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Dangerous Liaisons - Organized Crime and Political Finance in Latin America and Beyond (Paperback)
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Dangerous Liaisons - Organized Crime and Political Finance in Latin America and Beyond (Paperback)
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The relationship between criminal syndicates and politicians has a
long history, including episodes even from the earliest years of
America's colonies. But while organized crime may not get the
headlines it once did in North America, the resurgence of such
criminal activity in Latin America, and in some European nations,
has grabbed the public's attention. In Dangerous Liaisons noted
scholars describe and analyze the role of organized crime in the
financing of politics in selected democracies in Latin America
(Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico) and in Europe
(Bulgaria and Italy). The book seeks to unravel the myths that have
developed around crime in these locales, while providing facts and
informing the debate on how organized crime corrupts democratic
institutions, especially in relation to the funding of political
parties and their activities. Among the subjects studied in detail
are the role of organized crime in political finance through the
lens of Argentina's presidential campaigns of 1999 and 2007;
Brazil's elected officeholders and their role in corruption; the
weakness of Colombia's democracy; the growing role of money in
Costa Rica's politics; the destructive effects of drug money on
Mexican institutions; the link between organized crime - narrowly
and broadly understood - and political financing in Bulgaria; and
crime and political finance in Italy. The work of the scholars
corrects what volume editor Kevin Casas-Zamora calls "a glaring gap
in the literature on the role of organized crime in the corruption
of democratic institutions". That is, the funding of political
parties and their activities - which in these cases are mostly
election campaigns. The chapters not only present the evidence but
also can be regarded as a call to action. Contributors include
Leonardo Curzio (CISAN/UNAM), Donatella della Porta (European
University Institute), Delia Ferreira Rubio (a member of the
international board of directors of Transparency International),
Mauricio Rubio (a researcher at the External University of
Colombia), Daniel Smilov (Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia),
Bruno Wilhelm Speck (University of Campinas), and Alberto Vannucci
(University of Pisa).
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