Latin American Program in the News: "Narcotráfico y el daño en el corredor"
Former Latin American Program Fellow Steven S. Dudley's contribution to the Latin American Program's report "Organized Crime in Central America: The Northern Triangle" is referenced in this article about the effects of drug trafficking in transit countries through which drugs are smuggled from producer to consumer countries. This article is in Spanish.
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"Los países corredor no están bien equipados para combatir el narcotráfico, ni sus organismos de represión, ni sus sistemas judiciales, ni la solidez de sus estructuras del Estado. Hay tanto dinero de por medio, que con relativa facilidad logran corromper sociedades enteras, gobiernos, sistemas policiales, judiciales, niños, jóvenes y familias enteras, que matan porque pase esa droga y se matan entre sí por el control de territorios que al final es dinero.
Según el reporte de Steven Dudley, del Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, en un documento extenso llamado “Crimen organizado en Centroamérica, el Triángulo Norte”, se analiza con cifras la relación entre las organizaciones que trafican drogas (DTO, en inglés) y los transportistas que solo transportan, en el Triángulo Norte.
Afirma el estudio que esas organizaciones han penetrado diferentes estratos de los Estados, Policía, Ejército, aduanas, fiscales, jueces, sistemas carceleros y la protección de las más altas instancias."
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To read the entire article in Spanish, click here.
The Latin American Program report cited in the article, "Organized Crime in Central America: The Northern Triangle," is available in English here.
About the Author
Steven Dudley
Co-Director, InSight Crime
Steven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime and a senior research fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In 2020, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), a winner of the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. Dudley is the former bureau chief of the Miami Herald in the Andean Region and the author of Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Miami for National Public Radio and the Washington Post, among others. He holds a BA in Latin American History from Cornell University and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
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