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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"narcotrafficking"”.
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From narcotrafficking to alternative governance: An ethnographic study on Los Caballeros Templarios and the mutation of organized crime in Michoacán, Mexico
In this thesis, I unpack the mutation of Mexican organized crime by providing insights of unprecedented depth into one of the field’s principal actors of the past decade, Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar, LCT). My elaborations are based on firsthand qualitative data. During a year of …
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Women in Mexico's illicit economy: expendable as pennies or breaking barriers?
… and influence of Mexico at the hands of the narcotrafficking organizations. The chapters of this thesis are organized thematically and will analyze the hyper militarized actions of illicit organizations and government entities while also utilizing previously established female scholars’ …
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
… are broadly centered on networks of finance and narcotrafficking. In Chapter Three I analyze Horacio Castellanos Moya’s La diabla en el espejo and Patricia Lara’s Hilo de sangre azul, two novels centered on financial crimes. Through paranoid female detectives, these novels present the …
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The Evolution of <i>Mara Salvatrucha 13</i> and <i>Barrio 18</i>: Violence, Extortion, and Drug Trafficking in the Northern Triangle of Central America
… economic networks between corrupt officials, narcotrafficking groups, and gangs contribute to violence and impunity in the Northern Triangle of Central America. The concentration of homicides in border municipalities was often associated with drug trafficking, homicides in urban areas were …