¿La mano dura disminuye los homicidios? El caso de Venezuela

Antillano, Andrés; Ávila, Keymer

doi:10.24241/rcai.2017.116.2.77

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“…Given what we know about mano dura in Latin America, the death squads are not likely to solve the problem of crime in Venezuela or Brazil or anywhere else in the region (e.g., Antillano and Ávila 2017). They are more likely to intensify the spiral of violence in order to feed a revanchist will to security.…”

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The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles

Samet

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Populism is a notoriously unstable phenomenon. This instability has been on full display in contemporary Latin America where the progressive gains of the Pink Tide have confronted a rightwing backlash. How do we understand the sudden shift of fortunes from left to right? What tilted the balance of power in the region? One familiar answer to these questions is the exploitation by rightwing actors of tough-on-crime or mano dura rhetoric, which scapegoats already vulnerable populations (minorities, the poor, the “deviant,” etc.) as the source of insecurity. In conversation with this collection of papers on revanchist populism in Brazil, I want to propose a subtle twist on the theme of security and its role in rightwing populist mobilization. It draws on my research in neighboring Venezuela. Specifically, it looks at the unraveling of the Bolivarian Revolution’s progressive promise to defend the urban popular sectors against death squads, torture, arbitrary detention and other oppressive forms of policing. Comparing Venezuela, the vanguard of Latin America’s left turn, to Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil may seem scandalous at first blush, but doing so asks us to confront an inconvenient truth about what I call the will to security. Rather than imagining security as something imposed from above, the will to security reframes it as an articulation of demands that resonate, at least in part, with the popular sectors. Adding this perspective to our analysis of rightwing populism provides an alternative spatial paradigm to the conversations about security that lends it historical depth and policy relevant positioning.

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The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles

Samet

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Lo que desde cualquier perspectiva es un indicador negativo sobre la violencia general en el país, en especial de la violencia institucional y de la capacidad por parte de los cuerpos de seguridad de contener la violencia delictiva dentro de los límites legales que deben respetar los estados de derecho modernos (Antillano y Ávila, 2017;Ávila, 2017a, 2018a. Contribuyendo en consecuencia a la perpetuación de un ciclo de violencia estructural en el que la violencia institucional y la violencia delictiva se retroalimentan entre sí, en detrimento de los derechos de las personas, siendo mayormente victimizados los más humildes (Ávila, 2017a: 75).…”

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¿Qué pasó con la reforma policial en Venezuela? Preguntas y respuestas básicas sobre el proceso en su etapa púber

Ávila

2021

La Muerte Nuestra De Cada Día. Violencia Armada Y Políticas De Seguridad Ciudadana en Venezuela

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“…Siguiendo este orden de ideas, las EEMM que pretendan asentarse en lugares con una elevada incidencia delictiva, además de analizar cómo el nivel de delincuencia podría afectar a sus actividades, deberían de examinar las políticas públicas de seguridad que se están implementando en el estado o la ciudad en cuestión al objeto de conocer si, al menos en el medio plazo, podrían revertirse las causas estructurales de la delincuencia. Así mismo, en tanto que los proyectos e inversiones empresariales suelen tener un plazo prolongado, convendría analizar las propuestas en materia de seguridad de los potenciales gobernantes futuros, ya que, en lugares con elevados niveles de violencia y delincuencia, un cambio drástico en la política de seguridad, especialmente si es hacia más mano dura, puede ocasionar unos niveles de violencia y delincuencia aún mayores (Antillano & Ávila, 2017;Cawley, 2013).…”

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The incidence of public security policies on political risk

Hernández-Gutiérrez¹

2020

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The aim of this work is to make explicit the relationship between political risk and public security policies. The theory through which such a link is established is the theory of dangerous places. These places are characterized by high levels of unemployment, poverty, high demographic density, etc. These phenomena are also threats to security. That there are territories that have such characteristics is, in a way, the responsibility of governments. Thus, they are also responsible for the thousands of companies that annually incur millions in losses due to business victimization. For this reason, it seems essential to take into account the current or future governments’ crime prevention public policy approaches, since their decisions can minimize the losses borne by the victimized companies.

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¿La mano dura disminuye los homicidios? El caso de Venezuela

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The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles

The will to security: Law, order, and the shifting terrain of popular struggles

¿Qué pasó con la reforma policial en Venezuela? Preguntas y respuestas básicas sobre el proceso en su etapa púber

The incidence of public security policies on political risk

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