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    Transnational organized crime has expanded significantly in Central and South America over the last decade, as evidenced by record high murder rates in countries like Honduras, El Salvador, and Venezuela. This organized crime has established a nexus with terrorism that uses fear, intimidation, and violence to control regions and populations. Disrupting these criminal networks will require an international effort to deny them flexibility and cut off their massive financial resources, which come from illicit activities like drug and human trafficking. Failing to aggressively counter transnational organized crime threatens national security and human rights across the Americas.

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    The Ongoing Expansion of Organized Crime in the
    Americas
    IASW | Monday, July 14th, 2014
    By Jerry Brewer
    Eroding the power, control and influence of violent transnational extremist
    organizations in this Hemisphere, over the last decade, has been at best
    a near total failure.
    Attributable to this assessment of much more than the intense human
    carnage, manifested by record breaking murder rates, is the reality of near
    collapse of societies, instability and ineffective/ungoverned regions, and
    remaining vulnerable populations demonstrated most graphically in Central
    America.
    The worlds highest murder rates go to number one Honduras and number
    three El Salvador, both in Central America. Farther to the south, Venezuela
    holds the number two position. And in Argentina violent deaths among youth
    are at a ten-year high.
    Yet there are officials who blindly look south and argue that these threats are
    not necessarily existential, claiming that they pose no real challenge to borders
    or national security.
    This organized crime-terror nexus has a nucleus and norm of fear,
    intimidation, extortion, kidnapping, murder, political tampering, and torture.
    The killing and capturing of journalists, police chiefs, mayors and others, plus
    military and government officials in these vulnerable regions, graphically
    demonstrates the presence of an out of control insurgency.
    What is clear is that demobilizing or disarming these criminal insurgents will
    require a united international model, with a goal and methodology to disrupt
    and deny these insurgent networks operating flexibility.
    This conflict is much more than just drug trafficking. Transnational organized
    crime is also entrenched in a myriad of competing high revenue activities that
    include human and sex trafficking; kidnapping/extortion; and other acts of
    deadly violence that essentially take from the weak and unprotected, leaving
    behind greater misery and broken dreams. Equality, dignity and respect for
    human life do not exist under this oppressive rule, reminiscent of a dictators
    reign.
    These acts are committed from Canada to the southern tip of South America,
    as well as the Caribbean. Displaced adults and children fleeing their homes for
    perceived safer neighboring borders become even greater targets along the
    way, to be exploited, robbed, raped, murdered, and discarded in the many
    clandestine graves found in Mexico and Central America. Moreover, many of
    those that survive are forced into the sex trade in cities throughout the region.
    National security interests in all of the affected nations must include an
    intense focus on human rights. Functioning justice systems that include
    enforcement and a rule of law must prevail to secure a homeland.
    Securing land borders in manageable areas, in the face of escalating
    undocumented, illegal and unaccompanied minor migration alone is
    paramount in order not to exceed the ability of a host nation to provide
    essential services to its own populace.
    Countering transnational organized crime therefore must be an aggressive and
    cooperative world priority. A key component of success in criminal
    counterinsurgency doctrine is to cripple the infrastructure with a major focus
    on interdicting, seizing and decreasing the massive revenues and related
    finances. This must be an inherent and boldly enforced national security and
    defense strategy.
    According to estimates, the illegal economy accounts for eight to 15 percent of
    world GDP. The incredible estimates of this worldwide illicit revenue include
    US$32 billion annually just for trafficking in humans.
    Transnational organized crime, and its seemingly endless financial resources,
    is the lifeblood of corrupting police, the military, government officials,
    business leaders and others. Few expenses are spared to undermine the forces
    directed against them, as well as the ramifications of what the rule of law
    could do to the criminals.
    Border security along the U.S.-Mexico border is far less complicated than it
    appears or explained in knee-jerk reactions and exhaustive diatribes, as
    opposed to nations to the south that lack necessary infrastructures and
    expertise.
    The U.S. border has an invisible line in the sand that does not necessitate a
    ground military component for regional security and stability, short of an
    invasion to conquer the U.S.
    A recent media tour and interview on the border, with Texas Governor Rick
    Perry, prompted the host to say that he learned so much from it this time,
    that he now believed that fences and walls were not the real answer as he felt
    before.
    With the regrouping of similar functions and personnel, redirecting of
    resources, coordinating of an integrated policing strategy, deployment of all
    law enforcement ground entities that currently exist and have existed along
    the border and off jurisdictionally from Texas to California, there could be
    strong elements for patrol saturation. This of course supplemented and
    supported with the limited numbers of Border Patrol officers that could be
    allocated strategically and proactively, as well as other elements of the
    military, National Guard and government that contribute as usual.
    It is not always about how many people you have, but what those people
    actually do or are tasked to do in a coordinated team-oriented effort. Even
    with tight financial constraints and when operating in cut-back governing
    environments, the mission must be accomplished to the best of their abilities,
    regardless. Simply throwing government dollars at the border wont secure it.
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    Jerry Brewer is C.E.O. of Criminal Justice
    International Associates, a global threat mitigation
    firm headquartered in northern Virginia. His website
    is located at www.cjiausa.org
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