Drugs and violence: Ghosts of the new Latinamerican metropolis

Abstract

In the context of cities that grow, change, and miraculously survive exclusion, entropy and the multiple temporalities that inhabit them, the author arises the purpose of deconstructing two ghosts that cross Latin American cities,  drug and violence. From this attempt emerge as strong conjectures that the ghost creates a gap between the perception of a problem and its real magnitude, that it has a political use for social control purposes and also for global hegemony; that operates as a displacement of insecurity and of replacement from Cold War to war on drugs. And finally, operates stigmatizing sectors of the population.