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U.S. Department of Justice Indicts Venezuelan Leader Nicolás Maduro on Narcotrafficking Charges [PDF]
On March 26, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, along with fourteen current and former regime officials, on charges mostly related to drug trafficking. Specifically, an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York charges Maduro with leading the Venezuelan ...
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La guerre contre les drogues illicites : Est-ce qu’elle est perdue ? - Has the war against drugs been lost ? - La guerra contro le droghe è persa ? [PDF]
Le système légal du Mexique est dans un état de ruine à cause des cartels de la drogue soutenus et subventionnés par les États-Unis d'Amerique. En effet, les États-Unis sont le marché principal de la marijuana, de la cocaine et, en moindre quantité, des ...
Dominick M.
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The agrarian question and violence in Colombia: conflict and development [PDF]
This article examines connections between Colombia’s internal armed conflict and agrarian questions. It pays attention to the country’s specific historical trajectory of agrarian change, the violent expression of social tensions that this elicited, and ...
Akram-Lodhi +55 more
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Economic development, political violence and socio-political instability in Colombia : an econometric analysis using panel data [PDF]
Socio-political instability is considered as an obstacle for economic and social development of countries. Therefore, Political violence as a feature of socio-political instability is a significant development constraint that generates economic problems,
Cotte Poveda, Alexander +1 more
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Objective/context: This article presents an historical analysis of the prohibition of drugs in Mexico considering the interconnections between different social, moral, economic, political and security aspects that comprise the fight against certain ...
Thiago Rodrigues, Beatriz Caiuby Labate
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La criminalità organizzata a Rio de Janeiro
Il Brasile è oggi al centro del processo di ridefinizione delle rotte e degli attori del narcotraffico in Sud America in corso dagli anni Novanta. Ciononostante l'attenzione internazionale si è concentrata maggiormente sugli eventi mediatici ospitati dal
Roberto Nicolini
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La Santísima Muerte, the death saint patron of the marginalized and dispossessed in Mexico, the United States, and beyond, is especially favored by devotees who identify with her duality between dark and light, and good and evil.
Desirée A. Martín
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Afghan Narcotrafficking Post-2014 Scenarios [PDF]
As Afghanistan now faces an uncertain political and security environment following the drawdown of ISAF troops at the end of 2014, the potential for a worsening narcotrafficking threat is great.
Austin Long
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Michoacán and Rio de Janeiro: Criminal Governance, Social Control and Obtaining Profit and Political Power by Armed Self-Defense Groups and Militias [PDF]
This paper compares two important experiences of the emergence and consolidation of armed non-state actors in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Michoacán, Mexico, noting the rise of the groups, their functioning, relationship with the state and involvement in ...
Fuentes Díaz, Antonio +1 more
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Abstract Through an abductive qualitative case study of a Colombian peacebuilding NGO, we explore how social intermediaries facilitate the integration of fragmented ex‐combatant and campesino communities. Our analysis reveals a three‐stage process by which the social intermediary simultaneously engages in enterprise‐focused and community‐focused ...
Andrea Caldwell Marquez +3 more
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