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 [ … ]
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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 [ … ]
Brazil Increases Presence of Women in UN Peacekeeping Missions
Brazil once more demonstrated its commitment to Women, Peace, and Security, exceeding the participation of women security officers in United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping missions in 2022, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense indicated in a statement. “The deployment of Brazilian military women to occupy such positions indicates the alignment of the [ … ]
Women’s Presence Soars in Uruguayan Armed Forces
The percentage of women in the Uruguayan Armed Forces rose by 25 percent in recent years, with military women assuming more important responsibilities in the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Uruguayan Ministry of Defense indicated. In early February, the Uruguayan Navy reached a historic milestone as Ensign Nati Fontaine [ … ]
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, [ … ]
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 [ … ]
‘It’s My Responsibility to Mentor and Guide NCOs’
For Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Warrant Officer Class One Raul Rodney, GDF force sergeant major (FSM), being an inclusive and influential leader to his noncommissioned officers (NCOs) is his most valuable role. Accountability, effective communication, and team building are among some of the attributes that Warrant Officer Class 1 Rodney [ … ]
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 [ … ]
‘I Serve my Country With Diligence and Pride’
Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Warrant Officer Class 1 Carlyn Dover wears many hats. She is currently the GDF most senior female enlisted noncommissioned officer (NCO), and serves as the Regimental Sergeant Major of Defence Headquarters and Women Army Corps. To date, she has chalked up more than 26 years of [ … ]
Nicaragua Spies on Its Citizens with Russia’s Help
According to the report, Dangerous Alliances: Russia’s Strategic Inroads in Latin America, published in late December by the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) of the U.S. National Defense University, the Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime has been using the Russian software System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM) to spy in [ … ]
Highlights in China’s Development Spending
China’s influence continues to grow through global development and its Belt and Road Initiative. So what’s next? China’s vast overseas development spending has made Beijing one of the most sought-after financiers from countries around the globe. From 2000 to 2017, China’s loans and grants totaled $843 billion across 165 countries, [ … ]
Cyberspace Freedom, Allied and Partner Nations Resist Authoritarian Controls Imposed Under the Guise of Digital Sovereignty
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the internet in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) echoed the Chinese government’s noncommittal stance, declining to portray Moscow’s military assault in Europe as an unprovoked attack. Censors commissioned by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were similarly vigilant in early 2022, limiting [ … ]