Again. Most especially the students from university and high school and delighted to have back the last time some of may have seen don, it was during covid had to do a webinar version its much better have back in person. I feel fortunate i kind of a friend and through the council now i think we know each other about ten years. Youre one of the worlds foremost experts on the cartels and the narco violence that goes along with it in mexico. But youve also covered Central America of brazil, gangs in jamaica we will get to yemens book and a little bit later, gun money about the flow of of a huge number of weapons flowing in the united into mexico, but just because its so much in the news lately, i just want to look a little bit more at. The fentanyl crisis and maybe. Can you those people come to some of the basics and why it is kind of in recent years, a lot of the cartels in mexico have taken a shift away from almost what wed call plant based, you know, narcotics, you know, the huge field
All right. Good evening. Thats wonderful to see you all again. Most especially the students from university and high school and delighted to have back the last time some of may have seen don, it was during covid had to do a webinar version its much better have back in person. I feel fortunate i kind of a friend and through the council now i think we know each other about ten years. Youre one of the worlds foremost experts on the cartels and the narco violence that goes along with it in mexico. But youve also covered Central America of brazil, gangs in jamaica we will get to yemens book and a little bit later, gun money about the flow of of a huge number of weapons flowing in the united into mexico, but just because its so much in the news lately, i just want to look a little bit more at. The fentanyl crisis and maybe. Can you those people come to some of the basics and why it is kind of in recent years, a lot of the cartels in mexico have taken a shift away from almost what wed call pl
All right. Good evening. Thats wonderful to see you all again. Most especially the students from university and high school and delighted to have back the last time some of may have seen don, it was during covid had to do a webinar version its much better have back in person. I feel fortunate i kind of a friend and through the council now i think we know each other about ten years. Youre one of the worlds foremost experts on the cartels and the narco violence that goes along with it in mexico. But youve also covered Central America of brazil, gangs in jamaica we will get to yemens book and a little bit later, gun money about the flow of of a huge number of weapons flowing in the united into mexico, but just because its so much in the news lately, i just want to look a little bit more at. The fentanyl crisis and maybe. Can you those people come to some of the basics and why it is kind of in recent years, a lot of the cartels in mexico have taken a shift away from almost what wed call pl
Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us an introduction. Hip hop in houston, thank thank you. Yeah, im delighted to be here. Like jennifer just said, maybe five years ago. Yeah, i was running around working on and collaborating with the rest of the staff to produce this here event. Its really weird to be back here as an author, but again, i
Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us an introduction. Hip hop in houston, thank thank you. Yeah, im delighted to be here. Like jennifer just said, maybe five years ago. Yeah, i was running around working on and collaborating with the rest of the staff to produce this here event. Its really weird to be back here as an author, but again, i