El Centro

There has been a dominant narrative in the study of Mexican drug trafficking which argues that violence goes down when one dominant trafficking organization monopolizes a locale.

Guadalajara could lose its protected status among drug lords and become the next epicenter for drug-related violence.

More on Mexican Federal Police firing on a US Embassy vehicle via the New York Times.

The New Security Reality: Not Business as Usual - A Strategic Studies Institute Op-Ed by Dr. Max Manwaring.

Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States in Latin America: An Emerging Tier-One National Security Priority by Douglas Farah, Strategic Studies Institute.

This dialogue between anthropologists Howard Campbell and Tobin Hansen explores the relationship between violence, politics, and terrorism in Mexico’s narco-conflict.

While transnational organized crime elements operating in Latin America may not be engaged in an ideological “terrorist insurgency,” the observed conflict between them and regional...

New Book by SWJ El Centro Fellow Paul Rexton Kan: "Cartels at War: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U.S. National Security".

Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 13: City of Hidalgo, Texas, Fearful of Cartel Violence Potentials - Will Not Release New Police Chief’s Photo.

Continue on for a recent article and report by SWJ El Centro Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown.