El Centro

Must we define drug traffickers in Mexico as terrorists and do more to prevent their disastrous effects?

There are 10,000 saints in the Catholic Church. But there is one that’s not even real that many people are praying to.

H.R. 4303: A bill to direct the Secretary of State to designate as foreign terrorist organizations certain Mexican drug cartels and submit a report on the activities the Department of State is...

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

In advance of a hemispheric summit in Colombia this weekend the Washington Post reports that Latin American countries are pursuing alternatives to the US drug war strategy.

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

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

Latin American governments are bringing militaries on the streets to combat gangs and cartels, but at what price?

Mexican officers investigating gruesome murders are ambushed leaving 12 killed and 14 wounded.

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...