When Jorge Bergoglio stepped onto the balcony at the Vatican on Wednesday evening to reveal himself as the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he made history as the first non-European pope of the modern era, the first from LatinAmerica, the first Jesuit and the first to assume the name Francis.
Today, Chile's is the most modern and best-equipped army in LatinAmerica, says Armen Kouyoumdjian, an adviser to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
"Whether it's in Europe, Asia, or LatinAmerica, we need to be prepared to deploy a modern jet freighter that's flexible enough to operate anywhere, " Bob Lekites , vice president of UPS Airline Operations, said in a prepared statement.