Brazil's tourist-jammed cities are some of the most violent on the planet. A considerable number of the country's 43,000 annual murders occur on the streets of Sao Paulo, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro. And Brazilian cities are not alone in what might be called a bad neighborhood. The fact is that most major Latin American and Caribbean cities are today plagued by an epidemic of violence. With more than 20 murders per 100,000 people, the regional homicide rate is roughly three times the global average. Many of the larger urban centers -- from Caracas and Ciudad Juarez to Kingston and Port-of-Spain -- register the highest rates of lethal violence in the world.
Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
4 p., The growing violence and instability in Mexico and the Caribbean will clearly demand greater attention from the United States in the future. This conference, held at the University of Pittsburgh campus on October 28-30, 2009 offered an important opportunity to assess these threats, and to consider what can be done to counter them. Includes chapter "Perspectives on the Caribbean."
Klein,Axel (Editor), Day,Marcus (Editor), and Harriott,Anthony (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
London: Zed Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
255 p., In recent years Caribbean countries have responded to US pressure by adopting a coordinated policy of criminalizing ganja and crack cocaine usage. This volume assesses the impact of the policy on a population for whom drug usage has been socially acceptable and provides a warning for policy makers elsewhere.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
273 p., Contents: Drugs and political economy in a global village / Ivelaw L. Griffith -- The globalization of finance: role and status of the Caribbean / Hilbourne A. Watson -- Debt, drugs and structural adjustment in the Caribbean / Richard L. Bernal, Winsome J. Leslie and Stephen E. Lamar -- Ethnicity, the nation-state and drug-related crime in the emerging new world order / John F. Stack, Jr. -- Narco-criminality in the Caribbean / Gary Brana-Shute -- Democracy and political economy in the Caribbean / Clifford E. Griffin -- Drugs and post-intervention political economy in Haiti and Panama / Orlando J. Pérez -- 'Narcodemocracy' or anti-drug Leviathan: political consequences of the drug war in the Puerto Rican high-intensity drug-trafficking area / Jorge Rodríguez Beruff -- Cooperation and conflict in the US-Caribbean drug connection / Trevor Munroe -- Drug prevention and rehabilitation in the Caribbean / Sonita Morin Abrahams -- Fighting the dragon: the anti-drug strategy in Central America / Gabriel Aguilera Peralta -- Multilateral narcotics interdiction measures in the Caribbean / Richard R. Beardsworth -- Regional and global action to combat drugs in the Caribbean / Tim Wren.
