News

April 2013

April 29th 2013
"São Paulo: Insecure Citizens, All of Them": DSD Fellow Graham Denyer Willis (2011) illustrates the roots of violent conflict between the Primeiro Comando da Capital and Brazilian police in an article for Open Democracy →

March 2013

March 26th 2013
DSD Fellow Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (2011) talks to Action 4 News in Texas about Mexican drug cartels training women as assassins →
March 19th 2013
DSD Fellow Annette Idler (2012) contributes an essay on security threats in Venezuela to the cross-institutional Cambridge and Oxford blog Politics in Spires: "Security and the Post-Chávez Bolivarian Project: A Convenient Revolution for Free-Riders?" →
March 18th 2013
DSD Fellow Fernanda Page Poma (2012) has been named one of eight top graduate students at Stony Brook University for 2011–2012 →
March 13th 2013
DSD Fellow Federico Pérez (2012) argues for care and caution in the repopulation of urban conflict zones in an article for Open Democracy: "Peopling Space: Contemporary Redevelopment in Bogotá" →
March 11th 2013
In the latest On the Line podcast, Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellow Froylán Enciso (2012) discusses his research on the history of drug dealing in Sinaloa and the rise of narcoculture in Mexico [in Spanish] →

February 2013

February 27th 2013
Read "El Fish and the General," an essay by DSD Fellow Anthony Fontes (2011) about the problem of everyday violence in Guatemala, in the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies →
February 20th 2013
New from Palgrave Macmillan: Democracy in "Two Mexicos": Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León, by DSD Fellow Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (2011) →

January 2013

January 23rd 2013
DSD Fellow Diana Bocarejo (2011) will give a talk titled "Longing for the State: Moral Economy, Legal Subjects and the War on Drugs" at Harvard University on February 5 →
January 14th 2013
Op-ed by DSD Fellow Teo Ballvé (2012) picked up by McClatchy: "Hugo Chavez's Career Deserves Honest Assessment" →
January 10th 2013
Only ten days remain to apply for a Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellowship, funding policy-relevant research in Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline: January 20 →
January 7th 2013
DSD Fellow Daniel Esser (2012) discusses his research on community responses to violence in Mexico for NPR's Fronteras video series →

December 2012

December 21st 2012
Listen to a new episode of the On the Line podcast, where Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellow Damion Blake (2011) tells about his work with Jamaica's organized-crime dons →
December 20th 2012
DSD Fellow Angelica Duran-Martinez (2011) reviews David Bewley-Taylor's book International Drug Control: Consensus Fractured for Rutgers University's Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books →
December 20th 2012
DSD Fellow Graham Denyer Willis (2011) discusses the resurgence of violence in São Paulo on an episode of Al Jazeera's The Stream →
December 11th 2012
DSD Fellow Ellen Sharp (2012) writes about vigilante organizations and the high incidence of lynching in rural Guatemala for the Inter-American Foundation →
December 6th 2012
DSD Fellow Graham Denyer Willis (2011) has written an op-ed for the New York Times about ongoing violence between police and organized crime groups in São Paulo, Brazil →

November 2012

November 30th 2012
Watch a video of an informational webinar on developing a DSD application [in Spanish] →
November 19th 2012
In an op-ed for the Progressive, DSD Fellow Teo Ballvé (2012) writes on the lack of engagement with Latin America in the US presidential race →
November 19th 2012
DSD Fellow Federico Pérez (2012) reports for the Caravan on how Bogotá’s urban renewal projects are displacing longtime residents →