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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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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¿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.
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Understanding Informational Features of Transnational Criminal Networks: Cases from Mexico and Guatemala
A look at the gray agents - the public servants, political actors, or security agents - that promote criminal interests.
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Five Ps for a Violence Reduction Strategy in Mexico (Part I)
In the first of a three part series, Guillermo Vázquez del Mercado Almada describes organized crime in Mexico and lays a basis for his "five Ps" proposal to reduce violence there.