Foreign Policy and National Security
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This is a weekly roundup of events from 16 March to 22 March 2014. The 22nd round of peace talks between the FARC and the government kicked off in Havana this week. The negotiations are proceeding in an atmosphere made tense by the revelation of the military’s spying on the talks, President Santos’s controversial ousting of Bogota’s leftist mayor…
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal This is a weekly roundup of events from 9 March to 17 March 2014. The head of Mexico’s federal police force has resigned as of Monday; Manuel Mondragon stepped down from his position as head of the National Security Commission but will still be working with the department on strategy efforts in…
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Cross-posted with Conflict Journal. This is a weekly roundup of events from 9 March to 15 March 2014. Former president Alvaro Uribe won a seat in the Senate in elections held this weekend. His newly formed party, the conservative Centro Democratico (Democratic Center), won 19 seats to become the second most powerful force in the senate behind…
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The US has been scaling back involvement in its “backyard,” Latin America, for quite some time. After focusing heavily on the Middle East in the early 2000s, Asia and Africa appear to be the regions America’s foreign policy establishment wants to prioritize next. Further evidence of this trend came yesterday, when it was reported that US Secretary of State…
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It is difficult to say when Mexico’s “Drug War” began. For nearly a century, the United States and Mexico have been engaged in operations to halt the production of drugs south of the border as well as their shipment to the United States, which is the world’s largest drug market. However, the genesis of the…
Mike LaSusa 