The health care workers’ situation in Venezuela is precarious and has a direct impact on the care these professionals provide to the population. According to the Venezuelan Medical Federation (FMV), at least 42,000 health workers have left the country in recent years due to the economic crisis, miserable salaries, and [ … ]
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Colombian Navy Leads Multinational Operations Against Narcotrafficking
The Colombian Navy dealt hard blows to narcotrafficking, leading several combined operations with forces from the region, which resulted in the seizure of more than 4 tons of cocaine hydrochloride on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and the Pacific coast of Colombia. The mid-March operations among the Colombian Navy, [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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, [ … ]
China Speeds Up Nuclear Expansion
China is developing nuclear weapons at a “terrifying speed.” It could have some 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035 if it continues to expand its arsenal at the current rate, The EurAsian Times reported on February 25, based on a late 2022 U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) report. According to STRATCOM, China’s [ … ]
Venezuela and North Korea Deepen Cooperation
The Venezuelan and North Korean regimes have agreed to strengthen their political, bilateral, and multilateral ties “for the benefit of both countries,” the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry told the press. During the February 23 meeting held in Caracas, Venezuela’s Vice Minister for Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania Tatiana Pugh, and [ … ]
Sovereignty in Space, No One Can Own It, which Drives Competition, Cooperation
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) fired off a letter to the United Nations in December 2021 complaining it had been forced to maneuver its newly occupied space station twice in four months to avoid colliding with two Starlink satellites, part of the constellation launched by United States-based SpaceX to [ … ]
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 [ … ]
USS Milwaukee Keeps Drugs from Reaching the US
The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5), with embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) 104, seized an estimated $27.4 million in suspected cocaine during an interdiction at sea, February 28. While underway, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspected drug smuggling go-fast vessel (GFV) and vectored [ … ]
Mexican Cartels Bolster Foothold and Alliances in Colombia
Between 2018 and 2022, Colombia’s Ombudsman Office emitted more than 20 alerts that affiliates of Mexico’s largest and most powerful cartels were active on Colombian soil. Some 40 Mexican nationals, according to the Ombudsman Office, were behind bars for drug trafficking charges in Colombia as of early 2023. Syndicates such [ … ]