Raul Zepeda Gil

What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence

https://theconversation.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-mexicos-drug-cartels-amid-escalating-violence-276941

My piece at The Conversation UK

What you need to know about Mexico’s drug cartels amid escalating violence Mexico’s cartel landscape has expanded significantly since 2006, fuelled by arms smuggling and drug consumption north of the border.

Historia reciente de los precios de la gasolina en México (1995-2025)
https://open.substack.com/pub/rgzepeda/p/historia-precios-gasolina-mexico

Thanks for Al Jazeera English for the interview

Will Mexico’s Jalisco cartel’s violent biz model survive El Mencho’s death? El Mencho consolidated Mexico’s most powerful criminal organisations in part due to a unique franchise-based structure.

Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho

My article at The Conversation UK

Mexico may pay a steep price for the killing of Jalisco cartel leader El Mencho The killing of the Jalisco New Generation cartel’s leader is likely to spark a wave violence.

Recientemente me uní al Comité Editorial de la Revista Argumentos de la UAM Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, y estamos promocionando un número especial de la revista en materia de política de dr**as, coordinado por Jorge Javier Romero.

Espero expertas y expertos del tema envíen artículos para el número especial.

Detalles aquí: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/admb6cacimsgt0zklya1h/argumentos_convocatoria_politica-de-dr**as.pdf?rlkey=zedvq9vaqbb95cfb6nx3og9jt&e=1&dl=0

I I am really happy to share that I signed my contract with NYU Press to publish my book: “The Making of a Sicario Class: Youth Mobilisation into the Mexican Drug War”, based on my PhD dissertation.

I hope soon you will be able to read it.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the great scholars of international relations, died this week at the age of 88. Here, read some of his contributions to Foreign Affairs over the past five decades: https://fam.ag/4mppJ3x

This Wednesday 21 May, 2025, 16:00 hrs BST, we will have a Symposium on violence in Mexico. Join me, Karina Karilú Garcìa Reyes, and Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul to explore different faces of the war on drugs and violence in Mexico.

The Symposium is hosted by the London Metropolitan University and María Encarnación López. You can join online or live at TM1-05, Roding Building (Yellow Zone), London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB.

I will present my paper Escaping Precariousness: Criminal Occupational Mobility of Homicide Inmates During the Mexican Drug War.

See you there!

Symposium on violence in Mexico Organised by Prof María López, deputy director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre, London Metropolitan University

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not.

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

Mañana en nuestro resolveremos todas las dudas sobre la Convocatoria de becas en ciencia y humanidades en el extranjero 2025. ¡No te la pierdas!
🗓️16 de abril
🕙 10:00 h tiempo del centro
⏯️ https://bit.ly/3RtgrVF

Una hipótesis en la discusión es que los hombres desaparecidos en la guerra contra las dr**as fueron reclutados por las organizaciones criminales en México. Pero, con los datos disponibles, no se puede confirmar.

¿Desaparecido = Sicario?

Revista Nexos

¿Desaparecido = Sicario? Una hipótesis que flota en la discusión pública es que los hombres desaparecidos en la guerra contra las dr**as fueron reclutados por las organizaciones criminales en México. Aunque quizás algunas personas desparecidas pudieron ser jóvenes reclutados, me preocupa que, por la tendencia generali...