Cases of criminal charity have been especially prominent in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. Worse yet, as government agencies scramble to tend to the many facets of the health crisis, criminal groups have stepped into the void to provide relief packages, employment, security, and even dispute resolution services. Instead, record-breaking violent crime has been recorded in countries such as Mexico and Brazil. Many hoped that the social distancing measures favored by many Latin American governments to slow the spread of coronavirus would also lead to a diminution in the region’s persistent violence and criminal activity. Such levels of “criminal charity” could complicate the future efforts of Latin America’s weakest states to dismantle and defeat organized crime groups, whose power has grown in recent years.
Latin America’s criminal groups have leveraged the coronavirus pandemic to win the goodwill and support of local populations by delivering humanitarian assistance and co-opting public service provision in communities underserved by state institutions.
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