Reevaluating the Threat: Terrorism in Latin America
Attacking drug cartel infrastructure indirectly, creating judicial frameworks on terrorism, and raising terrorism as national security concerns—irrespective of U.S.-Israel-EU pressures—should be top of mind for Latin American governments. Terror, whether ideologically or financially motivated, only undermines democracy.
Emerging Security Challenges in Panama
Panama faces an increasingly grave, multidimensional security challenge, driven by the interacting dynamics of gangs and criminal insecurity, drug trafficking, money laundering, contraband goods, and migrant flows.
Honduras’ Former President Hernández to be Extradited to the U.S.
Last Monday, the Honduras Supreme Court unanimously ratified the decision taken earlier this month by Judge Edwin Ortez to extradite former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States.
How not to curb Colombian cocaine
Over the past four years, Colombia has eradicated nearly 300,000 hectares (more than 1,000 square miles) of coca while seizing more than 2,000 metric tons of pure cocaine and cocaine base, but the country remains plagued by illicit drug activity.
El Desafío Multidimensional de Perú – Parte 2: la crisis económica, inseguridad pública, y crimen organizado
Los desafíos de seguridad de Perú varían desde la expansión de la producción de coca, la minería ilegal y las actividades madereras, hasta una amenaza terrorista pequeña pero persistente, un nuevo centro criminal emergente en la frontera trinacional con Brasil y Colombia, y una creciente inseguridad pública en el contexto de la salud y crisis socioeconómica creada por la pandemia COVID-19.
Drug trafficking and Colombian ‘peace’
Since the disarming of the FARC two-and-a-half years ago, the actors, figures and methods have changed. But the conclusion is clear: drug trafficking in Colombia is more alive than ever before.
The Dominican Republic: Security challenges, government responses and recommendations for the U.S.
The upcoming withdrawal of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Haiti (MINUSTAH) threatens to add to the security, crime and drug trafficking challenges the Dominican Republic already faces. Here’s how the U.S. can help.
Collaboration and learning in Latin America’s fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism
As I saw in four days at a region-wide discussion, Latin American militaries are already collaborating on the triple threats of narcotics trafficking, terrorism and organized crime. Here are nine areas for further cooperation.
Why Obama’s trip to Argentina is more important than to Cuba
In terms of U.S. national interests, the more important of President Obama’s stopovers on his March trip won’t be Cuba, it will be Argentina. Here’s why.