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:
Mexico’s cartels are significant social, political, and economic actors.
The same people who leave dead bodies and severed heads littering a busy highway in Mexico are now moving their operations to Oklahoma.
Call to Create OAS Inter-American Commission against Transnational Organized Crime - OAS Press Release.
Documents Show Depth of US Concern over Mexico Violence by Alfredo Corchado, Dallas Morning News.
In cooperation with Borderland Beat, InSight Crime, & Small Wars Journal— El Centro.
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University Blog w/ Houston Chronicle. Five Small Wars Journal El Centro fellows provide op-eds.
"Kilcullen's thesis is a compelling one: remote desert battlegrounds & impenetrable mountain tribal areas are not, in fact, where we will encounter the violence of tomorrow."
"With smart strategies and the right resources, the United States can still make a huge difference, especially when it has effective and willing partners."
Mexican Cartel Essays and Notes is a collection of twenty-three Small Wars Journal articles supplemented by operational and tactical notes covering a variety of cartel-related subjects.
"An audacious band of citizen militias battles a brutal drug cartel in the hills of central Mexico."
Small Wars Journal El Centro Senior Fellows John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker new book: Studies in Gangs and Cartels.
Narco-Politics: How Mexico Got There and How It Can Get Out by Pamela F. Izaguirre, Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
No matter how much the cartels tried, and continue to try, to hide their evil acts with continued threats against journalists, a group of citizens emerged to fill in the gap of local cartel coverage - narcobloggers…
Cartel Car Bombings in Mexico by SWJ-El Centro Senior Fellows Robert Bunker and John Sullivan, Strategic Studies Institute.
SWJ-El Centro Fellow Robert Killebrew has a new op-ed at War on the Rocks. In the piece, Colonel Killebrew assesses the convergence between TCOs and the IRGC/Quds Force in the Western Hemisphere.