I'm I'm Hi, my Godhaeim.

This is Nick Estes, co-host of the Ryan Nation podcast.

I am honored to be joined today for this special podcast roundtable with two guests.

We have friend of the show recurring guests, Alex Avina, as well as Oswaldo Zavella, who is going to be talking a little bit about his book, Drug Courts Do Not Exist.

And we are, you know, we're going to be talking a little bit about the recent events that

happened this week in Mexico, when Mexico security forces killed. What was billed is

the nation's most wanted man, the leader of the Halisco New Generation Cartel, a man who goes by the

name El Meno. This happened on Sunday. There was about 70 people who were killed in this raid

and in the aftermath, and it occurred

in retaliation strikes and violence occurred in more than a dozen states. So we're going to be going

over that, but also connecting it to broader sort of regional issues that are going on in the United

States' interventions, particularly in the Caribbean,

with its war on so-called narco-terrorism. But without further ado, I would like to have my guests

introduce themselves. Asvaldo, if you want to introduce yourself and talk a little bit about

your work. Well, thank you want to introduce yourself and talk a little bit about your work.

Well, thank you for having Nick, to having us.

And I'm a professor of Latin American literature and culture at the City University of New York.

I'm also a journalist.

And I've written about the drug work from the perspective of cultural studies, doing archival

work on the official discourse that has been deployed to justify and legitimize the militarization

of Mexico.

And my two latest books try to reconstruct the history, the intellectual history of how this language that we keep

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