Deportes Extremos. Construyendo capacidades estatales en la lucha contra el Narcotráfico: Caso Aduana Argentina 2005-2010

Abstract

It has been argued that Argentina Customs built capabilities to tackle drug trafficking from 2002 to 2008. The questions seek to answer are: Was effective the response from Customs?. What kinds of skills were developed? How do these skills work? Why were they effective? It built an impact measurement, to prove that Argentina's Customs was succesfull reducing cocaine traffic from Argentina to Europe. It is described the organizational changes that were made to cope with the problem, and then a description of a case where Customs stopped a big smuggling of cocaine hidden in shipments of coal. It shows how all of these organizational changes worked together to solve the problem. The case shows that successful capacity building is due to a "craftmanship" management approach, in contrast to the traditional of hard and soft hand. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]