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Security & Strategic Review - February 2018 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Leader
People are leaving Venezuela in their tens and hundreds of thousands.... Read More
Special Focus
Perhaps showing his continuing mastery of the controversial sound bite, US President Donald Trump tweeted in early February that Mexico is “now rated the number one most dangerous country in the world”.... Read More
Andean Countries
As mineral prices begin to recover, the government led by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has cut back on red tape to kickstart investment in the extractives industry.... Read More
From 2-9 February, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in San José Costa Rica held a series of sessions to determine whether President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s decision to pardon former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) was legal.... Read More
Lima’s art museum MALI has come under attack for allegedly promoting terrorism.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 16 February President Michel Temer issued a decree ordering the Brazilian army to take control of law enforcement in Rio de Janeiro state, arguing that violent drug gangs had “virtually taken over the [eponymous] city”.... Read More
The Southern Hemisphere summer season sees thousands for visitors from around the region visit Uruguay and its seaside resorts.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
In a five-three decision on 7 February Mexico’s Supreme Court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación – SCJN) ruled that the tax authority’s use of a blacklist of paper companies suspected of money laundering is legal.... Read More
The logic appears simple.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
Guatemala’s interior minister Francisco Rivas stepped down last month.... Read More
On 15 February, Juan Jiménez Mayor resigned as head of the Organization of American States (OAS)-sponsored Mission for Support against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (Maccih).... Read More
Following the referral by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of the Guyana-Venezuela territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 30 January, a number of commentators have raised the possibility of a Venezuelan military incursion to seize Guyanese territory.... Read More
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO | Crime and terrorism.... Read More
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- How to cope with the growing wave of Venezuelan migrants
- Region: Mixed picture on homicide rates
- Peru: Security alert over mining-related conflict
- Peru: International court assesses Fujimori’s pardon
- Peru: Of art and terrorism
- Brazil: Temer orders army takeover in Rio
- Uruguay: Targeted by foreign criminal gangs
- Mexico: Small win in struggle against money laundering
- Mexico: What will they do about corruption?
- Guatemala: Departure of top officials prompts transparency concerns
- Honduras: Maccih in crisis
- Guyana-Venezuela: Tension on the border
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