This literary analysis will define the use of kidnapping, violence, and international blackmail as a method of counteracting American imperialism by criminal syndicates in Bel Canto by Ann Patchett and The News of A Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Marquez’s story of nine kidnappings in Colombia during the early 1990s is a commentary on the power of drug cartels, such as the Medellin, to use kidnapping and violence to blackmail to stop the extradition of leaders, such as Pablo Escobar. The
Neo-liberalism is not really new at all. It is premised on the nineteenth-century liberal belief that unregulated markets, rather than the state or public institutions, will produce all of the social or public goods we need. This Neo-liberal ideology was grounded
that mainstream IR theories have helped to secure the domination of the Global North over the Global South and that global hierarchies of subordination and control are made possible through the social construction of racial, gendered, and class differences. Hence, postcolonial scholars question whether mainstream IR theories can be really helpful in explaining the complexities of contemporary world politics without continuing and justifying the subordination and control of the Global South by powerful