Summary The drug trafficking business has driven the strengthening of the criminal actors that make up the internal armed conflict in Colombia. For almost sixty years, the governments of the time have tried to develop public policies, strategies and programs to counteract the growth of territories with the presence of [ … ]
On June 21, the Argentine National Gendarmerie (GNA, in Spanish) seized more than 4 tons of marijuana in Misiones province, on the border with Paraguay. Authorities found the marijuana during border control and surveillance operations, the GNA reported in several statements. During the first operation, a patrol of gendarmes located [ … ]
Chile’s Investigations Police (PDI, in Spanish) seized more than 3 tons of drugs during Operation New Era (Operación Nueva Era) in the Santiago Metropolitan region, Sergio Muñoz, PDI general director, and Rodrigo Delgado, Chilean minister of the Interior, said at a press conference on June 22. With this seizure, the [ … ]
Agents of the Panamanian National Air and Naval Service (SENAN, in Spanish) and Panama’s Regional Center for Aeronaval Operations seized 2,794 kilograms of drugs in different interdictions carried out along the coasts and in waters of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The seizures took place from June 14 to July [ … ]
On June 22, the Peruvian Armed Forces’ Joint Command reported that 27 women and 178 men of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, all members of the Peruvian Engineering Company, left to join the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA, in French). “You are [ … ]
U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), visited Guatemala July 13-14, where he met with President Alejandro Giammattei and military leaders to discuss security cooperation. Adm. Faller’s contingent included SOUTHCOM’s Civilian Deputy to the Commander Francisco (Paco) Palmieri and Command Senior Enlisted Leader Command Sergeant [ … ]
Brazilian Army (EB, in Portuguese) service members achieved great results in the Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development (NCOPD) course at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). The course, held in Fort Benning, Georgia, concluded on June 24, 2021. EB Staff Sergeants Paulo Henrique Barros, Cássio de Freitas, Erenilson Freitas, Thiago Rebonatto, [ … ]
Diálogo interviewed Colombian Army General Luis Fernando Navarro Jiménez, commanding general of the Military Forces, during the Central American Security Conference 2021, held in Panama City, June 22-23. Diálogo: What threats are coming from Venezuela, including the growing influx of narcotrafficking that affects stability and security in Colombia? Colombian Army [ … ]
This article was originally published in the Military Review magazine, English edition (March-April 2021) The operational problem facing the Army in the year 2035 will fundamentally differ from problems it has previously confronted. The legacy challenge for which the Army’s current platforms and doctrine are still optimized was a [ … ]
The operational capabilities to protect Honduras’ 220,000 kilometers of maritime border and natural resources have been strengthened as of July 9, 2021, thanks to a U.S. donation of coast guard patrol boat “Río Aguán” FNH-8502. “This is a special day that translates into the commitment of soldiers and the daily [ … ]
The U.S. government, through U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), donated two operations centers and five defibrillators to the Dominican Republic’s Emergency Operations Center (COE, in Spanish) on June 30, 2021, to increase the Dominican government’s capacity to provide emergency assistance during disaster response operations or health crises, such as the current [ … ]
World leaders are expressing their support for the Cuban people after demonstrations broke across the island on July 11. Foreign Minister for the European Union (EU) Josep Borrell urged the Cuban government “to listen to these protests of discontent” during a press conference July 12 in Brussels after meeting with [ … ]
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