Brazil currently has 55 defense attachés. To strengthen its relationship with the nations in which these service members are advisors, as part of the diplomatic corps, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense (MD, in Portuguese) held the Symposium Update for Partner Nations Defense Attachés. “Attachés play a fundamental role in pursuing [ … ]
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Iran in Latin America: Malign Alliances, “Super Spreaders,” and Alternative Narratives
Executive Summary Iran’s ability to shape the information environment and spread the narrative of the United States as an imperialist force—perpetrating violence and instability in Latin America—has grown in recent years. These ongoing and multifaceted campaigns of disinformation and care- fully curated messages are coordinated with Russian and Venezuelan state [ … ]
Bolivia Eradicates More than 2,000 Hectares of Coca Crops in 3 Months
Bolivian security forces eradicated more than 2,000 hectares of coca crops between April and June 2021. “The total eradicated to date is 2,386 hectares,” Bolivian Vice Minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances Jaime Mamani said in an interview with Primer Plano, a TV show airing on Bolivia TV channel, [ … ]
New directions in the deepening Chinese-Argentine engagement
The December 2019 inauguration of President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina returned to power a Peronist government that has not only moved the nation in an increasingly left-populist direction, but has also opened the door for a substantial deepening of the country’s already significant [ … ]
Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America, Caribbean a PR Coup for China
The COVID-19 pandemic has created multiple opportunities for the People’s Republic of China to advance its commercial position and influence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The most significant, in the short term, has been China’s vaccine diplomacy. Over a million people in the region have died from COVID-19 since [ … ]
Chinese Advances in Chile
©2021 Global Americans For more than twenty years, successive Chilean governments, on both the right and the left, have sought to integrate their country, with its back to the Andes mountains, into the Pacific rim's flourishing economy. Chile has already tied itself to Asia and other parts of the world [ … ]
Historical background of the precautionary principle in the development of military operations against drug trafficking with reference to environmental damage
Summary: This article addresses issues related to the historical and normative background of environmental law, the international regulatory framework, the background of environmental legislation in Colombia and the precautionary principle in environmental law, how this normativity is being developed by legislations worldwide and in the different branches of law, among [ … ]
Uruguay strikes a path to navigate relations with US and China
Uruguay, like many countries in Latin America, has deepened its relationship with China in recent years. Unlike in neighboring countries, however, Uruguay’s strong institutions and interest in maintaining a relationship with the U.S. have tempered its newfound friendship with Beijing. Under the government of Luis Lacalle Pou, the country has [ … ]
Chinese engagement in the Dominican Republic: An update
Introduction When President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic announced in May 2018 that his government would recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC), abandoning the Dominican Republic’s longstanding diplomatic commitment to Taiwan, alarm bells sounded in Washington, D.C. Panama had recognized the PRC only one year earlier, while El [ … ]
Distinctive Capabilities of the FAC as a Deterrence Element in the Framework of Cooperation with NATO
Summary This research is framed in the context of the acceptance of Colombia as "Partnership Across the Globe" by the NATO Council, which represents the ninth global partner of NATO and the only country in America to achieve such a relevant status. However, beyond this significant event, little is openly [ … ]
Artificial Intelligence in the International Military Context and its Potential Applications in the Colombian National Army
Summary Every day it is more common to hear the term Artificial Intelligence in different aspects of human life and it is normal to imagine that it is a new concept, which is a mistake. This concept has been developing for many years and looking for a place in the [ … ]
Chinese engagement in Latin America and Europe: Comparisons and Interdependencies
Abstract. This paper examines Chinese commercial, political, and security engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean, comparing it with similar engagement in Europe. It finds evidence that PRC engagement globally is driven by a strategy focused on re-orienting the world to the economic benefit of the PRC, with nonetheless important [ … ]