1. Only Connect: the Survival and Spread of Organized Crime in Latin America
- Author:
- Ivan Briscoe and David Keseberg
- Publication Date:
- 02-2019
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- PRISM
- Institution:
- Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), National Defense University
- Abstract:
- Deeply entrenched over decades, organized crime has married with systemic corruption and high levels of impunity to generate multiple forms of political and economic capital across the ideological spectrum in Latin America. But recent experience gives some provisional grounds for optimism. The end point of popular disaffection with flawed democracies and illicit links between criminal groups, political elites, and the private sector need not inevitably result in an embrace of authoritarianism and/or charismatic caudillos.
- Topic:
- Corruption, Crime, Authoritarianism, Democracy, Private Sector, and Organized Crime
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and North America