The Conversation, Robert Muggah, 28/06/2017 In the 1990s, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia province Medellin had one of the world’s highest-ever recorded murder rates: 380 homicides per 100,000 people. After national authorities wrested control of the city’s poorest communities from paramilitaries, mayor Sergio Fajardo
USA Today June, 2017 The new system works like this: Officers download the CopCast app on a smartphone, and supervisors download a desktop version. Officers can strap the phone onto their chest and hit a button to start recording audio and video, which can be streamed
The Globe and Mail – ROBERT MUGGAH Published Jun. 17, 2017 The world is buckling under multiple pressures, including climate change, inequality, migration, pandemics and terrorism. Yet, at precisely the moment collective action is most pressing, international co-operation is coming unstuck. Twentieth-century supranational entities such
The Guardian – Maria Beatriz Nogueira and Maiara Folly Brazil is failing to respond to one of the most serious forced migration crises in decades. The economic and political maelstrom in neighboring Venezuela has forced thousands of people to flee into Brazil in search of
[El Clarin. Alejandra Sánchez y José Luis Pardo] En América Latina sólo vive el 8% de la población mundial, pero es la región más violenta del planeta, con 400 asesinatos diarios. En Argentina se cometen siete por día. Sergio Vicente Goulard está desnudo sobre una
Bloomberg View – Data mapping offers cops the chance to leapfrog not just criminals, but a stodgy bureaucracy. By Mac Margolis June 9, 2017 Whenever violent crime gets out of hand in Rio de Janeiro, as it frequently has, the public glare has fallen on
06 Jun 2017 Robert MuggahResearch Director, Igarapé Institute The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one
Earth TimeLapse, an interactive platform created by global security expert Robert Muggah and Carnegie Mellon University researchers, shows those risks in a new light.
VIOLENCIA – Caracas encabeza la lista con 130,35 homicidios por cada 100.000 habitantes Latinoamérica 31 MAY 2017 – 04:56 BRT TERESA GARCÍA ALCARAZ ¿Quién está al mando? La violencia y el riesgo de defender en América Latina Especial Ciudades espejo Fórmulas para una ciudad de
Pacifista! May, 2017 Este domingo 28 de mayo se cumple un año de la intervención en la zona de “la L”, también conocida como El Bronx. Cuatro meses antes de que la Alcaldía de Bogotá dirigiera el operativo, el comandante de la Policía de Bogotá
Open Society Foundations May, 2017 Earlier this month in Culiacán, Mexico, according to a report from the New York Times, the veteran journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, chronicler of the drug cartel–fueled violence that today ravages large swaths of Mexico and Latin America, was murdered. He
Business Insider May, 2017 In the US, your risk of death due to terrorism is roughly 1 in 46,000. Around the world, that rate can vary wildly. In an attempt to visualize those global risks, Carnegie Mellon researchers teamed up with Robert Muggah, a global security expert
Razón Pública May, 2017 Por Katherine Aguirre, pesquisadora de Instituto Igarapé Incumplimientos de todos los lados El día clave del proceso de paz será el jueves 1 de junio: ese día es el número 180 de la que dimos en llamar “implementación” del Acuerdo Final,
The Colombian Post May, 2017 ‘Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America’ Inequality is the key issue in Latin America, along with education. Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America – such as Carlos Slim
WEForum May, 2017 President Trump’s administration has made repeated claims that its proposed immigration bans are meant to stop the flow of refugees across US borders. But what does that flow actually look like compared to the rest of the world? Global security expert and
DW May, 2017 El presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, llega este 17 de mayo a Washington para su primer encuentro oficial con Donald Trump. Los temas a tratar están cantados: paz en Colombia, lucha contra el narcotráfico, inversión después del conflicto, comercio y, desde luego, Venezuela.
Business Insider May. 2017 President Trump’s administration has made repeated claims that its proposed immigration bans are meant to stop the flow of refugees across US borders. But what does that flow actually look like compared to the rest of the world? Global security expert
The Guardian May, 2017 The Brazilian authorities have been accused of turning a blind eye to a human rights crisis following a sharp rise in the number of killings by police. In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty International said Brazil had not done enough
Americas Quarterly April, 2017 That Mexico’s drug cartels get their firepower from the United States is no longer much of a mystery. Even President Donald Trump has acknowledged that the U.S. should do more to curb the flow of arms across its southern border. But
Defense One April, 2017 Brazilian-made weapons – whether firearms, ammunition or cluster munitions – are turning up with alarming frequency in some of the world’s most fragile countries. This is not so surprising; Brazil has ranked among the top global producers of small arms and
Devex April 7, 2017 Latin American and the Caribbean accounts for only 8 percent of the world’s population but it is responsible for 37 percent of the world’s homicides, making it the world’s most violent region not at war. To date, this data hasn’t translated into
WEF April 7, 2017 If yesterday was about analysing the challenges facing the region, today was about coming up with solutions. Here are some of the highlights from the final day of the World Economic Forum on Latin America. The secret to a more productive
RFI April 6, 2017 Brazil is on the sidelines of today’s wars, but at a Rio defense fair this week the South American gentle giant eagerly sought to sell weapons to anyone else who may need to fight. Brazilian companies account for 150 of the
The Economist March 31, 2017 COCAINE is grown primarily in South America, and trafficked to the world’s biggest market, the United States, via Central America and the Caribbean. The land routes originate mainly in Colombia, and pass through the small nations of El Salvador, Honduras
PRI March 29, 2017 Brazil has a murder problem. It also has a gun problem. Both could get worse if some Brazilian lawmakers have their way. One out of 10 homicide victims around the world each year is a Brazilian. Most of the roughly 60,000
Al Jazeera March 27, 2017 Manaus, Brazil – It was early evening on January 1, 2017, when Maria heard that a riot was under way at Complexo Penitenciario Anisio Jobim (COMPAJ) – the prison where her two sons Antony, 27, and Antonio, 22, were being held. Maria – an
WEForum March 27, 2017 The global migration debate is sharpening. There is widespread alarm over the explosion of refugees – which reached 21.3 million people in 2016 – together with growing angst over economic migrants. Today, at least one in 33 people on the planet
Las 2 Orillas March 24, 2017 Mientras decenas de negociadores en la mesa de La Habana intentaban llegar a puntos de acuerdo en la complicada agenda de terminación del conflicto, el enfoque de género fue un punto de común acuerdo entre grupos que han estado
America’s Quarterly March 24, 2017 Focusing on the cities, neighborhoods – even streets – where crime recurs doesn’t just displace violence. A special report from the Igarapé Institute. In Bogotá, just 1.2 percent of street addresses account for 99 percent of homicides. In Medellín, 40 percent
Weapons of Reason 7 de Março “From where I sit here in Latin America, I think this continent is a harbinger of what’s to come in Africa and Asia. It has come out of an era of autocratic governance, is going through its third wave
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