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Mexico's Challenges: Lessons in the War Against Organized Crime

by Dave Dilegge

Blog post | March 4, 2012 09:28 AM | Comments(0)

Eduardo Guerrero, a consultant on security affairs at Lantia Consultores, addresses lessons in the war against organized crime in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America.

Five Ps for a Violence Reduction Strategy in Mexico (Part I)

by Guillermo Vázquez del Mercado Almada

Journal Article | March 5, 2012 06:13 AM | Comments(4)

In the first of a three part series, Guillermo Vázquez del Mercado Almada describes organized crime in Mexico and lays a basis for his "five Ps" proposal to reduce violence...

From Drug Wars to Criminal Insurgency

by John P. Sullivan

Blog post | March 5, 2012 09:28 PM | Comments(0)

SWJ El Centro Fellow John P. Sullivan's paper "From Drug Wars to Criminal Insurgency: Mexican Cartels, Criminal Enclaves and Criminal Insurgency in Mexico and Central America, and their...

Five Ps for a Violence Reduction Strategy in Mexico (Part II)

by Guillermo Vázquez del Mercado Almada

Journal Article | March 7, 2012 06:03 AM | Comments(0)

Guillermo Almada offers the second in his three-part series on reducing violence in Mexico.

Five Ps for a Violence Reduction Strategy in Mexico (Part III)

by Guillermo Vázquez del Mercado Almada

Journal Article | March 9, 2012 06:10 AM | Comments(3)

Guillermo Almada offers part three of his series on how to reduce violence in Mexico.

Well, They're Not About Taking Over the Government

by Bob Killebrew

Blog post | March 11, 2012 07:29 PM | Comments(6)

A few years ago Latin American specialists began warning the defense community at large that the Mexican cartels constituted an insurgency in the actual sense, though one that was strategically...

The Executioner's Men: Los Zetas

by Peter J. Munson

Blog post | April 6, 2012 02:27 PM | Comments(0)

A new book from two SWJ El Centro fellows on Los Zetas.

Understanding Informational Features of Transnational Criminal Networks: Cases from Mexico and Guatemala

by Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán and Luis Jorge Garay-Salamanca

Journal Article | April 9, 2012 08:02 PM | Comments(0)

A look at the gray agents - the public servants, political actors, or security agents - that promote criminal interests.

¿Por qué es más difícil desarticular las actuales redes criminales mexicanas que los carteles colombianos de los años noventa?

by Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán and Luis Jorge Garay-Salamanca

Journal Article | April 12, 2012 12:25 PM | Comments(0)

Mexican criminal networks are far more decentralized and thus more resiliant than the Colombian cartels of the 1980s.