Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
Author: Enrique Desmond Arias Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press Keywords: Popular Drugs ISBN: 0807857742
Book description Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview research in three favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro over a nine-year period, Arias closely considers the social interactions and criminal networks that are at the heart of the challenges to democratic governance in urban Brazil.Much of the violence is the result of highly organized, politically connected drug dealers feeding off of the global cocaine market. Rising crime prompts
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