Carlos Malamud – författare

In some Latin American countries, traffickers equipped with vast resources have corrupted individuals in every aspect of public life, compromising the integrity of entire national institutions - the political system and the judiciary, the military, the police, and banking and financial systems. Moreover, Latin America, like Europe and the USA, has a drug consumption problem. Yet, drug control in Latin America is beset with contradictions. For some Latin Americans, illicit drug production in the form of coca cultivation is a traditional way of life, and has often been an economic bulwark against destitution. Attempts to control the drug trade, while absorbing vast resources, have been largely ineffectual and have had dramatic and unintended consequences. This book analyses the profound consequences that the illicit drug trade has for millions of Latin Americans, and what they imply for domestic policy and for international cooperation. Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade is essential reading for students of Latin America, politics, international relations, security studies, foreign policy, economic development, criminology and law, and for anyone interested in the politics and economics of the global illicit drug trade.

In some Latin American countries, traffickers equipped with vast resources have corrupted individuals in every aspect of public life, compromising the integrity of entire national institutions - the political system and the judiciary, the military, the police, and banking and financial systems. Moreover, Latin America, like Europe and the USA, has a drug consumption problem. Yet, drug control in Latin America is beset with contradictions. For some Latin Americans, illicit drug production in the form of coca cultivation is a traditional way of life, and has often been an economic bulwark against destitution. Attempts to control the drug trade, while absorbing vast resources, have been largely ineffectual and have had dramatic and unintended consequences. This book analyses the profound consequences that the illicit drug trade has for millions of Latin Americans, and what they imply for domestic policy and for international cooperation. Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade is essential reading for students of Latin America, politics, international relations, security studies, foreign policy, economic development, criminology and law, and for anyone interested in the politics and economics of the global illicit drug trade.

Simon Bolivar y el bolivarismo, tienen algo que ver con la revolucion bolivariana y los movimientos afines en la actual Sudamerica? Es posible concluir, como han hecho reiteradamente muchos academicos y politicos como Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa y sus multiples seguidores o aliados repartidos por toda la region e incluso mas alla, que Bolivar fue el gran precursor de la integracion latinoamericana? Mas alla de los esfuerzos de sus epigonos, resulta dificil sintetizar una esencia unica del pensamiento bolivariano. Como le pasa a cualquier persona, las ideas de Simon Bolivar fueron evolucionando a traves del tiempo, y mas en los momentos dificiles y complicados que le tocaron vivir. Bolivar fue un militar, un hombre de accion y un politico mas que un filosofo o un intelectual y por eso muchas de sus respuestas fueron coyunturales. Buscaba la mejor respuesta a cada situacion y para ello debia adaptarlas a las circunstancias. De ahi que ante desafios cambiantes el Libertador diera respuestas tambien cambiantes. No se trata, como se dice, de identificar la existencia de un Bolivar conservador y otro revolucionario, sino de encontrarnos con un mismo personaje que en circunstancias diferentes adaptaba o modificaba sus posiciones a los estimulos circundantes. En "e;El sueno de Bolivar y la manipulacion bolivariana"e;, Carlos Malamud estudia el pensamiento de Bolivar, especialmente su idea sobre la unidad americana, y como ha sido falsificado a lo largo del siglo XX por intereses politicos la figura del libertador de America. Sobre todo, en el caso de la llamada revolucion bolivariana que ha revestido a Bolivar de una serie de atributos politicos e ideologicos extemporaneos para poder convertirlo en el maximo profeta de la integracion latinoamericana, del socialismo del siglo XXI y de la segunda independencia contra Estados Unidos.