Adam Isacson

@adam_wola

I run 's Defense Oversight Program. Security, defense, borders, and conflict resolution. Tweets are mine—not necessarily WOLA's consensus view.

Washington, DC
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2009.

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  1. prije 56 minuta

    Have they tried unplugging and plugging back in the Iowa caucuses? They did? Well a technician can be there between 12 and 4 on Thursday

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  2. prije 10 sati

    I don't know whether it's definitive, but this article has an interesting list of 24 police units and 36 military units currently active in .

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  3. prije 10 sati

    The US and are reviving the "Gringo Gaucho" naval exercise, with "a US aircraft carrier with thousands of troops and sailors… Preserving this route around Argentina is crucial for US carriers since they are too large to cross the Panama Canal."

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  4. prije 12 sati

    . profiles some of the 185 demobilized FARC combatants killed since 's 2016 peace accord. "The majority of murdered demobilized come from regions with more coca and security problems, where the most social leaders are being killed."

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  5. prije 13 sati

    Great piece by lays out doubts and ambiguities about 's new National Guard, "a strange hybrid, civil in law and military in practice, part of the Citizen Security Secretariat but governed for almost all purposes by the Defense Ministry":

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  6. 1. velj

    More than a few of those photos are unintentionally creepy.

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  7. 1. velj

    I made a Twitter List of official (governments, UN, etc.) accounts that have something to do with security and peace in . So far, it seems most useful for finding public-domain photos of Colombian soldiers doing soldier-y things:

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  8. 31. sij
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  9. 31. sij

    Over 15 years, as Chavez and Maduro gradually dismantled democratic norms in Venezuela, pro-regime loyalists defended them every step of the way using phrases like this.

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  10. 31. sij
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  11. 31. sij

    I've been following US military aid in Latin America for 25 years, and this week's paratrooper event in is the most heavily publicized military exercise I can recall. It's almost as though there's a specific audience in mind. Perhaps in a neighboring country.

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  12. 31. sij

    I should add that Barbosa, 's new fiscal general, is more moderate than we might expect from an Uribista nominee, as this profile indicates. But his downplaying of social leader murders is a black mark that he needs to explain.

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  13. 31. sij

    's hardline interior minister, Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez, said earlier this week that the peace process is a "semi-failure." President Duque had to contradict her. Now she's probably on her way out.

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  14. 31. sij

    Countries ranked by mentions in the since 2010. The creator was inspired by a Reddit user who "said that they never hear about ." From

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  15. 31. sij

    Less than 1% of "Remain in Mexico" targets have been granted asylum. "The government has appealed every single one of those cases, and some people have been sent back to Mexico even after winning protection in the U.S. while the appeal is ongoing."

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  16. 31. sij
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  17. 30. sij

    As 's presidential HR advisor, Francisco Barbosa started the year by misreading UN data, wrongly claiming a 25% drop in murders of social leaders. Now, as the new chief prosecutor, he's in charge of investigating those murders. Cause for concern.

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  18. 30. sij

    If this is accurate, then we won't be able to buy "Roundup" at the Home Depot anymore. But the US government is still pushing to spray, from aircraft, something called "Roundup Ultra"—with a higher herbicide concentration—over coca-growing areas.

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  19. 30. sij

    Who still uses landmines? Colombia’s ELN guerrillas and FARC dissident groups do. Oh, and also:

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  20. 30. sij

    Updated stat from commander at today's hearing: the command detects 25% of drugs coming to the US from Latin America, and interdicts 9%. Pretty good odds if you're a trafficker.

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