SOUTHCOM U.S. Southern Command

SOUTHCOM Components

Task Forces

Joint Task Force-Bravo

Joint Task For ce-Guantanamo

Joint Interagency Task Force South

Direct Reporting Units

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School

Inter-American Air Forces Academy

System of Cooperation Among the American Air Forces (SICOFAA)

Special Report

For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]