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Security & Strategic Review - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Leader
At the end of April Brazil-based Igarapé Institute, a think tank, published a report on citizen security, Citizen Security in Latin America: Facts and Figures.... Read More
Andean Countries
There are doubts as to how long the Venezuela military will remain supportive of the newly re-elected Nicolás Maduro.... Read More
The formal peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrillas have resumed in Cuba after Ecuador announced that it would no longer host the talks.... Read More
Southern Cone
On 25 April, federal police detained a 34-year old man armed with 144 cloned credit cards in Éden neighbourhood, São Paulo state.... Read More
Data security concerns and breaches have affected governments and multinationals around the world.... Read More
The Paraguayan authorities have claimed a significant blow against organised crime in the country following a major operation that led to the dismantling of a large international money laundering network operating in the border city of Ciudad del Este (CDE).... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
Latin America’s second-largest democracy will hold general elections on 1 July.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
El Salvador’s 84-member unicameral national legislature last month approved a new decree which extends for another six months the ‘extraordinary measures’ first rolled out in April 2016 by the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén aimed at tackling crime.... Read More
In recent weeks the United Nations (UN)-backed anti-impunity commission in Guatemala (Cicig) and attorney general’s office (AG) have revealed the second and third phases of investigations into the conservative ruling Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) which has once again left President Jimmy Morales on the defensive.... Read More
The Oceans Beyond Piracy 2017 report has attracted a lot of attention in Latin America and the Caribbean because of its headline figure of a 163% increase in incidents of piracy over 2016.... Read More
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- Crime in numbers
- Venezuela: Maduro – the beginning of the end?
- Colombia: Talks with ELN resume but uncertainty remains
- Brazil: Trouble in Paradise
- Brazil: Safeguarding the need for secrecy
- Paraguay: Major operation against money launderers
- Mexico: What are the chances of fair play on 1 July?
- El Salvador: Extending contentious security measures
- Guatemala: Fresh tensions between Morales and Cicig
- Region: Big increase in piracy, but still small beer