# Douglas Farah

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Episode 324 Viktor Bout, The Merchant of Death: Part 1

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Episode 325 - Viktor Bout, The Merchant of Death: Part 2

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New Dark Alliances: Italian, Albanian, and Turkish Gangs in LAC

The Western Hemisphere is facing a 4th wave of transnational crime, and this time the gangs are coming from across the Atlantic. In this episode of the JGI Policy Pulse, host Leland Lazarus sits down with Douglas Farah of the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies to discuss the rise of …

Shoring up Port Security in the Americas

Throughout the Western Hemisphere ports play a critical role in fostering economic growth, and serving as gateways through which the region engages a world that is eager for it to play a greater role in global value chains. At the same time, the region’s ports have made headlines for their role in …

How Russian Surveillance Tech is Reshaping Latin America

Over the past decade, Russian-based companies have been providing sophisticated surveillance technology to several Latin American countries. These technologies are critical to the survival of the repressive regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, and possibly criminal nonstate actors that weaken…

Why Only Idiots Will Negotiate With the Trump Administration Ever Again

On October 20th, the Washington Post headlined “EXCLUSIVE: Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal: To secure Washington’s access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, the secretary of state made an extraordinary offer to President Nayib Bukele.”, and repor…

The Global Story: The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos

When the US government captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday, most of the world was shocked. But US officials had for years been gaming out different scenarios, including predicting what would happen if Maduro was ousted. According to one man who took part, each ended in disas…

War Games: How Previous US Administrations Saw An End To The Maduro Regime

Douglas Farah, President of IBI Consultants, a national security consulting firm based in Washington DC and former Washington Post journalist, was a participant in US war games in the Pentagon for the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. Having worked in South America as a Washington Post report…

The Global Story: The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos

When the US government captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday, most of the world was shocked. But US officials had for years been gaming out different scenarios, including predicting what would happen if Maduro was ousted. According to one man who took part, each ended in disas…