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Latin American Economy & Business - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-7430)
REGION: Arrival of the metal-smuggling cartels?
For decades the dominant image of organised crime in Latin America has been that of the drug-running cartel, a powerful and dangerous organisation, sometimes linked to paramilitaries of the far Left and sometimes to those the far Right, which has survived despite a multitude of crop eradication and law enforcement efforts. It is a cliché, but like many clichés, it is also a reflection of reality. What perhaps gets less attention is that organised crime is active in other areas, and one of the biggest is in metals mining.
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