The Road to Hemispheric Cooperation: Beyond the Cartagena

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Figure 1.1 World Homicide Rate 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Southern Africa Central America South America West and Central Africa East Africa Source: Geneva Project Secretariat, World Report on Violence and Health, 2008 2 Caribbean Eastern Europe North Africa Improving law enforcement institution building. International cooperation efforts that focus on training programs for the region’s police and judicial authorities are one way to fight widespread impunity, one of the most important incentives for crime activity in LAC countries. Fighting corruption. Increasing accountability and transparency at all levels of government should be at the core of any integral initiative toward increasing security in the Americas. Thinking seriously about the military’s role. It is crucial that countries in the hemisphere engage in a meaningful conversation on the military’s proper role—if any—in the fight against crime, particularly organized crime, in a functional democracy. Increasing the state’s coordinated presence in violent areas. One of the most serious hindrances to World Middle East and Southern West Africa security in the region is the presence of “failed spaces,” which are territorial spaces in which the state’s writ has ceased to rule or never existed. The most violence-ridden places require massive and coordinated state presence, organized under the leadership of task forces that work in conjunction with the community. Limiting gun trafficking. The region needs to make significant strides to regulate transfers of small weapons across borders, and even more efforts to revamp national laws regarding gun possession that are generally permissive and/or poorly enforced. Combating money laundering. While the drug business is extremely profitable, anti-money laundering efforts have not been at the top of the regional agenda. It is critical to jointly look for the “money trail” and fight all types of informal economic activities that are financed by drug trafficking organizations. The Road to Hemispheric Cooperation: Beyond the Cartagena Summit of the Americas The Brookings Institution ❘ Latin America Initiative 60 Central Asia North America Oceania Southern Asia Southwest Europe Eastern Asia Central Europe
Figure 1.2 Homicide rates in Latin America, 2011 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 3.7 5.5 6.1 4.6 Chile Argentina Rethinking the “war on drugs.” It is high time to reevaluate the cost efficiency of the traditional approach of the so-called “war on drugs,” which is heavily slanted toward interdiction and destruction of illicit crops. Instead, there should be a meaningful evidence-based hemispheric debate on the most effective and efficient options to mitigate the harm that drugs and drug trafficking inflict on societies. Enhancing social inclusion. A hemispheric agenda against crime ought to include more focus on social, economic, cultural and political inclusion. The Context Uruguay Source: UNODC, 2011 Cuba 18.1 21.6 Mexico Panama 11.3 Costa Rica Latin America’s democratization process and increasingly robust economic development are threatened by pervasive criminal violence and some of the factors that lie beneath it. Latin America remains one of the most violent regions in the world—by some measures the most violent 49 Venezuela 5.2 Peru 18.2 22.7 Ecuador Brazil 33.4 one. During the past decade alone, 1.4 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) lost their lives as a result of violent crime. For two decades all available figures put the rate of intentional homicide in the region above 20 per 100,000 inhabitants, practically tripling the figure for the world as a whole. According to the latest global estimate, in the year 2004 only sub-Saharan Africa showed comparable figures to those of LAC (see Figure 1.1). 1 Regional murder figures hide, however, a surprisingly heterogeneous reality. In Latin America, some of the world’s highest murder rates, such as those in Venezuela, Colombia and especially the northern region of Central America, coexist today with relatively low rates in the Southern Cone’s countries. While in 2011 Honduras recorded the world’s highest murder rate (82 per 100,000 people), 16 times higher than that of the United States and 45 times above that of Canada, 3 Chile’s rate was, in fact, similar to The Road to Hemispheric Cooperation: Beyond the Cartagena Summit of the Americas The Brookings Institution ❘ Latin America Initiative 61 Colombia 24.9 Dominican Republic 66 El Salvador 11.5 8.9 Paraguay Bolivia 82.1 Honduras 13.2 Nicaragua 41.4 Guatemala 10.4 World Average 2 OECD Average 23.5 LATAM Average
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