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A criminal platform for the cocaine trade: Governance mechanisms changing the balance of power in a transcontinental value chain (2025)
Auteur(s) :
FELTRAN, G.
Année
2025
Page(s) :
169-197
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus mots-clés
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
ORGANISATION CRIMINELLE
;
COCAINE
;
PLAQUE TOURNANTE
;
CRIMINALITE
;
PRODUIT ILLICITE
;
TRAFIC INTERNATIONAL
;
ETHNOGRAPHIE
;
ETUDE QUALITATIVE
;
ECONOMIE PARALLELE
Thésaurus géographique
AMERIQUE DU SUD
;
BRESIL
;
BOLIVIE
;
FRANCE
Autres mots-clés
Résumé :
Since 2016, global police data have revealed a significant rise in cocaine production in Latin America, as well as an improvement in the drug's purity, together with more frequent seizures in Europe and sharply increased consumption in Asia, Africa, and Oceania. This article argues that these changes have been driven by an understudied platformization of global cocaine logistics. This article examines the governance mechanisms of this changing trade. It consists of three parts. The first examines the governance structure of an emerging criminal player, the Primeiro Comando da Capital ("First Capital Command" (PCC)). The second introduces the Agência, a PCC regulatory body that manages drug trafficking via a platform model. The third and final part investigates criminal efforts to establish a global, multimodal logistics system; it demonstrates how the cocaine market has become integrated into formal economies and why it challenges existing power structures. The analysis draws on extensive fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2025, including interviews with former drug traffickers, law enforcement officers, and customs officials, as well as quantitative and documentary data on seizures, purity, and violence related to cocaine trafficking. [Author's abstract]
Affiliation :
Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, CNRS/Sciences Po, Paris, France