Fue el Estado: A Neglected Human Rights Report on Mexico's Dirty War

Thursday, April 17, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific Time)

Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & Online

Presenter: Carlos A. Pérez Ricart, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. Between 2021 and 2024, he served as one of the four members of the Mexican Truth Commission, responsible for investigating human rights violations that occurred between 1965 and 1990 (COVeH).

His most recent publications include the edited books Gun Trafficking and Violence (2021), Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America (2022), and the book Cien Años de Espías y Drogas: La Historia de los Agentes Antinarcóticos de Estados Unidos en México (2022). Pérez Ricart is a weekly columnist for the newspaper Reforma and a contributor to Es La Hora de Opinar, a current affairs program in Mexico.

Commentator: Fernando Perez-Montesinos, Associate Professor of History at UCLA. His work includes the recently published Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands (University of Texas Press, 2025).

Sponsor(s): Center for Mexican Studies, Latin American Institute