Uma análise da dimensão transnacional do grupo mexicano Los Zetas: articulações e mercados ilícitos

• Autor(a) principal: Jordão, Leonardo Chilio
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/24051
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICA INTERNACIONAL::RELACOES INTERNACIONAIS, BILATERAIS E MULTILATERAIS; Assemblages; Criminalidade internacional; Los Zetas; Assemblages; Transnational crime; Illicit markets.

The academic literature about “transnational organized crime” has a wide and growing production in the International Relations discipline, although the transnational dimension of crime, which said literature takes in its name, still hasn’t trespassed traditional epistemological and analytical perspectives in the International Security field, often stuck to a “Statecentric” approach about territory for the supposed transnationality of crime. The goal of this research is to criticize this literature and introduce an alternative approach capable of analysing crime and its transnational dimension. This new approach will focus on orderings, collectives, of relations between actors, and how these relations build up a dimension of their own, to analyse crime and their transnational flows, and how the “local” is an expression of this transnationality. After criticizing the traditional approaches of “transnational organized crime”, the knowledge of “transnational illicit markets” will serve as a support to understand this alternative approach and the transnational dimension, because these illicit markets focus on different actors and their relations to maintain a market structure of flows working on. Empirically, the central group of this analysis is the Mexican Los Zetas, and its role in Guatemala, from 2008 until 2015, to explain that the group was part of a transnational illicit market, and through their relations, also made up a transnational dimension, and portions of Guatemalan territory are expressions of transnational dynamics. Closing the argument, the research question that summarise this dissertation is: Are the transnational dimension of the Zetas and their role in a transnational illicit market only explained by their transnational relations? The analysis method is built around the “assemblages” concept in International Relations, which offers an analytical lens focused on the relations and collectives as forming a dimension on its own, that surpass the State as an analytical and spatial basis, and also is not a method used to study criminality. Therefore, the main contribution of illicit markets and an approach focused on actors’ articulations for the transnational is an invite for other works to amplify the epistemological debate about crime and their hole relational operation