Tactics and Limitations of the "War on Drugs" Abroad

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Moderator
Ms. Roshanak Malek
Drugs and National Security Colloquium

Interlocutor
Dr. Nancy Kingsbury

Panelists

Brazil: A New Frontier of Futility?
Dr. Jason W. Clay
An anthropologist, he is the director of research at Cultural survivial, Inc., and the founder and editor of Cultural Survival Quarterly, the largest human rights and anthropology publication in the world. Particularly concerned with the effects of drug production, use and trafficking on tribal and indigenous peoples, he is the author of Politics and the Ethiopian Famine -1984-1985 and most recently, Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Forests.

Supply-side Tactics: The Impact on Mexican-U.S. Relations
Professor Richard B. Craig""
A professor at Kent State University, he is a leading expert on drug trafficking in Latin America and the author of numerous articles analyzing drug operations and U.S diplomacy. His most recent article is Illicit Drug Traffic: Implications for South American Source Countries (Journal of Interamerican Studies), and his current research concentrates on U.S. -Mexican "narcopolitics".

The Failure of U.S. Supply Side Strategies in Latin America
Mr. Gustavo Gorritti
The former executive news editor and investigative reporter of Caretas magazine in Lima, he covered the Peruvian narcotics syndicates and their links to both government forces and the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) Maoist terrorists. A former Nieman Fellow, he is now a Guggenheim Fellow in Residence at Harvard's Center for Latin American Studies, where he is researching the cocaine revolution in the "White Triangle" of Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia and the impact of the narcotics trade on insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.

State Department Representation

The U.S. Military Forces in Source Countries: Employment Options
Lt. Col. Joseph Moynihan
A career officer in the United States Air Force he has served as Squadron Commander of AWACS in Alaska and Saudi Arabia. He was awarded the United Nations Medal in 1981 for his services as Senior USAF representative for the United States Military and the war on drugs in Latin America at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.