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Parties of Crime? Brazil’s facções criminosas – good governance and bad government

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07.19.2021 at 06:16pm
Haiti

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 41: Criminal Insurgency and ‘Revolution’ in Haiti?

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07.02.2021 at 09:41pm

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 40: Força Nacional de Segurança Pública Deployed to Manaus in Aftermath of Comando Vermelho Violence on the Streets

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06.28.2021 at 07:25pm
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Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 39: Five Killed in Prison Battle between Barrio 18 and MS-13 in La Tolva Prison, Honduras

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06.21.2021 at 12:07am
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Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 36: High Casualty Civil Police Raid in Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho Favela Raises Human Rights Concerns

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05.26.2021 at 12:59am

The Strategic Realities of Twenty-First Century “Small Wars”— An Opinion Essay

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05.22.2021 at 06:36pm
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Rio’s bloody police campaign

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05.07.2021 at 04:19am
Campamento MS13

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 35: Mara Salvatrucha Training Camp Dismantled by Honduran Police

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02.21.2021 at 02:38am
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SWJ El Centro Book Review – Terrorist Recruitment of U.S. Gangs: Global Criminal Alliances and Biological Weapons

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02.16.2021 at 04:44am

Criminal Distancing: Drug Cartels and the State during Covid-19

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02.02.2021 at 11:24pm
MS-13

SWJ El Centro Book Review – MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang

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11.11.2020 at 02:02am
Armed gangs in RJ

Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 32: Militias (Milícias) Surpass Gangs (Gangues) in Territorial Control in Rio de Janeiro  

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10.26.2020 at 11:43pm
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