achived URL: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5735

event website URL: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5735

start date and time: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM

end date and time: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM

categories:   international

event description:

video webcast -

The Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. holds a policy forum entitled "Mexico's Drug War: The Growing Crisis on Our Southern Border." The panel will discuss the growing drug-related violence in Mexico (over 6,800 drug-war related deaths in Mexico since January 2007). They will also discuss possible drug-related policies for Barack Obama's admistration.

The panel will feature:
Ted Galen Carpenter - VP for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies (Cato)
Ethan Nadelmann - Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance Network
Vanda Felbab-Brown - Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Daniel T. Griswold - Director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies (Cato)

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