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The Paraguayan People’s Army: Latin America’s Enduring Insurgency

August 7, 2019

Dylan Ramshaw

    The Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) is one of the first violent organizations to appear after the Cold War in Latin America and one of the last ideologically-based, non-state armed groups in the region. In a continent suffering from widespread drug-trafficking and cartels, this group is something of a unique phenomenon.    The emergence of the EPP has been relatively recent and, although a small group, it has been a thorn in the side to the Paraguayan government and…

Niger Delta Avengers

July 29, 2019

Jacob O'Hare

  In 2016 Nigeria was rocked by attacks on their oil fields, totaling up to 4.6 billion dollars lost in revenue by militants. This loss of income for the country contributed to the recession in Nigeria that year, and the same time the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) came to existence. Exactly who are the Niger Delta Avengers, and what do they seek to accomplish?       About Niger Delta Avengers   A militant group that attacks Nigeria’s oil &…

The Alliance of Democratic Forces (ADF) fuels violence and the spread of Ebola

July 26, 2019

Dylan Ramshaw

    More than a dozen armed groups are suspected to operate in the volatile North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  The region has seen an upsurge in violence over the last months. It has coincided with the ongoing Ebola crisis that was recently declared a global threat by the World Health Organization (WHO). This month President Felix Tshisekedi of DRC ordered the army to launch a "large-scale" operation against the militias in the region.   The…

El Salvador’s Mafias: President Bukele Resumes Battle with the ‘Maras’

July 19, 2019

Dylan Ramshaw

    Assuming the Presidency of El Salvador on the 1st June, Nayib Bukele vowed to bring down a notoriously high murder rate, and reduce poverty, corruption and mass migration to the United States. El Salvador, along with its neighbors Guatemala and Honduras, is one of the countries that has seen thousands of migrants and refugees flee gang violence over the past couple years.   Bukele’s election win came as a surprise to many as he was the first successful…

Taliban’s Summer Offensive

July 17, 2019

Seju Kim

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Mexico’s Affliction: Recruitment and Training in Cartel Land

July 16, 2019

Insider Expert

      Last year saw unprecedented violence in Mexico. According to Animal Politico, in 2018 the number of homicides in Mexico increased in 27 of the country’s 32 states. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has responded by deploying 60,000-National Guardsmen to eight states accounting for half of the country’s homicides. The deteriorating public security situation in Mexico can be in large part attributed to the evolving landscape of the country’s infamous drug cartels. In recent years, larger cartels…