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- Causes and electoral consequences of political assassinations: The role of organized crime in Mexico | Posted : Thu, 11/07/2024 - 10:36pm
- ‘This is effectively a civil war’: despair in Haiti as armed gangs step up assault on capital | Posted : Wed, 10/30/2024 - 3:03am
- After the war on drugs: The impacts of cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro | Posted : Tue, 10/29/2024 - 5:30pm
- Car bomb attacks signal escalation of cartel violence in Mexico | Posted : Fri, 10/25/2024 - 4:22pm
- They Flew 7,000 Miles to Fight Haiti’s Gangs. The Gangs Are on Top. | Posted : Wed, 10/09/2024 - 1:00pm
- At the epicenter of the Mexican drug trade, a deadly power struggle shuts down a city | Posted : Tue, 10/08/2024 - 12:58pm
- ‘A violent atmosphere’: Brazil’s alarming rise in police officer suicides | Posted : Thu, 09/26/2024 - 4:31pm
- HACIA UNA PROPUESTA DE SEGURIDAD NACIONAL A LA LUZ DE LOS CASOS DE CHILE Y MÉXICO Y EL COMBATE AL CRIMEN ORGANIZAD | Posted : Thu, 08/08/2024 - 1:31pm
- El laberinto de los generales: crimen y militares en México | Posted : Tue, 05/28/2024 - 8:18pm
- The Generals’ Labyrinth: Crime and the Military in Mexico | Posted : Tue, 05/28/2024 - 8:16pm
- Mexico's Synthetic Drug Problem is Meth, Not Fentanyl. | Posted : Mon, 05/13/2024 - 8:19pm
- National Drug Treat Assessment 2024 | Posted : Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:12pm
- Mexican Money Laundering in the United States: Analysis and Proposals for Reform | Posted : Tue, 05/07/2024 - 8:47pm
- Harnessing Insurgent and Narco-Criminal Drone Tactics for Special Operations | Posted : Tue, 04/30/2024 - 3:01pm
- Spring ICAIE Policy Brief: Emerging Transnational Organized Crime Threats in Latin America: Converging Criminalized Markets & Illicit Vectors | Posted : Mon, 04/29/2024 - 4:38pm
- Politicians in the Crosshairs of Mexico’s Criminal Wars: The Cases of Guanajuato, Guerrero, and Michoacán | Posted : Tue, 04/16/2024 - 8:36pm
- Haiti’s Gangs: Can a Foreign Mission Break Their Stranglehold? | Posted : Fri, 01/05/2024 - 2:15pm
- Coercive brokers: Militias and urban governance in Rio de Janeiro | Posted : Fri, 01/05/2024 - 3:22am
- Triads, Snakeheads, and Flying Money: The Underworld of Chinese Criminal Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean | Posted : Sun, 10/22/2023 - 6:31pm
- Unraveling Covert Networks: Analysis of Mexican Cartel Alliances | Posted : Thu, 10/19/2023 - 12:08am
- Soldiers and Prisons: Reflections on Military Interventions in the Latin American and Caribbean Prison System. | Posted : Wed, 09/27/2023 - 8:29pm
- The Use of Similarity-based Algorithms to Predict Links in Mexican Criminal Networks | Posted : Fri, 09/01/2023 - 2:40pm
- China's Charm Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comprehensive Analysis of China's strategic Communication Strategy Across the Region [Part III: Image, Academia, and Technology] | Posted : Thu, 08/17/2023 - 9:43pm
- China’s Charm Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comprehensive Analysis of China’s Strategic Communication Strategy Across the Region [Part II: Influencing the Media] | Posted : Thu, 08/17/2023 - 9:41pm
- 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] | Posted : Thu, 08/17/2023 - 9:39pm
- Las bandas criminales de 3ª generación: un peligro para Chile | Posted : Tue, 08/15/2023 - 8:37pm
- Amazon Underworld: Crime and Corruption in the Shadows of the World’s Largest Rainforest | Posted : Sat, 08/05/2023 - 11:25am
- Car Bomb Ambush injures at least Ten Guardia Nacional (GN) Agents in Celaya, Guanajuato | Posted : Fri, 07/14/2023 - 9:37pm
- Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime | Posted : Mon, 07/10/2023 - 4:47pm
- Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) Improvised Anti-Vehicle Mine (IAVM) Destroys Mexican Army (SEDENA) Vehicle in Minefield Near Apatzingán, Michoacán | Posted : Sun, 07/09/2023 - 6:35pm
- Are drug cartels 'terrorist organizations'? US, Mexican leaders have strong opinions | Posted : Mon, 04/17/2023 - 5:44pm
- Policy Brief: Emerging Transnational Organized Crime Threats in Latin America: Converging Criminalized Markets & Illicit Vectors | Posted : Thu, 04/13/2023 - 7:22pm
- Migrant Caravans: A Deep Dive Into Mass Migration through Mexico and the Effects of Immigration Policy | Posted : Fri, 03/03/2023 - 3:30pm
- Deadly Rio de Janeiro: Armed Violence and the Civilian Burden | Posted : Tue, 02/14/2023 - 5:04pm
- The Goshen Massacre and the Specter of Cartel Spillover Into the US | Posted : Fri, 01/20/2023 - 6:53pm
- Dangerous Alliances: Russia’s Strategic Inroads in Latin America | Posted : Fri, 01/13/2023 - 2:47pm
- El Salvador Deploys Security Forces to Contain Criminal Groups | Posted : Wed, 01/11/2023 - 11:53am
- Honduras declares war against gangs – and for control of popular narrative | Posted : Wed, 01/04/2023 - 2:13pm
- Complexities and conveniences in the international drug trade: the involvement of Mexican criminal actors in the EU drug market | Posted : Thu, 12/15/2022 - 1:50am
- A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure | Posted : Wed, 12/07/2022 - 9:04am
- Improvised Anti-Vehicle Land Mines (IAVMs) in Mexico: Cartel Emergent Weaponry Use | Posted : Tue, 11/08/2022 - 2:20pm
- The Forgotten Histories of the Codification of International Humanitarian Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America | Posted : Sat, 10/08/2022 - 5:22pm
- South Africa’s organised crime climbs to Italy’s levels, racing past Mexico, Somalia and Libya | Posted : Thu, 09/22/2022 - 6:28pm
- Opinion | The Foreign Policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part V: Europe’s Supercoke & on- the-Horizon Issues and the Middle East | Posted : Fri, 09/16/2022 - 1:01pm
- Opinion | The Foreign Policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part IV: Europe’s Cocaine & Meth Markets | Posted : Fri, 09/02/2022 - 12:44pm
- Opinion | The Foreign Policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part III: Africa | Posted : Sun, 08/21/2022 - 2:32pm
- The cartels flexed their power in Tijuana — and now the battle for influence is on | Posted : Sat, 08/20/2022 - 6:26pm
- Organized Crime in Mexico and the Evolving Government Response | Posted : Fri, 08/19/2022 - 1:48am
- Informe alerta sobre contrabando de cigarrillo, narcotráfico y Hezbolá | Posted : Tue, 08/02/2022 - 11:35pm
- Iran Seeks to Increase Its Influence in Latin America, Experts Warn | Posted : Thu, 07/28/2022 - 1:25am
- Borderland (Narco) Folk Saints and Texas Media | Posted : Tue, 06/28/2022 - 10:33am
- The Struggle for the Soul of Latin America's Left | Posted : Tue, 04/19/2022 - 3:45pm
- What’s Behind the Spike of Violence in El Salvador? | Posted : Mon, 04/11/2022 - 5:29pm
- Great-Power Competition Comes for Latin America | Posted : Thu, 02/24/2022 - 5:32pm
- Opinion | The China Connection in Mexico’s Illegal Economies | Posted : Sat, 02/19/2022 - 1:48am
- The Emerging Gang State in El Salvador | Posted : Thu, 02/17/2022 - 10:24am
- Farmer is first to die from land mine in Mexican cartel violence, prosecutors say | Posted : Tue, 02/15/2022 - 4:11pm
- A World Away From Ukraine, Russia Is Courting Latin America | Posted : Tue, 02/15/2022 - 4:01pm
- The Birth of the MS13's Mexico Program | Posted : Tue, 02/15/2022 - 3:55pm
- In Haiti, gang violence strains aid operations and demands new approaches | Posted : Tue, 02/08/2022 - 12:00am
- Book Review: CHINA’S FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: Conditions and Challenges | Edited by Enrique Dussel Peters | Posted : Mon, 02/07/2022 - 9:33pm
- Nonstate armed actors in 2022: Alive and powerful in the new geopolitics | Posted : Tue, 02/01/2022 - 5:59pm
- IRAN’S PATTERN OF PENETRATION IN LATIN AMERICA | Posted : Fri, 01/28/2022 - 3:51pm
- EL PATRÓN DE INFILTRACIÓN IRANÍ EN LATINOAMÉRICA | Posted : Fri, 01/28/2022 - 3:49pm
- A PENETRAÇÃO SISTEMÁTICA DO IRÃ NA AMÉRICA LATINA | Posted : Fri, 01/28/2022 - 3:48pm
- The Guatemalan Regional Peacekeeping Operations Training Command: A Model for Other Countries | Posted : Fri, 01/28/2022 - 3:46pm
- Opinion | Crime & Anti-Crime Policies in Mexico in 2022: A Bleak Outlook | Posted : Sat, 01/22/2022 - 5:19pm
- Venezuela: Entendiendo a los actores políticos, externos y criminales en un Estado autoritario | Posted : Mon, 01/17/2022 - 8:06pm
- Mexico Ablaze as Jalisco Cartel Seeks Criminal Hegemony | Posted : Thu, 01/06/2022 - 4:21pm
- Fearing for their lives, Mexicans fled a gang-ruled town. Now they seek political asylum in California | Posted : Fri, 12/31/2021 - 5:26pm
- Violencia criminal en México durante la pandemia | Posted : Thu, 12/30/2021 - 2:46pm
- Treasury Uses New Sanctions Authority to Combat Global Illicit Drug Trade | Posted : Sun, 12/19/2021 - 9:43pm
- Extortion: The Backbone of Criminal Activity in Latin America | Posted : Thu, 12/16/2021 - 7:11pm
- Nicaragua’s Flip to China: What Does It Mean for the Region? | Posted : Sat, 12/11/2021 - 6:33pm
- El giro de Nicaragua hacia China: ¿Qué significa para la región? | Posted : Sat, 12/11/2021 - 6:32pm
- “I Have Other Data”: The Guardia Nacional and the Entrenchment of Mexico’s Militarization | Posted : Thu, 11/18/2021 - 1:07pm
- Northern Triangle Migration Root Causes Strategy Requires the Right Blend of Sticks and Carrots | Posted : Sat, 11/13/2021 - 12:23am
- Global call for papers: “Organized crime in armed conflicts and other situations of violence: The state of play for international law in the 2020s” | Posted : Thu, 11/11/2021 - 2:25pm
- Mexican Cartels Are Embracing Aerial Drones and They’re Spreading | Posted : Thu, 11/11/2021 - 12:06pm
- Is the President of Honduras a Narco-Trafficker? | Posted : Tue, 11/09/2021 - 3:55pm
- Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico | Posted : Fri, 10/22/2021 - 3:06pm
- ‘It’s Terror’: In Haiti, Gangs Gain Power as Security Vacuum Grows | Posted : Thu, 10/21/2021 - 3:39pm
- Las olas del terrorismo y las insurgencias del futuro (III) | Posted : Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:44pm
- Las olas del terrorismo y las insurgencias del futuro (II) | Posted : Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:42pm
- Las olas del terrorismo y las insurgencias del futuro (I) | Posted : Mon, 09/27/2021 - 2:40pm
- DiDi and the Risks of Expanding Chinese E-Commerce in Latin America | Posted : Thu, 09/02/2021 - 3:44pm
- Didi y los riesgos de la expansión del comercio electrónico chino en América Latina | Posted : Thu, 09/02/2021 - 3:42pm
- A Hotspot Anti-Crime Strategy in Mexico? | Posted : Sun, 08/29/2021 - 2:10pm
- Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico: The Urgent Actions of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Are Legally Binding | Posted : Tue, 08/17/2021 - 4:24pm
- A Gang War Is Messing Up Earthquake Relief in Haiti | Posted : Mon, 08/16/2021 - 1:43pm
- Crystal meth, the drug of the future | Posted : Tue, 08/10/2021 - 2:54pm
- Mexico: A Deepening Crisis and Strategic Challenge for the US | Posted : Mon, 08/09/2021 - 9:08pm
- México: Una Crisis que se Agudiza y un Desafío Estratégico para Estados Unidos | Posted : Mon, 08/09/2021 - 9:07pm
- El Salvador is Trying to Control MS-13 by Doubling its Army | Posted : Fri, 07/30/2021 - 4:54pm
- The Reinforcing Activities of the ELN (National Liberation Army) in Colombia and Venezuela | Posted : Fri, 07/30/2021 - 3:56pm
- El fortalecimiento de las actividades del ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) en Colombia y Venezuela | Posted : Fri, 07/30/2021 - 3:54pm
- MEXICO PLANS A PRISONER RELEASE … SHOULD THE U.S. WORRY? | Posted : Fri, 07/30/2021 - 3:49pm
- Uruguay exemplifies how to deal with China | Posted : Tue, 06/22/2021 - 8:36pm
- The Dangers of Potential Russian Counter-UAV Technology Exports to Latin America | Posted : Sat, 06/19/2021 - 1:03pm
- AMLO challenges US claim that narcos control one-third of Mexican territory | Posted : Fri, 03/19/2021 - 12:50pm
- Book Review of "Strategic Notes on Third Generation Gangs: A Small Wars Journal- El Centro Anthology" | Posted : Thu, 03/11/2021 - 11:28am
- As Mexico’s security deteriorates, the power of the military grows | Posted : Thu, 12/17/2020 - 3:10pm
- Murder in Mexico: journalists caught in the crosshairs | Posted : Sun, 12/06/2020 - 12:53pm
- Submarines for Rent – The Best Option for Traffickers in Colombia | Posted : Fri, 12/04/2020 - 4:53pm
- The Hydra: The Strategic Paradox of Human Security in Mexico | Posted : Sat, 11/28/2020 - 5:54pm
- Pax Narco: Life, Death and Drug Money in Culiacán, the City of El Chapo | Posted : Thu, 11/26/2020 - 1:18pm
- Nayarit and the Making of a Narco State | Posted : Thu, 11/26/2020 - 12:51pm
- Chinese Security Engagement in Latin America | Posted : Wed, 11/25/2020 - 1:45pm
- Cienfuegos and the US-Mexico firestorm | Posted : Wed, 11/25/2020 - 1:44pm
- Latin America’s History of Dirty Cops, Ministers and Generals | Posted : Sat, 10/24/2020 - 3:17pm
- Anti-drug alliance tested after U.S. arrest of former Mexican defense chief | Posted : Sat, 10/24/2020 - 3:14pm
- Narcotics Proceeds in the Western Hemisphere: Analysis of Narcotics Related Illicit Financial Flows between the United States, Mexico, and Colombia | Posted : Tue, 09/08/2020 - 4:22pm
- Criminal Governance Under Coronavirus: How Colombian Groups Seized the Day | Posted : Fri, 09/04/2020 - 4:48pm
- Cartel-Related Violence in Mexico as Narco-Terrorism or Criminal Insurgency: A Literature Review | Posted : Mon, 08/31/2020 - 1:07pm
- The Use of Terrorist Tools by Criminal Organizations: The Case of the Brazilian Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) | Posted : Mon, 08/31/2020 - 1:04pm
- El Salvador: la guerra del governo alle “pandillas” | Posted : Sun, 08/30/2020 - 5:53pm
- 3 Types Of Go-Fast Narco Boats The Coast Guard Faces | Posted : Sat, 08/22/2020 - 2:23pm
- The Crisis of an Unpredictable State: The Case of Mexico | Posted : Sun, 08/16/2020 - 4:02pm