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2009.
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The "Americanization" of the global drug war is now synonymous with the global expansion of the United States (U.S.) Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) drug enforcement operations in foreign countries. Recent research posits that the rise in violent crime in Latin America is the "collateral damage" of the "Americanization" of drug enforcement in the region. However, the causal inference of the "collateral damage" thesis is biased because drug enforcement and violent crime in Latin America are endogenously related. This research corrects this bias in two ways. First, we collect data for cases to which the endogenous bias does not apply. Namely, we ask what effect does the operations of the DEA, specifically trafficker immobilization and drug interdiction, have on violent and property crimes in Central American and Caribbean countries where drug producing cartels and narco-insurgent organizations are not indigenous to the political landscape? Second, we estimate the data via a structural equation model. The results lend support to the collateral damage hypothesis. The DEA's coordinated drug enforcement operations contribute to increasing the level of violent and property crimes in the region.
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2012.
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ON OCTOBER 17-18, 2011, a World Thematic Conference of Compatriots called "On the Status of Russian Language in Foreign Countries" was held in Moscow under the aegis of the Government Commission on Compatriots Living Abroad (GCCLA). The conference, particularly such an extensive one, with 200 delegates from 91 countries and 80 guests from Russia in attendance, did not arise from scratch.
It was preceded by an interested and at times even fervent discussion of this topical issue at regional conferences of compatriots (I, for example, had occasion to participate in debates on this topic and understood from the discussion at the regional conference of compatriot associations of the Southern Caucasus in Krasnodar on September 22-23 of this year that the "great and powerful" [Russian language] enjoyed a far from favorable status in the CIS expanse), as well as at special round tables on the status of the Russian language held on the eve of the conference in Ukraine (Kiev), Kazakhstan (Almaty), and the Baltic states (Riga).1
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