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

Latin America is one of the most dangerous places in the world to campaign on environmental and land issues, according to a report by Global Witness, a lobby group.... Read More

Along with Brazil and Colombia, Ecuador is now also struggling to deal with the Venezuelan migrant crisis, which has been intensifying over the Andean winter months.... Read More

After years of little movement in the field of anti-corruption reforms, Colombia now faces a wealth of proposals.... Read More

Brazil has a crime problem.... Read More

Improving public security in Chile was one of the pledges that President Sebastián Piñera made during his electoral campaign last year.... Read More

A wanted leader of Brazilian criminal organisation Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) has been arrested by law enforcement officials in Paraguay.... Read More

The evidence of recent years suggests that no drug trafficking cartel lasts forever: they rise and fall in a perpetual struggle with their rivals and with law enforcement.... Read More

Taking a cynical view, politicians fight elections with sound bites and then, if they win, have to try and turn those sound bites into serious and viable policies.... Read More

El Salvador’s most popular politician, Nayib Bukele, the charismatic former mayor of San Salvador (2015-2018), has been confirmed as presidential candidate for the right-of-centre opposition Gran Alianza por la Unidad Nacional ahead of the February 2019 presidential election.... Read More

The political impasse in the wake of the November 2017 election remains unresolved and is weighing on business activity.... Read More

At the July Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of Government meeting in Jamaica, the assembled leaders considered the final report of the Regional Commission on Marijuana, which the community had mandated in March 2014.... Read More

COSTA RICA | New law blocking cell phone services in prisons.... Read More