Abstract

TRONCOSO ZUNIGA, Valeska. DRUG TRAFFICKING AND THE CHALLENGE TO SECURITY IN THE TRIPLE ANDEAN BORDERLINE. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.1, pp.103-130. ISSN 1909-3063.  https://doi.org/10.18359/ries.2466.

Drug trafficking is the main manifestation of organized crime in the Triple Andean Borderline. The vulnerability of such borderline and the limitations for exerting an effective control over it have allowed the creation of river and terrestrial corridors that have in turn become the principal routes for the transportation of drugs from Bolivia and Peru to Chile. This supposes a strategic reassessment of this borderline zone historically considered in the classical paradigm of security; this is mainly due to the persistence of territorial disputes since the 1800's. From a qualitative approach, this article analyzes drug trafficking as a threat to the security in this triple borderline in three steps: firstly, describing the particularities of the study area to locate the problem. Secondly, discussing the contents of the international security agenda, highlighting the idea according to which in the Triple Andean Borderline there is an overlapping of a traditional agenda with a new one, where the so-called new threats, as drug trafficking, become more relevant. And, thirdly, analyzing the situation of drug trafficking itself as a threat to security, both nationally and sub-nationally.

Keywords : Security Agenda; Drug Trafficking; New Threats; Triple Andean Borderline.

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