Drugs Violence And Latin America
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Author |
: William Avilés |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2017-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315456676 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315456672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Drug War in Latin America by : William Avilés
Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of homicide, displacement and violence. Why did the militarization of U.S. drug war policies in Latin America begin and why has it continued despite its inability to achieve the stated targets? Are such policies simply intended to impose U.S. power or have elites in Latin America internalized this agenda as their own? Why did resistance to this approach emerge in the late-2000s and does this represent a challenge to the prohibitionist agenda? In this book William Avilés argues that if we are to understand and explain the militarization of the drug war in Latin America a ‘transnational grand strategy’, developed and implemented by networks of elites and state managers operating in a neoliberal, globalized social structure of accumulation, must be considered and examined.
Author |
: Guillermo Trejo |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2020-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108899901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108899900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Votes, Drugs, and Violence by : Guillermo Trejo
One of the most surprising developments in Mexico's transition to democracy is the outbreak of criminal wars and large-scale criminal violence. Why did Mexican drug cartels go to war as the country transitioned away from one-party rule? And why have criminal wars proliferated as democracy has consolidated and elections have become more competitive subnationally? In Votes, Drugs, and Violence, Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley develop a political theory of criminal violence in weak democracies that elucidates how democratic politics and the fragmentation of power fundamentally shape cartels' incentives for war and peace. Drawing on in-depth case studies and statistical analysis spanning more than two decades and multiple levels of government, Trejo and Ley show that electoral competition and partisan conflict were key drivers of the outbreak of Mexico's crime wars, the intensification of violence, and the expansion of war and violence to the spheres of local politics and civil society.
Author |
: Benjamin Lessing |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107199637 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107199638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Peace in Drug Wars by : Benjamin Lessing
State crackdowns on drug cartels often backfire, producing entrenched 'cartel-state conflict'; deterrence approaches have curbed violence but proven fragile. This book explains why.
Author |
: Bruce M. Bagley |
Publisher |
: University Press of Florida |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2017-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813063126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813063124 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today by : Bruce M. Bagley
"An extensive overview of the drug trade in the Americas and its impact on politics, economics, and society throughout the region. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "A first-rate update on the state of the long-fought hemispheric 'war on drugs.' It is particularly timely, as the perception that the war is lost and needs to be changed has never been stronger in Latin and North America."--Paul Gootenberg, author of Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug "A must-read volume for policy makers, concerned citizens, and students alike in the current search for new approaches to forty-year-old policies largely considered to have failed."--David Scott Palmer, coauthor of Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace "A very useful primer for anyone trying to keep up with the ever-evolving relationship between drug enforcement and drug trafficking."--Peter Andreas, author of Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America In 1971, Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Despite foreign policy efforts and attempts to combat supply lines, the United States has been for decades, and remains today, the largest single consumer market for illicit drugs on the planet. This volume argues that the war on drugs has been ineffective at best and, at worst, has been highly detrimental to many countries. Leading experts in the fields of public health, political science, and national security analyze how U.S. policies have affected the internal dynamics of Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Central America, and the Caribbean islands. Together, they present a comprehensive overview of the major trends in drug trafficking and organized crime in the early twenty-first century. In addition, the editors and contributors identify emerging issues and propose several policy options to address them. This accessible and expansive volume provides a framework for understanding the limits and liabilities in the U.S.-championed war on drugs throughout the Americas.
Author |
: Joseph Patteson |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2021-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030689247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030689247 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drugs, Violence and Latin America by : Joseph Patteson
This book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic “sobriety” in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a “dialectics of intoxication” that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence.
Author |
: Jonathan D. Rosen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2020-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000164336 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000164330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America by : Jonathan D. Rosen
In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab explore the linkage between weak institutions and government policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine criminal violence and publicly available survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to conduct regression analysis, individual case studies on Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador, and Nicaragua highlight the major challenges that governments face and how they have responded to various security issues. Rosen and Kassab later turn their attention to the role of external criminal actors in the region and offer policy recommendations and lessons learned. Questions explored include: What are the major trends in organized crime in this country? How has organized crime evolved over time? Who are the major criminal actors? How has state fragility contributed to organized crime and violence (and vice versa)? What has been the government’s response to drug trafficking and organized crime? Have such policies contributed to violence? Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America is suitable to both undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice, international relations, political science, comparative politics, international political economy, organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence.
Author |
: Úrsula Oswald Spring |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2018-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319738086 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319738089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Risks, Violence, Security and Peace in Latin America by : Úrsula Oswald Spring
This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America. It examines the nonviolent negotiations, human rights, peacebuilding and education, explores security in cyberspace and proposes to overcome xenophobia, white supremacy, sexism, and homophobia, where social inequality increases injustice and violence. During the past 40 years of the Latin American Council for Peace Research (CLAIP) regional conditions have worsened. Environmental justice was crucial in the recent peace process in Colombia, but also in other countries, where indigenous people are losing their livelihood and identity. Since the end of the cold war, capitalism aggravated the life conditions of poor people. The neoliberal dismantling of the State reduced their rights and wellbeing in favour of enterprises. Youth are not only the most exposed to violence, but represent also the future for a different management of human relations and nature.
Author |
: Pablo Baisotti |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 708 |
Release |
: 2022-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000536232 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000536238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature by : Pablo Baisotti
This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the world, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the pre-Colombian era, and how each has been seen and characterized in literature and other cultural mediums ever since. This ambitious collection analyzes texts from some of the region's most tumultuous time periods, beginning with early violence that was predominately tribal and ideological in nature; to colonial and decolonial violence between colonizers and the native population; through to the political violence we have seen in the postmodern period, marked by dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, neoliberalism, as well as representations of violence caused by drug trafficking and migration. The volume provides readers with literary examples from across the centuries, showing not only how widespread the violence has been, but crucially how it has shaped the region and evolved over time.
Author |
: Coletta Youngers |
Publisher |
: Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1588262545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781588262547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drugs and Democracy in Latin America by : Coletta Youngers
While the U.S. has failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin entering its borders, it has, however, succeeded in generating widespread, often profoundly damaging, consequences on democracy and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Author |
: Gabriela Polit Dueñas |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2013-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822979098 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822979098 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrating Narcos by : Gabriela Polit Dueñas
Narrating Narcos presents a probing examination of the prominent role of narcotics trafficking in contemporary Latin American cultural production. In her study, Gabriela Polit Due–as juxtaposes two infamous narco regions, Culiacan, Mexico, and Medellin, Colombia, to demonstrate the powerful forces of violence, corruption, and avarice and their influence over locally based cultural texts. Polit Due–as provides a theoretical basis for her methods, citing the work of Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, and other cultural analysts. She supplements this with extensive ethnographic fieldwork, interviewing artists and writers, their confidants, relatives, and others, and documents their responses to the portrayal of narco culture. Polit Due–as offers close readings of the characters, language, and milieu of popular works of literature and the visual arts and relates their ethical and thematic undercurrents to real life experiences. In both regions, there are few individuals who have not been personally affected by the narcotics trade. Each region has witnessed corrupt state, police, and paramilitary actors in league with drug capos. Both have a legacy of murder. Polit Due–as documents how narco culture developed at different times historically in the two regions. In Mexico, drugs have been cultivated and trafficked for over a century, while in Colombia the cocaine trade is a relatively recent development. In Culiacan, characters in narco narratives are often modeled after the serrano (highlander), a romanticized historic figure and sometime thief who nobly defied a corrupt state and its laws. In Medellin, the oft-portrayed sicario (assassin) is a recent creation, an individual recruited by drug lords from poverty stricken shantytowns who would have little economic opportunity otherwise. As Polit Due–as shows, each character occupies a different place in the psyche of the local populace. Narrating Narcos offers a unique melding of archival and ground-level research combined with textual analysis. Here, the relationship of writer, subject, and audience becomes clearly evident, and our understanding of the cultural bonds of Latin American drug trafficking is greatly enhanced. As such, this book will be an important resource for students and scholars of Latin American literature, history, culture, and contemporary issues.