scholarly journals Motivations and Implications of Community Service Provision by La Familia Michoacána / Knights Templar and other Mexican Drug Cartels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Shawn Flanigan
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Drug Cartels ◽  
Mexican Drug Cartels ◽  
Knights Templar

scholarly journals Viral Intimacy and Catholic Nationalist Political Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
David Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Spatial Organisation ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
The Republic

Changes in the conduct and regulation of intimacy during the COVID-19 crisis in the Republic of Ireland has uncovered the legacy of Catholic nationalism in Irish capitalism. Many commentators analysed the increased welfarism and community service provision as the suspension of Irish neoliberalism. In fact, the Irish COVID-19 response is shaped by a longer tradition of political and economic approaches that have their genesis in the revolutionary Catholic state following independence from Britain. Based on ethnography of community development practices in a rural Irish region, the article describes how Catholic nationalist influences are present in the collection of institutions involved in the Community Response and its approach to spatial organisation. The governance of the response also sheds light on a lack of intimacy between citizen and state that is not only the product of neoliberal structural adjustments but is uniquely characteristic of the Catholic ethos that influences Irish capitalism.

scholarly journals A Network Flow Model of the Complex Illicit Trafficking Network Operating in the El Paso-Juarez Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Armando Pena ◽  
Elizabeth Schott
Keyword(s):  
Network Flow ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Border Patrol ◽  
Network Flow Model ◽  
Drug Cartels ◽  
Mexican Drug Cartels ◽  
Illicit Trafficking

In 2013, El Paso, TX, was selected for the third time in a row by the Congressional Quarterly Press as the number one safest city with a population over 500,000 people (Borunda, 2013).  Just across its border though, sits Ciudad Juarez, considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. There is a unique social ecosystem between the two cities, a product of many years of shared history and traditions. The El Paso-Juarez area also happens to be one of the most valuable plazas for the Mexican Drug Cartels. According to BBC Mundo, the Sinaloa Cartel has won the El Paso-Juarez territory over the Juarez Cartel and the Zetas (Najar, 2012). Consequently, now that the territory is dominated by one cartel, drug trafficking through the area will likely increase and smuggling through border crossing check points will continue to be more prevalent. The purpose of this research effort is to assist the Border Patrol in allocating its resources towards improved interdiction of illicit trafficking. Whether it is manpower, money, technology, or any other resource, the Border Patrol desires to efficiently allocate to maximize interdiction. This analysis is intended to suggest a tool that will assist in allocating resources and aid the extremely important effort to maintain El Paso, TX, as the safest city in the U.S. by keeping drugs away from the streets. This research presents a network flow model of the complex illicit trafficking network operating in the El Paso-Juarez area, and provides insight that will aid such agencies as the Border Patrol in allocating its resources.

Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 900-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Trejo ◽  
Sandra Ley
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Drug Cartels ◽  
Criminal Protection ◽  
Antidrug Campaign ◽  
Mexican Drug Cartels ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Political Alternation

This article explains why Mexican drug cartels went to war in the 1990s, when the federal government was not pursuing a major antidrug campaign. We argue that political alternation and the rotation of parties in state gubernatorial power undermined the informal networks of protection that had facilitated the cartels’ operations under one-party rule. Without protection, cartels created their own private militias to defend themselves from rival groups and from incoming opposition authorities. After securing their turf, they used these militias to conquer rival territory. Drawing on an original database of intercartel murders, 1995 to 2006, we show that the spread of opposition gubernatorial victories was strongly associated with intercartel violence. Based on in-depth interviews with opposition governors, we show that by simply removing top- and midlevel officials from the state attorney’s office and the judicial police—the institutions where protection was forged—incoming governors unwittingly triggered the outbreak of intercartel wars.

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