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

One way of judging the safety of a place is to ask the local residents how comfortable they feel about going out for a walk at night on their own.... Read More

Despite having engineered his re-election on 20 May, President Nicolás Maduro’s hold on power remains tenuous-looking, as his ability to keep satisfied the various factions in the regime weakens with every lost barrel of oil production.... Read More

It has been evident for a number of months now, and has been confirmed again by the latest opinion polls: there is a distinct possibility that Brazil’s next president could be Jair Bolsonaro, a representative of the extreme right, and an exponent of knee-jerk, hard-line, law-and-order policies.... Read More

Blessed with strong institutions and low crime rates, Uruguay is among the least violent countries in Latin America.... Read More

In December 2006 Felipe Calderón, the newly elected Mexican president, unveiled a security strategy which dramatically militarised the struggle against drug trafficking cartels and organised crime.... Read More

Ironically, just as relations between the US on one hand, and Mexico and Canada on the other, appear to have reached a low point, it has been announced that the three nations will co-host the 2020 football World Cup.... Read More

As this issue went to press the Mexican general elections were less than two weeks away, on 1 July.... Read More

“A milestone judgement for Guatemala.” This is how United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein described the ruling issued unanimously on 23 May by the High Risk “C” Tribunal in Guatemala against four high-ranking former military officials for crimes against humanity, aggravated sexual violence, and enforced disappearance during the 1960-1996 civil war.... Read More

After three months under special security measures, residents of Jamaica’s St Catherine North Police Division appear to be ambivalent about the long-term benefits of the measures.... Read More

GUATEMALA/HONDURAS | Discovery of coca plantations.... Read More