The Central America Sharing Mutual Operational Knowledge and Experiences (CENTAM SMOKE) exercise, which brought together military rescuers and professional firefighters from five countries for firefighting and disaster response training, was carried out at the Manuel Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua, Honduras, headquarters of Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), March [ … ]
The health care workers’ situation in Venezuela is precarious and has a direct impact on the care these professionals provide to the population. According to the Venezuelan Medical Federation (FMV), at least 42,000 health workers have left the country in recent years due to the economic crisis, miserable salaries, and [ … ]
China is increasingly adopting tactics associated with Russia to generate propaganda and disinformation in order to expand its geopolitical and global strategy, AP reported. Beijing-linked actors are disseminating large numbers of denigrating social media posts and generating fake news with the help of artificial intelligence as part of a broader [ … ]
The regimes of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela strengthened their geopolitical alliance with Iran during a “friendly tour” of the Islamic country’s Foreign Minister Hosein Amir-Abdollahian. Experts, however, warn that Iran is an unreliable ally, which is alienated from the international community, and abuses its trade relationship with other nations to [ … ]
Chinese companies have been expanding worldwide, seeking to extract the strategic minerals that fuel the clean energy revolution. Their sights are set on Latin America and its reserves of lithium, cobalt, copper, and rare earth elements. Between 2018 and 2023, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile received the top Chinese lithium investment, [ … ]
The regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has been spreading disinformation with artificial intelligence- (AI) generated newscasters, who only deliver news favorable to the regime, highlighting how the technology is used to further its narrative, Spanish daily El País reported. According to the report, based on a study by Venezuelan [ … ]
The Western Hemisphere is increasingly confronting security and stability challenges that must be addressed together, academia, government entities, military officials, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector experts expressed at the 8th annual Hemispheric Security Conference (HSC), in Miami, Florida, May 2-3, 2023. Under the theme Partnerships in the Decisive Decade, [ … ]
The Colombian Navy dealt hard blows to narcotrafficking, leading several combined operations with forces from the region, which resulted in the seizure of more than 4 tons of cocaine hydrochloride on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and the Pacific coast of Colombia. The mid-March operations among the Colombian Navy, [ … ]
In early February, a group of 1,296 women voluntarily joined the Colombian Army to serve in the first call-up in more than 20 years. The group is the first contingent of women of the four planned for 2023, where 5,184 women will be able to serve in different military units [ … ]
Increasing gang violence in Haiti prompted the United Nations (U.N.) on April 24 to issue an appeal in response to the crisis in Cité Soleil, one of the most populous settlements in the Caribbean nation, located west of Port-au-Prince, the capital. “The security and humanitarian situation in many areas of [ … ]
The International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) section of the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala provides support to strengthen the professional capabilities of Guatemala’s National Civil Police (PNC), to improve citizen security and to combat narcotrafficking and related transnational organized crimes. This partnership is key as one of Guatemala’s main challenges [ … ]
Colombian authorities have committed to seize the “largest amount of cocaine in history,” according to an early 2023 directive from the Colombian government to combat narcotrafficking, Spanish news site Notimerica reported. “There needs to be a [total] seizure that represents historic figures […],” said Colombian Defense Minister Iván Velásquez on [ … ]
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