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Two men of Mara Salvatrucha showing their tatooed backs (getty images/AFP/Elmer Martinez)

Crime

International crime cartels that deal in drugs, people or weapons use the poverty of local populations to their own ends. Their networks spread across all the continents and have created parallel structures to the state and judiciary. Fighting them is a task that no country can afford to do alone.

Articles

D. Martínez-Amador

An X-ray of Mexican Organized Crime

B. Hervieu

Drug Trafficking: "The Whole System has been Infiltrated"

Interview with J. Torrea

Ciudad Juárez: How Many Deaths for One Gram of Cocaine?

M. van Doornick

Human Trafficking: A High-Profit, Low-Risk Crime

Interview with J. N. Ezeilo

Human Trafficking - Slavery Is not a Term of the Past

D. Späth

A Pirate’s Paradise

E.-M. Verfürth

Nicaragua: Guerilleras Becoming Policewomen

C. Schmitz-Pranghe

Central American Youth Gangs