End of preview - This article contains approximately 1327 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Security & Strategic Review - November 2024
PERU: Transport workers demand action on extortion
Peruvian transport workers ground the capital Lima to a halt for several days in September and October as they went on strike to demand urgent action against extortion by criminal gangs. The strikes came after at least three bus drivers were murdered by extortionists in Lima during August and September. President Dina Boluarte’s government has responded by declaring a state of emergency that has seen troops deployed on the streets of the capital, and by drafting new legislation that would enable extortion to be prosecuted as “urban terrorism”.
- Violence and crime mark Brazil’s local elections
- COLOMBIA: Military campaign advances in the south-west
- PERU: Transport workers demand action on extortion
- ECUADOR: New firearms law approved by congress
- CHILE: Carabineros chief faces reckoning over alleged brutality
- PARAGUAY: Civil society raises alarm over NGO oversight bill
- MEXICO: Militarisation concerns as national guard reform becomes law
- MEXICO: Gov’t addresses Sinaloa violence
- MEXICO: Spain spat marks Sheinbaum’s early days
- MEXICO: Anti-corruption ministry unveiled
- GUATEMALA: Judicial election draws concern
- EL SALVADOR: New supreme court appointments raise eyebrows
- HONDURAS: Killing of prominent activist reignites familiar concerns
- NICARAGUA: Spain offers citizenship to Nicaraguans stripped of nationality
- HAITI: Reality and rhetoric far apart
- REGION: Stepping up the struggle against sargassum