Weaponizing Networks (part one): Venezuela’s Asymmetric Attack on Texas

Weaponizing Networks (part one): Venezuela’s Asymmetric Attack on Texas

Transregional Threats Journal Texas Series • Issue 5 Weaponizing Networks (part one): Venezuela’s Asymmetric Attack on Texas Texas has the second largest GDP of any state in the union. I

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Venezuela’s Crime-Terrorist Convergence

Venezuela’s Crime-Terrorist Convergence

Transregional Threats Journal Venezuela Series • Volume 1 • Issue 4 Venezuela's Crime-Terrorist Convergence The current U.S. national security strategy, unveiled by President Trump in 2017 a

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How Maduro’s crime-terror networks could use national protests to threaten the U.S.

Transregional Threats Journal Texas Series • Volume 1 • Issue 3 How Maduro’s crime-terror networks could use national protests to threaten the U.S. Riots in more than 40 major American cit

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Central American Caravans

Central American Caravans

SFS researchers traveled to Guatemala in late October 2018 and studied the movement and composition of the recent Central American caravans. The following Situation Report reveals some of our findings, documenting the se

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Financial Nexus Of Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, and Organized Crime

Financial Nexus Of Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, and Organized Crime

Joseph Humire testifies in a hearing by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance on the "Financial nexus of terrorism, drug trafficking, and organized crime" held on Tuesday, March 20,

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Suriname: The New Paradigm of a Criminalized State

Suriname: The New Paradigm of a Criminalized State

March 2017 • Issue 3 by Douglas Farah and Kathryn Babineau Paramaribo, Suriname—An isolated country on the Caribbean coast of South America, Suriname, has long been identified as an ideal “transit zoneâ€

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Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the 21st Century

Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the 21st Century

SFS Executive Director Joseph Humire was recently published for his chapter in the book Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the 21st Century (Lexington Books, 2014). Humire's chapter, Venezuela: Trends in Organ

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