Venezuelan Exodus, Community-Based Aid, and Extortion in Latin America: Weakening Transnational Gangs Through Immigrant Support

• In Event: Criminal Violence, Governance, and Social Order in Latin America

Brief Overview

Leveraging variation in Venezuelan immigration and community aid distribution in Peru, we find that access to migration services significantly reduced the rise of extortion during the organized crime expansion

Authors

• Victor Gamarra, Cornell University

• Paulo Matos, Caltech