Latin America

The Uribe Administration’s Security Strategy: Balancing Opportunities and Challenges
Latin America Analyses

The Uribe Administration’s Security Strategy: Balancing Opportunities and Challenges

President Uribe’s Democratic Defence and Security Policy to restore order has seen significant success and has substantially reduced levels of violence, generating a new climate of security. However, to attain total pacification of the country, a number of challenges must yet be overcome, since the guerrillas have a huge capacity for destabilisation and the success of the process of demobilisation of paramilitary units is far from guaranteed

By Román D. Ortiz
05 May 2005 //
16 mins Reading time