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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:

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 07/20/2022 - 10:03pm | 3 comments

Small Wars Journal-El Centro (SWJ–El Centro) is pleased to announce the addition of two new fellows to the Cadre of El Centro Fellows.

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 07/14/2022 - 5:03pm | 0 comments
Criminal Armed Groups (CAGs) in Brazil are engaged in violent competition with each other and the state. For Brazil, these conflicts not only engender high levels of violence among all participants but lead to actual and perceived insecurity that challenges perceptions of state legitimacy.
by SWJ Editors | Tue, 04/19/2022 - 4:24pm | 1 comment
Small Wars Journal−El Centro Fellow Pablo Baisotti has published a new book "New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century."
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 04/11/2022 - 3:33pm | 0 comments

Small Wars Journal−El Centro researchers have published a working paper, “Mexico’s 2021 Dark Network Alliance Structure: An Exploratory Social Network Analysis of Lantia Consultores’ Illicit Network Alliance and Subgroup Data”

by Pablo A. Baisotti | Fri, 03/25/2022 - 6:27pm | 0 comments
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 03/11/2022 - 4:14pm | 1 comment
A new SWJ−El Centro Anthology, "Competition in Order and Progress: Criminal Insurgencies and Governance in Brazil," edited by El Centro Senior Fellows Drs. John P. Sullivan and Robert J. Bunker is now available.
by James Torrence | Mon, 02/28/2022 - 2:18pm | 0 comments
This essay appeared as the postscript to Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, Eds., "Criminal Drone Evolution: Cartel Weaponization of Aerial IEDs." A Small Wars Journal–Anthology. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2021
by SWJ Editors | Fri, 02/25/2022 - 8:17pm | 0 comments
A new Netflix documentary "11M: Terror in Madrid" released recounting the book "Al Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings" by Fernando Reinares.