Latinoamérica y el Caribe

People and forests at risk: Organized crime, trafficking in persons and deforestation in Chihuahua, Mexico

People and forests at risk:

...ua is often laundered and used in the manufac-ture of consumer goods exported to the US. This means that without effective due diligence, companies and consumers who purchase wood-based products from Mexico may be financing organized crime, and contributing to trafficking in persons and deforestation. ...

Posted on 21 Apr 2020

Author(s): Livia Wagner, Diana Siller, Rosalva Landa

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Central America’s criminal culture: Lessons for Mexico

... Extortion is becoming more pervasive in Mexico, in a region already notorious for its criminal culture. Can Mexico learn from its southern neighbours’ experience of underground criminal-economy regimes? ‘In many parts of Central America, e...

Posted on 04 Jul 2019

Author(s): Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

#GIDisappearances, Resilience Fund

Resilience Dialogues in Oaxaca, Mexico 2019

...Resilience Dialogues in Oaxaca, Mexico 2019 ...

Posted on 31 May 2019

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Mexico election

...Mexico’s presidential election opens a new chapter in democracy and security against a backdrop of pervasive violence. Mexicans have voted to change the course of their history. The results of the 1 Ju...

Posted on 05 Jul 2018

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Organized Crime and Central American Migration in Mexico

...report was researched and written in response to a request by the Mexican Federal Police for an evaluation of the interactions between organized crime and Central American migrants transiting through Mexico. Given that protecting migrants and combating organized criminal groups both fall within the Federal Police’s mandate, this evaluation also outlines how protecting migrants can help deprive organiz...

Posted on 24 Jun 2018

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Mexico Peace Index 2018: Mapping the evolution of peace and its drivers

...This report contains a comprehensive measure of peacefulness in Mexico from 2003 - 2017. "Peace in Mexico has declined for a second year in a row, as indicated by the 2018 Mexico Peace Index. Peace deteriorated by 10.7% from the previous year." The most authoritative ...

Posted on 11 Apr 2018

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

An Analysis of Mayoral Assassinations in Mexico, 2000-17

...In recent years, Mexico has seen elevated violence years, with roughly 300,000 people murdered since 2000 and over 28,000 registered homicides in 2017 alone. One special characteristic of this violence is the increased numb...

Posted on 15 Jan 2018

Global Initiative

Back to the 1970s? Criminalization and Context in US-Mexico Migration Statistics

...ica, US border authorities have claimed early success. The most common metric cited to demonstrate the decline has been US Border Patrol apprehensions of migrants along the 3,000 kilometers of the US-Mexico border. Although apprehensions have indeed fallen under the Trump Administration to early 1970s levels, this continues a descent that began when former President Obama was in office, which in 2016 re...

Posted on 29 Aug 2017

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

The geography of criminal power in Tijuana, Mexico

...sical manifestation - a location in time and space - where criminal influence can be visibly witnessed, and a lens through which it can be analysed.  In Tijuana, a border city in Baja California in Mexico, criminal power is embodied by the way that real estate influenced by the criminality or the criminal actors. The advantage of applying this methodological tool is that we have detailed informati...

Posted on 14 Jun 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Disappeared: Justice Denied in Mexico’s Guerrero State

...Executive Summary Horrific, unpunished human rights violations have blurred the lines between politics, government and crime in Mexico’s south-western Guerrero state. Drug gangs not only control the illegal heroin industry and prey on ordinary citizens through kidnapping and extortion, but have also penetrated, paralysed or intimi...

Posted on 23 Oct 2015

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

The Jalisco Cartel: Mexico’s New Menace

... growth but also from its deadly encounters with Mexican authorities. The CJNG recently showed what is capable of by shooting down a military helicopter in its namesake state of Jalisco, in northwest Mexico. The Jalisco cartel emerged from the recent power movements in the Mexican criminal map. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes alias El Mencho, born in 1964 in the neighbouring state of Michoacan, is considere...

Posted on 28 May 2015

Wildlife Watch

Interview: Alejandro Nadal, Prof. of Economics, University of Mexico

...Prof. Alejandro Nadal, Prof. of Economics, Centre for Economics, Colegio de Mexico, discusses the possible implications of the legalisation of domestic sale in rhino horn in South Africa....

Posted on 28 May 2015