Russia announced its plans to install a GLONASS satellite navigation ground station in Venezuela. The GLONASS system is similar to the GPS of the United States and the Galileo system of Europe. According to the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the deployment of the station is part of the agreement between [ … ]
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The Evolution of PRC Engagement in Mexico
This article was first published in Global Americans on August 24, 2022 Overview Mexico, despite its integration with the economy of the United States, as well as its historic distrust for and structural competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is pursuing policies that are expanding options for that [ … ]
Disinformation in Spanish Alarms United States
According to the United States, Russia is using disinformation to influence Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities in general, as a political weapon amid the war in Ukraine and three months before the U.S. mid-term elections. In a country with more than 62 million Hispanics, in the last three months, congressmen [ … ]
Nicaragua: Dictatorship and Collaboration with Extra-Hemispheric US Rivals
This piece was originally published on the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ website, August 29, 2022 On June 9, 2022, Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) government renewed the authorization of Russian military forces to operate in the country. In doing so, it reminded the United States and the [ … ]
Russia Strengthens Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America
Through selective threats, military activities, and disinformation campaigns, Russia has been strengthening the dictatorships of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as a geopolitical leverage pointfor its expansion in the region, Noticias de Israel, an Israeli media outlet that broadcasts news in Spanish, reported. “Russia is acting more aggressively in the hemisphere. [ … ]
Aerial Replenishment of Ballistic Missile Submarines at Sea Enhances Readiness
U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) recently demonstrated the capability to replenish U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines operating at sea using different types of aircraft to deliver supplies. During the months of July and August 2022, U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopters, a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft, and U.S. [ … ]
Power and influence: Its applications in the military organizations of the brazilian army
1 INTRODUCTION The dynamics and complexity of human interaction are increasingly being studied in order to achieve results and effectiveness in actions. However, leaders from all sectors of society face difficulties in overcoming these challenges in a world in constant transformation, where people are increasingly more distant and at 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, [ … ]
China’s Worrying Engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean
China is now a preferred lender across Latin America and the Caribbean. It hosts two international development banks — the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB) in Shanghai —that are both expanding their footprint across the region, TIME Magazine reported. “Infrastructure development has shrunk [ … ]
Undersea Cable Wars: Competition for control of networks brings long-term security risks to the surface
A labyrinth of more than 1.3 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables anchored to the sea floor carries about 95% of telephone and internet communications around the world every day, moving massive amounts of data every second. Everything from financial transactions to military orders passes along this underwater web of more [ … ]
Chilean Police Seizes Synthetic Drugs with Netherlands Support
Chile’s Investigative Police (PDI) dismantled a transnational gang dedicated to ecstasy trafficking, carrying out the largest seizure of this narcotic in South America. The seizure was the result of a concertedeffort with the Netherlands Police, with surveillance that began in the port of Rotterdam and continued all the way to [ … ]
Perry Center Strengthens Regional Collaboration among Digital Domain Defenders
On July 22, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies concluded its 2022 cyber policy course, Cybersecurity Policy in the Americas: Challenges for Policy-Strategic Analysis, led by Dr. Boris Saavedra. The course bolsters whole-of-hemisphere cybersecurity efforts by empowering and connecting regional partners who seek to strengthen cybersecurity and [ … ]