Event Announcement

Realities and Misperceptions on the War on Drugs

November 4, 2010

4:00 p.m.

Open to: Public
Location: UCSD, Institute of the Americas Complex, Weaver Center

Sponsored by the Center on Pacific Economies.

The Center on Pacific Economies will present a public lecture featuring Pacific Leadership Fellow Kevin Casas-Zamora.

Kevin Casas-Zamora will speak on the realities and misperceptions of the war on drugs in Mexico and Central America.

Casas-Zamora is the former vice president of Costa Rica, where he has also served as minister of national planning and economic policy. He is currently a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and in the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Casas-Zamora holds a JD from the University of Costa Rica, an MA from the University of Essex, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on political finance, elections, citizen security, and civil-military relations in Latin America.

A reception will follow this event, which is free and open to the public. Please R.S.V.P. online.

For more information about other upcoming events at the Center on Pacific Economies, visit the website at http://cpe.ucsd.edu.