Cuba
cyber-crime
D-Company
Daesh (Arabic name for ISIL/ISIS)
beheadings
Dabiq (magazine)
funding
and Hezbollah
jihadist pornography
origins of
recruitment
in Syria
Daily Journal, The (Neumann family newspaper, later The Latin American Herald Tribune)
DDR (demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration)
del Rosario Fuentes, Ramón Antonio (“Toño Leña”)
Dhakane, Ahmed Muhammed
Diallo, Amadou
diamonds
Diáz, Porfirio
document forging
Dodd-Frank Act (US)
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), US
Dubai
Burj Khalifa
Jebel Ali Free Zone Area (JAFZA)
Eaton, Chris
Ecuador
Eder, Alejandro
Egypt
Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)
El Aissami Maddah, Tareck Zaidan
El Salvador
el-Shukrijumah, Adnan
ELN. See Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)
Empresas Polar
Escobar, Pablo
bombing of Avianca Airlines Flight 203
Los Pepes (people persecuted by Pablo Escobar)
European Economic Area (EEA)
extortion
Extraditables, Los (The Extraditables)
extradition
Farah, Doug
FARC. See Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Ferreira, Marcos
FIFA. See International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), US Treasury
Foley, James
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Fox, Vicente
France
Direction Générale de Securité Exterieure (DGSE)
Paris attacks (2015)
Franco, Carlos
Fraser, Douglas
Free Shia movement
free trade
ALBA
Colón (Panama)
free trade zones
Jebel Ali Free Zone Area (JAFZA)
NAFTA
Gambia, Republic of The
Gates, Robert
Gemayel, Bachir
Global Acetate Manufacturers Association (GAMA)
global financial crisis
Global War on Terror
globalization
Glover, Danny
Gómez, Servando (“La Tuta”)
gray economy
Grygiel, Jakub
Guardian, The
Guatemala
Gucci
Guerreros Unidos (“United Warriors” or “United People of Guerrero”)
Guinea-Bissau
Gulf (cartel)
Gulf War
Gunaratna, Rohan
Guzmán, “El Chapo”
H1N1 (avian flu)
Hamas
Hammoud, Mohamad
handbags, counterfeit
Hariri, Rafic
hawala (informal money transfer system)
Helfstein, Scott
Hermès
heroin
Hezbollah
and car bombs
and cigarette smuggling
and cocaine
and identity
and Iran
and money laundering
and Syria
and trade
Hobbes, Thomas
Homeland Security, US
Honduras
Hong Kong
hostis humani generis (“enemy of humankind”)
Howard, Chris
HSBC
human smuggling
human trafficking
Humire, Joe
Hussein, Saddam
Ibrahim, Dawood
identity narratives
illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP). See also tobacco
immigrants, illegal
immigration and customs enforcement (ICE)
India
intellectual property
International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition
International Center for Sport Security (ICSS)
International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)
International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS)
International Monetary Fund
International Rebellion
Interpol
Iran
and Arbabsiar plot
Farsi
and Hezbollah
Islamic Revolution
nuclear program
Qom
Quds Force
and Venezuela
Iran-Contra affair
Iran-Iraq War
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
Iraq
Al Mahdi Army
Ba’ath Party
US invasion of
Isa Conde, Narciso
Islam
abaya (full-body robe)
burqa (full head and body robes)
de-radicalization
hadith
hijab (head scarf)
Koran
Muhammad (the Prophet)
niqab (black veil that covers entire face, leaving only slit for eyes)
Ramadan
Sharia (Islamic law)
Islamic Caliphate. See also Daesh
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant/Syria (ISIL/S). See Daesh (Arabic name for ISIL/ISIS)
Islamism, militant
and counterfeit sporting goods
and Daesh
growth of
and illicit trade
militant
radicalization
Israel
Jafar, Khalid
Jeishy, Hassan
jihadism
Jiménez, Aref Richany
Jiménez, Timoleón (alias “Timochenko”)
Jokan, Mandhai
Joumaa, Ayman
Juárez (cartel)
Jubeir, Adel al-
Kabboul, Fadi
Kan’an, Fawzi
Kangas, Roger
Kassar, Monser al-
Kazakhstan
keffiyeh (sheikh’s headdress)
Kelly, Ray
Khamenei, Sayyid Ali Hosseini
Khans (Mongolian emperors)
Chinggis (Genghis) Khan
Kublai Khan
kidnapping
Kingpin Strategy
Knights Templar (cartel)
Kourani, Mahmoud Youssef
Kuwait
La Familia Michoacana (cartel)
La Nueva Familia (cartel)
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
latifundios (rural estates)
Lebanese Canadian Bank (LBC)
Lebanon
Baalbek
Beirut
Beirut bombing (2013)
Beqaa Valley
Christian Phalange Party
Dahieh
Now Lebanon (online publication)
See also Hezbollah
Leviathan (Hobbes)
Liberia
Libya
lithium
“lone wolves”
Lord, Fred
Loret de Mola, Carlos
Los Zetas (Mexican cartel)
Louis Vuitton
Louverture, Toussaint
Luna, David
LVMH
M-4
M-16
Ma’arouf, Jamal
Machado, Maria Corina
Madrid bombings (2004)
Maduro, Nicolás
Mafia
California Mexican
Israeli
Italian
Japanese
and loyalty
and RICO
Texas Mexican
Magda, Yunus
&nb
sp; Mahdi, Imam
Mahdi Army, Al
Makhlouf, Rami
Makled, Walid
Malverde, Jesús
Mandel, Robert
Manwaring, Max
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)
marijuana
Maronite Catholics
Marquéz, Iván
Marxism
Marzouk, Mousa Abu
May, Theresa
MBR-200. See Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200 (MBR-200)
Medellín (Colombian cartel)
Medina, Pablo
Melzer, Susan
Mendoza, Lorenzo
mens rea (intention to commit a crime)
methamphetamine
Mexico
Ciudad Juárez
Justice in Mexico Project
Mérida Initiative
Tamaulipas
“Tortilla Riots”
Miami, Florida
militarization
Milne, Sevmag
Moncada, Samuel
money laundering
definition of
and Hezbollah
process of
and sport corruption
and travel agencies
MoneyGram International Inc.
Mongolia
Moore, Michael
Morales, Evo
Morales, Treviño
Moreau, Jean-Luc
Morocco
Morris, Erik
Mossack Fonseca (law firm)
Mouawad, Robert
Mouride Brotherhood (Confrérie des Mourides)
Moyo, Dambisa
MS-13. See Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13)
Mughniyah, Imad
multiagency swarm (counterterrorism tactic)
Muslim Brotherhood
narcocorrido (song that glorifies drug cartels)
narcocultura (criminal culture of drug cartels)
narcohackers
narcomanifestaciones (protests in favor of cartels)
narcomantas (banners with threatening messages)
narcomensaje (messages left on dead bodies)
narco-rap
narcoterrorism
Nasr Al-Din, Ghazi
Nasrallah, Hassan
Nasser, Mustafa Satmariam (nom de guerre, Abu Musab al-Suri)
natural disasters
Nawabi, Shahla
Neumann, Vanessa
Asymmetrica
Central Asia Counter Transnational Threats Symposium
family of
“Global Convergence of the Crime-Terror Threat, The”
at International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS)
“my kids” (young Venezuelan university students)
National Defense University
student at Columbia University
teacher at Hunter College
Vanessa Neumann, Inc. (later Asymmetrica)
Nijmeier, Tanja
Noble, Ronald K.
“noble savage” myth
Noguera, Jorge
Norte del Valle (cartel)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). See also free trade
North Coast (cartel)
North Korea
Northern Ireland
Northern Triangle
Notorious Markets List
Novartis (pharmaceutical group)
Núñez Fabrega, Fernando
Obama, Barack
Odeh, Youssef
OECD. See Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD)
Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), US Treasury
Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD)
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Guidance on Conflict Minerals
Illicit Trade
Task Force on Charting Illicit Trade (later Countering Illicit Trade)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Ould Kablia, Daho
Padilla, José
Pakistan
Palmer, Larry
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing
Panama
Agua Dulce
Colón
Islamic Foundation of Panama
mosques in
Panama City
Panama Canal
Panama Papers
Passports to Terror (CNN investigation)
Patriot Act (US)
Pax Mafiosa
PDVSA (Petroleum of Venezuela)
Peña Nieto, Enrique
Penn, Sean
Pereira, Colin
Pérez, Carlos Andrés
Pérez Henao, Diego (aka “Rastrojo”)
Peru
Petkoff, Teodoro
Petraeus, David
pharmaceuticals
Coartem case
counterfeit
falsified medicines
illicit trade
Plan Colombia (counternarcotics program)
Plan Patriota (counterinsurgency program)
plata o plomo (silver/money or lead/bullet)
populism
Porter, Michael
positive externality
poverty
Putin, Vladimir
Qaddafi, Moammar
Qatar
Quinn Emanuel (law firm)
Rabbani, Mohsen
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
Rahbani, Ziad
Rangel Silva, Henry
Rawley, Chris
refugees
resource curse (paradox of plenty)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
and “bomb necklaces”
FARC-EP
funding
and Hezbollah
and human rights violations
Law 002 (“war tax” law)
and money laundering
and oil
Red Urbana Antonio Nariño (RUAN, Antonio Nariño Urban Network)
Reyes, Raúl
Robin Hood narrative
Rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs)
Rodríguez, Alí
Rodríguez Chacín, Ramón
Rodriguez Zapatero, José Luis
Russia. See also Soviet Union
Rx North
Saba, Samira
Sabbagh, Radwan
Sadr, Moqtada Al
Samper, Ernesto
Santokhi, Chan
Santos, Juan Manuel
Sao Paulo Forum (1990)
Saudi Arabia
Arbabsiar plot
banks
Schaan, Joan Neuhaus
Secret Airstrip
Securities and Exchange Commission (US)
Senegal
September 11, 2001
shadow facilitators
Shakuri, Gholam
Sharia (Islamic law)
Sierra Leone
Silk, Katie
Sinaloa (cartel)
Singapore
Sixtus IV, Pope
slavery
Smith, Lee
Snitch, The
Société Generale Bank of Lebanon (SGBL)
Somalia
Al-Barakat
Al Shabaab
Mogadishu
Mogadishu suicide bombings (July 2016)
Sotloff, Steven
South of the Border (film)
Soviet Union. See also Russia
sport corruption
and counterfeiting
and economics
forms of
ghost matches
and International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)
match-fixing
statelessness, power of
Stone, Oliver
Stratton, Richard
Strempler, Andrew
Strong Horse politics
subject matter experts (SMEs)
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
and cigarette smuggling
and Daesh
Damascus
&nb
sp; Latakia
and Lebanon
Raqqa
Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation
Tajeddine, Ali
Tal Cual (“Just So”; newspaper cofounded by Neumann’s grandfather)
Taliban
tax evasion
tax havens
taxation
on cigarettes
and Daesh
and FARC
and money laundering
and safe passage
“war tax” on drug crops
Thailand
thawb (white robe-dress worn by men)
Tijuana (cartel)
tobacco
British-American Tobacco
cellulose acetate tow
Chinese black market
contraband cigarettes
illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP)
illicit white cigarettes (smuggled but not counterfeit)
and Mokhtar Belmokhtar (“Mr. Marlboro”)
Operation Smokescreen
Philip Morris
and taxation
Todd, Brianne
transnational crime
Trump, Donald
Turkey
Ukraine
ummah (Muslim community)
United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Zayed Mosque
See also Dubai, United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
and European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
London Olympics (2012)
National Crime Agency
and National Defense University conference
National Health Service
United Nations
Convention Against Corruption
Global Fund
Globalization of Crime, The
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
United States Southern Command
United States Trade Representative (USTR)
United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT)
Urabeños (criminal gang)
Uribe, Alvaro
Uribe, Mario
Uruguay
USAID
Utopia
Vance, Cyrus R.
vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs, car bombs)
Venezuela
Barinas
Biblos Travel Agency
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)
Bolivarian Continental Coordinator
Bolivarian Continental Movement
Bolivarian Liberation Forces
Bolivarian Revolution
Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200 (MBR-200)
Caracas
Caracas Country Club
CVG Ferrominera (state-owned mining company)
DISIP (intelligence service, later SEBIN)
Hilal Travel Agency
International Development Bank (BID, Banco Internacional de Desarrollo)
National Bolivarian Police (PNB)
Orinoco Belt
Quds Force
Shia Islamic Center
See also Chávez, Hugo
Venezuelan Military Industries Company (CAVIM)
Verstrynge, Jorge
Vietnam War
Villiger, Marco
Violencia, La
violent nonstate actors
Wachovia Bank
Wade, Abdoulaye
Waked, Nidal
Wall, David
Waltz, Michael
warfare, generations of
Warner, Jack
Watergate scandal
Weber, Max
Weekly Standard, The
Werlen, Thomas
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