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:

Call for Book Chapters: Terrorism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: A Comparative Analysis

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/19/2021 - 10:52pm | 0 comments

Call for Book Chapters: Terrorism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: A Comparative Analysis Editors: José de Arimatéia da Cruz, Michael Hall, and Sabella O. Abidde

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #50: Additional Weaponized Consumer Drone Incidents in Michoacán and Puebla, MX

by Robert Bunker, by John P. Sullivan | Mon, 05/10/2021 - 8:41pm | 2 comments

Impasse Antimafia en Estados Totalitarios que Patrocinan al Crimen Organizado y en Estados Débiles Capturados por el Crimen Organizado

by Edgardo Buscaglia | Sun, 05/09/2021 - 7:32pm | 2 comments

Rio’s bloody police campaign

by Robert Muggah | Fri, 05/07/2021 - 12:19am | 5 comments

Antimafia Impasse: State-Driven Organized Crime & Organized Crime States

by Edgardo Buscaglia | Tue, 05/04/2021 - 5:54pm | 1 comment

Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #49: Alleged CJNG Drone Attack in Aguililla, Michoacán Injures Two Police Officers

by Robert Bunker, by John P. Sullivan | Wed, 04/28/2021 - 9:17pm | 2 comments

La Guerra de Propaganda del CJNG y AMLO

by Daniel Weisz | Sat, 04/24/2021 - 5:01pm | 2 comments

The Propaganda War of the CJNG and AMLO

by Daniel Weisz | Thu, 04/22/2021 - 11:34pm | 1 comment

FICINT – Ascensión: A Tale of the Mexican Drug War

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 04/12/2021 - 4:03pm | 0 comments

Small Wars Journal is pleased to present an excerpt from "Ascensión: A Tale of the Mexican Drug War" by Small Wars Journal-El Centro Fellow Michael L. Burgoyne. This fictional account—or FICINT (Fictional Intelligence)—describes the security situation in Mexico in an accessible manner.

Ascensión: A Tale of the Mexican Drug War

by Michael L. Burgoyne | Mon, 04/12/2021 - 3:49pm | 1 comment

SWJ-El Centro Book Review – Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels

by Robert Bunker | Tue, 04/06/2021 - 8:41pm | 4 comments

ELN’s Territorial Expansion: Is “Strategic Limbo” A Window of Opportunity?

by Alexandra Phelan | Thu, 03/18/2021 - 2:05am | 1 comment

The Narco Hybrid-Threat

by Paulina Rios Maya | Thu, 03/18/2021 - 12:06am | 3 comments

COVID-19 is reconfiguring organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean

by Robert Muggah, by Steven Dudley | Tue, 03/02/2021 - 3:59pm | 1 comment

SWJ-El Centro Announces New Slate of Fellows/Associates for 2021

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 03/01/2021 - 9:29pm | 0 comments

Small Wars Journal-El Centro (SWJ-El Centro) is pleased to announce the Class of Fellows and Associates for 2021. Fellows have already made significant and distinguished contributions to the field through the course of their career. Associates are actively engaged in research or practice in the region and in transnational organized crime or insurgency.

SWJ El Centro Book Review – In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

by Daniel Weisz | Thu, 02/25/2021 - 3:53pm | 1 comment

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 35: Mara Salvatrucha Training Camp Dismantled by Honduran Police

by John P. Sullivan, by Robert Bunker | Sat, 02/20/2021 - 9:38pm | 1 comment

SWJ El Centro Book Review – Terrorist Recruitment of U.S. Gangs: Global Criminal Alliances and Biological Weapons

by Carter F. Smith | Mon, 02/15/2021 - 11:44pm | 4 comments

FAOs as Force Multipliers During JIIM Operations

by Ola Ogunlola, by Matthew N. Hite | Tue, 02/09/2021 - 7:18pm | 1 comment

Criminal Distancing: Drug Cartels and the State during Covid-19

by Paul Rexton Kan | Tue, 02/02/2021 - 6:24pm | 1 comment

SWJ El Centro Book Review – Las Cinco Vidas de Genaro García Luna

by Daniel Weisz | Mon, 02/01/2021 - 9:14pm | 1 comment