[Latina-o_studies] FW: Job Talk next Wednesday, January 31 @ 3:45 p.m. in 168 Dulles Hall: Aileen Teague, candidate for the Latin American-U.S. Migration History position

[Delgadillo, Theresa]

From: Maynard, Rhonda
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:02 PM

Subject: Job Talk next Wednesday, January 31 @ 3:45 p.m. in 168 Dulles Hall: Aileen Teague, candidate for the Latin American-U.S. Migration History position

Please mark your calendars!

Aileen Teague, our final candidate for the Latin American-U.S. Migration History position, will present “Drugs, Counterinsurgency, and the Dynamic Nature of the United States-Mexico Border, 1969-1985,” next Wednesday, January 31 @ 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. in 168 Dulles Hall.

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Title: “Drugs, Counterinsurgency, and the Dynamic Nature of the United States-Mexico Border, 1969-1985”

Abstract:
In this presentation I examine the externalization of the U.S. war on drugs in Mexico during the 1970s and 1980s. I argue that the Mexican government’s counterinsurgency against suspected dissidents and the role that it played in the government’s domestic policy agenda framed Mexico’s response to U.S. drug control demands. At the center of this narrative is Mexico’s Dirty War, a period from 1964 to 1982 when the country’s ruling party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), sought to eliminate insurgent threats to its power. As the U.S. directed millions of dollars in resources to Mexico’s antidrug campaign, the Dirty War influenced the PRI’s response to U.S. drug issues and the Mexican government used U.S. antidrug policies in ways that facilitated its counterinsurgency efforts. This research is part of a larger discourse on the possibilities of and insights yielded by integrating local political and social histories into the narrative of U.S. policy execution and its effects. Examining the relationship between U.S. drug control and the Dirty War in Mexico sheds new light on the nature of Mexican drug violence, human rights violations, the Global Cold War, as well as the real and imagined divides in the U.S.-Mexico relationship. Whereas historians have tended to focus on how the U.S. forced Mexico and other supply countries into compliance with its drug policies during the 1970s, my work draws attention to how local political histories and the agency of Mexican actors interacted with U.S. overseas policy execution. Using Mexican and U.S. archival materials, I contend that exploring Mexican counterinsurgency in studies of the drug war provides a richer and more complicated narrative of border restriction and the literal and figurative meanings of the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

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