El conflicto armado en Colombia y el narcoestado mexicano. Un análisis comparado.
- Rios-Sierra, Jerónimo 1
- Brocate-Pirón, Roberto 1
- 1 Investigador Doctorando en Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales Universidad Complutense de Madrid
ISSN: 2174-9515
Year of publication: 2012
Issue Title: Colombian armed conflict and the Mexican narco-state. A comparative analysis
Volume: 2
Issue: 13
Pages: 1-23
Type: Article
More publications in: GIGAPP: Estudios Working Papers
Abstract
The fundamental purpose of the following lines is to show the status of the current issue of the armed conflict in Colombia based on the strengthening of the State in recent years thanks to the implementation of instruments that have become effective, such as the Democratic Security Policy of the Uribe Administration or Plan Colombia resulting from the Pastrana-Clinton agreement in 1999 and continued throughout the past decade. A similar situation exists in Mexico, where drug trafficking cartels have caused the weakening of State structures and, since 2006, there has been an exponential growth in violence and crime. The objective is to show how, at present, the Colombian conflict is in a position in which new advances and successes of the substance and scope of recent years seem difficult to repeat. The scenarios in dispute have a strong presence of the illegal armed groups so that, perhaps, it is time to opt for new strategies, such as cross-border cooperation, which may represent a new horizon of opportunities for new conquests by the State.