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An industrial geography of cocaine

Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their business operations are deeply integrated within the economic and political systems of countries throughout the region. Because the drug trade confers clear economic benefits to parts of Latin America, local authorities are often reluctant to attack the industry at its roots.The widespread adoption of market-oriented economic reforms has re-drawn the region's economic, political, and social landscape.The model of the cocaine industry presented in this research is schematic and conceptual rather than formulaic. It is inspired by a catholic view of modeling that sees them as structured syntheses of data, rather than as formal laws or equations.

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  • "Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their business operations are deeply integrated within the economic and political systems of countries throughout the region. Because the drug trade confers clear economic benefits to parts of Latin America, local authorities are often reluctant to attack the industry at its roots.The widespread adoption of market-oriented economic reforms has re-drawn the region's economic, political, and social landscape.The model of the cocaine industry presented in this research is schematic and conceptual rather than formulaic. It is inspired by a catholic view of modeling that sees them as structured syntheses of data, rather than as formal laws or equations."@en
  • "Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their business operations are deeply ingrained within the economic and political systems of countries throughout the region. While criminal enterprises operate in a more complex and uncertain setting than licit firms, their competitive success is determined in fundamentally similar ways. Models developed by geographers to explain the spatial behavior of licit multinational firms are profitably applied here to the operations of drug trafficking operations."@en
  • "Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their business operations are deeply integrated within the economic and political systems of countries throughout the region. Because the drug trade confers clear economic benefits to parts of Latin America, local authorities are often reluctant to attack the industry at its roots. The widespread adoption of market-oriented economic reforms has re-drawn the region's economic, political, and social landscape. Drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) have responded to these challenging conditions far more successfully than the region's licit firms, which have had little success to date in international markets. Expanded international flows of goods and capital offer DTOs numerous opportunities to exploit licit channels to move product and profits across borders. Such opportunities reflect a fundamental tension between economic liberalization and drug prohibition, the policy regimes most deeply influencing the cocaine trade. The model of the cocaine industry presented in this research is schematic and conceptual rather than formulaic. It is inspired by a catholic view of modeling that sees them as structured syntheses of data, rather than as formal laws or equations."@en

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