Just five years ago, Ecuador was still considered one of the safest countries in Latin America. Now, there is a brutal war playing out between criminal gangs and the state.
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New research finds Australian industries are becoming concentrated with greater power to charge high prices. Unlike US firms, Australian firms are not required to report merger plans to authorities.
Why is the $50 million going to the government and not to those who overpaid for bread? The answer is complicated.
There’s no excuse for colluding not to complete on fees, but the time-consuming and complicated bidding process for design work encourages it.
Put bluntly, Australian businesses as a whole appear to have become slow to adopt world best practice. But if we want to lift productivity, we need to act on a wider suite of solutions.
New Zealand has criminalised cartel behaviour. But by offering leniency to whistleblowers, the new rules are undermined.
The industry’s prices and profits would be lower if laws were enforced.
Shared ownership means Australian industries are far more concentrated than traditional metrics suggest.
A lethal turf war between drug traffickers has terrorized Buenaventura, Colombia for months. Now protesters are demanding the government’s help to protect people in this mostly Black city.
Government policies and dangerous conditions affect the ability of researchers working on both sides of the US-Mexico border to conduct scientific fieldwork.
A researcher who fled crime-beset Mexico returns to interview the drug cartels behind so much of the violence, asking 33 ‘narcos’ everything about their lives, from birth to their latest murder.
The conviction of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who evaded justice in Mexico, is a win for US officials. But it’s a pyrrhic victory in the war on drugs.
October 2017 was Mexico’s deadliest month on record.
The successful prosecution of the first criminal cartel case may be seen as a vindication of the decision to criminalise cartel conduct.
The level of corporate fines for anti-competitive conduct in Australia is woefully below international benchmarks.
OPEC’s recent decision to cut supply is a classic move from the oil cartel playbook. But in today’s era, there are many more players and game-changing technologies on the field.
Money and resources in Latin America often don’t reach those who need them most – and criminal gangs are on hand to take advantage.
With anti-corruption feeling at an all-time high, a populist comedian has swept to power in Guatemala, while Brazil’s president is facing furious calls for impeachment.
Both Netflix’s Narcos and the documentary Cartel Land fall into the trap of sensationalising violence and in doing so horribly simplify the story.
As Mexico limbers up for a national poll, its neglected and corrupt institutions are unable to curb a terrible wave of violence.
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in International Business, Birkbeck, University of London
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Reader in Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, and Director, Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Research professor, Universidad Iberoamericana, University of Bath
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Founder & CEO, The University of Western Australia
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Reader in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool
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Visiting research fellow, Australian National University
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Lecturer (Teaching) for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Professor of Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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PhD Candidate in Security and Crime Science at University College London (UCL), UCL
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Associate Staff Scientist, University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica de Chile
