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

Corruption is sometimes envisaged as a static pyramid: a wide base of operators – bribe takers and payers – at the bottom, with a group of ringleaders siphoning off profits and controlling the entire process at the top.... Read More

Prospects for a resumption of the peace talks with the Ejército de Liberacón Nacional (ELN) guerrillas continue to look problematic, despite the release of some hostages.... Read More

Given recent revelations about US government meetings with rogue Venezuelan military officials, the Maduro government appears increasingly paranoid about foreign intervention.... Read More

As the country with the highest homicide rates in the region, Brazil does not fare too badly where political violence is concerned – especially when compared with Mexico, where 129 politicians, amongst which 48 candidates, were killed in this year’s electoral process.... Read More

In February this year, Brazil’s President Michel Temer signed a decree putting the armed forces in charge of public security in Rio de Janeiro state, amid concerns over uncontrollable violence.... Read More

These are not good times for the Chilean Catholic Church.... Read More

Paraguay has just ratified the United Nations Firearms Protocol (UNFP).... Read More

President Enrique Peña Nieto presented the last of his annual state of the nation reports, known as the ‘Informe’, on 3 September.... Read More

With less than three months to go before the change of government, the discovery of large numbers of corpses, together with ongoing violent clashes, underlines the scale of the problem that incoming President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will inherit on 1 December.... Read More

The US is getting worried about China’s presence in Central America.... Read More

Last month the Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) government led by President Carlos Alvarado launched a new security strategy.... Read More

On 23 September, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced the imposition of the country’s third state of emergency (SOE), this time in parts of Central Kingston.... Read More

BELIZE | State of emergency for Belize City.... Read More