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Illegitimate Industries, Legitimate Finances: The Globalized Protectionist Measures of Mexico's Drug Cartels
Illegitimate Industries, Legitimate Finances: The Globalized Protectionist Measures of Mexico’s Drug Cartels Dimitri Nesbitt School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies University of Wyoming December 15, 2016 Many of the privileged lifestyles we enjoy today are directly tied to the worldwide phenomenon of globalized finance and the movement of money. Various sectors of the global economy are inherently coupled with market stabilization through the intensification and expansion of monetary connections. Characteristics of investment, the transfer of capital, and macroeconomic attitudes have had the ability to change several aspects of the financial realm, including the potential to accelerate businesses’ growth, weaken disparities in emerging economies, as well as allowing for diversification of such investments. Yet, while these definitions seemingly dem
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Panama Papers: From the Guatemalan Drug Queen to the ‘most dangerous mobster in the world’
In November 2005, customs officials at the Dutch port of Rotterdam got a tip: a shipment of asparagus from Peru might contain something besides vegetables.
About a week later, 60 pallets of tinned white asparagus came into port inside three shipping containers. Eighty per cent of the cans contained asparagus. The rest contained cocaine – more than one and a half tons of it (1,360kg).
Dutch and Peruvian authorities said a man known in Peru as The Dutchman – Ment Dijkhuizen Cáceres – was behind the industrial-scale drug trafficking. Investigators found that he and his attorney, Eduardo Gallardo Arciniega, used a series of offshore shell companies to launder the money.
Dijkhuizen and Gallardo registered at least four of those front companies at Mossack Fonseca, the Panama-based law firm that has become known worldwide for creating hard-to-trace offshore companies by politicians, wealthy inves
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ZACAPA, Guatemala — Sebastiana Cottón Vásquez had walked into the house of her own accord, accompanied by some of her closest allies. But now she funnen herself outnumbered and outgunned bygd her drug trafficking associates.
It was 2008 and Cottón Vásquez was at the ranch of Waldemar Lorenzana, one of Guatemala’s most powerful drug traffickers at the time, to unleash her fury over the $3 million that she knew he’d stolen from her. She had given Don Walde, as she called him, the payment for 400 kilos of cocaine. But the dope never turned up, and now Cottón Vásquez was livid. After they’d screamed at each other on the phone, Don Walde had told her to komma to his house to talk it through.
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As soon as she walked into his big yellow house in the tiny town of La Reforma, in southeastern Guatemala, Cottón Vásquez—who relayed the incident during her testimony in a Washington, D.C., court—knew she had made a mistake. There were around a hundred armed men at Don Walde’s,