Pablo Piccato is a professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. His work includes City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931 (2001), The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere (2010), and the forthcoming A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth and Justice in Mexico.
Pablo Piccato
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The Fog of the Drug War
It is almost impossible to know exactly what happens when a crime is committed in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, or El Salvador. The basic questions often cannot be answered: Who is the victim? Who killed her or him? Why? Drug trafficking, violence, and militarization have turned murder into a problem that few could solve, even as […]
