Episode #7: Organised Crime in Mexico with Raul Zepeda Gil - a podcast by A-id Think Tank

In episode #7 of the A-id podcast, we were joined by Raul Zepeda Gil to discuss the topic of organised crime in Mexico. 

Born in Mexico, Raul is currently a PhD Student in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and is also a part of the Urban Violence Research Network and the Seminar of Violence and Peace of El Colegio de México. 

Raul gives us an overview of Mexico's War on Drugs, telling us how it all begun right through to today. We then go in to discuss the large scale recruitment of young people by cartels, exploring the macro-socioeconomic structures and micro-motivations behind this. Then to finish things up, Raul tells us why the Mexican government has continued to struggle with the problem, despite all of the different policy initiatives. 

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