Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

GIN Interview: Jorge Chabat, Professor, International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE), Mexico City

... Dr. Jorge Chabat is currently head of the Division of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. Dr. Chabat is a security and drug trafficking analyst and one of the country’s top experts on foreign policy. Dr. Chabat has served as a Member of the Admissions Advisory Board for the Mexica...

Posted on 03 Sep 2014

Drug Policy, Resilience Fund

Mexico’s war on drugs heats up

...leader of the notoriously violent Zetas trafficking organization was arrested by Mexican Marines in the rural town of Anáhuac, Nuevo León.  Morales is infamous for having threatened to assassinate Mexico’s former President Felipe Calderon.  A week later, the marines also captured Victor Hugo Delgado Rentería, leader of Jalisco’s Nueva Generación cartel. Commentators and the media have drama...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

The Political Economy of Drug Trafficking: The Herrera Organization (Mexico and the United States)

...by Peter A. Lupsha & Kip Schlegel Abstract In this paper we examine the effects of this drug trafficking contrabandista activity, the rise and decline of Mexico's leadership as an exporter of illicit drugs, and some of the effects of organized trafficking on the political economy of both Mexico and the United States. Smuggling and contraband are endemic to b...

Posted on 01 Nov 1980

Assassination Witness

‘Don’t rock the boat’

...ed crime’s expanding grip on the country. In October 2024, the Mexican Institute for Research in Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture honoured the legacy of Minerva Pérez, an outspoken leader in Mexico’s fishing industry, murdered three months prior. This public recognition came with a powerful message: the industry called on authorities to pursue justice and not let her murder go unpunished. ...

Posted on 15 Nov 2024

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Can the UNTOC work without civil society’s active involvement?

...ributions of the private sector are also omitted. The result is a weaker and more confused response from the COP than the sponsors of the resolution had intended. Easier ride for firearm resolution Mexico’s proposed resolution on strengthening measures against firearm trafficking faced less opposition. Being tabled by a ‘non-Western’ country and taking a more technical approach, reflecting the d...

Posted on 04 Nov 2024

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Global Initiative

Narcas

... figures such as Al Capone and Pablo Escobar. But during El Chapo’s trial in 2018–2019, one woman was named on the indictment – Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, the highest-ranking woman known in Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel. This revelation captured the attention of journalist Deborah Bonello, sparking years of investigative work into the often overlooked roles women play in Latin American cartels. Â...

Posted on 29 Oct 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Global Initiative

The last Yakuza: A life in the Japanese underworld, with investigative journalist Jake Adelstein 

...f their families and their friends. And they were like, 'Screw these guys. They have gotten uppity. We're not going to put up with this anymore. When the Yakuza are threatening detectives, this isn't Mexico. This is unacceptable’. And so those complaints went all the way up to the National Police Agency, and the head of the National Police Agency at the time, Ando Takaharu, said, basically, 'Okay, I h...

Posted on 02 Oct 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Global Initiative

A history of the American mafia

... kill outside of the mob.' I don't know if you remember that sort of phrasing. Was that true? Would the mob have killed a journalist in New York at the time, similar to what is regularly conducted in Mexico? Are there rules that have now been shattered as organized crime has grown and the old ‘proper’ regulations have been broken? Or is that all nonsense and this is a very violent organization and w...

Posted on 24 Sep 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Global Organized Crime Index

The blurred line between villains and victims

...y of criminal profiles are starkly evident in financial crimes. Scams linked to investment opportunities, employment, e-commerce and romance are now widespread global phenomena in places ranging from Mexico and Peru to Georgia, Israel, Cambodia and Ukraine. Take Myanmar, the country with the highest criminality score in the world (8.15 out of 10), according to the Index rankings. This is partly due t...

Posted on 21 Aug 2024

Author(s): Marika McAdam