“After exhaustive fieldwork across nearly every country in Latin America and the Caribbean, security and organized crime expert Lucía Dammert argues in *Anatomy of Illegal Power* that, coupled with a profound weakness in state institutions and a significant increase in corruption, illegal markets have consolidated a structure parallel to the state.

This process has been strengthened through multiple criminal structures primarily linked to drug trafficking, human trafficking, migrant smuggling, illegal mining, environmental crimes related to logging, illegal fishing and wildlife trade, and extortion.”

(Spanish)