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US Special Operations Forces Deliver Medical Equipment Donation to Guyanese Hospital

U.S. Special Operations Forces consisting of Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations, and Special Forces service members that make up Cross Functional Team-Guyana, facilitated the donation of medical equipment, February 3, to a hospital in Linden, Guyana. Through the U.S. Department of Defense’s Humanitarian Assistance Program, the U.S. Embassy and Cross Functional Team-Guyana donated medical equipment valued at $33,000 to the Linden…

March 13, 2023

Perry Center Honors Excellence in Security and Defense Education Award Recipients

Each year, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies recognizes individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions advancing mutually supportive approaches to security and fostering transparent and capable defense and security governance institutions. On September 22, Daniel P. Erikson, U.S. deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere, and U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Andrew A.…

September 29, 2022

Colombia Continues to Deal Blows to Clan del Golfo

The Colombian Military Forces’ operations against the Clan del Golfo, Colombia’s largest organized armed group, continue to yield positive results. Among their latest accomplishments is the capture of Gustavo Adolfo Gregorio de Jesús Gómez Rodríguez, alias Arcángel, el Gali, or el Compadre, the main leader of the Clan del Golfo’s North Caribbean column. The mid-July operation was carried out with…

August 24, 2022

Nicaragua, a Terrorist State

The Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime has established a terrorist state in Nicaragua, where impunity is official policy. Such were some of the conclusions of a new report from Costa Rica-based nongovernmental organization Human Rights Collective Nicaragua Nunca Más and Nicaraguan Urnas Abiertas Citizen Observatory. The investigations highlight the destruction of the rule of law, leaving citizens defenseless, and reducing institutions…

August 15, 2022

US Sanctions Ortega-Murillo Regime’s Mining Company

The United States sanctioned state-owned Nicaraguan mining company ENIMINAS and its board president for their growing ties with Russia. The June 17 executive order of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) bars any dealings by U.S. assets with the company and the president of its board of directors,Ruy Delgado López, thus undermining one of…

July 28, 2022

Argentine Navy Strengthens Fleet to Combat Illegal Fishing

The Argentine Navy took delivery of the last of four ocean patrol vessels recently acquired to control illegal fishing on June 2, 2022. The ARA Contraalmirante Cordero ship joins surveillance and control tasks in the South Atlantic, to deter Chinese fishing fleets that trespass Argentina’s maritime boundaries to exploit its fishery resources. “These four patrol vessels are essential to strengthen…

June 30, 2022

Chilean Police Derails El Tren de Aragua Operations

Chile’s Investigative Police (PDI) dismantled an arm of the transnational criminal organization El Tren de Aragua, originally from Venezuela, which has been terrorizing South America with homicides, kidnappings, human trafficking for sexual exploitation, and extortion, among other crimes. Operation Clandestino, which extends to different cities in the north and center of the country, led to the March 24th arrest of…

May 06, 2022

Chile Takes Part in US Mountain Course

Chilean Army Captain Gustavo Schwerter, commander of the 8th Mountain Detachment Tucapel’s Andean Company, traveled on March 29, 2022 to the frozen North to participate in the Basic Military Mountaineering Course in Alaska. The U.S. Army’s Northern Warfare Training Center (NWTC) conducts the combat training course in cold mountain regions. “The activity was developed within the framework of life, movement,…

May 06, 2022

Seminar Analyzes Human Rights and Operational Law in Colombia

A man advances with a machete toward a Colombian service member who during a patrol finds an illegal coca leaf plantation. A member of the LGBTQ community refuses to be searched by a uniformed male soldier. An indigenous man returns from a hunt to find his wife and child surrounded by camouflaged soldiers and threatens them with arrows. These are…

May 05, 2022

Paraguay: SENAD Carries Out Largest Operation Against Organized Crime

More than 100 raids, 30 arrest warrants, and $100 million confiscated in assets. These are the results as of late March of A Ultranza PY, the largest operation against organized crime and money laundering in the history of Paraguay. The Paraguayan National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD), together with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation,…

April 15, 2022

Colombia, US Strengthen Fight Against Money Laundering

On March 4, 2022, the U.S. and the Colombian governments signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen the investigation and prosecution of money laundering and related crimes, the Colombian Office of the Attorney General said. The initiative targets transnational organized crime and narcotrafficking groups that carry out criminal activities from Colombia. In addition, this will facilitate joint investigative efforts to…

March 31, 2022

Ecuador Fights Against Drug Smuggling in Containers

In 2021, Ecuador seized a record amount of drugs, confiscating 210 tons and dealing a harsh blow to narcotrafficking. According to the Ecuadorian National Police’s Anti-drug Investigation Directorate, 60 percent of drug seizures were made in ports, the Ecuadorian news site Primicias reported. As of early March 2022, authorities have already seized more than 40 tons of drugs, while also…

March 31, 2022

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Special Report

For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]