"Producer's note: this interview was recorded prior to the Presidential elections"
Today's episode, Vince is joined by Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and expert on national security, organized crime, and illicit economies. She is the author of several books, including Narco Noir: Mexico’s Cartels, Cops, and Corruption and Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs.
In their conversation, Vince and Vanda discuss China’s role in the production and export of fentanyl precursor chemicals, the complexities of its regulatory policies, and whether fentanyl could be used as a form of asymmetrical warfare against the United States.
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Mexico, López Obrador, and Sheinbaum’s presidential victory
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The limits of renewed US-China counternarcotics cooperation (testimony)
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How Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación rules
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How the Sinaloa Cartel rules
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 China's Approach to International Law Enforcement
00:03:37 New Book on Mexican Cartels and Legal Economies
00:07:16 The History of Fentanyl in the United States
00:11:01 Rise of Synthetic Opioid Trafficking
00:14:47 Socioeconomic Factors and Drug Use in the US
00:18:37 Illegal Markets and Stolen Medical Supplies
00:22:05 Shift in US Foreign Policy: From Free Trade to Fragmentation
00:25:47 China and the Regulation of Fentanyl Production
00:29:46 Tense Relations and Cooperation between US and China
00:33:32 China's Conditional Cooperation on Fentanyl
00:37:05 Challenges in US-Mexico Relations: Narcos and Corruption
00:40:47 U.S. Immigration Reform and Its Challenges
00:44:28 The Importance of Evidence-Based Opioid Treatments
00:48:03 The Dangers of Fentanyl in the Illegal Drug Market
00:51:41 The Impact of Naloxone on Overdose Survival
00:55:09 Tackling Synthetic Opioid Crisis in the US and Europe
00:58:44 The Rise of Synthetic Drugs and Law Enforcement Challenges
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