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Security & Strategic Review - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
CENTRAL AMERICA: Military no panacea in Northern Triangle
The three countries of Central America’s Northern Triangle — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — have resorted to deploying the military in support of the police in an attempt to curb their high rates of violent crime. They have not proven to be a panacea: Honduras has managed to bring down its homicide rate in the final year of President Porfirio Lobo’s mandate but it is still by far the highest in the region; El Salvador reports only a minimal improvement, while Guatemala recorded a slight increase.
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