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.

El Centro| News and Announcements

Counterterrorism 2025: Terrorism Trends, Tactics, & Targets (6/3/25)

by SWJ Staff

05.20.2025 at 02:27am

Tags: Ajit Maan, Arizona State University, George Mason University, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Mahmut Cengiz, SWJ Events

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Venezuela’s Gray War: A Criminal Army, a Migrant Wave, and the US ‘Invasion’?

by Ron MacCammon

05.28.2025 at 02:54pm

New SWJ–El Centro Anthology Released: Third Generation Gangs and Transnational Cartels

by SWJ Staff

05.27.2025 at 01:08pm

Rape as a Weapon of Gang Warfare

by SWJ Staff

05.27.2025 at 06:55am

Germany’s criminal underworld is coming out of the shadows

by Robert Muggah

05.26.2025 at 06:07pm

Third Generation Gangs and Transnational Cartels

by SWJ Staff

05.25.2025 at 08:23pm

SWJ–El Centro Book Review – Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

by Jean-michel Newberg

05.24.2025 at 09:01pm

Perspective: El Mayo, Los Chapitos and the Kingpin Strategy

by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

05.24.2025 at 07:58pm

SWJ El Centro Book Review – Mexico’s Drug War and Criminal Networks: The Dark Side of Social Media

by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

05.24.2025 at 07:52pm

The rise of Brazil’s fuel mafias and their gas station money laundering machines by Dr. Robert Muggah of SWJ’s El Centro

by SWJ Staff

05.20.2025 at 09:04pm