24th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Ominous Security Challenges

Ambassador O’Brien stressed that the region has an important role to play in the overall global security. Due to the war in Ukraine, South America and Central America are critical to the world economy in light of the amount of agricultural, oil and gas, and minerals production in the region. The region is going to have a very important role to play worldwide that we haven’t seen in in many years, he mentioned.

Ambassador O’Brien pointed out that the number one challenge we have in the is the rise of the cartels. It’s a moral problem in addition to being a national security and economic problem.

Ambassador O’Brien stated that we need to be vigilant and work together as a team to address this issue, which affects all of us, both on the consumption side in America and on the production side in the region.