The Central America Sharing Mutual Operational Knowledge and Experiences (CENTAM SMOKE) exercise, which brought together military rescuers and professional firefighters from five countries for firefighting and disaster response training, was carried out at the Manuel Soto Cano Air Base in Comayagua, Honduras, headquarters of Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-Bravo), March [ … ]
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![CENTAM SMOKE, 15 Years of Training in Central America CENTAM SMOKE, 15 Years of Training in Central America](https://dialogo-americas.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/HND-Centam-Smoke_1-345x230.jpg)
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China Seeks to Control Strategic Minerals
Chinese companies have been expanding worldwide, seeking to extract the strategic minerals that fuel the clean energy revolution. Their sights are set on Latin America and its reserves of lithium, cobalt, copper, and rare earth elements. Between 2018 and 2023, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile received the top Chinese lithium investment, [ … ]
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Artificial Intelligence, the Venezuelan Regime’s New Scam
The regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has been spreading disinformation with artificial intelligence- (AI) generated newscasters, who only deliver news favorable to the regime, highlighting how the technology is used to further its narrative, Spanish daily El País reported. According to the report, based on a study by Venezuelan [ … ]
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Partnerships, Key to Tackle Western Hemisphere’s Security Challenges
The Western Hemisphere is increasingly confronting security and stability challenges that must be addressed together, academia, government entities, military officials, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector experts expressed at the 8th annual Hemispheric Security Conference (HSC), in Miami, Florida, May 2-3, 2023. Under the theme Partnerships in the Decisive Decade, [ … ]
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Colombian Women Return to Military Service After More Than 20 Years
In early February, a group of 1,296 women voluntarily joined the Colombian Army to serve in the first call-up in more than 20 years. The group is the first contingent of women of the four planned for 2023, where 5,184 women will be able to serve in different military units [ … ]
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Guatemala Gets US Support to Combat Narcotrafficking
The International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) section of the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala provides support to strengthen the professional capabilities of Guatemala’s National Civil Police (PNC), to improve citizen security and to combat narcotrafficking and related transnational organized crimes. This partnership is key as one of Guatemala’s main challenges [ … ]
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Venezuela and Iran Launch Direct Shipping Route
The launch of a direct shipping route between Iran and Venezuela is part of the agreements between Tehran and Caracas to circumvent U.S. sanctions imposed on both countries, Iran Front Page news site reported. Since February, when the shipping route was launched, two ships with “Iranian products” have arrived at [ … ]
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Brazilian Navy Unveils New Armored Vehicles with Fanfare
On March 7, the Brazilian Marine Corps (CFN) celebrated its 215th anniversary with a military ceremony held at the São José Fortress on Ilha das Cobras. During the ceremony, the Brazilian Navy took the opportunity to present its newest armored vehicle, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), acquired from U.S. [ … ]
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Leaked Document Shows How Russia, China Collaborate on Censorship
Leaked documents provided to Voice of America’s (VOA) sister network RFE/RL confirm reports that Russia and China collaborate on censorship and internet control tactics. The materials detail documents and recordings said to be from closed-door meetings in 2017 and 2019 between officials from the Chinese and Russian agencies charged with [ … ]
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Race to the Bottom: China and the Self-Defeating Logic of Transactional Diplomacy in the Americas
This article was originally published on The Diplomat on April 18, 2023. Having closely followed China’s advance in the Western Hemisphere for more than two decades, I have always felt discomfort with the reasonable sounding, but self-defeating explanation from our Latin American partners: “Well, the U.S. isn’t offering us anything [ … ]
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Maduro and Organized Crime Harm Venezuela’s Nature Reserves
Illegal gold mining operations and armed groups and their obscure economic interests, in cahoots with the Nicolás Maduro regime, are contributing to the massive destruction of Venezuela’s nature reserves, Venezuelan human rights nongovernmental organization (NGO) FundaRedes says in a recent study. The study exposes the deterioration of 44 national parks, [ … ]
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Central America, Mexico, and Dominican Republic, Together Against Crime
Central America, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic agreed to create a security strategy to have greater impact on the fight against organized crime; gangs; drug, arms, and human trafficking. Such was the outcome of the first Regional Conference of Security Ministers and Secretaries held in Guatemala City in February, Guatemala’s [ … ]