For the first time, U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), sailing toward Latin America and the Caribbean as part of U.S. Southern Command- (SOUTHCOM) sponsored humanitarian mission Continuing Promise 2022, is breaking down gender barriers by expanding the perspective on traditional security and health issues. The current mission [ … ]
The bilateral exercise between U.S. and Brazilian forces focused on maritime security and strengthening maritime partnerships with partner nations. “The bilateral exercise continued to demonstrate collaboration and interoperability between the United States and Brazil’s naval forces,” said U.S. Navy Captain Meger Chappell, deputy commodore of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 40. “We [ … ]
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 [ … ]
More than 200 service members of the Brazilian Army will participate in the Combined Operations and Rotation Exercises (CORE 22) in Fort Polk, Louisiana, August 4-September 6. Troops of the Brazilian Army’s 12th Light Infantry Brigade (Airborne) and the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, will share [ … ]
The Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) Leadership Center of Excellence (NCOLCoE) is a premier institution driving innovative development for U.S. Army’s enlisted leaders (ELs). The center provides professional military education that fosters ELs to meet the challenges of today’s complex world. Previously known as the Sergeants Major Academy, the NCOLCoE is a [ … ]
Narcotrafficking in Brazil is increasingly intertwined with environmental crimes in the Amazon, researchers warn. Drug trafficking groups are relying more and more on loads of timber and manganese to conceal shipments of drugs abroad. “Much of the destruction of the forest in the region is the result of illegal activities [ … ]
On November 18, 2021, during Operation Calvary, the Brazilian Federal Police (PF, in Portuguese) dismantled an organization that was shipping cocaine to Europe by sea. About 150 PF agents served 36 search and seizure warrants, six arrest warrants and four temporary arrest warrants in several states, including São Paulo and [ … ]
With her swearing-in on October 29, 2021, U.S. Army General Laura J. Richardson became the first woman to lead U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and only the third woman to lead one of the U.S. military’s 11 unified combatant commands. As commander, Gen. Richardson oversees U.S. military operations across South and Central America, [ … ]
Nicaragua’s government has thwarted democracy for its people with a sham presidential election and the imprisonment of journalists and opposition leaders. “What Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, orchestrated today was a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic,” [ … ]
The northern region of Santa Catarina state, in the south of Brazil, has the largest industrial fishing fleet in the country, with hundreds of vessels transiting daily to carry out fishing activities. However, criminal groups have been taking advantages of workers’ legal pursuits to try and conceal their illegal practices. [ … ]
The United States military mobilized search and rescue teams following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that killed nearly 2,000 people in Haiti on August 14. U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) created Joint Task Force-Haiti to support the U.S. Agency for International Development- (USAID) led mission. On August 18, the U.S. Navy amphibious [ … ]
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