Between 2005 and 2015, organized criminal groups murdered 209 politicians in Mexico. This paper explains why. It argues that the two interwoven trends of political and criminal pluralization in Mexico fostered the conditions for a new type of criminal violence against politicians. Mexican politicians are now targeted for accepting illicit money as well as for standing up to criminals. Moreover, this violence is evidence of an alarming and persistent pattern in Mexico of politicians enlisting criminal organizations to eliminate their political competition. Using a zero-inflated negative binomial model, this paper shows there is a strong statistical relationship between the increase in assassinations and the increases in political pluralizati...
President Felipe Calderón came to power in Mexico on December 2006 and essentially declared war on M...
The Mexican drug war escalated dramatically since 2007. However, its origin is in the 1990s turf war...
In my Master´s thesis I interpret the conflict in Mexico between organized crime networks and the go...
Between 2005 and 2015, organized criminal groups murdered 209 politicians in Mexico. This paper expl...
This article explains a surprising wave of lethal attacks by drug cartels against hundreds of local ...
The article describes the problem of organized crime in modern Mexico. It addresses the activities o...
The main hypothesis of this paper argues that drug trafficking and organized crime are the main obst...
Criminal violence is one of the top policy concerns among citizens throughout many Latin American co...
This paper seeks to move beyond the general base-level of violence that is regularly present in cart...
Since the 1970s, Mexican and foreign fictions have persistently glamorized Mexican narcotrafficking ...
This study, based on ethnographic analysis, reveals that municipal government elections in Mexico ha...
In the past 10 years in Mexico, more than 100,000 people have been killed in violence related to org...
The following thesis outlines the current social and political situation surrounding organized crime...
Organized crime related violence in Mexico remains at unprecedented levels despite decades of effort...
Grisly cartel violence has plagued Mexico in recent decades, effectively destabilizing its governmen...
President Felipe Calderón came to power in Mexico on December 2006 and essentially declared war on M...
The Mexican drug war escalated dramatically since 2007. However, its origin is in the 1990s turf war...
In my Master´s thesis I interpret the conflict in Mexico between organized crime networks and the go...
Between 2005 and 2015, organized criminal groups murdered 209 politicians in Mexico. This paper expl...
This article explains a surprising wave of lethal attacks by drug cartels against hundreds of local ...
The article describes the problem of organized crime in modern Mexico. It addresses the activities o...
The main hypothesis of this paper argues that drug trafficking and organized crime are the main obst...
Criminal violence is one of the top policy concerns among citizens throughout many Latin American co...
This paper seeks to move beyond the general base-level of violence that is regularly present in cart...
Since the 1970s, Mexican and foreign fictions have persistently glamorized Mexican narcotrafficking ...
This study, based on ethnographic analysis, reveals that municipal government elections in Mexico ha...
In the past 10 years in Mexico, more than 100,000 people have been killed in violence related to org...
The following thesis outlines the current social and political situation surrounding organized crime...
Organized crime related violence in Mexico remains at unprecedented levels despite decades of effort...
Grisly cartel violence has plagued Mexico in recent decades, effectively destabilizing its governmen...
President Felipe Calderón came to power in Mexico on December 2006 and essentially declared war on M...
The Mexican drug war escalated dramatically since 2007. However, its origin is in the 1990s turf war...
In my Master´s thesis I interpret the conflict in Mexico between organized crime networks and the go...