With the surging crisis on the U.S. southern border, there is an increased emphasis on the threats posed by Mexican drug cartels. But most contemporary analysis of the cartels does not include the profound changes that have taken place in Mexico since NAFTA, transforming the Mexican cartels from top-down command and control structures to more complex, adaptive systems that are no longer structured around "kingpins" but are horizontally-aligned networks that are increasingly controlling more territory.

For Episode 24 of the Border Wars Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera who is a professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and among the foremost experts on the Mexican cartels and the US-Mexico border. Dr. Correa-Cabrera has published several books about Mexico including her 2017 book "Los Zetas Inc." where she describes the new "business model" for Mexican transnational criminal organizations.

Dr. Correa-Cabrera, who lives in Brownsville, Texas, along the US-Mexico border, explains why the United States needs to modernize its strategy to combat transnational organized crime and respond to the surging crisis on the U.S. southern border.

To learn more about Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera click here: https://schar.gmu.edu/profiles/gcorreac

To follow Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera on X (@GCorreaCabrera): https://twitter.com/GCorreaCabrera

? Please purchase Guadalupe Correa's books:

"Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico" published by University of Texas Press on August 8, 2017: https://www.amazon.com/Los-Zetas-Inc-Criminal-Corporations/dp/1477312757



"La Guerra Improvisada: Los años de Calderón y sus consequencias" published on March 26, 2021: https://www.amazon.com/guerra-improvisada-Calder%C3%B3n-consecuencias-Violencia-ebook/dp/B0916GQ3WB?ref_=ast_author_dp



"Los Cinco Vidas de Genaro Garcia Luna" published by El Colegio de Mexico in 2021: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Guadalupe-Correa-Cabrera-ebook/dp/B08T9W31SZ



"North American Borders in Comparative Perspective" published by the University of Arizona Press in April 2020: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/north-american-borders-in-comparative-perspective


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