Jorge Rolón Luna *
Today’s world is ruled by crooks and thieves; moreover, traffickers, pirates and smugglers are reshaping it according to their interests, affecting governments, violating societies and undermining democracies, argue Olivier Bullough and Moisés Naím in recent works. Regarding Olivier’s book (“Moneyland: Why Thieves and Cheats Control the World and How to Take It Back”), novelist John Le Carré has said: “Every politician and moneyman in the world should read it, but they won’t, because this book is actually about them“. And as Moisés Naím says (“Illicit: How smuggling, drug traffickers and piracy challenge the global economy”): “illicit business is first business, then it is illicit”.