http://selvesandothers.org/ en SPIP - www.spip.net http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=98&ItemID=6334 2004-10-01T04:55:00Z text/html en Jorge Beinstein, Karina Moreno ZNet <p><i>Translated by Miguel Alvarado</i></p> <p><strong>What is a narcomafia and how does it relate to the global economy?</strong></p> <p>There are two ways to explain it. The first would simply give an account of the capital managed at a global level. According to UN data, strictly illegal mafia business amounts to a billion dollars worldwide by the end of the last decade. If we add to that number the many other legal or semi legal businesses which the mafias control, it sums to nearly 3 billion, which would be the equivalent to about 10 percent of the Gross World Product (GWP). (...)</p> - <a href="" rel="directory"></a> / <a href="" rel="tag">ZNet</a>