Audio: Trafficking in the Mesoamerican Corridor, Panel 1

The Mesoamerican corridor has long facilitated the illegal movement of drugs north to the United States and of arms from the United States to Mexico and countries further south.  Humans and endangered species also form part of the flow of illegal traffic bound for markets in the United States and beyond.

Panel 1: “The Social, Political, and Economic Implications of Trafficking and Organized Crime in Mesoamerica

Raul Benítez Manaut, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
Ana Hidalgo, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Costa Rica
Adrian Reuter, TRAFFIC, Mexico

Moderator: Katherine Bliss, CSIS