This work was first published in March 2023 by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, part of Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School for International and Public Affairs. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper explores the extent wealthy Chinese Citizenship by Investment (CBI) holders in the Caribbean use their [ … ]
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Colombia: Coca Price Crash Offers Opportunities and Challenges in the Fight Against Narcotrafficking
In recent months, the price of coca, the raw plant used to make cocaine, collapsed by as much as 50 percent in Colombia, while coca buyers have seemingly all but disappeared. In the country’s most impoverished regions, where hundreds of thousands of families depend on the crop for their livelihood, [ … ]
Argentina to Combat Organized Crime with FBI Support
The government of Argentina signed an agreement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to join forces in the fight against organized crime, the Argentine Ministry of Security announced. “A healthy return to the policy of international coordination in security matters, which began in 2015, is being carried out through [ … ]
Army of Russian Hackers Unmasked
In a northeastern suburb of Moscow, behind the walls of a cybersecurity consulting firm, NTC Vulkan engineers help Russia’s intelligence agencies strengthen their hacking operations, launch cyberattacks, sow disinformation, train agents on how to ambush national infrastructure, and monitor sections of the internet, The Vulkan Files, an international investigative project [ … ]
Mexican Cartels Foment Violence in Ecuador
The Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Mexican cartels are turning Ecuador into “a war zone” for control of cocaine trafficking from Colombia through Ecuador bound for the United States and Europe, U.S. digital platform Vice News reported. Local gang members are sent to cartel-funded training camps in northern Ecuador to [ … ]
Perry Center Addresses Urgent Security Challenges of Climate Change
For the first time, military and civilian personnel from 21 partner nations of the Americas and Africa came together for the course “Climate Change and Implications for Defense and Security (CCIDS),” in Washington, D.C., May 8-19, 2023. The William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies organized the course. “It’s [ … ]
China Invites Venezuela to the Moon
On April 8, The Chinese government urged Venezuela to join its lunar research station project in a bid to expand international collaboration, the Venezuelan regime said in an April 8 statement. The International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a joint China-Russia project, seeks to establish a research base on the moon [ … ]
Iran and Venezuela Strengthen Ties in Oil Industry
Tehran and Caracas signed new memorandums of understanding to expand cooperation in the energy sector in the face of economic sanctions imposed on both countries, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported. The agreements on oil, gas, reconstruction, and renovation of oil refineries, which Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji and [ … ]
Chinese Space Station on Argentine Soil Continues to Arouse Suspicion
The Espacio Lejano Station, with its 35-meter-diameter antenna operated by the Chinese military in Argentine Patagonia, continues to arouse suspicion. Security and Defense experts insist that the structure, which sits on a 200-hectare compound in Neuquén province, leased to China for 50 years, could be dual use. “Five years after [ … ]
China to Increase Bolivian Lithium Extraction
State-owned Yacimientos de Litio Boliviano (YLB), together with Chinese companies CATL, BRUNP, and CMOC (CBC), will build two production plants in the Bolivian salt flats of Uyuni and Coipasa with direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology, which will be ready by 2025, Spanish daily El País reported. Each of these plants [ … ]
The Fight Against Russia’s Fake News in Cuba
A fierce information war is being fought in Caribbean nations with Russian state media trying to peddle one narrative about the Ukraine war while a fact-checking site from Kyiv battles to rebut the stories. In Cuba, Kremlin-controlled media outlets such as Russia Today, Sputnik, and RIA-Novosti have been the main [ … ]
Latin American Dictatorships Strengthen Ties with Iran
The regimes of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela strengthened their geopolitical alliance with Iran during a “friendly tour” of the Islamic country’s Foreign Minister Hosein Amir-Abdollahian. Experts, however, warn that Iran is an unreliable ally, which is alienated from the international community, and abuses its trade relationship with other nations to [ … ]