New Americas Quarterly: The Pandemic’s Big Winner? Transnational Crime
New Americas Quarterly: The Pandemic’s Big Winner? Transnational Crime
COVID-19 has been a bonanza for organized crime. Greater international coordination could ease at least some of the damage.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on transnational organized crime.
Along with Netflix, food delivery services and toilet paper manufacturers, the list of businesses bolstered by COVID-19 also includes organized crime groups Gangs like the Brazil-based First Command of the Capital (PCC, by its Portuguese initials) and Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel are taking advantage of distracted governments and desperate populations to tighten their grip over swathes of the economy, political structures and, often...
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