"There is an opportunity, and we have to take advantage of it, not as a government but as a country," said the technical secretary to El Salvador's president Alexander Segovia, speaking about the challenge of taking the gang truce announced on March 9 to implement a broader, and sustainable national security agreement. (en español)

"The solution is not the prisons, but how we can bring the youth onto the academic and employment sectors through a comprehensive integration policy," said the technical secretary to El Salvador's president Alexander Segovia during a May 18 discussion at COA.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s five-day tour of Colombia, Brazil, and Chile focused on regional defense, disaster preparedness, and arms exchanges.

AS/COA co-hosted a panel at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, discussing fragile judicial systems, high rates of inequality, and unemployment as obstacles to enforcing security policy in Central America.

U.S. President Barack Obama met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderón on April 2 to discuss streamlining regulations and coordinating security policy.

As the October presidential elections grow closer, President Hugo Chávez’s government and opposition leaders seek ways to combat crime, one of the most critical issues for voters.

A U.S.-funded naval base has been a source of debate in the Dominican Republic at a time when the country faces mounting drug-trafficking woes.