Keller on Medium: From Cold War to Drug War
Renata Keller, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that the seeds of the global wars on both drugs and terror can be found in Mexico’s experience during the Cold War.
Keller made the argument in a Sept. 30 Op-Ed on the news outlet Medium entitled “Mexico: From Cold War to Drug War.”
From the text of the Op-Ed:
In the United States, in Latin America, and around the world, the wars that we are fighting today on drugs and terrorism both grew out of and bear a striking resemblance to the Cold War. Not only that, but many of the same people and groups that fought the Cold War are now fighting today’s wars, using the lessons they learned and the power and influence they gained from that earlier struggle.
You can read the entire Op-Ed here.
Renata Keller is an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. She received her PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 and the author of Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution, available from Cambridge University Press. Learn more about her here.