Download or read book Narcotr fico corrupci n y Estados written by Luis Jorge Garay Salamanca and published by DEBATE. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narcotráfico, corrupción y Estado es un novedoso análisis de las redes lícitas del narcotráfico y la corrupción, explica diversos casos ilustrando el camino que ha seguido durante los últimos años la descomposición institucional en Colombia, Guatemala y México. En la actualidad, es común escuchar que el tráfico de drogas en Colombia prácticamente se ha erradicado, sin embargo, en estas páginas se presenta evidencias de que nos hallamos frente a una situación muy distinta: el narcotráfico no sólo no ha desaparecido en ese país, sino que su estructura regional en el hemisferio occidental se ha transformado radicalmente.

Download or read book Narcotr fico corrupci n y estados written by Luis Jorge Garay and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "En la actualidad, es común escuchar que el tráfico de drogas en Colombia prácticamente se ha erradicado. Sin embargo, en estas páginas se presentan evidencias de que nos hallamos frente a una situación muy distinta: el narcotráfico no sólo no ha desaparecido en ese país, sino que su estructura regional en el hemisferio occidental se ha transformado radicalmente. Al enfrentar la interdicción aérea y marítima impuesta por Estados Unidos, entre otros factores, los cárteles colombianos vieron disminuidas sus utilidades y tuvieron que aliarse con diversos grupos del crimen organizado en México, los cuales han adquirido un poder desmedido que se extiende incluso hasta Europa occidental. Son significativas, por lo demás, las acciones de corto, mediano y largo plazo propuestas por los autores para pensar y combatir la cada vez más estrecha -- y a menudo indistinguible -- relación de los cárteles de las drogas con estructuras estatales y sectores civiles. En suma, el lector tiene en sus manos un trabajo teórico y visual sobre redes criminales sin precedentes que derriba mitos y plantea diversas vías para afrontar el crimen trasnacional."--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Macro Criminalidad Complejidad Y Resiliencia De Las Redes Criminales written by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug Trafficking, Corruption and States is cutting edge research. Garay Salamanca and Salcedo-Albarn, along with their contributing authors help document the transition from economic to political imperatives within transnational drug cartels. The break from the Zetas by La Familia Michoacana is one example contained in their empirical survey. Social Network Analysis is their tool for illuminating the varying dynamics of cartel-state inter-penetration and reconfiguration. In doing so they clearly discern between State Capture (StC) and Co-opted State Reconfiguration (CStR). As the drug wars and criminal insurgencies rage in the Americas and beyond, this seminal framework will facilitate efforts by scholars, law enforcement officials, intelligence analysts and policymakers to understand shifts in sovereignty, and to illuminate the mechanisms of transnational illicit networks and their interaction with the state.

Download or read book Los narcos gringos written by J. Jesús Esquivel and published by GRIJALBO. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La investigación periodística que faltaba para completar el mapa del narcotráfico. J. Jesús Esquivel, autor de La D.E.A. en México, ha conseguido develar los entresijos del narcotráfico en Estados Unidos al sumergirse en la lectura de incontables expedientes judiciales, además de entrevistar a informantes clave. De San Francisco a Nueva York y de la línea divisoria hasta Chicago, Los narcos gringos describe con minucioso detalle los ingeniosos trucos de que se valen los brokers, los artífices del tráfico de estupefacientes, para llevar sus mercancías al interior de la Unión Americana y lavar el producto de su labor ilícita que hacen llegar a los cárteles mexicanos, el verdadero poder de la ecuación. A lo largo de la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos, una de las más extensas y complejas del mundo, tiene lugar uno de los comercios más perniciosos, aunque con implicaciones desiguales para una y otra nación: mientras de un lado se queda la sangre y la violencia, en el otro imperan la logística, los prejuicios raciales y la insaciable avidez de los consumidores; todo envuelto por un manto de corrupción. Relatos y retratos insólitos -algunos dignos de llegar a las pantallas cinematográficas, como el del inolvidable Don Henry Ford Jr.- desfilan por estas páginas para cuestionar mitos como la despenalización y el perdón presidencial a delincuentes, presentando en cambio un panorama demoledor sobre la adicción y el alcance de los intereses que buscan satisfacerla. Los narcos gringos no usan camisas de seda italiana o botas de pieles de animales exóticos, tampoco gruesas cadenas de oro y mucho menos relojes caros con incrustaciones de diamantes. El prototipo del narco gringo es una persona común y corriente que viste un pantalón de mezclilla, camisa o camiseta, que no usa anillos ni conduce autos caros.

Download or read book Narcohistoria written by Carmen Boullosa and published by TAURUS. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen Boullosa y Mike Wallace exploran el fenómeno del narcotráfico en México y Estados Unidos durante los últimos cien años, sus consecuencias y las posibles soluciones. Un libro fue escrito para confrontar la convicción generalizada de que los horrores de la última década son un producto mexicano. Una creencia que ha alentado posturas como la de Donald Trump. La novelista mexicana Carmen Boullosa y el historiador Mike Wallace demuestran al lector que el narcotráfico en nuestro país es algo reciente y exclusivamente nuestro es un error fatal de perspectiva. El fenómeno del narcotráfico en México y Estados Unidos es un fenómeno histórico complejo. Como advierten Carmen Boullosa y Mike Wallace, la causa principal de la narcoviolencia fue la decisión delgobierno estadounidense, tomada a principios del siglo XX, de prohibir el consumo de drogas a sus ciudadanos. Cuando éstos recurrieron al mercado negro -en el que los mexicanos han jugado un papel decisivo- Estados Unidos no tuvo la voluntad, o la manera, de detener la importación, y orilló al gobierno de México a servirle de socio menor en su proyecto prohibicionista, con resultados desastrosos. El precio que han pagado los estadounidenses por la prohibición ha sido la encarcelación masiva de ciudadanos, sobre todo de afroamericanos. El que han pagado los mexicanos ha sido mucho mayor: el enorme número de muertos y desaparecidos, el crimen y la corrupción. Si la guerracontra las drogas fue una creación conjunta, la solución sólo puede ser bilateral. La experiencia apunta a la legalización, a tratar a las adicciones como un asunto de salud pública y no como un crimen.

Download or read book Narcotrafico pol tica y corrupci n written by Baltazar Garzón and published by Temis. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrupción y escándalos políticos; Democracia y corrupción; La corrupción en Francia; Conflictos entre seguridad del estado e investigación judicial. El ámbito de lo político y lo judicial; La operación manos limpias; Los casos judiciales; Los sujetos de la operación manos limpias; El secreto bancario; Crimen organizado y lavado de dinero; Instrumentos para combatir el lavado de activos y el enriquecimiento proveniente del narcotráfico; La corrupción en España. Enriquecimiento ilícito, recepttación y testaferrato.

Download or read book Los se ores del narco written by Anabel Hernández and published by Grijalbo. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un libro fundamental para comprender la violencia en México generada por el narcotráfico y la corrupción del Estado.

Download or read book Crime Wars and Narco Terrorism in the Americas written by Robert J. Bunker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work marks the 3rd Small Wars Journal—El Centro anthology. Its analyses, crafted by over thirty contributing authors, forms a compilation of the violence and corruption in Mexico plaguing the first year of Enrique Peña Nieto’s presidency. Instances of spillover violence in the United States and the gang and cartel crime wars in other Latin American countries are also chronicled. Spanish language article appendices are additionally incorporated in this important anthology. Dave Dilegge SWJ Editor-in-Chief

Download or read book Criminal Insurgents in Mexico and Latin America written by John P. Sullivan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th Small Wars JournalEl Centro anthology comes at a pivotal time, roughly a third of the way through the term, for the Enrique Pea Nieto administration in Mexico. The mass kidnapping and execution of 43 rural student teachers in Iguala, Guerrero in late September 2014 has only served to further highlight the corruptive effects of organized crime on the public institutions in that country. In addition, many other states in Latin America are now suffering at the hands of criminal insurgents who are threatening their citizens and challenging their sovereign rights. Dave Dilegge, SWJ Editor-in-Chief

Download or read book Varieties of capitalism and Mexico after the economic reforms between 1982 and 2012 written by Gabriel Alonso Santana and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work departs from the literature about Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) to study Mexico after the economic and political reforms enacted there between 1982 an 2012, which were characterised as neo liberal. These were a 180º turn from the previous twelve years, when the State invested heavily in corporations and even in oil production and export. If such previous economic structure was similar to a state-led, corporatist but capitalist economy, perhaps the new one would similarly follow a specific model. The question of the study is: after the economic reforms in Mexico between 1982 and 2012, what is the VoC of Mexico? This is about the open market, international free trade and investment, privatisation and other economic reforms that began in Mexico in that period. This book also comments on some indicators of economic wellbeing, as these reflect the results of the reforms. Finally, it makes a critical assessment of those changes, before attempting to answer the research question.

Download or read book Drug Policies and the Politics of Drugs in the Americas written by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of studies of drug policies in several Latin American countries. The chapters analyze the specific histories of drug policies in each country, as well as related phenomena and case studies throughout the region. It presents conceptual reflections on the origins of prohibition and the “War on Drugs,” including the topic of human rights and cognitive freedom. Further, the collection reflects on the pioneering role of some Latin American countries in changing paradigms of international drug policy. Each case study provides an analysis of where each state is now in terms of policy reform within the context of its history and current socio-political circumstances. Concurrently, local movements, initiatives, and backlash against the reformist debate within the hemisphere are examined. The recent changes regarding the regulation of marijuana in the United States and their possible impact on Latin America are also addressed. This work is an important, up-to-date and well-researched reference for all who are interested in drug policy from a Latin American perspective.

Download or read book Global Criminal and Sovereign Free Economies and the Demise of the Western Democracies written by Robert J. Bunker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the many economic benefits of globalization and the triumph and spread of democratic liberalism with the end of the Cold War, following the demise of the Soviet Union. This work takes issue with such "wine and roses" perspectives about the future of the Western democracies and their faith-based views on the moral purity of a globalized marketplace. It also questions many of the assumptions found in the status quo reinforcing discipline of international political economy (IPE)—a discipline that focuses on the formal and legitimate economies and the façade they present that international relations and commerce is still dominated and dictated solely by the old Westphalian state centric system. Having highlighted these concerns, this book looks at two major themes. The first theme focuses on the theoretical perception that a "Dark Renaissance" is taking place globally—one in which the Western liberal democracies and its citizens are ill prepared to respond because it exists at the trans-civilization level, bridging the modern to the post-modern world. The second theme focuses on the actual process of state deconstruction that is taking place. This process is leading to what may become the very undoing of the democracies. Drawing together experts from a variety of backgrounds, this work explores the increasing shift away from formal based capitalism and evaluates through case studies how different states are responding to the challenges they face. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international political economy.

Download or read book Traditional Organized Crime in the Modern World written by Dina Siegel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper—even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance. From traditional gangland enterprises such as narcotics, gambling, and prostitution, the world’s mafias have moved into new sources of illegal income, including high-tech arms smuggling, money laundering, and identity fraud. Traditional Crime in the Modern World tracks these organizations—the Italian and Mexican mafias, Columbian drug cartels, Chinese triads, and others—across five continents as they adapt to change, and assesses their prospects in the short and long term. World events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the 9/11 terror attacks are discussed in the context of contributing to emerging markets for illicit goods and services, and to evolving partnerships among criminal entities. This timely volume: • Provides a comprehensive overview of how mafia-like structures function today. • Analyzes in depth national crime situations with global implications. • Examines the migration of organized crime groups and their operations in their new countries. • Gauges the influence of digital and other technologies on organized crime. • Where applicable, notes the links between organized crime and national political institutions. • Describes the impact of the global financial crisis on crime organizations. Concise, compelling, and deeply documented, Traditional Crime in the Modern World is an eye-opening resource for researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, particularly with an interest in organized crime and trafficking, as well as related topics of Demography, Political Science, and International Relations.

Download or read book Violence and Crime in Latin America written by Gema Santamaría and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations. Written by distinguished scholars of Latin American history, sociology, anthropology, and political science, the essays in this volume range from Mexico and Argentina to Colombia and Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, addressing such issues as extralegal violence in Mexico, the myth of indigenous criminality in Guatemala, and governments’ selective blindness to violent crime in Brazil and Jamaica. The authors in this collection examine not only the social construction and political visibility of violence and crime in Latin America, but the justifications for them as well. Analytically and historically, these essays show how Latin American citizens have sanctioned criminal and violent practices and incorporated them into social relations, everyday practices, and institutional settings. At the same time, the authors explore the power struggles that inform distinctions between illegitimate versus legitimate violence. Violence and Crime in Latin America makes a substantive contribution to understanding a key problem facing Latin America today. In its historical depth and ethnographic reach, this original and thought-provoking volume enhances our understanding of crime and violence throughout the Western Hemisphere.

Download or read book Marijuana Boom written by Lina Britto and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?

Download or read book Dirty Entanglements written by Louise I. Shelley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entangled threat of crime, corruption, and terrorism now deserves high-level policy attention because of its growth trajectory. Using lively case studies, this book analyzes the transformation of crime and terrorism and the business logic of terrorism. Louise I. Shelley concludes that corruption, crime, and terrorism will remain important security challenges in the twenty-first century as a result of economic and demographic inequalities in the world, the rise of ethnic and sectarian violence, climate change, the growth of technology, and the failure of nineteenth- and twentieth-century institutions to respond to these challenges when they emerged.

Download or read book Analytical Narrative on Subnational Democracies in Colombia written by Andrés Cendales and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the state-building process in Colombia, specifically in the Pacific Coast region. Using the regionally isolated and historically neglected Pacific Coast as a case study, the authors analyze the Colombian nation-building and democratic processes, applying diverse methodology and an interdisciplinary focus. The early chapters lay the foundation of the text through the historical reconstruction of political turmoil in Colombia and the birth of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and its confrontations with the government establishment. It then moves to a public choice analysis of public policy and clientelism within local democracies. The later chapters test the theoretical models using regional information about governability and election result patterns and discuss a further research agenda. Grounded in behavioral models with clearly defined agents, contingency plans, and outputs, this book will be of use to students studying Latin American political science and public policy, as well as researchers interested in state and nation-building and local governance.