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Security & Strategic Review - April 2020
Migrants pay the price for security shortcomings
As governments across the Andean region have increasingly demonstrated a willingness to scapegoat Venezuelan migrants for problems of crime and insecurity, the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic threatens to add to this rising tide of xenophobia. Border closures and states of emergency are causing problems for migrants across the globe, but the context of increasingly repressive migration regimes in the Andean region could deliver particular challenges for over 3m Venezuelans living in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador.
- Migrants pay the price for security shortcomings
- COLOMBIA: Danger escalates for social leaders
- PERU: New challenges in the fight against illegal mining
- ARGENTINA: Fernández declares war on ‘lawfare’
- BRAZIL: Prisons in times of a pandemic
- BRAZIL: Behind the femicide figures
- MEXICO: CJNG in a vulnerable position
- MEXICO: Rising death toll of environmental defenders
- MEXICO: Falling opium poppy production
- EL SALVADOR: Executive-legislative tensions escalate
- NICARAGUA: Press freedom concerns intensify
- REGION: New reports highlight migrants’ plight
- REGION: Covid-19 could overwhelm Caribbean’s health services
- GUYANA: Pressure mounts for resolution