Mexico Narco Update (November 2020)
The first two accompanying references are from NarcoNews, a non-governmental investigative website that has been looking at the illegal drug phenomenon in Mexico for a number of years. The recent…
The first two accompanying references are from NarcoNews, a non-governmental investigative website that has been looking at the illegal drug phenomenon in Mexico for a number of years. The recent…
Many of the victims of COVID-19 in Africa don’t have the virus. Instead, as the accompanying article from Deutsche Welle points out, they are the women who have been beaten,…
On 29 September, the excerpted article in the online newspaper, iharare.com, which reports on Zimbabwean current affairs, discussed the prospects of Zimbabwe sending soldiers to neighboring Mozambique. The article stated…
Algeria and Mali share an 844 mile border and common enemy in al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its offshoots. While Algeria has largely contained AQIM, the group’s offshoots…
Having acquired the Tartus and Latakia bases in Syria, Russia is now further reinforcing its posture in the Mediterranean by settling into the strategic town of Sirte on the coast…
Many reports are coming out of Venezuela indicating that societal decline there continues, dangerously. The first of the accompanying articles reports that most of the country’s inventory of fuel tanker…
The island country of Barbados has evidently decided to drop Queen Elizabeth as Head of State, effective a year from November. The accompanying reportage and editorial articles come from the…
At least a slice of Latin American geopolitical observers are on board with the idea that the Communist Chinese government uses the vast Chinese fishing fleet as a geostrategic weapon…
According to the accompanying news report, La Silla Rota, a citizen report alerted authorities to suspicious activity in the Paseos de la Fragua neighborhood in León on 22 September 2020.…
Mexican cartels have had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the accompanying Mexico-based news source Milenio, cartels have turned to the Dark Web and popular applications for the…