... Colombia, where drug trafficking is a serious challenge). Another threat comes from across the ocean from African countries, primarily Guinea-Bissau, which has been actively involved in drug trafficking as part of the global route to deliver cocaine from Latin America to the European Union.
As for the engagement of the Brazilian Navy in international operations, the best-known incidents include the fleet’s role in securing Brazil’s mission to Haiti and participation of Niterói-class ...
Russia and China on the Latin American Arms Market
Argentina: Fighting on the Outskirts
The fledgling military-technical cooperation between Russia and Argentina was the subject of a recent
article
. The only recent contracts between the two parties are the delivery of two helicopters....
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SIPRI expert Simon Wezeman believes
that Russia should rush into Latin America due to the recent loss of several markets and problems with its key military-technical cooperation partners.
However, unlike Beijing, Moscow is already quite active on the Latin American arms market.
The SIPRI data indicates
that in 2013, China was the fourth largest weapons vendor in the world (USD 7.4 billion), while some time ago it was known to be a provider of rather imperfect replicas of Soviet systems). Meanwhile, in the same ...
Russia and China in the Latin American Arms Market. Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua
At Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation (MTC) session with Foreign States on January 27, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin encouraged those present to seek out new markets, in particular mentioning ...