Mexican Borders: Nodes of the Global System of Illicit Drugs
Book Presentation
"Mexican Border: Nodes of the Global System of Illicit Drugs"
"Las fronteras de México: Nodos del sistema global de las drogas prohibidas"
by César M. Fuentes Flores in collaboration with Sergio Peña Medina.
Book discussion by Dr. Jeremy Slack
March 29, 3:30-5:00 pm
UTEP-Blumberg Auditorium
Presentation in English
Parking permit: pjuarez@utep.edu
Sponsored by
Center for Inter-American and Border Studies
Colegio de la Frontera Norte de Ciudad Juárez
- Why the Mexican northern border is a strategic space of containment o illicit markets as a result of hardened U.S. security policies.
- Why is is urgent to move from a prohibitionist to a regulatory paradigm focusing on public health and involving all countries of the global transboundary system of illicit drugs.
- How the U.S. security policies created a ferocious fight amongst organized crime groups to recapture routes, territories, and border crossings previously controlled by enemy drug groups.
- How U.S. drug policy shapes the transboundary global system of illicit drugs in Latin America and its social, economic and safety impacts in border cities.