A survey entitled What do you think in Latin America about the European Union? revealed that China and Russia lead the negative image ranking among participants in the poll, which was carried out by the Latinobarómetro pollster, at the request of the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation, and Nueva Sociedad/Grupo Diálogo [ … ]
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Guatemala Welcomes Ukrainians Fleeing Russian invasion
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 [ … ]
Argentina Sends Help to Latin Americans Fleeing Ukraine
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 Threatens Global Food Security
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, [ … ]
Russian Censorship, Repression Hits Social Media
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, [ … ]
Argentine Nanosatellites Monitor Russian Army Movements
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 [ … ]
Nicaragua’s Dependency on Russia Might Represent a Hemispheric Threat
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. [ … ]
Russia Insists on Using Sarcasm during Conflicts
In addition to fake news and disinformation, Russian officials have been using sarcasm in times of conflict to deflect attention from actions seen as threatening by democratic countries, international media outlets say. Russia used such a tool when it annexed Crimea in 2014, Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale [ … ]
Russia Intensifies Cyber Warfare on Ukraine
“We call on Russia [...] to stop its disinformation campaign and cyberattacks,” said European Union Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) Olof Skoog, during a speech at the U.N. Extraordinary Assembly on February 28, 2022. As Russian tanks breached the Ukrainian border in the early hours of February 24, hundreds [ … ]
Russia-Venezuela Military Partnership A Threat to Latin America
The Venezuelan regime’s support for the Vladimir Putin government amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a destabilizing factor for Latin America. “Russia has the full support of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro said, upon receiving Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov at the Miraflores Palace on February [ … ]
Russia Escalates Hybrid Warfare Against Ukraine and the World
Following the Kremlin’s order to launch a military operation against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “great machinery of interference” went into overdrive to sway global public opinion against Ukraine, the United States, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Spanish newspaper ABC reported on February 25. “The complex web [ … ]
Venezuela Did Not Vote on UN Resolution Condemning Russia, Here’s Why
March 2, 2022 was a historic day. At an emergency session, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning Russian aggression, with 141 countries voting in favor, 34 abstaining, and only five voting against, The New York Times reported. The no votes came from Belarus (a long-time close [ … ]