WMD, Drugs, and Criminal Gangs in Central America

WMD, Drugs and Criminal Gangs in Central America: Leveraging Nonproliferation Assistance to Address Security/Development Needs With UN Security Council Resolution 1540, agosto 2010

According to a recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), no issuehas had a greater impact on the stability and development in Central America than crime. TheCentral American region has emerged as the most violent in the world, with the average number ofhomicides in Central America in 2008 rising to 33 per 100,000 people—three times the globalaverage. While these statistics are rooted in a complex array of social, political, and economiccircumstances that have depressed economic opportunity and inflated levels of violence, CentralAmerican scholars and regional government officials generally agree that their security and developmentchallenges are rooted in the culture of illegality embodied most graphically by the triplethreat of small arms proliferation, drug trafficking, and criminal and youth gangs.

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