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Peru deployed 2000 troops of the Armed Forces in order to ensure order


(Defensa.com) In order to support the police in restoring order in the Province of Islay (Arequipa), where the government of Ollanta Humala I performed a standstill against the Tia Maria mining project, ordered the deployment immediately of 2,000 troops of the Armed Forces, under the Supreme Resolution No. 105-2015-IN which "authorizes the intervention of the military in the Department of Arequipa, province of Islay, from May 9 to June 7 2015, in order to "ensure the monitoring and maintenance of internal order and prevent acts of violence or any unlawful could commit during the demonstrations and any other act of vandalism."

The standard does not mandate emergency declaratory and does not provide for restriction, suspension or impairment of human rights. The armed forces initially stationed in the port of Matarani and the Bridge of Pampa Blanca and Petroperú plant in Mollendo.

The Minister of Defense, Jakke Valakivi Alvarez led the Naval Station Mollendo a meeting with the heads of Justice, Gustavo Adrianzen, and Interior, José Luis Pérez Guadalupe, the Chief of the Joint Command, Admiral Jorge Moscoso Flores and General Commanders , Navy and the Air Force army Peru to coordinate the "Security Plan to regain control of Islay" and comply with the supreme government resolution. Valakivi Alvarez said that "the armed forces will assist the National Police in the work carried out to stabilize and overcome the violence of recent days, which hopefully will now cease."

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Four soldiers of the Army of Colombia die in the crash of a Black Hawk UH - 60L


(Defensa.com) yesterday in a helicopter of the National Army of Colombia Black Hawk UH-60L, registered EJC - 2148, performing works supply to the organizational units of the Mobile Brigade No. 2, suffered an accident He killed four soldiers, resulting in two seriously injured.

The Army is waiting for the causes of the accident are determined although preliminary, has handled the hypothesis that would be glitches. The incident took place in the general area of the sidewalk Ukraine, 21 kilometers north of the town of La Uribe, Meta.

Colombia's military has in its fleet (Bahel) a total of 56 UH-60L devices with 23 Mi-17V / MD, 30 units of Huey II, 27 UH-1N. The UH-60 Black Hawk is a medium load utility helicopter, twin-engine and four-bladed rotor, manufactured by the American company Sikorsky Aircraft. "At that point moves to the scene a commission to investigate accidents Air Assault Aviation Division of the National Army," said the institution he regretted the events and expressed condolences to the families of the soldiers.

General Luis Fernando Navarro, commander of Task Force Omega, confirmed the names of the soldiers who died from this incident: the commander, Captain Fabian Santamaria Villamarin; Corporal Rodriguez Cristian Torres; the professional soldier Jaime Peña Romero and professional soldier Freddy García Diaz, soldiers who were rescued are: Lieutenant Alexander Carreño Morales and First, Diego Fandiño Mountain.

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Israel offers to Paraguay cooperation in defense and security and may transferring surplus material from their Defense Forces

(Defensa.com) Israel will intensify cooperation with Paraguay in the field of security and defense, confirmed Dorit Shavit, Israeli Ambassador to Paraguay. The aid is based primarily on training, in a first stage, which will widen, according to the requirements of Paraguay. The president, Horacio Cartes, met at the Government Palace with Dorit Shavit, Israeli Ambassador to Argentina and Paraguay concurrently.

After the meeting, the diplomat said it was a broad discussion where he spoke of the need to go to strengthen cooperation in various fields, but especially the security and defense. He confirmed that the military attache of the Embassy of Israel in Chile came to the country a few days ago and is holding meetings with authorities in charge of security. The intention is to have a thorough knowledge of the aspects that could help. As for the kind of help that Israel could provide, the ambassador said that everything could work on in training but did not rule it also be extended to other aspects of the matter, such as material transfer over the Defense Forces Israel.

"The support is to work together to help Paraguay to have a peaceful life, unfortunately we have an experience, because about Israeli state terrorism organizations have, then we have an experience and challenge of how to fight terrorism", he said the ambassador.

Israel and Paraguay have a long tradition of cooperation in all fields of national power for a long time, considering that Paraguay had a decisive action for the creation of the State of Israel. Paraguay is also a major customer in the region purchase of defense equipment for its security forces since the beginning of the process of strengthening the armed forces have resorted to the market are the sister country for the acquisition of equipment and defense systems .

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Russia, Argentina to Discuss Increase in Bilateral Food Supplies

One of the top issues of Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's official visit to Moscow will be the increase in bilateral food trade, according to the statement of Rosselkhoznadzor.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia and Argentina will discuss on April 23 the increase in bilateral food trade as part of the agenda of Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's visit to Moscow, Russia's agriculture watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, said Tuesday.

"Rosselkhoznadzor chief Sergei Dankvert will meet with Argentinian officials on Thursday in the framework of the Russia-Argentina Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Science Cooperation to discuss the prospects of increasing the volume of bilateral food trade," Alexei Alekseenko, an aide to the head of the for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance told .

Alekseenko said that the volume of Russia-Argentina food trade in 2014 totaled $1.3 billion.

In light of souring relations with the West in 2014 over the crisis in Ukraine, Moscow has significantly increased its trade and economic cooperation with the countries of Latin America, the BRICS and the Asia-Pacific region.

Earlier in 2014, Dankvert said that Russia expected to increase bilateral trade with Argentina to $3 billion in 2015, a significant increase from the 2013 $1.9 billion trade turnover.

During the April 23 meeting in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Argentina President Cristina Kirchner are expected to discuss bilateral trade, the future development of economic ties, as well as an expansion of investment cooperation.

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Argentina intends to purchase 6 PTS

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TSAMTO, November 1. According to the results held in Cordoba meeting of defense ministers of Brazil and Argentina, Nelson Jobim Nilda Garre and the parties signed a Declaration of Intent providing for the participation of Argentina in the program to develop a military transport plane company Embraer.

The agreement allows you to start negotiations on the participation of the Argentinean company aircraft construction enterprises Argentina im.Sen Martin »(FAdeA) in designing and manufacturing new aircraft, as well as the purchase of six KC-390 for the Argentine Air Force.

Argentina became the fifth country to sign an agreement of intent to participate in the program, KC-390. Earlier, on August 24 defense ministers of Chile and Brazil signed an agreement that provides the opportunity to participate in the development of the aircraft of the Chilean aviation companies. Sept. 1 a similar agreement signed by the Minister of Defence of Brazil with a colleague from Columbia, September 10 - Minister of Defence of Portugal, Augusto Santos Silva, and September 13 - Chapter Czech Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra.

Thus, at the moment a potential order book (formal contracts are signed) on the aircraft is 60 units including 28 units. for Brazil, 12 - - Chile 6 - Portugal 2 - Czech Republic and 6 - Argentina.

As expected, production of prototypes will start in late 2012, flight tests are scheduled at the end of 2014 - the beginning of 2015. Achieving the initial aircraft state of readiness for combat use is expected in 2015, the total - in 2016. The international market the aircraft can do in 2018.

At the same time Defense Minister Nilda Garre Argentina confirmed its intention to implement the country's leadership for FAdeA two-year investment program of $ 27 million dollars, which includes the purchase and modernization of equipment for enterprises, and development of new training aircraft basic training for IA-73.


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Argentina and Chile signed bilateral agreement for the year 2015 Southern Cross


(Defensa.com) Southern Cross 2015 will take place between September 26 and October 2 in the batteries. The firm happens to planning meetings that took place in Puerto Belgrano, with the participation of representatives of the Joint Chiefs of Chile, of the three armed forces of that country and the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Argentina. He also participated the Joint Combined Peace Force Southern Cross, composed of Argentine and Chilean officers and NCOs.

It was signed by Vice Admiral William Uberti, Deputy Commander of the Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Argentina; Brigadier General Andres Gomez Fuentealba of the Joint Chiefs of Chile, and Brigadier Hector Ascazuri, who will play as exercise director. Uberti said Southern Cross 2015 "is a large-scale exercise (...) that will involve nearly 700 men and 380 men Argentina Chile who are traveling to Puerto Belgrano with the means to participate in an exercise that will to bring the level of training and the level of mutual knowledge you need any binational force to work under the United Nations standards. " He also noted that the three armed forces of Argentina and Chile "unconditionally practically have all the material and personnel to support the development and implementation of this exercise. We should be very proud as a country and as members of the Armed Forces. "


Brigadier General Andres Gomez Fuentealba said for his part: "I represent many soldiers from Chile and we all have the expectation of making a good exercise; continue with the exercises that we are already in the area of Cruz del Sur but also in the field of other exchanges and other challenges such as the Solidarity exercise. "" It's very interesting to know this part of Argentina and see where we will develop the exercise it is very motivating. "He also referred to the participation of Chile that increasingly is increasing both the number of personnel and means. "For this exercise we have considered three helicopters, one from each branch, and a patrolman, plus 380 men and all logistical apparatus that means operating outside the country in such exercises; while taking advantage of the experience that both countries have in carrying out maintenance of peace, "he added.

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Russia’s, Bolivia’s upper parliament houses to sign cooperation agreement in 2015

For the first time, at least in the 21st century, a Russian delegation took part in the inauguration ceremony of the Bolivian president

/TASS/. Russia’s Federation Council upper parliament house and Bolivia’s Senate plan to sign in 2015 an agreement on inter-parliamentary cooperation, Ilyas Umakhanov, deputy Federation Council speaker, told TASS after a visit to Bolivia to attend the inauguration ceremony of Bolivian President Evo Morales.

“For the first time, at least in the 21st century, a Russian delegation took part in the inauguration ceremony of the Bolivian president,” Umakhanov said. “It was a key purpose of our visit. Apart from that, we were tasked to invigorate Russian-Bolivian inter-parliamentary contact.”

“We met with the new speaker of the Senate of the Bolivia’s Plurinational Legislative Assembly Eugenio Rojas Apaza and handed over to him a message from /Russia’s Federation Council speaker/ Valentina Matviyenko, where she invited her colleague to visit Russia in 2015,” the Russian lawmaker said. “Rojas accepted this invitation and we agreed that when he came on a visit to Russia, we will sign a cooperation agreement between Russia’s Federation Council and Bolivia’s House of Senators.”

“We also agree to coordinate our efforts within other international formats, including the Parliament, which is actively cooperating with the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of ,” he underscored. “In the context of bilateral cooperation, an agreement was reached on keeping a parliamentary control over two major issues - mutual recognition of higher education diplomas and vise-free travels for the two countries’ citizens. Taking into account a stable growth in the number of Bolivian students at Russia’s universities, our parliaments should waste no time to prepare and ratify these documents.”.


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The cabinet reshuffle by Michelle Bachelet can mean a boost to the purchase of the French ship Siroco


(Defensa.com) The last cabinet reshuffle by the President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, could mean a boost to the purchase of the multipurpose amphibious ship TCD Siroco French. Former Defense Minister Jorge Burgos, said recently to a local environment that would make a great effort to realize this purchase and said he was already pending acquisition of suitable helicopters for military and emergency relief purposes. These statements were made by Burgos during a visit to the military forces that were deployed in northern Chile in support tasks to those affected people by landslides and overflowing rivers, one of the emergencies that has faced Chile last year and on that occasion the need for helicopters became evident when the authorities, journalists and aid of all kinds were transported from the central to the local airport were blocked long hours there because the roads were cut.


As from Monday 11 Jorge Burgos is the new Minister of the Interior and the portfolio assumed, among other responsibilities, the internal security of the country, which will be in charge of managing emergencies such as earthquakes and floods. For these cases has the National Emergency Office of the Interior Ministry (ONEMI), mainly advisory body for the bulk of the media with real capacity for action is provided by the armed forces, both police and the fire department, while in case of forest fires, acts the National Forestry under the Ministry of Economy Corporation (CONAF).


As Sergeant Village, Twin Siroco, is the only naval platform to bring diverse kinds of heavy material from one area to another in a country that has over 4,300 kilometers of coastline and less than 400 kilometers of territory in the region more wide.

The same President Bachelet did not know the capabilities of LSDH-91 Sargento Aldea and how will increase with the arrival of Siroco, since April 30 visited the ship while it was in the port of Arica, in northern Chile, making a doctor operating for the benefit of the civilian population. At least for the Navy, "Siroco case" is not closed. Indeed, the sources say the institution has provided staff movements necessary to carry out the process of purchase, receipt and commissioning of this ship.




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