El Centro

Mexico’s Two Major Crime Cartels Now at War by William Booth, Washington Post.

Should U.S. Troops Fight the War on Drugs? New York Times debate on whether the U.S. military should be involved in the war on drugs.

Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability by Dr. Phil Williams and Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

BBC reports on OAS warning: "Drug Cartels Threaten Latin American Democracy".

Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 12:  The Spreading Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico: States With U.S. State Department Travel Advisories.