Terror and the Social Accumulation of Fear: Criminal Governance in Three Paraguayan Border Cities with Argentina and Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Martens, Juan
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Orrego, Roque Arnaldo, Villalba, Ever, Veloso, Ricardo, González, Luís, Delgado, Francisco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/46429
• topic: criminal governance, organized crime, Ciudad del Este, Saltos del Guairá, Pilar; gobernanza criminal, crimen organizado, Ciudad del Este, Saltos del Guairá, Pilar; governança criminal, crime organizado, Ciudad del Este, Saltos del Guairá, Pilar

This paper analyses and compares the operation of the criminal governance that conditions the routine and activities of the residents and the justice and security system officials of three border cities. Ethnographic strategies, such as observation, interviews, and informal conversations identified the actors, the goods, and services they exploit, as well as the mechanisms of institutional and social interaction. They act with impunity in these territories due to the control of political commodities, institutional infiltration and different mechanisms of coercion based on symbolic and brutal violence, and the engagement of criminal and disciplinary sanctioning processes, which generate terror and build social fear.