CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

Born to control the security forces, the Ministry of Security never succeeded in developing a comprehensive strategy. Its origins, limitations, and challenges in confronting organized crime.

Violence is not evenly distributed: it follows the structure of the market. Between Mexico and Argentina, that difference reveals two distinct forms of organization within the same global chain.

From the fields of Sicily, the social reuse of confiscated goods became one of the most innovative policies. Today it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Drug trafficking no longer depends on large cartels: technology and the circulation of know-how enable a decentralized model in which small actors produce and sell drugs.

The decentralized production of synthetic drugs transformed the logic of the drug war.

How the State’s fragmented and uncoordinated response to drug trafficking resembles the Luddite logic: destroying instruments without transforming structures.

The debate on the age of criminal responsibility requires evidence, institutional capacity, and victim support — not urgent responses without real ability to implement them.

Organized crime, exception, and power: an analysis of how security becomes a political argument in contemporary democracies.

Since the 21st century, global crises have entrenched a politics of fear that cut rights and weakened democracy; in Latin America, drug trafficking revives old forms of interference.

Fentanyl made it possible to reduce costs, expand supply, and massify consumption. When pain becomes a business and turns into an opportunity.

Data, attention and desire: Big Tech turns private life into a commodity and shapes consumption, politics, culture and organized crime.