Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Biographic Data
| ID | 791858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guadalupe |
| FAMILY NAME | Correa-Cabrera |
| SIGNATURE | CORREA-CABRERA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1995-8457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond the drug war
A Power Elite Alliance and Local Environmental Policy
The present work analyzes several aspects related to the environmental impacts that Elon Musk’s company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has had on Cameron County, Texas. Utilizing prior studies, we will focus on how the power elite impact policy at the federal, state, and local levels, specifically regarding SpaceX’s arrival to Cameron County as well as environmental policy concerning the activities at the SpaceX Starbase facility, locate…
Paradojas del Trumpismo, la Crisis del Fentanilo y la guerra contra los Cárteles
El presente artículo analiza la construcción de un fundamento clave del movimiento (o ideología) al que se le ha denominado “trumpismo” y que se relaciona con la política de drogas de Estados Unidos y su relación con México. En primer lugar, se describen los orígenes de una estrategia antinarcóticos y de seguridad fronteriza planteada por el expresidente Donald Trump en 2017 y amplificada por políticos afines y simpatizantes que consideran una po…
Trumpismo y Relaciones México-Estados Unidos
Estas cinco piezas son material esencial en la discusión sobre el futuro de las relaciones entre dos países de Norteamérica que llevan a cabo elecciones presidenciales en 2024. El trumpismo es un movimiento que definirá el resultado de dichos procesos. Su evolución y la implementación o no de políticas afines afectarán de forma directa los destinos de nuestras naciones y su gente, con o sin Trump
Mexican Money Laundering in the United States
This article explains some of the mechanisms through which corruption by high-level Mexican politicians and other organized crime members is facilitated in the United States through money laundering operations. The analysis is based on information contained in court records related to key money laundering cases, as well as in news articles and reports from law enforcement agencies. These materials highlight the interrelationships among U.S. drug …
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks
The nature of MS-13 in the American context
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Notes on a Perilous Journey to the United States
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Explicando las caravanas migrantes
*
North American Borders in Comparative Perspective during Covid Times
After the partial closure of the Canada-U.S. and Mexico-U.S. borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and considering a new vision of border management that has been evolving since 1994, the face of North American borders is changing today. The future of the Canada-U.S. border will essentially differ from that of the Mexico-U.S. border. The first one might become more tenuous, while the border that divides Mexico and the United States will b…
The Eagle, the Condor, and Exodus
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Assessing the International Influence of Private Philanthropy
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Chronicles of a War Foretold
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Border politics in a global era
Border politics in a global era: comparative perspectives." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 35(2), pp. 315–316
Los Zetas Inc
The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a …
Workers, parties and a “New Deal
Mexico experienced the twentieth century’s first social revolution, a decade of struggle from which emerged a new political regime – a post-revolutionary authoritarian or single-party state one – with President Lázaro Cárdenas as leader by 1934. This post-revolutionary creation included organized labor and peasants, a strong interventionist state and a hegemonic party. Cárdenas’ U.S. counterpart, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, too, was leading …
U.S. Drug Policy and Supply Side Strategies
The illegal drug trade in North America continues to prosper despite a 45-year war on drugs. Border enforcement is a key U.S. policy tool for preventing the flow of illegal drugs, and the U.S.-Mexico border has become the frontline in the war. Several scholars have questioned the ability of states, with their inflexible bureaucracies, tight budgets, and electorates, to effectively stop drug trafficking networks, which have considerable advantages…
Desigualdades y flujos globales en la frontera noreste de México
The present paper analyzes the effects of global flows on socioeconomic inequality in the four Mexican states bordering Texas: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Chihuahua. In particular, this work analyzes the effects of migration, cross-border trade, extraction and trade of hydrocarbons, and transnational organized crime. The results of the present research clearly show higher levels of inequality in the municipalities of greater economic dyn…
Administrative Surveillance and Fear
Fear has struck the people along the U.S.-Mexico border. Government authorities of the two nations have implemented techniques to secure the Rio Grande against drug trafficking, immigration, and terrorism. This article explores the issues and policies that have led to the escalation of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘politics of fear’. Firstly, Mexican and U.S. governmental authorities are examined in the context of their actions agai…
The Phenomenology of Perception and Fear
This article uses an interpretive phenomenological approach to examine the deployment (and perception) of fear in the US–Mexico border region. This region is currently perceived by “others” to be under siege by drug-trafficking organizations, terrorists and undocumented immigrants. However, the inhabitants of this region experience a vastly different reality that is far-removed from the rhetoric of fear often used by politicians to identify and d…
An Introduction to the Multiple US–Mexico Borders
In this, a thematic issue on multiple borders, our goal is to unpack the lengthy border to explore differences and similarities from the western industrialized Tijuana–San Diego Pacific coastal region, the de-populated Sonora–Arizona desert, the densely settled global manufacturing central Paso del Norte site, and the agricultural spaces and smaller urban settlements of South Texas–northeastern Mexico. This thematic volume includes seven articles…
Violence on the “Forgotten” Border
This article explains the high levels of violence on the Mexican side of the Texas–Tamaulipas border. The study finds that the recent violence increase in this region—referred to as the “forgotten border” in this writing—has been the result of the following factors: a new configuration of organized crime in a new democratic era, the separation of the Zetas from the Gulf Cartel, the security strategy of the Mexican government, a stagnant economy, …
Security, Migration, and the Economy in the T exas– T amaulipas Border Region
This article analyzes the effects of M exico's drug war on security, migration, and the economy on the eastern U . S .– M exico border between the state of T exas and the M exican state of T amaulipas. Both sides of the border are analyzed and compared simultaneously. The article shows that the extreme violence that M exico is suffering has benefited U . S . border towns while having a negative impact on T amaulipas. The positive effects of M exi…
The mathematics of Mexico–US migration and US immigration policy
This article analyses some of the ‘numbers’ behind the migration phenomenon and immigration policy design in the USA. The principal aim of this study is to assess the use of quantitative data and analyses, migration statistics and the mass media to support the passage (or justify the failure) of recent key initiatives that affect undocumented or illegal immigration in the USA, in particular immigration originating in Mexico. The study concludes t…
Los Zetas Inc
The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a …
Administrative Surveillance and Fear
Fear has struck the people along the U.S.-Mexico border. Government authorities of the two nations have implemented techniques to secure the Rio Grande against drug trafficking, immigration, and terrorism. This article explores the issues and policies that have led to the escalation of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘politics of fear’. Firstly, Mexican and U.S. governmental authorities are examined in the context of their actions agai…
The Phenomenology of Perception and Fear
This article uses an interpretive phenomenological approach to examine the deployment (and perception) of fear in the US–Mexico border region. This region is currently perceived by “others” to be under siege by drug-trafficking organizations, terrorists and undocumented immigrants. However, the inhabitants of this region experience a vastly different reality that is far-removed from the rhetoric of fear often used by politicians to identify and d…
Security, Migration, and the Economy in the T exas– T amaulipas Border Region
This article analyzes the effects of M exico's drug war on security, migration, and the economy on the eastern U . S .– M exico border between the state of T exas and the M exican state of T amaulipas. Both sides of the border are analyzed and compared simultaneously. The article shows that the extreme violence that M exico is suffering has benefited U . S . border towns while having a negative impact on T amaulipas. The positive effects of M exi…
An Introduction to the Multiple US–Mexico Borders
In this, a thematic issue on multiple borders, our goal is to unpack the lengthy border to explore differences and similarities from the western industrialized Tijuana–San Diego Pacific coastal region, the de-populated Sonora–Arizona desert, the densely settled global manufacturing central Paso del Norte site, and the agricultural spaces and smaller urban settlements of South Texas–northeastern Mexico. This thematic volume includes seven articles…
Notes on a Perilous Journey to the United States
This article examines the interplay between transnational criminal actors (essentially human smugglers), local crime groups, and drug cartels in the phenomenon of trafficking in persons coming from Central America along Mexico’s eastern migration routes. The analysis focuses on sex trafficking, compelled labor for criminal activities, and other forms of labor trafficking. Through qualitative research that involved 336 semistructured interviews wi…
Violence on the “Forgotten” Border
This article explains the high levels of violence on the Mexican side of the Texas–Tamaulipas border. The study finds that the recent violence increase in this region—referred to as the “forgotten border” in this writing—has been the result of the following factors: a new configuration of organized crime in a new democratic era, the separation of the Zetas from the Gulf Cartel, the security strategy of the Mexican government, a stagnant economy, …
Border politics in a global era
Border politics in a global era: comparative perspectives." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 35(2), pp. 315–316
Desigualdades y flujos globales en la frontera noreste de México
The present paper analyzes the effects of global flows on socioeconomic inequality in the four Mexican states bordering Texas: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Chihuahua. In particular, this work analyzes the effects of migration, cross-border trade, extraction and trade of hydrocarbons, and transnational organized crime. The results of the present research clearly show higher levels of inequality in the municipalities of greater economic dyn…
Assessing the International Influence of Private Philanthropy
This article evaluates the international influence of Open Society Foundations (OSF) based on its goals and allocation of resources and takes into consideration the concerns raised by its critics. The study analyzes the objectives of this private philanthropic organization as well as its origins and the goals of its founder, George Soros. By assembling and using an original database, it also provides an overall analysis of all OSF grants assigned…
Transforming Mexico’s energy field
By utilizing the theory of Strategic Action Fields (SAFs), the present article explains how a new meso-level social order seems to have emerged in Mexico as a result of the paramilitarization of organized crime, militarization of security, and the opening of Mexico’s energy sector to private investment. This work describes the transformation of Mexico’s energy field after a process of major constitutional and economic changes that were the conseq…
Political Factionalism in Southern Mexico
This article provides an explanation of major civil upheaval and violent political turmoil – hereinafter referred to as “active political factionalism” – that take place in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. More specifically, this work identifies the main causes of extra-institutional protest politics or uncivil modes of political action that seriously affect political stability and undermine democratic advancement. The analysis focuses on the effects…
The mathematics of Mexico–US migration and US immigration policy
This article analyses some of the ‘numbers’ behind the migration phenomenon and immigration policy design in the USA. The principal aim of this study is to assess the use of quantitative data and analyses, migration statistics and the mass media to support the passage (or justify the failure) of recent key initiatives that affect undocumented or illegal immigration in the USA, in particular immigration originating in Mexico. The study concludes t…
Political Factionalism in Southern Mexico
This article provides an explanation of major civil upheaval and violent political turmoil – hereinafter referred to as “active political factionalism” – that take place in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. More specifically, this work identifies the main causes of extra-institutional protest politics or uncivil modes of political action that seriously affect political stability and undermine democratic advancement. The analysis focuses on the effects…
Mexico's Economic Dilemmas and Democratic Challenges in an Era of Reform
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Security, Migration, and the Economy in the T exas– T amaulipas Border Region
This article analyzes the effects of M exico's drug war on security, migration, and the economy on the eastern U . S .– M exico border between the state of T exas and the M exican state of T amaulipas. Both sides of the border are analyzed and compared simultaneously. The article shows that the extreme violence that M exico is suffering has benefited U . S . border towns while having a negative impact on T amaulipas. The positive effects of M exi…
Administrative Surveillance and Fear
Fear has struck the people along the U.S.-Mexico border. Government authorities of the two nations have implemented techniques to secure the Rio Grande against drug trafficking, immigration, and terrorism. This article explores the issues and policies that have led to the escalation of violence on the U.S.-Mexico border and the ‘politics of fear’. Firstly, Mexican and U.S. governmental authorities are examined in the context of their actions agai…
The Phenomenology of Perception and Fear
This article uses an interpretive phenomenological approach to examine the deployment (and perception) of fear in the US–Mexico border region. This region is currently perceived by “others” to be under siege by drug-trafficking organizations, terrorists and undocumented immigrants. However, the inhabitants of this region experience a vastly different reality that is far-removed from the rhetoric of fear often used by politicians to identify and d…
An Introduction to the Multiple US–Mexico Borders
In this, a thematic issue on multiple borders, our goal is to unpack the lengthy border to explore differences and similarities from the western industrialized Tijuana–San Diego Pacific coastal region, the de-populated Sonora–Arizona desert, the densely settled global manufacturing central Paso del Norte site, and the agricultural spaces and smaller urban settlements of South Texas–northeastern Mexico. This thematic volume includes seven articles…
Violence on the “Forgotten” Border
This article explains the high levels of violence on the Mexican side of the Texas–Tamaulipas border. The study finds that the recent violence increase in this region—referred to as the “forgotten border” in this writing—has been the result of the following factors: a new configuration of organized crime in a new democratic era, the separation of the Zetas from the Gulf Cartel, the security strategy of the Mexican government, a stagnant economy, …
U.S. Drug Policy and Supply Side Strategies
The illegal drug trade in North America continues to prosper despite a 45-year war on drugs. Border enforcement is a key U.S. policy tool for preventing the flow of illegal drugs, and the U.S.-Mexico border has become the frontline in the war. Several scholars have questioned the ability of states, with their inflexible bureaucracies, tight budgets, and electorates, to effectively stop drug trafficking networks, which have considerable advantages…
Desigualdades y flujos globales en la frontera noreste de México
The present paper analyzes the effects of global flows on socioeconomic inequality in the four Mexican states bordering Texas: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Chihuahua. In particular, this work analyzes the effects of migration, cross-border trade, extraction and trade of hydrocarbons, and transnational organized crime. The results of the present research clearly show higher levels of inequality in the municipalities of greater economic dyn…
Workers, parties and a “New Deal
Mexico experienced the twentieth century’s first social revolution, a decade of struggle from which emerged a new political regime – a post-revolutionary authoritarian or single-party state one – with President Lázaro Cárdenas as leader by 1934. This post-revolutionary creation included organized labor and peasants, a strong interventionist state and a hegemonic party. Cárdenas’ U.S. counterpart, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, too, was leading …
Los Zetas Inc
The rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an unprecedented rise in violence and impelled major structural economic changes, including the recent passage of energy reform. Los Zetas Inc. asserts that these phenomena are a direct and intended result of the emergence of the brutal Zetas criminal organization in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. Going beyond previous studies of the group as a …
Transforming Mexico’s energy field
By utilizing the theory of Strategic Action Fields (SAFs), the present article explains how a new meso-level social order seems to have emerged in Mexico as a result of the paramilitarization of organized crime, militarization of security, and the opening of Mexico’s energy sector to private investment. This work describes the transformation of Mexico’s energy field after a process of major constitutional and economic changes that were the conseq…
Border politics in a global era
Border politics in a global era: comparative perspectives." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 35(2), pp. 315–316
Chronicles of a War Foretold
More than a decade after Mexico’s former president Felipe Calderon dispatched the military to wage the so-called war on drugs, current president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador promised change. In his
Explicando las caravanas migrantes
*
North American Borders in Comparative Perspective during Covid Times
After the partial closure of the Canada-U.S. and Mexico-U.S. borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and considering a new vision of border management that has been evolving since 1994, the face of North American borders is changing today. The future of the Canada-U.S. border will essentially differ from that of the Mexico-U.S. border. The first one might become more tenuous, while the border that divides Mexico and the United States will b…
The Eagle, the Condor, and Exodus
This article identifies key actors and explains the strategies they utilized in two recent border events: (1) the protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, and (2) the migrant caravans originating in Central America. The study identifies the systematic use of two legitimizing narratives: (1) the prophecy of the eagle and the condor, and (2) the biblical story of Exodus. The present work advances new directi…
Assessing the International Influence of Private Philanthropy
This article evaluates the international influence of Open Society Foundations (OSF) based on its goals and allocation of resources and takes into consideration the concerns raised by its critics. The study analyzes the objectives of this private philanthropic organization as well as its origins and the goals of its founder, George Soros. By assembling and using an original database, it also provides an overall analysis of all OSF grants assigned…
Notes on a Perilous Journey to the United States
This article examines the interplay between transnational criminal actors (essentially human smugglers), local crime groups, and drug cartels in the phenomenon of trafficking in persons coming from Central America along Mexico’s eastern migration routes. The analysis focuses on sex trafficking, compelled labor for criminal activities, and other forms of labor trafficking. Through qualitative research that involved 336 semistructured interviews wi…
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks
The nature of MS-13 in the American context
By focusing on the case of Northern Virginia (NOVA) and comparing it to the countries of the Central American Northern Triangle, this article argues that, in contrast to the dominant narrative, MS-13 in NOVA is a fragmented criminal organisation without much capacity to engage in sophisticated, transnational criminal activities. This piece “brings the State back in” to show that strong State capacity, grounded in a combination of coercive and inf…
Beyond the drug war
A Power Elite Alliance and Local Environmental Policy
The present work analyzes several aspects related to the environmental impacts that Elon Musk’s company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has had on Cameron County, Texas. Utilizing prior studies, we will focus on how the power elite impact policy at the federal, state, and local levels, specifically regarding SpaceX’s arrival to Cameron County as well as environmental policy concerning the activities at the SpaceX Starbase facility, locate…
Paradojas del Trumpismo, la Crisis del Fentanilo y la guerra contra los Cárteles
El presente artículo analiza la construcción de un fundamento clave del movimiento (o ideología) al que se le ha denominado “trumpismo” y que se relaciona con la política de drogas de Estados Unidos y su relación con México. En primer lugar, se describen los orígenes de una estrategia antinarcóticos y de seguridad fronteriza planteada por el expresidente Donald Trump en 2017 y amplificada por políticos afines y simpatizantes que consideran una po…
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