Economy of narco: prohibitionism, systemic violence and criminal capital

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  • Jorge Alejandro Vázquez Valdez Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33064/38crscsh917

Keywords:

Transnational Criminal Networks, prohibitionist, neoliberalism, drug trafficking, criminal economy.

Abstract

The most active drug trafficking groups in Mexico have configured a criminal economy not only dependent on the chain value of drugs, but also as a system branched out towards a variety of criminal activities including those threatening a dignifying life therefore human development. Their internal organizational rearrangements, outward expansion, and their activity plots beyond the Mexican borders, lead to consider them as part of the Transnational Criminal Networks. In the need to understand this overturn representing the evolution from the basic and plain drug trafficking, it is precise to measure the component as TCN in the Mexican neoliberal framework, and tackle the role of the United States of America as consumer, but also as promoter of prohibitionist and punitive policies. 

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Published

2018-01-01

How to Cite

Vázquez Valdez, J. A. (2018). Economy of narco: prohibitionism, systemic violence and criminal capital. Caleidoscopio - Biannual Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 22(38), 105–130. https://doi.org/10.33064/38crscsh917

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