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Organized Crime and Ministries Without Politics
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.

Lucas Manjon


When society took the land away from the mafia
From the fields of Sicily, the social reuse of confiscated goods became one of the most innovative policies. Today it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Lucas Manjon


The Uberization of Drug Trafficking
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.

Lucas Manjon


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

Lucas Manjon


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

Lucas Manjon


The Market of the Brain and the Culture of Illegality
Data, attention and desire: Big Tech turns private life into a commodity and shapes consumption, politics, culture and organized crime.

Lucas Manjon
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