Protesters rallying against Cuba’s government on July 11 expressed a number of grievances, including the state of the country’s economy and the response to the coronavirus pandemic. “What we want is change,” Yamila Monte, a Cuban domestic worker told AFP. “I have had enough.” The protests were the largest against [ … ]
A cooperation agreement among the Peruvian government, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), now makes it possible to monitor illegal mining and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. The Radar Mining Monitoring Tool (RAMI), was officially launched on June 16, 2021, [ … ]
Hundreds of people in the rural communities of La Bodega and the 15 of April Cooperative, in Colón department, received humanitarian aid during a military medical operation carried out by U.S. Southern Command’s Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), June 29-July 1. A team of 42 members of the JTF-Bravo Medical [ … ]
Juan Manuel Pino Forero, Panamanian minister of Public Security, coordinates a national and regional effort to combat transnational criminal organizations. Interagency work with security agencies, binational border agreements, and cooperation with the Southern Triangle are part of his commitment to counter illicit networks. Minister Pino spoke with Diálogo during the [ … ]
On June 30, 2021, the Brazilian Air Force (FAB, in Portuguese) launched the new Ponta Porã Radar Station, in Mato Grosso do Sul (MS). The station is the third in a series of new radars that the FAB installed along the border in the country’s central-west region. The first station [ … ]
U.S. Army South conducted a change of command ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on June 30. U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), presided over the ceremony in which U.S. Army Major General Daniel R. Walrath relinquished command to U.S. Army [ … ]
Rear Admiral Don Gabrielson, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. Fourth Fleet, hosted delegates from the Ecuadorian Navy for the annual Maritime Staff Talks (MST) June 25. Annual MSTs support the U.S. maritime strategy, “Advantage at Sea,” by building and strengthening working relationships between U.S. and partner nations’ maritime [ … ]
Since the Constitution of 1991, Colombia has become a social state under the rule of law; that is, the state must ensure the integrity of citizens, and therefore, the country’s sovereignty rests with the people. It is a state with a democratic political system that has developed successfully in recent [ … ]
Colombian Army Major General Luis Mauricio Ospina Gutiérrez, director of General Rafael Reyes Prieto War College (ESDEG, in Spanish), prioritizes strengthening the educational quality of the Colombian Military Forces’ General Command. He spoke with Diálogo about academic projections. Diálogo: ESDEG was founded in 1909. What is its main contribution to military [ … ]
U.N. Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet warns that increasingly repressive measures by the Nicaraguan government against its political opponents are undermining prospects for free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections in November. Bachelet’s warning came as she submitted her report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on June 22. Nicaragua [ … ]
The deterioration of press freedom guarantees in Venezuela increased with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, which means greater harassment of reporters during their coverage of vaccination days, and even for publishing data checks about the numbers of COVID-19 patients and deaths from the disease, said Pedro Vaca, special rapporteur [ … ]
U.S. Army Colonel Steven Gventer, commander of Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, and members of the task force, met with Major General Tito Livio Moreno Coello, Honduran Armed Forces chief of Staff, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 9, to discuss the long-standing U.S. and Honduran partnership. [ … ]
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