Intelligence Sharing, Transnational Organized Crime and Multinational Peacekeeping by Diane E. Chido

Author:Diane E. Chido
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

In El Salvador, the fight against TOC has mainly been conducted by the military, which is still recovering from the 1979–92 civil war, which left as many as 75,000 dead. El Salvador has generally followed the US 1980s model and has imprisoned violent gang members, which has resulted in creation of overcrowded recruitment centers for gangs as violence continues to escalate.

Growth of organized crime followed the Central American civil wars, thanks to a demobilization program that typically ignored the disarmament and reintegration process, leaving masses of unemployed armed men, especially in El Salvador. The government is coordinating its efforts with US Army South to enhance security cooperation to counter the increasing violence related to TOC to assist the government in reasserting control in rural areas.21

Guatemala, for example, is also still in recovery from its much longer civil war, which lasted from 1960 until 1996 and killed an estimated 200,000 civilians. Despite the cessation of the war, armed groups that arose from deposed state intelligence and military forces still threaten stability. Strides have been made, however, as former general and President Pérez Molina was forced to resign and was immediately arrested on fraud and corruption charges in September 2015. These events were the result of efforts of local prosecutors and investigators working with the UN International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) since 2007 with the goal of uncovering networks of criminals and corrupt officials.22

Despite these charges of personal corruption, Dr. Evan Ellis of the US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute noted in November 2016 thatwhile the small amount of news about Guatemala in the mainstream U.S. media concentrates on the CICIG and its fight against public corruption, the nation’s progress in the struggle against transnational organized crime continues to be a good-news story that deserves greater attention… Although not prominent in the news, there are arguably few countries in the region that demonstrate the level of commitment to working with the U.S. that Guatemala does.23

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