CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

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.