Latin America Security By the Numbers
The Center for International Policy (CIP) launched Security Assistance Monitor, a new program and web-resource that will track U.S. military and police assistance and arms sales with a focus on Africa, Central Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
The Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas are advancing steadily in negotiations in a peace process that could bring an end to 50 years of brutal conflict. They have already reached agreement on three of six “chapters” of a final accord, on rural development, political participation, and drug policy, and are now advancing in discussions on the victims’ rights chapter.
Following the recent disappearance of dozens of students outside the town of Iguala, in Guerrero State, Mexico, a mass grave was uncovered containing dozens of bodies - burned so badly the government has said it would take weeks to complete full forensic analyses.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asked Turkey for assistance in the basing and training of groups opposed the Islamic State. The U.S. Defense Department announced plans to increase its efforts to fight Ebola. The Russian military engaged in a number of military exercises in former Soviet republics recently. And the Mexican government made four new arrests related to the disappearance and murder of dozens of students following a protest in Iguala, Guerrero state. Read about these stories and more from this past week.
A post highlighting the most important numbers and figures related to citizen security in Latin America including 33,000 Honduran migrants have been deported from Mexico thus far in 2014.