Memory Protest and Contested Time: The Antimonumentos Route in Mexico City by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Benjamin Nienass

“…In a context of more than 110,000 enforced disappearances and hundreds of thousands of deaths since the start of the “war on drug cartels” in 2006, the Antimonumentos are one of the ways in which memory activists seek to mark significant events of violence and state neglect, and expressly confront both the government and society by voicing public demands for justice, accountability, and non-repetition. …”
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The Potential Threat of the Sinaloa Cartel to Canada by Gurpreet Tung

“…This threat may continue as long as there is financial motivation for drug cartels, such as the Sinaloa cartel to transport fentanyl across borders with the assistance of China. …”
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Quality of Democracy and Game Theory by Rafael Plancarte Escobar

“…Three empirical problems that constitute challenges to the Mexican democratisation process are explored using game theory: a) the 2006 post-electoral context; b) the fight against drug cartels; and c) the collaboration between citizens and cartels. …”
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From WMD to WME: An Ever-Expanding Threat Spectrum by Bowman H. Miller

“…Nation-states are now joined by countless ethno-religious groupings, terrorists, criminals of all stripes, drug cartels, transnational movements and issue groups, and malevolent and delinquent individuals. …”
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Stories of Drug Trafficking in Rural Mexico: Territories, Drugs and Cartels in Michoacán by Salvador Maldonado Aranda

“…While this is understandable in view of the prominence of border area operations of drug cartels, drug trafficking is a pervasive phenomenon in other parts of Mexico as well, not in the least in significant parts of Western Mexico (especially in Guerrero, Colima and Michoacán). …”
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Living with the <i>Narcos</i>: The “Drug War” in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Border Region by Benita Heiskanen

“…During the years 2008-2012, the El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua border region between the United States and Mexico saw a wave of violence that occurred as a result of the so-called “drug war” between the Juárez and Sinaloa drug cartels. As the criminal organizations began recruiting local gangs for their enforcement strategies, the violence soon spiraled beyond the context of the drug trafficking industry, generating mayhem and social decay throughout Ciudad Juárez. …”
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Analysis of México's Narco-War Network (2007-2011). by Jesús Espinal-Enríquez, Hernán Larralde

“…Since December 2006, more than a thousand cities in México have suffered the effects of the war between several drug cartels, amongst themselves, as well as with Mexican armed forces. …”
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O Desenvolvimento Baseado em Conhecimento no Contexto das Cidades: Uma Análise do Caso de Monterrey by Fernanda Rizzon, Ana Cristina Fachinelli, Mayara Pires Zanotto, Misael Paulo Montaña, Edson Fontana da Silva

“…Regarding the limitations of the study, it is important to consider the time cut restricted to 2008 and 2009, which limited the analysis of the case in relation to the most recent events, such as the installation of drug cartels in the city that shaken their plans and strategies. …”
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A compendium of Colombian policing challenges : from Pablo to present by Jeapes, Anthony Christian John Lloyd

“…Contemporary Colombia saw violence continue with peasant revolts in the 1920s and 30s, la Violencia in the 1940s, the formation of the insurgent groups like the FARC and ELN in the 1960s, the creation of drug cartels in the 1970s and their transformation into narco-terrorist groups and then micro traffickers in the 1980s and 1990s. …”
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Comparative Reflections on Community-Oriented Policing (COP) in Post-Conflict Central America by John-Andrew McNeish, Arturo Matute, Erika Rojas Ospina, Hugo Frühling

“…Moves towards more aggressive policing are explained by governments and police forces as a necessary response to the rising threat of gangs and drug cartels and horrifying levels of homicide statistics. …”
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The Colombian indigenous movement and its relationship with the decolonial turn in Latin America by Eduardo Andrés Sandoval Forero, José Javier Capera Figueroa

“…The paradigmatic reality in Colombia has been a great field of analysis and sociopolitical reflection in recent times, marked by the strong presence of a long-term armed conflict, multiple violence practices of hegemonic groups in political power, organizations political-military antisystemic, drug cartels and paramilitary groups of old and new type. …”
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Memory Activism and Mexico’s War on Drugs: Countermonuments, Resistance, and the Politics of Time by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Benjamin Nienass

“…The widespread violence in Mexico by state and nonstate actors since the government launched a military strategy against drug cartels in 2006 has generated demands for justice, including spaces of mourning and commemoration that recognize hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals and migrants from other countries who have been killed or disappeared. …”
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The information game : police-citizen cooperation in communities with criminal groups by Miller, Andrew Cesare.

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Globalization of Ambitions. A Critical Analysis of Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy 2017 by N. P. Gribin

“…In addition, the administration is demonstrating concerns about the activity of international terrorist organizations (jihadist), transnational criminal organizations, drug cartels and cybercrime. Different from previous similar documents, Trump’s Strategy makes an evident accent on economic security as an important part of national security. …”
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Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico by Sandra Ley, Shannan Mattiace, Guillermo Trejo

“…This article explains why some indigenous communities in Mexico have been able to resist drug cartels’ attempts to take over their local governments, populations, and territories while others have not. …”
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Violent crime, public perceptions and citizen security strategies in Colombia during the 1990s by Heeb, A

“…Although many references are made to the conflict between the State, guerrilla groups and paramilitary organisations in rural areas, and to the problem of drug-cartels and illegal-drug production, the main aim of the thesis is to show recent trends in violent crime and discuss citizen security strategies followed during the decade of the 1990s.…”

The end of gunpoint conservation: forest disturbance after the Colombian peace agreement by Paulo J. Murillo-Sandoval, Kristina Van Dexter, Jamon Van Den Hoek, David Wrathall, Robert Kennedy

“…We find that following the peace agreement and the withdrawal of FARC, key actors ( viz. drug cartels, large landowners, campesinos and dissidents) with expectations of favorable land tenure policies swept into the region; this led to increases in large-scale cattle ranching, coca cultivation dispersal, and speculative illegal land markets each of which contributed to the widespread forest disturbance that we mapped. …”
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