Nacha: Gender, crime, and death squads on the U.S. Mexican border, 1900-1982
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Benjamin T. Smith
- Host
- Latin American Centre (Unit)
- Series
- Latin American History Seminar Series
- Location
- 1 Church Walk - LAC Main Seminar Room, LAC Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6LY, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
Topics
About this talk
Benjamin T. Smith is a historian of Latin America at the University of Warwick. He has spent two decades writing about indigenous politics, conservatism, Catholicism, journalism, the press, drug trafficking, and organized crime in Mexico. He has just finished a biography of Ignacia Jasso Franco aka La Nacha, who ran the Ciudad Juárez drug trade from the 1920s through to the 1970s. The book was an attempt to write about gender, crime, and the public sphere, but ended up (like most of his books) concerning political corruption, ideological compromise, and state-sanctioned murder.
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