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In spite of progress, security efforts in the Caribbean and South America are far from won. Indeed, the nexus between transnational organized crime and extremist organizations continues to pose a gl...

CABSEC 14, the conference promoting information exchange, capacity building and regional cooperation in the Caribbean Basin. The conference was organised to encourage cooperation in the region. It...

"As traffickers constantly reorder their routes and methods, the United States and other donors continue to believe that countering the drug trade in the Caribbean is in our national interest as wel...

Trans-regional initiatives require coherence and complementarity in terms of their framework and design if they are to prove themselves effective and attain their set targets. Part II of this series...

Part III of this series clenches the case for strategic long-term approaches to surveillance that are likely to curtail otherwise dangerous and costly covert activity and the rarified levels of offi...

U.S. Authorities ably backed by a forward presence of willing partners, among whom are British, Canadian, Dutch, French, Latin American and Caribbean deployments, have been responsible for a chain o...

Colombian armed forces are hoping the first deliveries of their new Griffon 2000 hovercrafts will be a "game-changer" in the fight against organised crime and drug traffickers in the rivers of Putum...

The fight against the world drug problem is a joint and shared responsibility that must be assumed in a coordinated manner with respect to every link in the drug chain: demand, production, trafficki...

Amid ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC rebel group ,two officers were killed last week in a FARC attack in the town of Jambolo in western Colombia, according to polic...

Official photograph of CABSEC 14 speakers and sponsors. Photo: Deanzer Roberts (whatsupcaribbean) The EU is providing Euro 2.5 million towards the fight against drug trafficking and internation...