La violencia delictiva, el Estado y la sociedad civil: Ciudad Juárez, Medellín y Río de Janeiro

Abstract

Compares the history of the cycles in which violence accumulated in the societies and cultures of Ciudad Juárez, Medellín and Río de Janeiro between 1980 and 2016. Criminal violence accumulated in these societies and cultures through a combination of drug trafficking, the buying and selling of political power and the capture of the State and of society through networks of corruption. In Medellín the violence was also fed by armed political and paramilitary groups, and in Río de Janeiro by a coup d´état. In Medellin, and to a lesser extent in the other two cities, the State and civil society succeeded in reducing the complex of increased violence in society, through their resilience and introducing procedures to renew politics. Civil society helped to break the cycle and the complex of increasing violence in society in a different way in each of the cities.