Construction company China Railway Group Limited (CREC) will be in charge of developing, designing, and building the Potosí-Cochabamba highway in Bolivia. The project, however, could wipe out the ecological wealth of the Potosí department, independent investigative journalism platform Diálogo Chino reported. “In the last decade, Chinese investments in mining and [ … ]
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Venezuela, Hub of Regional Organized Crime
Narcotrafficking operations, gold and gasoline smuggling, and corruption in Venezuela’s ports and customs have increased in recent years as the South American country became a hub of organized crime in the region. These were some of the findings of a study by the Venezuelan branch of nongovernmental organization Transparency International, [ … ]
Nicaraguan Regime Hands Out Mining Concessions in Indigenous Territories
In its report, Nicaragua and its Perverse Gold, the River Foundation (Fundación del Río), a Nicaraguan nongovernmental organization that promotes environmental conservation, found a disproportionate increase in mining concessions under the Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime. This gold rush, the report indicates, undermines indigenous and Afro-descendant territories, as well as the [ … ]
China’s Use of Soft Power in Support of its Strategic Engagement in Latin America
Introduction The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) expanding engagement and presence in Latin America and the Caribbean has captured the attention of political and business leaders and the people of the region, as well as the United States. Although the PRC’s engagement and use of “soft power” has political, cultural, [ … ]
Russia’s Shadow Soldiers The Wagner Group Gives Russian President Vladimir Putin Foreign Influence With Deniability
In Russia’s frenzied attempt to flex its muscles, get access to natural resources and increase its geopolitical relevance, it relies heavily on private military companies (PMCs). This strategy produces a small foreign footprint and offers the Kremlin plausible deniability while enriching a small circle of people. President Vladimir Putin’s Russia [ … ]
Crime on the Rise in Brazilian Amazon
Violence in the Brazilian Amazon is on the rise, which is now home to 13 of the country’s 30 most violent cities, as narcotrafficking and environmental crimes plague the region, the recently released Cartography of Violence in the Amazon Region survey of the São Paulo-based think tank Brazilian Public Security [ … ]
Turkey, New Route for South American Cocaine
Turkish criminal organizations, with the help of Latin American criminal groups, areexpanding cocaine distribution in Europe and the Middle East. International law enforcement agencies have been seizing record quantities of the drug heading from South America to Turkey, a late June report from InSight Crime, an organization that investigates organized [ … ]
US Sanctions Ortega-Murillo Regime’s Mining Company
The United States sanctioned state-owned Nicaraguan mining company ENIMINAS and its board president for their growing ties with Russia. The June 17 executive order of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) bars any dealings by U.S. assets with the company and the president of [ … ]
Ecuador Captures Narcotrafficker and Alleged Criminal Gang Financier
Ecuadorian authorities dismantled a criminal network linked to the laundering of narcotrafficking proceeds with the capture of its leader and five other people, including his partner and two brothers. Ecuador’s Attorney General Diana Salazar described the capture of Leandro Norero Tigua, alias El Patrón Norero, as one of the most [ … ]
Honduras Hosts Senior Leadership Seminar
Honduras hosted U.S. Southern Command-(SOUTHCOM) sponsored Senior Leadership Seminar, Special Operations Challenges and Capabilities in the Face of Emerging Threats in Conventional Scenarios. The event, held in conjunction with exercise Fuerzas Comando 2022, was held in Tegucigalpa, June 13-24. The seminar brought together military, Defense, and academia officials from 22 [ … ]
Venezuela: Mining Destroys Lives of Indigenous Communities
Mining operations in the southernVenezuelan states of Bolívar and Amazonas, with the support of the Nicolás Maduro regime, represent the greatest threat to the human rights, habitat, cultures, and territories of indigenous populations, globalnews agency IPS Noticias reported. In these regions of the Amazon, mafias, traders, sindicatos (gangs originally linked [ … ]
China’s Digital Advance in Latin America
This article has been initially published in the Revista Seguridad y Poder Terrestre (Vol. 1 N.º 1 [2022]: July – September) of the Peruvian Army Center for Strategic Studies (CEEEP)https://ceeep.mil.pe/2022/06/30/chinas-digital-advance-in-latin-america/?lang=enDOI: https://doi.org/10.56221/spt.v1i1.5 Abstract This work examines activities by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its companies in digital technologies and associated economic sectors in Latin America, [ … ]