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Economy of Death: The Grey Zone, CannibalWar Machine and Capitalist Accumulation in Latin AmericaAntonio Fuentes Díaz,
Panagiotis Doulos, 2025, original scientific article
Abstract: This article argues, based on the analysis of extortion and
criminal governance in México, that criminal activities should be understood as a key component of contemporary capital accumulation. This criminal accumulation of capital requires the suspension of restrictions on illegal activities, generating zones of legal-illegal indistinction that allow profitability, shared sovereignties and cannibal war
machines that, through violence, generate the extraction of goods, income and bodies in line with the neoliberal enterprise. This means that criminal capital carries out, in an extreme and nihilistic way, the logic
of value.
Keywords: extortion, criminal governance, criminal capitalism, war
machine, economy of death, neoliberalism, Latin America
Published in RUP: 17.12.2025; Views: 154; Downloads: 0
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