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2025: Possibilities for the Year to Come | Dr. R. Evan Ellis
2025: Possibilities for the Year to Come
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Ecuador’s Evolving Engagement with the PRC | Dr. R. Evan Ellis
Ecuador’s Evolving Engagement with the PRC
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Security Implications for the United States from Iranian and Hezbollah Activities in Latin America | R. Evan Ellis WEBINAR
Security Implications for the United States from Iranian and Hezbollah Activities in Latin America
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Making the Case for Democratic, Limited Government and Economic Liberty in the Americas | R. Evan Ellis
Making the Case for Democratic, Limited Government and Economic Liberty in the Americas
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Challenges and Opportunities for US-Mexico Security Cooperation | R. Evan Ellis
Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation
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Security Challenges in the Dutch Caribbean | R. Evan Ellis
Security Challenges in the Dutch Caribbean
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Strategic Implication of the Chinese-Operated Port of Chancay | R. Evan Ellis for La Red China y América Latina
Strategic Implication of the Chinese-Operated Port of Chancay
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Venezuela: The Path Forward | R. Evan Ellis
Venezuela: The Path Forward
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Paraguay’s Security Challenges and the Government Response
Paraguay’s Security Challenges and the Government Response
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Chile’s Expanding Defense Relationship with China | R. Evan Ellis
Chile’s Expanding Defense Relationship with China
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Re-Asserting the Value of the Individual for Latin America’s Security and Prosperity | Dr. R. Evan Ellis
Re-Asserting the Value of the Individual for Latin America’s Security and Prosperity
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Brazil’s Attempt to Control X: The Deterioration of the Liberal World Order
Brazil’s Attempt to Control X: The Deterioration of the Liberal World Order
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Ecuador’s Evolving Engagement with the PRC
Ecuador’s Evolving Engagement with the PRC | Dr. R. Evan Ellis | Published by The Diplomat
Dec. 24, 2024 - Under the current Ecuadorian government of Daniel Noboa, major infrastructure, financial, and security cooperation with China has been restrained, but political expediency may change that.In September 2024, Ecuadorian Economy...
Security Implications for the United States from Iranian and Hezbollah Activities in Latin America
Security Implications for the United States from Iranian and Hezbollah Activities in Latin America | R. Evan Ellis WEBINAR with Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) https://youtu.be/tCh_k7zYgiQ
Dec. 18, 2024 - This presentation will examine engagement with Latin America by Iran, its government agents, and surrogate groups such as Hezbollah, including terrorist finance, terrorism, and other activities and their evolution in recent...
Making the Case for Democratic, Limited Government and Economic Liberty in the Americas
Making the Case for Democratic, Limited Government and Economic Liberty in the Americas | R. Evan Ellis Background image of worldmap overlaid on a city, from Freepik (https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/world-map-continent-global-support-graphic_17117708.htm) US Army War College Press
Dec. 17, 2024 - This work is derived from an address given by the author to the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy on December 4, 2024, in Miami, Florida.In discussing the status of political and economic freedom in Latin America, my...
Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation
Challenges and Opportunities for US-Mexico Security Cooperation | R. Evan Ellis
Nov. 26, 2024 - While policy clashes between the elected governments of Mexico and the United States in the coming years appear likely, the degree to which those tensions degrade the commercial relationship and security cooperation that is...
Security Challenges in the Dutch Caribbean
Security Challenges in the Dutch Caribbean | R. Evan Ellis This work examines security challenges facing the Dutch Caribbean, including narcotrafficking and other forms of organized crime, money laundering, Venezuelan and other refugee flows, and the little-understood activities of criminal groups operating within the region’s Chinese minority communities. It also examines the successes and challenges in coordination between law enforcement and other government entities in the Dutch Caribbean, and between the Dutch Caribbean and the European Netherlands, with the French, English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and with the range of other states and actors in the region. This work recommends that both the U.S. and Dutch government pay more attention to the challenges of the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and more fully take advantage of opportunities to work together more closely in addressing those challenges, and also in leveraging the lessons of good governance in the region, as they wrestle with difficulties elsewhere in the Caribbean. Keywords: Dutch Caribbean, Netherlands, narcotrafficking, Venezuela, money laundering, organized crime. Image from article: https://ceeep.mil.pe/2024/11/07/desafios-de-seguridad-en-el-caribe-holandes/?lang=en
Nov. 12, 2024 - This work examines security challenges facing the Dutch Caribbean, including narcotrafficking and other forms of organized crime, money laundering, Venezuelan and other refugee flows, and the little-understood activities of...
Strategic Implication of the Chinese-Operated Port of Chancay
Strategic Implication of the Chinese-Operated Port of Chancay | R. Evan Ellis for La Red China y América Latina Background photo by @rjankovsky of Chancay Seaport, the future maritime hub of South America in Chancay Lima, Peru, sourced from Canva Pro
Nov. 7, 2024 - This article examines the Port of Chancay from a strategic perspective, with a focus on how COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company) achieved unprecedented control over the operation of the new Peruvian megaport, the impact that...
Venezuela: The Path Forward
Venezuela: The Path Forward | R. Evan Ellis
Nov. 6, 2024 - Thanks to the courageous work of the Venezuelan opposition, including obtaining physical and photographic evidence of over 80% of the individual “acts” from Venezuela’s more than 30,000 polling places, the world generally...
Paraguay’s Security Challenges and the Government Response
R. Evan Ellis for CEEP The article analyzes the security challenges in Paraguay and the government response under the administration of Santiago Peña. It argues that Paraguay, despite its strategic location and regional relevance, faces serious security problems due to organized crime, corruption and its role as a transit point for drugs and weapons. The country also serves as a hub for Hezbollah operations in the region. Keywords: Paraguay, security, organized crime, corruption, drug trafficking, Hezbollah.
Oct. 28, 2024 - This article analyzes the security challenges in Paraguay and the government response under the administration of Santiago Peña. It argues that Paraguay, despite its strategic location and regional relevance, faces serious...
Chile’s Expanding Defense Relationship with China
From September 9-14, 2024, Chilean Defense Minister Maya Fernandez Allende, granddaughter of Chile’s first socialist president Salvador Allende, traveled to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to attend the 11th annual Xiangshan Defense Forum in Beijing.  The meeting, the most significant event of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) global defense “diplomacy” during the year, was attended by over 500 representatives from more than 90 countries, including 30 Defense Ministers. While there, presumably following many positive encounters and generous PLA hospitality and a meeting with PLA Defense Minister Dong Jun, Minister Fernandez publicly proclaimed her interest in reviving closer Chile-PLA defense cooperation.  Her statement, which included the intention to re-activate a previously established PRC-Chile Joint Working Commission. Photo of Chilean President Gabriel Boric meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Bangkok on Friday. Image via @gabrielboric and sourced from article. (https://chinayamericalatina.com/la-creciente-relacion-de-chile-con-china-en-materia-de-defensa/)
Oct. 18, 2024 - From September 9-14, 2024, Chilean Defense Minister Maya Fernandez Allende, granddaughter of Chile’s first socialist president Salvador Allende, traveled to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to attend the 11th annual...
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