On May 19, Academic Dean Dr. Luis Bitencourt welcomed a 31-person delegation from the Guatemalan Army’s Higher Education Command (Comando Superior de Educación del Ejército de Guatemala COSEDE). The delegation included civilian and military students and faculty members from COSEDE’s 15th Superior Strategic Studies Course, 
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On May 14, General Humberto Oviedo Arriagada, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army since November 2013, visited the Perry Center for the first time to participate in a roundtable discussion and lunch with several members of the Center’s faculty and staff. He was in the United 
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On May 5, the Center welcomed 53 participants from 17 countries throughout the Western Hemisphere to the first day of the Strategy and Defense Policy Course (SDP) residence phase. The students had already been participating in an online distance-learning phase for several weeks that included 
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On April 29, representatives from the Mexican National Defense College (Colegio de Defensa Nacional – CODENAL) and Naval War College (Centro de Estudios Superiores Navales – CESNAV) visited the Perry Center for a joint organizational overview and academic exchange. Both CDN and CESNAV conduct annual 
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On April 23, 2014, the alumni association from Guatemala together with the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Guatemala organized their third conference. Perry Center professors Drs. Kevin Newmeyer and Michael Gold-Biss, gave presentations on the topics of cybersecurity and governability.
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On April 22-24, the Perry Center facilitated a seminar in Guatemala City, organized by the Guatemalan Technical Secretariat for the National Security Council (Secretaría Técnica del Consejo Nacional de Seguridad – STCNS) to evaluate the progress of the country’s National Security Plan. The event, which 
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On April 15, Perry Center professor Dr. Evan Ellis gave a presentation in Miami, FL, to an audience of 60 Latin America–oriented business professionals, academics, and students on the security and defense dimension of Chinese engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Ellis’s presentation 
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On April 22, the Perry Center provided a lecture to 60 students and faculty at the College of Higher Strategic Studies (Colegio de Altos Estudios Estratégicos – CAEE) in El Salvador via videoconference. The lecture was titled “Failed States” and was led by Perry Center 
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In support of the USSOUTHCOM mission, the Perry Center designed and directed a course on interagency coordination for civil and military officials of the National Administrative System for Territorial Consolidation in Colombia. The course ran for three weeks, including a two-week distance phase and one 
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On April 1-4, the Perry Center, USSOUTHCOM, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) cohosted the 2014 Biosurveillance Challenges in the Americas Workshop at USSOUTHCOM in Miami, FL, an event that brought together senior leaders and experts in security and public health from 12 countries 
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