Fatigue is setting in as a U.S. aircraft carrier nears its ninth month waging the most intense running sea battle since World War II
A US aircraft carrier and its crew have fought Houthi attacks for months. How long can it last?
Category: South America
“Time to stop singularizing Trump as uniquely evil”
As practically everyone on planet Earth must now know, Donald Trump has become the first former US president to be convicted of felonies after leaving office. The response to the outcome of the trial from Democrats and Republicans has been predictably binary. Democrats have been reveling in the outcome and seem to think that the trial’s conclusion has delivered a final blow to Trump’s credibility and, in turn, his chances of winning the upcoming election. Trump’s supporters, on the other hand, are largely condemning the trial as politically motivated “lawfare” waged by the “radical left” in order to derail Trump’s chances of winning the upcoming election, which might end up galvanizing his base.
I can’t stand Trump, but this is why I don’t post about the criminal charges against him. I’d rather see him, and the rest of them, charged for war crimes! Furthermore, I can understand why his supporters, and even foreigners, see it as lawfare.
Essequibo Updates: USSOUTHCOM, Guyana, Venezuela
Security cooperation between Guyana and the US appears to deepen
U.S. Marine Corps Major General Julie Nethercot’s, U.S. Southern Command Strategy, Policy, and Plans Director has visited Guyana. Her visit to Guyana from May 6th to May 8th possibly or probably signals a significant step forward in our nation’s defence and security partnership with the United States, some observers believe. This visit follows closely on the heels of Major General Evan Pettus’ – also of the U.S. Southern Command – engagement in February, probably highlighting a deepening commitment of the United States to bolstering Guyana’s security capabilities.
Related:
US Navy Aircraft Overflight Increases Regional Risk: Padrino
On Thursday morning, U.S. authorities announced that two U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jets will carry out a flyover over “Georgetown and its surroundings” with the approval of the Guyanese government chaired by Irfaan Ali.
Venezuela Advances in Exercising Sovereignty Over Essequibo Region
The head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (CEOFANB), General Domingo Hernández Lárez, reported that Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) troops continue to work to interconnect the newly created Guayana Esequiba state with the rest of the Venezuelan territory.
Brazil: Haiti and Latin American Imperialists
Related:
Brazil reinforces border with Venezuela, Guyana with armored vehicles
Guyana, Brazil expand strategic military cooperation
Growing US Military Presence in Brazil
From 2004 to 2017, Brazil led the military component of the United Nations-backed peacekeeping mission to Haiti known as MINUSTAH. Since the U.N. Security Council authorized a new mission to Haiti last October, however, Brasília has been shy about supporting the operation. Brazil has offered to train Haitian police forces, but it has declined multiple requests from both the United States and United Nations to provide forces or financing for a new mission.
China’s Belt and Road mining investment hits record
A new report from Griffith Asia Institute, a unit of Australia’s Griffith University, shows 10 years after the launch of China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) cumulative engagement tops $1 trillion with about $634 billion in construction contracts and $419 billion in non-financial investments.
China’s Belt and Road mining investment hits record
Chinese Investment In Latin America (Ecuador)
Ecuadorian Armed Forces Arrest 329 Terrorists and Kill 5
The U.S. will support the fight against drug trafficking by granting Ecuador military equipment in exchange for the delivery of Russian equipment to Ukraine.
Ecuadorian Armed Forces Arrest 329 Terrorists and Kill 5
Related:
Ecuador Declares War on Gang Violence
Ecuador in crisis: five points to understand a country broken by neoliberalism
Read More »A group of US representatives call for an end to the Monroe Doctrine and interventionism in Latin America
Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS
A group of US representatives call for an end to the Monroe Doctrine and interventionism in Latin America
Doubtful that this will ever happen.
Previously:
In first speech, Argentina’s Javier Milei warns nation of painful economic shock
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — It wasn’t the most uplifting of inaugural addresses. Rather, Argentina’s newly empowered President Javier Milei presented figures to lay bare the scope of the nation’s economic “emergency,” and sought to prepare the public for a shock adjustment with drastic public spending cuts.
In first speech, Argentina’s Javier Milei warns nation of painful economic shock
Related:
With soy and lithium trade in the balance, Argentina’s Milei has a China conundrum
Growing US Military Presence in Brazil
Growing US Military Presence in Brazil
To this end, the United States faces a series of obstacles in our continent. The most important immediate obstacle is Venezuela, clearly counter-hegemonic, bent on building important geopolitical bridges with Russia, China and Iran, and now focused on beginning to resolve the problem of the Guyanas.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
You must be logged in to post a comment.