El Centro
SWJ El Centro, or "downtown" in Spanish, is our town square for analysis and discussion of Latin America's guerilla wars and criminal insurgencies. More about El Centro here.
Recent El Centro Journal Articles and SWJ Blog Posts:
Univision Video: In Sinaloa, A Cemetery Dominated by Narcos.
Mexico’s Petit Révolution: Justice and Security Implications of Approving a Fully New Code of Judicial Procedures by Viridiana Rios, Wilson Center.
"They aren't just about Mexico or drugs anymore."
Mexico’s cartels are significant social, political, and economic actors.
The same people who leave dead bodies and severed heads littering a busy highway in Mexico are now moving their operations to Oklahoma.
Call to Create OAS Inter-American Commission against Transnational Organized Crime - OAS Press Release.
Documents Show Depth of US Concern over Mexico Violence by Alfredo Corchado, Dallas Morning News.
In cooperation with Borderland Beat, InSight Crime, & Small Wars Journal— El Centro.
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University Blog w/ Houston Chronicle. Five Small Wars Journal El Centro fellows provide op-eds.
"Kilcullen's thesis is a compelling one: remote desert battlegrounds & impenetrable mountain tribal areas are not, in fact, where we will encounter the violence of tomorrow."
"With smart strategies and the right resources, the United States can still make a huge difference, especially when it has effective and willing partners."
Mexican Cartel Essays and Notes is a collection of twenty-three Small Wars Journal articles supplemented by operational and tactical notes covering a variety of cartel-related subjects.
"An audacious band of citizen militias battles a brutal drug cartel in the hills of central Mexico."
Small Wars Journal El Centro Senior Fellows John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker new book: Studies in Gangs and Cartels.