Narco Noir: Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption
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![Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings Scholar](/sites/default/files/styles/850_width/public/event_images/2017-04-04.jpg?itok=S_aBswKh)
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The Brookings Mountain West invites you to attend a lecture titled, Narco Noir: Mexico鈥檚 Cartels, Cops, and Corruption given by Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings Scholar.
Based on Felbab-Brown鈥檚 forthcoming book of the same name, the lecture will review the evolution of organized crime in Mexico, the escalation of criminal violence there during the 2000s, and the security policies adopted by the administrations of Presidents Felipe Calder贸n and Enrique Pe帽a Nieto. It also discusses spillovers into the United States from Mexico鈥檚 crime and violence and strategies for countering them. The lecture incorporates vignettes from Dr. Felbab-Brown鈥檚 extensive fieldwork in Mexico, including some of its most violent areas dominated by the drug cartels, such as Ciudad Ju谩rez and Michoac谩n.
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This event is free and open to the public.
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