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Guest lectures: Criminal Violence in Baja California, Mexico (2020-2022). What’s the Covid-19 aftermath?

Date: 29.05.2023
Start Time: 13:30
Place: Faculty of International and Political Studies, Reymonta 4, room 039
Organiser: Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora
Contact: Monika Sawicka, monika.sawicka@uj.edu.pl

During the seminar, we will reflect on criminal violence during 2020-2022 at the border city of Tijuana (Mexico). This period encompasses the Covid-19 health crisis as well as the historic global lockdown and of course, the unimaginable closure of the US-Mexico border for almost two years. This implied strong socioeconomic adjustments in both legal and illegal cross-border markets, which reflected a historic homicide rate during 2021, and the expansion of criminal organizations into the state capital: Mexicali, Baja California.

poster of the event, photo of truck taking turn