The Perry Center hosted a regional seminar on Combating Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) in the Americas on August 10-14, 2015 in Washington, DC. The seminar convened 57 CTOC practitioners, including 44 foreigners (from Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama) …

His Excellency David A. Granger, the President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, visited the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies and served as special guest speaker at the graduation ceremony for the Caribbean Security and Defense Course (CDSC). The CDSC is a …

A series of recent corruption scandals in Latin America and the Caribbean threatens to destabilize a number of nations that are already suffering from organized crime, weak institutions, and the highest levels of violence in the world. On July 15, 2015, the Perry Center examined …

On July 7, 2015, Marcos Robledo Hoecker, Chile’s Undersecretary of Defense, visited the Perry Center in support of the US-Chilean Defense Consultative Commission. The visit included a roundtable discussion of the inter-American defense and its relationship to the South American Defense Council.