ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how the weakening of national stability, security, and sovereignty can indirectly and directly contribute to personal and collective insecurity, radical political change, and possible state failure. The Central American Maras are known to have broken that agreement as early as 2005. The 2008 and 2010 Latinobarometro Polls, taken in 18 countries of Latin America, underline the fact that, even though most Latin American countries' gross domestic product has been improving since 2001, there are deep flaws in democratic political systems throughout the region. Even though commercial enrichment remains the primary motive for transnational criminal organizations-gang phenomenon challenges to state stability, security, and sovereignty in Mexico, the strategic architecture of the major organizations within that phenomenon resembles that of a political or ideological insurgency. Violence is their political interface to negate law-enforcement efforts directed against them by police and other security organizations.
