China and Russia have stepped up their cyber presence in Latin America, while employing cyber tools, including disinformation, cybercrime, and electoral interference to pursue their goals in the region, experts said. Disinformation campaigns through state-owned Spanish-language social media platforms, cyberattacks, such as those the Russian Conti ransomware group perpetrated against [ … ]
Nearly 2,000 military and medical personnel from the United States, the Philippines, Australia, Chile, South Korea, and the United Kingdom participated in Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22), the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance exercise conducted in the Indo-Pacific, which concluded in Palawan on August 16. U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission [ … ]
During Radio San Carlos’ last broadcast, transmitted on August 15, there was a prayer to the Divine Mercy led by a nun who was at the station in southeastern Managua. Hours later, however, the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services (Telcor) cancelled the radio station’s license along with two [ … ]
Ecuadorian authorities remain steadfast in their fight against narcotrafficking and organized crime. The ongoing and coordinated work of the Attorney General’s Office and the National Police has led to record levels of drug seizures. In 2021, authorities seized 210 tons of cocaine, while between January and August 1, 2022, authorities [ … ]
Firefighters with the 612th Air Base Squadron, a unit under the U.S. Air Forces Southern/12th Air Force, the air force component of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), hosted a new iteration of exercise CENTAM SMOKE, a biannual training exercise to enhance firefighting and rescue capabilities, August 8-12 at Soto Cano Air Base, [ … ]
The Colombian Military Forces’ operations against the Clan del Golfo, Colombia’s largest organized armed group, continue to yield positive results. Among their latest accomplishments is the capture of Gustavo Adolfo Gregorio de Jesús Gómez Rodríguez, alias Arcángel, el Gali, or el Compadre, the main leader of the Clan del Golfo’s [ … ]
The governments of Argentina and Bolivia have made progress in military, space, and communications technology cooperation in recent months. Among the latest developments, in July, Argentine Minister of Science, Technology,and Innovation Daniel Filmus visited the Bolivian Space Agency’s (ABE)Amachuma Ground Station. In May, Argentine Minister of Defense Jorge Taiana received [ … ]
Service members from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic, members of the Central American Armed Forces Conference (CFAC), attended CFAC’s XI Specialized Environmental Activity held in Managua, Nicaragua, where they signed agreements for the protection of forested areas. “These agreements will be reinforced by the task forces [ … ]
U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Marc Ostfield ratified U.S. support for the Paraguayan National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) in a meeting with its Minister Zully Rolón at the institution’s headquarters in early July. The reunion reaffirmed the commitment of both countries in the fight against transnational organized crime, SENAD said via Twitter. [ … ]
The controversial Chinese company China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC), which was sanctioned by the World Bank in 2019 for fraud and corruption, will build the new bridge over the Demerara River in Guyana, Guyanese newspaper Stabroek News reported. The Guyanese government and the Chinese company signed the $260 million [ … ]
The Colombian Military Forces and the National Police (PNC) dealt a blow to dissident groups of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) by neutralizing two of their main leaders, Néstor Gregorio Vera, alias Iván Mordisco, and Roque Antonio González Contreras, alias Roque. “The blow to FARC dissidents will greatly [ … ]
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