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Security & Strategic Review - August 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)
REGION: Minority lives matter
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement began in the United States in 2013 in protest at the disproportionately high number of young black men being shot dead in encounters with police, and over the wider issues of unequal treatment in the criminal justice system and society at large. BLM raises the question of whether race and ethnic background play a similar role in policing and crime across Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Islamic State considers Latin America
- REGION: Minority lives matter
- MEXICO: Corruption worries corporates more than violence
- MEXICO: Michoacán: snatching failure from the jaws of success?
- MEXICO: Sinaloa cartel in the Philippines
- PERU: Investigation launched into alleged PNP death squad
- COLOMBIA-EL SALVADOR: Could amnesty annulment jeopardise Colombian peace?
- ECUADOR: Improving equality in armed forces
- POINTERS
- BRAZIL: Outbreak of violence in Rio Grande do Norte
- PARAGUAY: EPP perpetrates another kidnapping under FTC’s nose
- GUATEMALA: The need to tackle prison reform
- NICARAGUA: Nicaragua’s police chief confirmed in her role
- REGION: US debates strategic re-engagement with the Caribbean