Drugs and Democracy in Latin America Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2024

While the U.S. has failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin entering its borders, it has, however, succeeded in generating widespread, often profoundly damaging, consequences on democracy

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2024

A comprehensive review of U.S. drug-control policies toward Latin America and the Caribbean, assessing their impact on democracy and human rights in the region.

• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 13 November 2009

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2011

What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dictatorships with electoral democracies, solid economic

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 22,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 October 2017

Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 September 2020

When widespread state-criminal collusion persists in transitions from autocracy to democracy, electoral competition becomes a catalyst of large-scale criminal violence.

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• File Size : 48,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2024

This work is an introduction to who's who and what is really happening in Columbia. In one volume, it brings together the best material published on the war, the economy,

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 27 July 2016

In some Latin American countries, traffickers equipped with vast resources have corrupted individuals in every aspect of public life, compromising the integrity of entire national institutions - the political system

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 37,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2024

• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 19 March 2010

Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption,