From 13-15 November, the Perry Center held its 2023 Washington Security and Defense Seminar. Seventy local diplomats from 21 countries in the Americas attended the annual forum, which provides an executive-level orientation of US policy development, particularly in relation to the Western Hemisphere. The US …

On November 29, 2023, Perry Celina Realuyo Center Professor spoke on America’s fentanyl epidemic and the role of China and the Mexican cartels in fentanyl trafficking into the United States in a live radio interview on WWL First News hosted by Tommy Tucker in New …

On November 17, 2023, Perry Center Professors Boris Saavedra and Celina Realuyo conducted a webinar titled “The Cyber Threat in the Present and Future in Our Hemisphere and Transnational Threats” for the Ecuadoran Ministry of Defense. Dr. Saavedra addressed the challenges of cyber governance, emerging …

On November 16, El Salvador’s Vice Chief of Defense Brigadier General José Mario Blanco Hernández and Director of the School for Advanced Strategic Studies (CAEE) Brigadier General (ret.) Harol Manfredo Pineda Arias led a visit to the Perry Center. The delegation was greeted by Perry …

On November 8, 2023, Professor Celina Realuyo briefed the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) workshop on Operationalizing the GCTF Counterterrorism Watchlisting Toolkit in the Western Hemisphere. She described the threat of foreign terrorist fighter flows possibly capitalizing on the irregular migration patterns in the Americas headed …