Russia has shown itself to be an aggressive cyber actor, launching cyberattacks against democratic states, such as the United States, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. On January 14, 2022, Ukraine accused Russian “cyber troops” of being behind the massive cyberattack against several of its government agencies, Voice of America reported. [ … ]
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White House Warns of Possible Russian Interference in Colombia’s Upcoming Elections
“In the world of disinformation there are efforts to propagate and spread stories that are not of Colombian origin, and this is especially true in the context of the elections that are coming up, and our desire is to have a free and fair election, a Colombian election for Colombians,” [ … ]
Russians Boots in Venezuela
Russia and the Venezuelan regime have pledged to bolster ties only days after Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov threatened to send troops to the South American country amid growing U.S.-Russia tensions over Ukraine. In a phone call, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro discussed key issues of [ … ]
Possible Russian Interference in Colombia’s Elections
In 2018, former U.S. Deputy Assistant of Defense for the Western Hemisphere Frank Mora said that Russia would try to intervene in the Colombian elections. Mora, whom President Joe Biden nominated as U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States in July 2021, added that the Russians would likely be [ … ]
The Future of the Coldest, Windiest, Driest, Highest Place on Earth: The Antarctic Treaty
The treaty that governs the largest desert in the world is coming up for renewal in 2048. The year the Antarctic Treaty entered into force, 1961, most of the world was still watching television in black and white. On its face, this seems like something that we should be able [ … ]
JTF-Bravo Conducts Humanitarian Assistance Exercise in Belize
U.S. Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo) conducted the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise Keel-billed Toucan (KBT) aimed at ensuring maximum disaster readiness, in Ladyville, Belize, January 7-18, 2022, the U.S. Embassy in Belize said in a statement. Some 150 JTF-Bravo service members and U.S. Army helicopters [ … ]
US SOUTHCOM Fights Through COVID-19
As I boarded my flight in Bogotá, Colombia, to return to the United States on March 14, 2020, after participating in the joint Colombia-U.S. Exercise Vita in the Guajira Peninsula, the reality of how the COVID-19 pandemic was going to affect our lives over the next year began to manifest. [ … ]
Ortega-Murillo Regime Dismantles Nongovernmental Organizations
The Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime has been using Nicaragua’s Foreign Agents Law to dissolve movements and nongovernmental organizations (NGO) that it considers enemies, thereby “dismantling the rule of law,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in late 2021. Since its October 2020 approval until December 14, 2021, the regulation [ … ]
Fighting Russian Lies
Disinformation in Southeast Europe Since the end of the Cold War, the countries of Southeast Europe have pursued Euro-Atlantic integration with varying degrees of success. In recent years, however, that process has lost momentum as prospects for further NATO and European Union enlargement appear to have stalled. Even countries that [ … ]
Nicaragua: De Facto Police State, IACHR Warns
“The concentration of power in the executive branch has facilitated Nicaragua’s transformation into a de facto police state in which the government has installed a regime of suppression of all freedoms,” Fiorella Melzi, Special Monitoring Mechanism for Nicaragua (MESENI, in Spanish) coordinator of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), [ … ]
Venezuela: Understanding Political, External, and Criminal Actors in an Authoritarian State
The predictable triumph by Maduro loyalists in Venezuela’s rigged November 2021 elections was a symbolic nail in the coffin for the attempt by the de jure government of Juan Guaido to restore the more liberal type of democracy previously prevailing in the country. Venezuela now seems to ever more resemble [ … ]
How to approach the fight against terrorism in the 21st century: crime or act of war?
The human being throughout his existence has been witness and protagonist of the struggle between good and evil. History illustrates from different perspectives how man has evolved and has become a being of knowledge, ideals and interests. When these are not fulfilled or satisfied, different mechanisms are established to obtain [ … ]