Webinar will explore Mexico’s ‘improvised war’ on drugs

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s approach to combating organized crime and the country’s “improvised” war on drugs will be the subject of a webinar from the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

The Sept. 9 event features Tony Payan, director of the Center for the United States and Mexico, and Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, nonresident scholar at the center, who are co-authors of the book “La guerra improvisada: Los años de Calderón y sus consecuencias.” Sergio Aguayo, a political analyst and research professor at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales at El Colegio de México, will join the panel, and David Luhnow, the Latin America editor of The Wall Street Journal, will serve as moderator.

The webinar, “The Improvised War: Former President Felipe Calderón and Mexico’s War on Drugs,” will be 11 a.m.-noon and is free, but registration is required here. The center will also provide free copies of the book to 40 attendees. Email usmexicocenter@rice.edu for more information.