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The Narco-State and Mickey Mouse: An Unresolved Conceptual Problem

*Por Jorge Rolón Luna While dis­agree­ments re­gard­ing spe­cific and op­er­a­tional de­f­i­n­i­tions af­fect many con­cepts, rang­ing from “democ­racy” to “cor­rup­tion” the term “narco-state” is ag­gra­vated by what crim­i­nol­o­gist Stan­ley Co­hen called the “Mickey Mouse” con­cept. ... More »

Neither a Narco-State nor State Weakness, So What Then?

*Por Jorge Rolón Luna Through­out the decades that the drug trade has been ac­tive in Paraguay, the ac­tive in­volve­ment of state agents has be­come ev­i­dent. We’ve seen them traf­fick­ing, fa­cil­i­tat­ing, con­ceal­ing, fi­nanc­ing, as­so­ci­at­ing, and even sell­ing the sus­pens... More »

Between Max Weber and the Narco-State: Is Paraguay a Narco-State?

By Jorge Rolón Luna* The term “narco-state” (NS) has be­come com­mon when it comes to des­ig­nat­ing coun­tries fac­ing se­ri­ous prob­lems such as vi­o­lence, cor­rup­tion, crim­i­nal groups al­legedly con­trol­ling ter­ri­to­ries, and where sec­tors of the po­lit­i­cal class, state b... More »