of the concepts deep learning and fake — on the internet; that is, montages of altered images or videos in which a person does or says things that they never did or said. This is among the disinformation weapons cybercriminals are using in the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These are lies that appear to be true.
U.S. Southern Command’s Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo) and the U.S. Embassy, in coordination with the Panamanian National Border Service (SENAFRONT, in Spanish), National Air and Naval Service (SENAN, in Spanish), and the Ministry of Health, came together once again to carry out humanitarian and disaster relief Exercise Mercury III, March 22-April 1, in Panama.
As Russia continues to shell neighboring Ukraine, the Kremlin also pushes its false narrative on Latin American social networks, pointing to the United States as the bigger problem, and portraying Russians as victims of the war, the AP news agency reported April 1.
On April 12, the Brazilian Senate approved, in a symbolic vote, a 2020 agreement between Brazil and the United States regarding military technology research and development. Signed in Miami, the agreement on Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Projects (RDT&E) covers collaboration, research, and development of advanced technology components and prototypes, including the loan of equipment and materials.
The Colombian Army, Navy, and National Police are relentlessly combating the criminal structures and illicit economies of the Clan del Golfo. Between March 16 and April 2, authorities carried out five operations in which they captured 35 of the criminal group’s members, including several of its leaders.
The U.S. government, through its Embassy in Peru, renovated 20 classrooms for the first Peruvian National Police’s (PNP) Criminal Investigation Postgraduate School in the Puente Piedra district, in the department of Lima.
The space environment is more competitive and dangerous than ever before. Technological advances, changes in strategic guidance, and new security challenges require United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) to adapt and innovate to ensure its space warfighters are prepared to accomplish missions in, from, and to space.
Social media giants, telecommunication companies, and European governments joined forces to halt the spread of disinformation from the Kremlin’s state-run media, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Exercise Viking is a training platform designed to prepare civilians, military, and police personnel for future deployments in United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping missions. As such, the Swedish Ministry of Defense, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, plan and conduct the exercise approximately every three years. Multidimensional, multifunctional, and multinational in nature, it is the largest exercise of its kind worldwide.
Coordinated work between the Colombian Navy, the Colombian Air Force, and U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), led to the identification of a suspicious vessel in the archipelago of San Andrés, in the Colombian Caribbean, Colombian daily El Tiempo reported 20 March.
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