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El Centro

SWJ El Centro, or "downtown" in Spanish, is our town square for analysis and discussion of Latin America's guerilla wars and criminal insurgencies.  More about El Centro here.

Recent El Centro Journal Articles and SWJ Blog Posts:

by SWJ Editors | Thu, 05/20/2021 - 12:01am | 1 comment
Call for Book Chapters: Human Trafficking in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: A Comparative and Historical Analysis Editors: Michael R. Hall, José de Arimatéia da Cruz, and Sabella O. Abidde
by SWJ Editors | Wed, 05/19/2021 - 10:52pm | 0 comments
Call for Book Chapters: Terrorism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: A Comparative Analysis Editors: José de Arimatéia da Cruz, Michael Hall, and Sabella O. Abidde
by Robert Muggah | Fri, 05/07/2021 - 12:19am | 5 comments
by Daniel Weisz | Sat, 04/24/2021 - 5:01pm | 2 comments
by Daniel Weisz | Thu, 04/22/2021 - 11:34pm | 1 comment
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 04/12/2021 - 4:03pm | 0 comments
Small Wars Journal is pleased to present an excerpt from "Ascensión: A Tale of the Mexican Drug War" by Small Wars Journal-El Centro Fellow Michael L. Burgoyne. This fictional account—or FICINT (Fictional Intelligence)—describes the security situation in Mexico in an accessible manner.
by Michael L. Burgoyne | Mon, 04/12/2021 - 3:49pm | 1 comment
by Paulina Rios Maya  | Thu, 03/18/2021 - 12:06am | 3 comments
by SWJ Editors | Mon, 03/01/2021 - 9:29pm | 0 comments
Small Wars Journal-El Centro (SWJ-El Centro) is pleased to announce the Class of Fellows and Associates for 2021. Fellows have already made significant and distinguished contributions to the field through the course of their career. Associates are actively engaged in research or practice in the region and in transnational organized crime or insurgency.