This panel will assess illicit networks and fentanyl in Brazil, Mexico, and other Latin American countries using the 3rd GEN Gang literature and criminal insurgency as lenses. Fentanyl and other synthetic drugs have risen in importance and in the political rhetoric surrounding them due to high numbers of overdose deaths particularly in the United States. This panel aims to discuss the organized crime networks which facilitate this trade in a nuanced fashion. 

Speakers

Daniel Weisz Argomedo, Researcher and writer on organized crime

Nathan P. Jones, Associate Professor of Security Studies at Sam Houston State University.

Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, Professor, George Mason University, Professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

John P. Sullivan, Instructor, University of Southern California, Retired Lieutenant, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department with experience in counterterrorism intelligence.