Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Tendencias de Seguridad Cibernética en América Latina y El Caribe

Posted on 17 Jun 2014

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus

Crime after Jihad: armed groups, the state and illicit business in post-conflict Mali

... directed at ways to reduce the systemic threat from criminal business while avoiding the sorts of blind repressive policies that have engineered insurgencies in Afghanistan, or terrible bloodshed in Mexico. This paper outlines a number of approaches that should lie at the heart of such a balanced, conflict-sensitive strategy towards crime. A robust and inclusive political settlement for the north is cr...

Posted on 05 May 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Location, location, location: finding the forum for debating drug policy

...e historically consensus-based decision making framework means that states who wish to maintain the status quo hold an effective stranglehold over new ideas. A group of Latin American states, with Mexico in the forefront, have become increasingly dissatisfied with this arrangement, arguing that policies and discussions being set on a national and sub-national basis are increasingly subverting the dru...

Posted on 14 Apr 2014

RESPECT

Webinar: Cybercrime and Human Rights

...e Troels Oerting, Head: European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), EUROPOL Raj Samani, VP, Chief Technical Officer, McAfee Julio Alejandro Téllez Valdés, Professor National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) A vibrant discussion panel at the Global Initiative Launch explored the myriad of ways that the internet has fundamentally changed the nature of organized crime and opened a Pandora’s ...

Posted on 13 Apr 2014

Global Initiative

Stolen innocence: the online exploitation of children

...sharing images of very young children or of images portraying violence against children. Child pornography and online exploitation of children is a transnational organized crime. The Philippines and Mexico are ranked as the top source countries producing and distributing child pornography, but it is a crime that is sourced, produced and procured the world over. An online child sex ring that was broken ...

Posted on 07 Apr 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

It’s Always Sunny in Sinaloa

...d El Chapo. Joaquin Guzmán-Loera, AKA El Chapo, is a key leader within the Sinaloa Federation, the largest and most entrepreneurially innovative drug trafficking organizations currently operating in Mexico. His arrest is a major coup for the Mexican and US law enforcement against one of the most powerful non-state armed groups in Latin America. Guzmán’s arrest is also a coup for President Enrique Pe...

Posted on 05 Mar 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

Behind Bars and Controlling the Barrio

...significant and surprising degree of control over lower level cadres on the street. In turn, these attributes can make formidable combatant forces. Drug trafficking organizations, especially those in Mexico, have allied with prison gangs to supplement their military muscle. The transnational Barrio Azteca and the Artistas Asesinos prison gangs played a key role in the 2008 - 2012 drug war for Ciudad Jua...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Vigilante Justice: Militias, and Michoacán

...Abajo la versión en español The line between drug war and civil war in Mexico is becoming increasingly tenuous. For the last six years, the violence has pitted heavily armed drug trafficking gangs against each other and against government forces. The result has been a horrific...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics, Wildlife Watch

Analyzing Organized Crime – February 2014

Analyzing Organized Crime - February 2014

...ic poaching of ivory and trafficking in minerals that is fueling and perpetuating conflict? And what is the result if the state cannot get control of organised crime? This month, militia groups in Mexico took on some of the key DTOs, with the tacit approval of the Government. But this is a risky strategy, that requires careful watching, for fear these armed militia groups do not become co-opted by cr...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Hoping for A Brave New World

...: from Central America into the United States, and from Africa into Europe. The Latin America-US corridor is one of the most well-traveled illicit migration routes in the world. Migrants, mainly from Mexico, Central, and South America, along with smaller numbers of Asian and African migrants, attempt to cross Mexico’s border with the U.S. in areas that are remote yet have access to roads. Historically...

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

Making crime pay – the development role of gangsters

.... Whether the El Salvador truce has succeeded at all is the subject of fierce debate. Nevertheless, truces based on the El Salvador model are being explored in Guatemala, Honduras and Guadalajara, Mexico. Muggah says that while truces and interventions can improve safety, they come with “political and potential social and economic costs”. “Where governments are seen to be making compromises,...

Posted on 25 Oct 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

A sting in the tale

...strategy to break up the Medellín and Cali cartel, which resulted in dramatically less violence, though arguably not a reduction in illicit trade flows.  Similar efforts by the former Government of Mexico to address their criminal groups, most notably the infamous Tijuana cartel upon whom the movie “Traffic” was based, was less successful.  Levels of gang-related violence increased, as criminal g...

Posted on 06 Oct 2013