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The 'authoritarian culture' in a historical perspective: a comparative study between the mafiosi police in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires

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AutorLuciana Araújo de Paula
Ocupação do AutorPhD in Political Science, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique latine, Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris III
Páginas2233-2240
Working Group: Society, Culture and Law • 2233
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Luciana Araújo de Paula40
Abstract: During the past decade we observe a growing optimism on the Latin
American continent. However, it is also the continent where we see the highest
rate of homicides and a political corruption increasingly embedded in “orga-
nized crime” from the state and in particular, from the members of its security
institutions  Werefer to new maosi phenomena who question the belief
thatLatin Americaorganized crime isalways linkedto drugtrackers
Thesenewmaosiphenomenaareformedintheheartofthestatethroughan
authoritarianculturermlyrooted inthepoliticaland securityinstitutions
in Latin America. The evolution of this “authoritarian culture” has followed a
common denominator powered by a dual mechanism: individuals require more
security against a rising crime, while the state responds advantage repression.
WendinthehistoryoftheLatinAmericancountriesstandardizationofthe
repressive behavior of the state in the name of democracy, while strengthening
its authoritarian tendencies. Nowadays the emergence of a kind of “police ma-
osithatimposestaxandtheillegalprotectiontothepoorandreliesonthe
cooperation of politicians eager to vote is nothing other than the perverse result
of this process. This “snowball” is it due to the structural weakness of the Latin
- American counties? To what extent this paradox is it intrinsic to the process of
democratization of Latin American institutions in a transnational context? To
what degree this “authoritarian culture” was the springboard for the consolida-
tion of the phenomena of more and more complex within the state apparatus?
Toaddress thisissuewe willdo atrsta comparativestudy observinghow
thephenomenonofpolicemaosi hasestablisheditselfinBrazilthroughthe
case of “Milicias” in Rio de Janeiro, then Argentina, through the example of the
“Policia Maldita” in Buenos Aires.
Keywordsauthoritarianculturemaosipolice
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PhD in Political Science, Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique latine - Sorbonne
Nouvelle/Paris III. E-mail: luciana.araujodepaula@gmail.com.

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