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Security & Strategic Review - November 2018

Leader
In October, Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain, as their next president.... Read More
Regional Focus
Following the US mid-term elections on 6 November president Donald Trump has lost his Republican majority in the chamber of deputies but increased his hold on the senate.... Read More
Voters in Mexico and Brazil, the two largest countries in Latin America, have chosen populist outsiders (of the Left and of the Right, respectively) to be their new presidents.... Read More
Andean Countries
Colombian university students have been protesting against the government of Iván Duque over what they say is insufficient funding for higher education.... Read More
Southern Cone
Rio de Janeiro state’s new governor-elect, Wilson Witzel, has said that he will use snipers in Rio to shoot down from a distance criminals who carry guns on the street.... Read More
The Uruguayan government has deployed the military to the country’s border areas in a bid to reinforce public security.... Read More
Mexico & Nafta
With the support of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) his party, the Movimiento de Renovación Nacional (Morena), has presented a bill in congress designed to legalise the cultivation and commercialisation of marijuana for therapeutic, pharmaceutical, and recreational purposes.... Read More
Almost two years after he was extradited to the US, the trial of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the head of the Sinaloa cartel, has begun in New York.... Read More
There could not have been a crueller, more dramatic way of highlighting Mexico’s problem with an out-of-control murder rate.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
The UN-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala – Cicig) presented its annual report on 9 November amid a continuing stand-off with the government of President Jimmy Morales.... Read More
Last month the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) warned of an increase in acts of violence and repression to deter public demonstrations in Nicaragua.... Read More
Honduras is posting decent economic growth and stable macro-economic indicators, yet is making next to no social progress.... Read More
Trinidad & Tobago has made some progress on fighting corruption.... Read More
BAHAMAS | More required on money-laundering.... Read More

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