Eight amazon nations came together to bolster regional cooperation and protect the rainforest that they share, agreeing to a list of environmental policies and measures under a joint statement at a summit in Belem, Brazil. “Drug-related crimes are fundamentally linked to deforestation and associated environmental crimes. On the one hand, [ … ]
For a decade, Venezuela’s higher academia has been suffering from an institutional dismantling plan orchestrated by Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro for not bowing to his authoritarianism, Tulio Ramírez, a tenured Venezuelan professor at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, told international research platform The Conversation. “The essence of the plan of attack [ … ]
The board of the United Nations’ (U.N.) Green Climate Fund (GCF) suspended disbursements for the project “BioCLIMA: Integrated Climate Action to Reduce Deforestation and Strengthen Resilience in Bosawás and Río San Juan Biospheres” in Nicaragua, due to “instances of policy non-compliance [...],” GCF reported. “One of the biggest mistakes of [ … ]
More than 40 doctors and engineers from U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and the Colombian Military Forces came together in late August to carry out mission Continuing Promise 2023, which on this occasion benefited more than 11,000 people from the most vulnerable communities of the Caribbean coast of Colombia in the [ … ]
The Argentine and Brazilian armies carried out combined exercise Arandú, deploying 1,400 troops in the Argentine province of Corrientes to achieve greater interoperability between both armed forces, Argentina’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement. “Combined training in the field is key to practical learning because it plays a fundamental [ … ]
Cuba and China have formed a post-Cold War alliance: Cuba supports Chinese interests in Latin America to cover its economic shortfall, while satisfying Beijing’s strategic needs for military intelligence and biotechnology, the report Security Implications of the China-Cuba Alliance of think tank Global Americans indicates. “Cuba depends on foreign assistance [ … ]
In its latest Internet Security Report, for the first quarter of 2023, U.S. cybersecurity company WatchGuard Technologies, indicated that 75 percent of the new threats of its top 10 list of malwares have strong ties to Russia or China. “These hacker groups target unsuspecting users and unprotected devices. In many [ … ]
In mid-September, 44 criminals, among them 36 Venezuelans, six Chileans, one Dominican, and one Colombian, stood trial for various crimes committed in the extreme north of Chile. They all belong to the violent Tren de Aragua cell known as Los Gallegos, which wreaks havoc not only in Chile, but also [ … ]
U.S. Army General Laura J. Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), visited Peru September 13-15, and met with senior government and military leaders to discuss the longstanding U.S.-Peru defense partnership. This was Gen. Richardson’s first visit to Peru since assuming the command of SOUTHCOM in 2021. Gen. Richardson met [ … ]
The United States announced its support to curb illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing of sharks and rays in Ecuadorian waters through the Habla Tiburón (Shark Talk) project, the U.S. Embassy in Quito said in a statement. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), together with the Charles Darwin Foundation [ … ]
The Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime handed out Chinese company Zhong Fu Development two mining concessions to exploit some 15,400 hectares in Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean coast, negatively impacting the environment and indigenous communities, the alliance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of Nicaragua (INANA-AIP) indicated in a statement. The indigenous group denounced [ … ]
In a similar move to that of Nicaragua’s dictator Daniel Ortega, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro regime went after the Red Cross on August 4, raising the alarm among human rights organizations about the crackdown on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the country. In May, the Nicaraguan regime abolished the humanitarian organization [ … ]
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