Security & Strategic Review - March 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)

NORTHERN TRIANGLE | US security agenda ‘stagnant’. In a working paper published by the Inter-American Dialogue*, journalist and former Salvadorean diplomat Héctor Silva says, ‘By 2014, the common security agenda between Washington and the Northern Tier is stagnant to say the least.’ He exemplifies this by noting that while cocaine flows through Central America’s Northern Triangle (he calls it Northern Tier) have increased and the subregion has sprouted a budding methamphetamine industry, drug seizures ‘have remained steady’ [see page 4 for up-to-date figures].