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:

SWJ El Centro Book Review − The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

by Pilar Glaser | Tue, 05/09/2023 - 3:44pm | 3 comments

New SWJ−El Centro Fellows and Intern

by SWJ Editors | Mon, 05/08/2023 - 2:50pm | 9 comments

New SWJ−El Centro Fellows and Intern: May 2023

Organized Crime in Chile: The Challenge Ahead

by Diego Ramírez Sánchez | Thu, 05/04/2023 - 8:43pm | 4 comments

Hezbollah’s Global Networks and Latin American Cocaine Trade

by Mahmut Cengiz, by Camilo Pardo-Herrera | Tue, 04/25/2023 - 8:20pm | 1 comment

Forza alla Legge: Studi Storici su Carabinieri, Gendarmerie e Polizie Armate

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 04/23/2023 - 10:44pm | 9 comments

Forza alla Legge, the first publication of the Società Italiana di Storia Militare or Italian Society of Military History (SISM) Research Group on history of armed policing and internal security has just been released.

El Crimen Organizado en Chile: El desafío que se avecina

by Diego Ramírez Sánchez | Thu, 04/20/2023 - 4:23pm | 1 comment

Perspective: The Myth of the Mexican ‘Cartels’

by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Mon, 04/17/2023 - 5:31pm | 4 comments

Perspective: The Salvadoran Government’s Negotiations with Gangs: A Critical Assessment

by Jonathan D. Rosen | Wed, 04/12/2023 - 6:46pm | 1 comment

SWJ El Centro Book Review − Clash of the Cartels: Unmasking the global drug kingpins stalking South Africa

by John P. Sullivan | Wed, 04/05/2023 - 1:10am | 3 comments

Changing Faces of Immigrants Crossing through Ciudad Juárez and into the United States: Reflections on Migrants, Culture, and Crime

by Howard Campbell | Fri, 03/24/2023 - 5:02pm | 1 comment

Perspective: War with the Cartels Is More Complicated Than It Sounds

by Michael L. Burgoyne, by Albert J. Marckwardt | Thu, 03/23/2023 - 4:40pm | 4 comments

Monterrey, 1846: Still Offering Urban Combat Lessons after all these Years

by Russell W. Glenn | Mon, 03/06/2023 - 10:01pm | 4 comments

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 52: Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) Cell Suspected of Using Evangelical Churches as Fronts for Money Laundering

by John P. Sullivan, by José de Arimatéia da Cruz, by Robert Bunker | Tue, 02/21/2023 - 4:36pm | 2 comments

Security at the Expense of Constitutional Guarantees: The Case of Honduras

by Pamela Ruiz | Mon, 02/06/2023 - 9:49pm | 1 comment

Why Tire Repair Workshops Are the Target of a Wave of Violence in Guanajuato, Mexico

by Tomás Andres Michael Carvallo | Thu, 01/19/2023 - 5:17pm | 1 comment

Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 35: Mexican Security Forces Arrest Ovidio Guzmán

by Daniel Weisz , by John P. Sullivan, by Robert Bunker | Tue, 01/17/2023 - 9:08pm | 1 comment

New SWJ−El Centro Interns for 2023

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 01/04/2023 - 6:14pm | 2 comments

SWJ−El Centro announces its Interns for 2023

Small Wars Journal–El Centro Top 10 Research Articles for 2022

by SWJ Editors | Sun, 01/01/2023 - 6:43pm | 0 comments

These research articles represent the best of SWJ–El Centro for 2022 as selected by the SWJ–El Centro Senior Fellows.

A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure

by SWJ Editors | Wed, 12/07/2022 - 5:23pm | 3 comments

A Small Wars Journal−El Centro team just published a research article, "A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure" at the Journal of Strategic Security.

Security Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis: The academic legacy of Jorge Chabat

by Rafael Velázquez Flores | Tue, 11/22/2022 - 11:24am | 2 comments

Understanding Bukele’s Gang Crack Down in El Salvador

by Jonathan D. Rosen | Tue, 11/01/2022 - 11:01pm | 1 comment

Transnational Cartels and Prison/Jail Gangs: A Social Network Analysis of Mexican Mafia (Eme) and La Familia Michoacana Conspiracy Cases

by Isaac Poritzky, by Nathan P. Jones, by John P. Sullivan | Mon, 10/24/2022 - 6:28pm | 7 comments

SWJ El Centro Book Review – Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared

by Daniel Weisz | Mon, 10/17/2022 - 8:46pm | 1 comment

The Mexican National Guard: a solution to ensure security or a strong escalation in the process of militarization?

by Marco Leofrigio | Sun, 10/09/2022 - 1:16am | 1 comment

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 51: Milícias (Militias) Continue to Surpass Gangues (Gangs) in Dominating Criminal Territory in Rio de Janeiro

by John P. Sullivan, by José de Arimatéia da Cruz, by Robert Bunker | Tue, 09/27/2022 - 9:03pm | 1 comment