Peruvian Minister of Defense Walter Martos Ruíz inaugurated the headquarters of the Armed Forces Joint Command’s Cyber Defense Operational Command (COCID, in Spanish) in Lima, in late January 2020. The command’s mission is to plan and carry out cyberspace operations to counter attacks against national security. “The unit is equipped [ … ]
Search Results for: ❤️ Întâlniri pentru mine: www.Dating4Me.site ❤️ Întâlniri Filipineze Chat Serviciu Clienți Număr De Telefon
Venezuelan Generals and the Cartel of the Suns
In Latin America, criminal cartels, have traditionally run drug trafficking. In Venezuela, this activity is managed within the government. Under the regime of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s position in the global cocaine business will increase. U.S. Navy Admiral Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S Southern Command, in a November 28, 2019 [ … ]
Human Rights Abuse Rampant In Venezuela’s Gold Mining
A new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) details the gruesome conditions that gold miners in Venezuela are forced to endure. Twelve percent of Venezuela, a country rich in natural resources such as oil, diamonds and uranium, has gold and mineral deposits. In Venezuela’s southern Bolívar state, pro-Maduro civilian armed [ … ]
Exercise Vita: JTF-Bravo, Colombian Partners Conduct Interoperability Training in La Guajira
Combined forces from Colombia and the United States concluded Exercise Vita at Fort Buenavista, Colombia, during a ceremony March 17 that marked more than two weeks of operations in the country's La Guajira region. More than 150 members of Joint Task Force Bravo (JFT-Bravo), based out of Soto Cano Air [ … ]
Copper Thefts in Chile Linked to China
In mid-January 2020, Chilean security forces made the largest seizure of contraband copper, about 80 tons estimated at $305 million, found in a junkyard of the Lampa community, 22 miles northwest of Santiago de Chile. Chile’s Investigations Police (PDI, in Spanish) said in a press conference that the metal was [ … ]
Brazilian Armed Forces Fight Environmental Crimes in the Amazon
Recent data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE, in Portuguese) indicates that the Brazilian Amazon lost 3,769 square miles of vegetation in a single year. The deforested area, which is larger than Puerto Rico, refers to the period of August 2018-July 2019, and increased 29.5 percent compared to [ … ]
Analysis: Russia Continues to Invest in Venezuela in an Attempt to Control Latin America
In recent years, Russian oil company Rosneft increased its presence in Venezuela. What’s its purpose? Voice of America spoke with several analysts who said that the Russian state-owned company is not driven by gas or oil needs. Rather, its interest consists of “geopolitical reasons” aimed at eventually controlling the Latin [ … ]
Operation Shelter, Two Years as a Model of Excellence for Other Countries
Launched in March 2018 in the state of Roraima, Operation Shelter seeks to welcome, shelter, and relocate immigrants who flee the Venezuelan crisis. The operation has become Venezuelans’ main gateway into Brazil. To mark the second anniversary of the most important civil-military engagement in the history of the Brazilian Armed [ … ]
Holistic Strengthening of Partnership
In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment in which we live today, partnerships become the most important operational approach to face global and regional challenges. Threats to our regional security and prosperity are not delineated by physical borders; they operate across multi-domains (land, maritime, air, space, and cyberspace) within [ … ]
Brazilian Navy Inaugurates Best Equipped Antarctic Research Base
The Brazilian Navy’s (MB, in Portuguese) Secretariat of the Interministerial Commission for Sea Resources celebrated 40 years in December 2019. Its mission includes promoting the sustainable exploration of living and non-living resources in Antarctica. Brazil is among the countries with a physical presence on the frozen continent. Its base, which [ … ]
Maduro’s Crimes Against Venezuelans Continue
Nicolás Maduro’s corruption and support for violence both inside and outside of Venezuela carries on a year after he subverted the nation’s democracy by assuming an illegitimate second term as president. “Maduro has engaged in activities that have now caused millions of people to have to flee Venezuela,” said U.S. [ … ]
Brazil Launches New Home in Antarctica
On January 15, 2020, the Brazilian Navy (MB, in Portuguese) inaugurated the new Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station (EACF, in Portuguese). The structure was built on Keller Peninsula, King George Island, on the site of the previous station that operated until 2012, when a fire in one of the generators destroyed [ … ]