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The Fight against Drug Trafficking is a Fight for Democracy

When Mr. Mario Zamora took office as Costa Rica’s Minister of Public Security on May 1, 2011, he said that his goal was to restrain increased crime rates, as well as to reduce the level of violence exerted in crimes throughout the country.

Nicaraguan “Retaining Wall” Keeps Drug Cartels at Bay

After his participation at the Central American Security Conference (CENTSEC 2013) in Panama City, on April 18, Army General Avilés Castillo met with Diálogo to discuss the vast exchange of cooperation and information between his country and the other nations in the region, as well as of the grea...

Meeting the Standards of Today’s Armed Forces

“The Dominican Republic shares borders with Europe,” Admiral Sigfrido Pared Pérez, Minister of the Caribbean country’s Armed Forces, says figuratively to explain the enormous security challenge that the coming and going of five million tourists visiting the island each year from the Old Continent...

Out to Maximize the Internet’s Vast Space

Interview with Austin Branch, Senior Director for Information Operations, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict

Colombia Prepares to Confront New Threats with Experience and Competency

Globalization and the challenges that Colombia is facing in this new era, especially the conflicts generated by drug trafficking, terrorism, and illegal mining, as well as the use of technology employed by the Armed Forces in the fight against transnational organized crime, are issues that Genera...

“Peace in Colombia will Come by Means of Reason”

Juan Carlos Pinzón, Colombian Minister of Defense, believes that his children will grow up in a country at peace.

The Future of UPPs in Rio

The Pacifying Police Units’ (UPP) goal is to establish community police inside the slums, as part of a project by the State Public Security Department in Rio de Janeiro, which aims to dismantle the gangs that control drug trafficking operations in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas.