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• Security & Strategic Review - July 2003

  Possible pitfalls of Colombia's deal with the paramilitary groups begin to emergeThe government of President Alvaro Uribe has reached a...

• Security & Strategic Review - August 2003

  Possible pitfalls of Colombia's deal with the paramilitary groups begin to emergeThe government of President Alvaro Uribe has reached a...

• Security & Strategic Review - September 2003

  `War on drugs’ may bring the real spillover from ColombiaBolivia says `zero coca’ is unattainable, Peru suspends eradication to deal with...

• Security & Strategic Review - October 2003

  Ouster of Bolivian President Goni raises disquieting questionsHis successor must rule between pressures from two strong indigenous-based movements...

• Security & Strategic Review - November 2003

  Deal on Nicaraguan missiles is test case for US strategyVerbal sticks and discreet carrots secured a deal on eliminating all but a token amount of...

• Security & Strategic Review - December 2003

  Authority of region’s states defied by really new security threatsFor well over a decade, defence and security chiefs throughout the region have...

• Security & Strategic Review: January 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  After more ‘pre-war’ tirades Hugo Chávez, says he’s considering talks with Obama Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez continued to raise the...

• Security & Strategic Review: February 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Chávez and Uribe pay lip service to mediation by ‘group of friends’ Colombia and Venezuela have accepted an initiative of the joint Latin...

• Security & Strategic Review: March 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Now, a flap over ‘plans’ for a US military base in Brazil Reports have started circulating about negotiations between the US and Brazil...

• Security & Strategic Review: April 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  No Unasur-Obama meeting until members firm up a consensusAs the leaders of Unasur open their summit in Buenos Aires on 4 May, there is one item they...

• Security & Strategic Review: May 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Unexpected US opposition overshadows Lula’s successful Iran nuclear deal Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has, together with Turkey’s Prime...

• Security & Strategic Review June 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Should Calderón stand down the troops and negotiate with the drug cartels? President Felipe Calderón finds himself ever more frequently compelled,...

• Security & Strategic Review July 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Mexico car bomb triggers debate on escalation & shift to terrorism The news that, for the first time ever, a car bomb had exploded in Ciudad...

• Security & Strategic Review August 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Calderón obliquely invites Mexicans to debate the legalisation of drugs Whether it was his intention or not, President Felipe Calderón has raised...

• Security & Strategic Review September 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Santos hails killing of the Farc’s military chief as a turning-point Last month saw the 46-year internal conflict between the Fuerzas Armadas...

• Security & Strategic Review October 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Alan García relaunches his scheme for a Pacific seaboard alliance Peruvian president Alan García has launched a new, slimmed-down but more...

• Security & Strategic Review November 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  How Chávez is playing his rapprochement with Santos The thaw in Colombian-Venezuelan relations that began when presidents Juan Manuel Santos and...

• Security & Strategic Review December 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Costa Rica builds up forces for territorial defence As attempts to broker an agreement between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on their border dispute...

• Security & Strategic Review January 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Faced with the Democratic Charter, Chávez beats a hasty retreat Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who played a key role in invoking the...

• Security & Strategic Review February 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Mexico riled as its violence is again labelled an ‘insurgency’ Once again, a prominent US official has raised hackles in Mexico by...

• Security & Strategic Review March 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  After spreading southward, cocaine production enters Central America The recent discovery of a cocaine-processing lab in Honduras — the first...

• Security & Strategic Review April 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  ‘Pacific Alliance’ and ‘OAS without US’ come onstageThe last week of April witnessed the emergence of two regional organisations in Latin...

• Security & Strategic Review May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

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• Security & Strategic Review June 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

  Central America gets more than expected to spend on its public security strategyThe Organization of American States (OAS) decided not to adopt an

• Security & Strategic Review July 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

• Security & Strategic Review August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)

• Security & Strategic Review - January 2004

  Proliferation of provocative incidents strains determination to maintain peaceAn oft-repeated mantra in surveys of the Latin American scene is that...

• Security & Strategic Review - February 2004

  Former military & paramilitary exiles return to join rising against AristideThe nature of the uprising in Haiti has changed radically in only two...

• Security & Strategic Review - March 2004

  Terrorists taking over Bolivian coca, or an excuse for a new policy?A special prosecutor in Bolivia has anticipated the conclusion of his...

• Security & Strategic Review - April 2004

  New round of alarms about terrorist threat to Caribbean cruise shippingThe prospect of a terrorist attack on a Caribbean cruise ship - or on...

• Security & Strategic Review - May 2004

  War in Colombia demands greater involvement, says US military studyThe Uribe administration has launched `Plan Patriota', a major military offensive...

• Security & Strategic Review - June 2004

  Unrest perceived as threatening Bolivia’s collapse or even breakupBolivia is being seen by many as on the brink of collapse, or even of breaking...

• Security & Strategic Review - July 2004

  New US doctrine of ‘effective sovereignty’ holds region to ‘duty’ of controlling its territories The US has just replaced its already...

• Security & Strategic Review - August 2004

  Mexico’s EPR guerrillas ‘have secretly become a major threat’ - official reportWhen President Vicente Fox delivered his state-of-the-nation...

• Security & Strategic Review - September 2004

  Mercosur defence chiefs disagree with US on obsolescence of conventional forcesThe defence ministers of Mercosur have announced that they will...

• Security & Strategic Review - October 2004

  Failure of Chile’s main anticrime scheme forces a thorough review and overhaulWith evidence mounting that Chile's key anticrime programme is not...

• Security & Strategic Review - October 2004

  Security & Strategic Review - October 2004

• Security & Strategic Review - November 2004

  Bombings in three capitals do not shake region’s stance on not seeing terrorism as top priorityAlmost at the same time as Latin American...

• Security & Strategic Review - December 2004

  Kirchner distances Argentina from Lula’s regional strategic realignment schemeRecent moves by President Néstor Kirchner raise the prospect that...

• Security & Strategic Review - January 2005

  Study sees risk of radicalisation and anti-US populism if Latin America fails on the social front Latin America does not figure very prominently on...

• Security & Strategic Review - February 2005

  Southern Andean states are seen entering a dangerous new ‘cycle of instability’The demands for regional autonomy that have spread over the...

• Security & Strategic Review - March 2005

  ‘Farc in Paraguay’: how a kidnapping was inflated into a major threatThe news from Paraguay in late February was alarming. Colombia's Farc...

• Security & Strategic Review - April 2005

  Chávez builds up ‘million-strong’ reserve to confront expected US invasionVenezuelan President Hugo Chávez has set in motion a buildup of...

• Security & Strategic Review - May 2005

  Bolivian military warns it will not tolerate ‘unconstitutional’ moves towards autonomyRumours of military coup plots have been recurring in the...

• Security & Strategic Review - June 2005

  Pentagon builds a case against the Sandinistas for ‘blocking’ the destruction of missilesThe Pentagon appears to be building a casus belli...

• Security & Strategic Review - July 2005

  Policy clashes and vacillation threaten the ‘war on drugs’ in the AndesThe future of the US 'war on drugs' is looking uncertain. On one hand,...

• Security & Strategic Review - August 2005

  Paraguay becomes the stage for the unveiling of a new ‘strategic threat’ by the USParaguay has become the focus of attention for many of those...

• Security & Strategic Review - September 2005

  Events in Paraguay have trained regional spotlight on US troop immunityWhether it is on the formal agenda for the Summit of the Americas or not, the...

• Security & Strategic Review - October 2005

  US backs a made-over version of Central America’s rapid-reaction forceThe US has decided to endorse the Central American initiative to create a...

• Security & Strategic Review - November 2005

  From three angles, visions of conflictFor once it was not Hugo Chávez who was denouncing US plans to act militarily against Venezuela. A US writer...