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Thursday, September 18

CLAS Speaker Series: Drug trafficking, repression, and foreign mercenaries: a transnational perspective on the García Meza dictatorship in Bolivia
Time:
1:00 pm
Presenter:
Dr. Vito Ruggiero
Location:
4130 Posvar Hall and Zoom
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies

Vito Ruggiero is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. He is currently working on a European Commission-funded project entitled: "Drug Trafficking and Politics: Structuring and Adaptation of Organized Crime in Bolivia's Last Authoritarian Decade (1971–1982). He is the author of the book The Anti-Communist Dream: Italian Neo-Fascists in Latin America (Roma Tre University Press, 2023).