Francisco Thoumi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6150491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Thoumi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Thoumi |
| SIGNATURE | THOUMI F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mexican Drug “Cartels”
The story of Mexico’s drug trafficking and today’s unprecedented violence cannot be told without mentioning the United States. This essay offers a historical analysis of the emergence, evolution, and growing power and influence of Mexican drug organizations exploiting the shadows and gaps of the relationship between the two countries. The groups are dubbed “cartels” though they no longer operate like cartels in the traditional sense. They have be…
Organized Crime in Colombia
Given the high profitability of the illegal cocaine industry, traditional economic models would predict that coca would grow and cocaine be refined in every country that could do so. The concentration of the coca-cocaine industry in Colombia requires an explanation different from the existence of a high illegal cocaine demand. This essay explores the structural and institutional contexts of Colombian society that allowed the illegal drug industry…
Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes
Las negociaciones de paz y la participación de las guerrillas colombianas en el narcotráfico
I. INTRODUCCIÓNDesde que el embajador estadounidense Lewis Tams afirmó, en 1984, que existía una conspiración "narcoguerrillera" (Gugliotta y Leen, 1990; Thoumi, 1994, cap. 4), la relación entre la subversión y el narcotráfico ha sido objeto de debate político, y un elemento más en la compleja amalgama de las negociaciones de paz. El objetivo de este ensayo es explicar la naturaleza y evolución de los vínculos de estos actores ilegítimos, de mane…
Import substitution and beyond
Import substitution and beyond
Las negociaciones de paz y la participación de las guerrillas colombianas en el narcotráfico
I. INTRODUCCIÓNDesde que el embajador estadounidense Lewis Tams afirmó, en 1984, que existía una conspiración "narcoguerrillera" (Gugliotta y Leen, 1990; Thoumi, 1994, cap. 4), la relación entre la subversión y el narcotráfico ha sido objeto de debate político, y un elemento más en la compleja amalgama de las negociaciones de paz. El objetivo de este ensayo es explicar la naturaleza y evolución de los vínculos de estos actores ilegítimos, de mane…
Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes
Mexican Drug “Cartels”
The story of Mexico’s drug trafficking and today’s unprecedented violence cannot be told without mentioning the United States. This essay offers a historical analysis of the emergence, evolution, and growing power and influence of Mexican drug organizations exploiting the shadows and gaps of the relationship between the two countries. The groups are dubbed “cartels” though they no longer operate like cartels in the traditional sense. They have be…
Organized Crime in Colombia
Given the high profitability of the illegal cocaine industry, traditional economic models would predict that coca would grow and cocaine be refined in every country that could do so. The concentration of the coca-cocaine industry in Colombia requires an explanation different from the existence of a high illegal cocaine demand. This essay explores the structural and institutional contexts of Colombian society that allowed the illegal drug industry…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Drug trafficking (2 works) · History and Politics in Latin America (2 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (2 works) · Law (2 works)