BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs present:Gladys McCormick\, Associate Professor of History\, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations\, Syracuse UniversityMexico’s Open Secret: From the Dirty War to the Drug WarIn this paper\, I explore the concept of dirty wa r\, as it was pioneered by the French in Algeria and later perfected in as sorted Cold War theaters throughout the world\, and apply it to the case o f Mexico. I argue that Mexico’s version of a dirty war started with the br utal crackdown of popular mobilizations on October 2\, 1968 and concluded in 1982 when the government declared an amnesty of guerrilla members with the certainty that it had already destroyed them. During this period\, mil itary and police\, at times collaborating as special forces\, detained\, t ortured\, imprisoned\, and disappeared suspected insurgents using a range of counterinsurgency techniques drawn from the Cold War. I study these tec hniques and compare them to other cases of dirty wars in the region at the time\, including those in Argentina\, Brazil\, and Chile\, and use them t o illustrate how the government gradually “taught” citizens to accept the ever-present culture of fear in their midst. These didactic elements of Me xico’s dirty war normalized and rendered permanent the weakening of the ru le of law\, which explains why impunity in today’s security crisis appears so profoundly intractable. Hence\, why I conclude this paper by laying do wn the particularities of a definition of a drug war that considers its an tecedents\, including patterns of collusion between the government and dru g trafficking organizations. In doing so\, I propose that the roots of tod ay’s drug war are to be found in how the government used the state of exce ption to legitimate its counter-insurgency actions during the 1970’s dirty war. \;Sponsored by Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and \;So vereignty\, Order and ConflictFor more information\, contact Ryan Griffith s: rgriff01@syr.edu DTEND:20191028T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260513T115449Z DTSTART:20191028T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mexico’s Open Secret: From the Dirty War to the Drug War - SOC UID:RFCALITEM639142556891596964 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs presen t:

Gladys McCormick\, Associate Professor of History\, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations\, Syracuse University


Mexico’s Open Secret: From the Dirty War to the Drug War
In this paper\, I explore the concept of dirty war\, as it was pioneered b y the French in Algeria and later perfected in assorted Cold War theaters throughout the world\, and apply it to the case of Mexico. I argue that Me xico’s version of a dirty war started with the brutal crackdown of popular mobilizations on October 2\, 1968 and concluded in 1982 when the governme nt declared an amnesty of guerrilla members with the certainty that it had already destroyed them. During this period\, military and police\, at tim es collaborating as special forces\, detained\, tortured\, imprisoned\, an d disappeared suspected insurgents using a range of counterinsurgency tech niques drawn from the Cold War. I study these techniques and compare them to other cases of dirty wars in the region at the time\, including those i n Argentina\, Brazil\, and Chile\, and use them to illustrate how the gove rnment gradually “taught” citizens to accept the ever-present culture of f ear in their midst. These didactic elements of Mexico’s dirty war normaliz ed and rendered permanent the weakening of the rule of law\, which explain s why impunity in today’s security crisis appears so profoundly intractabl e. Hence\, why I conclude this paper by laying down the particularities of a definition of a drug war that considers its antecedents\, including pat terns of collusion between the government and drug trafficking organizatio ns. In doing so\, I propose that the roots of today’s drug war are to be f ound in how the government used the state of exception to legitimate its c ounter-insurgency actions during the 1970’s dirty war. \;

Sponso red by Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and \;Sovereignty\, Order and Conflict

For more information\, contact Ryan Griffiths: rgriff01 @syr.edu

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