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?
Guadalajara could lose its protected status among drug lords and become the next epicenter for drug-related violence.
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A Call for Caution: The (Side) Effect of Mexico’s Entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Peter J. Munson
Tue, 07/03/2012 - 12:23pm
Will Mexico’s admittance into the Trans-Pacific Partnership create an even more empowered global criminal network?
The Merida Initiative and Mexico’s Legislative and Constitutional Reforms
Mexico’s war against their drug cartels is a war they cannot win by themselves. Must we take some responsibility?
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¿Por qué es más difícil desarticular las actuales redes criminales mexicanas que los carteles colombianos de los años noventa?
Peter J. Munson
Thu, 04/12/2012 - 1:25pm
Mexican criminal networks are far more decentralized and thus more resiliant than the Colombian cartels of the 1980s.