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Kremlin-controlled media outlets such as RT and Sputnik have amassed a large number of Spanish-speaking followers on social media platforms and spread disinformation to millions, news site Insider reported April 7, 2022. RT is now the third most shared site on Twitter with Spanish-language information about the Ukraine invasion, AP [ … ]

On March 30, the Colombian Army and the Attorney General’s Office captured in the town of Suba, Bogotá, Russian citizen Sergei Vagin and six Colombians, alleged members of a criminal network that moved millions of dollars to finance operations against the Public Force and organize protests in the country since [ … ]

Russia uses artificial intelligence to spread deepfakes — a combination of the concepts deep learning and fake — on the internet; that is, montages of altered images or videos in which a person does or says things that they never did or said. This is among the disinformation weapons cybercriminals [ … ]

As Russia continues to shell neighboring Ukraine, the Kremlin also pushes its false narrative on Latin American social networks, pointing to the United States as the bigger problem, and portraying Russians as victims of the war, the AP news agency reported April 1. “Though many of the claims have been [ … ]

Social media giants, telecommunication companies, and European governments joined forces to halt the spread of disinformation from the Kremlin’s state-run media, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In Latin America, Uruguay’s state-owned telecommunications company, Antel, suspended Russian television network RT (formerly known as Russia Today) from Vera TV, its main media [ … ]

The Guatemalan government, through the Migration Institute, has taken measures to receive families fleeing Ukraine due to Russia’s attacks. On April 3, five Ukrainian citizens arrived in Guatemala, bringing the total number of Ukrainians arriving in the Central America country to more than 30, the Guatemalan Migration Institute reported. On [ … ]

On 4 March 2022, the Argentine government deployed a delegation of White Helmets, a civilian humanitarian aid organization under the auspices of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, to Warsaw, capital of Poland, to facilitate the departure of Latin American citizens who had to flee Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. [caption id="attachment_69509" align="alignright" [ … ]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is affecting grain supplies and global food and fertilizer prices due to port closures and missile strikes on merchant ships in the Black Sea, international media reported. According to German news site DW, Russian forces have prevented up to 300 ships from leaving the Black Sea, [ … ]

Russia has intensified censorship and repression against social networking sites and their users by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as passing a law that criminalizes the dissemination of “fake news” about the Russian Armed Forces and “calls to adopt sanctions against the country.” On March 4, [ … ]

The Argentine nanosatellite company Satellogic is collaborating with Ukraine against the Russian invasion, sending images from outer space to monitor the movements of the Russian Army in Ukrainian territory, the company said March 4, 2022. Satellogic, viaTwitter, said it was working with the Ukrainian government, the United States, members of [ … ]

Given the global revulsion toward Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, governments in Latin America and the Caribbean should rethink their relationship with Moscow. That’s what Daniel F. Runde, senior vice president for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said in a March 3 editorial. [ … ]