Mexico's Drug War - Loyola University

04/15/2010 - 4:00pm
04/15/2010 - 6:00pm

MEXICO'S DRUG WAR

April 15 at 4:00 in Finnegan Auditorium

 

18,000 people killed since January 2006.

536 executions reported in just 7 days this March.

10,000 Mexican troops occupy Juárez.

Washington just proposed a $331 million plan.

 UTEP anthropologist, Dr. Howard Campbell, discusses his new book Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez (2010). Book sale and singing will follow.

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Criminal Justice and Anthropology, the Latin American Studies Program, and CARTE. Contact Prof. Dina Berger, Department of History, with questions at dberge2@luc.edu.