Security & Strategic Review - June 2019

The authorities in Mexico and the US are grappling with what in recent years has emerged as the most powerful transnational drug trafficking organisation (DTO) – the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).... Read More

The Peruvian government has launched a second phase of its ‘Operación Mercurio 2019’ aimed at bolstering the fight against illegal mining in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios.... Read More

Ahead of the October general election, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government led by President Evo Morales is seeking to downplay a major corruption scandal in the police, which links some of the force’s highest-ranking members in Santa Cruz to narcotrafficker Pedro Montenegro Paz.... Read More

Between 14 June and 7 July, five Brazilian cities are playing host to the Copa America.... Read More

The launch of a tripartite cooperation initiative against drugs trafficking between neighbours Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay got off to a bad start, when fog prevented Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez and Argentina’s Security Minister Patricia Bullrich from flying to the Paraguayan border town of Pedro Juan Caballero in time to meet Sérgio Moro, Brazil’s justice & public security minister, on 3 June.... Read More

Former agriculture minister (2004-2006) Laurentino ‘Nito’ Cortizo of Panama’s opposition Partido Revolucionario Democrático (PRD) won the 5 May presidential election.... Read More

Commonwealth Caribbean countries met in the Cayman Islands from 3-7 June to discuss the fight against corruption under the overarching theme of ‘Transforming words into action: revitalising the fight against corruption’.... Read More

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