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… apparently as part of the turf battle between the Golfo group and Los Zetas. Current policies incentivize violence. We need a new enforcement strategy to make the drug traffickers afraid of acting scary.
Archive for the ‘Latin America’ Category
May 2nd, 2011
Noted development economist Hernando de Soto thinks Wall Street is backsliding into the informal economy of Third World slums.
April 21st, 2011
It’s a long haul, but the criminal justice system in Mexico is moving in the right direction, lots of credit to our students, the Abogados con Cámaras. The injunction against their film has been lifted and everyone is watching it. Including people in high places, más aqui (en español). Did I mention that Negrete and [...]
March 5th, 2011
Everyone knows about the river of blood – criminals’, bystanders’, and good guys’ – flowing in Mexican streets as the country tries to get on top of its drug trafficking problem and the corruption of police and military it has engendered. What’s less well known is the pervasive inability of the criminal justice system to [...]
January 4th, 2011
Category: Drug Policy, Latin America
Spiegel has vivid and gruesome coverage of the continuing violence in Mexico. Several things are clear at this point 1. The violence has become to some extent self-sustaining because several of the cartels are fighting each other. Whether the government ramps up or rolls back its heroic efforts, there will be violence as the cartels [...]
December 11th, 2010
Category: Climate change, Latin America
Trying to work out what was agreed at the Cancun climate change conference.
December 1st, 2010
Category: Foreign Policy, Latin America
As long as Fidel Castro (age 84, his brother Raul is 79) is alive, U.S.-Cuban relations will be largely frozen in their present form, as will many internal aspects of Cuban society. Sometimes individual leaders become their foreign and domestic policies, and when they finally join the choir invisible, massive pent-up changes are suddenly unleashed. [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Dilma Rousseff heads for an easy win.
October 13th, 2010
Category: Brazil, Latin America
Brazilian and Venezuelan electors behaving rationally, unlike American.
March 11th, 2010
A child dies in Rio in a storm: your and my responsibility.
