In an early October report, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, highlighted the growing concerns over China’s space footprint in South America. Its expanding ground stations in the region could be intercepting sensitive information, the report Eyes on the Skies indicated. “China [ … ]
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Tussle for the Amazon: New Frontiers in Brazil’s Organized Crime Landscape
Brazil is witnessing a “tussle for the Amazon”—a new and deadly phase in the history of its organized crime groups and their operations. While the country is no stranger to violent criminal organizations, recent years have seen groups building increasingly sophisticated networks, both within and beyond Brazil’s borders. In the [ … ]
Brazil: Police Seizes 18 Tons of Marijuana
Agents from Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) and Federal Highway Police (PRF) seized nearly 18 tons of marijuana in Santa Catarina state in mid-September. Authorities found the 17,900 kilograms of drugs in a truck carrying food on the BR-101 Highway in Greater Florianópolis. This was the largest amount of marijuana seized [ … ]
Argentine and Brazilian Navies Train in Search and Rescue Missions
The Argentine Navy (ARA) and the Brazilian Navy (MB) reviewed their capabilities and trained troops in medical evacuation and search and rescue missions to safeguard human life at sea as part of exercise SAREX 2022 in the South Atlantic. “The exercise had special relevance, since both countries have two of [ … ]
Continuing Promise in Honduras, Enduring Partnership
Sonia Waldikia González Barahona, 39, waited more than a year for a surgery after she was diagnosed with an incarcerated umbilical hernia. Swollen belly, sharp abdominal pain, fever, and vomiting were part of her daily symptoms. As her pain increased, Sonia, a mother of three, had to quit her housekeeping [ … ]
China Depletes World Oceans with Illegal Fishing Operations
Over the last two decades, China has built the world’s largest deep-water fishing fleet by far, with nearly 3,000 ships. Having severely depleted stocks in its own coastal waters, China now fishes in any ocean in the world, and on a scale that dwarfs some countries’ entire fleets near their [ … ]
Venezuelan Intelligence Agencies Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity, UN Report Says
Venezuela’s intelligence agencies are committing crimes against humanity as part of a plan orchestrated by the Nicolás maduro regime to repress dissent, warns a mid-September United Nations (U.N.) report. The repression is carried out “including through the commission of extremely grave acts of torture,” the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission [ … ]
China’s Hunger for Fish Increases in Latin America
China’s fishing activities from January to May 31, 2022, near the exclusive economic zones of Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina, were four times greater than those of all other countries combined that fish in the same areas, an investigative report from The New York Times indicated. In contrast, in all of [ … ]
Fishing for Security: Taking on Illegal Fishing in Latin America
This article was first published in September 2021, by the Jack Gordon Institute for Public Policy, part of Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School for International and Public Affairs. Introduction Over 25 years ago, illegal fishing was seen as a significant threat to international fisheries. Extraordinary efforts, such as [ … ]
Brazil Arrests One of Its Most Wanted Narcotraffickers in São Paulo
On September 5, the State of São Paulo Civil Police arrested Anderson Lacerda Pereira, alias Gordão, one of Brazil’s most wanted narcotraffickers, at a restaurant in Poá. Pereira had been wanted since 2017, when he was sentenced to 21 years in prison for international narcotrafficking and also had an Interpol [ … ]
Synthetic Drugs Gain Popularity in Latin America
The trafficking of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamines (MDMA), fentanyl, and ecstasy is on the rise in Latin America, with new markets, routes, and substances that challenge the traditional predominance of plant-based narcotics, InSight Crime, an organization that studies organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, indicated in a [ … ]
Criminal Groups Destroy Peruvian Amazon, Study Shows
Peru’s 70 million hectares of Amazon rainforest are being razed at an alarming rate. According to a recent study by Brazilian think tank Instituto Igarapé in partnership with InSight Crime, which specializes in organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, the destruction of the forest has intensified in recent [ … ]