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Blood Profits

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by Vanessa Neumann


    9.  Don Winslow, “El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis,” Esquire, August 9, 2016. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el-chapo-cartels-don-winslow/?curator=MediaREDEF

  10.  Beittel, p. 16.

  11.  Ibid., p. 24.

  12.  Max Manwaring, “Gangs and Cartels in Coalition and Conflict: The Insurgency Phenomenon in Mexico” in The Hybrid Threat: Crime, Terrorism and Insurgency in Mexico, HPSI Issue Brief (Washington, D.C. and Carlisle, PA: George Washington University and US Army War College, December 2011), p. 128.

  13.  Beittel, p. 8.

  14.  Ibid., citing Steven Dudley, “Police Use Brute Force to Break Crime’s Hold on Juárez,” InSight Crime: Organized Crime in the Americas, February 13, 2013, p.17. Mexican newspapers such as El Diario reported more than three hundred homicides a month in 2010, when the violence peaked.

  15.  Doug Farah, “Central America’s Dangerous Actors: The Convergence of Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism and Extra-Regional Actors” (IBI Consultants: September 2013), p. 10.

  16.  Cardash, Cilluffo, and Tussing, p. 18.

  17.  DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration: 1990–1994 (Washington, D.C.: Drug Enforcement Administration Museum), p. 77

  18.  Beittel, p. 28.

  19.  Helfstein and Solomo.

  20.  Ibid., p. 80.

  21.  Jay S. Albanese, Transnational Crime and the 21st Century: Criminal Enterprise, Corruption and Opportunity (New York: Oxford UP, 2011), p. 137.

  22.  Chayes, p. 24.

  23.  Ibid., p. 40.

  24.  Gupta et al. (2011), cited in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, CleanGovBiz: Integrity in Practice (Background Brief) (Paris: OECD, 2014), p. 3.

  25.  OECD, CleanGovBiz, p. 3.

  26.  Bernadette O’Hare, Innocent Makuta, Naor Bar-Zeev, Levison Chiwaula, and Alex Cobham, “The Effect of Illicit Financial Flows on Time to Reach the Fourth Millenium Development Goal in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Quantitative Analysis,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 107, number 4 (2014), p. 151.

  27.  Albanese, p. 133.

  28.  I thank Prof. Thomas Pogge for this insight, in emailed communications.

  29.  OECD, CleanGovBiz, p. 3.

  30.  Chayes, p. 41.

  31.  Ibid., p. 69.

  32.  Ibid., p. 43.

  33.  Ibid., pp. 184–85.

  34.  Ibid., p. 63.

  35.  Ibid., p. 62.

  36.  According to Loret at his Americas Society talk. In his first eighteen months in office, Peña Nieto also managed to reform education, the telecommunications sector (much to the consternation of Carlos Slim, the world’s wealthiest man), and energy, and imprisoned El Chapo Guzmán (though his subsequent escape via a vast tunnel has hurt Peña Nieto’s credibility) and the head of the teachers’ union.

  37.  To date, the biggest security program pertaining to the threat coming from Central America is the Mérida Initiative, which has cost approximately $1.3 billion over the last three years. While the program was originally designed to provide specific equipment and training to the government of Mexico and assist it in developing the tools to confront the cartels, the partnership has evolved, such that the program is now guided by a strategy that aims to: “1) disrupt the capacity of organized crime to operate; 2) institutionalize reforms to sustain rule of law; 3) create a 21st century border structure; and 4) build strong and resilient communities.” http://www.centerforhumanrights.org/PFS_Petition/Ex56_MeridaOverview-Jul15.pdf

  38.  Beittel, p. 7.

  39.  Ibid., p. 1.

  40.  Ibid., p. 25.

  41.  http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/10/opinion/bergen-petraeus-legacy/

  42.  Jonathan Weil, “Cocaine Cowboys Know Best Places to Bank,” Bloomberg, August 2, 2012.

  43.  Albanese, p. 108.

  44.  http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/aml_history.html

  45.  OECD, Illicit Trade, p. 248.

  46.  https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-renews-real-estate-geographic-targeting-orders-identify-high-end-cash

  47.  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves-1-9b-drug-money-laundering-accord

  48.  Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “HSBC to Pay Record Fine to Settle Money-Laundering Charges,” New York Times, December 11, 2012. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/hsbc-to-pay-record-fine-to-settle-money-laundering-charges/

  49.  Farah, p. 9.

  50.  Devlin Barrett and Christopher M. Matthews, “BNP News Settlement with US for up to $9 Billion,” The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2014.

  51.  Cardash et al., in Hybrid Threat, p. 21.

  CHAPTER 12

    1.  Cardash et al., Hybrid Threat, p. 48.

    2.  Helfstein and Solomo, pp. 83–84.

    3.  Albanese, p. 2.

    4.  Ibid., p. 3.

    5.  National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002), p. 3. https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/63562.pdf.

    6.  Robert Mandel, Dark Logic: Transnational Criminal Tactics and Global Security (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2011), p. 26.

    7.  Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime: Letter from the President, July 19, 2011. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nsc/transnational-crime/letter

    8.  Helfstein and Solomo, pp. 64, 73–77.

    9.  Ibid., 61.

  10.  Doug Farah, “Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States in Latin America: An Emerging Tier-One National Security Priority,” US Army War College, August 2012.

  11.  Albanese, p. 46.

  12.  Helfstein and Solomo, p. 89.

  13.  Jakub Grygiel, “The Power of Statelessness,” Policy Review, Hoover Institution, April and May 2009, p. 36.

  14.  Beittel, pp. 18–19.

  15.  Helfstein and Solomo, pp. 19–20

  16.  Beittel, p. 20.

  17.  Ibid., p. 22.

  18.  Helfstein and Solomo, p. 12.

  19.  United States House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management, A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border, 112th Congress, 2nd Session, November 2012, p. 13.

  20.  Max Manwaring, Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries and Other Modern Mercenaries: New Dynamics in Uncomfortable Wars (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010), p. 65.

  21.  Ibid., pp. 26–27.

  22.  McCaffrey, p. 5.

  23.  US Department of Justice press release, October 11, 2011, www.justice.gov.

  24.  Asher and Modell, p. 9.

  25.  Ibid., p. 22.

  26.  http://www.khou.com/story/news/2014/07/11/11315838/

  27.  http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100602_al_shabaab_threats_united_states#ixzz2JftT48U5

  28.  Dawn L. Bartell and David H. Gray, “Hezbollah and Al Shabaab in Mexico and the Terrorist Threat to the United States,” Global Security Studies 3, number 4 (Fall 2012), p. 109.

  29.  Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation,” in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, pp. 77–128 (New York: Oxford UP, 1946), p. 77.

  30.  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-05-15/putin-tries-to-freeze-the-ukraine-conflict

  31.  McCaffrey, pp. 7–8.

  CHAPTER 13

    1.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfC1MqzoO7w, accessed on March 8, 2017.

    2.   Beittel, p. 26.

    3.   http://time.com/3954802/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-escape/

    4.   http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/08/26/20080826narcobeer0823.html

    5.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
_in_the_Mexican_Drug_War

    6.   Rohan Gunaratna and Aviv Oreg, The Global Jihad Movement (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), pp. 394–95.

    7.   Ibid., p. 399.

    8.   Ibid., pp. 401–03.

    9.   Ibid., pp. 408–09.

  10.  Hassan Hassan and Michael Weiss, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (New York: Regan Arts, 2015), pp. 174–75.

  11.  Ibid., p. 177.

  12.  Ibid., p. 176.

  13.  Ibid., p. 170.

  14.  M. W. Zackie, “An Analysis of Abu Musab al-Suri’s ‘Call to Global Islamic Resistance,’” Journal of Strategic Security 6, number 1 (2013), p. 1.

  15.  Gunaratna and Oreg, pp. 386–87.

  16.  Zackie, p. 9.

  17.  https://www.ft.com/content/b8234932-719b-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a

  18.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/16/isis-empire-smuggling-shakedowns-donations-feed-swelling-terror-budget.html

  19.  Karl Marx, “The German Ideology” in The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd ed. edited by Robert C. Tucker (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978), p. 163.

  20.  George Orwell in David Miller, On Nationality (New York: Oxford UP, 1999), p. 37.

  21.  Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), p. 66.

  22.  Milan Svolik’s The Politics of Authoritarian Rule (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012) is the locus classicus for this theory.

  INDEX

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  Abbotabad papers (found during Osama bin Laden raid)

  Abdel-Rahman, Omar

  Abdulla, Miskal Al

  Abu Dhabi

  Acebes, Angel

  Achille Lauro hijacking

  Acosta Carles, Luis Felipe

  Aeroterror (“Terror Air”)

  Aeterni Regis (King Eternal, papal bull)

  Afghanistan

  and Daesh

  and drug trade

  and jihadism

  and land mines

  mujahideen

  Taliban

  US invasion of

  Ahmad, Nazem Said

  Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud

  AK-47

  Al-Amine, Ali

  Al Qaeda

  Al Qaeda in Iraq

  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

  Al Shabaab

  Albanese, Jay

  Algeria

  Angola

  anti-narcocorrido (song that denounces violence and corruption of drug cartels). See also narcocorrido

  Aponte Aponte, Eladio

  Appiah, Kwame

  Apple

  Arab Spring

  Araujo, Álvaro

  Araujo, Maria Consuelo

  Arbabsiar plot

  arepa (corn patties)

  Argentina

  AMIA bombing (Buenos Aires, 1994)

  Israeli embassy attack (Buenos Aires, 1992)

  Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association

  arms dealing

  arms smuggling

  arms trafficking

  Arria, Diego

  Assad, Bashar, al-

  Assad, Hafez al-

  Assad regime (Syria)

  assassination

  and Arbabsiar plot

  and Los Zetas

  of Rafic Hariri

  asymmetric (fourth generation) warfare

  Asymmetric Warfare Group (US Army)

  Asymmetrica (Neumann’s company)

  AUC. See Colombia: United Colombian Self-Defense Forces (AUC)

  avian flu. See H1N1 (avian flu)

  Awlaki, Anwar al-

  Azerbaijan

  Aznar, José Maria

  bacrim (criminal gangs)

  Baghdadi, Abu Bakr Al

  Bank Secrecy Act

  Bassiur, Matthew

  Bate, Roger

  beheadings

  Belmokhtar, Mokhtar (“Mr. Marlboro”)

  Benedict XVI, Pope

  Betancourt, Ingrid

  Bin Hammam, Mohamed

  bin Laden, Osama

  Birkin bags

  Blatter, Sepp

  Blazer, Chuck

  BNP Paribas SA

  Boko Haram

  Bolívar, Simón

  Bolivia

  Bonilla Orozco, Maximiliano

  Botero, Fernando

  Bout, Viktor

  Bouterse, Dino

  Brazil

  Bruck, Bill

  Burberry

  Bush, George W.

  Cabezas, Hugo

  Café de la Reconciliación, El (Reconciliation Coffee)

  Calderón, Felipe

  “Calderón’s War”

  Cali (cartel)

  Call to Global Islamic Resistance, The (GIR)

  Campbell, Naomi

  Canadadrugs.com

  Cano, Alfonso

  capital flight (money leaving a country)

  Cárdenas Guillén, Mario (“El Gordo”)

  Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)

  Cartel of the Suns

  cartelitos (minicartels)

  cartels

  Arbabsiar plot

  and convergence of crime-terror pipeline

  “big four”

  and fourth-generation warfare

  economics of

  and gangs

  and identity

  recruitment

  and smuggling

  See also specific cartels

  Carvajal, Hugo

  Cash, Bill (Neumann’s former father-in-law)

  Cash, William (Neumann’s ex-husband)

  Castro, Fidel

  Catholicism

  Center for a Secure Free Society

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Chanel

  Chávez, Hugo

  1992 coup attempt by

  1998 presidential election

  2002 coup against

  2004 recall referendum

  2007 constitutional referendum

  2009 constitutional referendum

  and ALBA

  and anti-semitism

  and celebrities

  Chavismo (ideology of Chávez)

  Chavistas (Chávez supporters)

  and corruption

  death of

  and elected dictatorship

  and elections

  and FARC

  and Hezbollah

  and ideology and power

  and International Rebellion

  and Iran

  and jihadism

  La Chavera (family estate)

  por ahora (for now) motto

  and trade and terrorism

  Chayes, Sarah

  Chelsea Holdings

  China

  Alibaba

  Beijing

  “China, Inc.”

  and counterfeit goods

  Great Leap Forward

  Guangzhou

  hutongs (old neighborhoods with narrow streets)

  and Mongolia

  Olympics (2008)

  People’s Liberation Army (PLA)

  Silk Road market

  triads (criminal networks)

  cigarettes. See tobacco

  Citgo Petroleum Corporation

  Coartem (antimalarial drug)

  Coca Growers of Putumayo

  cocaine

  and Escobar

  and FARC

  and Guatemala

  and Hezbollah

  and Mexico

  and Miami

  and money laundering

  retail markup

  and United Kingdom

  and Venezuela

  White Triangle of

  Coffee Growers Federation

  coffee indust
ry

  Cold War

  Collins, Jeffrey

  Colombia

  Armenia

  Bogotá

  and drug trade

  False Positives scandal

  and flattening of terrorist networks

  Heroes and Martyrs of Guática

  Justice and Peace Law

  Law 002 (“war tax” law)

  Medellín (cartel)

  Medellín (city)

  Parapolitical Scandal

  peace process

  Radio Caracol

  United Colombian Self-Defense Forces (AUC)

  and violence

  See also Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

  Columbus, Christopher

  Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)

  communism

  compartmentalization

  Confrérie des Mourides (Mouride Brotherhood)

  Corimon (Neumann family business)

  counterfeiting

  and China

  and money laundering

  and North Korea

  pharmaceuticals

  tobacco products

  and transnational crime

  counterinsurgency

  Creative Associates International

  crime-terror pipeline (CTP)

  and convergence

  and multiagency swarm

  and smuggling

  and the state

  Crino, Scott

 

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