The American public should understand that the United States has played a critical role in creating and fuelling violence in Latin America via its unsuccessful war on drugs.
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Government policies and dangerous conditions affect the ability of researchers working on both sides of the US-Mexico border to conduct scientific fieldwork.
The US may be in sight from the border towns of Sonora, Mexico, but the trip is far from over. Cartels control the desert territory that divides the two countries – and no one gets through for free.
AMLO's war against organised crime in Mexico isn't stopping people dying.
A series of brazen, highly visible attacks by Mexican drug cartels have killed at least 50 people in the past month, terrorizing citizens and making the government look weak on crime.
Who are the LeBarons, the Mexican-American Mormons who lost nine family members in a massacre on Nov. 4.?
The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico could bring about stable change in a country marked by violence and social polarization.
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Lecturer (Teaching) for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Professor, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Toronto
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Associate Staff Scientist, University of Arizona
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Investigadora en la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales CEMS- EHESS- Francia y en COES- Chile (Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies), Diego Portales University
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Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina
