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  • The top US military officer in Latin America and the Caribbean recently praised the involvement of the region’s armed forces in fighting organized crime, a controversial stance likely rooted in the politics surrounding US security assistance to foreign countries… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • While doing some online research, I recently stumbled across the “extranet” of the U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM,  the arm of the Defense Department responsible for U.S. military  activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. (An extranet is the part of an organization’s internal computer network accessible to outside users.) The site says it is produced by

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