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The Violent Rise Of Cártel De Jalisco Nueva Generación (Cjng), Samuel D. Henkin
The Violent Rise Of Cártel De Jalisco Nueva Generación (Cjng), Samuel D. Henkin
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Part of the "Tracking Cartels Infographic Series," this brief details the the Violent Rise of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). It includes these key discussion points: Despite the fact that CJNG is one of the youngest cartels in Mexico it is considered to be one of, if not, the most powerful and violent cartel in Mexico today. CJNG’s assets are thought to be worth over $20 billion. The successful rapid and violent rise of CJNG challenges Mexico’s capacity to govern and normalizes violence and corruption as a way of organizing power and order.
Re-Evaluating Special Operations Forces-Led Counterterrorism Efforts, Barnett S. Koven
Re-Evaluating Special Operations Forces-Led Counterterrorism Efforts, Barnett S. Koven
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Dr. Koven, in this occasional paper, posits that kinetic counterterrorism (CT) actions undertaken by the state to kill, capture, or otherwise disrupt terrorist groups are ineffective in isolation. While kinetic actions may succeed in disrupting a specific plot or other activities in the immediate term, they have little long-term effect on the ability of terrorist groups to operate. This study, backed by data from Colombian CT efforts over several years, demonstrates that government CT activities leading to the capture, killing, or demobilization of terrorists are correlated with an increase in terrorist attacks following a government’s actions. Moreover, this study reasons …
Malaria In Gold Miners In The Guianas And The Amazon: Current Knowledge And Challenges, Maylis Douine, Yann Lambert, Lise Musset, Helene Hiwat, Liana Reis Blume, Paola Marchesini, Gilberto Gilmar Moresco, Horace Cox, Juan F. Sanchez, Leopoldo Villegas, Vincent Pommier De Santi
Malaria In Gold Miners In The Guianas And The Amazon: Current Knowledge And Challenges, Maylis Douine, Yann Lambert, Lise Musset, Helene Hiwat, Liana Reis Blume, Paola Marchesini, Gilberto Gilmar Moresco, Horace Cox, Juan F. Sanchez, Leopoldo Villegas, Vincent Pommier De Santi
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“Purpose of Review Following Paraguay and Argentina, several countries from the Amazon region aim to eliminate malaria. To achieve this, all key affected and vulnerable populations by malaria, including people working on gold mining sites, must be considered. What is the situation of malaria in these particular settings and what are the challenges? This literature review aims to compile knowledge to answer these questions. Recent Findings The contexts in which gold miners operate are very heterogeneous: size and localization of mines, links with crime, administrative status of the mines and of the miners, mobility of the workers or national regulations. …
Enter 9/11: Latin America And The Global War On Terror, Markus-Michael Müller
Enter 9/11: Latin America And The Global War On Terror, Markus-Michael Müller
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This article offers an analysis of the transnational discursive construction processes informing Latin American security governance in the aftermath of 9/11. It demonstrates that the Global War on Terror provided an opportunity for external and aligned local knowledge producers in the security establishments throughout the Americas to reframe Latin America's security problems through the promotion of a militarized security epistemology, and derived policies, centered on the region's ‘convergent threats’. In tracing the discursive repercussions of this epistemic reframing, the article shows that, by tapping into these discourses, military bureaucracies throughout the Americas were able to overcome their previous institutional marginalization …
The Intersection Between Illegal Fishing, Crimes At Sea, And Social Well-Being, Mary Mackay, Britta Denise Hardesty, Chris Wilcox
The Intersection Between Illegal Fishing, Crimes At Sea, And Social Well-Being, Mary Mackay, Britta Denise Hardesty, Chris Wilcox
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Illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing is a major contributor to global overfishing, threatening food security, maritime livelihoods, and fisheries sustainability. An emerging narrative in the literature posits that IUU fishing is associated with additional organized criminal activities, such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, slavery, and arms smuggling. This literature review resolves the contradiction between the common narrative that fisheries and other crimes are linked by presenting three distinct business models for maritime criminal activities.
Central Latin America: Two Decades Of Challenges In Neglected Tropical Disease Control, Peter J. Hotez, Ashish Damania, Maria Elena Bottazzi
Central Latin America: Two Decades Of Challenges In Neglected Tropical Disease Control, Peter J. Hotez, Ashish Damania, Maria Elena Bottazzi
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"Since the start of the 21st Century, the CLA region has faced considerable challenges, including prolonged droughts with intermittent and extreme floods due to climate change; violence and political instability linked to the drug trade; political, socioeconomic, and food insecurity from agricultural declines; human displacements; urbanization; and even the marginalization of large indigenous populations [2, 3]. Here, we provide an overview of the findings from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study from the years 2000 and 2017 highlighting the gains or losses in neglected tropical disease (NTD) and malaria disease control in the CLA countries and progress towards the …
Contested Borders: Organized Crime, Governance, And Bordering Practives In Colombia-Venezuela Borderlands, Viviana Garcia Pinzon, Jorge Mantilla
Contested Borders: Organized Crime, Governance, And Bordering Practives In Colombia-Venezuela Borderlands, Viviana Garcia Pinzon, Jorge Mantilla
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"Based on the conceptualizations of organized crime as both an enterprise and a form of governance, borderland as a spatial category, and borders as institutions, this paper looks at the politics of bordering practices by organized crime in the ColombianVenezuelan borderlands. It posits that contrary to the common assumptions about transnational organized crime, criminal organizations not only blur or erode the border but rather enforce it to their own benefit. In doing so, these groups set norms to regulate socio-spatial practices, informal and illegal economies, and migration flows, creating overlapping social orders and, lastly, (re)shaping the borderland. Theoretically, the analysis …