Latin American Security & Strategic Review

President Joe Biden’s administration in the US has suspended satellite monitoring of Colombian coca cultivation, quietly dropping one of the key tools in its war on drugs while providing no public explanation for the change.

The brother of Hipólito Mora, the former leader of Mexico’s ‘self-defence’ movement who was killed in Michoacán state on 29 June, has sworn that he and other citizens will once again take up arms if justice is not served to his brother’s killers.

After dissatisfaction with social inequality saw mass protests erupt in Chile in 2019, the country’s political class agreed to launch a constituent process to replace the current magna carta, which was drafted during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990).

The coronation of the UK’s King Charles III has given added impetus to the move away from the British monarchy as head of state in former colonies in the Caribbean.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has not exactly built a reputation as an anti-corruption crusader.

A New York courtroom sealed the fall from grace of Mexico’s former drug czar, Genaro García Luna, on 21 February.

Distressing images of emaciated indigenous Yanomami people came to light in January, shocking Brazil and the world.

In December, the US-based press freedom group Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) warned that 2022 was the most violent year for the press in Latin America and Caribbean for the last two decades – a situation which it says is “especially critical” in El Salvador, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Guatemala, citing the resurgence of “caudillista [strongman] political regimes”.

Like many aspects of his presidency, Pedro Castillo’s attempt at a coup was a calamitous affair.