ABSTRACT
There have been few military developments in the Caribbean. The Cuban Army is undergoing major reorganisation; manpower strength has been reduced by 60,000 to some 85,000, and is now structured on a brigade as opposed to a divisional basis. No more than 20% of front-line combat aircraft are considered operational. The Defence Budget is said to be being cut by some 50%. The government swiftly deployed troops, retook the towns and the Zapatistas withdrew into the jungle. Colombia is no less violent and unstable, despite, in December 1993, the detection and death in a shoot-out with the police of Pablo Escobar, the leading drug baron. The Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, or Treaty of Tlatelolco, was intended to establish a nuclear weapons-free zone stretching from the US-Mexican border to Antarctica.
