The Guatemalan government, through the Migration Institute, has taken measures to receive families fleeing Ukraine due to Russia’s attacks. On April 3, five Ukrainian citizens arrived in Guatemala, bringing the total number of Ukrainians arriving in the Central America country to more than 30, the Guatemalan Migration Institute reported. On [ … ]
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Argentina Sends Help to Latin Americans Fleeing Ukraine
On 4 March 2022, the Argentine government deployed a delegation of White Helmets, a civilian humanitarian aid organization under the auspices of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, to Warsaw, capital of Poland, to facilitate the departure of Latin American citizens who had to flee Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. [caption id="attachment_69509" align="alignright" [ … ]
Spike in Violence Amid Colombia’s Elections
On May 29, 2022, Colombia will elect a new president. This election year, in which parliamentary elections have already been held, is seeing a spike in violence in both big cities and rural areas. From March 13, 2021 — the beginning of the electoral calendar — to March 7, 2022, [ … ]
Russia Threatens Global Food Security
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is affecting grain supplies and global food and fertilizer prices due to port closures and missile strikes on merchant ships in the Black Sea, international media reported. According to German news site DW, Russian forces have prevented up to 300 ships from leaving the Black Sea, [ … ]
General Richardson Meets with President Castro, Defense Leaders during Visit to Honduras
U.S. Army General Laura J. Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), met with Honduran President Xiomara Castro February 23 to discuss continued security cooperation and issues of mutual concern. The meeting with President Castro highlighted Gen. Richardson’s February 23-24 visit to Honduras, her first to the country since assuming [ … ]
US Supports Ecuadorian Army in Demining Efforts
The U.S. government donated $1.3 million to the Ecuadorian Army’s 68th Cotopaxi Engineer Battalion for demining efforts on the land border with Peru, March 3, 2022. The donation will finance two projects, including demining and medical training for demining personnel. Both projects include the necessary equipment to conduct the activities, [ … ]
Russia Seeks Space Help from China
Russian space agency Roscosmos is considering China as a supplier of space industry components, in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine. However, recent U.S. and European Union imposed sanctions could affect Russia’s space plan, the U.S. magazine SpaceNews reported March 1. On February 26, Roscosmos chief Dimitry Rogozin told [ … ]
Science Helps Brazilian Police Trace Origin and Route of Cocaine
The Institute of Geosciences (IGc, in Portuguese) of Brazil’s University of São Paulo (USP, in Portuguese), is helping the Federal Police (PF, in Portuguese) identify the origin and routes of cocaine trafficking from Andean producing countries to the Port of Santos, São Paulo state. In December 2021, the IGc signed [ … ]
Uruguay Relieves Sinai Peninsula Contingent
The Uruguayan Army deployed a military contingent to replace its troops with the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO), which oversees the implementation of security provisions of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, to prevent violations of its terms, on February 24, 2022. Upon bidding farewell to the 16 Uruguayan troops who will [ … ]
SOUTHCOM Helps Preserve Honduras’ Cultural Heritage
Units of Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), a U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) component; representatives of the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the U.S. Virginia Museum of Natural History; the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (IHAH, in Spanish); and the Honduran Armed Forces carried out an exchange to learn how [ … ]
Russian Censorship, Repression Hits Social Media
Russia has intensified censorship and repression against social networking sites and their users by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as passing a law that criminalizes the dissemination of “fake news” about the Russian Armed Forces and “calls to adopt sanctions against the country.” On March 4, [ … ]
Paraguay, Brazil Destroy More Than 800 Tons of Drugs
Units of the Paraguayan National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD, in Spanish), Joint Task Force (FTC, in Spanish), and Air Force, together with the Brazilian Federal Police (PF, in Portuguese), carried out a joint operation that destroyed more than 800 tons of marijuana, SENAD said. Authorities carried out Operation New Alliance (Nueva [ … ]