Francine Jácome provides an overview of the multifaceted security landscape in Latin America. While acknowledging regional differences and the existence of (sub-)regional organizations, she argues that security threats continue to be dealt with primarily on the national level, especially since most of them stem from non-state actors such as organized crime networks. But state-actors add to the problems on the domestic level, too, for example in highly militarized countries and/or in those where authoritarian governments are on the rise.