Border Security News
Think Tank Urges “More Ambitious” U.S.-Mexican Agenda - Mexico Institute in the News
Feb 08, 2013
“There is an enormous amount of optimism right now in the bilateral relationship, and the reason of that is because there’s an idea that this is a new beginning,” said Duncan Wood, co-author of the Wilson Center report, entitled “New Ideas for a New Era”.
Latin American Program in the Media: Winter 2013
Feb 08, 2013
See what our staff, fellows, and scholars have been saying on key issues.
Latin American Program in the News: Hand of U.S. Is Seen in Halting General’s Rise in Mexico
Feb 06, 2013
Associate Director Eric L. Olson gives The New York Times his views on the future of Mexico-U.S. relations.
Latin American Program in the News: A quieter drug war in Mexico, but no less deadly
Feb 04, 2013
Eric Olson remarks on the fine line that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is walking in order to broaden Mexico's relationship with the United States beyond the sphere of counternarcotics.
Latin American Program in the News: Screen Travelers in Advance, and Focus on Real Dangers
Feb 01, 2013
Eric Olson's take on U.S.-Mexico border security featured in the NYT's "Room for Debate"
Al Qaeda on the Rise in North Africa?
Jan 30, 2013
Al Qaeda and its affiliates may exploit the limited ability of new Arab governments to control their territory, according to the United States Institute of Peace's Dan Brumberg. Now the organization and its affiliates have no incentive to directly challenge the new governments. But they are likely establishing local cells that could pose a security threat.
Mali: It’s Salafi-Jihadist Insurgency, Stupid!
Jan 29, 2013
On January 28, a new report by the Quilliam Foundation warned that the Mali conflict has now evolved into a global security threat. The latest chapter in the half-century old conflict began in July 2012 when Islamic extremists linked to al Qaeda seized control of northern Mali. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has been winning recruits since the mid-2000s, rebranding the Taureg nationalist movement as an Islamist one.
Latin American Program in the News: Obama's Gun Plan Could Impact Weapons Trafficking
Jan 23, 2013
Eric Olson remarked upon the impact that a trafficking law approved by the U.S. Congress could have on arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico.
Latin American Program in the News: Obama is Empowered
Jan 22, 2013
Our Director, Cynthia J. Arnson was interviewed by El Espectador on Obama's second term. (IN SPANISH)
Mexico's Drug War Takes New Direction-Mexico Institute In the News
Dec 18, 2012
Eric L. Olson discusses Peña Nieto's security strategy in the Wall Street Journal.