Security & Strategic Review - June 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)

MEXICO | Colombia is not a good example. A study recently released by the US-based think tank, RAND Corporation drives home a point that had been hinted at by Colombia’s former national police director, General Óscar Naranjo, during his brief period as President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ‘external adviser’. Back in September 2012 Naranjo said, ‘Inserting the word war in the framework of a security policy is a crass error.’ Peña Nieto took his advice and removed it from the prominent place it had had in the official discourse since the days of President Vicente Fox (2000-2006).

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