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Security & Strategic Review - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
GUATEMALA: Trying to decypher an upsurge in violence
A sudden upsurge of criminal violence has led President Otto Pérez Molina to call up a large number of army reservists to strengthen a national police force that is not yet capable of dealing with the situation. His government has tried to show that it is fully aware of the nature of the current threat, but what it has revealed so far casts doubts on this. As in Mexico the success in ‘decapitating’ the drug-trafficking gangs, homegrown and imported, appears to have fostered the emergence of new groups vying for dominance.
- Brazil’s stormy June: not Turkey or Egypt
- GUATEMALA: Trying to decypher an upsurge in violence
- PERU: New bases announced after SL actions
- VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA: Of threats and conspiracies
- POINTERS
- MEXICO: Anarchists return with new tactics
- MEXICO: New pattern of criminality emerges
- BRAZIL: Rio alarmed with ‘migration’ of crime from favelas
- PARAGUAY: Cartes deploys the military against the EPP
- POINTERS
- HONDURAS: Investigations directorate to be rebuilt from scratch
- EL SALVADOR: Reacting to the gaps in the gang truce
- POINTERS
- Debate on drug policy is left for later