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Security & Strategic Review - March 2007
REGION: Official reports lack up-to-date hard data
The US government and the UN's International Narcotics Control Board have issued their most recent annual reports, which have a disquieting feature in common: the absence of up-to-date information on drug crops and production at a time when strong signs of a new 'balloon effect' is calling into question the efficacy of the all-out eradication policies applied in Colombia, Bolivia has ditched its 'zero coca' policy and Peru is under increasing pressure to review its eradication programme.
- US intelligence chiefs see no major security threat from Latin America
- CENTRAL AMERICA - US: 'Mano Dura' policies seen as worsening the problem
- REGION: Official reports lack up-to-date hard data
- COLOMBIA - US: Paramilitary & business: the Chiquita case
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- BRAZIL: Police surprise everyone with 'mega-operation'
- MEXICO: Cartels resume war, target police in riposte
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- HONDURAS: Fourth anti-crime drive, more use of army
- GUATEMALA: Focus shifts to death squads within police
- HAITI: Minustah displaces gangs from Cité Soleil