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Security & Strategic Review - January 2018 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Leader
On 8 January Donald Trump completed his first year in office as President of the United States.... Read More
Andean Countries
On Christmas eve, just before Peruvians settled down for dinner, some unexpected news broke.... Read More
On his first official visit to Colombia on 13-14 January UN secretary-general António Guterres called on the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla movement to resume their interrupted peace talks.... Read More
Southern Cone
Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state is one of the country’s most violent areas.... Read More
Brazilian army commander General Eduardo Villas Bôas has expressed concern over the danger of corruption and politicisation of the military in an election year.... Read More
With the October 2018 elections approaching, there has been increasing concern in Brazil over the impact of ‘fake news’.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
It took only 22 days for Mexico’s controversial internal security law, approved by congress at the end of 2017, to face a serious legal challenge.... Read More
As the Mexican election campaign begins to gather pace (polling day is 1 July) one of the key issues is how the leading candidates will position themselves on the treatment of crime and corruption in an attempt to capture the electorate’s support.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
In his annual balance sheet presented at the start of 2018, El Salvador’s national police (PNC) director Howard Cotto trumpeted a 25% reduction in homicides.... Read More
Juan Orlando Hernández, of the ruling right-wing conservative Partido Nacional (PN), was sworn in for another four-year presidential term on 27 January against a backdrop of widespread civil unrest and continued international concern about the legitimacy of his narrow election victory in November 2017.... Read More
The murder statistics for the English-speaking Caribbean in 2017 show some depressing trends, most particularly in Jamaica, but elsewhere there are signs of hope.... Read More
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO | New top policeman.... Read More

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