by Jean Ziegler · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408027386
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«Los señores del crimen» is the political essay by Jean Ziegler, published by Planeta in paperback (285 pages, in Spanish).
A denunciatory essay in which Jean Ziegler analyzes the threat that organized crime poses to European democracies. Drawing on the rise of international mafias, he shows how these networks infiltrate institutions and destabilize coexistence, and denounces their growing influence on power structures.
Subtitle: «Las nuevas mafias contra la democracia». Published in 1998, it belongs to Planeta's Documento collection.
For readers of political essays, investigative journalism and contemporary history, especially organized crime and international politics.
Jean Ziegler is a Swiss former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was previously Member of the Swiss Parliament for the Social Democrats from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012. Ziegler has authored numerous works, is a lecturer, and is well known for this sentence: "A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child."
