Cold War Expert Renata Keller Sees Parallels in Mexico's Drug War Struggles Patrick Corcoran - InSight Crime
go to original January 31, 2016

Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution by Renata Keller Check it out on Amazon.com

Latin America's fate has long been tied to the conflicts of the United States, first in the Cold War and now the Drug War. But what insights does Mexico's experience in the Cold War provide for its current struggles against organized crime?

That was the question that Renata Keller, an assistant professor of International Relations and Latin American Studies in the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, sought to answer a couple of months ago, in this article titled, "Mexico: From Cold War to Drug War."

In her piece, Keller, who is the author of the book "Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution," laid out the ways in which the origins of Mexico's security challenges, from tactical missteps and strategic errors to fundamental misconceptions about the nature of the conflict, lie in the nation's Cold War experience in the second-half of the 20th century.

Read the transcript of an interview with Keller regarding her article, US drug policy in Latin America and at home, and other topics at InSight Crime

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