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Security & Strategic Review - February 2019
Leader
By the size of their populations and economies Brazil and Mexico are the two Latin American giants.... Read More
Andean Countries
That the risk of military conflict between the US and Venezuela is no longer considered unrealistic is a measure of the depth of the crisis now afflicting the Andean country.... Read More
The economic and political crisis in Venezuela has pushed 3m Venezuelans to leave the country.... Read More
The murder of a pregnant Ecuadorean woman by her Venezuelan migrant boyfriend sparked a series of violent attacks against Venezuelan migrants in northern Ecuador.... Read More
Venezuela’s political, economic and humanitarian crisis has led to a re-emergence of previously eradicated or controlled infectious diseases.... Read More
Southern Cone
“Today, we are making a great step forward,” President Sebastián Piñera said as he unveiled a draft bill to combat cybercrime and presented a presidential directive on cybersecurity in Chile on 25 October 2018.... Read More
Mexico
A key part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s security plan is the creation of a new National Guard.... Read More
Sometimes an apparently off-the-cuff comment can have multiple repercussions.... Read More
As this report was being written, the nearly three-month-long New York trial of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was drawing to a close.... Read More
Central America & Caribbean
One of the main challenges facing President Carlos Alvarado and his Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) upon taking office in May 2018 was security, given that 2017 closed with a record 603 homicides.... Read More
When it comes to the Venezuelan crisis, Caricom has appeared united over the need to respect the principal of non-interference, but it is clear that there are deep differences in approach between some key members of Caricom, most notably Jamaica, Guyana, and Trinidad & Tobago.... Read More
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- Populism against crime: where are Brazil and Mexico heading?
- Venezuela: Staring down the barrel
- Colombia-Venezuela: Venezuelan women – victims of human trafficking networks in Colombia
- Ecuador: Xenophobic attacks against Venezuelans spark concerns
- Venezuela-Region: Resurgent diseases in Venezuela pose health risk for region
- Chile: Government commits to improving cybersecurity
- Mexico: Battle for the National Guard
- Mexico: The war on drugs is over. Really?
- Mexico: El Chapo’s trial draws to a close
- Costa Rica: Alvarado hails drop in homicides
- Caricom: Jamaica and Guyana at odds with Trinidad over Venezuela