Opinion | What We Didn’t Learn from the Testimony of the DEA Administrator – Part III
The recent extradition from Mexico to the United States of Ovidio Guzmán is a most welcome development. As U.S. Department...
Vanda Felbab-Brown
Opinion | What We Learned from the Testimony of the DEA Administrator – Part II
On July 27, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Anne Milgram testified in the U.S. Congress in...
Opinion | What We Learned from the Testimony of the DEA Administrator – Part I
On July 27, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Anne Milgram testified in the U.S. Congress in...
Opinion | The Myths & Realities of Mexico’s Role in Fentanyl Trafficking into the U.S.
On July 19, I testified before on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security at a hearing entitled...
Opinion | Fighting to Keep the Vaquita Alive: CITES Sanctions on Mexico & Botched Prosecution
On March 27 Mexico was added to a short blacklist of countries with which no legal wildlife trade should take...
Opinion | The U.S.-Mexico Fentanyl Meltdown – Part II: Mexico’s Internal Policies & U.S. Options
In my previous column, I outlined how the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador steadily hollowed out U.S.-Mexico security...
Opinion | The U.S.-Mexico Fentanyl Meltdown – Part I: The State of Noncooperation
The early March murder of two U.S. citizens and the kidnapping of two others in Matamoros and the spiraling confrontational...
Opinion | Violence Against and Corruption in Law Enforcement: Recent U.S. cases
In this column and my writing on security issues in Mexico and other parts of the world, I have often...
Opinion | The Successes and Problems of Decapitation Strategies Around the World
Apart from human rights and civil liberties concerns, the recent decisions of the Mexican Congress to place the National Guard...
Opinion | The Foreign Policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part V: Europe’s Supercoke & on- the-Horizon Issues and the Middle East
The bipolar competition between the two largest Mexican cartels – the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación - has...
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