Consumers Beware: The Price of Avocados Is Higher Than You Think
Guest post by Chelsea Estancona and Lucía Tiscornia This post is part of a series on illicit economies,…
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Resisting Coca: How Communities Avoid Narco-economies
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues. When armed conflicts involve illicit economies, they can create special risks for…
An Amnesty Deal for Mexico’s Drug Cartels?
By Brian J. Phillips Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recently said he would consider offering…
State Power and the Visibility of Drug Violence
By Angélica Durán-Martínez “Headless bodies found in Acapulco”. “Nine corpses found hanging from a bridge”. “3 bodies with…
How Repression of Nonviolent Dissidents Backfired on Mexico’s “Imperial Couple”
Guest post by Gina Lei Miller On September 26, 2014, student protesters from the Ayotzinapa teacher’s college were attacked…