El Centro

SWJ El Centro, or "downtown" in Spanish, is our town square for analysis and discussion of Latin America's guerilla wars and criminal insurgencies.  More about El Centro here.

Recent El Centro Journal Articles and SWJ Blog Posts:

Organized Crime Groups and their Discourse in Mexico

by Chase Whitehouse | Sun, 02/18/2024 - 1:30am | 0 comments

SWJ El Centro Book Review – Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels

by Nathan P. Jones | Tue, 02/06/2024 - 4:03pm | 0 comments

Drugs, Elites and Impunity: The Paradoxes of Money Laundering and the “Too-Big-To-Fail” Concept

by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, by Charles Lewis, by William Yaworsky | Fri, 01/26/2024 - 4:27pm | 0 comments

In Memoriam Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 01/18/2024 - 2:47pm | 0 comments

Small Wars Journal is saddened to acknowledge the death of Major General Robert Hinds Scales, Jr. (5 August 1944 – 12 January 2024). General Scales was a founding Small Wars Journal–El Centro Fellow.

A Social Network Analysis of the Guerreros Unidos Crime Syndicate

by Pilar Glaser, by John P. Sullivan, by Nathan P. Jones | Fri, 01/05/2024 - 12:09am | 0 comments

Small Wars Journal–El Centro Top 10 Articles for 2023

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 01/02/2024 - 10:10pm | 0 comments

The Venezuelan Exodus: A New Migrant Diaspora in the United States

by Howard Campbell, by Charles Larratt-Smith | Mon, 12/18/2023 - 11:23pm | 0 comments

Radical Islamist Weaponized Drone Use I&W (Indications & Warning) in Africa: A Terrorism Research Note

by John P. Sullivan, by Keaton O.K. Bunker | Fri, 12/01/2023 - 8:39pm | 0 comments

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 54: Milícia Arson Attacks in Retaliation for Police Action in Rio de Janeiro

by John P. Sullivan, by José de Arimatéia da Cruz | Thu, 10/26/2023 - 5:04pm | 0 comments

The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación: The most significant security challenge in the Mexico-United States relationship

by Raúl Benitez-Manaut, by Josué Ángel González Torres | Sat, 09/30/2023 - 8:50pm | 0 comments

SWJ El Book Review –  Mientras llega la alegría: transición inconclusa en las relaciones cívico-policiales (Chile, 1990-1994)

by Diego Ramírez Sánchez | Sat, 09/30/2023 - 6:24pm | 0 comments

El Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación: El mayor reto de seguridad en la relación México-Estados Unidos

by Raúl Benitez-Manaut, by Josué Ángel González Torres | Sat, 09/30/2023 - 4:32pm | 0 comments

SWJ El Centro Reseña del libro – Mientras llega la alegría: transición inconclusa en las relaciones cívico-policiales (Chile, 1990-1994)

by Diego Ramírez Sánchez | Sat, 09/30/2023 - 3:59pm | 0 comments

Demystifying the synthetic drug menace: India’s struggles and strategies

by Girisanker SB | Mon, 09/11/2023 - 6:48pm | 0 comments

This essay looks at the potential transnational crime-terror nexus in relationship to synthetic drugs trafficking in India.

China's Charm Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comprehensive Analysis of China's strategic Communication Strategy Across the Region

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 08/17/2023 - 10:26pm | 0 comments

China’s Charm Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comprehensive Analysis of China’s Strategic Communication Strategy Across the Region

From Terrorist Organizations to Cocaine Groups in Colombia: Is ELN the Next?

by Mahmut Cengiz | Tue, 08/15/2023 - 7:55pm | 0 comments

The Sunset of FARC and the Execution of a Comprehensive Counterinsurgency Program

by Alejandro Duran | Mon, 07/31/2023 - 10:07pm | 0 comments

Crime and COVID-19 in Mexico: Some Counterintuitive Results

by Sean Fiorella, by Tony Payan, by Daniel Potter, by Rodrigo Montes de Oca Arboleya | Sun, 07/23/2023 - 7:54pm | 0 comments

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 53: Barrio 18 and MS-13 Prison Riot and Massacre in Támara Women’s Prison, Honduras

by John P. Sullivan, by Robert Bunker | Fri, 06/30/2023 - 8:52pm | 0 comments

China's Charm Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comprehensive Analysis of China's Strategic Communication Strategy Across the Region [Part I: Propaganda and Politics]

by SWJ Editors | Tue, 06/27/2023 - 9:05pm | 0 comments

SWJ−El Centro Fellow Pablo Baisotti just published a Research Paper on Chinese Influence Operations in latin America at Florida International University's Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy,

Perspective: Latin America’s crime surge is fueled by surging cocaine production

by Robert Muggah | Mon, 05/22/2023 - 5:22pm | 1 comment

SWJ El Centro Book Review − The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

by Pilar Glaser | Tue, 05/09/2023 - 3:44pm | 3 comments

New SWJ−El Centro Fellows and Intern

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 05/08/2023 - 2:50pm | 9 comments

New SWJ−El Centro Fellows and Intern: May 2023

Organized Crime in Chile: The Challenge Ahead

by Diego Ramírez Sánchez | Thu, 05/04/2023 - 8:43pm | 4 comments

Hezbollah’s Global Networks and Latin American Cocaine Trade

by Mahmut Cengiz, by Camilo Pardo-Herrera | Tue, 04/25/2023 - 8:20pm | 1 comment