Are Peacekeeping and Counter drugs Operations Accepted?
It is useful information to note that for the ‘Containment of communism’ defense strategy, the U.S. actually allowed the regional militaries the scope in determining “their own versions of just what constituted containment”5959 But, containment of the non-traditional threats has become even more difficult to achieve and thus, maintaining a security-neutral region cannot be guaranteed. Take the border conflicts between Peru and Ecuador for example; or take the instability induced by insurgent activities in Colombia, Peru, and Mexico; or the production of narcotics in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. And one is bound to conclude that the Region is still grappling with the task of containing the hemispheric threats. Military cooperation, therefore, is not only a useful deduction but also a security imperative. This, however raises the issue about “role and organization” given the nature of the current threat. There seems to be no justification, according to many sec
