Reevaluating the Threat: Terrorism in Latin America

Attacking drug cartel infrastructure indirectly, creating judicial frameworks on terrorism, and raising terrorism as national security concerns—irrespective of U.S.-Israel-EU pressures—should be top of mind for Latin American governments. Terror, whether ideologically or financially motivated, only undermines democracy.

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Emerging Security Challenges in Panama

Panama faces an increasingly grave, multidimensional security challenge, driven by the interacting dynamics of gangs and criminal insecurity, drug trafficking, money laundering, contraband goods, and migrant flows.

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How not to curb Colombian cocaine

Over the past four years, Colombia has eradicated nearly 300,000 hectares (more than 1,000 square miles) of coca while seizing more than 2,000 metric tons of pure cocaine and cocaine base, but the country remains plagued by illicit drug activity.

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El Desafío Multidimensional de Perú – Parte 2: la crisis económica, inseguridad pública, y crimen organizado

Los desafíos de seguridad de Perú varían desde la expansión de la producción de coca, la minería ilegal y las actividades madereras, hasta una amenaza terrorista pequeña pero persistente, un nuevo centro criminal emergente en la frontera trinacional con Brasil y Colombia, y una creciente inseguridad pública en el contexto de la salud y crisis socioeconómica creada por la pandemia COVID-19.

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