Security 2025-03-14

Since January, ELN, a major player in the global cocaine trade, has clashed with a rival narcotraffic guerrilla group along the Venezuelan border, displacing nearly 56,000 people and causing at least 76 deaths.

Security 2025-03-10

Efforts by China to modernize and expand its ground-based nuclear and conventional missiles suffered from the removal of leaders in these key areas.

Security 2025-03-04

The incursion of a Venezuelan naval patrol into Guyana's waters has prompted the government and opposition to unite against threats to the country's territorial integrity.

Security 2025-02-24

Extortion, kidnapping, assassination and drug trafficking now dominate Ecuador's vital port, Puerto Bolivar, once a thriving hub for banana and seafood exports.

Security 2025-02-05

Negotiating peace with the ELN is increasingly challenging as the group has evolved into a binational criminal organization protecting the Maduro regime in Caracas.

Security 2025-01-07

Ecuador, once seen as an 'island of peace' between Colombia and Peru, the world’s top cocaine producers, saw its homicide rate soar almost eightfold from 2018 to 2023.

Security 2025-01-03

Colombian armed groups are exploiting the government's pursuit of peace to bolster their military and economic power, particularly in the border regions with Venezuela and Ecuador.

Security 2024-12-25

Many employees of the Chinese private security companies operating in Latin America have backgrounds in the Chinese army and often serve as key links to it.

Security 2024-12-09

Local workers employed by criminal gangs run these illegal mining sites, with the gangs funneling a portion of their earnings as 'taxes' to renegades from FARC.

Security 2024-11-08

Moscow's allies rely on S-300 systems, though their vulnerabilities are now evident. In Venezuela, meanwhile, neglect, poor planning and limited resources have left these systems operating below optimal levels.