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. The recent tour of Chile’s President Gabriel Boric to China has once again brought the country’s relations with its main trade and strategic partners, Beijing and Washington, to the forefront. […]
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. A report published by research center AthenaLab in September analyzed security dynamics in Chile’s northern regions of Arica y Parinacota and Tarapacá, both hotspots for drug trafficking […]
In Venezuela, security forces recently seized one of the country’s most-notorious prisons, with the mission of dismantling a transnational criminal gang that was ruled from inside. But the head of the gang was able to escape, and now, countries across South America are searching for him. The World, October 4, 2023 · 2:00 PM EDT […]
As an island nation, Australia’s sovereignty, security, and prosperity are intrinsically linked to its maritime surrounds and the uncontested and unrestricted access to the global maritime commons. The 2020 Defence Strategic Update, recognised that military modernisation in the Indo-Pacific had accelerated faster than envisaged. Regional force modernisation has resulted in the development and deployment of […]
Chile grapples with transnational criminal organizations targeting migrants and locals More than 7 million Venezuelans have left their homeland since 2015 amid ongoing economic and political crises in their country. And with ineffective border security, criminal gangs are increasing their efforts to take advantage of the migrants. Mariela Brito, 51, arrived in Chile in mid-October. […]
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RUSI, September 8, 2022 Chileans have rejected a radical constitutional proposal, thereby deflating a left-wing tilt. There are lessons in this for all of Latin America. In a resounding outcome in a referendum last Sunday, the people of Chile let it be known that they prefer political moderation. 62% of voters decided to reject in […]
A lack of due diligence, corruption, and a disregard for indigenous rights and the environment have characterized many Chinese infrastructure projects in the region. On December 7, a few days after the third China-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released the China-CELAC Joint Action Plan for 2022-2024. It laid […]
The Council on Geostrategy, from the United Kingdom, and AthenaLab, from Chile, are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), whose purpose is to structure investigative cooperation on topics of common interest to both countries, which as free and open nations, have a confluence of interests and values within the framework […]
Chile is in the midst of an unprecedented constitutional reform programme. But can this process secure the country’s political and economic future, or will it be waylaid by competing demands? The constitutional reform process currently underway in Chile has its immediate origins in the October 2019 social uprising. The riots and protests that broke out at […]
