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2 days ago · Despite the Mexican government’s high-profile arrests, such as that of Ovidio Guzmán, son of the notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, these efforts have remained sporadic and largely symbolic. They failed to disrupt the cartels’ operations or fentanyl production and trafficking in any significant way.
Jun 4, 2021 · Drug Cartels, Politics, and Violence in Mexico. drug lords broke with their modus operandi in 2007 and began to attack local elected officials and political candidates. The strategic decision by Mexican drug cartels to assassinate local government officials and politicians in the past 15 years has been surprising, to say the least.
Sep 1, 2021 · To estimate the causal effect of drugs on public corruption, we adopt the synthetic control method and exploit the fact that crack cocaine markets emerged in California in 1981, before reaching any other U.S. state. Our results show that public corruption more than tripled in California in the first three years following the arrival of crack ...
- Alessandro Flamini, Babak Jahanshahi, Kamiar Mohaddes
- 2021
Drug lords can benefit from political corruption and patronage, by contributing donations to political candidates, and/or by colluding with political candidates to rig elections in their favor, through vote buying and/or voter intimidation, in exchange for political favors. After such candidates are elected, they use their power to reward the drug lords, who supported them.
Oct 23, 2017 · This article assesses the impact of drug cartels in Mexico, a country that has witnessed an unprecedented expansion of cartels and wave of drug-related violence since mid-2000. Using the difference-in-difference kernel matching method, the article finds that the areas most plagued by drug-related violence suffered a steep decline in production, profits, salaries, the number of businesses and ...
Aug 5, 2024 · Summary. Mexican drug cartels are leading suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other illicit narcotics to the United States. The cartels and the drug trade fuel rampant corruption ...
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Mar 3, 2013 · Drug trafficking, drug-related violence and drug-related corruption have come to dominate Mexican politics in the late 2000s. Most consider corruption central to both the illicit trade and to the government’s war on it. But such relationships have yet to be fully examined and raise a number of questions. This paper explores the links among these variables. The opening section grapples with ...
