Media articles and podcasts where my work has been referenced or where I have been quoted or interviewed.
Entrevista para diario El comercio, Perú “La propuesta de terrorismo urbano invisibiliza al crimen organizado y lo promueve”, October 2024
Entrevista para el Boletín Legislativo “Mujeres y Género” del Parlamento de Chile, Junio 2024
Commentary on the election of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico, Courthouse News Service, June 2024.
Entrevista para Tercera Dosis, Chile “La mayoría de los militares no quiere que los hagan combatir al narco porque los hace más vulnerables a la corrupción”, Mayo 2024.
Commentary on the arrest of Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s son, in NBC News Top Story with Tom Llamas, July 2023
Entrevista con Razón Pública “La política antidrogas del gobierno Petro ¿un cambio para el enfoque global? , April 2023
Commentary, “Mexico’s President says he would support peace agreement with the Cartels” in The Guardian
Entrevista “Petro y la legalización de la droga” con Juan Carlos Iragorri en The Washington Post podcast in Spanish, August 2022
Commentary “Gone, Nearly 100,000 people have disappeared in Mexico. Their families now search for clues among the dead.” By Oscar Lopez in The New York Times October 2021
Commentary “El Clan del Golfo: La organización paramilitar y más famosa de Colombia y Suramérica” by María Betania Caldera, in El Mercurio Chile, September 2021
Commentary “We’re living in hell: inside Mexico’s most terrified city” by Oscar López in the New York Times, August 2021
Podcast Interview for “History of Drugs in Society” by Eugene Leventhal,“The State Drug Markets and Violence with Angelica Duran Martinez” August 2020
Podcast interview for GovExec Daily “Federal police militarization and presence at Protests”, by Ross Gianfortune September 2020
Commentary “Disappeared in El Salvador”, by Mary Beth Sheridan and Anna Catherine Brigida October 2019, in the Washington Post.
Commentary “How to win a drug war”, Steven Cohen in The Baffler, July 2019.
“Acclaim to UML Professor for Look at Drugs, Violence”, in the Lowell Sun, July 2019.
“Por qué los capos narcos como Pablo Escobar y Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán son ‘una especie en extinción'”, por Gerardo Lissardy BBC Mundo, Marzo 2019.
“Why Colombia Keeps Electing Presidents Tied to Murderers”, by Steven Cohen at the The New Republic, June 2018.
“As Colombia’s peace talks progress disagreements with US may be around the corner”, Guest at BYU radio’s Top of Mind with Julie Rose, April 2018.
“Criminal Truces in Latin America The Ultimate Catch” 22, June 2016 , by David Gagne in Insight Crime.
“As Colombia’s peace talks progress disagreements with US may be around the corner”, by Eric Auner, World Politics Review.
“Mexican drug war gone wild”, by Jaime Ortega. Fall 2012.
La “guerra contra las drogas”: La urgencia de repensar la estrategia, by Blanca Heredia.
“Tijuana sees drop in drug violence”, by Sandra Dibble.
“Tijuana’s succesful security chief job at risk”, by Richard Marosi.