Tariffs and Drug Cartels: US versus Mexico? (10/07/25) | Latin American Studies

Tariffs and Drug Cartels: US versus Mexico? (10/07/25)

Join us for a talk by Visiting Professor Jose Luis Velasco Cruz about “Tariffs and Drug Cartels: US versus Mexico?”. Velasco Cruz is a Full-Time Researcher at the Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIS-UNAM). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University (2002), an M.A. in Political Sociology from the Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute in Mexico City (1996), and a B.A. in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Chiapas (1994).

His extensive research and publications focus on political systems, democratization, violence, and governance in Mexico and Latin America. Notable books include Complex Associative Systems: Cooperation amid Diversity (with Matilde Luna), Insurgency, Authoritarianism, and Drug Trafficking in Mexico’s “Democratization” (Routledge, 2005), and El debate actual sobre el federalismo mexicano (Instituto Mora, 1999). His influential articles and chapters address critical topics such as the assassination of journalists in Mexico and the intersections of democratization and violence.

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