Liza ten Velde graduated cum laude from the University of Groningen with an MA International Relations and International Organizations. Her thesis centred on the US War on Drugs and Mexico. As part of her internship with the Transnational Institute, she conducted research into the Drug-Violence Nexus in the Northern Triangle of Central America
The upsurge in violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle is often named in one breath with the drugs market. Although apparently obvious describing an illegal trade that has met with exclusively repressive state responses, assumptions on cau...
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