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This book examines security in three cities that suffer from chronic violence: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Medellin, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica. In each, democratic states contend with subnational armed groups that dominate territory and play important roles in politics even as they contribute to fear and insecurity. Through a nested three-city six-neighborhood analysis of the role of criminal groups in governance, this research provides a deep understanding of the impact of crime on political experience. Neighborhoods controlled by different types of armed actors, operating in the same institutional context, build alliances with state officials and participate in political life through the structures created by these armed actors. The data demonstrate the effects criminal dominance can have on security, civil society, elections, and policymaking. Far from reflecting a breakdown of order, varying types of criminal groups generate different local lived political experiences

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, this work examines the problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. It argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, this work examines the problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. It argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption.

Introduction: The moral economy of the cocaine trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi -- The white factory : coca, cocaine, and informal governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi -- Tracing cocaine supply chains from within : illicit flows, armed conflict, and the moral economy of Andean borderlands / Annette Idler -- Drug crops, twisted motorcycles, and cultural loss in indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-León -- From Corumbá to Rio : an ethnography of trafficking / Robert Gay -- Border, ghetto, prison : cocaine and social orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes -- Drug cartels, from political to criminal intermediation : The Caballeros Templarios' mirror sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison -- Of drugs, tortillas, and real estate : on the tangible and intangible benefits of drug dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- "A very well-established culture" : cocaine market self-regulation as alternative governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser -- Visible and invisible "cracklands" in Brazil : moral drug commerce and the production of space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990-2017) / Taniele Rui -- The violence of the American dream in segregated US inner-city narcotics markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos, and Fernando Montero -- Shifting south : cocaine's historical present and the changing politics of drug war, 1975-2015 / Paul Gootenberg -- Conclusion. Responding to cocaine's moral economies / Enrique Desmond Arias.

The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both maintain order and earn profits. Whether discussing the moral economy of coca cultivation in Bolivia, criminal organizations and drug traffickers in Mexico, or the routes cocaine takes as it travels into and through Guatemala, the contributors demonstrate how entire ways of life are built around cocaine commodification. They consider how the authority of state actors is coupled with the self-regulating practices of drug producers, traffickers, and dealers, complicating notions of governance and of the relationships between economic and moral economies. The collection also outlines a more progressive drug policy that acknowledges the important role drugs play in the lives of those at the urban and rural margins.
Contributors. Enrique Desmond Arias, Lilian Bobea, Philippe Bourgois, Anthony W. Fontes, Robert Gay, Paul Gootenberg, Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, Thomas Grisaffi, Laurie Kain Hart, Annette Idler, George Karandinos, Fernando Montero, Dennis Rodgers, Taniele Rui, Cyrus Veeser, Autumn Zellers-León

Violent pluralism : understanding the new democracies of Latin America / Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein -- The political and economic origins of violence and insecurity in contemporary Latin America : past trajectories and future prospects / Diane E. Davis -- End of discussion : violence, participatory democracy, and the limits of dissent in Colombia / Mary Roldán -- -- Maintaining democracy in Colombia through political exclusion, states of exception, counterinsurgency, and dirty war / María Clemencia Ramírez -- Clandestine connections : the political and relational makings of collective violence / Javier Auyero -- "Living in a jungle" : state violence and perceptions of democracy in Buenos Aires / Ruth Stanley -- Organized violence, disorganized state / Lilian Bobea -- Toward uncivil society: causes and consequences of violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay -- Violence, democracy, and human rights in Latin America / Todd Landman -- Conclusion : understanding violent pluralism / Enrique Desmond Arias.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Case Studies -- 1. The Origins of Southern California Latino Gangs -- 2. Street Gangs of El Salvador -- 3. Street Gangs of Guatemala -- 4. Street Gangs of Honduras -- 5. Street Gangs of Nicaragua -- Part II. Responses to Gang Violence -- 6. State Power and Central American Maras: A Cross- national Comparison -- 7. Government responses and the Dark Side of Gang Suppression in Central America -- 8. Elite Membership and Sexualized Violence among Central American Gangs -- 9. the Use of Intelligence to Combat Maras -- 10. the Impact of U.S. Anti- gang Policies in Central America: Quo Vadis? -- Conclusion: The Dilemma of Fighting Gangs in New Democracies -- Notes -- Glossary -- List of Acronyms -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index