“Alone we are strong, together, we are Invincible.” Every senior military leader who spoke during the closing ceremony of PANAMAX 2022, held August 11 at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, uttered this phrase, including host U.S. Army General Laura J. Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The Colombian Army’s urban search and rescue (USAR) team, USAR-COL13, of the Disaster Attention Engineer Brigade, put its ground humanitarian aid capabilities to the test to earn the highest classification for search and rescue in collapsed structures, the Colombian Military Forces’ General Command (CGFM) said in a statement. “With this [ … ]
Vice President of the Dominican Republic Raquel Peña greeted August 6 the trained personnel sent by the Canadian government, who arrived with the equipment for the rescue of the two miners trapped for a week in the underground mine of Corporación Minera Dominicana (CORMIDOM), in the Cerro de Maimón. “A [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The media and officials aligned with the Kremlin are attempting to divert attention from Moscow’s responsibility for rising global food insecurity, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) said in a statement. The food crisis is worsening due to the war Russian President Vladimir Putin launched against Ukraine. It was not [ … ]
The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) will deploy to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations this fall as part of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s (USNAVSO/4THFLT) Continuing Promise 2022 mission. Detailed planning is currently underway for the Comfort to visit Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, [ … ]
The Collective on Chinese Financing and Investments, Human Rights and Environment (CICDHA), a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that promotes social, environmental, political, and cultural rights in Latin America, examined some of China’s largest backed projects in Latin America and presented some conclusions on their environmental and human rights impact. “Things aren’t [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Following two decades of failed negotiations, the 164 member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have reached an agreement that seeks to curbillegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing and help recover the ocean’s biodiversity. The multilateral fisheries subsidies agreement was signed June 17, at the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference. [ … ]
The presence in Chile of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang of Venezuelan origin has put authorities in the region on alert, especially in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. “The Tren de Aragua has logistics that allow it to extend its networks and actively participate in organized crime such as [ … ]
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