Panama: Is Restructuring the Razor to Cut Out Corruption?
by Anthony Scheidel
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This work is an empirical article detailing the recent restructuring of Panamanian Service Groups and Governmental Ministries. It provides valuable analysis not only on how the organizations were physically reorganized, but also insight into the reasons why changes were made, including corruption and rising crime levels throughout the country. Although the two reorganizations are separate and independent of each other, it also touches on how they are intertwined from a national security aspect. The essay concludes with evidence revealing how Panama is now better prepared to counter these rising levels of insecurity by means of a stronger security plan, as well as possible future approaches, including more comprehensive and applied regional security cooperation initiatives.
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Anthony Scheidel is a research analyst on Latin America related issues at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO), an open source research organization that focuses on the foreign perspective of understudied aspects of the Operational Environment. He is the assistant editor of and contributing writer to FMSO's Latin America Military and Security Watch newsbriefs journal. Additionally, he provides foreign area and military analysis, as is responsible for writing and publishing on Latin America security issues from open sources and foreign language media, including Spanish. He has vast experience as a linguist and Latin America intelligence analyst as a contractor to the U.S. government and Intelligence Community (IC), with experience working with Panamanian government security organizations. He earned a BA in Spanish from the University of Central Missouri.
