Mexico Drug Policy and Security Review 2012
Mexico's new president Enrique Peña Nieto has trumpeted its proposed reforms, but there are more similarities than differences with the Calderon Administration.
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Breaking Illicit Rice Bowls: A Framework for Analyzing Criminal National Security Threats
Many modern internal conflicts defy basic definitions, so use a composite framework instead.
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Criminal Insurgency: Narcocultura, Social Banditry, and Information Operations
“The Family doesn’t kill for money; it doesn’t kill for women... only those who deserve to die, die... [T]his is divine justice.”
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Is Chicago on the Road to Becoming an American Ciudad Juárez?
The presence of Mexican-origin drugs in Chicago is more prominent now than ever before
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Why Arresting “El Chapo” Might Be a Bad Thing
It sounds crazy, but catching the most notorious and wanted drug trafficker in the world might be a bad thing.
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Guadalajara: The Next Epicenter of Violence in Mexico?
Peter J. Munson
Wed, 08/29/2012 - 5:30am
Guadalajara could lose its protected status among drug lords and become the next epicenter for drug-related violence.
A Call for Caution: The (Side) Effect of Mexico’s Entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Will Mexico’s admittance into the Trans-Pacific Partnership create an even more empowered global criminal network?
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The Merida Initiative and Mexico’s Legislative and Constitutional Reforms
Peter J. Munson
Tue, 06/12/2012 - 5:39am
Mexico’s war against their drug cartels is a war they cannot win by themselves. Must we take some responsibility?
¿Por qué es más difícil desarticular las actuales redes criminales mexicanas que los carteles colombianos de los años noventa?
Mexican criminal networks are far more decentralized and thus more resiliant than the Colombian cartels of the 1980s.