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Throughout Latin America, the nature and location of power have shifted rapidly, in large part due to the emergence of new “shadow powers.” These power groups act beyond institutional and legal frameworks and yet also interact with them. They operate clandestinely and yet openly control and rule in large swaths of national territory. Our capacity to adequately define them and their realms of activity...