The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to develop an intelligence culture that converts the former military regimes' repressive security apparatuses into democratic intelligence communities.

Florina Cristiana Matei is a lecturer at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the United States Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California. She also lectures for NPS's National Security Affairs Department and conducts Security Assistance programs for military officers and civilian counterparts around the world. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence.

Eduardo E. Estévez is an independent consultant/researcher specialized in intelligence and security, police reforms and citizen security. He is Adjunct Professor at the Instituto Universitario de la Policía Federal Argentina (IUPFA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. He served as Secretary of Analysis and Articulation of Processes, Ministry of Security of the Province of Santa Fe (2015- 2019); held key positions in Argentina's Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires (2000-2015); and served as Parliamentary Advisor to the National Congress (1990s).

Carolyn Halladay is senior lecturer in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). She also lectures at the NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security. An historian and a lawyer, Dr. Halladay's academic focus is in contemporary Central Europe, but she has participated in Security Assistance programs for military officers and civilian counterparts around the world.

Preface - Peter Gill

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Florina Cristiana Matei, Eduardo Estévez, Carolyn Halladay, with Richard Elmore

Part I: Established democracies

Chapter 1: Colombia - Jason Blazakis

Chapter 2: Mexico - Marcos Pablo Moloeznik

Part II: New democracies

Chapter 3: Argentina - Alejandra Otamendi, Germán Gallino & Eduardo Estévez

Chapter 4: Bolivia - Eduardo Estévez

Chapter 5: Brazil - Marco Cepik

Chapter 6: Chile - Clay Oeffinger, Shane Moran & Florina Cristiana Matei

Chapter 7: Ecuador - Fredy Rivera Vélez & Renato Rivera Rhon

Chapter 8: Peru - Victor Ray

Chapter 9: Uruguay - Nicolás Alvarez

Chapter 10: Costa Rica - Gerardo Hernández Naranjo, Marco Vinicio Méndez Coto & Carlos Humberto Cascante-Segura

Chapter 11: Guatemala - Eduardo Estévez

Chapter 12: Bahamas-Trinidad Tobago-Jamaica - Kevin Peters

Chapter 13: Paraguay - Eduardo Estévez &Florina Cristiana Matei

Chapter 14: El Salvador - Eduardo Estévez

Part III: Non-Democratic Regimes

Chapter 15: Venezuela - Jacques (Jake) Suyderhoud & Florina Cristiana Matei

Chapter 16: Cuba - Brendan de Brun

Conclusion - Thomas C. Bruneau

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