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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 10/03
Traditional and Non-Traditional Security Issues in Latin America: Evolution and Recent Developments
Richard Narich
January 2003
Introduction
In the second part of the 20 th century, the world's attention focused twice on Latin America, first during the Cuban crisis in 1962 and then during the conflicts in Central America in the Eighties and Nineties. The situation there had a direct impact on the general balance of the planet. It was a hot spot. Today this region is not on the agenda anymore: it no longer represents a global threat in terms of security. It should nevertheless not be neglected for the following two reasons. First, the evolution of Latin America in the security field, from the period of independence to nowadays, compared with Europe and the rest of the world, is original. Second, huge efforts are presently being done at the hemispheric and regional levels in order to consolidate peace and promote solutions to the so-called 'transnational' threats.
