The Panther Squadron, stationed at Brazil’s Santa Maria Air Base, celebrated the arrival of its first H-60L Black Hawk helicopters on 1 March...
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Colombian Army Has Detained 187 Gang Members in the Last Month
In the last month, the Colombian authorities have arrested 187 alleged members of the new criminal gangs made up of drug traffickers and former extreme-right-wing paramilitaries...
Military and Police Hand-in-Hand in Fight against Crime in Honduras
More than two thousand military personnel went out on 2 March, to patrol the streets together with the police in Honduras’s major cities, under the banner of containing a crime wave that has President Porfirio Lobo’s administration up against a wall.
Nearly Eight Tons of Marijuana Seized in Colombia
The Colombian anti-narcotics police seized 7.9 tons of marijuana, valued at more than 700,000 dollars, in three operations carried out in the city of Medellín (in northwestern Colombia) and the department of Meta (in central Colombia)...
Drug Trafficking Affects Young People
The increase in drug-trafficking activities in Latin America is giving rise to “a new class of violence” that is affecting children and adolescents and poses the greatest challenge facing the region’s governments...
Chile Creates New Emergency System for Future Disasters
On 22 February, Chile announced the creation of a new national emergency system, five days before commemorating the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated south-central Chile on 27 February 2010...
Afghan Police Graduate C-IED Course Prepared to Train Others
Afghan National Civil Order Policemen (ANP) proudly displayed their certificates during a graduation ceremony on 17 February for the counter improvised explosive device (C-IED) awareness train-the-trainer course held at the Paktiya provincial police headquarters in Gardez City.
Peruvian and Chilean Military Leaders Meet to Coordinate Joint Actions
The heads of the Peruvian and Chilean militaries met in the Peruvian border city of Tacna to coordinate joint actions in fulfillment of the accords between the two countries’ defense ministries, the official news agency Andina reported.
On New Threats
On looking over an old book from what was then the Advanced Military Studies Center (CAEM), I found an interesting definition of security: “… it is a basic need of human individuals and groups and an inalienable right of man and of nations. It may be individual, community, specific, national, [ … ]
U.S. Targets New, Emerging Drug-Trafficking Gangs in Colombia
The Narcotics Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office has created a special unit dedicated to dismantling emerging drug-trafficking criminal gangs in Colombia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami announced on 9 February.
Hernán Mardones, New Head of the Chilean Army Joint General Staff
Chilean Defense Minister Andrés Allemand has designated Army Maj. Gen. Hernán Mardones as the new head of the Joint General Staff. Mardones replaces Maj. Gen. Cristián Le Dantec, who resigned on 17 January.
Guatemalan Military Fights a New War in the Country’s Northern Jungles
The Guatemalan military is once again patrolling the jungles of Alta Verapaz, but its mission is very different than the one it carried out during the civil war: now it is not pursuing guerrillas, but drug traffickers, and now it is not causing fear, but relief among the population.