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By Vanda Felbab-Brown

2025

Members of Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency take part in an anti-narcotics operation in Gustavo A Madero district in Mexico City May 20, 2007. The operation is part of an ongoing campaign aimed at reducing Mexico City's crime problem. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar (MEXICO)

The US-Mexico fentanyl meltdown – Part I: The state of noncooperation

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Myanmar’s civil war: Military, political, and crime dynamics

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EDT

--FILE--A bottle of Fentanyl pharmaceuticals is displayed in Anyang city, central China's Henan province, 12 November 2018. China will add fentanyl-related substances to a supplementary list of controlled narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances with non-medical use since May 1. The decision was announced Monday in a joint statement by the Ministry of Public Security, the National Health Commission and the National Medical Products Administration. Fentanyl and its analogues that were previously included in the list of controlled narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as the related substances in the supplementary list, will remain to be controlled according to relevant regulations, the statement said.No Use China. No Use France.

Fentanyl: A triangle of sadness (US, Mexico, and China)

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Mariana Campero, and Guillermo Valdes

Mexico Matters

Monday, March 13, 2023

Mexican federal police stands guard as suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel are presented during a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City August 12, 2010. The suspects were arrested on Thursday in connection to the kidnapping of two television journalists by members of the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug trade organization, according to the police. The journalists were freed by the federal police on July 30. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte (MEXICO - Tags: MEDIA CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW SOCIETY)

Over 112,000 Mexican nationals have disappeared

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Sunday, March 12, 2023

A destroyed Russian tank stands by the road in front of an orthodox temple in the liberated town of Sviatohirsk. Russia is losing from 50 to 100 soldiers each day in the battle of Bakhmut amid its desperate attempts to capture the city in the eastern Donetsk Oblast, a military spokesman said on Dec. 4. Speaking on TV, Eastern Military Command spokesman Serhiy Cherevaty said that about as many Russian soldiers get wounded in action near Bakhmut daily. For months, Russia has massed troops and equipment to surround and capture Bakhmut in a brutal campaign participated by the Russian state-backed military company Wagner Group. (Photo by Andriy Andriyenko / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Comment la Russie chasse la France d’Afrique

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, March 3, 2023

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How closely are Caribbean leaders working together?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, February 27, 2023

Nigeria’s elections and their security, economic, and crime implications

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EST

Smoke rises in the sky following clashes in Tripoli, Libya, August 27, 2022. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed

Around the halls: Brookings experts on Biden’s performance in the Middle East

former Taliban fighter wearing new police uniform, Taliban fighters now have new jobs manning checkpoints on the streets and carrying out security patrols in the Kabul city. The Taliban issued new uniforms for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, police force, after months without an official attire. The biggest changes to the gear include shifting the colour to dark brown and replacing the Afghanistan tricoloured republican flag with the Taliban’s white one. Its roll-out started with 20,000 uniforms mainly in the capital Kabul and Kandahar province. Kabul, Afghanistan, July 22, 2022. Photo by Alfred Yaghobzadeh/ABACAPRESS.COM

Afghanistan in 2023: Taliban internal power struggles and militancy

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, February 3, 2023