By, Jaime (Jimmy) González, Senior Fellow | MSI2 The victory of President Daniel Noboa in Ecuador this year is of profound significance, particularly in the context of the country's strategic defense alignment with the United States. Following the invocation of the muerte cruzada constitutional mechanism and the dissolution of...
By, Jesús Daniel Romero, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² For over two decades, the clandestine use of low-profile vessels (LPVs), semi-submersibles, and the rare but technically advanced fully submersible craft has evolved from a maritime curiosity to a formidable logistics tool of transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). These vessels...
By, Jesús Daniel Romero, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, MSI² & PK Kelley, SME China’s expanding economic and military footprint in Latin America and the Caribbean—coupled with increasingly agile asymmetric threats and escalating humanitarian crises—demands a strategic overhaul of U.S. military posture in the Western Hemisphere (Ellis, 2023)....