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Senior Chinese military official to visit Cuba

October 23, 2011

Via Xinhuanet: Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, General Guo Boxiong left Beijing today to pay official goodwill visits to Cuba, Colombia and Peru. Guo was invited by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Colombia’s Defense Ministry and Peru’s Defense Ministry. Guo will meet state and military leaders and visit the armed forces and [...]

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Military Rule 2.0

July 12, 2010

A Council on Foreign Relations fellow and researcher on the increasing power of the military in developing nations in today’s Boston Globe: Call it military rule 2.0. And as a result, in many developing countries the military is more powerful than it has been in years. Thailand, where the military once seemed to have retreated [...]

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Understanding dictatorships

September 5, 2009

Jon Basil Utley, a former South American correspondent for Knight Ridder, demarcates Third World dictatorships in his article published in Reason magazine. He briefly discusses the time he lived in Cuba (1958) during the Batista period, noting: “Batista never used the type of brutality Fidel Castro later imposed, but his government was corrupt, and was [...]

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Latin America in the next 25 years

December 4, 2008

U.S. Joint Forces Command (USFCOM) released its Joint Operating Environment 2008 today outlining a strategic framework that forecasts possible threats and opportunities that will challenge the future US joint force. USJFCOM is one of US Department of Defense’s nine combatant commands and has several key roles in transforming the U.S. military

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Cuban espionage, threat to the Americas

August 19, 2008

By Jerry Brewer via Mexidata.info Totalitarian dictatorships still exist and, as a matter of fact, they are very much alive in Latin America. Democracies throughout the Americas must immediately address their governments’ counterintelligence missions, and their strategic long and short range vision to monitor aggression and other forms of insurgency within their homelands. Cuba’s intelligence [...]

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