“The Honduran Armed Forces are a guarantor and a benchmark on human rights for the region,” Heidi Carolina Portillo Lagos, undersecretary of State for the Honduran Office of National Defense, said at the opening ceremony for the Honduran Human Rights Initiative workshop, which took place at the National Defense University [ … ]
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Brazilian Federal Police Incinerates More than 10 Tons of Drugs
On June 25, 2021, agents of the Brazilian Federal Police (PF, in Portuguese) carried out a major operation to incinerate more than 10 tons of narcotics in the municipality of Mundo Novo, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS). In early 2021, the PF had already destroyed more [ … ]
Bolivia Eradicates More than 2,000 Hectares of Coca Crops in 3 Months
Bolivian security forces eradicated more than 2,000 hectares of coca crops between April and June 2021. “The total eradicated to date is 2,386 hectares,” Bolivian Vice Minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances Jaime Mamani said in an interview with Primer Plano, a TV show airing on Bolivia TV channel, [ … ]
Maritime Crime During the Pandemic: Unmasking Trends in the Caribbean
*This article was first published by the Center for International Maritime Security While life on land for most people has been unusually sedentary in 2020 with significant travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders, the maritime space has remained remarkably active. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic the Caribbean’s maritime [ … ]
Maduro Cedes Territory to Criminals, Narcotraffickers, Terrorists
The criminal gang of Carlos Luis Revete, alias El Coquí, which operates in the working-class neighborhood Cota 905 of Caracas, located at 4.5 kilometers from the Miraflores Palace, challenged the regime by firing two machine guns at the residence where Nicolás Maduro was staying on June 12, 2021, the Spanish [ … ]
Air Advisors Strengthen Partnership, Advance Capabilities in Jamaica
The U.S. Air Force’s 571st Mobility Support Advisory Squadron (571st MSAS) successfully conducted a Mobile Training Team (MTT) engagement with the Jamaican Defense Force Air Wing (JDF-AW) at Up Park Camp and the Caribbean Military Aviation School, in Kingston, Jamaica, June 10-22, 2021. U.S. Air Force air advisors, like those [ … ]
Costa Rica Confronts Security Problems
Costa Rican Minister of Public Security Michael Soto Rojas took part in the Central American Security Conference 2021 in Panama City, on June 22-23. Diálogo spoke with Minister Soto about Costa Rica’s role in the fight against narcotrafficking. Diálogo: What is Costa Rica’s main security problem? Costa Rican Minister of [ … ]
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing in the Pacific
KOROR, Palau – Task Force Oceania’s Pacific augmentation teams recently completed their first rotational tours providing continuous support to Pacific island countries in Oceania demonstrating U.S. Army Pacific and U.S. IndoPacific Command’s commitment to our allies and partners in the region. And while the U.S. Department of Defense is committed [ … ]
DOD Announces AI Competition to Detect, Defeat Illegal Fishing
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Global Fishing Watch (GFW), a nonprofit that uses satellites to provide a view of global fishing activities, announced July 22 a new xView3 Challenge to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The xView3 is a competition with a $150,000 [ … ]
Peruvian Marine Corps Hosts Multinational Amphibious Planning Conference
The Peruvian Marine Corps hosted the second annual Multinational Amphibious Planners Conference at the new International Amphibious Training Center in Ancón, Lima province, on July 16. Partner nation naval infantry representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and the United States gathered at the newly established International [ … ]
Strengthening Partnerships for Disaster Readiness
U.S. military and civilian personnel from Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Honduran Armed Forces, the Honduran Permanent Contingency Committee (COPECO, in Spanish) and Honduras’ Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Services (INSEP, in Spanish), conducted a joint training to enhance disaster response readiness, [ … ]
Law Enforcement, Women, Peace, and Security, Make their Debuts at Tradewinds 2021
Nestled inside the Captain’s meeting room aboard a ship sit two women. Suddenly, three men in blue military service uniforms and armed with assault rifles burst in and begin to search the area while another armed man takes the women to the main deck for interrogation about suspicions of human [ … ]