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Narco Noir

By Vanda Felbab-Brown

2019

An update on Colombia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

A peasant walks among coca crops in Cauca, Colombia, January 27, 2017. Picture taken January 27, 2017. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga - RC1258D3C600

Can Colombia eradicate coca by drones? The illusion of a technological fix

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Colombia's President-Elect Ivan Duque addresses the audience after receiving his credentials from the election council, in Bogota, Colombia July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC114FCC4240

Death by bad implementation? The Duque administration and Colombia’s peace deal(s)

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves as he addresses supporters after polls closed in the presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico July 1, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso - RC1BC0E9AAC0

Andrés Manuel López Obrador and a new era of politics in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures as he addresses supporters after polls closed in the presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico July 2, 2018. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic - RC1A71135450

Will Mexico’s new president challenge Trump?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, July 2, 2018

DATE IMPORTED: September 23, 2012 A Ugandan soldier from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) watches as defected members of Islamist militant group al Shabaab walk after giving themselves up to the African Union AMISOM forces in Garsale, approximately 10km from the town of Jowhar, 80km north of Mogadishu, in this September 22, 2012 handout picture made available by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on September 23, 2012. Islamist rebels said they shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu on Saturday and threatened to kill every legislator in the country. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) force said, however, there were signs of deepening internal rifts within al Shabaab. More than 200 rebels defected near the town of Jowhar on Saturday, AMISOM said. REUTERS/AU-UN IST/Abukar Albadri/Handout (SOMALIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

The hard, hot, dusty road to accountability, reconciliation, and peace in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 2018

DATE IMPORTED: June 15, 2017 Members of the local militia, otherwise known as CJTF, sit in the back of a truck during a patrol in the city of Maiduguri, northern Nigeria June 9, 2017. Picture taken June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye.

“In Nigeria, we don’t want them back”

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 2018

The Trade: Opioids in America

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM EDT

Stabilization: Lessons from the U.S. experience in Afghanistan

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT