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Latinoamérica y el Caribe, RESPECT

Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in the Americas

... In the first decade of the 21st century, two trends intersected: soaring gold prices greatly increased the profitability of gold mining, whilst the US led “War on Drugs”, notably in Colombia and Mexico (‘Plan Colombia’ and the ‘Mérida Initiative’), sharply reduced the profitability of drug trafficking from Latin America to the USA. As a result, there were considerable incentives for the cr...

Posted on 22 Mar 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Competing for the title of the world’s most violent city

...the illegal trafficking of drugs and other has reached unprecedented levels. 2015 figures in particular showed an alarming increase of homicide rates in the region (mostly San Salvador, Venezuela and Mexico), with gang and/or organised crime groups’ activities being reportedly either suspected or involved. With a 53% increase for San Salvador and 20% for Venezuela just between 2014 and 2015 brings the...

Posted on 14 Mar 2016

Development Dialogue

It’s time to tell the Emperor: the War on Drugs has failed

...version of the Emperor’s New Clothes. And moreover, it is hugely damaging to efforts to combat other major security threats - above all the threat from terrorism. If we look at a country like Mexico for example – to introduce a couple of stats: Mexico between 2007 and 2014 saw the loss of 164,000 people as a consequence of Mexico’s drugs war. I want you to think about that figure because it ...

Posted on 26 Feb 2016

Protecting Politics

The new criminal powers: tackling illicit links between crime and politics

...rganized crime and corruption as a ‘cancer’ or a ‘virus’ has become shorthand in international policy circles, a diagnosis that is used to explain how countries as diverse as Mali, Ukraine or Mexico have fallen under the influence of criminal rackets that exercise control over certain state bodies, politicians, judges, police forces or territory. The symptoms of this criminal presence are not...

Posted on 04 Feb 2016

Global Initiative

Event: Militarised Responses to Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling, Geneva, 11 February

... response to migrant smuggling. Tuesday Reitano, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GIaTOC): Smugglers Inc.: the illicit industry in human migration. Brian Erickson, New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights: The militarisation of the US border. Peter Roberts, The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI): From Triton to Sofia: assessing the credibility of the EU’s nav...

Posted on 21 Jan 2016

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

The Kirchner legacy: Will Macri be able to prevent the ‘Mexicanization’ of Argentina?

...nd and politician in Buenos Aires, in which he expressed his fear that the surge of drug trafficking in Argentina would produce a situation of addiction and violence in the country similar to that of Mexico (“ojalá estemos a tiempo de evitar la mexicanización”, hopefully we still have time to avoid the Mexicanization). The letter was subsequently published on the website of La Alameda, an Argent...

Posted on 09 Dec 2015

Global Initiative

Money in Politics: how to stop illicit money to parties and candidates

...In early September 2015 the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary of Mexico (TEPJF) in collaboration with the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosted the world’s first global conference on “Money in ...

Posted on 20 Oct 2015

Global Initiative

EU death toll: Experience shows walls and arrests won’t end migrant smuggling

... what is ubiquitous is the use of smugglers. A month ago, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review published “American Coyotes,” a remarkable series of stories on migrant smuggling across the border from Mexico to the United States. In words and in pictures, this investigation presented a detailed exposé of the workings of the 'coyotes' working the migrant-smuggling industry on America's southern border...

Posted on 31 Aug 2015

Wildlife Watch

Wildlife in Crisis – Seminar Summaries

...target transnational organised crime syndicates and co-operation between governments should extend beyond “conference and talkshops”. Alejandro Nadal, a professor of economics at El Colegio de Mexico, argued that trade is not the answer. There are too many unknowns and there is a very “real danger” that experiments with legal trade may create a “runaway expanding market”. There is a �...

Posted on 05 Jun 2015

Development Dialogue, UN-TOC Watch

Policy or progress? Countdown to UNGASS 2016

... Psychoactive Substances (NPS) is cause for mounting alarm. The use of internationally controlled drugs has for the most part stabilized globally, with cannabis use nevertheless increasing in the US, Mexico and parts of Asia, amphetamine-type drugs increasing in Asia and Africa, and prescription pain medication abuse also on the rise. However, the most dramatic rise has been in the manufacture and use o...

Posted on 24 Mar 2015

Wildlife Watch

Boom or Bust? The impact of oil on illicit economies

..., large networks—as in Nigeria—can develop that are capable of sourcing, shipping, and selling bulk amounts of oil regionally or internationally. Finally, existent criminal organizations, such as Mexico’s Zetas, or insurgent groups, such as Syria’s Islamic State, have been known to engage in oil theft and smuggling in order to further buttress their profits. The steep decline in the price of ...

Posted on 18 Mar 2015

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Back from the Brink: Saving Ciudad Juárez

...ng and apparent killing of 43 students from the rural teaching college of Ayotzinapa by a criminal gang allegedly backed by corrupt police has sparked violent protests in Guerrero and mass marches in Mexico City. Perhaps the most important lesson of Juárez is that crime must be tackled through the combined effort of authorities and citizens. Opaque, top-down solutions that fail to address the concerns ...

Posted on 25 Feb 2015

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