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Latin American Program in the News: Crime organizado se beneficia de ligações com o poder público na AL

Juan Carlos Garzón

Latin American Program Global Fellow Juan Carlos Garzón is quoted in this article about organized crime in Latin America. This article is in Portuguese.

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"E consiste em um dos principais desafios para os governos, segundo estudo que foi feito em 2012 pelo pesquisador Juan Carlos Garzón Vergara para o Centro Woodrow Wilson e que foi utilizado como base para o texto da Avina. Segundo Vergara, os Estados ainda não encontraram uma resposta eficiente para o problema. Debatem o uso das fórmulas tradicionais de repressão ou de caminhos alternativos."

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"Segundo Vergara, "o crime organizado está passando por mudanças substanciais e constantes na América Latina, posicionando-se como um dos atores mais relevantes do Hemisfério Sul, reconfigurando fronteiras territoriais, assumindo um papel importante na economia, penetrando nas estruturas políticas e sociais e colocando em risco os avanços alcançados na construção do Estado e da democracia"."

Latin American Program Global Fellow Juan Carlos Garzón is quoted in this article about organized crime in Latin America and the current dynamic of and context within which it operates. He also talks about the emergence of local markets for illegal drugs.

This article is in Portuguese.

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About the Author

Juan Carlos Garzón

Juan Carlos Garzón

Former Visiting Scholar;
Security and Conflict Resolution Expert; Former Consultant, United Nations Development Program and Organization of American States
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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more