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Security & Strategic Review - December 2022

LEADER
A planned overhaul of Colombia’s counter-narcotics strategy remains among the most contentious policies pushed by President Gustavo Petro, who has called for the easing of a decades-long militarised crackdown on drug production and for the trial of new, more progressive methods.... Read More
ANDEAN COUNTRIES
There is now no doubt that public security in Ecuador is on a rapid downwards spiral.... Read More
The oil spill affecting indigenous groups living along the Marañón river in Peru’s Loreto region went largely unnoticed by the global community for the best part of two months, until local protesters hijacked a river boat containing around 70 Peruvians and foreign tourists on 3 November.... Read More
The relentless killing of social leaders and human rights defenders has long marked Colombia as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for frontline environmental and social campaigners.... Read More
BRAZIL & SOUTHERN CONE
A police operation in late October in Paraguay resulted in the death of several members of the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) guerrilla group, including leading EPP figures, in what was considered a win for the government led by President Mario Abdo Benítez.... Read More
Gabriel Boric took over the presidency of Chile earlier this year with an agenda that included seeing through the country’s constituent process (an unfinished and even more challenging item now that the population rejected a draft constitution in September) and reforming the pillars of its social system.... Read More
Brazil’s general election four years ago was widely considered to have been blighted by fake news.... Read More
MEXICO & USMCA
Mexico’s government made headlines around the world in August 2021 when it filed an unprecedented lawsuit against major US firearms manufacturers.... Read More
On 13 October, police in Mexico City (CDMX) announced the arrest of a group of cargo truck hijackers known as Los Diamantes.... Read More
Same sex-marriage is now legal across all of Mexico’s 32 states.... Read More
Armed attacks in Mexico’s municipality of San Miguel Totalapan, Guerrero state left at least 20 dead on 5 October.... Read More
CENTRAL AMERICA
Tropical Cyclone Julia, the tenth named storm and the fifth hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season, hit Central America last month, wreaking major devastation and compounding the impacts of an already active rainy season.... Read More
General levels of violent crime and gang-related activities including homicides, kidnappings and extortion are generally lower in Panama than in other countries in Central America such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and authorities in Panama have been slow to adopt hardline policies for confronting the criminal activity that does occur on Panamanian streets.... Read More
“A meaningful step forward”.... Read More
The inauguration in late January of Xiomara Castro as Honduras’s first female president stoked considerable hopes that her left-wing Libertad y Refundación (Libre) government would deliver on women rights.... Read More
CARIBBEAN
In October, the non-profit journalism and investigative organisation Insight Crime published a detailed analysis of environmental crime in five countries with territory in the Amazon basin, namely Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana, and Suriname.... Read More
On 10 November, President Irfaan Ali pledged that it was “game over for racism as a political weapon”, but the opposition A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (Apnu+AFC) appears to be in no mood for defusing the race issue.... Read More
*** OECS TO PRIORITISE REGIONAL TRANSPORT.... Read More

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