Books written by Enrique Desmond Arias
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Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
... of a working class neighborhood reported to Alonso Salazar, a former journalist and later mayor: In '85, during the excitment of the peace agreements with the Belisario [Betancur] government, the M-19 people arrived in the barrios .
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Violent Democracies in Latin America
The contributors to this collection take the more nuanced view that violence is not a social aberration or the result of institutional failure; instead, it is intimately linked to the institutions and policies of economic liberalization and ...
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Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's ...
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Cocaine: From Coca Fields to the Streets
... What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2006–2016. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Mintz, Sidney. 1986. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. Morrison, Shona. 1997. “The Dynamics of ...
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Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book examines security in three cities that suffer from chronic violence: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Medellin, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica.