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Security & Strategic Review - September 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Presidents talk but agree to very little
On 21 September, 33 days after Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro triggered a confrontation with Colombia by closing part of the common border [SSR-15-08], unleashing a still-continuing exodus of Colombian expatriates back to their home country, he met his Colombian peer Juan Manuel Santos in Quito and agreed to start working towards a solution. In the intervening month Maduro had steadily escalated the confrontation, to the point that some crossborder military activities risked creating a greater conflict.
- 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