Why are Mexican Mayors Getting Killed by Traffickers? The Dynamics of Corruption in Illegal Drug Markets.

January 12, 2010

5:00 p.m.

Location: UCSD, Institute of the Americas Complex, Deutz Conference Room

Open to: Public

Discussant: Jesse Driscoll, Assistant Professor of Political Science, IR/PS

Viridiana Ríos is a Ph.D. candidate in Government at Harvard University and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She obtained her B.A. in Political Science at ITAM, in Mexico City. She has worked at the Mexican Ministry of Social Development (Sedesol), USAID, and the World Bank. Viridiana’s current project, titled «Why has Mexico turned so violent? Understanding drug-related violence and organized crime», focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of drug-related violence in Mexico by analyzing changes in organized crime structure, size and organization as well as Mexico’s corruption, judicial system, and electoral institutions. Her areas of expertise include drug trafficking, corruption, and formal modeling with particular interest in Latin American regions and Mexico.

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