Chile for decades finessed the geopolitical rivalry between China, its top trading partner, and the US, its leading foreign investor. Those days seem to be over. Just days ahead of a summit of Latin American leaders in Miami and two weeks before a right-wing government takes over in Santiago, the US imposed visa restrictions on […]
The future of the “White Continent” might be in question as great powers reactivate their spheres of influence, an expert writes.
The vote pits left- and right-wing approaches to tackling crime and redefining the country’s alignment with global partners.
“Latin America in Global Geopolitics”, recently available in English, it is a publication of the Center for Strategic Studies of the Peruvian Army, the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, and the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. Juan Pablo Toro, executive director of AthenaLab, contributed a chapter to the […]
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory, which Russian President Vladimir Putin called a “special military operation.” What Moscow’s leadership planned as an offensive lasting a few days to reach Kyiv was unsuccessful and repelled. After three years of war, operations have spread to Ukraine’s oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, […]
Donald Trump must ally with Latin American countries in order to stop criminality and terror practices converging in the region.
On the coasts of Chile, a fleet of 19 ships will meet next month in the context of Operation UNITAS, the largest naval exercise in the Americas, which was created 65 years ago to improve hemispheric defense against the threat of Soviet submarines. That reality may sound distant now, but it is closer than we […]
At the end of April, an AthenaLab team carried out a working visit to the Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, where they met with local civil and military authorities for an on-the-ground look at the geopolitical situation of the southern tip of South America. In these meetings, delegates discussed the current political situation following […]
After 200 years of bilateral relations, both countries need to reassess how to collaborate on common goals including a complex maritime environment in Latin America’s southernmost waters.
A new study has shed light on the security crisis unfolding in northern Chile, a border region pivotal to transnational crime but where state authorities maintain only a minor presence.
