About
This blog highlights news, research and analysis related to the global trade in illicit drugs.
About me:
Nina Catalano [email]
In 2008-09, I was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico City, studying US-Mexico cooperation in the drug war with the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales. Prior to that, I worked and studied in Colombia, Bosnia and England, focusing on drug policy, human rights and prison reform. I’m currently in my first year of law school in Cambridge, MA.
You can find an article of mine on illegal arms trafficking here (in Spanish). A longer piece regarding evaluation of the Mérida Initiative, published in the July 2009 issue of Iter Criminis, is available here (also in Spanish).
Opinions on this blog are mine alone, and I reserve the right to update or alter them. In the words of Timothy Leary, “You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
Hi, Nina. I really like what you are doing with the blog – it is turning out to be an excellent resource. I would like it even more if you shared your identity and background! As a former reporter, I have always been wary about blogs that don’t have the person’s real identity because I think that there is too much lack of transparency going on in the Internet. Nonetheless, I have put you on my blog list though I would feel more comfortable if I knew more about who you are.
Nina,
This is the first time that I check your blog and let me tell you that is a really good one. I’m also interested on these topics since I have focus my research on Transnational Organised Crime activities as a global security threat. It will be great to exchange some thoughts about drugs problems in Mexico.
Word. More “about me”! Why does this speak to you? Why are so so rad? (Because, you are, so, rad.)