How Peru Picked a Fighter Jet, Then Tore Up the Deal and Switched
Peru chose Sweden's Gripen, then reversed to buy the American F-16 amid political chaos, a saga that captures the battle...
June 15, 2026Topic
defense
Colombia Bought a Swedish Fighter Jet With an American Engine
Colombia signed a $3.6bn deal for Sweden's Gripen fighter jet, but its American-made engine hands Washington quiet leverage over a...
June 15, 2026
Why It Took Argentina 40 Years to Buy a New Fighter Jet
Argentina finally bought new fighter jets after decades of a British veto rooted in the Falklands War, settling on ex-Danish...
June 15, 2026
Brazil’s Strategic Leap in Science and Defense
Brazil is building the Orion Complex, a unique super-laboratory, at the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials in...
January 26, 2024
“Brazil is sovereign”: Bolsonaro says to Putin on U.S. unease
President Jair Bolsonaro argued Brazil's "sovereignty" after being received Wednesday in Moscow by Russian President Vladimir Putin,
February 17, 2022
Brazil’s Bolsonaro names priority areas of cooperation with Russia
Brushing off pressure from traditional ally the United States and within his own cabinet, Bolsonaro decided to go ahead with...
February 14, 2022
Colombia exits recession as GDP grows 1.1% in Q1
Colombian economy recorded a positive quarter of 1.1% annual growth in GDP for the first time since the pandemic, exiting...
May 18, 2021
Bolsonaro changes six ministries to accommodate Centrão and try to get off the ropes
President Jair Bolsonaro made a ministerial reform that changes almost a quarter of his 22 ministries, including the strategic Defense...
March 30, 2021
Brazil´s VP Mourão Advocates New Development Model for Amazon Region
Brazil's Vice-President Hamilton Mourão yesterday, February 2nd, advocated a new development model for the Amazon. Early in the evening, Mourão...
February 4, 2021