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Fall 2022
53:4

October 2022

Carta de la presidenta
por Margarita López Maya

DOSSIER: CRIMINAL GOVERNANCE IN LATIN AMERICA: EMERGING AGENDAS
Guest editors: David Smilde and Camilo Nieto-Matiz

Criminal Governance in Latin America: Emerging Agendas
by David Smilde and Camilo Nieto-Matiz
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Puzzling Pervasiveness and Persistence of Criminal Governance
by Benjamin Lessing
Gobernanza criminal en la Caracas post-Chávez
por Verónica Zubillaga
El gobierno criminal en el encierro y desde las cárceles
por Marcelo Bergman
Dilemas y posibilidades de negociar con grupos criminales en América Latina
por Angélica Durán-Martínez
Dynamics of Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: The CRAC-PC System in Southern Mexico
by Guillermo Trejo and Shannan Mattiace
Deepening Democracy under Criminal Governance? Comparative Insights from Mexico City
by Eduardo Moncada

Article

From Bad to Worse: Behind the Scenes of El Salvador's “War on Gangs”
by Jenna Knapp

News from LASA

The Ben Kohl Scholarship Fund of the LASA Bolivia Section
by Linda Farthing

In Memoriam

Remembrance of Rosamel Millaman Reinao
by Charles R. Hale
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