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Security & Strategic Review - September 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
PARAGUAY: Of guerrillas, drug traffickers & collusion
The Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) guerrillas resurfaced in late August, making their presence noted at the President’s rural estate in the Chaco, blowing up a power pylon in San Pedro and (apparently) conducting a raid on a Mennonite colony in the same department. This took place against the backdrop of accusations by an opposition legislator of collusion between police officers and drug traffickers ― mirrored in another context the spokesman of the task force charged with fighting the EPP.
- Santos and guerrillas agree on deadlines for peace talks and ‘relinquishing arms’
- MEXICO: Iguala case: flaws exposed, mystery still unsolved
- PARAGUAY: Of guerrillas, drug traffickers & collusion
- CHILE: ‘Special measures’ against violence in Araucanía
- POINTERS
- COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Presidents talk but agree to very little
- PERU: Considering use of grenades as acts of terrorism
- POINTERS
- MEXICO: Homicide trend reversal in Peña Nieto’s third year
- POINTERS
- EL SALVADOR: Gangs escalate violence, police multiply engagements
- HONDURAS: Homicide rates still falling
- POINTERS