CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

On the streets of Recoleta, sexual exploitation coexisted with tourism, commerce, and state institutions. Through Henri Lefebvre, the story of two brothels reveals how urban space is produced, controlled, and contested.

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.

In the greater Buenos Aires area, territorial disputes between gangs are adding homemade machine guns and a new dimension of violence in San Martín.

Military occupation is no longer the only way to erode sovereignty. In the 21st century, criminal organizations contest authority over territories and force us to think about restoring state authority beyond security and social assistance.

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.