Stephanie Leutert on Violence in Mexico and Central America
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's Beyond the Border series, joined Benjamin Wittes on this week's podcast to talk about the epidemic of violence plaguing Mexico and Central America. Despite the crisis going on immediately to our south, those of us in the United States who work and think on national security issues rarely consider this violence as relevant to national security. But Stephanie argues that we should.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.3 | I think I'm safe in saying that the situation in Honduras and Salvador on a kind of larger |
| 0:37.7 | scale is much worse. |
| 0:39.6 | You really do have kind of an emptying out of the region and you have tens of thousands |
| 0:45.3 | of people who are fleeing every month. |
| 0:47.5 | They're fleeing a lot of different things. |
| 0:50.2 | They're fleeing the gangs. |
| 0:51.7 | Someone shows up and slips a note onto your front doors as to pay this person in |
| 0:55.5 | that at this time and if you don't, they're going to kill you and you know that's what |
| 0:59.3 | happened to your neighbor down the street and so you're terrified. |
| 1:02.6 | So you pay and then you can't make that last payment and you're worried they're actually |
| 1:05.7 | going to kill you. |
| 1:06.7 | So you flee or they were harassing your daughter. |
| 1:09.8 | And there are other epidemics going on as well that are often tied to the gangs, but |
| 1:13.8 | of domestic violence. |
| 1:15.2 | And it's kind of this breakdown of the social fabric that's occurring right now through |
| 1:20.2 | El Salvador and Honduras and parts of Guatemala. |
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