Sources

44 sources cataloged

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report 2024

Paradise Lost? Ecuador's Battle with Organised Crime

organized crimestate failurepolicy
article 2024

Honduras: A Narco-State Made in the United States

narco-stateUS complicityHernández
report 2024

Coercive Brokers: Militias and Urban Governance in Rio de Janeiro

by Nicholas Pope, Antonio Sampaio
militiasRio de Janeirourban governanceparamilitary
article 2024

Mexico's Dirty War: A Reassessment

by Alexander Aviña, Benjamin T. Smith
dirty warcounterinsurgencystate violencehuman rights
article 2024

State, Crime, and Violence in Mexico, 1920-2000: Arbiters of Impunity, Agents of Coercion

by Tom Long, Benjamin T. Smith
state formationcorruptionorganized crimeimpunity
article 2023

Enablers of Cocaine Trafficking: Evidence of the State-Crime Nexus from Contemporary Honduras

state-crime nexusCachirosscholarship
article 2023

The Internationalization of Organized Crime in Brazil

by Robert Muggah, Gustavo Diniz
PCCtransnational crimecocaine
book 2022

Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico

by Wil G. Pansters, Benjamin T. Smith
drug historyscholarshipedited volume
article 2021

Operation Condor, The War on Drugs, and Counterinsurgency in the Golden Triangle (1977-1983)

counter-narcoticscounterinsurgencyOperation Condorscholarship
book 2021

The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

by Benjamin T. Smith
drug historyarchival researchcartels
article 2020

Narcotrafficking and Land Control in Guatemala and Honduras

by Kendra McSweeney
land grabsdeforestationnarco-ranchingscholarship
book 2020

Contemporary Mexican Politics

by David A. Shirk, Emily Edmonds-Poli
Mexican politicstextbookPANdemocratization
article 2020

US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950-62

by Benjamin T. Smith, Wil G. Pansters
drug policymoral panicborder politicsCold War
report 2019

Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico: 2019

by Laura Y. Calderón, Kimberly Heinle, Octavio Rodriguez Ferreira, David A. Shirk
organized crimeviolence dataUSD
article 2019

The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis

by Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Nathaniel Morris, Benjamin T. Smith
fentanylopiumpoppy cultivationrural economy
article 2019

Saints and Demons: Putting La Santa Muerte in Historical Perspective

by Benjamin T. Smith
Santa Muertereligionpopular devotionCatholicism
report 2018

Policy Brief: Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)

cartelsCJNGpolicy brief
book 2018

The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street

by Benjamin T. Smith
journalismcivil societycensorshipmedia historyLASA Howard Cline Award
book 2017

Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico

by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
cartelsoil theftorganized crimescholarship
book 2017

Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice

by Wil G. Pansters, Benjamin T. Smith, Peter Watt
human rightsdrug policydemocracyjournalismsecuritization
article 2017

How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico

by Ginger Thompson
DEAintelligence failuremassacreinvestigative journalism
report 2016

Against the Odds: CICIG in Guatemala

CICIGanti-corruptioninstitutional reform
article 2015

Understanding Mexico's Drug Violence

by David A. Shirk, Joel Wallman
drug violencescholarshipquantitative analysis
article 2014

A Tale of Two Mexican Border Cities: The Rise and Decline of Drug Violence in Juárez and Tijuana

by David A. Shirk
Ciudad JuárezTijuanaborder studiescomparative analysis
book 2013 es

Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

by Anabel Hernández
investigative journalismSinaloa Cartelcorruptioncartels
article 2013

The Rise and Fall of Narcopopulism: Drugs, Politics, and Society in Sinaloa, 1930-1980

by Benjamin T. Smith
drug historySinaloanarco-politicspopulism
book 2012

Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

by Isaac Campos
marijuanadrug policyprohibitionscholarship
book 2012

The Executioner's Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created

by George W. Grayson, Samuel Logan
GAFEcartelsmilitaryorganized crime
book 2011

El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

by Ioan Grillo
cartelsorganized crimeinsurgency
report 2010

Drug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis Through 2009

by David A. Shirk
drug violence dataorganized crimeUSD
report 2010

Shared Responsibility: U.S.-Mexico Policy Options for Confronting Organized Crime

by David A. Shirk
policyarms traffickingmoney launderingpolice reformjudicial reform
article 2010

A Profile of Los Zetas: Mexico's Second Most Powerful Drug Cartel

military analysiscartelsGAFE
article 2008

Los Zetas: The Ruthless Army Spawned by a Mexican Drug Cartel

GAFEmilitarycartelsscholarship
book 2006

Evil Hour in Colombia

by Forrest Hylton
political violenceguerrilla warfareparamilitarism
book 2006

Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875–2002

by Marco Palacios
political historystate formationcoffee economyscholarship
book 2003

Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism, and Popular Mobilization in Colombia

by W. John Green
Gaitanismopopulismpolitical mobilizationscholarship
book 2002

Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953

by Mary Roldán
regional historyAntioquiaethnic conflictstate violencescholarship
article 2001

All Night at the Owl: The Social and Political Relations of Mexicali's Red-Light District, 1913–1925

by Eric Michael Schantz
border studiessocial historygamblingprostitutionred-light districtMexicali
book 1991

Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America

by Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall
CIAContrascocaineCold Warstate complicity
book 1988

Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win

by Elaine Shannon
DEACamarenacartelsinvestigative journalism
book 1985

The Assassination of Gaitán: Public Life and Urban Violence in Colombia

by Herbert Braun
Bogotazopopulismpolitical violencescholarship
article 1980

Operation Condor: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era

by Richard Craig
counter-narcoticsOperation Condorscholarship
book 1971 es

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

by Eduardo Galeano
colonialismpolitical economyresource extraction
article 1950

The Economic Development of Latin America and Its Principal Problems

by Raúl Prebisch
structuralismterms of tradeECLAC