The U.S. government and the Salvadoran Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology launched the Educational Innovation Project in a bid to improve the safety and quality of education for children between the 1st and 6th grades in 300 public schools in the departments of Santa Ana, San Salvador, and San [ … ]
Transnational Threats
The Fight Against Russia’s Fake News in Cuba
A fierce information war is being fought in Caribbean nations with Russian state media trying to peddle one narrative about the Ukraine war while a fact-checking site from Kyiv battles to rebut the stories. In Cuba, Kremlin-controlled media outlets such as Russia Today, Sputnik, and RIA-Novosti have been the main [ … ]
Brazil Increases Presence of Women in UN Peacekeeping Missions
Brazil once more demonstrated its commitment to Women, Peace, and Security, exceeding the participation of women security officers in United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping missions in 2022, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense indicated in a statement. “The deployment of Brazilian military women to occupy such positions indicates the alignment of the [ … ]
US Helps Costa Rica Combat Cyberthreats
The United States committed to donate $25 million to Costa Rica to help strengthen its cybersecurity and digital infrastructure against threats from malicious actors. Costa Rica’s Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology, and Telecommunications (MICITT) and the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica announced the initiative. “The U.S. government’s support is very [ … ]
Women’s Presence Soars in Uruguayan Armed Forces
The percentage of women in the Uruguayan Armed Forces rose by 25 percent in recent years, with military women assuming more important responsibilities in the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Uruguayan Ministry of Defense indicated. In early February, the Uruguayan Navy reached a historic milestone as Ensign Nati Fontaine [ … ]
China Makes Advances on Second Overseas Naval Base
Chinese-funded construction in the northern compound of Ream Naval Base in Cambodia, in the Gulf of Thailand, is making progress, recent satellite images have shown. As reports began to emerge in 2022 about the deal that will allow China to use the base militarily for 30 years, both countries initially [ … ]
CENTAM SMOKE, 15 Years of Training in Central America
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 [ … ]
Venezuelan Doctors Blame Maduro for Exodus of Health Professionals
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 [ … ]
Chinese Regime Adopts Russian Disinformation Tactics
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 [ … ]
Latin American Dictatorships Strengthen Ties with Iran
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 [ … ]
China Seeks to Control Strategic Minerals
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, [ … ]
Artificial Intelligence, the Venezuelan Regime’s New Scam
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 [ … ]