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DOJ's Role in Fighting Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering in Latin America
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DOJ's Role in Fighting Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering in Latin America
Over the past four years, the White House and State Department have largely retreated from the fight against corruption in Latin America. The U.S. Department of Justice, however, has continued to take a more active role, combating drug trafficking, money laundering and public corruption in the region.
The flurry of recent cases involving Latin American lawbreakers includes the indictment in March of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro for alleged cocaine trafficking; the conviction by a Brooklyn jury last year of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug lord; allegations by federal prosecutors that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was a co-conspirator in his brother’s drug running; and multiple prosecutions under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Most recently, federal prosecutors charged a former Guatemalan finance minister with laundering $10 million, including in drug proceeds, and U.S. officials arrested former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
Please join the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program on November 23, 2020, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm ET, for a discussion of the Justice Department’s role in policing high-level misconduct in Latin America, and the U.S. interest in strengthening the rule of law in the region.
Please send questions for our panelists before or during the event to LAP@wilsoncenter.org or on Twitter to @LATAMProg.
This event is co-sponsored by Stumphauzer Foslid Sloman Ross & Koyala.
Speakers
Walter Norkin
Daniel R. Alonso
Michael Nadler
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Latin American Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin American Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
