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This report examines the Tri-Border area’s struggle with terrorism and transitional crime, and the impact of these high-risk factors on private-sector organizations in the region and beyond.

OSAC is re-issuing a new product format, a regular update about topline private sector security concerns in Latin America. For any feedback on content, cadence, etc., please contact OSAC’s Americas Team.

Environmental security is a serious concern throughout South America, particularly in the Amazon basin. Deforestation heavily influences security, especially for natural resource outfits, research and academic institutio...

COVID-19 has not only crippled economies around the world, but has also impacted criminal groups and their illicit revenue streams. Criminal organizations across the region are adapting by turning to different crimes suc...

Upward of 90 percent of the cocaine that enters the U.S. comes from Colombia, and the rest comes mostly from Bolivia and Peru. The South American drug market is a transnational effort: Peruvian criminals smuggle cocaine...

The Paraguayan government submitted a bill to impose a state of exception (or emergency) in the departments of Concepción, San Pedro, Presidente Hayes, Alto Paraguay, and Amambay in light of a “campaign of violence” by t...

Please find the latest edition of the OSAC Regional Analysis Bulletin (RAB). This week’s bulletin contains articles highlighting the continued threat of political violence in Bujumbura following a suspected FNL attack, s...

This report identifies four recent kidnappings in Paraguay's two leading commercial cities, Cuidad del Este and Asuncion. Originally released on March 12, this report was updated on March 26 and again on April 4.

According to local press reporting, some of the relatives of the 365 victims of the Ycua Bolanos supermarket fire in August 2004 have announced that they are planning on protesting in downtown Asuncion on the afternoon o...

In the mid-afternoon of December 5, a riot broke out in Asuncion in response to the light judicial sentencing of the owner and associates of Ycua Bolaños supermarket.

Approximately 400 demonstrators gathered and marched in Asuncion to protest the presence of U.S. troops in Paraguay on June 17.

Approximately 100 students protested in the city's downtown plaza against the Iraq War, burning a flag and attempting to approach the Paraguayan Congress building before being turned away by police.