CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

A seizure may last only a few hours. The routes that brought the cocaine there, decades. Some of the structures that made its journey possible, centuries. A journey into the depths of drug trafficking through the lens of Fernand Braudel.

Architecture and urban planning can address territorial violence through care, land regulation and community life. Feminist urbanism proposes safer, more equitable and livable cities built around everyday life and collective needs.

Selling a confiscated asset can recover money. Returning it to society can mean much more: reclaiming territory, rebuilding communities, and transforming what was once a source of criminal power into public value.

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.

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

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