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These Mexican Business Leaders Asked for Higher Taxes to Fight Crime. Did It Work?

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A small but meaningful initiative in Mexico shows how the private sector can help address crime.

Call Now to Save Your Life: A Colombian Experiment in Homicide Prevention

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An innovative new program identifies potential murder victims — and whisks them away before it’s too late.

How the Business World Can Help Stop Latin America’s Violence

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A small but meaningful initiative in Mexico shows how the private sector can help address crime.

Against the Tide: Why It’s So Hard to Stop the Violence in Brazil

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In a murder-plagued Brazilian city, a legislator pushes against popular clamor for hard-line enforcement.

Brazil Spends Billions on Public Security. Why Is Violence Getting Worse?

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A new study shows that violence costs Brazil more than 4 percent of GDP. Here’s how security policy could be more cost-effective.

Death, Tragedy and Hope in Rio de Janeiro

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The response to a politician’s murder may be a turning point in finding a way out of Rio’s crisis.

The Good News About El Salvador

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Twenty-six years since the end of civil war, El Salvador – and its neighbors – are making fragile progress on violence.

Colombia’s Peace Needs a Local Touch

Leer en español At the heart of Colombia’s peace agreement with the FARC is an earnest effort to improve life in its long neglected countryside. A series of national programs for education, health, electrification, housing and credit for the agricultural sector, built into the agreement, are designed to help close a woeful development gap between … Read more

Wanted: A (Sane) Brazilian President Who Can Stop the Violence

Ler em português RIO DE JANEIRO – The most vital Twitter feed here these days is called Onde Tem Tiroteio, or “Where There Is a Shootout.” One recent afternoon, in a span of just a few hours, it sent these alerts to its 36,000 followers: “Shots heard in Botafogo, near Santa Marta and Cobal. Attention … Read more

Why a ‘Great Wall’ Won’t Stop the Cross-Border Gun Trade

This article is adapted from AQ’s 2017 special report on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. 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 Trump’s plan … Read more

Targeting “Hot Spots” Could Drastically Reduce Latin America’s Murder Rate

Leer en español | Ler em português In Bogotá, just 1.2 percent of street addresses account for 99 percent of homicides. In Medellín, 40 percent of all crimes occur in just 10 hours of the 168-hour week. Perhaps more than any other part of the world, homicide in Latin America is concentrated by time and place … Read more

Three Top Challenges for Brazil’s Next Foreign Minister

José Serra’s tenure as Brazil’s Minister of Health from 1998 to 2002 was highlighted by a successful effort to overcome the resistance of U.S. pharmaceutical giants and provide Brazilians with universal access to generic AIDS drugs, a move that saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Serra was unable to make such a significant mark in … Read more

A Familiar Pattern of Violence Could Threaten Colombia’s Peace Process

Implementing peace was always going to be harder than negotiating it. But in the three months since Colombia’s Congress endorsed a deal to end more than 50 years of conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s fragile peace process has already been put to a chilling test. Since Dec. 1 of … Read more