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

Lucas Manjon


A new Odebrecht — powdered and white
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.

Lucas Manjon


It’s the economy, stupid: fentanyl, drugs, and accumulation
Fentanyl made it possible to reduce costs, expand supply, and massify consumption. When pain becomes a business and turns into an opportunity.

Lucas Manjon
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