The expanding presence of China-based companies in Latin America, and the security problems they have experienced there, creates an inherent demand for Chinese private security companies.

Portfolio, 2013. 4.7–9 “Executive Outcomes is the model on which all Private Military Companies (PMCs) operating in Iraq and Afghanistan are based. Founder Eeben Barlow in the early 1990s originally ...

The body was created by a presidential decree in 2010 that banned all private security companies after a series of scandals. Up to that point a large number of foreign private security contractors ...