Diálogo Americas
网页2024年10月3日 · From August 26-29, 2024, I had the honor of participating as the moderator of the Central America and Caribbean Air Chiefs Conference, hosted by the leadership of U.S. Air Forces Southern (12th Air Force) in Tucson, Arizona. The event was an opportunity for the heads of the Air Forces of the region to discuss shared challenges, from organized ...
Triads, Snakeheads, and Flying Money: The Underworld of Chinese ...
网页2023年9月27日 · Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continue to grapple with some of the highest rates of violence and corruption in the world, particularly due to the corrosive presence of transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). Notorious regional TCOs continue to sell drugs worldwide, kill with impunity, bribe local officials, terrorize communities, and build deadly international partnerships with ...
News Archives - Diálogo Américas
网页September 30, 2024. The U.S. and Colombian armies have a long-standing partnership built on mutual respect, trust, and cooperation. This enduring relationship was reaffirmed, September 16, 2024, during the 15th Annual U.S.-Colombia Staff Talks held at the Colombian National Army’s military academy. Delegations from both armies convened to ...
‘Collaboration Warfare’ - Diálogo Américas
网页2021年9月1日 · Collaboration Warfare includes all the theater security cooperation intelligence activities SOUTHCOM conducts with friends, allies, and partners to build relationships, increase partner nation capabilities for self-defense, conduct coalition operations, promote specific U.S. interests, and provide U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access.
The China Threat to Submarine Cable Networks - Diálogo Américas
网页5 天之前 · Submarine fiber-optic cables, which carry more than 95 percent of the world’s digital information, are essential to the economy. Without these some 600 cables, spanning 1.2 million kilometers, laying on the ocean floor worldwide, acting as data superhighways, today’s 5G networks, cloud computing, video streaming, financial transactions, as well as scientific and diplomatic communications ...
A Conversation With Archives - Diálogo Américas
网页August 21, 2024. As part of U.S. Southern Command-sponsored biennial multinational exercise PANAMAX, held this year in various U.S. locations, including Arizona, Florida, Texas, and Virginia, August 5-14, Diálogo had the opportunity to talk with Argentine Army Captain Mario Andrés Benítez, a cybersecurity specialist, to learn details about ...
Panama: The New Battlefield Between the US and China?
网页2022年3月25日 · Panama’s maritime business is being transformed by the complex interaction between multiple factors. These include the growing economic and political power of China and U.S.-China competition, the long-term structural impacts of COVID-19 on both the region and global trade, U.S. policies to contain immigration from the Northern Triangle, climate change, the rise of leftist populism in the ...
SICOFAA, Ready for Natural Disaster Relief - Diálogo Américas
网页2020年1月13日 · Diálogo: What is SICOFAA’s operational focus? U.S. Air Force Colonel Michael Ingersoll, secretary general of the System of Cooperation Among the American Air Forces: The operational focus of SICOFAA is to respond to events that require humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. We are involved in a system of …
Special Report Archives - Diálogo Américas
网页January 31, 2024. A recent report on the presence of technology companies from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Colombia has set off alarms about the risks involved with the Asian country’s investments in the sector. According to the Colombian political risk consultancy Colombia Risk Analysis, behind these investments are strategic ...
Nicaragua’s Flip to China: What Does It Mean for the Region?
网页December 15, 2021. Nicaragua’s diplomatic flip from Taiwan to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), announced on December 9, was almost inevitable, but it will accelerate a worrisome trend in parts of the Western Hemisphere closest to the U.S. to a China-funded form of authoritarian populism. That growing threat, in a part of the hemisphere ...